Rotary Club of LaPorte eBulletin Monday, July 08, 2013

Notes from Rotary Meeting of July 8, 2013

President Tyler Smith called the meeting to order and led members in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and the Four-Way Test of Rotary. Mike Sutton offered the invocation.

Leigh Morris led in singing “My Country Tis of Thee”.

Sergeant-at-Arms – Tyler Smith raised money for the club with questions strait from the trivia book.

New Member Induction – Leigh Morris inducted Rev. Kit Billings into membership in La Porte Rotary. Rev. Billings is minister at the New Church on the corner of Indiana and Maple. In his induction remarks, Mr. Morris stressed that each person invited to join Rotary has been identified as a leader in his/her profession and in the community.

Airport Dinner – July 22 at La Porte Municipal Airport. Ed Volk has asked Sean White from Indianapolis to be our speaker. More information about the speaker will be forthcoming. This will be a joint meeting with the Michigan City club. Please contact Deb Varnak if you plan to attend. Reservations need to be in by Friday July 19th.

Program – Kregg Van Meter, director of the New Prairie Activity Center. He told us how test scores have improved in the New Prairie elementary schools. This last year they have been able to move the activity center from its location at Fail Rd. and Indiana 2 to one of the elementary schools where they now have plenty of room for the 80 plus students that attend the activity center. They now have access to full computer labs the gymnasium and hot lunches. Through the summer the activity center is active with students everyday from 10:00 to 1:00. This is a great program that Kregg and his team have put together. They are now working with the United Way and are starting to team with the YMCA.

Rotarians in attendance were: Mike Arnett, Ron Cmiel, Ron Gigliotti, Bill Hedge, Norm Juday, Yvonne Lindborg, Neil Mangus, Bonnie Miller, Leigh Morris, Dale Parkison, Mike Rosenbaum, Joseph Rosenblum, Andy Serafin, Vern Sikora, Tyler Smith, Mike Sutton, Kregg Van Meter, Deb Varnak, Ed Volk, Cindy Waelbroeck. Guest: Dottie Rosenbaum, wife of Mike Rosenbaum.

Meet Rev. Kit Billings pastor of the New Church of La Porte, inducted into the club on July 8, 2013

Meet Rev. Dale Wratchford, Director of Spiritual Care at IU Health La Porte Hospital, inducted into the club on July 1, 2013.

Meet Dr. Joseph Rosenblum founder of Concierge Cardiology a new member to our club.