Roland Harris

The "Old" Rotary Club

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world.

"Doing good in the World is more than a motto.  It is our goal, our mission, and our reminder.  It expresses in the clearest terms why we have a Foundation, and it challenges us to reach as far as we can to do the most good possible with everything we have.  Our Foundation exisits to support the good that we can do through Rotary.  It expands our reach, increases our strength, and makes our service more powerful and more effective.  Because of our Foundation we can, very simple, do more of our Rotary work."

2004-2005

President Glenn Estess Sr. 

Maura opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance followed by Ron Hesson with an opening prayer.  Maura welcomed back Henry and Buzz!

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Board met last Thursday and voted to work through the Marion Medical Organization to dig 6 new wells costing $420 each.  Funds used for the wells come from the Dick Beckman Memorial Fund (all memorials received go to this fund) and the Phil Hardas challange funds. 

The Board felt that it was in the best interest of the club to create guidelines for donation requests to keep efforts in line with overall mission and to have continuity in decision making, therefore a Decision Tree has been produced to aid in this process.

The Board also approved a $1000 donation to John Chase for his Eagle Scout project to build a handicap ramp at Silver Lake to allow access for fishing (Mark is also going to try to assist as a service project).  Donation was also approved for Art in the Park.  Lastly, it was voted to purchase a lap top for the Treasurer in order to enable her/him to complete their duties. 

Welcome Laura!  She will attend her first fun weekend/orientation in Jacksonville this weekend. 

The August District Newsletter is on the back table for anyone that is interested in viewing (also available online).

Chamber Business After Hours is MONDAY Sept 19th at DiMaggios and is co-sponsored by Compu Stitch from 5-7pm.

Mark your calendars for October 21st for a Bonfire at Maura Donnelly's residence.  All participants are encouraged to bring a dish and a guest (spouse and/or potential member).  Drinks will be provided by the club.  If so inclined, Buzz encouraged everyone to dress in Halloween Costumes.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours.  There were 411.5 hours recorded to date. 

Mark announced that our club will be going to join the Joplin Rotary efforts on November 12th.  Mark your calendars and they will be taking role call soon for interest. 

Go to the website and log your hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@agtelco.com

Attendance:  July there was 59.2% and August 59.8%  The goal for the club is 70% attendance - let's work to get those make ups done if you miss a meeting! 

Guests: Dave Plocher (guest of Jennifer Whitten & O'Fallon Rotary Member), Dan Cook (guest of Holli, Director or Power & Light), Rob & Susan Bowman with Laura Gothard (New German Exchange Student and Hosts)

Club Anniversaries: Linda Jakel - 5 years

No Birthdays

Anniversaries: Rich & Deb Knebel on the 12th

Make-ups: Wayne turned in 3 Make-ups

Let these people know that they were missed this week:

Carrie Adolph, Dave Daiber, Len Diaber, Bob Englemann, Angie, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Rolland Harris, Linda Jakel, Terry Lammers, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Brad Rench, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Eric Schmidt,  Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Shutz, Peggy Sebastian, Mike Sutton, and Tom Wherle.

There was $539 in the 50/50 and Don's table drew the wrong ACE!  Better luck next time!

Happy Bucks:

• Rick Ringwald was happy for a great Kirchenfest and gives thanks to the community for being so involved and supportive.
• Kevin DeWaele was happy about the Strassenlauf.
• Wayne is happy that University of Illinois beat Notre Dame.
• Bill is happy that he did not have to sit by Wayne while watching the game!
• Lisa is Happy that Mizzou Won.

Fines:

• If you thought Phil was being too nice on fines, you owed $2
• If you thought he was a "butthead" you owed $1
• And if said he was a nice guy you owed $3

PROGRAM: James Kemper, "Cloud Computing"

Cloud computing is a way for people to share information and resources via the internet.  He stated that this has been happening for a long time and believes that the increase "service" of this product is a gimmick and that because so many data centers are going up that we will need a lot more power by 2015.

For a brief overview on cloud computing, view the following website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing).  For more information contact James.

James also discussed the importance of data security and backing up your data often.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten