In just 38 weeks, the Faribault Rotary Club will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on May 1, 2020. This week’s historical highlight is from 1979.
Donn Johnson gave an interesting program about the Faribault Senior High Choir trip to Mexico.
The annual rotary Ann Banquet was held at the Faribault Country Club with George Wickstrom as chairman. (Rotary Ann and eventually Rotary Andy were the nicknames of spouses of Rotarians)
The annual Faribault Rotary honors banquet was held for seniors at Faribault high School.
A program by new Rotarian Chip Harris, the plant manager at the Faribault Treasure Cave Blue Cheese operation told the story of how Faribault Rotarian Felix Frederiksen while fighting in France during WWI watched how Roquefort cheese was made and took a fancy to it. Felix then started the operation in Faribault in 1936.
The annual picnic was at the Rotary youth camp.
Rotarian Rod Mahler was on WCCO Tuesday July 17 doing an energy conservation interview and the following Wednesday morning on national TV and then on the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite.
15th Annual Youth Benefit Concert was held with Dr. Richard Skewes as senior high orchestra director and Donn Johnson as choir director. George Wickstrom sold the most tickets- 47.
Our club’s 59th president in 1978-79 was Gilmore Lundquist.