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HISTORY ROTARY YEAR 2000-2001

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Bill MartinVice President Charles JonesSecretary Cyndi GrazianoTreasurer Tom TuckPresident-Elect Ted FoxPast President Ralph BestDirector, Club Service Charles JonesDirector, International Service Donald TraugerDirector, Community Service Tom RowDirector, Vocational Service. Glenn Landy *

Gary DentonDirector, Youth Service Jenifer Hackett

*Rotarian Landy left the community foremployment on the west coast inSeptember and Gary Denton assumed theassignment for Vocational Service.

2000-2001 President Bill Martin

The Rotary Year of 2000-2001 was the end of one century and the beginning ofanother. Create Awareness and Take Action was the RI theme. Ending the prior yearwith 158 members and one honorary member, and having one of the lowest turnovers atclub dues time, we started the New Rotary Year with 151 regular members. All membershad paid their dues by the end of the first week in August. The membership goal set forthe end of the year was 166 members to exceed President Devlyn’s target of net fivemembers increase. On May 15 2001, we had 170 members. It was a sad day, when onMay 13,2001. PDG David Cope died of cancer. His contributions were many, but thelove and respect all had for this Rotarian will live on forever. Donations by club memberswere sent to the Rotary Foundation as memorial to PDG Dave. With three resignationsin June, we ended the year with 167 members plus our honorary member.

At the District conference in May 2001, the club won Three Notebook Service Awards.The awards were: First place in Community Service for the Stop Teen Smoking Projectchaired by Virginia Jones; First Place in International Service for the FriendshipConference with Mexico, the executive committee of the conference chaired by DavidBeall; and Second Place in Vocational Service for the five Appreciation Days whichcreated awareness of vocations and appreciation for community service. VocationalService Director was Gary Denton and Community Service Director was Tom Row. Alarge poster of our Appreciation Days for Awareness was submitted to the RI Conventionin San Antonio Texas. . Polio Plus Bumper Sticker project was noted as outstanding byDistrict Governor Jim Buckner and Fred Heitman was recognized for leading this clubeffort. The District selected our web site, rotaryor.org, as the district contribution for aZone and RI award. Our web site was selected as the best web site in Zone 30. Zone

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30 represents 11 districts in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Easternhalf of Tennessee. So an award was presented by Rotarian Todd to the club presidentat the RI convention for having one of the top 32 web sites world wide. Hanna Shapirais our outstanding webmaster and was given the RI best web site award certificate byBill Martin.. The new position started by RI this year was a CICO for each club. HannaShapira was our selection and the district again recognized her as their applicant forrecognition by RI. The 2000-2001 Presidential Citation signed by RI President FrankDevlyn and DG Buckner was presented to the club at the District Conference. ClubMember Jack Richard was installed as DG for D6780 for the Rotary year 2001-2002.Nick Kaebnick was selected as an Assistant Governor. Member and spouse registrationat the District Conference was 22 and 16 registered and attended the InternationalConvention.

William T Sergeant was given the prestigious RI " Service Above Self" award; only a feware given by RI each year. Our Mr. Rotary was given his "Service Above Self " pin at byRI President Devlyn at an RI Event and the award plaque was presented to Bill at a clubmeeting by DG Buckner and PRIP Jim Lacy. Bill also attended the Council onLegislation, which made dramatic changes and proposals to the RI Board that will impactthe next Rotary year. Bill, again this year traveled thousands of miles for Rotary as hepursues the goal for Polio Plus.

The District announced 20 winners of the Rotary Foundation District Service Awards for2000-2001. Four of the twenty winners were from our club, PDG David Cope, HankStoner, PDG Charles Whittle, and Bill Martin.

Our Vocational Service Award went to State Senator Randy McNally, for his outstandingcontribution to both the community and the state of Tennessee. Our Honorary memberselection this year for the 2001-2002 year were Chief Justice Riley Anderson and PastMember Bill Pollock. one of the 1940 pioneers in providing this community with. Music.Our second annual "Club Service Above Self " award went to member Virginia Jones forher wonderful project on Stop Teen Smoking. With billboard ads, TV announcements,this was a major awareness and information project involving the Interact club andothers that impressed all.

Thanks to Jim Charles, Four-way test writing pins were provided to the membership forthe purpose of highlighting the Four- Way Test in our vocation. The Four way test awardwinners were Tommy Cooper (nominated by Cyndi Graziano) and Kathy Teras(nominated by Dave English). Thanks to Andrew Yin and Karl Rapp.

Our Vocational Scholarships awards were given on May 8th to Angela Long and MarisaWasco. Our winner a year ago was Elizabeth Browning and she attended RSCC. MsBrowning talked to the club on June 7th about her appreciation for the scholarship lastyear.

It was a busy year in our club. After 55 years and for the first time in the club history, wehad a sitting Rotary International President visit the club. RI President Devlynvisited the club for two days in mid-August and 158 persons attended. We celebrateSergeants Super Squad. Three times during the year, we had a PRIP attend our clubmeeting. PRIP Jim Lacy visited on 17 August, November 3-4 and in April for PastDistricts Governors Day. Our District Governor visited the club five times, his normal DG

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visit, the visit of RI President, the Friendship Conference, Club PDG Day and for PDGDave Copes Memorial.

Presidents Devlyns visit was a two-day event. Arriving just before noon on Thursday,August 17, he attended our club meeting and gave a rousing talk and contributed to ourceremony for "Sergeants Super Squad". After the Club meeting, Pres. Devlyn touredORNL. On Thursday evening we hosted a large gathering of local and district Rotarians(129) for dinner and celebration at the Science Museum. On Friday morning, we hosteda breakfast meeting at a local Hotel for which all club officers in all 62 clubs in D6780were invited. Pres. Devlyn left Tennessee about 10am on Friday morning to attend aBoard meeting at RI Headquarters. What a wonderful visit.

For the first time, a Pictorial Club Membership Directory was created and given to themembership. Reece Wilson provided the push and Charlie Samuels and Cyndi Grazianomade it happen.

Appreciation programs for vocations in the club territory were given 5 times during theyear for the purpose of recognizing important activities in the community. City- Countyday attendance of 178 was a record for the year. Commercial/Retail business day,Medical Services day, Rowing Association day and Community College day werecelebrated.

To help beautify the community, 5000 flower bulbs were planted in Oak Ridge along theOak Ridge Turnpike during December 2000 and an additional 1000 daffodil bulbs wereprovided for Knox County to plant on Pellissippi Parkway. Front-page newspaper photoshighlighted the planting event that took three days. Rotaract club members helped withthe planting.

The Friendship Conference was held Nov 2-4 with Mexico. Ninety-three attended thethree-day event. It was a unique working conference aimed at developing newpartnership on matching grants for the purpose of helping the needy in Mexico. TenPartnerships were agreed upon with full funding at the conference with the Clubs andDistricts contribution of approximately $100,000. Most of those projects have beensubmitted to the Rotary Foundation for matching grants, thus perhaps $158,000 will beprovided for these projects in Mexico. Rotary Clubs in the USA and Mexico areconsidering another 19 projects. Four major world community service projects withMexico were agreed to be financed in part by our club and club members. One project,Prostate Cancer Testing Material for Men in Cuetzalan, was supported by Dave Mason.Three others were submitted as matching grant applications. They were (1) Furnishingsfor Alcoholicos Anominos facility that was with the Puebla Zavaleta R.C. and supportedby Bill Martin. (2)Vocational Training for Handicapped Children in Tecamachalco whichwas with the Tecamachaico R.C. and supported by Keith Kahl (3) Equipment for DownsSyndrome School in Cuernavaca that was a project co- sponsored by the Cookeville,Cuernevaca Obergon and our club. The total value of the three projects was $29,050.

Annual Foundation giving was $14,225.50. At year-end, our club had 120 Paul HarrisFellows and 36 Foundation Sustaining members. We had contributions to establishsixteen new Paul Harris Fellows during the year. The new Paul Harris Fellows for whichthe funds were submitted were: Hal Schmitt, Wayne Range Bonnie Bruton, MarilynWagomer, Tom Hilton, Roy Thoma, Loretta Friend, Judith Stroud, Douglas Fain, Conner

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Mathews, Elizabeith Busteed, Frank Robinson,Steve Damos, Jesse Noritake, JuneMartin, and Jim Normand. At the end of the rotary year, 120 members were fellows, 36sustaining members and 14 new members were neither fellows or sustaining members.

