President John Legris led the meeting with the prayer & pledges. President Legris welcomed visiting Rotarian, District 5840 Assistant Governor Tom Hutton, visitor Kenneth Black and our guest speaker, Air Traffic Controller Ken Monteiro to "The Friendliest Club is District 5840!"
Happy Birthday!
President John recognized Barry Abrams' birthday this month.
Officer Nominations
President John announced that we will be closing nominations for officers for 2021-2022 year by the end of the club meeting today. We want to be ready for voting at our next meeting, Jan 6.
Here are the nominations so far:
Secretary Mary Denton
Treasurer Fred Timmons
President Elect Destiny Mujica
Vice President Kenneth Ruiz
Member at Large Derek Matthys
President Elect for 2021-2022 is Rick Rhodes
National Days
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
National Barney-Barbie backlash day
This Day in History
1773 Boston Tea Party
1893 Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 - "New World Symphony" premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York
Fred’s Funnies
Sweet grandmother called St Joseph’s hospital. “Can someone please tell me how a patient is doing?”
Nurse: "What is the patient's name?" Grandmother: "Norma Danley room 302"
Nurse: "Norma is doing well, blood pressure is doing fine. Scheduled to be released tomorrow."
Grandmother: "Thank you for the good news."
Nurse: "Are you her daughter?"
Grandmother: "No, I’m Norma Danley and nobody tells me anything!"
Club Luncheon and Business Program
Bil Trodlier introduced our guest speaker, Ken Monteiro who is Air Traffic Controller with Randolph AFB.Ken's education is in Aerospace Engineering and has served in the United States Air Force as an air traffic controller. Thank you for your service! His interests include wood working and a fascination with photography. His considers one of his unique experiences include while working at Edwards AFB he had the opportunity to work with every plane imaginable. Here are some of the slide highlights that he shared with the club:
Q&A
Bil Trodlier: have you ever see anything flying in the air not identified as aircraft. Yes, one instance was he observed an unexplained flash of light.
Bruce Richter: Have you changed your flights at all during the coronavirus pandemic? No, it’s been as usual.
President John: How long as the Texan been used as a trainer? A long time, not sure how long
Thank you Ken for speaking to our club today! A book in your honor will be donated to the Locke Hill Elementary School Library. We invite to visit with us when we begin meeting again in person at the Outback Steakhouse.