2-20-2014 Rotary Club of Chickasha meeting
Posted by Jerry Pittman
OU Geology and Geophysics Professor Emeritous Dr. Charles Gilbert was guest speaker at the 2-20-2014 meeting of the Rotary Club of Chickasha.
The Feb. 20 meeting of the Rotary Club opened with a prayer, pledge and a song.
Guests included Mary Carol Gilbert and Blake White.
Prayer concerns include Sharon Bowman, whose sister recently suffered a badly broken ankle. Sharon also recently lost her mother-in-law.
The deadline to submit applications for the annual Dan Proctor Scholarship is March 15. Please contact Rotarian Dick McCalla if you have a student interested in appealing.
The board last week designated March as Paul Harris Foundation matching funds month. The club has set aside up to 8,000 points to be used to match dollar for dollar all Foundation giving for the month of March. e.g. if you give $500 to the Foundation the club will match that with 500 points to be applied to your Paul Harris Fellow or someone you designate.
If you like pancakes, there are couple of opportunities to chow down in the near future.
Scout Blake White, past president Cody's son, has the $5 tickets for the March 1 Troop 4306 breakfast at Epworth United Methodist.
Rotarian Conrad Duprez is selling $5 tickets for the March 4 McTeacher Night at both McDonald's locations with proceeds going to the Chickasha Public School Foundation.
Rotarian Nathan Donald thanked the club for its $1000 conribution to the Chickasha Area YMCA annual campaign. The goal for this year is $85,000 which will help 700 families use the Yin various activites. The campaign stands at $79,000 which just a couple of days to go. If you want to contribute, please contact Donald at the YMCA soon.
Conrad Duprez was Rotarian of the Day and introduce Dr. Charles Gilbert as our guest speaker. Gilbert is geology and geophysics Professsor Emeritous at OU. His presentation was What's Beneath Your Feet in Chickasha?
He said the bedrock at the surface near Chickasha is 275-270 million years old. If we would go straight from the surface we would pass through about five miles of sedimentary rock, which gets older and we go down farther, reaching rocks about 500 million years old at the bottom of this section, called the "basement."
The top of the basement is an eroded, one-exposed surface where the rocks are about 1400 million years old. Many of he basement rocks are granite, Gilber said. It would take about 25 to 30 more miles, going straight down, to move through the Earth's crust.
That would put us in the mantle, where magmas and diamonds are formed. The mantle is also where lava originates and pours out on the surface from volcanoes.
Another 3900 miles straight down would get us through the mantle and the outer core to the Earth's center.
That, friends, is what is beneath our feet in Chickasha.
The meeting adjourned after recitation of the Rotary 4-Way test.
Guests included Mary Carol Gilbert and Blake White.
Prayer concerns include Sharon Bowman, whose sister recently suffered a badly broken ankle. Sharon also recently lost her mother-in-law.
The deadline to submit applications for the annual Dan Proctor Scholarship is March 15. Please contact Rotarian Dick McCalla if you have a student interested in appealing.
The board last week designated March as Paul Harris Foundation matching funds month. The club has set aside up to 8,000 points to be used to match dollar for dollar all Foundation giving for the month of March. e.g. if you give $500 to the Foundation the club will match that with 500 points to be applied to your Paul Harris Fellow or someone you designate.
If you like pancakes, there are couple of opportunities to chow down in the near future.
Scout Blake White, past president Cody's son, has the $5 tickets for the March 1 Troop 4306 breakfast at Epworth United Methodist.
Rotarian Conrad Duprez is selling $5 tickets for the March 4 McTeacher Night at both McDonald's locations with proceeds going to the Chickasha Public School Foundation.
Rotarian Nathan Donald thanked the club for its $1000 conribution to the Chickasha Area YMCA annual campaign. The goal for this year is $85,000 which will help 700 families use the Yin various activites. The campaign stands at $79,000 which just a couple of days to go. If you want to contribute, please contact Donald at the YMCA soon.
Conrad Duprez was Rotarian of the Day and introduce Dr. Charles Gilbert as our guest speaker. Gilbert is geology and geophysics Professsor Emeritous at OU. His presentation was What's Beneath Your Feet in Chickasha?
He said the bedrock at the surface near Chickasha is 275-270 million years old. If we would go straight from the surface we would pass through about five miles of sedimentary rock, which gets older and we go down farther, reaching rocks about 500 million years old at the bottom of this section, called the "basement."
The top of the basement is an eroded, one-exposed surface where the rocks are about 1400 million years old. Many of he basement rocks are granite, Gilber said. It would take about 25 to 30 more miles, going straight down, to move through the Earth's crust.
That would put us in the mantle, where magmas and diamonds are formed. The mantle is also where lava originates and pours out on the surface from volcanoes.
Another 3900 miles straight down would get us through the mantle and the outer core to the Earth's center.
That, friends, is what is beneath our feet in Chickasha.
The meeting adjourned after recitation of the Rotary 4-Way test.