Our Rotary Club worked for many years and recently donated $25,000 toward Mission Madagascar, the new lemur exhibit at the David Traylor Zoo. It has been under construction over the last several months, and the grand opening is July 23 at 10:30 am. We encourage all Rotary Club members to join us at the grand opening! Remember to wear your Rotary Club shirts. Rotarian Duane Henrikson is President of the Emporia Friends of the Zoo.
This grand opening comes just after the birth of Ring-tailed lemur twins to parents, Nova (age 4) and Oscar (age 3) at the David Traylor Zoo. The births come as part of the Ring-tailed Lemur Species Survival Plan (SSP), which is a cooperative, inter-zoo program coordinated nationally through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The David Traylor Zoo is an active participant in this program. Ring-tailed lemurs are an endangered species native to Madagascar. This island off the southeast coast of Africa is the sole home of lemurs in the wild. Habitat destruction is the biggest threat to the survival of all lemur species.
Outgoing Club President Teresa Maley provided our club a recap of the activities for the past year, and she reveled that 20 out of 24 goals that she set at the beginning of the Rotary year have been met. What a great job!!! Her goals that were reached were as follows:
Continue dictionary project
Continue Happy Bucks donations
Work with the EMS Interact Program
Keep Rotary Club Central informed of our accomplishments
Keep Rotary Club website up to date
Keep giving to End Polio Now
Keep greeters informed and reminded
Go to Rotary.org frequently and keep updated
Expand membership to include a variety of business leaders and manufacturing leaders
Maintain signature events - DK 200, clock tower planting, Main Street corner beautification
Keep donating to the Rotary Foundation
Keep 6-month reserve based on annual budget (50%)
Keep sending two students to RYLA each year
Start working on 100-year celebration
Update our local directory of members
Keep programs interesting, full of variety and out by 1:00
Continue with scholarships to ESU & FHTC
Continue sponsoring children's summer ball teams
Prepare for the District Governor's visit
Continue with Chamber Bucks
Goals that had fallen short:
Increase membership
Begin an ESU Rotaract Program
Sponsor and incoming student in the Youth Exchange Program
Honor members with perfect attendance certificates
The Sage of Emporia was the subject of a very interesting program from Roger Heineken and Karen Sommers. William Allen White was born in 1868, bought the Emporia Gazette in 1895 (at age 27), and in the very next year he wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas", which launched him onto the national stage. He championed the First Amendment, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Active in politics, Will ran for Governor in 1924 in an effort to fight the Ku Klux Klan in the region. With Emporia on the main line of the Santa Fe Railroad and convenient for travel, Will hosted visits from five US Presidents, including frequent visits from Herbert Hoover, who helped to dedicate his bust at Peter Pan Park. Peter Pan Park was the location of his daughter's accidental death on horseback, and was donated by the White family to the City of Emporia for a park. Red Rocks, the large family home for 100 years, has become one of 16 historic sites in Kansas, and the only one depicting 20th century history.
In an effort to share our rich heritage and educate our community on the importance of our heritage for both the past as well as future leadership lessons, the first Saturday in October has been established as William Allen White Legacy Day. Coinciding with the William Allen White Book Awards, the Red Rocks Rumble, a multiple bus tour, will feature homes and other historical landmarks of significance between 1895 through World War II. Reserve this date on your calendar!
Kent Schnakenberg and Peggy Mast are the latest new members of our club. Welcome, Kent and Peggy! Teresa Maley and Shirley Antes were their respective proposers.
Rotarian Chris Correll, who works at Glendo, arranged for Josh Hamlin and Shane Garriot from Glendo to join us for lunch at our Rotary Club meeting to explain and demonstrate for us what Glendo does. Josh is a 11-year veteran and Shane a 20-year veteran of Glendo. Both get to talk to potential customers and demonstrate how their products work.
It all started back in 1965 in Don Glaser's garage when Don developed a small hand-held engraver using an air compressor for power. Don continued to experiment and developed several similar tools. Glendo was started in 1977, making some of those same toolsdesigned for the jewelry and engraving arts, as well as equipment for industrial and business use. DJ Glaser's creativity has further developed their line of products over many years. Glendo now offers five-day training classes for people from all over the world in their training center here in Emporia. Emporia State University offers a fine arts degree in engraving with Glendo's help, which is unique in the world. The engraving studio in King Hall on the ESU campus is a start-of-the-art facility.
Ninety percent of Glendo's products are manufactured here in Emporia, and they employ dealers around the world. The cost of their engraving and stone-setting products range between $2,500 and $6,500, depending one's budget and aspirations. The United States, Europe and Asia are good markets for Glendo's products, but the value of the Dollar does affect their sales.
Our Rotary Club worked for many years and recently donated $25,000 toward Mission Madagascar, the new lemur exhibit at the David Traylor Zoo. It has been under construction over the last several months, and the grand opening is July 23 at 10:30 am. We encourage all Rotary Club members to join us at the grand opening! Remember to wear your Rotary Club shirts. Rotarian Duane Henrikson is President of the Emporia Friends of the Zoo.
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The Sage of Emporia was the subject of a very interesting program from Roger Heineken and Karen Sommers. William Allen White was born in 1868, bought the Emporia Gazette in 1895 (at age 27), and in the very next year he wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas", which launched him onto the national stage. He championed the First Amendment, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Active in politics, Will ran for Governor in 1924 in an effort to fight the Ku Klux Klan in the region. With Emporia on the main line of the Santa Fe Railroad and convenient for travel, Will hosted visits from five US Presidents, including frequent visits from Herbert Hoover, who helped to dedicate his bust at Peter Pan Park. Peter Pan Park was the location of his daughter's accidental death on horseback, and was donated by the White family to the City of Emporia for a park. Red Rocks, the large family home for 100 years, has become one of 16 historic sites in Kansas, and the only one depicting 20th century history. 
Rotarian Chris Correll, who works at Glendo, arranged for Josh Hamlin and Shane Garriot from Glendo to join us for lunch at our Rotary Club meeting to explain and demonstrate for us what Glendo does. Josh is a 11-year veteran and Shane a 20-year veteran of Glendo. Both get to talk to potential customers and demonstrate how their products work.
Gary Ace was recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow + 8 for his contributions to the Rotary Foundation.
