Meeting Update - July 31, 2008

Meeting Update

Hope you will join us Thursday for the weekly meeting of the Topeka Rotary Club. Our District Governor, Vickie Randel, will be our guest speaker. We will be in the Regency West Ballroom.

Other announcements:

Greeters - Grant Glenn, Tom Gorrell, Kevin Graham, Scott Griffith

Invocation - Jim Rankin

Guest Introductions - Jose Davis

Reception Table - Jennifer Haller

Menu - Ramada Salad, Pork Chops with Onion Gravy, Vegetable Medley, Augratin Potatoes, Rolls & Butter, Assorted Cakes

New Member Table - Mark Marling, Susan Mauch, Staci Wiliams

July Cup Money - Salvation Army Disaster Relief Fund

New Member Announcement - Steven Newell, Marketing President, Central National Bank (10 Day Waiting Period/ 1st Time)

Memorial - Dale Anderson will present a memorial to Ted Scott.

The club is in the process of printing the 2008-09 Directory. Information sheets will be on the back tables. Please look at your information, make necessary correction, if there are, and then initial the sheet so we will know you have looked at your information. These will be at the noon meetings for the next four weeks.

Group Study Exchange Team - We are seeking applications for team members to tour the area near Manila in the Philippines from March 4- April 4, 2009. Contact Phil Coolidge for more
information.

The July Rotopeka is online, read it here.

Rotary Meeting update - July 24, 2008

Hope you will join us Thursday for the weekly meeting of the Topeka Rotary Club. Theresa Holderbach, a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Recipient will be our guest speaker. We will be in the Regency West Ballroom.

Other announcements:

Greeters - Ron Francis, Webb Garlinghosue, Bucky Gaudreau, Fred Gatlin, Ray Gerstenkorn, Pete Gierer

Invocation - Gina Millsap

Guest Introductions - Grant Glenn

Reception Table - Stan Martindell

Menu - Boston Seafood Chowder, Traditional Ramada Salad, Honey-Scented Thyme Chicken, Creole Pork Chops, New Orleans Pâté, Augratin Potatoes, Fresh Asparagus, Bread Pudding and Cher's Desert

New Member Table - Jerry Holley, David Beck, Jennifer Haller

July Cup Money - Salvation Army Disaster Relief Fund

The club is in the process of printing the 2008-09 Directory. Information sheets will be on the back tables. Please look at your information, make necessary correction, if there are, and then initial the sheet so we will know you have looked at your information. These will be at the noon meetings for the next four weeks.

Group Study Exchange Team - We are seeking applications for team members to tour the area near Manila in the Philippines from March 4- April 4, 2009. Contact Phil Coolidge for more information.

Bonaparte speaks on Topeka Survey results

City Manager and member of the Topeka Rotary Club, Norton Bonaparte discussed the City of Topeka Survey Responses to the concerns of the citizens of the community. The results of the survey can be found here by following this link.

Meeting Update

Meeting Update

Hope you will join us Thursday for the weekly meeting of the Topeka Rotary Club. Norton Bonaparte, City Manager and CEO, will present a "Discussion of Community Survey Results." We will be in the Jefferson Room on the Lower Level

Other announcements:

Greeters - Sharon Durrell, Alvin Dvorak, Phil Elwood, Gary Ely, Stu Entz, Paul Fink.

Invocation - Rev. Max Clayton

Guest Introductions - Webb Garlinghouse

Reception Table - Joyce Martin

Menu - Traditional Ramada Salad, Cuban Black Bean Sop, Curried Chicken in Curry Cream Sauce, Stuffed Fish Florentine, Sasson Rice Pilaf, Chef's Vegetable Medley, Chef's Dessert Display

New Member Table - Lucky Defries, Fred Gatlin, John Hutton

New Member Announcement (10 day waiting period, 2nd time) -
Fred Kubik, Judge, Kansas Court of Tax Appeals, Nick Nickum, formerly employed as Systems Support for Farmland Industries, Kansas City. Now Retired..

The club will recognize Rotarians who were unable to attend the annual banquet for perfect attendance and milestone years.

