Soundings (5/7/13)

Posted by G. Stowe Talbot 
 
 

Flag Salute & Invocation by Sue Sharpe 

Visiting Rotarians: None 

 Guests: Jill Reid (Boys&Girls Club) 

 Announcements: 

  • Bill Geyer says we need new member applications; get to work! 
  • Reema Patel and Ruth Tag were two of our five reps that attended RYLA this past weekend; they were two of over 50 participants. There were both high schoolers and college kids (ages 18-23). They really enjoyed the experience, they thanked us for our financial support. 
  • Board meeting this Thursday, NEW TIME at 5:00pm at Barkley Company (Talbot) office, 2200 Rimland Drive on second floor, everyone welcome, counts as a make-up. 
  • Date for our fellowship golf to be determined. 

Bucks in the Bay 

  • Donna Edquist $50 for Foundation, 31st wedding anniversary, and also shout out to Steve Brummel who is an amazing event planner for Brewers by the Bay, it will take place last Sunday in July, please volunteer! 
  • Glen Groenig was in Hawaii, told nice anecdote about having a good attitude; 
  • John Sleeth had a great Saturday afternoon up at RYLA camp; 
  • Gordon Plume says he is a lucky guy, drove down to Portland, and then Napa to deliver some materials, saw daughter there; 
  • Christine encourage a Rotary team for the Human Race (http://www.humanracewvc.org) which will take place June 1st, 10am Zuanich Boat House to raise money for Whatcom Volunteer Center (Christine, count Stowe in on team); 
  • Dick Stark was in Palm Springs, and a plug for next week's speaker Bob Robertson, the voice of the Cougars; 
  • Jill Reid said $180K was raised at B&G Club auction last week, she thanked all attendees at the auction! 
  • Bill Geyer needs more ideas for programs, 22 year anniversary in business, skinny-dippers at Boulevard Park;
  • Harold Scott giving away Flying Karamazov Brothers MBT tickets 5th row - see him if interested; 
  • Lisa Schork plug for MBT, Visiting Nurse Homecare luncheon for employees; 
  • Eddie bucks for Foundation with updates: New office in Mount Vernon, Dr. Way Yin is treating his wife for back problems, also opened new clinic for treating peripheral neuropathy (can't feel feet or hands - or pain - usually from diabetes); 
  • Dennis Archer bucks to Foundation in memory his mother who passed recently (Mary Louise Archer); 
  • Tim Krell w/ ambivalent hockey bucks. Go Canucks! 
  •  John Templeton will have 100 handmade earrings ready for the Mothers Day baskets!
 

Sergeant at Arms by Glendine Barley
Fines for Frank C (in absentia), no Rotary pins, everyone who enjoyed the sunshine, tables with only men, May 7th events: 1) National Teachers' Day
2) Germans surrendered to allies.  Who is Rotary president and what is motto?

Program
Steve Brummel introduced WWU Assistant Professor Adriana Manago. She is a cultural development psychologist. Her talk was entitled "Social media and its impact on social development: What is internet doing to teens, and what are teens doing to the internet?"
Old Media: Big organizations and companies decided what are tastes are and what we want…
New Media: Puts more power into hands of individuals, creating their own products, tailoring their own media environments, gossip as entertainment.
Self-expression more important to the new generation. 95% adolescents/teens are online! 2-5 hours /day. Both private (chat) and public (posting). Peer communications are shifting:
1) face to face becoming more technology mediated;
2) limited social circles to expansive circles;
Customized sociality: accessibility, asynchronicity (time lag), anonymity.
Opportunities (social support, intimacy development, bridging social capital)
Risks (risk taking / instant gratification, popularity and image, cyberbullying)
Cyberbullying (15-40% report abuse) is defined as "systematic harm to your reputation".

Raffle won by Harte!

Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot