ATTENDANCE:
August 9, 2013
Rotarians:  23

Fines Balance:  $1336.25

Ronald Boyd CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter), President/CEO Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Company graduated from Drake University in 1973 with a B.S. degree, Double Major - Insurance and Management.  Ron funded college by working at Hy-Vee Distribution Center during high school and the Urbandale Hy-Vee Store in the produce department through college.  If not for the produce aisle "encounter" and his "helpful smile in every aisle", he says he might not be at Hy-Vee today.

Ron was Vice President of Continental Western Insurance Company in Des Moines from 1974-1988, President of Norwest Insurance Minnesota from 1988-1991, Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Company since 1991 and President/CEO of Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Company since 2000.  They opened their office in Chariton on April 30, 2012.

The Rotary Board will meet this coming Friday, August 16th at 11 a.m. at Carpenter's Hall.

This is an easy way to make up a missed meeting and to learn more about Rotary.

“If you ask my opinion, you’re going to get it,” Burton says, his neighborly look morphing into a solemn gaze. “When I feel strongly about something, I will argue like crazy for my position. I suppose that’s sort of an ego thing, but if I discern that someone has a vested interest or may be looking at a personal economic benefit, I have a simple suggestion: Apply The Four-Way Test.”   

Seeing and expressing things in simple, straightforward terms is one of Burton’s most apparent strengths. “If I had one wish for the American people,” he says, “it’s that they could go to one of the impoverished countries that Rotarians do so much work in and see how good we have it here.

For Burton, there’s no doubt about how good he’s had it. “I’ve had a blessed life,” he says. “I had a great family life growing up, and I look at our kids and our grandkids, and I think they’ve done pretty well too. You worry about things, of course, and you want the best for your family. I think Rotary gives me an opportunity to help make this world a little bit better and help give others a better life – not only my grandkids but other people’s grandkids too.”

A year from now, Burton will look back and measure his success by a standard that is pure Oklahoma: “At the end of the day, I hope to leave the woodpile just a little higher.”

Cammeo Medici is a Chariton native and a graduate of Chariton High School.  Our club sponsored her as an Outbound Youth Exchange student to Italy in 2003-04.

Cammeo received the 2012-13 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and is in Bogota Columbia studying towards her Master's in Public Health at the University of Columbia.

You can makeup a meeting 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after a missed meeting.
You can attend a board meeting, visit another Rotary club, attend a committee meeting, attend a Rotary social event, help with a Service project, attend a district or Rotary International event. You can also make-up online by going to the District website at http://rotary6000.org Click on: Our Links then How to make up a meeting online.

You can make up at a nearby Rotary Club:
Osceola - Tues. noon - Redman's Pizza and Steak House
Albia - Tues. noon - Kendall Place
Corydon - Tues. noon - Breadeaux Pizza
Knoxville - Wed. noon - Lake Red Rock Cultural Center

You can make up online:
SW USA: http://www.recswusa.org/visitors
London: http://www.erotarylondon.org/make_up.html
Denver (e-Club One): http://rotaryeclubone.org
Singapore: http://www.rotaryeclub3310.net/make-up/make-up-guidelines/

To check your information in the Directory, update missing information, or change incorrect information, go to http://www.clubrunner.ca/chariton

username:  yourfirstname.yourlastname.1637
password:  1637 (Unless you have changed your username & password)

District 6000 Governor 2013-14 - Jacque Andrew & Jim - jeandrew@netins.net - Jefferson, IA
Assistant Governor - Mary Ellen Stanley - grandme@grm.net - Leon, IA
District Adminstrator-Carolyn Scharff-877-976-8279-District Office-Pella
President, Rotary International 2013-14 - Ron D. Burton & Jetta - Norman Oklahoma

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Veronica Fuhs, President
Corliss Klaassen, Secretary/Treasurer
Bill Shelton, Immediate Past President
Becky Struve, President-Elect

Board of Directors:

(Term ends 6/30/14)
Sandra Knebel

Christopher Watkins - President Nominee

(Term ends 6/30/15)
Corey Goodenow
Kris Milledge
Kris Patrick

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      Is it FAIR to all concerned?
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      Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
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