SURPRISE RECOGNITION - SALLY PLATT - BY FIVE PDG's!

FIVE PAST DISTRICT GOVERNORS CONSPIRED WITH MARIETTA METRO PRESIDENT CHARLES LASSITER TO ARRANGE A SURPRISE RECOGNITION CEREMONY FOR SALLY PLATT, HONORING HER FOR A LIFETIME OF ROTARY WORK, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR HER MANY OUTSTANDING YEARS OF SERVICE AS THE DISTRICT 6900 GRANTS CHAIR.

THIS TOOK PLACE AT A REGULAR MARIETTA METRO ROTARY MEETING, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PROGRAM ON THE ROTARY FOUNDATION. PDG FRAN MILBERG PROVIDED THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS, SUBSTITUTING FOR D6900 FOUNDATION CHAIR RAY MCKEMIE WHO NEEDED TO ATTEND HIS COMPANY OWNER'S FUNERAL IN PELHAM.

UNDER THE PRETENSE OF A FOUNDATION COMMITTEE MEETING THAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE AFTER THE MARIETTA METRO ROTARY MEETING ENDED, THESE DISTRICT 6900 PAST DISTRICT GOVERNORS WERE IN ATTENDANCE TO HONOR SALLY:

• PDG TED PROPES

• PDG CHERYL GREENWAY

• PDG AL LIPPHARDT

• PDG BILL WOULFIN

• PDG FRAN MILBERG

SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF FRAN'S SPEECH ABOUT THE ROTARY FOUNDATION, SHE TRANSITIONED INTO THE SURPRISE RECOGNITION AND HONORING OF SALLY PLATT. SALLY WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN BY SURPRISE... WHICH DOES NOT HAPPEN OFTEN!

THE MEETING ALSO FEATURED THE RECOGNITION OF MANY NEW PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS AND PAUL HARRIS 'PLUS' FELLOWS. SEE PHOTO.

THIS SPECIAL FOUNDATION PROGRAM WAS EFFECTIVE, AS MARIETTA METRO ROTARY IS AGAIN AN EREY CLUB, AND AS OF MARCH HAS NOW EXCEEDED $200 PER MEMBER IN FOUNDATION GIVING.