Polio Plus bumper stickers were sold to the membership and to other clubs for thepurpose of increasing the contributions to Polio Plus. We challenged the District toincrease contributions to Polio Plus and the Crossville Breakfast club accepted andexceeded our challenge. We contributed $5480 to Polio Plus and with a matching grantfrom our district, our total contribution to Polio Plus was $833.

A Club Auction was held and approximately $3100 was raised for the support of theBoys Club. Judy Stroud's monthly deserts were among the great auction items.. The preschoolers program in Oak Ridge were given $850 to provide among otherthings, a wonderful spring picnic. A great thank you letter as a poster from the little oneswas presented to our club and we enjoyed the preschoolers singing of the nationalanthem at the club meeting.

The Street Painting Festival was held and raised $18,050 for scholarships. Many newadditions this year to the Festival included a Children's Corner, Music concerts duringthe painting, Tee shirts with a new festival logo, chalking on sidewalk instead of street,Participation by our Rotaract and Interact clubs. So many to thank but our Festival co -chairs were Sandy Richard and Ralph Aurin. So many helped and thanks to all. Fifteenor more students will receive financial aid because of this festival.

Ramon Diaz was our yearlong International Exchange student who was a joy to bearound. His zest for life was an inspiration to all around him. A plaque was given toRamon at the June 7th club meeting. Charles Samuels and Jenifer Hackett did a goodjob to provide family hosts during the year.

Our GSE team member this year was Karen Hood of Farragut who visited Turkey for amonth under the team leadership of Jim Brien. Karen and Jim provided a trip overview tothe club on June 14th. Five members of GSE team visiting our district from Hong Kongcame to our club meeting in May, and Carol Johnson, Fritz McDuffie and others gavethem a tour our town that included the banking industry and the community college

RI officially chartered our Interact club with 19 members. The clubs leading advisor atORHS is B Bauman. The club was active this year in the Stop Teen Smoking and otherin house projects. Eleven students and tow advisors attended the Interact annual districtconference in Pigeon Forge. The over 600 attendees were electrified by Ramons talk.We sent four teenagers to RYLA in cooperation with the Oak Ridge Breakfast club.

A strong effort was made to organize a community based Rotaract Club. Beginningearly in this Rotary year, organizational meetings were held bimonthly at the RoaneState Community College campus in Oak Ridge. This great new program was lead byCarol Johnson. We establish a core group of five and began the effort to expand themembership within the business community of Oak Ridge.

Fellowship committee was directed by Dave English. We began the year with afellowship-evening meeting as a formal induction of the new board at the Oak RidgeMall. Lori Tucker from TV 6 was the featured speaker. We completed the year with. a

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"Three Rivers Railroad" trip on the Three Rivers Rambler", providing 90minutes of funand fellowship on a wonderful June afternoon for 58 club members and guests. Thisproject was lead by Conner Mathews.

Good program/meeting agenda's resulted in good but average attendance percentagesfor our club.. Average club member attendance this year was 78.8% plus visitors andguests. For the pst five years , the annual average attendance has ranges from a low of76.6% to a high of 80.3% with a five year average of 79.1% In January, Lou Arnoldpresented the perfected attendance pin to deserving club members. Lou noted that twomembers show perfect attendance for just less than a full year: Hal Schmitt, since March23 and Kelly Dagenhart, since April 6. Four members had unfortunate breaks in longperfect attendance records, due to the inflexible requirements for the record: BillCampbell and Bob Craig after four years, Pat Hopkins after nine years, and Dave Copeafter twenty-two years. One year perfect attendance was achieved by Dave English,Serge Fornier, Connor Matthews, and Andrew Yin.; Two years by Bill Martin, CharlieSamuels, and Judy Stroud, 3 years for Mark Denton 9 years: for Virginia Jones. 10years for Charles Jones and Jack Richard, 12 years for Fritz McDuffie and 40 years forBill Sergeant. At least one Rotarian in the world is reported to have 75 years of perfectattendance.

Outstanding program speakers during the year were selected by a group with ChairmanSteve Wyatt and chair -elect Bill Campbell in charge. Programs such as the UN day withthe high school were outstanding. Stop Teen smoking was another excellent programwith teenager Danna Davis from Nashville, Dick Smysers year in review program was atits usual excellent standard. From the Wild Kingdom, Stan Brock came in his lead forRemote medical services. Great talk and the club donated $1000 to the Remote Medicalservice project. Andrea Peterson was great as she spoke as a high school student onthe UN, John Morgan from state government spoke on how do we finance the statebudget, Barbara Hattan from Knoxville college was most impressive. Judy Garnder’sfashion show was a great time for all. Other good programs during the year were:

07/06/2000 Installation of Officers - Evening meeting - Lori Tucker, Co-anchor of WATE-TV,Ch. 6

07/13/2000 Jeff Kean, Executive Director, Woodland Opera House, Sacramento, California:"East Tennessee Shakespeare in the Park"

07/20/2000 Laura Copeland, Ambassadorial Scholar07/27/2000 Don Pearman, Bechtel Company: "The World of Diversity"08/03/2000 Oak Ridge Business day - US House of Representative, Rep Ford from Memphis

TN08/10/2000 Miranda Thomas,Youth Exchange Project Participant08/17/2000 Frank J. Devlyn, President-Elect, Rotary International: "Special Celebration of

Sergeants Super Squad"08/24/2000 Bill Pardue, former chair, Oak Ridge SSAB: "The Oak Ridge Site Specific

Advisory Board"08/31/2000 Congressman Zach Wamp, Representative,, and Skila Harris, Director of TVA09/07/2000 Dr. Wade Gilley, President, University of Tennessee:"UT and its Future"09/14/2000 Dr. Bob Ricks, Director, Radiation Emergency Assistance Center Training Site:

"REAC/TS"09/21/2000 DG Jim Buckner and Special Guest Douglas Henry,; State Senator and Chair,

Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee09/28/2000 Club Auction, Rotary and Boys Clubs: "Benefit for the Boys Club"10/05/2000 Dr Robert Honea (TBD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "National Transportation

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Center”10/12/2000 Andrea Peterson, ORHS International Relations Club: "Model UN Assembly"10/19/2000 Stella Schramm, Rotary Club Member, and Andrea Peterson, ORHS: "Model UN

Assembly"10/26/2000 Joan Cronan, Athletic Director, UT Lady Vols: "The UT Lady Vols"11/02/2000 Jack Harms : "Foundation Does Good Work and International Projects"11/09/2000 Randy and Jan McNally, Co-Chairs : "Holiday Lights for Health"11/16/2000 Dana Davis, Tobacco Free Organization: "The Tobacco Free Organization"11/30/2000 Alan Hendry, Executive Director of the Emory Valley Center: "Training the

Handicapped for Employment"12/07/2000 Senator Randy McNally: "Perspectives on Tenn-Care" and Medical Services

Appreciation Day12/14/2000 Mike Smith, Manager, Eagle Bend Hatchery:"The Eagle Bend Hatchery"12/21/2000 Christmas Program, children, grandchildren invited. Introduction Santa Claus12/28/2000 Richard Smyser, Oak Ridger, Founding Editor: "The Year in Review"01/04/2001 Bill Brumley, Manager, Y-12 Site Area, National Nuclear Security Administration:

"Overview on NNSA - Y-12".01/11/2001 John Ascher: "The Tennessee Railroad"01/18/2001 John Morgan, Comptroller of the Treasury, State of Tennessee: "Financing the

State Government"01/25/2001 Stan Brock, Director, Remote Area Medical: Update on Remote Area Medical02/01/2001 Arnold Godsey: "Volunteer Co-Ops Program"02/ 8/ 2001 Thomas Burns, "The Ulster Project - Nurturing Tolerance and Peace in Northern

Ireland"02/15/2001 Fred Foster, President, Blount Chamber of Commerce: "Nine Counties - 1 Vision"02/22/2001 Dale McConnaughay, Editor, The Oak Ridger03/01/2001 Frank Cagle, Associated Editor, Knoxville News-Sentinel: "Tenncare and

Mysteries Therof"03/08/2001 Gary Harris,: "TVA's Green Power Switch Program"03/15/2001 Frank Robinson, City of Oak Ridge: "City Center Master Plan"03/22/2001 Oak Ridge Rowing Association" Appreciaiton day03/29/2001 Don McFarland, : "The Oak Ridge National Recycle Center"04/ 5/ 2001 Barbara Hatton, President of Knoxville College04/12/2001 Special Ceremony for Clubs Past Districts Governors04/19/2001 Buddy Brown, retired Air Force Pilot: "My experience as a U2 pilot"04/26/2001 Roane State Appreciation Day05/03/2001 Dan Meyer, Rotary Scholar and Director of Knoxville Synmphony Asst05/10/2001 Kevin Brabson, Customer Service Manager, Comcast Communications05/17/2001 David Beams, Chief, Oak Ridge Police Department05/24/2001 George Malosh, Violence in the Work Place05/31/2001 Dr. Sid Alexander, Medical Director, Lake Shore Mental Health Institute: "The

Brain and Aging"06/07/2001 Judy Gardner: "Fashion Show"06/14/2001 Julia McCullough and Donna VonDerLoge, “America's Promise”06/02/2001 Vocationial Service Award Day06/28/2001 END OF THE ROTARY YEAR

Email was used within the Club Board for the first time to vote on board issues. Cybervoting shortened the clubs time to decide on issues. The clubs customs and procedureswere updated and ready to be republished. The bylaws were revised and the club voted

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to approve the changes. The History document was updated and published on the clubweb site where members can down load copies as they wish. A Council of PastPresident was formally created for the first time to advise President-elect and President.One of the results of the council activity was the installation of a stage, a new podium,and banners hanging in the meeting room to add to the Rotary décor for meetings.

Twenty seven new members this year exceeds the norm for new members, with tenresignations in addition to the deceased PDG Cope. At the beginning of the RotaryYear, seven members from last year failed to renew their membership. Seven is belowthe norm for the last five years. Membership turnover during our year was 6.6%. Newmember growth was 17.9% based on the 1 July 2000 membership. The following listingincludes all official membership transactions during this Rotary Year.

Additions Resignations/Deletions Mostoller, Ann L Baird, Patricia W 09/21/00 Pardue, Ruth J Landy, Glenn 12/31/00 Payne, Terry L O’Brien, Matthew 12/14/00 Wagoner, John D Meredith, Mitchell 12/31/00 McConnaughay, Dale Grubb, Rodney 12/14/00 Popp, A Jerald Parzyck, Dennis 12/31/00 Huston, Michael Latham, John 12/31/00 LaGrone, Joe Cope, David F 05/17/01 Bruton, Bonnie Clark Lew,Ira Eugene 06/14/01 Lesesne, John W Loeble, Andrew 06/30/01 Chinn, Richard G Jr Mounger, Dwyn M. 06/30/01 Normand, James T Kallio, Craig M Page, David G Hart, Len Clark, David S Beams, David Bean, David J Seamon, Mary Lou Brewer, Earline Krause, Carolyn

Fontana, Mario James A Conner

John A Dempsey JrMark ValentiRalph KniseleyHerrera, James P

Yours in Rotary, and for the Club Board of 2000-2001,Bill Martin

Oak Ridge Rotary Club

History 2001 - 2002

OFFICERS

President Ted FoxVice President & Director Club Service Tom TuckSecretary Gary DentonTreasurer Jennifer HackettPresident Elect & Director Club Service Larry BeemanPast President & Director Club Service Mark DentonDirector, International Service Fred HeitmanDirector, Community Service Tom RowDirector, Vocational Service Jeff Phillips

NEW MEMBERS RECEIVED

Don Roe, Ken Krushenski, James Byrd, Joe Valentino, Missy Acosta, Lisa Robbins, R BoydCarter, Scott Hood, Jeff Zollar, James Scott, Sandra Plant, Bill Wilcox, Ali Yazdi, Lester Fox.,Robert Elwood, and Beth Fee.

MEMBERS LOST

Ira Lew, Andy Loebl, Joe LaGrone, Dwyn Monger, Jewel Stallion, Kaye Johnson, JohnMcKittrick, Dave Duncan, Hank Sauer, Charles Laine, Roy Thoma, T. J. Butcher, Rick Chinn,David Page, George Jasny, Jan Haerer, Cyndi Lundy, John Dempsey, David Beall, and KeithPowers.

MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE

The club attendance for the year was 78%. The year ended with 166 members plus one honorarymember.

CLUB HONORS RECEIVED

Barbara Ashdown won the RI Award for Membership for a club with most new members in adistrict. Hanna Shapiro won an award at the Rotary International Convention in San Antonio forthe best Rotary web site in Zone 30. The club won 3 awards at the District Conference. FredHeitman accepted a plaque for 1st place for International Service Project for 3 projects withMexico; Hanna Shapira accepted a plaque for 1st place for best 6780 club bulletin; and RuthPardue accepted a plaque for 2nd place for Community Service for the daffodil beautificationproject. Virginia Jones was presented the club's Service Above Self Award for her efforts toinitiate and implement the stop teen smoking initiative as well as her cumulative dedication tothe club over the past years.

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

Although the ground was hard the club successfully planted another 25,000 tulip bulbs. Thistime they grace the Bethel Valley Road entrance to Oak Ridge. It took several tries but asalways we refused to be stopped by inclement weather.

A black-and-white chalk portrait of Albert Einstein by Katie Terpstra placed first in the amateurartists category and won the people's choice award in the third annual Oak Ridge Street PaintingFestival competition created and sponsored by the Oak Ridge Rotary Club. More than 100amateur and professional artists of all ages participated in the festival, which raised more than$20,000 for scholarships for students at Roane State Community College (RSCC).

SUMMARY OF OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS

Dr. Bob Overholt, physician and television personality, offered advice on how to stay healthyand live the good life.

Our own Ruth Pardue gave a hilarious mini-talk on “Trailer Trash Gardening”

Don Lindsey of the American Automobile Association (AAA) delivered what was a surprisinglycontroversial talk. AAA is lobbying for NAFTA truck safety issues because: "membersconsistently tell us they're nervous about driving with trucks". It turns out many in ourmembership are very sensitive to the issue of inspecting Mexican trucks.

John Hoel, Director, State Government Affairs, Philip Morris Companies gave anotherinteresting discussion. Mr. Hoel gave us a brief description of the company's products, what thecompany is doing to improve its reputation and touched on some programs that “give back tosociety".Jack Richard, District Governor of Rotary District 6780 and former president of our club, askedour members "to involve yourselves in at least one aspect of Rotary's workwith participation in at least one new club project." He also asked the club to help carry outRotary's Global Quest to strengthen Rotary's numbers (which had declined from 1.5 million to1.2 million until 26,000 new members were added last year) by bringing in at least one newmember every month.

Landdrom Bolling, the director at large of Mercy Corps International, a nonprofit organizationbased in the United States and Scotland was a guest speaker. Bolling has served as a diplomaticresource for communications between political leaders and governments since the Carteradministration. He discussed many aspects of U. S. foreign relationships, their causes andconsequences.

Mira Kimmelman, a holocaust survivor talked about her experience in Europe during WWII.During World War II, she spent five and a half years in ghettos and concentration campsincluding the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau. As a result of Nazi efforts, she lost almost her

entire family; out of eighteen family members only she and her father survived. Her experiencetaught lessons about survival and tolerance. "Our role is to teach the young about tolerance,acceptance of difference, and avoidance of hate”.

Our own club member Bill Wilcox, retired technical director of the Y-12 and K-25 plants, spokeabout the Manhattan Project and why it succeeded giving seven reasons for the project's success.

Past RI President Jim Lacey, also Vice-Chairman-elect of the trustees of The Rotary Foundation,gave us many stories and personal reasons to be proud of, and supportive of the Foundation.

DISTRICT ACTIVITIES/ROTARY FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

Jack Richard reported that there was a great gathering for the 2nd U. S. - Mexican FriendshipConference which was held the first week of November in Pueblo. Jack, Bill Martin, Keith Kahl,and Charlie Whittle participated from our club. During the conference, participants prepared apackage of grant applications which totaled $350,000.Over 150 people attended and during the conference, participants agreed to 36 projects. District6780 committed to 15 of these projects totaling approximately $175,000. Our club committed tolead 3 of the projects which focus on the needs of children.

Top club for annual giving to the RI Foundation was McMinnville. Our club was 6th with$14,638 and was the top club with restricted giving with $6,685.00.

