Clyde Nichols was president one month and then had to move from the community as he accepted a new position with Texas Western College in
El Paso. He had completed 38 months of' perfect attendance with our Club and was very active for many years.Howdy Porsch consented to assume the presidency at Clyde's leaving. Howdy who had been treasurer
for 13 years said, "I am ready to serve, but this is not a one man's club. Each member has ability and talent to serve well to build a great Lafayette Rotary. We have the material. Together we can produce."
Hal
Degroff replaced John Ballard as Director, the latter going to the University of Washington to head the Aeronautical Engineering School there.
Honorary Members this year: Hovde, Lloyd, Christianson,
Potter, Timberlake and Riedel.
Lafayette Rotary defeated Lafayette Kiwanis in golf for the second straight year. Jim Engeler and Bill Heath organized the team.
Our club to the first of this
year had contributed $4,119.25 to the Rotary Scholarship Fund.
Many of our members attended meetings outside the North American continent: Bannon-Africa, Delong-Europe, Martin-South America,
Whistler-Africa, Irvine-England and European continent, Trimmer-British Isles, Davis-Europe, Al Wright-South America, Ralston-Hawaii, Spencer-South America, Joel Peterson-Pacific Islands and New Zealand, White-Africa,
John M. Peterson-South America, Golding-Puerto Rico, Shreve-Japan, Verplank and George Schilling-Bahamas. Also, Winfield and Doeppers on a cruise in the Pacific.
Cesar Ary of Brazil was the Rotary Fellow at Purdue
this year and spoke to many clubs in the District.
Our club collected $1,050 for the Salvation Army Christmas Fund.
New directors elected: From town: Robert Hiatt and Wollenweber. From gown:
Cooper and Spencer.
Hal Degroff proudly announces the arrival of a daughter, Judith.
Frank Timberlake, one of the 14 charter members of Lafayette Rotary and President in 1938-39 passed away. He had made an
outstanding contribution to our Club and to the Greater Lafayette community during his lifetime.
Joanne Pottlitzer, granddaughter of E. L. Pottlitzer, President of our Club, in 1923-24, who had served from our
District as a Rotary Fellow in Chile, South America, during the past year, gave an interesting report at the February 27th meeting of her many experiences.
Twenty-four foreign students from twenty-one different
countries were hosted at the March 20th meeting to promote better world understanding. Our International Information Committee of which Hal Amrine was chairman arranged this. Lou Wollenweber and his Youth Committee had
an outstanding Youth program on March 27th, including a speech contest and musical program.
Curt Hostetter and his Rotaryann, Catherine, accompanied on March 30th six high school youths to Cincinnati to attend the
World Affairs Institute, sponsored by the Cincinnati Club and other Rotary clubs of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.
Many Lafayette Rotarians were present on May 22nd in the Purdue Union Ballroom to honor
our own Past District Governor George Davis, who was retiring from Purdue on July 1st. More than 300 were in attendance.
Oscar Pipes, a dedicated Rotarian for over 20 years, passed away at St. Elizabeth
Hospital on June 26th.
The following had perfect attendance records for the entire year and also in parenthesis is the number of years without missing a meeting: Bachman, Eth Baugh (8), Burkle (7), Covey (4), Gibson,
Y.B. Hall (3), Hostetter (7), Lane, Lee (3), Martin (3), Porsch (3), Frank Riedel (44), Robertson, Bill Schilling, Siskind, Steele (8), Williams (7), Wilson (25), Ev Wright (8).
Howdy Porsch who willingly
assumed the reigns of Lafayette Rotary when Clyde Nichols moved away, was to be congratulated on an outstanding year. He presided efficiently and passed on to the membership many wonderful thoughts of his own as well as
releases from RI headquarters. A true Rotarian, he agreed to assume once again the position of Treasurer, as Alpha Gray was resigning from that position.
