| The Rotary Club of Abilene, Texas | The RotaterSERVICE ABOVE SELF | March 28, 2008 |
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Today, Charles (Mike) Wells, with assistance from John Smith, talked about the proposed Abilene Sports Authority Complex. Joe Alcorta's outstanding summary of each of our meetings appears on our club website. Thanks, Joe.
NEXT WEEK: Hal Miller, from the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy, will speak.
BUSINESS EXPO was a huge success. We talked to several people who may be interested in joining our club. Did you see the new banner hanging on the wall today at Briarstone. It was part of our booth at Business Expo as was the video that will also be showing next week at our club meeting.
TASTE OF ABILENE!!! April 8. Come out and enjoy a sample from ANY OR ALL of the following restaurants. JAY HOBBS and his committee have done a great job getting sponsors and preparing for our MAJOR FUND-RAISER.
The following members of the Abilene Restaurant Association will have booths at Taste of Abilene:
Be sure and welcome our newest member, MARK POWELL, who works for American State Bank. We are looking for ONE OR TWO high school juniors or sophomores who our club can sponsor at ROTARY CAMP RYLA in June at Texas Woman's University. Tell Kent Brown or David Stubbeman if you know of someone our club can sponsor.
MIKE DICKIE will be looking for volunteers in April to introduce guests and DAVE BOYLL will be looking for volunteers to give the invocation. PLEASE say "YES" when they ask you to do this.
April is ROTARY MAGAZINE MONTH. Be sure and read The Rotarian Magazine when you receive it. The April issue has articles on The Technology Revolution, as well as other articles about Rotary around the world.
The Rotary District Conference will be in Granbury, TX, May 8-11. You can sign up on line at rotary5790.org. And the Rotary Group Study Exchange Team from Peru will be in Abilene April 26-May 2. If you would like to keep one of these young business persons for a night or two, call Bill Page at 698-1970.
Randy Piersall was leaving after our club meeting today to go to Rotary President-Elects Training at DFW Airport. Randy will lead our club beginning July 1.
MAKE-UPS: Mary Beth Kilgore made up at our Board of Directors meeting, Richard Rolison, Tom Boecking, Bob Hunter, Marty Pothier, Ed Brokaw, and Robert Laird made up at Southwest Rotary; and Tom Boecking made up at Abilene Wednesday Rotary.
Club Officers: Bob Test, President; Randy Piersall, President-Elect; Mary Beth Kilgore, Secretary-Treasurer; Directors: Kim Bosher, Kent Brown, Frank Dlugas, Woody Gilliland, Steve Glenn, and Jay Hobbs; Sergeant at Arms, Marty Pothier; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, Will Dix; and Mike Weber (immediate past president)