January 3, 2010 Club Bulletin # 356

January 3, 2011

Program for Today: 2011 Iowa Legislature Outlook

December 20, 2010 Seniors: Miguel Rangel

December 20, 2010 Guests:    Jennifer Jennings, Transferring Rotarian

News to Note: President Tom presented the first reading for Jane Caes who is sponsored by Mary O'dell.

The Annual Meeting was called to order and election of officers was held.

Tony Joseph and Scott Ingstad were elected to replace outgoing board member Mary Wildermuth and the resignation of board member Becky Furlong.  Gregs Thomopulos made the motion to nominate which was seconded by Charlie Lewis.  The motion passed.

The two new board members will join Mike Ruby, Kelly Garvin, Taura Prosek, Tom Ward, Keith Porter, Caren Luke (secretary), and Brooke Mehaffey (treasurer) to make up the 2011 Rotary Club of Muscatine Board of Directors.  Jim Sturms made a motion to accept this slate and Norm Smith seconded.  The motion passed.

President Tom recognized that Chuck Moody will remain Sergeant at Arms and Mary Wildermuth will remain Bulletin Editor.

Happy News:  Kip Fisher talked about attending the a Rotary Club Board meeting for a makeup meeting and encouraged others to attend, as well, if they'd like to see what happens.   Marv Krieger thanked Rotary for its contribution to the Salvation Army and reported that the campaign is going well.   Caren Luke put in a dollar for the nice article about her son in the newspaper.   Tim Nelson reported he was going to be a grandparent.

Dave Bakke of the Muscatine Conservation Board presented a very interesting program for our December 20 meeting.  He brought along special guest, Ginger, an adult female screech owl missing an eye.