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 Adrian Rogier.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Swedish GSE team will be picked up in Springfield on 4/27 at noon and be taken to their respective host families around 1:30. Our host families are Wayne Steiner, Tom Hill, Floyd and Eunice Rogier, and Maura Donnelly. We'll let them get settled in and then we'll leave Highland around 3 to take them to dinner and the Cardinals game. Maura Donnelly asked the host families and some committee members to stay after the meeting so they could further plan Saturday and Sunday's plans.
• The recipient of the Rotary scholarship has been chosen. Bob Luitjohan was willing to attend the awards ceremony and present the check on May 14th.
• Maura Donnelly left handouts on the tables of an email she received with an offer to purchase "Paul Harris and the Birth of Rotary" book written by Fred Carvin, a past district governor of district 7190. If you are interested, please take the handouts or talk to Maura.

No announcements

Guests: David Taft, Intern at Spengel-Boulanger Funeral Home (Cliff Couch), Amy Muny and Shannon Weiss from Highland High School After Prom Committee accepted a donation from Rotary

Make-ups: None

Birthdays: 4/25 Bill Sullivan, 4/28 Bret Gruender, 4/29 Luke Harris

Anniversaries: None

Club Anniversaries: None

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, David Butler, David Daiber, Len Daiber, Bob Engelmann, Angela Fears, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Bret Gruender, Robert Hellige, Ray Hereford, Lisa Hunsche, Don Johannes, Angela Kim, Jack Klaus, Kelly Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Lietschuh, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Bob Nagel, Jim Rankin, Jr., Mark Reaka, Brad Rench, Rick Ringwald, Bill Schaefer, Eric Schmidt, Steve Schmitt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutz and Michael Sutton.

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 1898 hours recorded. 

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

There was $310 in the 50/50 with 44 cards left in the deck. The six of spades was pulled.

Happy Bucks: 

• Kevin Dewaele was happy that Thursday he gets to visit his son, who was just accepted into a Masters Degree program at SIU-Carbondale.
• Mark Frey was happy because he had a good vacation and his mother is recovering from surgery.
• Wayne Steiner was happy becuase he had a good vacation and because he was thankful for all the support and success of the Friends of St. Joseph's Hospital Spring Gala last Friday. 
• Adrian Rogier was happy to have the support of his fellow Rotarians at the visitation for his father last week, as well as having his family all in town.
• Tom Hill was thankful for the ground breaking of the new St. Joseph's Hospital last week and thanked Peggy Sebastian for a wonderful program.
• Peggy Sebastian was thankful that her house in Wisconsin finally sold and for the ground breaking of the hospital last week. 
• Jennfier Whitten had a promo buck announcing that her neighbor, along with others from St. Paul's Parish, is heading to Haiti and is looking for shoes and over the counter medication donations. Anyone interested in helping should call Jennifer.

Phil fined Tom and Adrian for poor birthday singing and fined everyone who didn't have a ticket to the Blues playoff game that would be willing to donate to him.

The Highland Arts Council works to bring artists to the Highland community and to support artists in town. They support events like Art in the Park, Street Art Festival, Hard Road Theater, exhibits and art residencies at the high school.

Art in the Park will be held Oct 12-14, 2012 this year. There is a pre-sale night on Friday and the main event is held on Saturday and Sunday. They have over 70 artisits in 12 categories and give away $10,500 in prizes. The event not only features art, but also kids activities, Dueling Desserts, a kids' art gallery and raffle. They are looking for volunteers to help with this event.

Another event they support is Street Art Festival, where artists create chalk creations on the street. The event also features kids activities and an artist fair, where artists can have a booth for free.

The Highland Arts Council gives money to support Hard Road Theater and also sets up Art Affairs, which have been featured twice at the home of Dennis and Paula Calvert and once at the Highland Masonic Lodge. They also have an art exhibit at Pop Pop's and brought in an artist for the art residency at Highland High School.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten