By David Rogers. November 2, 2011. BLOWING ROCK -- Retired attorney and longtime Rotary member Bill Bauknight and his wife, Margaret, were on hand Monday as members of The Rotary Club of Blowing Rock said good bye and extended their warm wishes.  The Bauknights are moving to a retirement community in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In saying farewell, Club President Vernon Dunn presented the Bauknights with a club banner and a special framed, commemorative certificate of appreciation for Bill's years of service to the club.  In addition to his sharp wit and wry sense of humor, Bauknight will be remembered for his supervision of the club's extensive updating, revisions, and adoption of its constitution and by-laws, as well as his participation in various events, such as representing Blowing Rock Rotary on its Adult Spelling Bee teams, volunteering at the Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show, the Jerry Burns Memorial Charity Golf Tournament, and the Treasure Hunt, among many others.

Bauknight joined Blowing Rock Rotary on April 23, 2001.

In other club business, several members of the club spoke about their alma maters' respective chances in the upcoming NCAA college basketball season, including Appalachian State University (Charles Hardin), the University of Tennessee (J.B. Lawrence), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Adam Hill), Wake Forest University (Kitty Lumpkin), Jim Clabough (North Carolina State), Bill Leahey (Syracuse University) and Frank Fary (Duke University).  David Rogers served as moderator, and provided a summary of other teams' prospects.  It was a lively session, as the presenters spoke passionately -- and sometimes cynically -- about their respective teams' chances for competing into "March Madness".

Special guests included Richard Howe, selling coffee on behalf of the Boone Noon Rotary Club, and Nick Friedman, taking orders for holiday citrus boxes for Boone Sunrise Rotary.

Mike Capristo, Vocational Service Chair, gave a report on the highly successful "Career Day" on October 25, which saw the participation of more than 375 eighth-graders from all schools in Watauga County.

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