Newsletter - Archive  May 3, 2010

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Tennessee's First Breakfast Club - Charles Crowe - President 2009-10 Rotary Club No. 3878 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee - District 6780 VOTED DISTRICT 6780 BEST ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER - 2007-2008
Volume 30 - No. 30	Lydia Birk - Breakfast Bytes Editor	May 3, 2010

Rotary Meeting Notes - April 28, 2010
Contributed by Pat Imperato

Guests and Visitors:

Austin Lance (guest of Roger Olson)

Debbie Ledbetter (Linda Brown)

Ray Hubbs (Courtney Henry in abstentia)

Bo Harris (John Wheeler)

Lisa Lanpheal (Dave McCoy in abstentia)

Claus Daniel (speaker)

New Member Induction:

Austin Lance, sponsored by Roger Olson, was inducted. Austin grew up in OR and has retired from International Paper back to OR. He has 3 children and 3 grandchildren. Austin serves on the Planning Commission and lectures at UT at the Center for Entrepreneurship. He has started a business management consulting firm based on corporate strategies. Welcome Austin!!!

Happy Dollars:

Parker fined Pat Imperato, Louise Mixon and Linda Brown for notoriety in area newspapers. He regaled fellow Rotarians on the Charter Commission's recommendation to create local advisory boards, stating everyone in OR will be serving on some kind of advisory board.

Tom Lakers was happy that cold temperatures didn't freeze his nursery stock; Ben Adams claimed he didn't mind missing 2 weeks of early Rotary meetings while recovering from back surgery.

Pat Parr announced son Robert passed the NY bar.

Gerry Young was happy NOT to be serving on an OR advisory committee

And finally Brenda Thornburgh related a prayer her son gave as family grace that may make her a likely candidate to succeed Parker as Rooster.

Program:

Claus Daniel, energy storage materials scientist from ORNL
Dr. Daniels presented a very interesting program on current research being done at the Labs with other associated DOE institutions on improving battery energy storage. With high tech illustrative graphics, Dr. Daniels provided excellent AV demonstration to explain the current research. The new generation of batteries uses Lithium-ion chemistry to improve the current 31% share of the battery market by increasing the efficiency of energy storage. The research can provide game changing concepts in battery use to supplant the 60% of imported petroleum used in the US for industrial and transportation purposes. Fifty to 60 people work at ORNL on this project which has an annual fund of $15 million.

View from the ORBRC meeting.

From Ray Smith

 

ORBRC's UPCOMING EVENTS
2010 RI Convention - June 20 - 23, Montreal, Canada
May  5	Unknown Rookie Secrets
May 12	Charlie Jernigan, "A Land Bank for Oak Ridge?"
May 19	Jom Comish, "American Museum of Science and Engergy"
May 26	Club Assembly