| Vol. 13 No. 25 |
Feb 16, 2005 |
Regular meetings of the Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise begin at 7:00 a.m.
 | Feb. 18 Paul Zientarski, Naperville Central H.S. on personal fitness |
| Feb. 19 Beaux Arts Ball! |
| March 1 Board meeting: 7:00 am Egg Harbor |
| March 4 Club Assembly – Loaves & Fishes day |
| March 11 Barbara Heller, Executive Director, Naperville Park District |
If you have ideas for speakers or club projects, please contact John Schmitt
The final push is on in efforts to sell those BAB raffle tickets. From Mary Lou Wehrli:
Thank you for selling raffle tickets!! It makes a big difference in our Beaux Arts Ball fundraising. We have some terrific prizes! Tickets are $20 each or 3 for $50. Thank you, donors!
This Friday, February 18, be sure to bring in the tickets you have sold along with the money and/or all unsold tickets. Let's fill the arts coffers and make the auditors proud! Tickets will also be available for purchase at the ball from some incredibly handsome natives. Good Luck to all of you who have purchased a ticket!
First Prize: St. Kitts 2BR condo for one week. Donated by Sue Wehrli, Wehrli World Travel.
Second Prize: Chicago Night: Palmer House Stay; Dinner, Theatre, 2 tickets each to "Cast on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Verbatim Verboten" at the Royal George Theatre donated by Quade Productions.
Third Prize: - Naperville Night Out: Dinner for 2 at Catch 35, Donated by Catch 35; Theatre, 2 tickets to "Late Nite Catechism" at Crossroads Theater donated by Quade Productions; Harrison House Stay, donated by Lynne & Neil Harrison, Harrison Bed & Breakfast.
The Golf Table was unable to respond to a difficult quiz question from Sergeant-at-Arms Mike Wynne. Their challenge: "Who killed Archimedes?" Turns out the culprit was an obscure Roman Centurion named Gluteus Maximus, who clobbered Archimedes with a pasta maker during the sac of Syracuse in 212 b.c.
Among Archimedes’ inventions: a planetarium, an hydraulic organ and a machine to lever ships from dock. He did not invent, as myth has it, a giant magnifying makeup mirror that could burn ships at sea, as depicted in Giulio Parigi’s (1571-1635) wall painting in the Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy).
The Original Roman Candles?
In each bi-monthly issue of this newsletter, a club member will be chosen at random and his/her name written as an ANAGRAM, defined as "a word or phase made by transposing the letters of another word." Test your word unscrambling skills with this week’s entry: A CAPLESS KIN. The name will be revealed in the next issue, or by a fast-thinking Rotarian at Friday’s meeting.
Some of us are nearing retirement, some are pretending to be retired, and still others don’t have a clue when or how they’re going to retire. Whichever is your situation, you may wish to take a gander at Henry K. Hebeler’s Web site,
www.analyzenow.com, which comes recommended by Everything Naperville magazine. Among the offerings of this mostly free site is a Social Security calculator. Reporter Lynn O’Shaughnessy says of the site, "If you use the tools...you should end up with a much better idea of how much your retirement is going to cost and whether you will have enough to cover the tab." Unfortunately, Hebeler doesn’t offer coping mechanisms for Naperville’s three-digit property tax increases.
If you have not already done so, be sure to explore our own Web site, which is replete with good information. For example...go into "Club Info" and click on "New Member Info" and (if you have Microsoft Power Point), you can bone up on all the stuff about Rotary that you’ve either forgotten or never learned (your editor is guilty of the latter), such as the Four Objects of Rotary... "To encourage and foster:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
High ethical standards in business and; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian of his or her occupations as an opportunity to serve society;
The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his or her occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men and women united in the ideal of service.
Our counterparts in Sao Paulo State are giving abandoned children a second chance through Hope Mountain, a vocational school for at-risk youth in Vitoria. Serving 89 live-in students and another 125 day students, Hope Mountain offers street children opportunities to grow and succeed.
Created with suppport from a Health, Hunger and Humanity grant from the Rotary Foundation of R.I., Hope Mountain is run by Hope Unlimited, a nonprofit organization started by Philip Smith, a member of the Rotary Club of Campinas-Alvorada. The club also plays a role in operating the school and influencing the young lives it touches.
There are 4,701 Rotary clubs in Latin America and the Caribbean with total membership approaching 100,000. The first club in this region was chartered in Havana in 1916. The world’s southernmost club: Marambio-Antartida, Antarctica. Golf anyone?
