Checking things out in Charlotte Rotary's "soup kitchen" --- John Lassiter (Carolina Legal Staffing and new Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board member) and John Belk (aka: "Hizzoner".)  As part of our commitment to help Crisis Assistance, our club passed up our regular buffet feast in lieu of soup and rolls. The unspent dollars all went to the Crisis Assistance Ministries.   The soup, by the way, was extra-delicious because we all knew that others were benefitting from our enforced diet.

John Belk and Eckart Goette (Goette Interconsult, Inc.) check out the "broth in the troth" at Four Points Sheraton.

The Big Dipper, himself ... Dr. Eric Smith, our esteemed Superintendent of Schools!

Tony Marciano (Charlotte Rescue Mission), Chase Saunders (Dozire, Miller, Ppollard & Murphy) and Rusty Brink (Presyterian Hospital Foundation) try to discern if the soup needs "Just a little bit more salt...")

Pam Syfert (City Manager/City of Charlotte) and Bronnie McNabb (United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina) chuckle over the "Soup-er Bowl!"

Dave Anderson (Anderson Capital Consulting) and Jim Kiser (Bank of America) seem deep in thought as they ponder the dollars saved by serving soup and then invested in a money market account.  Chicken soup, my foot!

Randall Groves (Odom & Groves, P.C.), Doug Booth (retired CEO of Duke Power) and Roy Dellinger (Dellinger & Deese, L.L.P.) dip into the soup-y stuff.

David Anderson, Jerry Orr (Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and sporting some new "growth") and Patricia Baldwin (Hornets Nest Girl Scout Council) chuckle over the entree.

Rick Wrenn, Tony Zeiss (Prez/Central Piedmont Community College) and Ronnie Pruett (Ronnie A. Pruett, Attorney At Law; and immediate past-president of Charlotte Rotary) enjoy a little "Mmmm-Mmmm-Good" Vegetable Soup with a hot roll (no butter.)

Al Allison (Allison Fence Co.) and Jay Myers (James M. Myers & Co., Inc.) compare the soup to Grandma's ...

John Stedman (The Scottish Bank) and John Kirkland (Urology Specialists of the Carolinas) consider the joys of eating soup at the Sheraton.

Ken Harris (Harris Plans), Charlene Kammerer (Bishop/Western NC Confrence United Methodist Church) and Alan Barnhardt (The Raptor Center) talk about everything from "soup-to-nuts!"

Luther Fincher (City of Charlotte/Fire Chief) and Joe Becker (American Red Cross EO) scrounge through the lettuce leaves in search of some REAL food.

Michael Elder (Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont) joins Louis Zbinden (Dilworth Surgical Group) and Bob Boulware (Colonial Yarn Products, Inc.) in a bowl of delicious, hot soup --- good for the soul.

Jack Smylie (Smylie Educational Enterprises) and his guest stare balefully at the soup tureen while smells of steak and baked potatoes waft in from the adjoining ballrooms.

Tom O'Brien (Providence Real Estate Advisors, LLC), Mike Wilkinson and John Morley (Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office) think longingly of our regular buffet but realize that this fare is for the good of others.

Gene Williams tells Price Gwynn that this meal is almost as good as the food at Knight Publishing's commissary.

Jay Myers, Bill Furr (Cumulous Fibres, Inc.) and Bill Kinney (United Air Filter) check out the meager menu (but were glad to know that Crisis Assistance was benefitting from our spartan fare.)

Dave Miller thanks Charlotte Rotary members for donating three truckloads of warm coats, blankets and sheets during the course of five November Tuesdays.  We were glad to help and we're proud to know that a majority of our membership pitched in.

Stuart Dickson (Ruddick Corp.), Dick Bridgen (Ruddick Corp.), John Belk and Winn Maddrey listen attentively as Jeff Searcy (Otis Elevator Co.) introduces our guests and visiting Rotarians.

Charlotte Rotary President Worth Williamson, Stuart Dickson and Dick Bridgen have a good laugh over Alan Barnhardt's new Rotary Classification which was applied for as "Raptor Rehabilitation" but officially renamed "Bird Repair."  "Soup-er" clever ...

Bill Kinney and Stuart Dickson - grins as wide as the Campbell Kids'!

Stuart Dickson, Harry Daugherty  and Byron Bullard --- Class will "out" every time!!!

Ken Harris, Byron Bullard and John Belk comprise a terrific triumverate.

Ralston Pound, Dwight Thomas and Charlie Briley combine to represent 120 years of Service Above Self for Rotary.

Lamar Thomas (T & L Equipment Sales Co.), Geoge Thompson (Providence United Methodist Church) and Mary Mack (First Union) make plans to sneak into the hotel kitchen and get some REAL food!!!

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