The club is in the process of printing the 2008-09 Directory. Information sheets will be on the back tables. Please look at your information, make necessary correction, if there are, and then initial the sheet so we will know you have looked at your information. These will be at the noon meetings for the next four weeks.

Group Study Exchange Team - We are seeking applications for team members to tour the area near Manila in the Philippines from March 4- April 4, 2009. Contact Phil Coolidge for more information.

Effective July 1, meals were increased $13 per quarter or $1 a week. This is necessary to bring the meal cost more in line with what the Ramada is charging the club for the meals. The increase will be reflected in your July invoice.

The July Rotopeka is online, read it here.

July Rotopeka

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Club Celebrates Achievements with Year-End Banquet

By Barbara Wiggins
Click here for photos from Ann Palmer

The Downtown Topeka Rotary Club recognized retiring Board Members Terry Diebolt, Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch at the Topeka Rotary Club Annual Banquet. The club also honored sixteen members who are celebrating milestone anniversaries between twenty and fifty-five years.

Long-time member Eldon Sloan was recognized for making a $10,000 contribution to Polio Plus and Ken Gotewiel was recognized as President Joan Wagnon’s first-ever “Rotarian of the Year”.

Rotarians were also recognized for perfect attendance for the past calendar year.

The Club also recognized two members of the Topeka Community who exemplify the Rotary motto of Service Above Self. This year, two individuals received Honorary Paul Harris Fellowships. Pauline Johnson (pictured) and Dale Cushinberry were this year’s awardees. Cushinberry is the principal at Highland Park High School and Johnson is a community volunteer who helps organize the annual Topeka Thanksgiving dinner.

Read it Online, Read it in Color

Have you read the Rotopeka online? The club has published the issues online for the past several months giving its readers the opportunity to read it long before it ever arrives in your mailbox.

If you haven’t seen the online version, you might be a bit surprised to discover that it is packed full of color photos and stories which isn’t transferred over to the printed version. The image to the right should demonstrate just what is lost between the printed and digital version.

Once the issue is complete, you will receive a Topeka Rotary Club eNews notifying you that the issue is ready. Simply click on the link in the email and you can view the newsletter immediately, not when you finally receive it in the mail.

Message from the President

Make Dreams Real

It is an honor to serve as president of the Rotary Club of Topeka for the 2008-09 Rotary year. Our international president, D. K. Lee has chosen “Make Dreams Real” as the theme for the upcoming year. He has asked that we look for ways to reduce childhood mortality through traditional Rotary programs aimed at alleviating hunger and poverty, as well as promoting health and literacy.

Indeed, Rotarians are helping to Make Dreams Real in our local communities and around the world. Our club is involved in a number of literacy programs, has helped with medical and dental clinics here in Topeka, as well as sponsoring cataract surgery in Pakistan, polio reconstructive surgery in India and we are currently working to put together a grant to help sponsor an ambulance in Bangladesh.

Of course, no organization has done more to make the dream of polio eradication a reality than Rotary. We are very close - -new polio cases have been reduced by 99% since Rotary launched Polio Plus in 1985. There are only four countries where polio is endemic, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. With the help of a $100,000,000 matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International is ready to tackle the final obstacles of reaching the goal or complete eradication. You will hear more about what you can do to help with this project in the next few months.

Are there unmet needs in the Topeka community where Rotarians could be of service? If you have a good idea, please don’t hesitate to let me, or a board member know.
A special thanks to past board members Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch who recently completed their term in office, as well as Gordon Lansford who remains on the board as Vice President. Thanks are also in order to John Christiansen for many years of maintaining our website and sending out the weekly meeting reminders. Finally, I offer one last THANK-YOU to Joan Wagnon for her leadership this past year.

The coming year should be fun as we work together to make others’ dream become real!

From the Editor

I hope you have noticed the changes. Beginning this month, you will notice that the Rotopeka, the Rotary Website and the club email, now the Topeka Rotary Club eNews all have a similar look and feel.

You might sense an almost vintage or nostalgic look to the new design. That is intentional. It reflects the rich history of Rotary and those who have served to make this organization great. But at the same time, it reflects the future of Rotary and the digital revolution.

