Blair Rotary Newsletter
"Lead the Way"
February 19, 2007

Every Rotarian - Every Year 
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General News                                                                                                                   

Club members are asked to reserve Sunday, April 15th for the annual Aebleskiver Breakfast.  This is our major fund raising event for the year and everyone's help is needed.

Reminder: attendance should be at least 60%, if you can't make a meeting you can do a make-up on the web at the following address:  http://www.rotaryeclub7890.org/makeup.htm 

Notes from February 13th Meeting- Program Chair - Peggy Lambrecht

Shirley Jipp presented a program on her book Sand Beneath My Shoes which is a collection of stories from her childhood.  Shirley grew up on a farm in the sand hills near Ericson in Wheeler County, Nebraska.  Shirley's first eight years of education were in a one-room school. Following high school, she taught in two country schools and in a small town.  Those years were interspersed with classes at Kearney State Teacher's College for one year and several summers.  After her marriage and the birth of three children, Shirley graduated from a 3-year correspondence course at Famous Writers School in Westport, Connecticut.  Still vividly remembering the stories told by parents and stories of her own childhood, she began publishing. Sand Beneath My Shoes, a compilation of published and unpublished stories, is Shirley's first book.

The book contains 33 chapters of events and remembrances from Shirley's childhood.  Shirley provided a few stories from the book including: life on the farm; Christmas memories; the depression years; World War II and blizzards.  If you would like additional information on Shirley's book please go to the following website: http://www.huntel.net/edwinshirleyjipp/contents.htm

Rotary Question of the Week

What are Rotary Global Networking Groups?

Rotary Fact of the Week (from  the RI or District Website)

 Global Networking Groups are groups of individual Rotarians from several countries who join together to focus on shared topics of interest.  There are two types of Global Networking Groups:

Rotary Fellowships offer Rotarians the opportunity to make friends with others in Rotary who share a common vocation, hobby or recreational interest. 
Rotarian Action Groups conduct international service projects that enhance the Object of Rotary.

 Thought of the Week

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."  Beecher
 

February Birthdays
Mark Rhoades 8th
Bob Woodhouse 15th
Dave Waite 19th

SERVICE Above Self!