THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 202011:45 a.m. - Please join with video so we can connect and see each other's smiling faces! (Link to meeting will be provided via email) Program: Whitman College Presenter: Kathleen M. Murray
On July 1, 2015, Kathleen Murray became the 14th president of Whitman College. Previously she was provost and dean of the faculty at Macalester College, where she led the academic program of one of America's finest liberal arts colleges, planned a new $70 million fine arts center and played a key role in the development of Macalester’s strategic plan. Prior to Macalester, she was provost at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama for three years. President Murray received her Bachelor of Music degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1979, then obtained her Master of Music in piano performance from Bowling Green State University in 1982 and her Doctor of Music in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University in 1989. Over the course of nineteen years, she was a member of the piano faculty, dean of the Conservatory of Music and dean of the faculty at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. A frequent performer, she is also a clinician and adjudicator both nationally and internationally, as well as the author of numerous articles on music and music education. She is recorded on the CRI label. | SPEAKERS August 13, 2020 Scott Bieber Walla Walla Police Department August 20, 2020 Chad Hickox Walla Walla Community College August 27, 2020 TBD September 3, 2020 Mark Crider Sheriff's Update September 10, 2020 Bo Gapas Automated External Defibrillators September 17, 2020 John McVay Walla Walla University |
This morning you should have received an email from Candi Walmsley forwarding the new Zoom link for our meetings. Please register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOCqrTguGtEpb5lupHLNJdL98c4Tmf5P After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please delete the old invite from Todd. Once you register, the remaining meetings for 2020 will be added to your calendar. You may share the link with guests, but are asked to introduce them at the virtual meeting. Thank you to Todd Brandenburg for allowing our club to continue meeting during lock down by use of his personal Zoom account! Stay well and we will see you soon! Please let Candi Walmsley know if you have any questions. |
JOIN IN ROTARY FELLOWSHIP THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 7:30 A.M. Take this special opportunity to be with your Rotary friends for a cool morning walk at Mountain View Cemetery (South Second Ave., WW). The event will be led by Tom Osborn. Enjoy the history, the trees, and perhaps the resident deer, flickers, and Swainson’s hawks. Please meet at the Cemetery Office building near the front entrance before 7:30. Parking is available in that area. Rotarians, family, and friends are welcome. Masks and social distancing will be observed. Saturday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 a.m. City of Walla Walla Cemetery Walking Map: https://www.wallawallawa.gov/home/showdocument?id=3383
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 | Bianca Mizobe (2016-17) from Alvares Machado, Brazil, is currently in isolation at home with her parents and sister. She is in her second year of law school at UNESP, a state university in Franca, Brazil, in the northeast corner of the state of Sao Paolo. (Her home is in the southwest corner of the state.) In Brazil, students enter professional school right out of high school. There are no undergraduate degrees. At first when COVOD19 hit, the students were sent home and no online classes were offered since not all students at a state university would have access to computers and internet. However, her sister, who attends a private university, did have online classes from the start. Bianca kept busy helping her extended family by babysitting her cousins. Recently, Bianca’s university did start offering online classes, so she is busy studying again and helps at her father’s lumberyard. Unfortunately, COVOD is still highly active in her area so there is no end in sight of the isolating. | |
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 | Jonatan Wahlby (2019-2020) from Uppsala, Sweden, just returned from a trip with friends hiking and enjoying the Swedish coastline. They took a train up to Kiruna, a bus to Nikkaluokta, and then hiked 40 miles to the top of Sweden’s highest mountain, Kebnekaise. Although the view is normally spectacular, the day they reached the top it was foggy so there was not much to look at except the glacier. Water polo, his sport of choice, is still a no go but he is hoping when the new season starts, they will be able to play. His friends normally would have had a grand graduation celebration were unable to do so in June. The school has postponed it until August 14th, so he is looking forward to celebrating with them. He did celebrate ‘Midsummer” on July 20th with a big party. He and many friends ate, drank, played games, danced, and sang. Jonatan is keeping busy working at a hospital as an orderly. He assists patients that have undergone hand surgery. The job is both mentally and physically challenging, even exhausting at times but he is grateful he was able find work during this pandemic. He loves the job so much that he is now considering a career as a nurse or doctor because of this experience. He is looking forward to next summer when he and his family plan to come to the U.S. and travel in an RV. They want to explore the places and meet the people Jonatan did during his exchange. | |
