Elmer Brucks, a metal fabricator, joined Waukesha Rotary in 1960, serving as club president in 1970-1971. He was chairman of the District Youth Exchange, and led a Group Study Exchange team to the Philippines. In 1980-1981 Elmer was our District Governor.

Our next District Governor followed quickly, as Morris Spencer served in 1984-1985. Morris flew B-17s over Europe in World War II and stayed in the Air Force Reserves to become a colonel. His career was with Carroll College as vice-president and provost. He joined Waukesha Rotary in 1958 and was club president in 1977-1978. He promoted Rotary International's Polio Plus campaign to eradicate polio and other diseases from the world, raising more than a hundred thousand dollars from our club over a three-year campaign.

Duane 'Zeke' Warren, club president in 1986-1987, has been our best fund-raiser, selling thousands of dollars in pancake tickets year after year.

During his term as club president in 1990-1991, Marty Frank asked members for "Good News, Bad News" at each meeting, with an opportunity to self-assess a contribution. It's been part of our weekly program ever since.

Waukesha Rotary dramatically increased its community service in the last dozen years. In addition to our international work and our support of the students at White Rock School, a major project was the

In 1926 Andrew J. Frame, the nationally-known president of the Waukesha National Bank from 1880 to 1919, donated to the City of Waukesha the expansive river frontage known as Frame Park. The next year he honored his son Harvey, our fifth club president, by presenting the club with a bronze bell. Seventy-four club presidents in their turn have rung that bell each week to call our meetings to order.

In the mid-1990s our club donated skill, sweat and money to construct a park pavilion on the river in Frame Park. Known as the Rotary Building, it was built under the supervision of Rotarians Pete Van Horn and Al Link.

Our most recent District Governor, in 1993-1994, was Gary Olsen, a faculty leader at Carroll College. Gary

Health Education Center, and the Group Study Exchanges.

When the Avalon Hotel closed in 1968, our club moved its meetings to the basement hall of the Salem E&R Church on the corner of Broadway and East Avenue. Two years later we moved to the new Elks Club building at 2301 Springdale Road.

In 1982 we moved to the Red Carpet Bowling Lanes at 901 Northview Road, returning to the

Elks Club six years later. In 1996 we went to our new home in the pavilion we had built in the park donated by Rotarian A.J. Frame. Even though Andrew was late in joining Waukesha Rotary in 1929 at the age of eighty-five, it's "our" building, in "our" park!

That was the location of our new ambitious project, the summer music festival called Riverfest. Although he had many helpers, Rotarian Tom Constable was the driving force which created Riverfest and sustained it during its first two years of bad weather and substantial financial loss. With Tom's perseverance and support of Waukesha's business community which now sponsors us with more than a hundred thousand dollars annually, Riverfest makes the largest contribution to our Charitable Fund even as it brings to our citizens popular music such as the hit band from the seventies, 'Kansas'.