State's Attorney

Thomas Gibbons

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. 

President, Maura Donnelly, opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance and followed in prayer by Ron Hesson.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Please continue to pray for Len Daiber's wife, Alice, as she continues her fight against cancer.
• Also please pray for Buzz Widner, who is in the hospital and underwent surgery last Thursday. He is currently at Barnes Hospital.
• Please also pray for Judy Hesson, who just had surgery, as well.
• We now have our host families for the Swedish GSE team member on 4/27 and 4/28. We are trying to locate 4 additional Cardinal tickets for either of those days so we can take them to the game. Please see Maura if you have access to tickets for either of those dates. After we know which date we have tickets for, we will be planning a dinner on the opposite night for the team and the host families and any Rotarians that would like to share in the experience.
• We received a thank you from STYDEC and Father Paul for our $3,000 donation to the project in Kaluri, Ghana. The note says we will have a classroom named in our honor.

• Fish race - March 25th - tickets must be in by March. 20th.

• The Board pledged last week at the board meeting to partner with NICE (Nicaragua Christian Education Foundation), Highland Ministerial Alliance and other community organizations to accomplish the goal to feed 10,000 Nicaraguan children for one month. This is one meal a day Monday through Friday consisting of precooked rice, dehydrated vegetables, soy cereal and a vitamin mix. This will ensure they receive proper nutrition as they are being educated. The cost of this meal is 27 cents a day, $1.35 a week and $5.40 a month. Shirley and Bill Beltz have been working since 1995 to bring nutrition, medical care, education, future employment and Bible education to the families of Nicaragua. We will also be working on May 5 to help package the food pouches and load into the containers to be sent directly to Nicaragua.So please sell, sell, sell those fish tickets!

• By-laws have been reviewed, revised and tentatively approved by the board dependent upon the acceptance by the club. We have linked the document to Highland Rotary's website and ask that everyone review them prior to March 20th when we will be voting on them at our weekly meeting. 
• The new bylaws that the Board has accepted subject to membership approval can be found by clicking HERE.

The introduction of our four newest members was the program this week. And we have one new application in for a new member. 

Guests: 

JoAnn Barton (visiting Rotarian)

Dave Haggermann (Prospective Member)

Make-ups: None 

Birthdays: 3/12 Tricia Blasdel

Anniversaries: None.

Club Anniversaries: None

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, David Daiber, Len Daiber, Robert Englemann, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Luke Harris, Lisa Hunsche, Linda Jakel, Angela Kim, Mark Korte, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Bob Nagel, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Floyd Rogier, Bill Schaefer, Eric Schmidt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutz, Gordon Smith, Michael Sutton and Tom Wehrle.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours, to date there are 1630 hours recorded. 

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

There was $71 in the 50/50 with 51 cards left in the deck. The seven of diamonds was pulled.

Phil fined anyone who didn't turn in fish race ticket sales or turn in service hours. Cliff Couch gave a happy buck for having enjoyed a good trip with Jan to Gulf Shores, even though it wasn't sunny.

PROGRAM: Introduction of New Members

Katrina Houdis lives in Highland with her husband and two children. She grew up in Central Illinois on a dairy farm but has lived in Highland for the past nine years. She went to school at SIU Carbondale and got a degree in agriculture with her teaching certificate. She works in the mortgage industry and started her own company Prime Lending, which is located in the Administration Building across the street from Michael's Restaurant. She is very involved at St. Paul's Church and School and is also a member of the Highland Civic Women's Club.

Kelly Korte was born and raised in Highland and has lived here all her life. She attended SWIC and SIUE, where she got her degree in accounting. She married her high school sweetheart and they have three children. She worked at Scheffel for nine years and has been with the City of Highland for the past three years. She loves this community and feels very fortunate to be able to work for the city.

Keith Poss has lived in Highland all his life. He is married and has three grown children. His dad was a Rotarian for 25 years. Keith has been involved with the Optimist Club, VFW Men's Auxiliary and the Hihgland Swim Team. He has worked for Tri-Ford for 10 years and loves his job.

Ray Hereford grew up in Missouri and moved to Illinois in 1988. He has two daughters and a son. He worked for First National Bank and now is with Wells Fargo. His grandfather was very active in Rotarty in Oklahoma, which made him interested in it himself.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten