eClub Rotarian and PDG Bill Grile reported that he will escort the R.I. Representative John Chase, COO Zone 26/27, who will give the keynote address at the Club Learning Assembly in Cottage Grove

(photo left John Chase)

eClub Rotarian and PDG Bill Grile and about 90 Rotarians from D5110 attended the Club Learning Assembly in Cottage Grove. RI Director-Elect John Chases's message to attendees stressed the importance of focusing on the Rotary experience and not "the numbers.” When clubs do this, membership attraction happens "organically" and then what follows is better member engagement and giving to The Rotary Foundation, which in turn results in more funding for projects and Rotary impact.  

The last few scenes from the movie Animal House featured a parade down the main street in Cottage Grove with the Deathmobile wreaking all kinds of havoc. I had been telling RI Director-Elect John and Elizabeth about this and then, after the Friday night reception in Cottage Grove, I drove around the corner from the restaurant and traveled back in time to 1978. Voila, there it was on a trailer, the Deathmobile from the 1978 National Lampoons cult classic movie Animal House.

The Deathmobile has nothing to do with Rotary other than that I was a member of BTTE at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and we were almost as rowdy as the fellas were in National Lampoons 1978 cult classic movie, filmed of course in Eugene, Cottage Grove and nearby Dorena Lake.