Club voted $100 to defray bus travel expense of sending the Explorer Scouts of Harrison Trails Council to the Explorer Delegate Conference
at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Jim Natale of Portage, Pa. Rotary Club, made for and gave to our club a gavel made of leather in appreciation for some courtesies extended to him by some unnamed
Lafayette Rotarian. (See the September 1959 Rotarian story about JIM and his gavels.)
Al Stewart received a warm ovation from the Club for the recognition received recently from DePauw University—the
honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Congratulations, Al!
An appreciation dinner was held August 17in honor of Warren B. Maddox, retiring general secretary of our local YMCA.
Nichols, Busche And
Hostetter attended the Rotary District Institute at Danville, Indiana on July 30th. Officers from 27 of 29 Clubs were present and Ned Rickett of Crawfordsville was nominated District Governor for the next year.
Western Union telegram: "Congratulations from the State Kiwanis Convention to the Lafayette Rotary Club on their outstanding men of Service of the caliber of J. R. Mitchell and Warren Maddox."
Certificate from Rotary
International: "In recognition of its contribution of a minimum of $20 per member to the Rotary Foundation, the Lafayette Rotary Club has been designated a 200% Rotary Foundation Club!"
Twenty Lafayette Rotarians
proved to be better at golf than the Lafayette Kiwanians for the first time in 10 years of play. We now have the plaque—let's keep it.
It was good to see Capt. Ed Lee last Tuesday (August 30) on his way from Corpus
Christie, Texas to The Hague, Netherlands. The Board made Ed a roving international ambassador from the Lafayette Club, and Ed was just that—he maintained better than 200% attendance throughout the year, giving
Lafayette banners to many Clubs and sending many banners to Lafayette.
Jim Huston failed to sink the Navy War College and was welcomed back to our community and Rotary on September 27th.
October 20, 1960 was the 43rd anniversary for Frank Riedel's perfect Rotary Attendance Record. Congratulations to you Frank and may your good health continue so that you can make many more years of perfect attendance.
George Davis, Frank Riedel, Wilson, Nichols, Steele, Ev Wright, Irvine, Hostetter, Tichenor, Caldwell, Hocking and Bollard, and seven Rotaryanns, attended the District Conference at Shelbyville. The Lafayette Rotary
International Service Committee of Caldwell, Bollard, Tichenor, Irvine, Hocking and Ev Wright contributed greatly to the success of the conference. Frank Riedel took the prize for perfect attendance for 43 years, but
others with 40, 39, and 37 years were pushing him.
Paul Risk received tokens of Minnesota's football rank from Eth Baugh who no longer needed them after Purdue's victory November 12. Later on Paul got even by offering
Eth two tickets to the Rose Bowl game (for a price).
Did you notice Rotaryann Meredith (Chuck) Homer's letter to the editor of The Rotarian in the January 1961 issue. She wrote: "Tell us more" of the fight
against Communism.
Ralston, Baker, Williamson, Harmon, Ragsdale, Ellis and Demaree did an outstanding job in honoring Tippecanoe County's 4-H Corn Club members. It marked the 36th time that Lafayette
Rotary has sponsored this annual event. Medals were awarded to some 70 farm youth for their corn yields ranging from 100 to 242 bushels per acre. This year's trophy went to Sharon Kerkhoff, the first time a girl had won
this honor. Sharon's yield of 242 bushels per acre is the highest record in Indiana in all history, and is this year's State Champion also.
Officers elected for 1961-62: Clyde Nichols, President; Charles Craw, Vice
President; Curt Hostetter, Secretary; and Howard Porsch, Treasurer. Directors: James Huston, Samuel Keller, Roy Whistler and Michael Kosman. It was not destined for Clyde to be the president of the Lafayette Rotary
Club. In 1950 he was recalled to the Service giving up the V.P. of the Club. Then in March of 1961 he accepted a job with Texas Western College at El Paso, Texas. J. Howard Porsch was elected to the Board and to fill
Clyde's unexpired term as president, effective about August 1, when Clyde leaves for El Paso. Alpha B. Gray was elected Treasurer.
Nichols, Porsch And Hostetter attended the District Rotary Assembly in Crawfordsville.
Janice LaPlante, Lafayette Jefferson High School Junior won the Rotary District speech contest. Other contestants were from Anderson, New Castle and Union City.
34 U.S. Senators, and 54 U.S. Congressmen are
Rotarians. 16 of the Congressmen have been Club presidents, 4 have been District Governors, 2 as R.I. Directors, and one as R.I. President. 20 State Governors are Rotarians; 4 having been Club presidents, and 2 have
been District Governors.
April 25th, 1961 was the 17th anniversary of our Club's Scholarship and Citizenship Awards for the winners in the ten high schools in the county. Harlan White speaking on "So You Want To Be A
Leader" gave a marvelous presentation of the qualifications, the price, and the rewards of being a leader.
The Rotary-Glee Club Ladies Night Party was an outstanding event, for the 21st time, and was well attended—425
from 25 different clubs. Stewart-Luhman-McGuire and the Glee Club were "Better than Ever" if that is possible, for they are always wonderful.
More than 150 Purdue Glee Club and Rotary members enjoyed a wonderful
afternoon and evening of fellowship at the Frankfort Country Club Wednesday May 31, the 22nd such meeting. It was a wonderful place to hold the event and was the Best Yet. Thanks to Cordy Hall and his committee for a
job well done.
New Club in District 656: As of July 1, 1961, the Rotary Club of Flora, Indiana will be included in our District. This Club was organized in 1945 and it has 22 members. Our district will then have 30
clubs.
Club Members presented sixteen programs. As always, our own members bring some of the better and best programs. Especially good this year were: "Middle-Aged Intelligence" by Bill Owens; "Pre-Emptive
Cold War" by Jim Huston; "So You Want To Be A Leader" by Harlan White. And the Club had many good programs from visiting speakers, some of the best: "Beautiful America" by Col. H.C. Anderson - General Telephone; "The
Rural Development Program" by Harry J. Reed, Ag. Dean Emeritus; "Current Crime Problems" by E.J. Powers, F.B.I., Indianapolis; "Therapy of Laughter" by Rev. Joseph G. Wick, Lafayette; "Facing a New Age" by Ray Mertes,
United Airlines College Relations Director, "Japan-American Economic Situation" by Dr. L.S. Hardin, Purdue Ag. Econ. Head; "Inside Indiana's Legislature" by Donald Foltz, Clinton, Rep. Purdue '46; "More Lasting Results
of the Civil War" by Frank Hall, Purdue History Department; "Turned Out To Grass" by Leon F. "Monty" Montague, past R.I. Officer. And probably the highlight of all programs of the year was: "Thirty Years Experience in
Dealing with Communism" by George K.C. Yeh, Chinese Ambassador to the United States. Thanks to Norris Shreve for this program.
New sons announced by Art Tichenor, James Smith, Skip Dellinger, John Bollard,
Pete Kettelhut, Chuck Horner, and Harry Cowin. New daughter announced by Bill Riedel. New grandchildren by Frank Riedel, Nichols, Delong, Karl Kettelhut, Spencer, Ball, Conder, Herb Horner, and Charles Wiselogel.
The
Club stood in silent tribute to the passing of Rotaryann Elizabeth Burkle and Rotarian James J. Wiselogel, past president, 1922-23.
World Travelers: Bradshaw to Alaska; Irvine to England, Norway and Sweden; The
Shreves to Japan and Formosa; the Joel Petersons roved completely round the world; Ed Lee to the Netherlands and all of Europe; Whistler to Africa; and Bramble to Brazil.
There were 412 Attendance Makeups reported.
These helped in a great way to give our Club the best attendance for the year that it has had in many years. In the month of May 1961 our attendance was 86.92% for our best month, and placed our Club 8th in the District
for May.
There were 224 Rotarians from other Clubs that visited with us during the year. There were 564 other visitors including 35 speakers, 60 Rotaryanns, 90 children, 70 4-H Corn Club members and 10 4-H
Adult Leaders, 3 speech contestants, 5 "Crusty Crumbs", 10 high school scholarship and citizenship winners, and our weekly high school guests
Perfect attendance tabs, denoting the number of years of
perfect attendance were presented to Frank Riedel 43, Irv Wilson 24, Eth Baugh 7; Hugh Steele 7; Ev Wright 7; John Burkle 6; Curt Hostetter 6; James Williams 6; Mel Covey 3; Clyde Nichols 3; Howard Porsch 3; Ed Lee 2,
Holmes Martin 2, and Y. B. Hall 2.
It has been a privilege and a pleasure to have been a member of the Lafayette Rotary Club these past 14 years. Any service rendered the Club in all the many trusts and assignments
you have given me has paid many dividends in seeing Our Club a much better Club in every respect—Fellowship, Attendance, Fun, Cooperation and Service. Possibly my work in the Rotary Information Committee has been the
best. I enjoyed working with the late Lloyd Josselyn on the Golden Anniversary Edition of "The Story" and it is hoped that this addition of 7½ years of "The Story" will bring a few memories to mind as they are read in
later years. It is with regret that I am leaving one of the grandest bunch of fellows I have ever known.
