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Speakers
Oct 07, 2016
Meet the Candidates
Oct 14, 2016
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles
Oct 21, 2016
District Foundation Dinner--USS Iowa 10/22/2016
Oct 28, 2016
RI Foundation
Nov 04, 2016
Nov 11, 2016
Board Meeting 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Nov 18, 2016
Dist. Governor's Meeting (at Norris Pavilion)
Nov 25, 2016
Thanksgiving Weekend
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Geoffrey Nadler
September 1
 
Keith Deisenroth
September 5
 
Henry Lee
September 14
 
Christine Barnicki
September 24
 
Spouse Birthdays
Suzi Gulcher
September 16
 
Kurth DeMoss
September 20
 
Join Date
Kjell Hellberg
September 1, 1975
41 years
 
Nehzat Nikakhtar
September 1, 2010
6 years
 
Phyllis D Pelezzare
September 30, 2006
10 years
 
Bulletin Editor
James Morgan
Executives & Directors
President
 
President Elect
 
Past President
 
Treasurer
 
Secretary
 
Director of Fun
 
Program Chair
 
District Liason
 
Community Service
 
Vocational Service
 
Educator of the Year
 
International Chair
 
Youth Chair
 
RI Foundation Chair
 
Membership Chair
 
Public Relations Chair
 
La Rotacion Editor
 
Sergeant at Arms
 
Sergeant at Arms
 
Webmaster
 
Stories
The Walk With Sally
President Les Fishman opened the meeting at 12:15pm, followed by a stirring invocation by Jim Hartman.
Kjell Hellberg led the patriotic song.
President Les opened up the microphone for announcements.
Paul Rubincam spoke on the Crenshaw clean-up project.
Eileen Hupp spoke on the Street Fair June 11 & 12, and encouraged all to come.
Greg Sparkman spoke on the Foundation Dinner.
Kjell Hellberg spoke on the District breakfast.
Charlie Elias spoke on the upcoming election.
Virginia Butler spoke on the upcoming election.
Marc Mazorow took a poll on the interest of having a talent show.
 
Ron Ellis led the guest introduction. Katie Kang, Nancy Jensen, Don Jensen, Jennifer Sullivan of the YMCA,  Michelle McRae, and Deputy Bouse were introduced.
Virginia Butler shared that no welcome song would be sung to time limitations.
 
Peter McCormack spoke for the induction of Matt Kang, our newest member, and Julia Parton followed up with a formal Rotary informational piece.
 
Michelle McRae spoke on The Walk With Sally project.
 
Captain Dan Beringer of the LA County Sheriff, Lomita station, gave the program. Captain Beringer spoke on the local crime statistics, and proactive things residents could do to prevent theft, some of them as easy as locking your car door and not leaving anything visible on the seats.
 
Raffle winners: Guests Michelle McRae and Katie Kang were our two raffle winners.
 
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Rotary Salsa Dancing in Torrance
 
Anyone interested should contact Jonathan Udewitz at laprobate@gmail.com  this event will be sold out.
Update: former speaker on CNN
Phil Pressel who was a speaker at our club earlier this year speaking on the spy satellite says I just spoke to CNN and was told that the 8 part CNN series on spying called “Declassified” will begin Sunday, June 19 at 10 PM ET. On the west coast it will be at 7 PM and at 10 PM.  Most of the programs are about actual spies.  The program about the Hexagon Spy Satellite is scheduled to be the last of the 8 programs and will be on Sunday, September 4.  That is subject to change.  There will be breaks in the series due to the political conventions this summer.  There will be promos about the series on CNN.  I was privileged to be interviewed for the segment about the Hexagon Spy Satellite, along with Jim Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Henry Plaster, the CIA program manager, several Air Force personnel and one of the Trieste undersea pilots. 
 
For those of us who worked on Hexagon we know how important the intelligence it provided was in keeping the peace during the cold war.
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