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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.       Søren Kierkaard 

Noon Monday and Ripon Rotary is meeting at Royal Ridges. Regular attendance is one of the requirements of membership. 

Today’s greeter and prayer – Blake Waterhouse.

Presiding – president Lee Prellwitz

Guests: (1) Janet Vossekuil – guest of Kathy Schwandt (her sister) and potential member from Affinity.

            (2) Bob Calverley – speaker and guest of Dr. Roy Yeomans from The Shriners.

Announcements:

• Lee Prellwitz and Doug Bradley to attend Ripon School Board meeting on Monday evening and give report on the first year of the STRIVE program.
• Joint golf outing with Berlin Rotary at Mascoutin on Wednesday July 25^th. Put together foursomes and turn in registrations. Contact Laurie Kasuboski if you can sponsor a hole or donate a prize.
• Changing of the Guard dinner moved to Monday July 2^nd at C.J.’s. Social hour at 5:00. Dinner at 6:00. No Monday noon meeting on July 2^nd.
• Joint board meeting held before the regular meeting. In July the 2007-2008 board assumes its responsibilities.

Sgt. at Arms – Rick Coles checked to see if we were “smarter than a fifth grader.” Since he accepted 13 out of 19 (68.42%) no money was collected. Thank goodness for grade creep as no table recorded a perfect score. The question that was missed the most was what is the lowest prime number? The mathematical establishment defines a prime number as any positive integer that can be divided only by one and itself. They do not include one as a prime number, making two the smallest prime number. Two is also the only prime number that is an even number (all other even numbers can be divided by two), but you all knew that. 

Program: Dr. Roy Yeomans introduced Bob Calverley from Wisconsin Rapids, a member of the Shriners who showed a video on the Shriners hospitals. There are 22 Shriners Hospitals throughout the United States that provide treatment to children with disabilities (and burn care) at no charge to the patients. All care and services at Shriners Hospitals are provided totally without charge to the patient and family. Gifts, bequests, income from the endowment fund, hospital fundraising events, and the annual assessment paid by the approximately 400,000 Shriners fund the annual budget, which is set at $721 million for 2007.  

The purpose of Shriners Hospitals for Children is threefold.

1. TREATMENT – to provide the highest quality care, encouraging the best recovery possible.
2. RESEARCH – to conduct research in orthopedics, burns and spinal cord injury, leading to improvement sin quality of care and life.
3. EDUCATION – to train medical professionals in the treatment of orthopedic disabilities, spinal cord injuries and burns.   

 Mr. Caverley stated that all of the hospitals are functioning and will remain open. It was true that there was discussion of closing the hospital in Minneapolis, but that has been dealt with and will remain open. 

Thanks to Mr. Caverley for his excellent presentation, and thanks to the Shriners for the excellent work they do.  

Thought for the Day:     Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.-         Warren Bennis 

Respectfully submitted,

Lee A. Prellwitz

Substitute scribe

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