“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” – Brene Brown – Professor-Lecturer-Author

 

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.” – Audrey Hepburn – 1929-1993 – British Actress-Humanitarian

 

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”  – Dr. Seuss – 1904-1991 – Author-Political Cartoonist-Illustrator-Poet-Animator-Filmmaker

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(notes provides by the gruntled gentleman from Connecticut, Edward Perry)

 

Mary Kay thanked those that signed up for the “Feeding our Kids” volunteer project on Saturday, 7/29/21. All slots have been filled.

 

Larry passed around a signup sheet for volunteers to help with Books2Prisoners. Volunteers will meet at IMC, (the old post office in downtown Urbana) on Saturday August 7 from 10am to noon. An orientation will take place and then the group will work in pairs processing books and responding with letters to the prisoners. All volunteers should be fully vaccinated.

 

Cary noted that on Thursday, 7/29/21 a club social will take place at Lodgic with drinks and casual conversation. We will not have a club meeting that morning.

 

Darrell stated that the speaker for this Thursday’s, 7/22/21, meeting will be Professor Geir E. Dullerud who will speak about autonomous vehicles.

 

CU Sunrise Rotary Club has purchased a 3×5 flag to be displayed from the arbor in the Decker Garden on appropriate holidays.

 

On October 16 from 10:00-noon we will meet at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2101 S. Prospect Avenue, Champaign, to fold newspapers for dog/cat cages at the Champaign County Humane Society.  Please save your newspapers.  If you can’t attend we’ll collect/fold your papers.  Ed “Paper Cat” Perry is leading this effort and will show us how to fold the papers so they fit correctly in the cages.

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Bob introduced Dr. Marianne Alleyne from the Department of Entomology & the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at UIUC, whose presentation was titled “Cicadas, Cicadas, Cicadas”. Dr. Alleyne gave a very informative and engaging presentation about the Cicada which is currently in the national news as billions of these noisy insects have been emerging this year in the United States after 17 years underground.

 

Dr. Alleyne explained the various broods of Cicadas, the various timing of their emergence, the areas of the United States in which they live, and their timetables to come out of the ground. This year’s area for the large Periodical group of Cicadas ranged from New Jersey westward to Vermillion County here in Illinois. If you missed them this year another group will emerge in 3 years in Illinois upward through Wisconsin. There are 20 species of Cicada just here in Illinois which are around every year, but are not in the vast numbers that we see with the 17 year Cicada. Cicadas can be found in many places and habitats throughout the world.

 

 Dr. Alleyne brought live cicadas and passed around mounted samples and noted the beauty of these interesting creatures. Questions from the club were many and constant. It was truly an informative presentation, and the club was totally engrossed.

 

Additional information can also be found by simply googling “Cicada” and Dr. Alleyne suggested a fun website, cicadamania.com, for more information.  

 

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  July 22nd July 29th Aug 5th Aug 12th
Introductions Larry Johnson Joe Rank Bob La Charite Phyllis Mischo
Reflection Robb Patton Jerry Payonk Allan Penwell Ed Perry
Greeters Larry Johnson Joe Rank Bob La Charite Phyllis Mischo
Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite Jarrod Scheunemann Jen Shelby
Song Leader        
Notetaker Conforti Perry Hodson Conforti
Decker Weeding Johnson Johnson Perry Perry

 

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

 

July 22nd – Dr. Geir E. Dullerud, Director, Center for Autonomy, and W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UIUC, will speak about autonomous vehicles (Cary)

July 29th – No AM meeting – Evening Club Social at Lodgic

August 5th – District Governor Heather Stoa

August 12th – TBD (Charlie)

August 19th – Normal Rotarian Drake Zimmerman, co-founder and chair of the Rotary Action Group Against Malaria, will speak about Global Grants of Scale (Mary)

August 26th – TBD (Ondine)

September 2nd – Club Assembly

September 9th – TBD (Tom)

September 16th – TBD (Bob)

September 23rd – TBD (Cary)

September 30th – Club Social

October 7th – Club Assembly

October 14th – TBD