As Lincoln Lodge was closed for two weeks the Club met, first at the Union Cafeteria, and then down at the Boy Scout Camp where a number of members were inducted into the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Barnyard
Fraternity.President George gave us a report of the International Convention at San Francisco and a week later Governor John T. Scull of Rushville paid his official visit holding his Assembly before the
luncheon.
Preceding the Wisconsin game we had the 3rd Annual Kick-Off luncheon at the Purdue Union with Stu Holcomb and the squad present.
A Stag Party at Rotary Park was followed by Bob Sine's Ladies
Night This year it was "The Great American Follies" and the "Cave of Mirth".
At a December meeting Chauncey McCoy donated a great turkey from his farm; the Lodge cooked it and the Club ate it. This was the meeting
Mark White of Elkhart, Governor of the 154th was our speaker. Our Christmas Party at the Lodge with Santa (Curt) Claus presented gifts to everybody. And then Rotary beat Kiwanis in the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle
Campaign. An all time record with the score $865.51 and $539.37.
Four hundred 4-H Corn Club members, farm leaders, and Rotarians packed the Lodge ballroom. The record of corn, 119.4 bushels per acre; the
winner, Bob Haywood of Romney.
Bob Sine's big Inter-City Ladies Night held on February 18th with Al Stewart's Purdue Varsity Glee Club the entertainment. Some undercover work revealed that it was the
birthday of Rotaryann Lucile Nichols, and the Glee Club sang Happy Birthday to her and also to one of its own members. The Glee Club member rushed down from the stage to "meet the woman from Texas", Many Rotarians from
ten Clubs attended.
Over five hundred Rotarians and their Anns were at the District Conference held at Greencastle. Twenty-five were from Lafayette.
One day before Elmer Waters set sail for Rotary's 1948
International Convention at Rio de Janeiro, he was presented with a lighter to enable him to light his pipe when he walked the deck in a sixty mile an hour gale.
Fortunate are we for having such fine weekly
programs year in and year out. We have mentioned several for President George's year.
Others were: "Snakes", with the speaker having a basket full of them; travel talks about Europe, the Caribbean, Egypt,
Palestine and Central America; Mrs. Mildred Fitch's presentation of "The European Recovery Plan"; City Planning; Soybeans; Coal; Louis Sears with his "Historical Antecedents of the Russian Policy"; the F.B.I.; Jack
Moriarty's "Human Side of Books", and Cable Ball's "The Printable Adventures and Opinions of a Middle Aged Colonel". There are annual programs such as the Speech Contest; Induction of New Members; Boy Scout; and
Scholarship and Citizenship.
The Fish Fry, that is the Rotary Glee Club Annual Affair was held at Monticello at the Sportsman's Inn. President George's year came to a close with Elmer Waters giving the Club
an exciting account of his conquests aboard ship, his travels in Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine.
