Officers Edward W. Korty, President Edward L. Erickson, Vice President Ernest R. Brown, Secretary Ralph Schaupp, Treasurer Charles E. Craw, Sergeant-at-Arms Directors George L. Roberts Nelson F. Kellogg Ralph Schaupp Edward A. Shriner Howard E. Enders International President M. Eugene Newsom Durham, North Carolina International Convention Chicago, fflinois Delegate: Edward L. Erickson District Governor Leslie C. Sammons (20th) Shelbyville, Indiana District Convention West Baden, Indiana February 19-20, 1930 New Members Rex W. Ball 0. M. Booher Joseph Callahan C. Ross Dean George Haskins Arthur H. Lange Erston L. Marshall Earl T. Martineau John C. Ralston George A. Sanford Lloyd M. Valleley T. Fred Williams This was the year Sam Loeb had a new daughter, and Ed Pottlitzer became a Granddad. This was the year the last French soldiers left Germany, Rotary entered Morocco, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements. What is a Rotary Club? It is just a group of men who meet once a week, eat and run? Do they just listen to a lot of stories and smoke a lot of cigars? So often have we heard this, we give here a cross section taken from the Secretary's diary. Speakers on such subjects as - The American Legion and Its Work; Conservation in Indiana; Banking; Buying and Selling Relations; Cost of Medical Care; Purdue Football Prospects; The Making of Wills; Medicine and Surgery; A Trip Through the Orient; The Work of the Probation Officer, The R.O.T.C.; The New Europe; The Debt We Owe Electricity; Our State Highways; The Romance of the Tippecanoe; Rural Developments; The Disarmament Conference; Character Building; Life and Health; The Constitution; The King Can Do No Wrong; Why Men Fail; and many musical programs. The Club had the winners of the High School Oratorical Contest as their guests; and then it was the Foreign Students of Purdue University. At one meeting with Dean Shoemaker the speaker, the Club entertained the daughters of Rotarians, and then it was the two High School football squads. There was a model airplane flying demonstration, and moving pictures of science, of technology and of travel. Past International President Allen Albert spoke to the Club one noon, and a Captain Cook and a Colonel Lieber. Governor Sammons addressed the Club as did members of the Purdue University faculty, doctors and social workers, politicians and ministers, engineers and business men, Hi-Y boys and Corn Club winners, and many members of the Club itself. The Club bought pictures for the two High Schools; they equipped a room of the new Cary Childrens' Home at an expense of three hundred dollars; they presented George Roberts with a past-president's pin; they expended a considerable sum for the children's camp at Rotary Park; they had their regular Easter Egg hunt for the youngsters at the park; they spent money for the upkeep of Rotary Park; and there was the Christmas party with the many presents for the youngsters; there was the presentation of the Memorial Tablet of Doctor Thomas Moran; and one day they clothed a needy boy from head to foot. The Club observed Memorial Day with a speaker from the Soldiers' Home; they listened to "Little Buffalo" around the campfire at Rotary Park; they visited the Ross Sanitarium, and there was the installation of the new officers at the West Lafayette Country Club. Harry Schilling was appointed Chairman of the April Fool program, and one day, it was January the 14th the record reads, "Ladies Night at Lincoln Lodge. Drowned out." The District Assembly was at Lebanon with the District Conference again at West Baden. The Bloomfield Club attended one hundred percent. Later in the year Governor Sammons named an Advisory Committee for the Indiana Rotary Convalescent Home at the Riley Hospital. The Committee, Robert Heun, Chairman, Mr. Grafton of Muncie, Mr. Sherwood of Bedford, the District Governor and the President of the Indianapolis Club. On April 28th the cornerstone of the Home was laid with Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary, and Ches Perry, Rotary's International Secretary, present. The Chicago Rotary Club, Number One, founded in 1905, was host to the Twenty-first Convention, the Silver Anniversary of Rotary's birth. Delegates from the Lafayette Club were Ed Korty, Charles Burnett, Wallace Wolf and Ed Ericksen. Of the seventy-five District Governors in the Rotary World seventy attended the International Assembly the week preceding the Convention. Ed Ericksen called it the greatest that Rotary had ever had; Charles Burnett compared it favorable with his supreme Toronto Convention and the Great Lakes boat trip, and Wallace Wolf came back and could not stop talking about it. His favorite quotation was one Mr. Wu of Shanghi used. Here it is, and how true of Rotary's ideals: "How can you, friend? the Swedish say; The Dutch, "How do you fare? "How do you have yourself today?" Has quite a Polish air. In Italy, "How do you stand?" Will greet you every hour. In Turkey when one takes your hand, "Be under God's great power." "How do you carry you?" is heard When Frenchmen so inquire; While Egypt's friendly greeting word Is "How do you perspire?" "Thin may thy shadow never grow", The Persian wish is true; His Arab cousin, bowing low Says, "Praise God. How are you?" But oldest of them all is when Two Chinese meet, for thrice, They shake their own two hands, and then Ask, "Have you eaten rice?" There was that wonderful historical assembly staged in the Chicago stadium with twenty thousand spectators. Ed Ericksen told the club about it, and about the great silver birthday cake which was transformed into an enormous Rotary wheel. Copyright © 2000 Lafayette Indiana Rotary Club. Please contact Webmaster with any technical comments or questions about this site.