An outstanding Charlotte Rotary meeting and an equally outstanding head table roster:  Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph, Rotary guru Henry Bostic (Sheriff's Office) and Bob Barber (Carolina HealthCare System.)

Dr. Harry  Daugherty made our visiting Rotarians and guests intros interesting and lots of fun!

Our dry-humored, incomparable wordsmith Leland Park (Davidson College Library) delivers another in his series of Health & Happiness reports.  Imagine our surprise when he confided that Sally Lowrance (aka: Mrs. Fred) had called him to share an embarrassing tidbit about our ex-pres.    Kitty Stutts (Commercial Design) - in the background - is contemplating ways in which her company could re-design and re-decorate our meeting area.

Our newest Charlotte Rotary member - Warren Ludlam (Cruise Holidays South) - receives his reading materials for the month from our gregarious President Ronnie Pruett, while Jerry Blanchard (Bullard & Blanchard,) who introduced Warren to our membership, looks on and Dr. Bill Lind (who offered our invocation) wonders if a new toothbrush shouldn't be included with our new member package.

President Ronnie and Visiting Rotarian Jerry Vance (Columbus, Ohio) exhange Rotary flags and smiles.

All the way from Salem, Oregon came Paul, another Visiting Rotarian, who graced us with stories about charity projects that the E. Salem Rotary hosts.

What a prestigious triumvirate!!!  President Ronnie, Powell Majors and Bill Loftin, Sr.   Class with a capital "C."

Three of our most caring and involved members:  Al Allison (Allison Fence Co.,)  Byron Bullard and Tom Robertson.

Ulrich "Uli" Froehlich, (Ph.D., Dean, Academy of German-American Business Studies, Pfeiffer University at Charlotte) is shown here recruiting potential "frosh" students for Pfeiffer:  Sheriff Jim Pendergraph and Byron Bullard. 

Again, Dean Froehlich has found a potential top student for Pfeiffer - Don Steger (aka:  The man with the world's greatest smile!)

Dr. Anthony "Tony" Zeiss (President of Central Piedmont Community College) and Dean Froehlich look like they've just decided to raise tuition fees.

Dean Froehlich and Cynthia Johnston (CPCC) represent two of Charlotte's finest institutions - Pfeiffer University and Central Piedmont Community College.

A "Party of Five" and members of "The Clean Plate Club":
Phil Volponi (Junior Achievement of Charlotte), Charles Briley,
Jim Appleby (Lee Hecht Harrison), E. K. Fretwell, Jr. (University of
North Carolina at Charlotte) and Henry Bostic (Mecklenburg
County Sheriff's Office).  A collection of our very finest ...