Officers George L. Roberts, President Bruce M. Warner, Vice President Ernest R. Brown, Secretary Frank P. Riedel, Treasurer William Zimmerman, Sergeant-at-Arms Directors Llewellyn V. Ludy Paul A. McLeod Frank P. Riedel Ed L. Erickson Harry J. Schilling International President I. B. Sutton Tampico, Mexico International Convention Dallas, Texas Delegate: Edward W. Korty District Governor Worth W. Pepple, (20th) Michigan City, Indiana District Convention Terre Haute, Indiana February 21-22, 1929 New Members William Collinge Frank P. Cullinan Kendall F. Dickinson Robert C. Irby W. A. Bevan Harold A. Bullard Charles E. Craw John E McMahon, Jr. James Kirby Risk Floyd T. Romberger This was the year sixty-two of the leading countries of the world made a pledge renouncing war. This was the year Commander Byrd made a flight over the South Pole from Little America. Many interesting speakers the members of the Club listened to, but perhaps the most unusual program was that presented by Dean Enders, "Pictures of Rotarians in their younger days." Yes, Lafayette Rotary was growing up, but not yet had it reached that age which that disquieting name the local Kiwanis Club was to give it in the next decade. Frank Riedel now had attended eight years without missing a single meeting. One day Llewellyn Ludy passed around the cigars. Another day Bob Heun told of forty-six children from Tippecanoe County during the past four years using the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, and the local committee reported that the Club pledges were coming in almost one hundred percent. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Korty attended the International Convention held at Dallas, and to this day when one speaks of Dallas to Ed his eyes shine and he gets all excited and tells us of that enormous crowd of twelve thousand people filling the State Fair Park Stadium; of the beautiful Grecian temple with those long staircases leading to an enchanting garden wherein lay a huge Rotary wheel on a revolving base; of the drum-call and the blast of trumpets and then the entrance of each country˜its flag with eight attendants in the costume of the land, and its national anthem playing, and then the United States followed by the "Spirit of Dixie"; of the glorious garden sparkling with golden fountains, and fireworks displaying their welcome; and of the entire week of the most cordial and hospitable entertainment. President Tom Sutton closed his Presidential address with a quotation which is so true to life; especially to those who have attended a great international convention in a foreign country does this seem true: "If you walk as a friend you will find a friend wherever you choose to fare; If you go with mirth to a far strange land you will find that mirth is there; For the strange part of this queer old world is that like will join with like, And who walks for love with his fellow man an answering love will strike. If you walk in honour then honest men will meet you along the way; But if you be false you will find men false wherever you chance to stray; For good breeds good and bad breeds bad, we are met by the traits we show, Love will find a friend at the stranger's door where hate will find a foe." Copyright © 2000 Lafayette Indiana Rotary Club. Please contact Webmaster with any technical comments or questions about this site.