Our Parent is 100!

 
On January 10 the President of R.I., John Germ, was the special guest speaker at Everett's noon luncheon.  The meeting location was at the Holiday Inn in Everett.  Six of our members, including President Erik Granroth attended the luncheon.
            R.I. President John Germ with President Erik Granroth
 
President John F. Germ stopped of at the Everett Club's meeting on his way from attending the District 5050 million dollar dinner in Vancouver on his way to Seattle.  He announced that over $3.3 million was raised by District 5050 for the Rotary Foundation.  He also spoke about how Rotary took on the task in 1985 of eradicating polio world wide and the billions of dollars raised to do the job that was originally thought to be in the millions.
 
President Germ is a member of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the past chair of the International PolioPlus Committee.  it is the first time that a sitting Rotary International President has attended a meeting of any of the clubs in Snohomish County.  Of course, quite often the R.I. President is not from the United States.
 
                                John Germ Addresses the Rotary Club of Everett and Guests 
 
Everett has cancelled the gala event originally scheduled for March 1 given the response to the last minute availability of President John Germ at the recent event.
 
The Rotary Club of Everett in 1970 decided that the Marysville Arlington area needed its own Rotary Club.  Since Marysville had a club from 1919 to 1934, our club started out as the Marysville-North County Rotary Club.  The first meeting was held at a restaurant at Island Crossing on April 1970.  The clubs charter night was June 20, 1970.  Our club's history can be found here ata site page on our website.