Officers Charles A. Burnett, President James D. Hoffman, Vice President Ernest R. Brown, Secretary Wallace D. Wolfe, Treasurer Harry L. Bryan, Sergeant-at-Arms Directors Larry C. Kigin Edward M. Watson Wallace D. Wolfe Edward L. Pottlitzer Bennett Taylor International President Ernest W. Hill Oklahoma City, Oklahoma International Convention Cleveland, Ohio Delegate: Ed Pottlitzer District Governor Robert E. Heun (20th) Richmond, Indiana District Convention South Bend, Indiana February 23-24, 1925 New Members Frank E. Lewis Harry J. Schilling Maurice I. Levy William Shipley Leslie J. McNair Zora M. Smith Cecil Ray Edward 0. Stradling Everett L. Austin Spencer Carson Bert J. Graybill James M. Kirkpatrick William Wallace Jack E. Walters Francis D. Watson Simeon P. Wolever Remember this year! The U. S. dirigible, Shenandoah was destroyed; there was an earthquake in Japan, and one in California. A headline in the New York Times read: Hens that Lay Purple Eggs Arrive for Show at Purdue. The Purdue Memorial Union, though incomplete was opened. Rotary at Lafayette was running smoothly. President Charlie took twenty-two members over to Frankfort one August day for a group picnic. Another day the Club had thirty-six sons of Rotarians as guests at luncheon; and again after the football season was over the Purdue lettermen were guests. The Club lost one of its past presidents, and a beloved member, Edger Goldsberry. "I sit alone, and musing fills My heart with pain that will not die Till once again o'er greener hills We ride together, you and I." How rapidly conditions change is illustrated by a letter from the Wolever Electric Company to Ed Bond stating that, "Our experience in the business district is such that we are unable to have receiving sets that give satisfactory results in hearing programs as distant as South Bend is from Lafayette." However the President, Ed Pottlitzer, Jimmy Hoffman, Chris Stocker, John Wagner, Thomas Moran, Doc. Crockett, Z. M. Smith and Jim Phelan all attended the 20th District Conference at South Bend, and reported a fine program and conference upon their return. Ed Pottlitzer and the other delegates returned from the 16th International Convention at Cleveland and with glowing accounts, particularly of the great pageant, "Rotary" produced through the generosity of hundreds of citizens of Cleveland, from the scenario written by Rotary's past president, Arch Klumph; a pageant dedicated to "the men who are vitalizing the spirit of service by expressing it in their social, civic and business activities in every part of the world." Ed also spoke of the opening session at which Dean White of Trinity Cathedral in pronouncing the invocation expressed the idealistic purposes of this convention. Dean White said: "Strong Master of the hearts of men, be pleased to look upon us who have gathered in this place from the far and the near corners of the earth for the purposes of conference .... imbue us with a world wide sympathy and use us to develop as a fact in our generation that which began as an angel song - - peace on earth, among men of goodwill." Approximately five hundred boys and girls of Tippecanoe County, all under eighteen years of age used the Club House during the year. Copyright © 2000 Lafayette Indiana Rotary Club. Please contact Webmaster with any technical comments or questions about this site.