Do You Remember When...quotes and stories
The Club started:
“It was started by some friends in Georgetown who played golf every week together and they decided to form a Rotary club that would meet on Fridays, and when the meeting adjourned, they were off for the week and they would take off to play golf. Sam Brady was one of those guys and so was Skip Morris (who was an attorney and the last quarterback at Southwestern University before they stopped playing football).” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
What it means to me
“I don’t ever want to miss a meeting. I try never to miss a meeting. My attendance is not counted because of my age. But, Rotary is a real important part of my life. Meeting with these people here because they all have so much to give to Georgetown and they all do give so much for Georgetown and this club has done so much for Georgetown. I just like to be at Rotary with members of this club and I try to put all the other jobs that I have on a day besides Friday, so that I can be here with this club.” Chuck Martin 11/4/2011
Grant for Africa
“Aflotoxin is a disease or fungus found in corn – if you eat it, serious things can happen to you. When we were campaigning for this project, I recall that I brought in an empty bag of deer corn and it says (on the package) less than 2 parts per billion of aflotoxin in this corn. My point was that the people in Africa are not getting as good of corn as the deer were in this country.” Nelson Barrett 11/4/2011
Rotary Exchange Students
“Cristina Mestres was from Barcelona and when the Rotary International conference was held there, we called her up. We told her we were coming, and she showed us around Barcelona. She would talk about her restaurant and she came from outside of Barcelona on the coast, she came from the fishing environment. She took Debra and me to the Montserrat on top of the mountains, where the monks are. Christina told us she wanted us to go to her dad’s restaurant. Her dad’s restaurant was in town, and she sat us at a table by the kitchen. She told all the staff and her dad all that we had done and we had a fabulous evening.” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
Foundation Giving
“In an attempt to increase our Rotary Foundation Club giving, I suggested we honor the 13 past presidents currently in the club with a $100 donation to the Rotary Foundation in their names, including me, making a $1400 donation that year....a substantial increase over previous years." Norm Peters 11/30/2011
Matching Grants
“One of the most memorable moments for me was when I discovered that we could do matching grants, And we could make a difference in a big way as a club, here in our own community, as well as other international communities. That was an “aha” moment for me. When I realized that we could take $7000 and leverage it into $40,000, that was like,
‘Oh my gosh! There’s money out there. And it was like no one knew that money was there. When I really wrapped my brain around that. It was like we need to be doing these grants every year. We can’t let these grants just sit, and that was a real inspiration for me. It inspired me to look for those needs, and put these grants together and make a difference. As part of Rotary International we could be making a huge impact once again here locally and make a big difference at Georgetown and internationally. That led me to sit on the Districts Grant committee for 5 or 6 years to really dig in and get involved there.” Kay Trub 11/22/2011
Expansion of Club
“About 5 years ago, Jackie Ellison gave everyone a survey about who they would like to see in the club. Within a few months the club went from 75 to 115 members.” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Location
“The club has always met at First United Methodist Church. Started out in the basement. Some of the first monies went to pay for the church cushions. The early start did not include a charge for the use of the hall or the serving of the food by the ladies.” Phil Baker 10/28/2011
“We were meeting in the Fellowship Hall, which was located on south end of what is known as the Education Building of the First United Methodist Church. I think that we then moved to Atkin Hall. The Education Building is the western portion of what we know as the building where the Sanctuary is located. Later we met in the Fellowship Hall, which is now on the north end of the Education Building. That may have been post Atkin Hall construction. The renovation of the Education Building was after Akin Hall was built.” Bill Connor 10/24/2011
Rotary Song Books
There have been instances when someone has tried to get the club started with singing, but it has never caught on. Our club professes this club would never sing.