This year’s District Conference was very special for the club. As the home club for the DistrictGovernor, Jack Richard, it was our responsibility to organize and operate the conference. Manypeople contributed but of specific note were: Bill Martin (General Chair), Keith Kahl (ProgramChair), Karl Rapp (Treasurer), Chuck Frew (Registrar) Conner Matthews (Operations), BonnieBruton (Decorations), Rick Chinn (Protocol/Flag Parade), Charlie Kuykendall (Sargent at Arms),Carol Johnson and Larry Beeman (Concierge/Tour Desk), Fred Heitman (Hospitality Room),Dan Conrad and Fred Heitman (Polio Plus), and Ted Fox, Bill Sergeant, Tom Row, and RuthPardue (participation in programs).Approximately, 570 people participated (Rotarians, spouses,Interact club members, and exchange students). Thanks to the club’s participation we won thechallenge with the Breakfast Club. We had 78 club members and spouses versus their 14members and spouses. The president of the winning club was to have his car washed by thelosing president. Rather than forcing them to wash President Ted’s very dirty and rather oldToyota Celica he suggested that the Breakfast Club could donate $200 to the Foundation in ourclub's name. During the conference ~$17,000 was raised for Polio Plus.

CLUB HISTORY 2002-2003

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL AND DISTRICT LEADERS

President, Rotary International: Bhichai Rattukul

District Governor: Robin Hines, Tullahoma Club

Assistant District Governor: Truman Anderson, Kingston Club

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President: Larry Beeman

Secretary: Tom Hilton

President Elect: Tom Row

Treasurer: Jeff Phillips

Past President: Bill Martin

Director, Community Service: Bonnie Bruton

Director, International Service: Fred Heitman

Director, Vocational Service: Shirley Cox

MEMBERSHIP

The club ended the 2002-03 year with 153 members plus two honorary members, a net loss of 10 members. New members inducted into the club were: Wayne Clark, Barry Stephenson, Marcia Rabinowitz, John Miller, Devrin Kuipers, Crystal Jordan, Robert Garza and Hank Sauer.

Two members, Paul Huber and Gene Joyce died during the year.

Rotarian Mary Lou Seamons lost her home and the club responded by making donations for her loss.

CLUB HONORS RECEIVED

The District conference was held at the Marriott in Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 1-3. The Club won two first prizes; Best Internet Web Site and the Lucy Bomar award in Excellence in Community Service.

CLUB ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS

In celebration of Rotary International's 100 year celebration, Rotary International challenged each club to: (a) Eradicate polio, (b) Each member contribute $100/year to Rotary International, (c) Complete a community project.

* Our Club met its goal of raising $30,000 for Polio Plus.

* The annual Gala event (co-chaired by Bonnie Bruton and Fred Heitman) was initiated and held at the American Museum of Science and Industry, $5,000 was raised and the money given to local charities.

*The Club coordinated the Street Painting event and raised $23,000 for Roane State scholarships.

*Tom Row chaired the Community Project Committee and presented three options to the Club: (a) Highland View Park renovation, (b) Roane State Community College outdoor amphitheatre on the Oak Ridge campus, (c) Commemorative Park downtown Oak Ridge celebrating Oak Ridge early history (1942-49). The Commemorative Park was selected and a 501(c)(3) organization was established to accept funds and donations.

*GSE team from Malaysia visited the Club and spent time with a number of Club members in their vocations. The Club honored one of the GSE team members with Paul Harris recognition.

*Hank Stoner was the recipient of the Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award for establishment of the orientation for Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship.

*David Boling was the recipient of the Vocational Service Award.

*Lawrence Hahn was recognized for 50 years serving as director of Oak Ridge Boys Club.

*Ruth Pardue was presented the Club's Service Above Self award.

THE ROTARY CLUB OF OAK RIDGE2004-2005

THEME: Celebrate Rotary

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 2004-2005

PRESIDENT Tom HiltonVICE PRESIDENT Bob CraigSECRETARY Bonnie Clark BrutonTREASURER Wayne HopePRESIDENT-ELECT Fred HeitmanPAST PRESIDENT Larry BeemanDIRECTOR, COMMUNITY SERVICE Marcia RabinowitzDIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Terry DommDIRECTOR, VOCATIONAL SERVICE Devin Kuipers

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF 2004-2005

• Street Painting Festival was held in October at Roane State CommunityCollege to raise funds for RSCC Scholarship Fund.

• In the spring was the Gala, a black-tie optional dinner and auction to raisefunds for various community organizations.

• In this Rotary Year, District Governor, John Bailey instituted a programcalled the Star Club. This program rewarded clubs that averaged donationsof $100/member to the Foundation. Our Club was one of the first to achieveStar Club status.

• In the vocational arena, Tom Row was awarded the 2005 Vocational ServiceAward.

• CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF ROTARYINTERNATIONAL: FEBRUARY 23, 1905 - FEBRUARY 23, 2005

o The Rotary Club of Oak Ridge undertook the creation of the Secret CityCommerative Walk, Rotary Club gift to the City of Oak Ridge on the 62nd

Anniversary of the founding of the City and to celebrate the RotaryInternational 100th Anniversary of it’s founding in 1905. The gift will be apermanent, outdoor, very attractive, history in the venue of a walk-around-loop in our main city park (Bissel Park), for present and futurecitizens that honors and tells the story of the over 100,000 people whocame here at their country’s call for “service above self” in a top secret

war work project in World War II. Rotarian Bill Wilcox conceived theidea of this Centennial project. Co-Chairmen Fred Heitman and TomHilton headed the project. The cost of the SCCW turned out to be$287,000. The groundbreaking for the Walk was held on February 23, theactual founding date of Rotary International. The project was completedin early June; dedicated and presented to the City of Oak Ridge on June16, 2005 during the City’s Secret City Festival. There were over 500people in attendance at this dedication. Attached is a summary of theproject as well as two discs with pictures of this project and all that led upto its completion.

o Rotarian Bill Martin presented a history of our Club since its inception onDecember 11, 1947. This was well attended by Club members and manycommunity leaders. Photographs of this celebration are on one of thediscs being presented with this history.

The Rotary Year 2004-2005 was a great year in many respects. While membership wasstable and the spirit of “Service above Self” was alive and well in our Club, this was ayear to celebrate Rotary. Our Centennial project, the Secret City Commerative Walk isa tremendous gift to the City of Oak Ridge, a permanent and attractive venue that willforever tell the story of Oak Ridge in its Secret City days, 1942-1949. This is the legacyof Rotary Year 2004-2005.

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Oak Ridge Rotary ClubHistory 2005 – 2006

Officers:President – J. Fred HeitmanPresident – elect – Bonnie ClarkVice President -Club Service– FrankRobinsonSecretary – Bob CraigTreasurer – Connor MatthewsInternational Director – Jenifer HackettCommunity Services Director – DevrinKuipersVocational Services Director – WayneHopePast President – Tom Row

District Governor’s Representative-Tom Row

The club held elections on December 22, 2005. The following slate was electedunanimously to serve for 2006-2007:

President elect- Bob Craig

Secretary – Devrin Kuipers

Treasurer – Kelly Dagenhart

Vice President – David Beams

New Members: Membership started at 146, dropped to 137 but ended the year with 150.New Members: Jack Bailey, Russ Shubert, Katy Brown, Lisa Hurt, Gina Grub, Charlie Jernigan,Craig Roma, Denise Roma, Chuck Hope, Mary Jane White, Liz Clary, Stephen Cate, DavidCarr, Tim Forde, Mary Ann Damos, Dave Mason, Nancy Harrison, Carol Mullane, Patti LochShelton, Ed Schneider and Adolph King.

Members Lost: Ralph Best, Ed White, Gene Pack, Ruth Pardue, Jack Richard, Mike Anderson, Bill Furig,Christy Foy, Patti Shelton, Harold Mann, Joe Valentino, Lynn Burchell, and Liz Clary. We weresaddened by the passing of long time members Dr. Lewis Preston and Jeff Gleason.

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Attendance:Our goal was 80%. Our attendance ranged from a low of 70% in February to a high of 80% inMarch and April but usually was 72-74%. A few people with poor attendance brought down theclub average.

Club Honors Received:Our club was recognized with more awards this year, possibly, than at any time in its history.These included:

Rotary International Presidential CitationRotary International Best Cooperative Project Award -Dogwood Tree Planting.Rotary International Recognition of Membership Development InitiativesDistrict 6780 Award for Club Bulletin – Print – Third PlaceDistrict 678- Two Governor’s Exceptional Achievement Awards -Katrina Relief: 80,000Pounds in 80 Hours(Joint with Breakfast Club); Secret City Commemorative WalkDistrict 6780 Governor’s Club of DistinctionStar Club (2nd consecutive year)Globe ClubRotary Foundation Awards -presented at the District Conference to Bill Sergeant and HankStoner for their years of service.East Tennessee Historical Society Awards: Bill Wilcox and Bonnie Bruton for the Secret CityCommemorative Walk.

International ActivitiesWe supported a Guatemala literacy project with a $500 contribution and the drilling of two waterwells in Nigeria with a $1000 contribution. We donated $1000 to the Rotary Foundation inhonor of Bill Sergeant to buy 35 sewing machines as part of an NID in India.

