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March 9, 2021

This Week's Program

Dr. Chip Bragg is currently researching the history of Archbold for a book celebrating their upcoming centennial. He will share some stories from the earliest days of Mr Archbold's involvement and the forming of the Hospital.

What You Missed Last Week!

Jay Flowers began last week what will be a series of talks about the history of our club. There are over 35,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Of that number, a little over 1% are 100 years old. On 1 May 2021, the Thomasville Rotary Club will be among that 1%. This is due to the fortitude and hard work of Rotarians that followed our motto of, “Service Above Self.” We are able to do so much more than those Rotarians because of the foundation they laid. Who would have thought in 1921 that the work begun by those twenty men, would still be going strong today? We are building on what author Jim Collins says was “Built to last.” Let us continue the work begun a century ago. Rotary will open the opportunities to us. Let’s follow the example set for us and place “Service Above Self,” for the next hundred years.

Henry Pepin and Wallace Goodman gave their classification talks last week. As was mentioned in a previous summary, the more we know about each other, the more we can appreciate who they are and the contribution they have to make. Though Wallace and Henry traveled different roads, both arrived at the same destination.

With lots of humor and a wealth of knowledge, Ron Salter peeled back a few layers of our intelligence. What he found is that mankind is not as smart and intelligent as he thinks. We tend to pride ourselves on our intelligence, but the truth is we really do not know much about anything, compared to what can be known and what we are capable of knowing. My takeaway is, we are all ignorant to some degree. And we need the Ron’s of the world to point this our to us every now and then. Thanks Ron.