Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka
June 30, 2014
The meal: meatloaf, scalloped potatoes, salad bar and dessert.
The pledge went by so fast that I missed who led it. The invocation was given by Dr. O’Brian of St. Joe’s who said he was used to doing it.
Ziggy Ziegenfuss, our outgoing president, had his engineer’s cap and engineer’s outfit on for the debunking.
Gregg Gardiner announced that members wishing to sign up for a committee should make their preferences known, or they would be unilaterally assigned.
Hank Ingham was called on to present his usual power point presentation insulting and belittling the President of the club and calling his tenure a train wreck. No insult was spared. It was the cleverest thing anyone had ever seen.
Next was the ceremonial throwing away of the rosters, followed by Nancy Dean presenting Ziggy with a model train.
Then the crowd was invited outside, where someone had parked a cement truck and garbage truck. An ambulance sat waiting. Dave Dillon talked about admitting Ziggy into the Past Presidents club. He said they took a vote, and 73% abstained.
Carlton Nielsen took the mic and made a comment that everyone wanted a piece of Ziggy, so he was going to put him in handcuffs and attach chains to his wrists, and then have the two trucks put him apart. Cooler heads intervened and the two trucks left, but not before the garbage truck hoisted up a garbage can full of unanswered correspondence from Ziggy’s rotary year. When they left we discovered a trolley parked behind them.
Ziggy posed for pictures and then drove everyone around the parking lot. Let’s all do this again soon.
Submitted by Hank Ingham
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