Profiled on the Rotary website is a Rotary International video from YouTube which is one example of how Rotary is moving into the future through digital communications. The new Rotary Club of Topeka website will bring video and other web-based content designed to connect you to services of Rotary in new and exciting ways.

This month’s cover is an actual screen capture of the new website depicted with an artists hand, brush and pallet. You will see the brushstrokes throughout the website and other publications. It’s usage is symbolic of the artistic expression I hope to bring to the Rotary publications.

When I began this effort a few years ago, I found a project that I truly enjoyed and I hope that you find this issue and new design to be fresh and innovative. It’s part of my ongoing effort of continual improvement and I hope that you can see this result.

I would like to thank John Christenson for his hard work and efforts over the past several years on the website and the club email. John was extremely helpful during the transition and I appreciate his help.

So here is to a new year of Rotary and one I am very excited to begin.

Thorne Receives Second Paul Harris

Topeka Rotary Club member Bob Thorn received his second Paul Harris Award for his continued support of the Rotary International Foundation. Thorne received the award, along with a standing ovation from the club at the July 10, 2008 meeting.

Meeting Update for July 10, 2008

Meeting Update

Hope you will join us Thursday for the weekly meeting of the Topeka Rotary Club. We are in the Jefferson Ballroom (Lower Level Right). Bill Moore, President & CEO of Westar will speak on "Westar Energy and Alternative Energy."

Other Announcements:

Greeters - John Dicus, Terry Diebolt, Larry Dimmit, Shared Doshi, Richard Drinon, Glenda DuBoise.

Reception Table - Staci Williams

Invocations - Rev. Dick Taylor

Guest Introductions - Jose Davis

Menu - Northern Bean Soup, Caeser Salad, Tuscan Pasta Bake, Bolognese, Garlic Bread, Chef's Dessert

New Member Table - Al Williams, John Wall, Chris McGee

New Member Announcement (10 day waiting period, 1st time) -
1. Kathleen Hein, Executive Recruiter/Search Consultant, Premier Executive Recruiting (2nd time)
2. Fred Kubik, Judge, Kansas Court of Tax Appeals (1st Time)
3. Nick Nickum, formerly employed as Systems Support for Farmland Industries, Kansas City. Now retired. 1st Time
Glenda DuBois's Retirement Reception, July 10, Mansion Room, Ramada Inn, 4:30-6:30P All are invited. Congratulations Glenda!
Seeking applications for Group Study Exchange Team to tour the area near Manila in the Philippines from March 4-April 4, 2009. Contact is David Beck
Cup Money: Salvation Army's Disaster Relief Fund

Don't Forget Rotary Today - 070308

RI president-elect’s theme speech

Meeting Update for July 3, 2008

Hope you will join us Thursday for the weekly meeting of the Topeka Rotary Club.

President Kirk Johnson will be the presenter. We are meeting in the Grand Ballroom.

Other announcements:

Greeters - Richard Crawford, Sam Crow, Jose Davis, Jamie Dean, S. Lucky DeFries and Brent DeShazer.

Reception Table - Jane Mackey

Menu - Italian Soup, Traditional Salad, Red Fish Cubion, Roasted Sirloan Orleans, Dirty Rice, Curried Vegetable Medley, Rolls and butterballs, Chef's Dessert Display

New Member Table - Roger Aeschliman, Terry Wages, Pat Michaelis, Alvin Dvorak.

New Member Announcement (10 day waiting period, 1st time) -
Kathleen Hein, Executive Recruiter/Search Consultant, Premier Executive Recruiting.

Lloyd "Ted" Scott passed away on June 30th. Services will be held at 10:00 A.M., July 12th at the First Congregations Church, 1701 SW Collins Ave., Topeka.

Vickie Randel Named District Governor

Vickie Randel, member of the Lawrence, KS club, has been named District 5710 Governor for 2008-09. (more)

Greeters for this Week

July 3:
Richard Crawford
Sam Crow
Jose Davis
Jamie Dean
S. Lucky DeFries
Brent DeShazer

July 10:
John Dicus
Terry Diebolt
Lawrence A. Dimmitt
Sharad Doshi
Richard Drinon
Glenda DuBoise