4 10 31 https://branchdistrictlibrary.org/archive/files/original/bda5593273bd11bc6f3d4150349fcf8c.pdf 7a5bde0e8ee0dcefcea29d29dd428484 PDF Text Text THE si RAZZBERRY “This Must Be Coldwater’s Best: Rotary Year.” THE ISSUED BY “HE PROFITS COLDWATER ROTARY hid CLUB Se APRIL 7, 1936 MOST WHO: SERVES BEST” VOL 2N0 (2 A Letter of Greeting the This issue of the Razzberry with, a letter of greeting is being sent following fifteen new clubs announced in the last news letter: No. hes Z : Holmfirth, England ............. 2. Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil .............-2--::Cashmere, Washington os Villahermosa, MEXICO ...222-. a =. 2 Sahda, Colorade a ..... Canada Ontario, Leamington, = Campina Grande, Parahyba, Brazil Burton-on-Trent, England .......2..-..-2----ccecec ceseseereeeeeeeretteet oie. cscennn cc enenenecs escecectnettcesteeteneeeneceteceecee Homewood, Linmoig. be Kediri, Java, Netherlands Indies Fe = Ohio Georgetown, (Minas Geraes) Brazil Uberlandia ts Kentwood, Louisiana .... cee Ponchatoula, Louisiana ............----.-----eeeeee te .--20 (Caldas), Columbia ...........-.Armenia to 3924 3925 3926 3927 1427 3928 3929 3930 3931 3932 3933 3934 3935 3936 3937 »nd The Rotary Club of Coldwater, Michigan. U. S. A. greets vou This club has been in Rotary for welcomes you to the Rotary family, If its exverience is any criterion you are to be confifteen years. gratulated upon your affiliation with the organization. of our Rotary has meant much not only in the lives of the members We are proud of memclub but in the progress and welfare of the city. among us new bership in so far flung an organization and glad to number One of the most striking clubs in the countries which you represent. nal and successful departments in Rotary has to do with its internatio Nl aspect. interAt a time when the shadow of war darkens many lands the May national fellowship of Rotarv is of more than usual jmportance. each all of our countries remain always in neace and friendship and may club iabor unceasingly to promote good will among all nations. Yours Rotarilv. THE RAZZBERRY. - ws The following is from the current issue of the Charlotte Rotary Mirror: to Every member of the club regrets that “Tex” Evans is leaving us “Tex” locate in Coldwater as Engineer of their County road system. good talks has been a very useful member of our club; has given us some his time in of hig own and provided others; has been unstinting with We sure will miss you “Tex” but you matters pertaining to Boys’ Work. have our combined good wishes in your new location. ————— xX —_——_—_———— Most clubs had programs Last week was “Rotarian Magazine Week.” the Rotar‘an. concerning it and put the heat on every member to read than most of us. It is a good magazine and is deserving of more attention give it. �THE RAZZABERRY Harry Schneider i fy ranaasstroncegist The Razzberry presents with pleasure the above excellent Jikeness of genial Harry Schneider, Superintendent of the Michigan Chi-drens’ Village who has so far successfully covered uv his past. ——$———_*X—_——_. Fitch Beach, one of the good. Rotarians at made a gift to the city of a fine new city hall. Charlotte, has recently —X, Fred Leeder Tells All We have finally abandoned the campaign to secure an autob‘ography from Harry Schneider. It isn’t our idea of cooperation but every ‘nan has his own notion. We have held his picture for months.. So long <s we can’t run the biography we will put the picture in the paper anyway. We are still of the opinion that a historyof the members will be interesting and will make the Razzberry of permanent historical va’ue to the tlub, sc we are commencing with the next to the youngest baby member, Fred Leeder. Below is a brief sketch of his life. His experiences are quite extensive and his life richerin incident than most. His biography, however, will serve asa model for other members. As early as Tuesday, April 14th, we shall expect a similar biography from Harry Van Dusen and Wesley Wilbur and will from time to time Fa‘lure to announce the men from whom such biographies are expected. Listen comply will subject the recalcitrant to a visit from Norm Kohl. to Fred Leeder. In 1928 Harvard closed her doors behind me and by I was privileged to practice medicine and surgery in on an unsuspecting public. The public was saved for my accepting a Rockefeller Foundation Feilowship to D. P. H. at the University of Toronto. : virtue cf an M. D. a’l their branches at lexst a year py study towards my �THE RAZAZEER RE Y Fred Leeder Tells All-continued Upon obtaining my D. P. H. in 1929 I became.a.member of the Department of Indian Affairs of the Dominion of. Canada.and was appointed superintendent of the then new Ile a la. Crosse Hospital situated on the southern fringe of the Barren Lands and designed to bring medical service to the northern Indians. After a most interesting year I became attached to the Health Department of the Commonwealth of. Massachusetts as State District Health Officer for the Berkshire district with headquarters in Pittsfield. Sixteen towns in my new district decided to form a fulltime health district under a grant from the Commonwealth Fund cf New York City and in 1931 I became the new director of the Southern Berkshire Health District with headquarters at Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Two years of this and then to the Harvard School of Public Health to do research on the epidemiology of lobar pneumonia with Dr. W.G. Smillie. Echoes of a new development in Pub‘ic Health in southern Michigan rattled the test tubes and so to Battle Creek