Simpson stated that the Funds contributed to Rotary Foundation was a permanent fund, the principal is never touched, only the earnings are used by the club to meet its financial obligations. This makes the fund a gift that keeps giving. According to Simpson, the goal of Rotary International is to bring the sum of foundation's funds up to a total amount of $1 billion. Today we have over $300K in actual funds, and over $500K pledged. Simpson went on to say that the Rotary International makes it very easy to contribute to the fund, while we have a brochure with all the details available, you may ask any Rotary official for information on how to give.
J.D. Simpson received a "Four Way Point Test" pin from President John Owens
(J.D. Simpson. Picture courtesy: Gary Blum)
MARKET UPDATE: Peter Volpe
The market update was given by Peter Volpe
who described the market as "quiet".
(Peter Volpe. Picture courtesy: Gary Blum)
SHERIFF JIM KAELIN - "DID YOU KNOW?"
(Sheriff, Jim Kaelin. Picture courtesy: Gary Blum)
John Paul Jones, was a Revolutionary War hero and founding father of the U.S. Navy, and also the man who said, "I have not yet begun to fight".
Jones was one of the greatest heroes of the American Revolution but that counted for little when he died in Paris on July 18, 1792.
Rather than pay to ship the body back to the United States for burial, the American Ambassador to France instructed Jones' landlord
to bury him "...in a most private manner, and at the least possible expense."
After the funeral in 1899, 107 years later, another US ambassador to France, Horace Porter, became obsessed with
locating Jones' grave and returning his remains to the United States for a proper hero's burial.
Nobody knew where in Paris Jones was buried, but after six years of searching, Porter was pretty sure he was buried in
a cemetery for Protestants. The cemetery, abandoned decades earlier, had an entire neighborhood built on top of it.
Acting on information that Jones had been buried in a lead casket, Porter hired a digging party to tunnel under the
neighborhood and search for the lead casket among the hundreds of rotting and exposed wooden caskets. They found three
lead coffins, and Jones body was in the third. His body was so well preserved that it was identified by
comparing the face to the military medals inscribed with Jones' likeness.
An American Naval Squadron returned him to the U.S. Naval Academy in July of 1905, where the
body was then stored under a staircase in a dormitory for seven more years until Congress finally appropriated
enough money to build a permanent crypt.
The moral of this story is, "Don't die without a will and do not leave your funeral arrangements up to the Government".
