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Next Meeting:
When:Friday, September 14th, 2018
Where:The Country Club of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive
Speaker:Joel Hoepfner, Prevention & Outreach Coordinator
Topic:Community Mental Health Authority
Chair of the Day:Diane Sanborn
Invocator:Bob Hoffman
Chair of the Month:Maria Lenz
Greeter:Shari Montgomery
Remembrance:Diane Sanborn
Microphone:Barb Whitney
Editarian:TBA
Biography for Michael G. Harrison
College:  Albion College
Law Degree:  University of Michigan; International Law, George Washington University
Foreign Studies:  The Hague, Netherlands
 
Ingham County Circuit Court Judege, 25 Years; President of the Michigan Judges' Association
 
Chair of the National Conference of State Trial Judges
 
Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith; 14 years
 
Lansing Rotary, Joined 1974, President 2001
Greater Lansing Urban League
Greater Lansing Symphony
Mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross
Boy Scouts of America - Chief Okemos Council
 
Founded, Michael Harrison Fund, U of M Alzheimer's Research, http://alzheimers.ed.umich.edu/donate/
 
Ingham County Medical Care Facility, Michael Harrison Fund, 3860 Dobie Road, Okemos, MI  48864
 
Member, The Peoples Church, East Lansing
Biography for Edward McRee
Edward was born October 20, 1931 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.  "Ed" was the Administrator of the Eaton Rapids Community Hospital from April 1957 until 1961 when he accepted the position of Administrator and later President of Ingham Medical Center in Lansing, a position he held until his retirement in 1995.  Ed was a life member, past trustee and executive committee member of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA).  He joined Rotary in 1980 with Claud Erickson as his sponsor, serving as President in 1998.
 
A well known figure in the Eaton and Ingham county areas having served on the Eaton Rapids School Board, Lay Leader of the First United Methodist Church of Eaton Rapids for over forty years.  A past trustee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a Hospital consultant and a recipient of numerous awards and achievements during his professional career in Michigan.
What is Loftus Day?
Loftus Day is a tradition unique to our Lansing Rotary Club. Every year at a September meeting, a Rotarian who has passed away during the year is honored. After an abbreviated meeting, if they so choose Rotarians visit and lay flowers at assigned grave sites of deceased Lansing Rotarians.
 
It’s a tradition that began in 1924 when club member Frank Loftus brought a bouquet of fresh garden flowers to the regular meeting of the club. Afterwards, he took the flowers to the grave of Charles W. Nichols, a past Rotary president who had recently died. The custom grew in an informal manner and when Loftus died four years later, the official Frank Loftus Day Memorial Service was held- a cherished Lansing Rotary Club tradition that each September honors deceased club members who are buried in the Lansing area.
 
It’s a time to remember, pay respect, and reflect on the many dedicated people who contributed not just to our club, but to the causes they’ve helped to support throughout our history, ranging from local charities to Rotary’s international outreach. 
 
How Do I Participate?
 
  You will be sent the names of the members who are in your group, who the leader of the group is, and the assigned gravesites. The sites will all be in the same general area in the same cemetery. Your group and cemetery remains the same every year.  At the end of the Rotogram, beneath "DOWNLOAD FILES" is the Loftus Day Committee Chairs for 2018.  This will give you the names of the Chairs and each Rotarian in the committee with the gravesites.  Also, Evergreen and Mount Hope Cemetery have now made electronic versions of their maps available and they are at the end of the Rotogram.  If you have any questions, contact cathy@lansingrotary.com
 
* Contact your group leader about the group’s plans for visiting the sites. Some visit the sites sometime during the week preceding the meeting. Most will visit the sites after the meeting on Loftus Day.
 
* Some members bring flowers from their gardens and some order flowers which will be on a table for you to pick up at the meeting. Rick Anthony (Rick Anthony Flowers) 484-5387.  The floral cones will also be available on Friday.
 
*After an abbreviated meeting, your group will meet at your assigned site.
Golf Outing - Monday, September 17th, 2018
           Sign up now for the annual Lansing Rotary Golf Outing!
 
Date: Monday, September 17, 2018
9:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m. Shotgun Start
$250/Golfer  $1000/Team
 Lunch on the Course
Country Club of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive
 
Not a golfer? Plan to join us for appetizers
following play at around 4:00 p.m. with a cash bar
   if interested, please email:  cathy@lansingrotary.com
     Thank you!
Speakers
Sep 14, 2018
Community Mental Health at the Country Club of Lansing
Sep 21, 2018
MSU Sexual Assault Program @ the Lansing Center
Sep 28, 2018
@ Eagle Eye
Oct 05, 2018
Construction of New Hospital
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Rotary Club of Lansing
P. O. Box 13156
Lansing, MI   48901-3156
Download Files
Loftus Day Committees
Memoriums of Past Rotarians
Mt Hope Cemetery Maps
Evergreen Cemetery Map