Club Contacts Board Officers: President: Pat Boy President-Elect: Mike Hackett Vice President: Bryan Protratz Secretary: Dennis Boy Treasurer: Pat Harris Past President: Jim Welborne Committee Chairs: Rita Daygs, International Service Tom Keene, Sargent at Arms Larry Middleton, RI Foundation John Regetz, Membership Terry Sammann, Club Administration Jim Welborne, Club Foundation Julie Wozniak, Public Relations Photos from the meeting by Bruce Smith. Pictures will follow shortly

Foghorn- February 28, 2008 meeting

FOGHORN
February 28, 2008
Bernie Scott, guest editor
Julie Wozniak, scribe

Bernie graciously filled in as guest editor for Julie Wozniak, who was filling in for Carolyn Saxton.  Julie felt bad for arriving very late to the meeting and volunteered to transcribe his notes

The meeting of the Michigan City Rotary Club will be held at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W. 2nd Street. Rotarians should come in through the front entrance and will be directed to the appropriate room.

Announcements

President Pat Boy called the meeting to order.  Suzy Vance gave the invocation because planned invocator Julie Wozniak arrived just as the prayer was over. Susan Pound was the sarge.

• Pat mentioned the District World Affairs Conference on March 13th for high school students.  The board is still trying to decide if our club will participate.
• John Regetz reminded Rotarians to get their potential members’ applications in.
• Julie informed STRIVE mentors about the weekend’s FAFSA seminar and asked that we pass on that information to our senior STRIVE students

Sarge

• Visiting Rotarians were our speaker John Smith of the Muncie Club and Tom Burns of the Decatur (IL) Club
• Guests of Rotarian were Tim Haas, guest of Pat Boy.  Walt Sells was guest of Dennis Boy. Proposed member Peter Rocchio was guest of John Espar, who was dawdling in court and could not attend.
• Ed Merrion won the Priebe Award for lateness.
• Susan administered a test on roses in honor of National Florists Day, and a few Rotarians came out smelling like roses with the correct answers
• Mij Ttocs’ student is looking for sponsors ($250) for the debutante Ball
• Dale paid for the beginning of spring, which was marked by the Cubs’ spring opener today.
• Kurt paid for Tom Keene who wasn’t with us today.
• Steve paid to remind us all about Carmina Burana this Saturday.
• Bernie had a few bucks for his granddaughter (see pic) who placed third in an art show and for Ed “Humanitarian of the Year” Merrion
• The Queen of Hearts eluded Sandy Smith in the drawing.  The pot for the next meeting is  $737!  Rotarians, up your chance of winning by buying more than one ticket!

 

Program

Mark Smith from Indiana WIRED (Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development) and Purdue University discussed the local economy and competing with the world economy.  Smith has a $15-million grant to help organize new economic opportunities and high-paying jobs by working with businesses, government, and education officials in North Central Indiana.

Smith concentrated on how to operate in the environment of the new global economy.  He has a  B.S. from Purdue and an MBA from Ball State.  Smith’s 16 years as a successful entrepreneur, teacher, and developer are deeply rooted in Indiana.

Smith was also President of the Rotary Club in Muncie for the 2005-2006 year.  He can be reached at smith96@purdue.edu or 765-452-9530.

Next Week

Student pick-up – S. Hornyak, Marquette
Invocation – OPEN -- Need a volunteer.
Sarge – Rod Bensz
Speaker and Sponsor – Using The Foghorn and Our Rotary Website, J. Welborne,  (D. Boy)

Spot your name backwards in this issue and win a free lunch at Top Dog. See Carolyn or Dennis before the Sarge Program at Thursday's meeting.

Invocation Schedule
(To volunteer, please contact Julie Wozniak.)

06 MAR – OPEN 13 MAR – J. Welborne 20 MAR – E. Lysaught 27 MAR – Rod Bensz

03 APR – J. Scott 10 APR – OPEN 17 APR – T. Allen 24 APR – P. Harris 01 MAY – T. Sammann

08 MAY –  M. Hackett 15 MAY – R. Fagg 22 MAY – J. Hollingsworth 29 MAY – S. Pound

Sergeant-at-Arms Schedule:
(To volunteer, please contact Tom Keene.)

06 MAR – Rod Bensz

13 MAR – C. Cipares 20 MAR – B. Potratz

27 MAR – K. Krause

Student of the Month Driver Schedule (Jim Bell, Coordinator)
1 = Duneland Lutheran (874-5103), 2 = Marquette (873-2044), 3 = M.C.H.S. (874-5103)

06 MAR – S. Hornyak-2 13 MAR – C. Cipares-3

17 APR – M. Gallas-2 24 APR – D. Engquist-3

01 MAY – T-Samman-2 08 MAY – B. Rose-3

STRIVE Calendar(Suzy Vance,Chair, All Dinner/Meetings, Monday, 5:30-7:30 PM )