In just 34 weeks, the Faribault Rotary Club will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on May 1, 2020. This week’s historical highlight is from 1983.
There was a program titled “Information Ala Carte” telling the club about new telephone communication possibilities and technologies such as the personal computer.
The club took second to Sertoma as they won the 4th annual Service Club Olympics. Dale Hamilton won the pie eating contest.
Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Richard Berge gave the club an update on Faribault Schools.
The 20th Annual Honors Banquet was held at Faribault Senior High.
Music Scholarships were awarded to four Faribault Senior High Students.
George Wickstrom organizes a bus trip to the Minnesota-Purdue Big Ten Football game at the brand new Metrodome.
The annual club picnic was held at the Rotary Camp.
Janine Sahagian, Clinical Vice President, Constance Bultman Wilson Center spoke to the club on adolescence and the Center programs.
New member, Donn Johnson, was inducted into the club on Dec. 14, 1983. His sponsor was Dick Skewes.
Our club’s 63rd president in 1982-83 was Bill Wise.