March 4, 2006

Last Week’s Program...
Robert "Bobby" Clark of The Clark Group spoke on their recent best selling book Clark’s Kentucky Almanac Book of Facts. The first Kentucky almanac was published more than 150 years ago by John Bradford. The last almanac publication was in 1856 until The Clark Group decided to continue the tradition. The forward to the book was written by noted historian Dr. Thomas D. Clark. Clark’s Kentucky Almanac is brimming with historical facts, trivia, arts, sports, notable personalities, statistical information and, of course, the astronomical calendar, for those interested in keeping up with the lunar cycles. Mr. Clark had everyone chuckling when he shared a couple of humorous stories from the book as well as one "receipt" for curing jaundice. For giving correct answers to a couple of trivia questions from the almanac, Mr. Clark presented two lucky Rotarians with copies of the almanac. At the conclusion of his presentation, Mr. Clark presented the Club with a hardbound edition of the almanac to be given to the Daviess County Public Library.

Thank you, Mr. Clark.

Attendance: 90

Highest Attendance This Year: 108

Invocation, Pledge & 4-Way Test: Gary Noffsinger

Fellowship Report: Patty Ray

New Member Proposal: Dr. Thomas Furgason with Physician’s Eye Center & David Hyland with Atmos Energy

Introduction of New Member: John Kurtz introduced new member Phil Riney.

Introduction of Guests: Randy Spaw introduced his guest, Dean Stanley.

Thought for the Week: "A grudge is a heavy thing to carry." ~ Unknown

YOUR PRESIDENT SPEAKS:
I have asked some of our past presidents to reminisce about their year as president or to discuss some aspect of Rotary that is of interest to them. Here is George Thacker’s letter. Thanks, George!!

YOUR "PAST" PRESIDENT SPEAKS: A few of you are old enough to remember that I once served as President of this august body. For those of you old enough, you may in fact not remember. In any event we had most of our meetings at the Sportscenter during somewhat of a transitional location phase. It was an unusual place to meet, but it actually worked quite well. Of course for those who do remember that I was President, you no doubt recall that I was one of the best Presidents the club has ever had. Seriously, all credit needs to go to my then club secretary, the Hon. Gary Sisk. Gary will attest to the fact that I was prone to somewhat "shoot off my hip" and would come to the meeting a few minutes early and ask him "what are we doing today?" Gary, always the completely organized person (I know this will surprise some of you) would have everything ready and outlined and made my job very easy.

Seriously, it was a real pleasure serving as President and I am pleased to say that during my tenure we received our first application for both a female member and an African American member (being one and the same - Alma Randolph). Like most of you, I relish my wonderful (at least short-term) memories of Rotary Club and I hope I have a few more years left.

Have a great week.

George Thacker, Past President

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
Drew Kirkland - February 26
Chuck Young, Jr. - March 1
Glenn Higdon - March 5
Joy Horton - March 7

ROTARY REMINDERS
• Don’t forget to make up your missed meetings at Daviess County Rotary, 7 a.m. on Tuesdays at Ponderosa in Towne Square North.
• Dean Ehrenheim is the program chair for March.
• Henry Zimmer will be at the Fellowship Table during March.
• If you have an email address and are not receiving the Impetus online, or you have changed your email address, please send an email to kim@mediaworksadvertising.com and you will be added to the Rotary email address list.
• Log on to Rotary’s website at www.owensbororotary.org. You’ll find our current member directory, photos of new members, past copies of the Impetus, some interesting history, and more!

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
March 15: TBA
March 22: Election of Board of Directors
March 29: Mike Filbin: Theater Workshop of Owensboro presenting "Where’s Herbert"

2005 - 2006 OWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB OFFICERS
President: Bill Dexter
Vice President: John Kurtz
Past President: Pat McFarling
Secretary: Tish Correa-Osborne
Treasurer: Bob Nation
Directors: Tim Bradshaw, Patty Ray, Noel Maddox, John Kazlauskas, John Medley, and Sister Suzanne Sims

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