The Centennial Neighborhood

CECIL BLIGNAUT - 11:00 to 11:30 a.m.

LEW RUNNELS - 11:30 to 12:00 NOON

ROB GALBRAITH - 11:00 - 11:30

TOM PEARSON - 11:30 - 12:00 NOON

ARVID OLSON, Chair

♦ Our friends at Tippy Connect invite Rotarians to their Annual Gala on Friday, January 13th at 6 p.m. at Shively Club, Ross Ade Pavilion. David Coors from Miller Coors Brewing Company will be the keynote speaker. There will be a silent auction, awards, dinner and dancing. Cost: $60 for guests. Join the GALBRAITHS, HYCHKAS and TERRY WEST in supporting young professionals and celebrating an outstanding year of service and achievement. Contact CAROL or SUSAN if you would like a seat at the table.

♦ GREG KAPP reminded us that our club budgets $800 to support 4 students at RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). The camp is March 16 ? 18 and our students will be from Harrison, McCutcheon, West Lafayette and Faith High Schools. GREG provided a Slide Show and a Video of RYLA activities.

♦ VALENTINE'S DAY is coming! Our club is selling Toffee Hearts to make money for our local projects. Order forms are available from JANE. Your office mates, neighbors, family and friends might want to order. They can enjoy the sweets AND help us with our projects. Five Dollars of every $15 box goes to Rotary projects.

♦ There are lots of particularly good articles in this month's issue of The Rotarian Magazine. Check it out! Please bring in your old issues of The Rotarian Magazine to a meeting so we can give them to prospective members.

♦  Backpack packers and distributors are needed. Please sign up to help.

♦ The "Pub Club" meeting schedule for January. Plan to join us!

Wednesday, January 11, 5:30 pm, service project
Food Finders Food Bank,
50 Olympia Court, Lafayette

Wednesday, January 18, 5:00 to 7:00 pm,
GLC Small Business of the Year eception
Holiday Inn Select City Centre, 515 South Street, Lafayette,
RSVP to Lauren Hainje,
lhainje@greaterlafayettecommerce.com

Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 pm @ Adelino's,
Jeanne Norberg, Purdue's spokesperson,
discusses crisis communication

♦ The Josh Lindblom Foundation (Josh and his wife help our club pack backpacks in his off season.) is planning a casino night on January 21st to help local food charities.

Thank you for the beautiful orchid sent to me following my surgery in December. We enjoy its beauty every day and appreciate your good wishes which have certainly helped to speed my recovery.
Sincerely,
FRED KUIPERS

Highlights of the January Club Board Meeting:

Strategic Discussion Topics:
1. Club Governance Structure.

JIM KLUSMAN, representing the Governance Committee, presented a working draft of a new structure for the Club. Fewer Directors and a revised Committee Structure were discussed.

2. Membership Trends - Downward

The Club is involved in three initiatives: a relationship with Tippy Connect; financial incentives; and the Satellite Club. Make-up opportunities, public relations, the attitude of the new President of Purdue and checking out other organizations that are growing were discussed.

3. A gaming-based fund raising idea was presented to test the comfort level of the board. Although not unanimous, there was enough support to warrant more research.

A new contract was signed with University Plaza Hotel (it will become Four Points by Sheraton on January 19th) which maintains the current price of $10.