Memphis (Tennessee) Central Rotary Club
meets Friday 11:45 at Chickasaw Country Club
main dinning room, Galloway Ave
between Holmes and Highland Streets
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Memphis Central RotarianMemphis Central Rotarian
Vol. 35 No. 25 Meeting No. 1623 December 18, 2009 Editor: Jean Patterson
2009-10 Rotary International theme: The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands.
We are Rotary club #3931.
Visit our web site: www.memphiscentralrotaryclub.org
Today's meeting
12/18/09: 11:45 a.m. – Chickasaw Country Club – Program: Rotary International Scholars Dr. Randall Rushing, Interim Director of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and Dr. Tom Bryant, Associate Professor, Dept. of Music, Rhodes College will discuss their experiences. Program coordinator: Bob Neal
Future meetings
12/25/09: Merry Christmas!
01/01/10: Happy New Year!
01/08/10: 11:45 a.m. – Chickasaw Country Club – Program: Club assembly – Rotary Awareness
Program coordinator: President Ray Darby
Note: All meeting information is provided to the newsletter editor by the Program Committee. We believe our meetings listings are current and as accurate as we have been made aware. Please contact Jean Patterson, newsletter editor, if you have update/corrections for the future meetings section.
Christmas Party and Silent Auction report
The dinner party and auction were held on Saturday, December 12 at the University Club. The silent auction is one of two major fund-raisers in the year and the 2009 edition did not disappoint. Club treasurer Bill Eddings reports that our auction brought in over $5,000.00! Not bad for a small club like ours. Thanks to everyone who donated auction items and to everyone who bid high and often on the items up for bid. A special thank you to Bill who served as the auction chairman. This is a task that requires a lot of hard work and many hours dedicated to ensuring that we will have a successful auction. If you haven't served in this capacity (I did for five or six consecutive years!) you probably will never understand all the behind-the-scenes work involved but I am sure you appreciate everything Bill does for our club. Why not take a moment to personally thank him for his dedication to our club and the Rotary organization?
I missed the party because of serious illness in my extended family. But Bill reports that William and Betty Jo Dulaney were once again in attendance and also in rare form as they spent mega bucks at the event. Not only were they high bidders for a week's stay in Bill Matthews' Florida condo they also (in Bill E's words) “were high bidders on a passel of other items”.
A special card of thanks also goes to Jim and Joseph Crone who were very successful in obtaining items from retail donors. For example, Home Depot donated in excess of $400.00 in value of tools and more.
Auctioning Marty Petrusek's dinner for six was fun and the prize sold for $450.00 to co-bidders Larry Conn and Randolph Reeves.
A note from President Ray
I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the Rotary Christmas party – it was a great success and a good time was had by all. Special thanks goes out to Jim Crone for organizing the event, Joseph Crone for getting so many great auction items, Laura House for preparing and mailing the invitations, Bob & Charlotte Neal for the table decorations and Bill Eddings for all his work in managing the auction items. Thanks, too, to everyone who donated auction items and everyone who bid high to win!
Ray
Krissie Heuer receives the Paul Harris Fellow award
A highlight of the evening during the Christmas party was the awarding of the Paul Harris Fellow designation to Krissie Heuer who has served as Bill Matthews' office manager and “right arm” for a number of years. Krissie has given her time and talent to donate artistic items year after year to our club's silent auction. She has worked tirelessly for the past several years coordinating our annual charity golf tournament. So it seemed natural that our board of directors would vote unanimously to bestow the coveted Paul Harris award upon Krissie.
The only difficult part was keeping the wonderful news from Krissie. She is on the list to receive our weekly Rotarian so we could not publish the board's decision in our newsletter until after Krissie was given the award at our Christmas party. How hard it was to “keep the lid” on the story for the past couple of months!
But now that Krissie has received the award we will offer our most heartfelt and sincere congratulations to an outstanding lady who certainly deserves the highest award the Rotary organization has to offer. Well done, Krissie!
Your editor spoke with Krissie on Tuesday morning. In her words, “I am so honored to receive this award. It never occurred to me that I was being considered as a Paul Harris Fellow. In fact, when Bill Sr. was called to the front of the room on Saturday evening I thought that he was going to receive special recognition from the club. When I found out it was me, I was absolutely floored!”
Krissie plans to attend our meeting this Friday to share her appreciation with all of us.
Floyd's Fund winner's pot
There is now $398.00 in the Winner's Pot (and the equivalent amount has already been deposited into the club's Scholarship Fund) as we go into ticket sales for this week's raffle. At our last meeting Josh Sudbury held the winning raffle ticket #682159. Josh thought positive thoughts but wasn't able to draw the winning card. Instead he picked the eight of diamonds. So, as we have been saying for a number of weeks--- “The Queen of Hearts is what we are all looking for and the lady continues to elude the draw. “ There are now 39 cards remaining in the deck which makes for better odds of drawing the Queen of Hearts. Be sure to purchase a handful of tickets at this week's meeting. After all, this is the last meeting of 2009 so let's all do our part to make the winner's pot (and the Scholarship Fund) grow by leaps and bounds before the New Year!
Club meetings in the surrounding area
For the convenience of our members we've provided a list of nearby club meeting sites where we can make up our misses. Please save this list for future reference.
MONDAY
Rotary Club of Memphis Sunrise – 7:30 a.m., Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar
West Memphis, Noon, Southland Greyhound Park
TUESDAY
Collierville – Noon, Ridgeway Country Club
Memphis– Noon, University Club
Olive Branch – Noon, Olive Branch Country Club, Germantown Road
Oxford– Noon, Oxford University Club, 300 North Lamar
WEDNESDAY
Germantown-- Noon, Germantown Country Club, 1780 Kimbrough
Hernando – Noon, First Regional Library (NW side adjacent to the Square) – catered lunch
Holly Springs – Noon, Annie's Restaurant, 198 N. Memphis Street. Phone 662-658-2825.
Marion, Arkansas – Noon, The Cedars, 200 Washington Ave.
Memphis East – Noon, Racquet Club, 5111 Sanderlin Dr.
Robinsonville -- 8 am, Tunica National Golf & Tennis facility, Highway 61 & Casino Strip Blvd.
THURSDAY
Bartlett/Cordova – Noon, Colonial Country Club, 2736 Countrywood Pky, Cordova
Southaven – Noon, Boiling Point Restaurant, 55 Church Rd. (near Civic Center)
Tunica – Noon, Women's Club Building, corner of River and School Streets
FRIDAY : Senatobia – 12:15 p.m., Northwest Junior College campus, Haraway Center
Are you unable to make up in person at a nearby Rotary club location? Then you may wish to consider going on-line to make up your missed meeting(s) at Rotary’s e-club one. It’s very easy to do and the variety of program topics allows you to learn a lot about other Rotary club projects worldwide in addition to business subjects and critical needs.
Make-up meetings at your convenience, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Spending 30 minutes on the website constitutes an on-line Rotary meeting. It is mandatory that your visit MUST be 30 minutes or more. Visit www.rotaryeclubone.org today!
Our mailing address
Memphis Central Rotary Club
P.O. Box 772296
Memphis TN 38177
Your individual Rotary membership number is printed on your copy of the Rotarian magazine.
Or contact our club secretary to find out your number before corresponding with Rotary International.
Club roster
Daniel Augustine 832-3625
L.D. Beard 369-9642
Bert Canfield 634-2730
Larry Conn 682-1800
Jim Crone 634-1111 (cell #)
Leroy Dahler 362-9700
Ray Darby 366-7800
Fred Davis 761-9486
Jerry Daws 757-8578
Bill Eddings 386-3182
Al Hollingsworth 767-3600
Laura House 323-6216
Rick James 362-3492 X27
Jeff Jones 853-8109
Doyle Lemons 756-6536
R.E. Linkous 754-0700
David Luiken 382-3823
Harvey Marcom 761-2016
Bill Matthews 345-5650John May 761-3000
Tom Michael 759-2143
Bob Neal 685-7772
Jean Patterson 332-5586, Ext. 1295
Marty Petrusek 348-2832
Randolph Reeves 681-0507
Randy Ring 388-0592
Mike Robbins 363-5880
Jack Robinson 213-3993
Mabel Rutherford 755-3815
Karen Shea 683-9099
John Shepherd 850-1061
Carlton Smith 690-1203
Jack Springer 681-0025
Hugh Thomas 489-4392
Lee Whipple 755-8350
Dick Wieland 270-3778 (cell #)
Gordon Wilson 258-8781 (cell#)
Honorary members of the club*
John Bennett 853-3460 *
Henry Francis 754-3405 *
Floyd McDaniel 327-2013 *
Chester Perry 685-0972*
Tidwell Semmes 767-5752 *
Henry Springer 757-9005*
Jim Vandenburg 735-7003 *