Soundings (5/20/14)

Posted by G. Stowe Talbot 
on May 20, 2014
 
Flag Salute & Invocation by Jim Haupt
 
Visiting Rotarians:  Fred Sexton, Steve White
 
Guests:   None
 
Announcements
  • Steve Kimberly: tomorrow is the Ciao Thyme dinner 6pm raise money for our International Committee, 42 people coming.
  • Patti Imhof’s Rotario dinner is this Thursday night 6-9pm!
  • Dannon Traxler Choices program.
  • Terry Brown heading up Brewers with Steve Brummel assisting.  Date is July 27th!  Tickets available by June 10th!
  • Last week’s BTC visit was a success, thanks to Tresha and Bill Geyer!
  • Scholarship recipients 
 
 
Bucks in the Bay
  • Brad Cornwell, younger daughter award for one of her AP classes, amazed at talent level of our kids;
  • Frank Zurline recent trip to Italy stayed at a villa (in Chianti) with some other Rotarians;
  • Glen Groenig went to his grandson’s (?) DECA gathering in Seattle;
  • Donna Edquist went to Indian Wells, CA to see pro tennis tourney, also went to Chianti with Frank (then to Venice and Florence), next week she’ll be white water rafting in Colorado!
  • Mimi Ferlin missed meetings, ALSO was in Chianti with Frank, had lots of fun, bought some wine, also back from UW sorority reunion! also a reminder that the SJ hospital gala on June 7th invite everyone to attend!  Mimi will be the MC;
  • Bob Becker four months in CA enjoyed the sunshine;
  • Bill Gorman said May is the month of birthdays and anniversaries, he turned 60, son turned 23, feels blessed;
  • Steve Kimberly had great time at the MBT gala last week!
  • Skip Sailors missed meetings while in freeway-intensive Dallas, TX;
  • Dannon Traxler feels blessed with kids, happy about her construction loan working out!
Sergeant at Arms by Frank Chmelik
Fines for almost everyone.
 
Club Assembly
Bob Moles said one of the hallmarks of his upcoming presidency will be his emphasis that our club’s work get done at the committee level (as opposed to the directors or the board).  So, he invited everyone to join at least one, maybe two committees, and commit to work on the committee level.  
 
Our club has eight committees:
  1. community projects
  2. membership
  3. public relations
  4. international projects
  5. vocational services
  6. youth services
  7. fellowship
  8. charitable giving
Each committee chair was located at one of the tables.  The membership was asked to sit at each of four committees (for 5 minutes each) to hear about its work, in order to choose which committee(s) to serve on.  
 
Respectfully submitted, 
Stowe Talbot