Don Unger will highlight those wild and crazy members in Club Service I, including Audits, By-Laws, Information Technology, Sergeant-at-Arms, Birthdays and Attendance. Curb your enthusiasm, Don.

Dan Mackey is responsible for Club Service II, including the Bulletin, Care and Recognition, Meeting Arrangements, CSU Student Athletes, Photography and Programs. (Better be nice here – he might be my boss.)

Don Unger	Dan Mackey
Brenda Carns	Alan Ashbaugh
Tanis Roeder	Garth McCann

Brenda Carns has all the fun with Members and Fellowship, including Member Development and Retention, New Member Services and New Member Fellowship. If you feel underdeveloped or just need a Rotary hug, please see Brenda.

Alan Ashbaugh covers Community Service, including Highway Clean-Up, Community Needs, Rotary Read, Rural-Urban, Community Grants, Scholarship, and the Children’s garden. Clearly Alan is an earthy sort of guy.

Tanis Roeder goes International (with) Services that include World Peace Scholar/Ambassadorial Scholar, World Community Services, International University, Group Study Exchange, and Foundation Support. Si Habla Espanol?

Garth McCann keeps very busy with Vocational Services. His committees include the 4 Way Test Programs, BBB 4 Way Test Essay Contests, InterAct, Merit Badge University, RotarAct, RYLA/Young Student of the Month, Teacher of the Month, Teacher of the Year, and Cadet of the Month. Whew!

Come Celebrate our Service, appreciate the depth and breadth of we perform, and listen for your opportunity to get involved.

The board also accepted the resignation of Kae Moore. Kae is moving to St. Louis to accept a new job.

Melanie then presented Ruby Paul Harris pins to Nels Grabenstetter, Warren Garst, Max Getts, and Bob Meroney — signifying they have contributed more than $9000 to the RI Foundation. Bob Meroney designated his latest Paul Harris Fellowships to grandchildren.

"study to be quiet, and to do your own business" -- Bible

"To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet." -- G. K. Chesterton

Stuart talked about the quest and challenges to end Polio in the world and summarized the current state. One challenge example is to immunize the 25 million children born in India each year until Polio is eradicated there. Stuart indicated how special the Polio Plus program is to him because his grandfather had the disease.

He praised our club for all the service oriented projects we do and the example we provide for other clubs he referred to a few specific cases.

Of course he mentioned RI president DK Lee’s mote, “Make Dreams Real”, and his goal of helping the world’s children. Stuart is very enthusiastic about the Matching Grant process and how Matching Grants can help meet the motto. He related emotionally about his club’s Matching Grant work in Brazil. The Brazil projects started after he led a Group Study Exchange, GSE, team there in the 80’s. He feels that publicizing these efforts is an area where Rotary needs to make improvements.

He has started a club president’s blog as a sharing mechanism so that clubs can learn from each other. Club member growth is one of his and RI president DK Lee’s key goals.

He talked about the GSE program for 2009 with a district in Chile. Stuart would like all 51 district clubs to participate in a Matching Grant water project in the Chile district of the exchange. And he invited us to the District conference in Jackson Hole next April 30 through May 2, 2009 at the Snow King Resort.

Warren and Genny Garst Wildlife Collection at CSU Click here or on the "tiger."

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