Ripon Rotary Club

District 6270
Meets At Royal Ridges
1 Westgate Dr
Ripon, WI

Monday, 12:00 Noon

The Four-Way Test
(of the things we think, say, or do)

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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Volume XXVII                                     Issue #12                                           October 2, 2006 

“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence” – John F. Kennedy  

Ripon Rotary meets every Monday at noon at Royal Ridges. Attendance is an expected part of membership. 

Greeter and prayer – Kathy Ginder

President Lee Prellwitz presiding.  

Guests Today: 

  1. Visiting Rotarian – Marge Bostelmann of Green Lake.
  2. Visiting Rotarian Dave Anderson of Fond du Lac.
  3. Dave Ginder – cogreeter and guest of wife Kathy
  4. Chris Rydz – Ripon College student and member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
  5. Hsiang Yiy Hsu (Daniel) – our inbounder from Taiwan. Daniel answered questions about his homecoming experiences, and opened and shared a box of baked sweets his mother had sent him from Taiwan.
  6. Ben Beduhn – Ripon High School student of the month for October. Ben is heavily involved in the student council. He spent a month last summer during which he met Father Wally Kauboski, and got to meet and talk with the president of Panama. Leaning towards business in college, with his top two choices being UW Madison and UW Whitewater.

Announcements: 

  1. Scheduled program for today had to be canceled as Gary Geisler suffered a heart attack on Friday. All of our prayers are with Gary and Karen. UPDATE: In a Monday evening email Karen said things are progressing well, and fairly quickly. Gary is being moved from the ICU to a regular room, and could be coming home sometime later in the week.
  2. STRIVE – next meeting October 19th at the Ripon Fire Department. Doug Bradley will explain the program to the Ripon School Board at its October 16th meeting.

Special thanks to all of the Ripon Rotary Club members who have donated funds to the STRIVE program. 

Doug Bradley                           Nita Krenz                               Kathy Schwandt

Sue Finch Brown                      Chuck Larson                           Dan Tjernagel

Lyn Corder                              Lee Prellwitz                           Richard Voss

Dave Duehring                         Lori Rich                                 Blake Waterhouse

Kathy Ginder                            Dean Rogers                            LeRoy Yeomans

Todd Goheen                           Jane Schueler

 

  1. Highway clean-up Saturday October 7th at 8:00 AM. Meet at Royal Ridges. Jane Schueler will contact everybody who signed up later in the week as a reminder. October 14th rain date if weather is bad.
  2. International Students dinner will be Thursday October 26th at CJs. Cost is $15. Get this on your calendar, as this is a tremendous event --- a chance for the inbounders in District #6270 to get together again, and an opportunity for us to meet and get to know them.
  3. United Way fundraising dinner Monday November 13th at the Republican House. Support the United Way!
  4. District #6270 Fall Seminar at Slinger Saturday morning October 21st. Opportunity to network with members of other Rotary clubs and share. Learn, and exchange ideas and practices. Contact this scribe in you can attend.
  5. Berlin Rotary will be holding its meeting at The Bar in Oshkosh (825 North Washburn) on Monday evening October 23rd in conjunction with the Green Bay Packer television show telecast from there. Ripon Rotarians are invited to attend. More details to follow.
  6. Board meeting Monday October 16th at Royal Ridges, 10:50 AM.
  7. Ripon Rotary will be in need of a third host family, from approximately Thanksgiving until the approximate end of the first semester, January 17, 2007.

 Sgt-at-Arms: 

Rick Coles (with an assist from Ripon College student Chris Rydz who selected one slip from four) fined all of those who were wearing a sports coat or a blazer. Rick also fined this scribe $1 for taking Daniel to the Wisconsin/Northwestern game on Saturday instead of attending the Ripon College homecoming game.  

Program: 

Wit the unfortunate cancellation of the Gary Geisler program on changes in international agriculture, this scribe presented some information on the demographic make-up of Rotary members in the United States and Canada, and handed out a questionnaire for members to fill out. NOTE: That questionnaire is attached to this emailing as well. For those who were not at the meeting, please fill out and return to me. 

Next week – October 9

Greeter & Prayer – Bill Denkert

Program – Kathy Ginder presents father Wally Kasuboski with an update on Panama.  

In the long run men only hit what they aim at.

-         Henry David Thoreau  

Respectfully submitted,  

Substitute scribe

Lee A. Prellwitz  

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