VICE PRESIDENT ROB asked us to keep the following in our thoughts and
prayers: BOB BROCK; CHRIS JOHANNSEN, who is recovering from surgery;
JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER, who is having a treatment that she postponed while
serving as our President; and DICK WALKER, whose wife passed away.
VOCATIONAL MOMENT:
JAYNE FEATHERS came to Lafayette from Ohio. This proud Buckeye was able
to combine her aptitude for numbers with her people skills to lead several
organizations. She was also President of her Rotary Club there. Marriage to
Ron Feathers and a move to Lafayette changed her life. She calls herself "A
Person in Process", finding new purpose and learning a higher power is really the
planner.
PROGRAM:
JIM HANKS introduced our own JOHN WALLING, who is president of NCHS.
NCHS is a medical services organization founded in 1984 with Dave Howarth as
it's first President. MARIELLEN NEUDECK holds the chair currently. The assets
of NCHS are used for capital grants to help the area the company serves. Two
ambulatory surgery centers are owned by NCHS. It has created three Not For
Profit organizations: Wabash River Enhancement Corporation, Parish Nursing,
and Shared Enterprise Management Corp. The Howarth Center at 18th Street
and Union Street, a 45,000 square foot facility, houses six human service
organizations, each paying Shared Enterprise Management for the space. A
similar facility is planned for Carroll County in an effort to increase the efficiency
and long-term viability of the organizations that participate. NCHS tries to create
opportunities.
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors: GORDON KINGMA and JOHN TROTT; Greeter: PAULINE
SHEN; Invocation: JOE BOORMAN; Dinner Music: BOB GRIFFITHS; Singing:
HARLEY FREY; Song Leader: BOB GRIFFITHS; Help with attendance and
facilitating a smooth meeting: JO WADE; Help with Ripples: BILL FULLER.
PRESIDENT JOHN'S 
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you ca n; enrich and inspire all
you can.
Now go learn, grow, serve, befriend, enrich and inspire!
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