At one of Bill's first meetings we all went to the Duncan Electric Manufacturing Company for a delicious dinner and an interesting
inspection of their new plant. With Lincoln Lodge closed we had one of our July luncheons at the new Marshall Cafeteria. Rotary lost to Kiwanis in golf at the Elks Club one day in September. That was the day Elmer
Waters was 83 years young. No longer are we the "old man's club". The annual Kick-off luncheon took the place on one of our September luncheons. On the 29th we had our own George Davis present for the annual Governor's
message. On a pretty day in October we all went to Rotary Park for the annual Stag Party with Joe Sicer barbecuing the chicken, a great success.
Over forty Rotarians and Rotaryanns attended the Crawfordsville
District Conference. An outstanding occasion was the Old Timers Meeting the night preceding the one-day session.
There was an induction of new members with King Cole of Bloomington welcoming sixteen new Rotarians.
December saw Kettle Day for the Salvation Army, and a Sons and Daughters Day. On January 22nd the Annual 4-H Leaders and Tippecanoe County Corn Growers meeting filled the large room at Lincoln Lodge with George Doup of
the Indiana Farm Bureau the speaker. In February Earl Butz told us "You Gotta Have a Dream", this was our Rural-Urban Day. At one of our International Meetings, Art Tichenor had two foreign students for the guest
speakers. A Club Assembly was held on March 11th at the Marshall Cafeteria. Each week the "Rotary Ripples" has a heading "Other Interesting Programs", for example: April 27, Will Hays, Jr., April 28, Information Meeting
at Marion; May 4, W. H. Johnson, "Atomic Energy and the Hydrogen Bomb"; May 11, Donald Beer, "Korea"; May 18, R. B. Stewart, "Lake Central"; May 20, Inter-City Ladies Night with Al Stewart's Glee Club; May 25, John
Adams, "Mexico".
During a recent crossing of the Atlantic, honor came to A. A. Potter, elected President of Rotary Club's Luncheon meeting on board the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth.
At Bill Ayres'
last meeting Curtis Hostetter gave an unusually fine report of the Seattle International Convention.
