President CHUCK rang the bell to open our meeting, and Honorary Member KANDIE VACTOR gave the inspiration highlighting the warm and exciting experiences she’s had at Rotary Clubs around the world and ending with all members reciting the Four Way Test.
President CHUCK then led us in remembering beloved member TOM ANDREWS who passed away on Saturday 3/2. Tom joined in 2003, supported Rotary Traveling Fellowships and had a big part in reviving the Hiking Fellowship. There will be a memorial service this Saturday for TOM.
New member BOB HOPKINS led us in the Pledge and then joined Past President / District Governor elect ELLIE PATTERSON in the song “America the Beautiful”. New member MARCY EULER introduced our guests and visiting Rotarians (including one from England!) We had two Birthday Rotarians:
BOB HOPKINS is retired and now specializes in mobile phone sales (among other pursuits) and was at one time a college football referee.
GARY FRANKS plans to celebrate his birthday with a 100-mile hike through the Scottish Highlands, and he thinks the reason Rotary celebrates birthdays is a devotion to making life experiences better. GARY will be sponsoring ELLIE PATTERSON in the ride to end Polio in honor of his birthday.
STEVE PICKERING introduced our newest member, RON BUSH. RON is an expert on information security and a past Rotarian who loves the passion our club brings to providing help throughout the world. Sergeant at Arms BOBBY LARSON took a moment to recognize JOHN LEWIS for being a finalist for the Executive Excellence Award this year, and then BOBBY thanked everyone who donated items to the raffle. Finally,
we had the following announcements:
we had the following announcements:President CHUCK took a moment to explain the five areas we are exploring to gather new members from (minorities, select corporations, newly retired persons, women, and those under age forty.)
Past President DON ROLLINGS presented a Blue Badge to BOB HOPKINS, noting that BOB is among other talents, a nuclear engineer. Congrats BOB!DARRELL STEWART reminded us of the upcoming Replacement Mixer on 3/27 and Home Hospitality during the week of 4/14, where we are looking for hosts.
MIKE ORCUTT announced that we collected 17 pints of blood during the Blood Drive, helping 51 people.
JIM WOOD introduced scholarship recipient Wesley Mulleneaux who is a physiology major and pre-dental student.
Car Show Chair JASON GRABOSCH announced the first Car Show Committee meeting on 3/14 at Truly Nolen, as well as a Happy Jackson for his son who signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Central Arizona Community College.
STU GOLDMAN announced that there would be a celebration of the life of past member YVONNE ERVIN at the Scottish Rite Temple on Scott Avenue this coming Saturday.
BOB WEBB announced the first meeting of the Wine Fellowship at Jonathan’s Cork on 3/21 at 5:30 PM.
DIANA CANNON’S Happy Jackson was to invite everyone to the Humane Society’s Saturday fundraiser celebrating the music of the Rolling Stones at Kino Sports Park this Saturday at noon (bring your well-behaved pets!)
Our very own celebrated author and retired prosecutor JERRY HARRIS introduced our speaker Pima County Attorney Jonathan Mosher. Mr. Mosher is originally from Iowa, received an English degree from Colgate, and has won Prosecutor of the Year in Arizona. In addition, he has completed in eight Iron Man triathlons and plans to run 50 miles on his upcoming birthday. Mr. Mosher spoke about the prosecution of the murderer of Kay Read. Ms. Read had the misfortune to open her door to a stranger who kidnapped and killed her after stealing her van. Although Ms. Read’s body was never found, Mr. Mosher showed how the prosecution was able to use cutting edge techniques to analyze and present the evidence, including work provided by a video forensic lab operated by Target. Mr. Mosher signed a book for our lending library ”Ricky, The Rock that Couldn’t Roll”.
President CHUCK closed our meeting with a quote from Robert Kennedy: “Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.”
Have a great Rotary week!