“I can remember when I joined in 1991. I was the song leader in the Pearsall Rotary Club before I came here. I brought some Rotary Club Song Books with me and I kept asking the club -when are we going to use those song books? One day Dr. Bob, who had sponsored me, and caught me and said Chuck you bring up singing just one more time and they are going to vote you out –this club does not sing! And that was my inauguration to this club. I never got to sing.” Chuck Martin 11/4/2011
Royal Rotarians
“Wallace Giddings, who was a charter member and sponsored me, started the Royal Rotarians, who played poker together once a week about 20 years ago and we still do”. Phil Baker 10/21/11
Service Inspiring Moment
“I saw Larry Bingham get up one day to try to inspire the club to really get them to get out and work. And those ole guys just sat there. Larry just unloaded on them saying; you guys call yourselves Rotarians – he wanted them to serve – and Larry’s just the man to do it too!” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
“For years I was in the Sertoma Club and I got so sick and tired of all the work they did. Those guys do the Fourth of July and they put out the flags and they did all kinds of stuff. And then I heard about Rotary and I said “What do they do?” and someone said, “Well last year we all pitched in $15 and we bought a tree and planted it.” And I said, “that’s my kind of club.” Phil Baker 10/21/11
Coke Bottle Award
“If you did not have your speaker, if your speaker didn’t show up you would get the award once a year. It was later titled the Bill Connor Memorial Award.” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Speakers
If you ever find yourself President of the club and the speaker fails to show up, here is a tactic I have seen used: announce that you are calling on someone to do a spur-of-the-moment biographical talk. This actually happened one time. The President called on someone at random. His talk included the fact that he had landed at Normandy on D Day plus 2 (June 8, 1944) and ultimately ended up in Germany. He became the historian for his division, and was able to relate some wonderful stories. Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Mottos
“The motto my year was- “Work for Peace, Serve with Love, Act with Integrity. It’s a big old button and I still wear it on my coat. People always think that I am a deputy or something. Because it lends itself to that, and every now and then people read it.” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
International Dictionary Project
“Claude Proctor put together an international dictionary, sponsored by this club, written in 13 sign languages with over 2,600 words. He worked for Air force intelligence, was a Russian linguist, and translated technical data, maintenance manuals. The club gave him some money and Ned Snead contributed $20,000 toward this deal.” Larry Bingham 10/21/11
“There was a Rotary International Dictionary Project which was more of a service than a fundraiser. Money still dribbles in, I understand. It was done in partnership with Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., since it included American Sign Language as one of numerous languages. Claude Proctor was the author. The club pitched in quite a sum of money (for the day). Again, I believe this was done in ‛89-‛90 under Andy Anderson's presidency.” Bill Stubblefield 10/24/2011
“In 1989, the dictionary project was the fundraiser that took over after the fish fry. That was Andy Anderson, who was president. The project needed money to print it. There was a lot of pressure for members to put up $1000 apiece and Andy said, “If this deal works and we make money out of it, we’ll kick the $1000 into the Rotary Foundation and you’ll get a Paul Harris Fellow. If it doesn’t work you’ve just supported the club and I will give some dictionaries.” So I got a bunch of dictionaries!” Jim Albers 11/4/2011.
Fish Fry
“We were talking about you earlier with Carl, Kevin, Davidson, Big John and me. We had five or six fish fry cookers going right as you (Bill Bryce) walked in the door, it was hot and sweaty; and there was grease all over the floor. This was before they remodeled the kitchen. And Dr. Bryce walks in and says, “It’s slippery back there, it’s dangerous back there; what are you going to do when someone walks in a falls?” And I said; “Well they’re going to bust their ass and get up off the floor and go back to their car.” He just kind of shook his head-walked off. What else was I suppose to say? I don’t know, are we going to get everyone to sign an indemnification sheet or something?” Larry Bingham 10/21/2011
Fish fry ended 1987: “It was after Don Hewlett cooked his hands and everyone said,”That’s enough of that!” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
Selling Oranges and Grape Fruit
“I had attended PETs in Dallas and sat in on a fund raising session where different clubs talked. I was very impressed with a couple of Austin clubs as they talked about their fundraiser. Northwest Austin Club had a Fruit sale fundraiser. They would get fresh fruit from the valley in December. I had them speak to our club. At the time the NW club made $23,000 in sales. Today they make more than $100,000 and profit $80-90,000.” Tom Owens 11/19/2001
“Rotarians would take orders and then the big truck would come. It was a lot of work. Virgil Carlson was always the one who sold the most oranges or grapefruits.” “I don’t know how he did it!” “People were threatened if they didn’t work at the barbeque, we’d go back to selling oranges – nobody wanted that!” Phil Baker 10/28/2011
“My partner at the time Johnny Lacy was a Kiwanian and they were selling fruit, and I went to talk to him about it and he said, - “Oh, we are going to quit that- it’s too much work.” So we started and did it for a couple of years and I thought it was a great fund raiser but we had too much complaining that it was too much work – unloading the truck.” Art Goethe could sell two pick up loads of fruit – that was his forté. Jim Albers 11/4/2011
The Highway Cleanup Project
Once upon a time, many years ago, the Rotary Club agreed to clean two miles of Highway 29. It was actually closer to Seward Junction and Nelson Barrett’s home than it was to Georgetown. The demands of the Highway Department were few: we only had to do it about twice a year; we all had to wear reflective vests furnished by the Department; we had to open a warning sign on both ends of our segment, and pile the full orange sacks in a mound behind the eastern sign. The Club only had about 90 members in those days, but we had an ace up our sleeve. Judge Bill Lott could call the alcohol detox center on College Ave and get 10-15 healthy young men who needed to do public service hours. However we had to assign two people who could pretend to be picking up trash but would actually always position themselves between the good Judge and the traffic. I honestly think the cars sped up when they saw the warning signs; maybe they were out to get Judge Lott. There was no center lane in those days—just two lanes in each direction.
