PRESIDENT ROB asked us to keep the following in our thoughts and prayers: BOB BROCK, ROY WHISTLER, former Rotarian Bill Pape, JIM SMITH, and John Norberg, husband of JEANNE NORBERG, who had a heart attack.

DAVE SATTLER, Birthday Table Chair for March, introduced members who celebrate another year of life this month and announced that, so far, $708.24 has been contributed to the Foundations. We thanked them by singing Happy Birthday.

CHRISTA KECK introduced fellow Rotarian BOB HANNEMANN, a pediatrician with Arnett Clinic and an instructor at Purdue University, who is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In a DVD presentation we learned that the center was created in 1984 by President Reagan and is housed in Alexandria, VA. Two thousand children are reported missing every day. One in six of the children are recovered. To fight sexual exploitation, the Coalition Against Child Pornography keep a sex offender data base. The involvement of our club and eventually all of Rotary would be to help the center locate children and educate people about exploitation. We have a committee that is covering all schools, health care facilities, family and youth organizations, law enforcement, and retail places. To become involved with this improtant project, contact BOB.

Click to view a video about the Center.

PAUL POST introduced Heather Christopher and Dru Anthrop from Central Catholic High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the 4- Way Test to commemorate meeting with us today.

Bill Knable, guest of JEANNE NORBERG; Rhonda Overman, guest of LAURA NICOLET; Adam Wilson, guest of CYNTHIA HARDING; Eleanor and Bob Hannemann, wife and son of BOB HANNEMANN.

Money Collectors: SCOTT RUMBLE and "GUS" GUSTAFSON; Greeter: CAROLYN JONES; Invocation: LETA KELLEY; Piano: HARLEY FREY; Song Leader: MAURI WILLIAMSON. Help with attendance and facilitating a smooth meeting: JO WADE and TOM MORAN; Help with Ripples: BILL FULLER.

PRESIDENT ROB'S THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

Pope John Paul II

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