Soundings (8/14/12)
Posted by G. Stowe Talbot
on Aug 14, 2012
Flag Salute and Invocation by Dean Fulton
Visiting Rotarians: Ray George and Norman Vigre (both from Whatcom North)
Guests: None
Announcements
Tony Freeland looking for volunteers for flag salute and invocation duty;
thank you for doing the Soundings while I was gone, Tony!
Bob Moles interesting in receiving proposals/ideas for speakers for the coming year;
Club Assembly next week; a change for all club members to choose on which committee they will serve;
District Governor will be coming to our club in a little over a month;
Eddie's annual Crab Feed will take place Thursday evening Aug 23 from 5-8pm at his Lake Whatcom house (2351 Northshore Drive). Bring the kids, bring your swimsuit! Please Email him (doceddie@comcast.net) if you can come and aren't already signed up. He also needs a couple volunteers for set and clean up, very easy job.
Membership committee and board have approved two new member applications:
Visiting Rotarians: Ray George and Norman Vigre (both from Whatcom North)
Guests: None
Announcements
Tony Freeland looking for volunteers for flag salute and invocation duty;
thank you for doing the Soundings while I was gone, Tony!
Bob Moles interesting in receiving proposals/ideas for speakers for the coming year;
Club Assembly next week; a change for all club members to choose on which committee they will serve;
District Governor will be coming to our club in a little over a month;
Eddie's annual Crab Feed will take place Thursday evening Aug 23 from 5-8pm at his Lake Whatcom house (2351 Northshore Drive). Bring the kids, bring your swimsuit! Please Email him (doceddie@comcast.net) if you can come and aren't already signed up. He also needs a couple volunteers for set and clean up, very easy job.
Membership committee and board have approved two new member applications:
- Paul Twedt - Sponsored by Lesa Boxx with additional references by Harold Scott, Karen Haggen and Lance Calloway. Paul is the Managing Director of Northwestern Mutual in downtown Bellingham. He is a member of the Bellingham Christian Scholl Board, the NAIFA Northwest Executive Board (an industry related trade group), and is active in the Chamber of Commerce. Paul is an alum of WSU and holds various professional certifications. Interests include golf, soccer and snowboarding. Paul resides in Bellingham with his wife Kym. Classification would be Life Insurance.
- W.M. (Skip) Sailors - Sponsored by Bob Moles. Skip previously served in the Bellingham Rotary Club for 20 years (1980-1999). He now has time to return to active membership status and wishes to provide his community service in the Bellingham Bay Club. Skip is a Professor Emeritus at WWU and is a CPA. Interests include fishing, stock market investing and target shooting. Skip and his wife Joan reside in south Bellingham. Classification would be Senior Active.
Bucks in the Bay
Sergeant at Arms
Fines for Stan Dyer, Frank Chmelick walking in late, Lisa Schork and Doug Wight cellphones; plus trivia on Olympics and NW WA Fair.
New Member Talks
Stowe Talbot
- Orphalee likes our District Governor, and like Canadian shoppers!
- Bob Moles fishing trip to Alaska;
- Steve Spitzer family visits, son successfully climbing mountains in Europe/Africa as a guise, wife had a 4-generation family reunion;
- Curtis Dye missed meetings, 25th anniversary;
- Steve Brummel birth of son Carter!
- John Templeton christening of grandson in Seattle, relative came from South Africa;
- Stowe was in Russia, got married again to the same gal;
- John Sleeth thanks for all the support while he was in hospital, he has also managed to cure his tremors!
- Glen Groenig trip to Sitka with wife, went fishing and saw lot of old friends;
- Bill Gorman excited about release of his wife's second book!
- Norman Vigre invites us to participate in Whatcom North's Rubber Ducky Derby fundraiser in Ferndale (?) next weekend the 25th;
- Christine Palmerton enjoyed an outdoor play in the county last weekend (Tonja played a role), also went to great Bells game;
- Eddie did lots of traveling, to BC and Eastern WA, Sun Mountain Lodge, boating in SJ Islands, and Denise & Rick Bosman put on an amazing wedding for their daughter in the Bosman barn!
- Stan Dyer 27 years ago today got married on the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA!
Sergeant at Arms
Fines for Stan Dyer, Frank Chmelick walking in late, Lisa Schork and Doug Wight cellphones; plus trivia on Olympics and NW WA Fair.
New Member Talks
- Marla Bourm: Marla thanks to fellow book club member Donna for introducing her to Rotary. Marla was born in Edmonton, Alberta, moved to Bellingham and worked at Whatcom County courthouse, then decided to get an accounting education so she attended WCC and then WWU to receive her degree in accounting. Her first job was for Moss Adams, and then after a few years she opened her own practice. She has a home office on Lake Whatcom, with five other employees. Thanks Orphalee, Dennis and Harte for being mentors and always helping her when she needs it.
- Dale Collins was also born in Canada (Manitoba), and worked in life insurance for over 47 years. Then he moved to Abbotsford BC, where he first joined Rotary. He and his wife have 4 boys and 7 grandkids - the kids live in Bellingham, Abbotsford and Iowa. After a few years of semi-retirement, he and wife now manage the "pink palace" retirement center (Parkway Chateau).
- Dean Fulton was born in CA but grew up in Lakewood, WA, attending Lakewood HS and then UW. He is a proud Husky. Graduated in '91 then went to work for Boy Scouts of America in Aberdeedn, WA, then BSA of Olympia as fundraiser. After some other stints in South Puget Sound area, last year he was hired on as the Executive Director of the Foundation at Bellingham Technical College. Bellingham is the kind of town he had always wanted to move to. He and wife have two boys, aged nine and two. This will be his 5th Rotary club, and he is a third generation Rotarian!
Stowe Talbot