I had a yellow Toyota pickup truck that looked almost like a Highway Department truck from the 60’s [only much smaller] and had made some signs with stakes [I still have them somewhere in the attic—just in case] that I placed every 2/10 of a mile according to the Toyota odometer. So all I had to do was drive up and down the two miles picking up full orange sacks of trash and pass out empties. Judi Shanklin and Sharon McCarty, attired like something out of Elle magazine, dutifully appeared every year. One year I lost Judi and feared for the worst, but she reappeared from behind a long guard rail out of a deep culvert. These road cleaning efforts seem to have died out before the Highway Department ran out of money. I don’t know why it has passed, but we collected mountains of trash and we had no fatalities. Our worst casualties were a few cases of poison ivy. Howard Burt 10/26/2011
Ned Snead autograph to Larry Bingham - “To the guy that kicked me out of Rotary”
Past Presidents' Night
Big evening events with entertainment. Various venues: Community Center, Mexican restaurant between the Palace and 8th Street, Berry Creek Country Club. Entertainment included the Giesenslaw Brothers (I convicted one of them for felony DWI). A Magician called Peter the Adequate. Javier Chaparro (fantastic Latin musician who, incidentally, lost his home in the Bastrop fires earlier this year). I believe it was during my President year that we had Javier entertain us at the Mexican Restaurant. I will check to see if anyone can remember the name of the Mexican Restaurant. The magician was at Berry Creek and the Giesenslaws were at the Community Center. The theme for their performance was a Hay Ride with the members and spouses encouraged to wear western outfits. I invented the motto: "Dare to be Gauche." They obliged. Bill Stubblefield 11/4/2011
Impeaching the President
“A funny moment thought I was going to be impeached. We had a head table (long table) in front of everyone and the president, the officers, and whoever had the program. The speaker would sit up there in front of everyone. It just wasn’t very good. So I did away with it the first week I was there and said we could all sit at the round tables – which we do today. I thought the whole club was about to come down on me at that time. They said I had had the shortest term as President because everyone wanted to get rid of me. All because I got rid of the head table and we all got some laughs from it. We then made little signs for us and we encouraged the members to come sit with us – it was much better.” Tom Owens 11/19/2011
Rearranging the head table
“Long-time members will remember that on my first meeting, we re-arranged the tables in the downstairs Fellowship Hall, placing the head table away from the serving line (a distraction, as late members arrived during opening business comments). Naturally that shook up old-timers who tend to sit with the same members each Friday. You can imagine the looks on their faces upon arrival (Where do I sit????).” Norm Peters 11/30/2011
Golf Tournament:
“Wallace Giddings started the Golf Tournaments. In October we would have a practice tournament.” Phil Baker 10/21/11
Women who serve the meal
At one time the women servers would use their funds to buy cushions for the Methodist pews.
Stephen Benold mother (Nell Benold) has been serving on the food service line since the club started.
Caterer - Alycia Heeneman was hired during Nelson Barrett’s presidency in 1999-2000.
Competition Works!