Union-Bulletin Article - July 5, 2020 Several teams of coronavirus frontline workers in Walla Walla have benefited from personal protective equipment through the thoughtful, generous and timely response of the Rotary Club of Sasayama, Japan. Club president Takeo Kawai reached out to sister club Rotary Club of Walla Walla to offer assistance, reported Rotarian Maryann Cole in a release. In a letter to local club president Jan Corn, Takeo wrote, “We are pleased to have been able to continue our long friendship with your club. We are very grateful to have received the donations from your club following the Japan earthquake in 2011. As a result we were able to support the affected area in collaboration with your club.” Sasayama club Rotarian and former president Keiichi Fujii heard the coronavirus was in the Walla Walla Valley and there was a shortage of personal protection equipment here. Keiichi informed his club of the opportunity to be of service to Walla Walla, Takeo said. Sasayama club International Service chair Masato Nakai and Keiichi coordinated a donation between clubs, making extensive international shipping arrangements and Walla Walla received face shields for local medical and health centers. Rotarian Candi Walmsley coordinated distribution of 240 hospital-grade shields and 1,000 shields usable in non-medical sittings. “This project really was a team effort and emblematic of the importance of connections,” Candi said. Medical face shields went to the Walla Walla Fire Department, Providence St. Mary Medical Center and Walla Walla University for student laboratory use. Rotarian Patty Martin coordinated he distribution of supplies to local dental offices. The cities of Walla Walla and Sasayama initially established a connection in 1972 and soon further relationships developed, including through Rotary. Early into the Sasayama-Walla Walla relationship between the cities Keiichi and his father, Schioichi Fujii, then mayor of Sasayama, visited Walla Walla. Later when a high school student exchange program was developed, Keiichi became the 1974-75 Walla Walla High School exchange student. Expressing appreciation for the donation of face shields from Rotarians in Sasayama, Jan said "their members demonstrate such dedication to the relationship between our cities and our clubs. Through the many decades, Keiichi’s commitment to our area is still strong. He even participates in our online club meetings on Thursdays at noon — which is a very early hour in Japan!” Several Sasayama and Walla Walla Rotarians have met at international conventions and at other times over the years. Past club president Todd Brandenburg said he met a large group of Rotarians from the Sasayama club at the international convention in 2018 in Toronto. “We felt so welcomed by them, and it was a pleasure to greet each other in person. Rotary connects like a worldwide family,” Todd said. Rotary International built its mission, membership, and service on an international structure, Maryann said. Rotarians from more than 200 countries provide diverse experiences and skills that enhance the planning and completion of cooperative international humanitarian service projects.
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Congratulations to Bill Allen and James Opara on receiving the Paul Harris Award at last Thursday's, July 16, Club meeting. This is Bill's second Paul Harris Award and James's sixth Paul Harris Award. Thank you both for your financial and leadership efforts on behalf of Rotary International. Your gifts truly make a difference in the world. If you have not made your first Paul Harris Award there is an opportunity for you to do so by adding a little money when you pay your dues. You can also mail in a check or go online to Rotary International. |
 | All Rotarians are welcome to attend Rotary Board of Directors Meetings via Zoom Meeting on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, from noon to 1 PM. It’s a good way to complete Blue Badge requirements or make up a missed meeting. Our next meeting will be on Monday, August 17th. Please let us know if you would like to attend and we will provide you the link for the meeting. |
From Larry Frank: Rotary photos can be accessed on your browser by typing: larryfrank.smugmug.com then clicking on the gallery with the Rotary Banner. Left mouse click a photo to select it. Right mouse click the enlarged selection and you can select Save As… to download it to your computer. Ignore the Buy Print button unless you want Smugmug to print you a copy and mail it to you. The site does not require a password, and downloading a file does not cost you anything, and I am not rewarded in any way. |
There is a mobile app available for our phones if we choose to download it. The app provides a member list, upcoming programs, district information and many other resources. Android users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doxess.clubrunnermobile&hl=en_US Apple users: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clubrunner/id434696377?mt=8
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