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Spoke Newsletter
Wednesday February 7, 2018

President– Barry

Attendance: 22 (50%) Attendance with make ups: 27 (61%)

Program Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Carol Ernst, Exec. Director Eastmont—Volleyball Referee
Program arranged by Dale Lloyd

Program Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Mark Strehle, LTC (ret.)USA—Curator, SAC Aerospace Museum
Program arranged by Dale Lloyd

The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is a museum focusing on aircraft and nuclear missiles of the United States Air Force. It is located near Ashland, Nebraska, along Interstate 80 southwest of Omaha. The objective of the museum is to preserve and display historic aircraft, missile, and space vehicles and provide educational resources. It is regarded as having one of the top collections of strategic aircraft
Offutt Air Force Base in eastern Nebraska became the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command in 1948 and continues as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command. The museum at Offutt, adjacent to Bellevue, a suburb south of Omaha, began with its first airplane in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum. General Curtis LeMay's vision of a museum that preserved historic aircraft had become a reality. Over the following years, the outdoor museum's name changed to the Strategic Air Command Museum or SAC Museum.
On May 16, 1998, after a $33 million grass roots capital campaign, the museum moved indoors to a location more accessible to the public, between Omaha and Lincoln, that allowed the aircraft to be protected from the elements to which they had previously been exposed.

A Rotary Thank You to Mark Strehle for an excellent presentation
about the SAC Aerospace Museum

Lincoln East Rotary Club
Meetings at Valentino’s—70th & Van Dorn
Noon Luncheon starting @ 11:45 a.m.

February 7, 2018

As part of the moving process, two aircraft (a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II and C-133 Cargomaster) were relocated to the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
On June 15, 2001, the name of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Museum was officially changed to the Strategic Air & Space Museum. This change incorporated the museum's rich past while attempting to reach a larger audience through dynamic programming and exciting educational programs that seek to captivate the interests and imaginations of everyone.
On June 25, 2015, the museum announced another name change to the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, in an effort to reconnect to the museum's original mission of preserving the history of the Strategic Air Command while promoting interest in aviation and science among the general public. The museum is a $29.5 million, 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m) building that features a glass atrium, two aircraft display hangars, a traveling exhibit area, a children's interactive gallery, a 200-seat theater, a museum store, an aircraft restoration gallery, and a snack bar. The glass atrium is constructed of 525 glass panels that encase a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. The two aircraft display hangars protect the aircraft collection and exhibits from harsh outdoor elements. The museum participates in an exhibit exchange program with other national museums and displays them in the traveling exhibit area.[2] Three large missiles are displayed vertically outdoors in front of the museum.

Lincoln East Rotary Club
Teacher of the Month—January 2018
Jeremy Scheffler— Lincoln Pius X High School

Alyssa Huber, U.S. Bank, Tom Korta, Principal, Jeremy Scheffler, Teacher,
Heather Scheffler, Spouse, Wayne Casper, Chairman

Lincoln East Rotary Club Members extend a sincere thank you and congratulations
To Jeremy Scheffler as an outstanding teacher in Lincoln High Schools.

“NEW RECORD”
A new record was set this Saturday by the “High Five” Rotarian Painters. (7)picnic tables in 24 minutes. (Note: the large tables counted as two regulars) Painters: Wayne Casper, Larry Fletcher, Paul Horton, Barry Stelk and Duane Tappe. Quality Control standards set by Chairman Milt Schmidt adhered too. Thanks to all Lincoln East Rotarian for completing another year of Park & Recreation Painting. Also, a sincere thank you to Milt Schmidt as the Chairman of this project.

Anniversaries & Birthdays
Weeks of —February 8—14
Birthdays:
Coleen Seng—February 8
Anniversaries
Steve Grosserode—February 13
Milt Schmidt— February 14

Happy Dollars
Blake Collingsworth $2.00
Milt Schmidt $1.00
Paul Horton $2.00
Steve Grosserode $2.00
Mike Carr $2.00
Charlie Wright $5.00
Barry Stelk $5.00
Wayne Casper $5.00
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Cashier Duty
We need volunteers for the following:
Month of February—Jason Smith
March—OPEN
Please contact Dick Cumming

Make Ups
John Duling Another meeting
Gordon Bair Social
Dick Cumming Board Meeting
Mark Ebers Park Painting
Charles Erickson Camp Kataki

Greeter Duty
February Wayne Casper
March Ed Stivers
April John Garrison

Guests & Visitors
Merrilea Anderson Steve Grosserode
Jeremy Scheffler Teacher
Heather Scheffler Spouse— Teacher
Tom Korta Principal
Melodie Pointon New Member
Mark Strehle Speaker

Lincoln East Rotary Club
February Speaker Schedule—All arranged by Dale Lloyd
February 21—Mark Sunderman—Director of Rehabilitation Service, Eastmont
February 28—Police Chief Bliemeister—Lincoln Police Department

Lincoln East Rotary Club
Spoke Newsletter Published by Wayne Casper

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