I was also a member of Sertoma at that time. Noticing the normal donation to high school senior scholarships was $100 from most service clubs at that time, I was dismayed at that level of giving. So, being on the board at Sertoma, I suggested we up the ante to more realistic levels, to $1500, divided among from three to five students....which we did. Then, knowing the #1 service club in Georgetown (Rotary) would not want to be upstaged by Sertoma, we alerted our Club accordingly, and you see the results. Naturally, other service clubs followed suit, bringing the high school scholarship funding to meaningful levels. I think well over $10,000 is given each year. Competition works! Norm Peters 11/28/2011
“It was started by some friends in Georgetown who played golf every week together and they decided to form a Rotary club that would meet on Fridays, and when the meeting adjourned, they were off for the week and they would take off to play golf. Sam Brady was one of those guys and so was Skip Morris (who was an attorney and the last quarterback at Southwestern University before they stopped playing football).” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
What it means to me
“I don’t ever want to miss a meeting. I try never to miss a meeting. My attendance is not counted because of my age. But, Rotary is a real important part of my life. Meeting with these people here because they all have so much to give to Georgetown and they all do give so much for Georgetown and this club has done so much for Georgetown. I just like to be at Rotary with members of this club and I try to put all the other jobs that I have on a day besides Friday, so that I can be here with this club.” Chuck Martin 11/4/2011
Grant for Africa
“Aflotoxin is a disease or fungus found in corn – if you eat it, serious things can happen to you. When we were campaigning for this project, I recall that I brought in an empty bag of deer corn and it says (on the package) less than 2 parts per billion of aflotoxin in this corn. My point was that the people in Africa are not getting as good of corn as the deer were in this country.” Nelson Barrett 11/4/2011
Rotary Exchange Students
“Cristina Mestres was from Barcelona and when the Rotary International conference was held there, we called her up. We told her we were coming, and she showed us around Barcelona. She would talk about her restaurant and she came from outside of Barcelona on the coast, she came from the fishing environment. She took Debra and me to the Montserrat on top of the mountains, where the monks are. Christina told us she wanted us to go to her dad’s restaurant. Her dad’s restaurant was in town, and she sat us at a table by the kitchen. She told all the staff and her dad all that we had done and we had a fabulous evening.” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
Foundation Giving
“In an attempt to increase our Rotary Foundation Club giving, I suggested we honor the 13 past presidents currently in the club with a $100 donation to the Rotary Foundation in their names, including me, making a $1400 donation that year....a substantial increase over previous years." Norm Peters 11/30/2011
Matching Grants
“One of the most memorable moments for me was when I discovered that we could do matching grants, And we could make a difference in a big way as a club, here in our own community, as well as other international communities. That was an “aha” moment for me. When I realized that we could take $7000 and leverage it into $40,000, that was like,
‘Oh my gosh! There’s money out there. And it was like no one knew that money was there. When I really wrapped my brain around that. It was like we need to be doing these grants every year. We can’t let these grants just sit, and that was a real inspiration for me. It inspired me to look for those needs, and put these grants together and make a difference. As part of Rotary International we could be making a huge impact once again here locally and make a big difference at Georgetown and internationally. That led me to sit on the Districts Grant committee for 5 or 6 years to really dig in and get involved there.” Kay Trub 11/22/2011
Expansion of Club
“About 5 years ago, Jackie Ellison gave everyone a survey about who they would like to see in the club. Within a few months the club went from 75 to 115 members.” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Location
“The club has always met at First United Methodist Church. Started out in the basement. Some of the first monies went to pay for the church cushions. The early start did not include a charge for the use of the hall or the serving of the food by the ladies.” Phil Baker 10/28/2011
“We were meeting in the Fellowship Hall, which was located on south end of what is known as the Education Building of the First United Methodist Church. I think that we then moved to Atkin Hall. The Education Building is the western portion of what we know as the building where the Sanctuary is located. Later we met in the Fellowship Hall, which is now on the north end of the Education Building. That may have been post Atkin Hall construction. The renovation of the Education Building was after Akin Hall was built.” Bill Connor 10/24/2011
Rotary Song Books
There have been instances when someone has tried to get the club started with singing, but it has never caught on. Our club professes this club would never sing.
“I can remember when I joined in 1991. I was the song leader in the Pearsall Rotary Club before I came here. I brought some Rotary Club Song Books with me and I kept asking the club -when are we going to use those song books? One day Dr. Bob, who had sponsored me, and caught me and said Chuck you bring up singing just one more time and they are going to vote you out –this club does not sing! And that was my inauguration to this club. I never got to sing.” Chuck Martin 11/4/2011
Royal Rotarians
“Wallace Giddings, who was a charter member and sponsored me, started the Royal Rotarians, who played poker together once a week about 20 years ago and we still do”. Phil Baker 10/21/11
Service Inspiring Moment
“I saw Larry Bingham get up one day to try to inspire the club to really get them to get out and work. And those ole guys just sat there. Larry just unloaded on them saying; you guys call yourselves Rotarians – he wanted them to serve – and Larry’s just the man to do it too!” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
“For years I was in the Sertoma Club and I got so sick and tired of all the work they did. Those guys do the Fourth of July and they put out the flags and they did all kinds of stuff. And then I heard about Rotary and I said “What do they do?” and someone said, “Well last year we all pitched in $15 and we bought a tree and planted it.” And I said, “that’s my kind of club.” Phil Baker 10/21/11
Coke Bottle Award
“If you did not have your speaker, if your speaker didn’t show up you would get the award once a year. It was later titled the Bill Connor Memorial Award.” Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Speakers
If you ever find yourself President of the club and the speaker fails to show up, here is a tactic I have seen used: announce that you are calling on someone to do a spur-of-the-moment biographical talk. This actually happened one time. The President called on someone at random. His talk included the fact that he had landed at Normandy on D Day plus 2 (June 8, 1944) and ultimately ended up in Germany. He became the historian for his division, and was able to relate some wonderful stories. Bill Bryce 10/21/11
Mottos
“The motto my year was- “Work for Peace, Serve with Love, Act with Integrity. It’s a big old button and I still wear it on my coat. People always think that I am a deputy or something. Because it lends itself to that, and every now and then people read it.” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
International Dictionary Project
“Claude Proctor put together an international dictionary, sponsored by this club, written in 13 sign languages with over 2,600 words. He worked for Air force intelligence, was a Russian linguist, and translated technical data, maintenance manuals. The club gave him some money and Ned Snead contributed $20,000 toward this deal.” Larry Bingham 10/21/11
“There was a Rotary International Dictionary Project which was more of a service than a fundraiser. Money still dribbles in, I understand. It was done in partnership with Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., since it included American Sign Language as one of numerous languages. Claude Proctor was the author. The club pitched in quite a sum of money (for the day). Again, I believe this was done in ‛89-‛90 under Andy Anderson's presidency.” Bill Stubblefield 10/24/2011
“In 1989, the dictionary project was the fundraiser that took over after the fish fry. That was Andy Anderson, who was president. The project needed money to print it. There was a lot of pressure for members to put up $1000 apiece and Andy said, “If this deal works and we make money out of it, we’ll kick the $1000 into the Rotary Foundation and you’ll get a Paul Harris Fellow. If it doesn’t work you’ve just supported the club and I will give some dictionaries.” So I got a bunch of dictionaries!” Jim Albers 11/4/2011.
Fish Fry
“We were talking about you earlier with Carl, Kevin, Davidson, Big John and me. We had five or six fish fry cookers going right as you (Bill Bryce) walked in the door, it was hot and sweaty; and there was grease all over the floor. This was before they remodeled the kitchen. And Dr. Bryce walks in and says, “It’s slippery back there, it’s dangerous back there; what are you going to do when someone walks in a falls?” And I said; “Well they’re going to bust their ass and get up off the floor and go back to their car.” He just kind of shook his head-walked off. What else was I suppose to say? I don’t know, are we going to get everyone to sign an indemnification sheet or something?” Larry Bingham 10/21/2011
Fish fry ended 1987: “It was after Don Hewlett cooked his hands and everyone said,”That’s enough of that!” Jim Albers 11/4/2011
Selling Oranges and Grape Fruit
“I had attended PETs in Dallas and sat in on a fund raising session where different clubs talked. I was very impressed with a couple of Austin clubs as they talked about their fundraiser. Northwest Austin Club had a Fruit sale fundraiser. They would get fresh fruit from the valley in December. I had them speak to our club. At the time the NW club made $23,000 in sales. Today they make more than $100,000 and profit $80-90,000.” Tom Owens 11/19/2001
“Rotarians would take orders and then the big truck would come. It was a lot of work. Virgil Carlson was always the one who sold the most oranges or grapefruits.” “I don’t know how he did it!” “People were threatened if they didn’t work at the barbeque, we’d go back to selling oranges – nobody wanted that!” Phil Baker 10/28/2011
“My partner at the time Johnny Lacy was a Kiwanian and they were selling fruit, and I went to talk to him about it and he said, - “Oh, we are going to quit that- it’s too much work.” So we started and did it for a couple of years and I thought it was a great fund raiser but we had too much complaining that it was too much work – unloading the truck.” Art Goethe could sell two pick up loads of fruit – that was his forté. Jim Albers 11/4/2011
The Highway Cleanup Project
Once upon a time, many years ago, the Rotary Club agreed to clean two miles of Highway 29. It was actually closer to Seward Junction and Nelson Barrett’s home than it was to Georgetown. The demands of the Highway Department were few: we only had to do it about twice a year; we all had to wear reflective vests furnished by the Department; we had to open a warning sign on both ends of our segment, and pile the full orange sacks in a mound behind the eastern sign. The Club only had about 90 members in those days, but we had an ace up our sleeve. Judge Bill Lott could call the alcohol detox center on College Ave and get 10-15 healthy young men who needed to do public service hours. However we had to assign two people who could pretend to be picking up trash but would actually always position themselves between the good Judge and the traffic. I honestly think the cars sped up when they saw the warning signs; maybe they were out to get Judge Lott. There was no center lane in those days—just two lanes in each direction.
