At our weekly meeting on Friday March 18, 2022, President Mark welcomed 26 Rotarians and two guest, Dorsey Morrow and Wes Humble, at which four outstanding McKinley High Speech and Debate students presented their orations tying in our Rotary Four Way Test to their takes on current topics.
Secretary Paula presented the following:
On This Date in History:
1766 - After four months of continuous protest in America, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing army in the Colonies. This issue became a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation.
1942 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order creating the War Relocation Authority, charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
1990 - In what was considered the world's biggest art heist, two men pretending to be police officers stole 13 works, including paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The stolen art was never recovered.
1992 - American businesswoman whose name became synonymous with being mean, Leone Helmsley was sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion. She was quoted as saying, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
Rotary Fun Fact:
Q: Does anyone know why Rotary's polio project is called "Polio +"?
A: It's because Vitamin A is given along with the polio vaccine. This extra measure has averted an estimated 1.5 million juvenile deaths since 1998.
Happy Bucks:
Lynn Hamilton
Bruce Schorsten
Mark Clendenin