District ActivitiesOur club members participated in the district Rotary Foundation and MembershipSeminars held in Knoxville. We attended the Charter nights for the Tellico Lakeand Mt.Juliet clubs. We had excellent turnout to the District conference.We hosted the District Governor and her husband for a dinner on the night before herofficial visit. We hosted the GSE team from Nigeria at our club meeting. President Fredand Bill Sergeant attended the funeral of PDG Don Hinch, a man admired greatly for hisdedication to the Rotary Foundation. At least 18 members attended the AwardsLuncheon of the District Conference in Knoxville April 27-28..

District Governor Karen Wentz made her official visit to the club on October 20, 2005.During her talk her cell phone rang and it was a call from none other than Paul Harris.Prior to the club meeting DG Wentz met with the club BOD and President Heitman madea Power Point presentation of the club goals and objectives and activities for the yearDistrict Rotary Foundation Chair Carol LaRue spoke to our club on January 12, 2006.Carol would later become District Governor in 2008-09. Charlie Samuels became aMajor Donor of the Rotary Foundation

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Paul Harris Fellows:The following are some of the Paul Harris Fellows named in 05-06: John Orrison, Bill Lenihan,Don Gardiner, Jane Miller, Terry Payne, John Waggoner. Jesse Hood was made a Paul HarrisFellow by his grandfather Bill Sergeant, and Len Hart made his father, Len Hart, Sr, a PaulHarris Fellow.

Paul Harris Sustaining Members: We did not track sustaining members.

Highlights

The incoming BOD gathered in advance at Fall Creek Falls to develop goals and objectives and to create a budget, for the first time in recent memory.

At least 18 members attended the Awards Luncheon of the District Conference inKnoxville April 27-28. We won nine awards as noted above.

Throughout the year, our Program Chair Jane Miller and her committee did anoutstanding job of providing us with wonderful speakers.

We supported local children’s groups with proceeds from the GALA. August 4, 2005we presented checks for $1500 each to Girls, Inc., the Boys Club and the Children’sMuseum.

An unpleasant event occurred August 6, 2005 when the Secret City CommemorativeWalk was defaced during a peace rally. Tom and Pat Row noticed that signs andbanners were hung from the monuments. They called several club members whohurried to the site and cleaned up the mess. There was no permanent damage to theSSCW.

Sometimes things come up that are not planned. Such is the case with HurricaneKatrina that struck Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana with such devastating force. Aday later, the levies broke and New Orleans was flooded. Later, Hurricane Rita ravagedthe part of Louisiana that was not hurt by Katrina. Never in recorded history have weseen the total devastation and destruction over such a large area. People in the affectedareas were without homes, food, water, or any of the basics necessities of life.Rotarians in Oak Ridge quickly rose to the occasion and began an effort that was latercalled “80,000 Pounds in 80 Hours.”

This effort started when Rotarian Tom Row called club President Fred Heitman and said“Let’s get a truck load of supplies and send them to those folks.” A mere 80 hours later itwas done. Fred contacted Morristown Drivers Service, Inc., a trucking firm inMorristown, TN, who donated a tractor/trailer and driver for the ride to a destination yetto be determined. Tom started marshalling local resources. The trailer was parked in

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the Wal-Mart parking lot. Rotarians and other oak Ridge citizens manned the trailer.We procured a large banner which screamed that we were accepting donations forKatrina victims. Announcements were made on area radio and television. Soon,donations of cash and kind began pouring into the trailer area. Dozens of Rotariansfrom both Oak Ridge Clubs worked for two days, Saturday and Sunday of Labor Dayweekend, to accept, sort and load the donations. Our club members were eitherhelping to load the trailer or donating supplies. It was gratifying to see how we allworked together on this project that “just came up.”

People would drive to the trailer and drop off what they wanted to donate. We wouldsort the items into like materials and place those onto shipping pallets, wrap the contentswith shrink wrap and then load the pallets onto the trailer. Often people would drive upand hand us cash and ask us to buy what was needed. We gathered over $17,000 incash in addition to the trailer load of supplies. At one point several of the women whowee working at the trailer came to Tom and Fred and said that there was on thing sorelymissing from what they were collecting and could they have some of the money to gobuy it. Tom and Fred were perplexed until they learned that the items were femininehygiene products. The women took some money and came back with a goodly supply.DG Karen Wentz and her husband joined with us as we loaded the trailer.

On Sunday the OR Fire Department brought one of their ladder trucks to the site

and extended an American flag to the top of the ladder as a way to help folks locate us.Donations continued to pour into the site as Oak Ridgers rose to the challenge to helptheir fellow Americans in need. It became apparent that we were going to fill the trailerthat day but where were we going to take the supply, we had no idea!

Fred and Tom were working the cell phones looking for a place that needed all of thesupplies that were being gathered. The problem was that the places that needed thesupplies could not be contacted because all of their communications were down due tothe storm. Through a Rotary District Governor in Louisiana contact that we obtainedfrom our DG Karen Wentz we talked with the newly appointed District DisasterCoordinator in Shreveport, LA. They were desperate for the supplies that we had. Theywere overrun with people who had evacuated from the storms. They had the equipmentto unload and store the supplies we were sending. We made arrangements for the truckto go there. However, because of the storm the truck would need credentials and amanifest to get through police road blocks. President Fred Heitman wrote a Letter ofAuthorization for the truck to be wherever it was that it was stopped, and they made amanifest and sent the truck to Shreveport. It arrived safely and the supplies were put togood use.

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By this time the entire community was engaged in bringing items to the site. After themassive efforts all of the Rotarians were worn out and too tired to continue. The OakRidge fire department wanted to continue the effort, and they filled three more trucks andsent them to various places down south.

As people dropped their supplies some also gave us cash. As we were looking forplaces to send a truck we found several other places that were at the edge of thedevastated areas that served as local distribution points for supplies. We quicklylearned that we could not quickly send people what they needed so, instead, we wentthese distribution centers money. This allowed them to buy the items that they neededat the time. We sent money to Baton Rouge, LA; Lake Charles, LA; Francisville, LA; andLaurel, MS. All of these places used the money to buy locally the supplies that theyneeded for their local people. There were evacuees arriving in Knoxville too so we madea small donation to the Central Baptist Church in Bearden that was serving as a localdistribution center.

In October we teamed with the OR Breakfast club to sponsor a Hurricane DisasterLuncheon. Knoxville Mayor Mike Ragsdale was our speaker. We raised about $18,500from this effort. Presidents Fred Heitman, RCOR, and Ben Andrews, RCORB,auctioned the opportunity to hit them in the face with a pie, for $100 each. Foursponsors and 20 corporations sponsored tables at the event. Jane Miller and MarilynMcLaughlin were the organizers and they did a GREAT job!

As a final project regarding Hurricanes Katrina and Rita we teamed with clubs fromBirmingham. With John Germ’s assistance we received a $50,000 grant from theDisaster Relief Fund. We provided about $18,000 from the hurricane lunch that we heldin October. The Alabama clubs also provided about $3000 in direct funds. All of themonies were used to fund a community septic system for a Habitat for Humanity productin south Alabama that had been affected the storm. By installing a community septicsystem it took less area than individual septic systems and the project was to build anadditional three homes on the site that otherwise would have required the land for drainfields.

In total, we provided over $85,000 in cash and a trailer of supplies to people in LA andMS as well as helping the fire department get started with their three truck loads ofsupplies

The Street Painting Festival, chaired by Loretta Friend was held October 7 – 9, 2005.Over $17,000 was raised this year for scholarships to RSCC. This year, 164 artists

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participated The many winners in various categories were recognized at a club meetingby President Fred Heitman, and District Governor Karen Wentz congratulated them.

On a cold and sunny morning, December 10, 2005 club members gathered withmembers of the OR Garden Club for our Oak Ridge Beautification Day Project. Weplanted more than 200 bare root sapling dogwood trees all around the city. We alsoplanted about 1000 daffodils in the flower beds at the SCCW with able assistance fromDevrin Kuiper’s children, Amanda and Michael. Later, we received a District SimplifiedGrant of $2000 and purchased ten large dogwoods that were planted at the west end ofBissell Park. .

We celebrated Police and Fire Appreciation Day January 5, 2006. There were 34 policeofficers and two firemen in attendance.

On March 9, 2006 we held the 711 Club drawings. Kim Denton, Dave Mason, BobHightower, Devrin Kuipers, Leonard Abbatiello and Charlie Samuels were selected toname others as Paul Harris Fellows.