I had a yellow Toyota pickup truck that looked almost like a Highway Department truck from the 60’s [only much smaller] and had made some signs with stakes [I still have them somewhere in the attic—just in case] that I placed every 2/10 of a mile according to the Toyota odometer. So all I had to do was drive up and down the two miles picking up full orange sacks of trash and pass out empties. Judi Shanklin and Sharon McCarty, attired like something out of Elle magazine, dutifully appeared every year. One year I lost Judi and feared for the worst, but she reappeared from behind a long guard rail out of a deep culvert. These road cleaning efforts seem to have died out before the Highway Department ran out of money. I don’t know why it has passed, but we collected mountains of trash and we had no fatalities. Our worst casualties were a few cases of poison ivy. Howard Burt 10/26/2011
Ned Snead autograph to Larry Bingham - “To the guy that kicked me out of Rotary”
Past Presidents' Night
Big evening events with entertainment. Various venues: Community Center, Mexican restaurant between the Palace and 8th Street, Berry Creek Country Club. Entertainment included the Giesenslaw Brothers (I convicted one of them for felony DWI). A Magician called Peter the Adequate. Javier Chaparro (fantastic Latin musician who, incidentally, lost his home in the Bastrop fires earlier this year). I believe it was during my President year that we had Javier entertain us at the Mexican Restaurant. I will check to see if anyone can remember the name of the Mexican Restaurant. The magician was at Berry Creek and the Giesenslaws were at the Community Center. The theme for their performance was a Hay Ride with the members and spouses encouraged to wear western outfits. I invented the motto: "Dare to be Gauche." They obliged. Bill Stubblefield 11/4/2011
Impeaching the President
“A funny moment thought I was going to be impeached. We had a head table (long table) in front of everyone and the president, the officers, and whoever had the program. The speaker would sit up there in front of everyone. It just wasn’t very good. So I did away with it the first week I was there and said we could all sit at the round tables – which we do today. I thought the whole club was about to come down on me at that time. They said I had had the shortest term as President because everyone wanted to get rid of me. All because I got rid of the head table and we all got some laughs from it. We then made little signs for us and we encouraged the members to come sit with us – it was much better.” Tom Owens 11/19/2011
Rearranging the head table
“Long-time members will remember that on my first meeting, we re-arranged the tables in the downstairs Fellowship Hall, placing the head table away from the serving line (a distraction, as late members arrived during opening business comments). Naturally that shook up old-timers who tend to sit with the same members each Friday. You can imagine the looks on their faces upon arrival (Where do I sit????).” Norm Peters 11/30/2011
Golf Tournament:
“Wallace Giddings started the Golf Tournaments. In October we would have a practice tournament.” Phil Baker 10/21/11
Women who serve the meal
At one time the women servers would use their funds to buy cushions for the Methodist pews.
Stephen Benold mother (Nell Benold) has been serving on the food service line since the club started.
Caterer - Alycia Heeneman was hired during Nelson Barrett’s presidency in 1999-2000.
Competition Works!
I was also a member of Sertoma at that time. Noticing the normal donation to high school senior scholarships was $100 from most service clubs at that time, I was dismayed at that level of giving. So, being on the board at Sertoma, I suggested we up the ante to more realistic levels, to $1500, divided among from three to five students....which we did. Then, knowing the #1 service club in Georgetown (Rotary) would not want to be upstaged by Sertoma, we alerted our Club accordingly, and you see the results. Naturally, other service clubs followed suit, bringing the high school scholarship funding to meaningful levels. I think well over $10,000 is given each year. Competition works! Norm Peters 11/28/2011