Rotary Club Meetings

The Rotary Club of Copan changed their meeting from Wednesday night to Thursday night because the 7750 District Governor was holed up in Miami. They celebrated Al Steele and all that he had done for water projects around Copan. They gave the District Governor (me) a key to the City and an incredible ceramic banner. I gave them the pitiful banner from the Rotary Club of Greenville. I was being honored for projects that the other people in the room had done. It was a great meeting, but I felt unworthy of the recognition. The picture shows the Vice-Mayor presenting the key.

On Friday night, we went to the Rotary Club of Marcala. The President is Dr. Sheryl Gayttan, the town's only Pediatrician. She has been President five of the last nine years. We met in a restaurant/bar with one long table for the Rotarians. There were other people present.

At one end of the room was the Chicago Cubs/St. Louis Cardinals game on a flat screen TV. Behind the bar was an ESPN boxing match in high definition on a flat screen TV. (Honduras has the most amazing wireless network that I have seen. There was a wireless signal in the remotest areas we visited. I cannot say that about South Carolina.) In the center of the room was a large screen BeeGees concert.

The President of the club convened the meeting 15 minutes late and made a short speech. We exchanged banners and then ordered dinner. The picture shows Dr. Gayttan presenting a banner to Fort Mill's Don Hyatt. Dinner came almost an hour later.

Marcala is not a wealthy town and had plenty of local projects to propose to Al Steele. Yet, they ignored local projects and selected instead rural areas outside the City that had no water at all. It is a great tribute to Presidentl Gayttan and her club.

Service Above Self still exists in the poorest areas of the planet.