Serving Bellingham for 80 Years
Meets every Tuesday Noon - Bellingham Golf and Country Club - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham Kiwanis Soundings
April 15, 2008
The meeting room was full and the meeting was opened in grand fashion.
Guests:
Bill Audley, Jalyn Falcone, Garng Lanes and Drew Graham. Sardis joined us with a large compliment of members.
Announcements:
Fund Raising:
The club voted on next years Theatre Night. The play will be in late January and is a play about Sherlock Holmes. Rich E noted that the play would be perfect.
Interclub:
Sardis on May 15th.- 7am. The speaker will be Sylvester Neal.Community Service:
April 26th, complete with food afterwords.Scholarship meeting on Friday 25th at Frontier Bank, Barkley.
Birthdays:
Elizabeth, Lyla and Larry. First - the group sang happy birthday to all three in the "Sardis Style." Then sang in the normal version.
Happy Dollars:
Rich E was delighted to have such a full house at the meeting, extra chairs were required.
Nancy L was happy to be going to Arizona with George, and sad that her car has a sight wreck requiring the replacement of the plastic tail lights - each costing over $500.00.
Anita J had an IOU dollar. A couple of years ago she went to China with her daughter, who on the trip, adopted a child. Turns out her granddaughter has tested in the Genius level.
Sardis as a group thanked us for the sunshine.
Vaughn H was happy the 15th was over and he was planning to take the next day off.
Lyla T, always happy, was particularly happy because her son Robert was giving the program.
Jan A was happy to be back from Boise and was guesing her father (82) was also happy to get time to rest.
Barb A had an amazing dollar. Her daughter reported 11 inches of snow in the Midwest.
Induction of new members:
The induction ceremony was performed by Nancy Larsen.
Program:
Lyla Introduced her son Robert (Bob) Tjoelker who spoke on "Time." Bob works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over the last many years he has worked on projects developing very accurate atomic clocks. These clocks are extremely accurate and developed individually for every specific application.
What are they used for? Studying space and space travel. The great accuracy is not needed here on earth. However, because of the great distances in space and the fact that everything in space is moving, in order to position objects and accurately predict their relationships with each other, very accurate timing is required.
Bob also provided information about the placements of robotic vehicles on mars and about the upcoming projects. Every two years Earth and Mars line up in a manner making a launch possible. Many projects are planned, including eventually placing man on mars.
The program ended with a series of great photos of out space.
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