ROTARY WEEK VOL 4 NO 21

GUESTS SPEAK AT ROTARY MARCH 15TH, A NATIVE OF MILES, LAUREL
ERICKSON ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND REYNOLD.    SHE'S A RETIRED  TEACHER AND HAS PREPARED A PROGRAM ABOUT HER FATHER, ERICK, WHO WAS IN THE 30TH INFANTRY DIVISION DURING WORLD WAR II.   HE RETIRED AS A MAJOR.   SHE HAS DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ABOUT HIM
AND HIS DIVISION AND IT WAS AN INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE PROGRAM.
IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, BELIEVE HER MOTHER WAS JAN GRUHN AND SHE
HAD A SISTER THAT DIED LAST YEAR.

GUEST AT ROTARY WAS FRED HAHN, MAQUOKETA GRAD IN THE 50'S AND
NOW A MEMBER OF THE JEFFERSON CITY (HARRY TRUMAN'S HOME TOWN NEXT TO K.C.) ROTARY CLUB.

ALSO AT THIS WEEK'S MEETING THE (KARL) SCHROEDERS WHO HAVE  MOVED BACK TO MAQUOKETA FROM ARIZONA.   HE IS ASHER'S LITTLE
BROTHER AND FORMER LONGTIME MANAGER OF OUR HOSPITAL, NOW
RETIRED.

AT LEFT, MAQUOKETA'S LONGEST MEMBER OF ROTARY (1950) AND OLDEST
MEMBER TOO,  DR. BUD BERNARD, NOW A RESIDENT OF CLOVER RIDGE.
AT RIGHT, TED STRAIT, ONE OF OUR NEWEST MEMBERS, RETIRED AND
KNOWN AROUND TOWN FOR BEING THE MANAGER OF THE MAQUOKETA
FARMER'S MARKET.    LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE PRAYING, BUT NOT.   AS
YOU CAN SEE IN BACKGROUND, CLYDE HARPER IS CHECKING IS TICKET
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP RAFFLE DRAWING.    CLYDE DOES GIVE THE
TABLE PRAYER EVERY WEEK THOUGH.

CLYDE HARPER RETIRED FROM EDWARD JONES IN MAQUOKETA AND
MOVED TO DUBUQUE AND LEFT ROTARY.   HE MISSED ROTARY HERE AND
DECIDED TO JOIN AGAIN AND TO DRIVE DOWN EVERY WEDNESDAY FOR THE
MEETING.   WELCOME BACK LUCKY CLYDE.   LUCKY BECAUSE HE HAS
WON THE WEEKLY RAFFLE FAR MORE  TIMES THAN ANY OTHER MEMBER.

A GUEST OF ROTARIAN JIM ENGLAND THIS WEEK WAS MARK LYON OF
MAQUOKETA.       ROTARIANS ARE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED TO BRING
A GUEST AND MAYBE NOW AND THEN A GUEST WILL  JOIN THE CLUB.

SORRY TO REPORT, MAQUOKETA ROTARY HAS LOST 4 MEMBERS, ALL FOR
GOOD REASON.   THEY ARE, LONGTIME MEMBER AND FORMER PRESIDENT,
DAVE UPDEGRAPH,  JUDY TUCKER AND TERRY AND KAREN SLATTERY.
WE NOW HAVE 30 MEMBERS.