4-21 Rotary Club Meeting

The April 14, 2011 meeting of the Rotary Club of Chickasha was called to order by President Mark Tibbetts. The meeting opened with a prayer, pledge and a rendition of God Bless America. Guests included Don Smith and Steve Clark. Clark is a prospective member. Visitng Rotarian was Harry Meister of the Bricktown OKC club. Prayer concerns included Janice McVey, wife of Rotarian Bill. President Mark announced that next week's April 28 meeting would be the last at the Best Western Inn. Starting on Thursday, May 5, the Rotary Club of Chickasha will meet at First Christian Church, 6th and Kansas. Rotarians are reminded that the Rotary Day Run and annual Shrimp and Crab Boil are on Saturday, May 14. Deadline to return money and unsold tickets for the shrimp boil is next Thursday, April 28. Please remind purchasers they there are no refunds and all product must be picked up on the day of the shrimp boil. Sign up sheets were passed around for volunteers to work on both events. Cody White said there would be a run committee meeting after today's meeting. President Mark announced that the Grady Memorial Hospital Foundation's annual golf tournament is May 20. Registration fee is $90 per player. Rotarian of the Day was George Tiner, who introduced Bill Crynes of the OU Speaker Service as our program. Crynes, a chemical enigneer, spent 20 years at OSU and 24 years at OU as an educator. He presented a slide show giving us the poop on crappers and the history and evolution of out houses. Crynes said 0.1% of homes in the US still use outhouses. In Alaska, that number climbs to 13 percent. Crynes' collection of outhouse memorabilia included more than 1300 photos of outhouses. Some of the interesting poop he gave club members: • Thomas Crapper is mistakenly credited with inventing the flush toilet. Crapper improved on existing flush toilets that date back centuries and old many of the modern-day patents. • Missouri was home to three-story, 12-unit outhouse that constructed by Roosevelt's WPA program. • Toilet paper as we know it was first marketed in 1880. There you have all the poop on johns. The meeting ended with recitation of the Rotary 4-Way Test.