Rotary College, led by Deans Charlie Kuykendall and Larry Beeman, started March 30,2006 and had 14 students this year;13 graduated.

We held the GALA on April 1, 2006 in the Double Tree Hotel. We sold 132 tickets andraised a net of $9300 for community service projects for the next year’s BOD.

Local Educator Appreciation Day was held April 20, 2006. Tom Bailey recognizedseveral of his outstanding teachers and provided an update of the status of the schoolsystem.

On April 27, 2006 Bill Wilcox, a member of our club, was awarded our club’s highesthonor the Vocational Service Award.

On April 29, 2006 Bill Sergeant was recognized by The Rotary Foundation at a specialceremony at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for his service as Chair ofthe International Polio Plus Committee. RI President Carl Wilhelm-Stenhammar,Trustee Chair Frank Devlin, leaders from the Centers for Disease Control, WHO,UNICEF, and leaders from other organizations spoke about Bill’s leadership of the RIpolio program. There was a grand opening of a polio display in the Museum ofAmerican History. Bill’s accomplishments were recognized with an entry in theCongressional Record on April 25, 2006.

The Nigerian GSE Team visited our club on May 25, 2006.

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4- Way Test Awards were presented on June 1, 2006

June 8, 2006 was the Business Appreciation Awards day. Kim Denton chaired the effortto arrange the Business Appreciation Awards. The winners were Materials & ChemistryLaboratory, Inc., represented by Barry Stevenson; TN Bank of Oak Ridge, representedby Tom Tuck and Pro2Serve, represented by Barry Goss. All three were examples ofwell run successful businesses that were started in Oak Ridge.

At the Secret City Festival in June, Tom Row and his merry band gave away over 1200bottles of water. Between 10 AM and 2 PM that was a rate of 5 bottles per minute!

We shared the cost of a stained glass window at the Oak Ridge library with theBreakfast club. Bonnie Bruton was our representative during the dedication of thewindow.

Our club installed drinking two fountains in Oak Ridge. The first was at the SCCW andthe other was at Highland View Park.

Secretary Bob Craig produced the first electronic version of the photo directory in clubhistory.

Our club donated $1,000 to the International Relations Club of OakRidge High School to support its participation in the Model United Nations (NAIMUN)affair.

Rotary Year 2005 – 06 was a very good year. At the last meeting, all of the Rotarianswho had participated in any project were asked to stand; all but two stood.

HISTORY ROTARY YEAR 2006-2007

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerPresident-ElectPast PresidentDirector, International ServiceDirector, Community ServiceDirectory, Vocational Service

*Rotarian, Beams left his position due towork schedules and health issues.

Bonnie ClarkDavid Beams* & Jack BaileyDevrin KuipersKelly DagenhartBob CraigTom HiltonJenifer HackettSuzanne ShererBarry Stephenson

The Rotary Year of 2006-2007 was a year of challenges for this slate of officers and board. "Lead theWay" was the RI theme and after returning from Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark in Junefrom the RI Convention, this club would be looking for new ways and projects to get everyone involved.The Oak Ridger Newspaper splashed the pictures of the Rotary Presidents from 3 of our clubs; ClintonRotary, Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary and the Oak Ridge Rotary Club as being the first 3 women inAnderson county to take the "Lead" as presidents of their clubs.

A board retreat was held in May 2006 at Fall Creek Falls over a weekend. This gave the new board andofficers a chance to review and plan the upcoming Rotary year. The board decided to purchase a laptopsystem for the treasurer and new microphones and lapel microphones for our weekly meetings. All ofthese new electronics would enable our club to pass along information to the next leadership team andbe able to report at the Board meetings with clear and correct reports. The new sound system at the Elkscoupled with the microphones would ensure all members could hear the guest speaker and do liveconversations from the audience when needed.

The membership began with 145 members and 1 honorary member. The average attendance for themonth of June 2006 was at 72%. With the use of a new Rotary program (RICAS) our secretary andtreasurer would be able to track funds and attendance of members in a professional manner.

The club membership as of the District Conference in Chattanooga in April 2007 was 141 and ouraverage attendance was between75% - 80%. Our club did attain an 80% attendance several times. Weended in June with 3 honorary members: Riley Anderson, Hank Stoner and Charles Whittle and amembership of 142.

The list of additions to the club:Irving BarrackJim ScottCharlie HensleyMary RobersonPat McMillanAdolf KingRussell ByrdVickie CaughronCarroll WelchKeith KahlCyndy BailesDavid O'KainJim Bailes

Resignations from the club:Mark DentonKarl RappTony CappielloDavid BeanLisa HurtHank StonerScott HoodAlan LibyDave ClarkCraig RomaDenise RomaRussell ByrdGayle Ward

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On a sad note we did lose members due to death and they were all fine Rotarians and we miss them:Marshall WhisnantMarcia RabinowitzAlvin Weinberg

At District Conference in Chattanooga in April of 2007, our club did very well. Our club won the DistrictGovernor's Citation and the RI Presidential Citation. Our club was a 3 time Star club, 2 time Globe awardand won 3rd place for our Electronic bulletin the "Oaktarian".

Other award winners through the year were our own members: Bill Sergeant being awarded anInternational Service Award for his continued work with Polio Plus and Bill Wilcox for his efforts inpreservation work with the Oak Ridge Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Oak Ridge PreservationCommittee. These two outstanding Rotarians continue to give back to this community and the world.

Our Vocational Service Awardee was Benita Albert, award winning mathematics teach at Oak RidgeHigh School and mentor of a student team that won a national championship.

Our Vocation at Work Awards were: Melissa Warlick (granddaughter of George and Jennie Warlick)and George is a Rotarian at the Kingston Rotary Club. Melissa was born with spina bifida, but withsurgeries and determination she has several degrees, one being from UT in special education. She iscurrently employed as an assistant principal for Special Ed at Willowbrook School in. Oak Ridge.The second recipient was Bill O'Kain an insurance agent in Oak Ridge who has been blind since the ageof 23. Not only is he a successful businessman but is also a Ham radio operator.

The Brad Sturm Memorial Scholarship award went to Betsy Hilliard a senior at Oak Ridge HighSchool. She will be attending Brandeis University to study mathematics and economics.

Major Community Service projects were: Street Painting Festival in October 2006. This project nettedalmost $24,000 this year for scholarships for Roane State students. The turn out was the largest withover 150 artists participating from all age levels and skills.

The Rotary Gala with the theme of "Spring Fling" was well attended with 142 tickets sold out of 150 andthe proceeds netted the club $12,000.00 for community service projects and money being given to TheChildren's Museum, Girls Inc, and the Boys Club.

Jack Bailey (Vice President) was selected as the GSE Team Leader to take a team to France. The 3­week journey was a great experience for our team as well as the French team. They were given tours ofthe City of Oak Ridge, the Methodist Medical Center, Department of Energy, American Museum ofScience and Energy, Tour of the Haley Farm in Clinton, dinner at the Doubletree, shopping at TurkeyCreek and lunch with the Oak Ridge Rotary Club.

Our club started an Interact Scholarship that was awarded to 2 seniors: Shannon Ritter and Lauren Leeat $500 each. They were treated to lunch at the club and then received their awards.

The Rotary Dictionary Project was a great hit with the third graders in the Anderson County and OakRidge school areas. Rotarians took time out to visit and talk to the third graders about Rotary anddistribute the dictionaries (912) that were specially geared to third grade levels.

Rotary College was conducted in the spring with 15 graduates. All received a certificate of recognitionfor their attendance at six sessions that were lead by club officers.

Perfect attendance keys were given to 25 members whose attendance ranged from 1 year to 46 years.Bill Sergeant tops the list for numbers of years of attendance.

As of March 2007, our club had 112 Paul Harris Fellows that were active members. Our Foundationgiving based on 142 members at the $100 giving pledge meant that our club would give $14,200 to theFoundation and give us our Star Status. We did that and surpassed our goal at a club meeting!

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Our club has 5 Paul Harris Society members, one of those being new this year!

Our Program chairwomen, Margaret Beams and Marilyn Reafsnyder did a superb job this year!

