Mary Arnold, Editor

The Rotary Club of Evansville's Weekly Newsletter

This week's program:

April 8           Shawn Dickerson - City Arborist

                                               Greeters:  Dan Carwile

                                                                  Cathy Sickman Renner

                                               Invoker:   Tiffany Wynn

April 15           Matt T. Meadors

                              President- Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana

                        George Warren

                        President- Henderson, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

                        JOINT MEETING WITH THE

                        HENDERSON CLUB AT COLISEUM

                                               Greeters:  Tom Austerman

                                                                  Susie Mattingly

                                               Invoker:   Ken Schreiber

April 22           Joe Wallace, President and CEO

                        Growth Alliance for a Greater Evansville (GAGE)

                                               Greeters:  Jim Beard

                                                                  Billie Sanders

                                               Invoker:   Marilyn Klenck

April 29           Dr. Robert Dion

                        UE Professor - National, State and Local Politics

                                               Greeters:  Jim Beard

                                                                  Billie Sanders

                                               Invoker:   Marilyn Klenck

April Programs                                             Carter Clarke

May Programs                                              Caren Whitehouse

Program  Information, 436-4000            Matt Volkman, President Elect

APRIL - ROTARY MAGAZINE MONTH

NEW MEMBERS

Classification: Sales Traning and Development

President, Winning Sales Training Strategies, Inc.

Address: 701 N. Weinbach, Ste 520, Evansville, IN  47711

Phone: 475-8490   Fax: 866-325-0348

E-mail: sal@winssi.com   Mobile: 626-622-6409

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Home Address: 600 Brookshire Drive Evansville, IN  47715

Home Phone: 475-8490  E-mail:  salaliotta@hotmail.com 

Birthday: Dec 12   Spouse: Sherry   Member Since: 2008

Special Interests: BBA – Marketing, Jackson, TN – Rotary, Past President Rural Freshman Baseball League, Coach and Referee Evansville Youth Soccer, Past Member Evansville Bicycle Club.  Enjoys reading, learning, quality time with family

Classification: Contracting - Engineering

Vice President of Engineering and Business Development, Industrial Contractors

Address: 401 N.W. First Street, Evansville, IN  47708

Phone: 464-7247  Fax:   464-7367  

E-mail: jdeig@industrialcontractors.com   Mobile: 483-2821

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Home Address: 3700 Aspen Drive, Evansville, IN  47711

Home Phone: 477-8541 

Birthday: April 7   Spouse: Marti   Member Since: 2008

Special Interests: BS Electrical Engineering & Masters in Business Admin – U of E, The Chamber of Commerce of SW IN – USI Center Applied Research and Economic Development – Advisory Board, Spencer County Reg Chamber of Commerce – Past Chairman of the Board, U of E – Harlaxton Soc Brd Dir, USI Pott College of Science and Engineering Brd Dir, U of E Purple Aces Club, Evansville Cert Tech Park – Mayor’s Organizing Comm – Previous Brd Mbr, Assoc General Contractors of Indiana – Previous Executive Committee Brd Dir, Henderson Cty Chamber of Commerce – Associate Member of the Brd Dir, CFC.  Family, travel, music, golf, adjunct teaching

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

"THE WORLD IS A BOOK AND THOSE WHO STAY AT HOME READ ONLY ONE PAGE."  St. Augustine

BOARD MEETING

The April Board of Directors meeting will be held on April 8 at 10:30 AM in the GAR Room at the Coliseum. All Board members are strongly requested to attend. Please contact Becki Alcorn if you cannot attend.

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

Please be sure to keep Ron Grimm, recovering from by-pass surgery, and Joel Grizzell, who is ill, close at heart. There are also other Rotarians and Rotarian family members who would appreciate your thoughts and prayers as they recover from accidents, surgery and ill health.

WELCOME

John Whinrey introduced Doug Annakin, President, Shepherd Insurance, as our “lowest seniority member.” Doug’s classification is Insurance. Introduce yourself and welcome Doug to your Rotary Club.

CONDOLANCES

Sincere sympathy is extended to John and Gail Dunn and family on the recent death of Gail’s mother, Mary Russell. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rotary Foundation of Evansville.

THOUGHTS TO PONDER AND THE HISTORY OF ROTARY

In our first 26 years, from 1913 to 1939, we gained 22 Rotary clubs. In the next 26 years we added only two -- and only one of these, Salem, chartered in 1954 remains today. (on 8 March 1955, West Terre Haute was chartered with 28 members. Thirty-three years later, on 22 March 1988, it became a casualty. West Terre Haute, to this date, is the only club from our district to have lost its charter.)
After West Terre Haute, it wasn't until 1965 that we started to add additional clubs with North Vernon, followed by Greenwood in 1966. However a period of eight years elapsed until Bloomington North in 1974. Five years later in 1979, Terre Haute South was admitted. The eighties with two clubs, Martinsville in 1980 and Seymour Noon in 1985 and the nineties with three -- Evansville A.M. in 1990, Brown County in 1992 and, our newest club, Clarksville in 1995 brings us to our present number-32.
When the Terre Haute club was formed, Indiana was in what was called the Central Division. It wasn't until the Rotary year 1915-16 that clubs were first grouped into districts, and all of Indiana was assigned to District 8. In 1918-19 our district number was changed to 11, and John Napier Dyer of the Vincennes club was the first district governor. He went on to become a director and vice president of R.I. In 1922-23, our district number was changed to 20. Frank Hatfield of the Evansville Club was the second district governor from the current clubs and the first governor of the new district 20. In Rotary year 1937-38 our district number was changed to 155, and on 10 May 1938 Indiana was first split into three districts 154, 155 and 156 from north to south. Paul Crimm of Evansville in 1938-39 was the first district governor of District 156 with 21 clubs. We were to see two additional number changes before we arrived at our current 6580 designation in 1991-92. In 1049-50 District 156 became 226 and in 1957-58 District 226 was changed to 658. Lynn Stewart of Columbus in 1949-50 not only was the first governor of District 226, he also was the first half of our only father/son governor team since his son, Bob Stewart, served as governor in 1979-80. The first governor of District 658 and our present District 6580 were both from New Albany: Bernard Webb, 658 in 1957-58, and Don Sodrel, 6580 in 1991-92.                             To be continued.

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CLUB INFORMATION

Club Website
www.evansvillerotary.com

District 6580
www.rotary6580.org

Rotary International
www.rotary.org

Chartered
December 9, 1913

Charter Number
102

Club Number
3435

Meeting Time
Tuesdays at Noon

Meeting Location
The Coliseum
300 Court Street
Evansville, IN

Mailing Address
PO Box 1131
Evansville, IN 47706-1131

Office Information
402 Court Street
Evansville, IN 47708
812-962-4687 phone
Fax:  866-538-7635
info@evansvillerotary.com

2007-2008 Officers
Rebecca Alcorn,President

Matt Volkman, President Elect

Marilee Fowler, Vice President  
John Wolk, Secretary
Jeffrey Berger, Treasurer
Paul Crimm, Sergeant At Arms
Teri Hollander Albin, Past President

2007-2008 Board of Directors
Tonya Borders
Carter Clarke
Byron Cooper
Marianne Cox
Lois Duncan
Abbey Foroughi
Steve Groves
Jeff Henning
Dave Henze
Prudence Hoesli
Steve Jennings
Nancy Koehler
Phil Lieberman
Susie Mattingly
Craig McNett
Martin Rowland
Ryan Scheidler
Jack Schriber
Cathy Sickman Renner
Ann Stegall
Gary Van Zandt
Lee Vernon

Amy Walker

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