| PROGRAM for APRIL 13 |
| High School Scholarships Awards |
| MEETING FUNCTIONS for APRIL 13: |
| Money Collectors: |
JUDY RHODES - 11:30 to 12:00 p.m. |
Greeter:
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Invocation:
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| APRIL PROGRAMS: |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS: |
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♦ PRESIDENT ELECT DICK RAHDERT explained the Committee Selection sheets for this year. Please fill yours out and return it to JANE or DICK soon. |
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♦ Gary Reif, Kiwanis member, asks us to put April 24th on our calendars. They have a pancake breakfast at Westminster Village and will be selling tickets early in April. |
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♦ KEN RITCHIE from Daybreak asked us to save the date - MAY 6. Their 3rd annual Toast to Mental Health will take place at the Best Western between 6 and 8 P.M. The wine and cheese tasting with silent auction is $35 per person. |
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♦ JACK KELLEY announced that there will be two opportunities to get to know the GSE team from the Netherlands in addition to their program on April 20th. On Thursday, April 22nd you can join the fun at a buffet banquet at the Lafayette Country Club. Cost is $17 - paid to JACK prior to April 20th. After the meeting on the 20th there will be time for conversation with the group in one of the adjacent small rooms at University Plaza Hotel. |
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♦ JACK also announced that the seemingly impossible goal of building a burn hospital in El Salvador is reality. It will open on May 9th. |
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THANK YOU: |
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Dear CHRISTA,
Thank you and our Rotary Club for sending me such a pretty cheerful plant. I honestly felt better by the get well thoughts which came with the plant and by being able to place the plant in eyesight of "my chair". Several people stepped up to assist with coordinating the ongoing Backpack Project tasks, for which I am very appreciative. Hopefully I am on a steady course of recovery. Sincerely, CHARLOTTE HOWELLS |
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Today's prayer by JIM HANKS was meaningful to many and several requests for the written version were received. Here it is: |
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When I was 5, two prayers my mother taught me were: "God is great, God is good, Now we thank Him for this food" and "Little Feet, be careful where you take me to, anything for Jesus always let me do." |
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When I was 55, I became a member of this Rotary club. At Tuesday luncheon meetings in the mid 70's at Morris Bryant's, four elderly members often sat at the same table - they came early, always seemed to enjoy one another's company, and, I suspect, occasionally reminisced about how Lafayette, Purdue, the country and the club weren't "like they used to be." Recalling the ``good old days" and expressing firm opinions are the prerogative of old geezers. I ought to know - Now I am one! One of that quartet from the mid 70's was George DeLong, good Lafayette banker, good Methodist, good Rotarian. George had a favorite daily prayer we all could well replicate: "Give me my share of the world's burdens to bear, along with Thy Grace with which to bear them." |
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Today with my fellow Club members I pray:
Help me, Dear God, to be useful still Help us all to obey your clear will Lead us we plea as we pause to pray With old and new Rotary friends today Bolster our faith for the last lap of life's race Some of us now move at a much slower pace Guide all Rotarians to serve humanity best Measure our deeds by our Club's 4-way test. |
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Well past my 86th birthday, I can do no better in closing than repeat the words of George DeLong. "Give me my share of the world's burdens to bear, along with Thy Grace with which to bear them." And to invoke again that childhood prayer from age 5: "God is great, God is good, and we thank Him for this food." Amen |
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