Oak Ridge City Manager New Developments

Technical Writer for Star Magazine Hybrid Vehicles

Research Professor, UT Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

Director ORNL Nuclear Science & Tech Nuclear Power

R&R Properties The Flatwater Grill & other R&R Properties projects

Child & Family Services Foster Care in Tennessee

Director CASA

RI District 6780 Governor

Executive Director of the Sertoma Center Disability Employment AwarenessVocational Coordinator

THANKSGIVING-NO MEETING

President Lincoln

"Ayurvedic Medicine in Today's Society"

Public TV

Terrorism threat, today and in the future'

A Technology Vision for Education

Oak Ridge High School Carolers & Santa

Clinton 12 Project

Year End Review

Genetic Diversity in Mice and Humans

NCAA National Rowing Championships

Why is K25 a Historical Treasure?

Robotic Surgery @ Methodist Medical Center

Rotary Foundation

TBD

Overview of ITER Project

Overview of Youth OPEN Program

Crestpointe/Target Project

Dependency on Foreign Oil - A need for Highly­Efficient Automobiles and Trucks

United States-China Relations

African Well Project

Linking Supercomputing and Systems Biology forEfficient Bioethanol Production

Recognition of City Heroes

Biomass to Bioethanol: Promises and Challenges

Review of their book on UT Sports Experiences

Assistant Manager

Retired Army General

Director, US ITER Project, ORNI

Youth Leader, OPEN Program

Oak Ridge City ManagerOak Ridge Deputy City Manager

Scott Molony, Steven Arcangeli, ScottHorton, ORHS students

Rotary Chair, Hometown Heroes

Chief, ORNL Systems Biology andBiotechnology

UT Sports Department

Steve Wilson Lincoln Memorial University

Dr. Mary Roberson Ayurveda Natural Healthcare Ctr

Alice Murphy ETEBA

Steve Adams TVA

Dr. Ned Sauthoff

Emmanuel Frederick

Jim O'ConnorSteve Jenkins

SiemensCompetition inMath, Sci, Tech.

Dave Wehrly

Brian Davison

Steve Jones Clinton City Manager

Darrell Richardson Oak Ridger, Editor

Dabney K. Johnson, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPh.D.,

Carl Stiner

Dr. James Kelley

Keith Kahl Deputy Director, National TransportationResearch Center

Dr. Tony Spiva Department of Economics, UT

Gary Wares

SNOW DAY

Gus Manning,Haywood Harris

Mary Jane Sills ORRA President

2 Bill Wilcox Rotarian

9 Dr. Hall

Carol LaRue Rotary Foundation

Aug. 3 Jim O'Connor

Aug. 10 George Murphy

Aug. 17 Peter Mazur

Aug. 24 Jim Rushton

Aug. 31 Rick Chinn, Jr.

Sep. 7 David Russell

Sep. 14 Cyndy Bailes

Sep. 21 DG Jim Devlin

Sep. 28 Becky Massey,Delia Robinson,

Frank Miller

Mar. 29 Ansley Haman Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar My Experiences in South Africa

Apr. 5 Walter Dykas Staff member, ORNL Computing Cybersecurity Crime

Apr. 12 Chuck Carringer Educator's Appreciation Day Recognition of ORHS educators

Apr. 19 Larry Beeman Rotary - Vocational Service Award Program

Apr. 26 Rotary - GSE Team Visitors from France

May 3 !'1iles Smith Energy Solutions Recent experiences in Iraq + Energy Solutions'solutions

May 10 Katy Brown Oak Ridge Tourism Day Secret City Festival Update

May 17 David Mitchell Director, Governor's Office of HomelandSecurity

May 24 Bill Sergeant Report on Council on Legislation

May 31 Faith Tapp Consumer Credit Counseling Service Just Say NO to Senior Scams

Jun. 7 Barry Stephenson Vocation-at-Work Awards Program Recognition of Winners

Jun. 14

Jun.17-20

Jun. 21

Jun. 28 Donna Walker Director of Junior Achievement· JA, BizTown

Our own Bill Sergeant along with committee members: Tom Hilton, Charlie Kuykendall, and Bill Wilcoxtook the task of updating the Club bylaws. The last revisions were done in 2000 and the committee waschallenged to update and reform the bylaws to reflect the upcoming changes from Rotary International.In addition to this task, Bill Sergeant attended the 2007 RI Council on Legislation in Chicago April 21-28.

Some of the possible results from the COL action were:Clubs may meet only twice a month.Clubs may cancel up to 7 meetings a month, some small clubs 12.Rotarians forbidden to disagree publicly on private matters during club meetings.Members will attend or make-up 50% (Instead of 60%) of meetings in each half year.No limit on time to make up absences.Extend period to makeup absence from 14 days to 21 days.Reduce makeup time to 7 daysBring a prospective member to Rotary Club and get a makeup credit for a past absence as well as a~redit for the day.Remove provision for makeup credit for participating in an e-c1ub activity.Limit the number of times a makeup can be attained when participating in an e-club to 6 times a half­year.Discontinue attendance at a board meeting or service club committee meeting as counting as a makeup.Discontinue e-c1ubs.All clubs must have a club officer or Board as club public relations chair.Providing for Rotary membership based on only being a good representative of any worthy business.Exempt some members from paying dues because of age, relationship to members, etc.Subscription to Rotary magazine to become optional.Two married or cohabitating Rotarians need get only one magazine.

Permit Rotary to license alcoholic beverages.Introduce Esperanto as Rotary's second language.Increase per capita club dues to RI by $1.00 a year for each of the next three years and thereafter.Decrease per capita dues.Make attendance by club presidents at PETS not mandatory.Permit "community leaders" to be eligible for club membership even though not meeting any othercondition for membership.Establishes a new type of club membership called "associate membership" who will be excused from allattendance requirements.

Our club gave donations to the following projects:

Water for the Secret City Festival at our Secret City Commemorative WalkUlster ProjectMethodist Medical Robotics ProgramRotary International Rose Parade Float

Our club's theme of "Fun, Food, and Fellowship" inspired the Special Presidential Committee to come upwith some fun and humor to start the meeting. We had some joke telling and funny stories to tell andthen the best "humor" won a prize. This lasted about a month or so and was a pilot idea so the nextleadership team can fine tune or recreate this feature for the meeting.

The year was finalized with the Year End Celebration & Installation Dinner on June 25th. District

Governor Elect, Robin Textor attended to install the new officers and directors and Bill Sergeant gave thefinal remarks as to why he is a Rotarian. A great meal and a social hour highlighted this group of 56Rotarians and set in motion the new leadership team for 2007-2008.

It was my honor to serve and "Lead the Way" for the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge!

Yours in Rotary Service and for the Board of 2006-2007

Bonnie Clark

Oak Ridge Rotary ClubHistory for Rotary Year2007-2008

Officers:President: Bob CraigVice President & Membership Chair: Jack BaileyPresident Elect: Devrin KuipersPast President: Dave MasonSecretary: Bob HightowerTreasurer: Charles SamuelsCommunity Service Co-Chairs: Suzanne Sherer and Mary Jayne WhiteVocational Service Chair: Barry StephensonInternational Service Chair: John WagonerRotary Foundation Chair: Fred Heitman

District Governor StaffGovernor: Robin TextorAssistant Governor: Bill Martin

New Members - 12

Badge # Additions Deletions

41 Jan Melcher (10/11/07) John Lesesne(7/26/2007)39 Scott Jamison (10/11/07) Margaret Beams(9/6/2007)17 David Bradshaw (11/1/07) Ray Pierce(10/11/2007)14 Rick Morrow (12/20/07) Dave Wehrly(10/17/2007)59 Chuck Darling (1/10/08) Len Hart (11/14/07)76 Patti Shelton (1/31/08) Herb Trammel(3/30/2008)80 Ron Shelton (1/31/08) Loretta Friend89 Ben Stephens (1/31/08) Frank Robinson104 Rod Strand (1/31/08)81 Karl Rapp (2/21/08)83 Bridget Correll (3/6/08)

112 Roger Burress (3/13/08

Members Lost - 8July 1, 2007 = 138: June 30, 2008 = 142, Net = +4

Attendance – 76%

Club Honors ReceivedGlobe Club Award for International ServiceStar Club for Contributing over $100 per member to the Rotary FoundationThird Place in District 6780 Community Service Award (Ramps Project)Vocational Service Awardee – Tim Myrick

Special RecognitionDeveloped First Rookie of the Year AwardDeveloped First Rotarian of the Year Award

District Governor’s Representative – Bill Martin

International

Contributed $500 to a Water Well in Africa

District ActivitiesAttended District AssemblyAttended PETSAttended 2 Membership Development MeetingsAttended District ConferenceDistributed Dictionaries to third graders in Oak Ridge Schools (with ORRBC)Contributed to joint project with the ORRBC to install water purification system in ScottCounty, TN

