Los Banos Rotary Club History
Speaker Warns Of Complacency

Golden Driggs, popular Fresno district insurance manager, told Rotarians here Tuesday that we lack a full appreciation of the benefits and privileges of the country in which we live. "All of us," he said, "are entirely too complacent with our good fortune and easy way of life. We have become soft, we lack a material patriotism for our country and its future. It's high time we begin to realize and appreciate that we have—which is not duplicated anywhere else in the world."

In the same vein, Driggs criticized a growing tendency of the average American to take short cuts and the easy way rather than be guided by a code of what is morally and patriotically right and proper.

Mixing humor with his words of warning and admonition, Driggs entered his listeners with numerous stories, quotes and bits of poetic dissertation, all nailed down with a final challenge: that the two greatest words in the English language are "I can"

Driggs utilized his local visit to present Fred Rosa, local insurance agent and member of the Rotary Club, a plaque heralding Rosa's sales achievement for the past year, in which Rosa placed third among all of the company's 7,000 sales agents.

Charles W. Bates, presiding at his first meeting as Rotary President, welcomed Dean Bubar, as a new member of the Los Banos division of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., succeeding M. D. Wheat, who retired the first of the month.

President Bates also expressed the club's appreciation and thanks to Boy Scout Master William Hurley for his leadership and interest with the boys of Scout Troop 85, which achieved high honor and distinction at the Scout summer camp at Pinecrest. The troop is sponsored locally by Rotary.

July 11, 1958

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