and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1934. I am glad for the echo because it brought me finally to Coldwater with its many fine associations, ee The St. Johns Club was ten years old. last week. It is father of the Alma Club and claims rarentarve to the Ithaca. Club. The Ja*ter ‘s somewhat in doubt, however. The club itself is said not to know its own father. ? Crippled Children Seals With every city, county and community part cipating ectively, the Michigan Society for Crippled Children. Inc., is now conducting ‘ts third annual offering of Crippled Children Easter Seals, an activity in whic’: Rotary is interested. Continuing through Easter, this sale of tiny, attractive shares in ~ “Crippled Children. Ltd.,” will efford opportunity to all friends of physicalty handicapped persons to benefit them by distributing and purchasing these attractive sea-s. They cost one penny each, a aollar for each sheet of one hundred, cs as much more as anyone may feel inclined to contribute. Ninety per cent of the proceeds remain in the State, to maintain anc. extend the estab-ished program and support the general activities of the Michigan Society and its; local county and city chapters, while a smail portion, ten percent, helps maintain the broader work of the International Society for Crippled Children, with which the State is affiliated. The campaign is eee headed = by Perry C. Angove, of Detroit, Executive Secretary of the Michigun Society, and aided by President Emmet) Richards, of Alpena, Secretary-Treasurer Paul H. King, of- Detroit, and a Directorate of seventy, representing all sections of the State.. The Executive Committee of the Society, which comprises the Officers. and two-Directors, acts 2 the Advisory Board. �THE RAZZABERRY Vocational Service Problem was overThe Vocational Service problem referred to in the last issue Hee We hope it will be taken up at the next session. looked last week. borne in mind that be must It session. another for problem another is so don’t fail to study anyone may be called on to discuss these problems, tried to be funny member some unless right all work will They them. with them. At t in 1901. w. J. Carlyle started to manufacture office equipmen knew his line thoroughfirst he had a hard time securing business, but he In 1909 and again in 1913, he expanded his ly, and was no quitter. for a million dollars. equipment, and in 1915, he decided to incorporate regularly until January, The business prospered and dividends were paid te factory had Up until that time the output of the new up-to-da 1929. been in demand. the members At the January meeting of the board, W. J. warned He told them that he that there was but $50,000 surplus in the treasury. as there was a business believed there should be at least $250,000 surplus, The board did not take so pessimistic an attitude; reaction imminent. on record as favoring an when W. J. proposed the board of directors go surplus, the motion was assessment on stock to provide the necessary 33 per cent of the stock. rejected, in spite of the fact that W. J. owned not think it necessary to The members of the board said that they did in order to provide a larger ask the stockholders to make a contribution surplus. with the same Ww. J. made the same plea at two subsequent meetings convinced that a A month before the collapse in 1929, W. J. was result. He was also convinced that, because of its depression was in the offing. would not be able to weather a prolonged company his small, being reserve the directors and offered them his stock to wenti He . inactivity of period They accevted, and paid him $495,000 time. the at 0. value—15 at market organizotion altogether. the from withdrew J. W. stock, for his J’s old company finally When W The crash came within a month. per share. $22.50 only receive1 ers stockhold the liquidated, IN SELLING OUT AS HE W. J. ACT’ ETHICALLY QUERY—DID ING, EVEN THOUGH DID, KNOWING THAT A PANIC WAS IMPEND ADEQUATE HIS PLEAS FOR DENIED HAD THE STOCKHOLDERS SURPLUS? The Worth While In Rotary the new clubs in The following letter from the Secretary of one of other clubs. Rotary shows the effect of lJetters-of greetings from fellowship from I am just beginning to see the worth while in Rotary the U. S. A., Canada the many letters that are drifting in from all parts of center Just why this little burg should suddenly become the and England. is made plain, only of world-wide interest for all this episto’ary effort store for us if we in the light of what our sponsors promised would be in took on Rotary. to glad The truth now becomes apparent, and hope has changed projected in this fruition for us, aS a maze of mythical bridges has been most intimate mesdirection from distant points over which travel the Of course, this kind of sages from people who have been total strangers. It is a most fascinating experience, and felicitation is not hard to take. each day brings some new surprise. ee from the Oxidental Hotel at Muskegon was the recent object of a visit howThe blaze was confined to the old portion of the hotel. fire king. the District ever, and wi'l not affect the ability of the city to entertain Conference of Rotary next May. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Razzberry Subject The topic of the resource Rotary Club (Coldwater, Mich.) Coldwater Noon Club (Coldwater, Mich.) Description An account of the resource The Razzberry was a bi-monthly newsletter, issued by the Coldwater Rotary Club Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rotary Club (Coldwater, Mich.) 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