Paul Harris Fellows-Active Members – 119 (84%)Total PHFs - 297

Paul Harris Sustaining Members (45)

Paul Harris Society (13)

PH BenefactorsActive Members – 11Total - 28

Highlights

Moved meeting place from Elks Lodge to Flat Water Event CenterFounded The Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, SunsetClub Contributed $30,813.67 to the PH Foundation plus $10,000 to the PermanentEndowment FundSuccessful Street Painting Festival that netted over $20,000Successful Gala that netted over $13,000

Rotary Club of Oak Ridge History RY2008-2009

Board of Directors President: Devrin Kuipers President-Elect: Jack Bailey, Jr. Vice President: Barry Stephenson Treasurer: Suzanne Sherer Secretary: Charlie Jernigan Past-President: Charlie Kuykendall International Service: Dan Conrad The Rotary Foundation: Charles Samuels Community Service: Mary Jane White Vocational Service: Stephen Cate District Governor Staff Governor: Carol LaRue Assistant Governor: Logan Hickman Membership: July 1, 2008 – 138, June 30, 2009 - 138 New Members (+11) Joe Storch, Andrew Cheung, Cheryl Robie, Gary Riser, Chuck Landguth, Scot MacIlveen, Dave Conrad, Sandy Davidson, Gina Davis, David Collins, Ron Stellhorn Members Lost (-11) Hank Stoner, Steve Wyatt, Vickie Caughron, Darrell Richardson, Don Trauger, Ed Schneider, Stan Mitchell, Baden Dugins, Gina Davis, Judy Stroud, Chuck Frew Attendance average for RY 2008-2009 was 70.64%. 24 members achieved perfect attendance: Ron Shelton (1 year), Hank Sauer (1), Craig Kallio (1), Lawrence Hahn (1), Dan Conrad (1), Stephen Cate (1), Suzanne Sherer (2), Hanna Shapira (2), Mary Roberson (2), Charlie Jernigan (2), Mary Jane White (3), Barry Stephenson (3), Charlie Samuels (3), Carolyn Krause (4), Don Gardiner (4), Charlie Kuykendall (5), Devrin Kuipers (5), Bob Craig (5), Fred Heitman (8), Connor Matthews (9) Jack Bailey, Jr. (14), Virginia Jones (17), Charles Jones (18), and Bill Sergeant (47 years) Special Recognitions Rotarian of the Year: Marilyn Reafsnyder Rookie of the Year: Joe Storch and Cheryl Tarrant Vocational Service Award: James Edward “Ed” Wescott Club Honors Received • Governor’s Exceptional Achievement Award for William T. Sergeant “In My Own Words” • Lacy-Bomar Award of Excellence First Place for Best Fundraiser for the “End Polio Now Benefit

and Tribute to Bill Sergeant” • Lacy-Bomar Award of Excellence, First Place, for Paper Bulletins • Lacy-Bomar Award of Excellence, Honorable Mention, for Vocational Service for the Brad Sturm

Memorial Scholarship • District Governor’s Citation of Excellence

• Star Club • Globe Club District Governor’s Representative: Jack Bailey, Jr. International Service The Club partnered with the Rotary Club of Maryville for the Mexico Heart-to-Heart Project providing medical equipment for infant warming cradles and infant craniotomies in the San Cristóbal Ecatepec suburb of Mexico City. District Activities • Jack Bailey, Jr. graduated from the District Leadership Academy. • Received a District Simplified Grant in the amount of $1,400.00 for the Backpacks for Education

program with Second Harvest providing meals over the weekend to needy students at Glenwood Elementary School

• 12 Members attended the District Conference at the Sevierville Events Center and the 3 Oak Ridge Rotary Clubs jointly sponsored a Hospitality Suite at the Wilderness Hotel (special thanks to Past President Bob Craig for a great hospitality suite)

• Host Club for Rotary District 3212 GSE Team from northern India Paul Harris Fellows (115) Rotary Foundation Sustaining Members (42) Highlights of Service Projects and Programs • The Rotary Club of Oak Ridge Sunset held its Charter Meeting on September 22nd. The Sunset Club

was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, with Past President Dave Mason being their 1st Club President. The Rotary Club of Oak Ridge presented them with their engraved bell.

• The Club sponsored the production of Bill Sergeant’s oral history with Keith McDaniels of Secret City Films. The final product was an hour long DVD entitled William T. Sergeant “In My Own Words.”

• In recognition of World Rotary Day and in response to the Gates Challenge the Club held an End Polio Now Benefit as a tribute to Bill Sergeant with the keynote speaker being RI General Secretary Ed Futa. The benefit raised $10,059 for PolioPlus. Several District 6780 Rotarians including PRIP Jim Lacy were in attendance.

• The 9th Annual Street Painting Festival raised over $19,000 for scholarships at Roane State Community College. The event hosted 133 artists producing 130 works of art.

• The “Jewels n’ Jeans” Gala raised $12,000 for Community Service • 711 Club received $3,430 and drawing recipients were Hank Sauer, Terry Domm and Chuck Frew • Injae Park, a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar from South Korea attending UT spoke to the

Club about his home country. • The Interact Club President, Corinne Lariviere, and VP, Patricia Garland presented their Club goals. • 9-11 was a special Hometown Heroes with the ORFD recognized for their service to the community. • PRIVP’s John Germ and Bill Sergeant spoke to the Club during November in recognition of Rotary

Foundation month. • The Annual Meeting for the election of officers and a club assembly was held on December 18th. • Former UT National Championship winning punter and current aide to Senator Corker, David

Leverton was the guest speaker on January 8th for City County Day • DG Carol LaRue made her official visit on February 5th. • The Club sponsored & delivered dictionaries to all 3rd grade students in Oak Ridge.

Oak Ridge Rotary Club History for Rotary Year 2009-2010

Officers: President: Jack Bailey Vice President: Charles Jones President Elect: Barry Stephenson Past President: Tom Row Secretary: Mary Jane White Treasurer: Suzanne Sherer Community Service Chair: Patti Shelton Vocational Service Chair: Nancy Stanley International Service Chair: Keith Kahl Rotary Foundation Chair: Charlie Samuels District Governor Staff Governor: Carol Foster Assistant Governor: Logan Hickman New Members - 3 Badge # Additions Deletions 73 Melinda Hillman 7/23/09 Lillian Rubin 67 Ed Johnson 10/15/09 Jim O’Connor 94 Bill Dials 1/21/10 Chuck Carringer David O’Kain Jim Bailes Hanna Shapira Tim Forde Dave Zachry Members Lost – 8 July 1, 2009 = 130 June 30, 2010 = 125 Net -5 Attendance - 74.3% Club Honors Received Community Service Award Newsletter Polio Plus Project Globe Club Award for International Service Star Club for contributing over $100 per member to the Rotary Foundation Achieved Presidential Citation for 2009-2010 Special Recognition Became 100% Paul Harris Fellow Award Club – only second club in District 6780 to achieve that level District Governor’s Special Representative - Jack Bailey

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International Contributed $2,000 to Mexico Heart-to-Heart Project District Activities Attended District Assembly Attended 3 Membership Development Meetings Attended District Conference Distributed Dictionaries to third graders in Oak Ridge Schools (with ORRBC) Paul Harris Fellows Active Members - 125 (100%) Total PHFs - 308 Paul Harris Sustaining Members - 45 Paul Harris Society - 11 PH Benefactors Active Members - 11 Total - 28 Highlights Changed to quarterly meal invoicing instead of weekly payments at the door Raised $9,000 for Polio Plus @ Annual Event Ron Stellhorn represented club in Mexico City, Heart-to-Heart Project in Feb 2010. Rotarian of the Year - Carolyn Krause Rookie of the Year – Ron Stellhorn Club contributed over $13,000 to the Annual Programs Fund of The Rotary Foundation Successful Street Painting Festival that netted over $12,000 Successful Gala that netted over $10,650 net, with a 140 people @ “Night at the Museum” Proposed Jack Bailey as District Governor Candidate for 2012-13 (not chosen) Revised RCOR Customs, Policies & Procedures (last updated in 2001) Nov 5, 2009, Guest Speaker was Past Rotary International President, Jim Lacey Received District Simplified Grant for Children’s Environmental Learning Center & Garden at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge Hosted GSE team from Taiwan in April Fred Heitman served as District Committee Chairman for Polio Plus Jack Bailey served as District Committee Chairman for Group Study Exchange Charlie Samuels served on District Youth Exchange Committee. Devrin Kuipers served on District Membership Committee. Fred Heitman and Devrin Kuipers completed District Leadership Academy.