In July 1967 President Karl Kettelhut stated that the past Rotary year had been a rewarding experience and thanked everyone for making his term as president so enjoyable. He expressed his special thanks to his fellow officers, directors and the music committee with Hugh Steele as chairman and Kepler at the piano. Karl Kettelhut presented the gavel to incoming president N. Kent Ellis who responded by thanking him for his fine year and commending him on his near perfect attendance as the presiding president. The talk by R. D. Steuner, Indianapolis, regional engineer for the Indiana Gas and Water Co., was on the method of gas storage in the Lafayette area.
Gas is purchased from the Texas-Oklahoma pipeline, south of Lafayette, and stored in storage wells.
One storage area is near West Point. There are some 145,000 gas customers in Indiana with 15 per cent living in the Lafayette area. Eighty per cent of the Lafayette customers use gas for heating and the storage areas are needed for the peak use of gas in the winter months. Don Bain, son of Rotarian Andy Bain, made a very interesting report to the club about his experience at Boys' State and expressed his appreciation for Lafayette Rotary's sponsorship. He said the boys learned a great deal about government and politics.