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1959-1960
Officers |
Directors |
|
O.E. Gookins, Jr. |
President |
Harold F. Glass |
Dwight L. Dannen |
Vice President |
George H. Watson |
Frank H. Gee |
2nd Vice President |
Don K. Spalding |
Earl H. Miner |
Secretary |
Waldo Y. Burger Jr |
Jacob M. Ford II |
Treasurer |
Robert L. Shackelford |
Earl H. White |
Sgt at Arms |
|
Donald L. Chew |
Asst Sgt at Arms |
|
College students
home for the Christmas holidays were luncheon guests, five of them speaking
about their school activities.
Our secretary
and executive secretary Bernice worked out a new streamlined form for the
weekly bulletin which could be folded and mailed with an annual savings of over
$100 postage.
Club assemblies
were held in July to get the new officers and the committee chairmen and
co-chairmen coordinated for the year's projects and again in November, when our
District Governor Perry Porter visited and addressed us.
Singing was
started again under the fine direction of several of our members. A start was made to revive Fireside
Meetings, several being held.
Rotary
magazine monthly reviews were given, as well as talks by some of our members on
the meaning of Rotary.
The Annual
Golf Tournament was held August 13 and was a gala event with 88 players and 98
at the dinner, many from other Rotary Clubs.
On
November 7 we sponsored a meeting and refreshments for the Little United
Nations Club at Y.W.C.A., with 100 present.
The 48th
anniversary of our club was celebrated with wives and guests at a banquet at
the Hotel Robidoux. A string ensemble
played fine music during the dinner.
Dr. Walter Kimball, our one remaining charter member, was honored in a
talk by Secretary Earl Miner. Don
Spalding gave a good review of Rotary International's book Seven Paths to
Peace, and our widely traveled Jim McAdoo gave a most interesting talk
about the many unusual things he had observed while in England and Europe.
Our First
Vice-President Dwight Dannen was chairman and Monty Mead, secretary, of the
largest and one of the most successful United Fund Drives ever conducted in St.
Joseph. Many of our club members were
active in this campaign, as they were also the Club's team for the Y.M.C.A.
membership drive.
Four of
our members passed away during the year:
Honorary members Dr. John C. Whitsell and Sam G. Mannschreck, and active
members Fred G. Batcher and Charles J. Feeney.
New
memberships were about offset for the year by men being transferred out of
town, some resignations and deaths.
Dues were
increased $8 from $108 to $116 annually on April 1, because of an increase in
the cost of our luncheons.
The
District conference was held April 23 and 24, 1960, at Unionville, Missouri.
Our
program committee arranged many good commercial programs, interspersed with
excellent craft talks by members, music by the high school bands and choirs,
and guest speakers such as Rotarian Roy Gromer, of Grant City, Mo., who told us
about the Air Force Academy. Rev.
Bonney who braved a severe snowstorm on March 15 to come up from Kansas City,
Connie Voss (winner of an oratorical contest on "Americanism"), and Paul Jones
an outstanding speaker and Director of Public Relations for the National Safety
Council.
Four new
highway Rotary signs were purchased with three being installed and the other to
be installed at a later date. A new
50-star American Flag and a new Rotary Banner were purchased and put into use.
A letter
from Arthur J. Meers, Mayor of St. Joseph, asked Rotary's cooperation in
organizing a Citizen's Committee to serve in an advisory capacity to the Mayor
and City officials. Director Robert L.
Shackelford and Second Vice President Frank H. Gee were appointed to serve as
members of this committee.
A
five-foot high wall of floodwater smashed towns in Mercer and Grundy counties
in August 1959.
There was
a $400,000 fire at a Tarkio College dormitory in Tarkio, Mo.
A
$1,120,000 bond issue was approved for the construction of a natural gas plant
at Cameron, Mo.
A study of
the City Charter was authorized.
There were
two major downtown fires: October 30,
the Logan Building, Eighth and Edmond Streets and one quarter of the block
estimated at $1,000,000 damage.
December 31, the three-story Center building located at Sixth and Edmond
Streets, damage estimated at $1,000,000.