ROTARY RAMBLINGS

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:28:07 -0400

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ROTARY RAMBLINGS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
DELRAY BEACH ROTARY CLUB 
June 11, 2002 
 
 
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Next week, our new officers will be
installed!&nbsp; President Gumm will soon have the opportunity to
retire-----then go on to bigger and better things! 
Today, the club voted unanimously, to elect Mark Denkler as
President-elect, and Bill Adams as Vice President.&nbsp; This came about,
due to the moving of Jerry Sansone, to work in Pompano Beach, who was
originally President-elect.&nbsp; I'm sure both of these men will do a
tremendous job for our club. 
 
Ernie Simon led a most moving invocation, reciting what Rotary is all
about.&nbsp; Gerry Meeks led the singing, with most of us mumbling the
words to our songs!&nbsp; We sang Happy Anniversary to Anne (Reeve)
Bright, who donated $27.00; and Bruce (Joan) Williams, who donated
$20.00.&nbsp; We thank you and wish you many, many more. 
 
Our club holds its' monthly board meetings the second Tuesday morning of
each month, 7:30 a.m. at Ellie's Diner, in the Marilyn Room.&nbsp; I have
been asked to relate to the club that it is an open meeting, and all
members are cordially invited to attend.&nbsp; This is a great way to
observe (close up) what is going on in our club.&nbsp; This is also a way
to do a make up.&nbsp; 
 
We have applications for two new members.&nbsp; This is the first
publication of: Lynn Huckle (widow of Dr. George Huckle, long time
member), and Arthur Lee; he has been a Rotarian up north, but is joining
us here. 
 
Two members, Shirley Clark and Anne Bright, have asked for temporary
leave.&nbsp; Shirley is in job-training, and Anne is away for the
summer.&nbsp; The board voted to grant this.&nbsp; By the way, Anne
donated $20.00 to the club, for leaving for the summer. 
 
REMINDER: The luncheon for Dave Harden, who is being awarded the highest
honor in Boy Scouting, will be held on June 28, at Delray Beach Golf
Club.&nbsp; Our club is taking a table of ten; please let Emmett know if
you can make this outstanding event.&nbsp; The cost for this is
$30.00.&nbsp; Dave, we commend you, again. 
 
Bruce Wenzel (the guy in the lovely pink coat), welcomed one Rotarian,
Barnie Shuhi, from Boynton-Lantana Club.&nbsp; We also had Barbara
Blocker, Jim's wife as visitor, and Lynn Huckle.&nbsp; We said farewell
to our young exchange student, Olli Turunen, from Finland.&nbsp; Olli is
a warm, friendly young man who has visited with us numerous times while
being here as an exchange student.&nbsp; He will be spending a few days
with his brother, in the Miami area, who is a musician there, and a
former Rotary Exchange Student.&nbsp; He plans to come back to see us in
a couple of years.&nbsp; He states it has been an incredible year for
him. 
 
Tony Allerton, Sergeant at Arms, collected $122.00 today, thanks to the
generosity of Anne Bright and Bruce Williams.&nbsp; Anne also had the
ticket that allowed her to try her luck at the &quot;green hat&quot;
winnings; the pot is now up to $152.00. 
 
The Sister Cities Golf Classic will be held June 22, at the Delray
Beach Golf Club.&nbsp; It is a fund-raiser, being held by The Delray
Beach Sister Cities Committee, to benefit Atlantic High School Student
Exchange Program.&nbsp; It begins 7:00 a.m.; shotgun start at 8:00
a.m.&nbsp; For more details, call Ned Gusty, 243-7080, or Robert
Barcinski, 243-7011. 
 
Our guest speaker today was John Callahan, Director of Delray Beach
Library.&nbsp; He had prepared a slide show for us, but as luck would
have it, his machine failed, as he was about to begin.&nbsp; He did a
tremendous job of explaining in detail, without visual aids.&nbsp; His
speech was about the new proposed library.&nbsp; The whole thing is about
s-p-a-c-e!&nbsp; Our library has run out of space.&nbsp; In 1950, when
this library was built, we had a population of 6,000 people; today, we
have a population of 60,000.&nbsp; Our library has been expanded five
times already.&nbsp; Most of the funding for our library is private
funding.&nbsp; The library owns the building, the city of Delray Beach
owns the land.&nbsp; CRA owns the land on the proposed site.&nbsp; They
are negotiating with CRA to swap the sites.&nbsp; Our library had 310,000
visitors this past year, (with limited parking).&nbsp; Of course, the new
building will house many more books and computers, in its 50,000 square
foot, two story building, at a cost of about twelve million.&nbsp; Mr.
Callahan tells us they are about half way there.&nbsp; They hope to have
ground breaking next Spring, with completion by 2004.&nbsp; This location
is on West Atlantic Avenue, across from the Tennis Center. 
 
Egon Kurz did a tremendous job of welcoming all at the front door.&nbsp;
Next week, our greeter will be Joyce Lunsford.&nbsp; Remember, it is our
officer installation meeting, please try to attend. 
 
 
 
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