53 millionaires walk into a bar to watch the Super Bowl.
The bartender says, “Woah, it’s the Dallas Cowboys! What can I get you guys?”
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February is Peace and Conflict Prevention and Resolution Month
The Thousand Oaks Rotary Club is proud to be a Peace Builder Club.
KT Connor carried the Happy Cup
Joke of the Day
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Invite a friend, family member, colleague to join Rotary.
Encourage Them to Be Part of Something GREAT!!!
Why wouldn’t you want them to be part of an organization that feeds the hungry, cures the sick, provides education to women and children, provides clean water and sanitation. And now is taking on the environment.
The February 6th lunch meeting was called to order by President Pat McCoy at 12:25pm.
Ken Warner led all with the Pledge of Allegiance and Inspirational Moment, with Fred Lindberg leading us in song-God Bless America. Ken was inspired by world peace efforts, particularly in the Middle East with the release of the Israeli hostages. He looks forward to the day when there is no more war through the power of compassion.
Jeff Borenstein handled guest introductions: Keith Parks-Past President, Jim Brown-Past President from the Needham, Massachusetts Rotary Club, Herb Gooch’s guest was his former student, Chantelle Limon, Jeremy Paris’ guest was Ruben Maciel with the Police Charitable Fund, Michelle Nash’s guest was Teresa Horvet, who was checking us out so we needed to be on our best behavior, Matt Lallo’s guest was his wife Teresa, George Jones’ guests were his nephews, Dale Wilkie and Alan Jones, Regina Biddings-Muro’s guest was our Program speaker, Dr. IlenePinkard, and Kim DeBroux made sure that we knew that we had a special guest from Westlake Sunrise, Assistant Governor, Kim Mowder.
Laura Conway presented the following Paul Harris Fellows: 1) Louis Hirsch received his PHF+1 and PHF+2 pins with the intention of giving them away anonymously to two deserving recipients.
2) Michael Magasinn received his PHF+4 pin as he has reached the $5,000 donation level.
3) Ken Kossoff received his PHF+8 pin, which at $9000 in donations, is the highest level one can achieve before becoming a Major Donor.
Laura had another very special award to give – a Bequest Society Level 4 pin to Lee Ladd who has $100,000 in his estate to leave to Rotary. Lee had received a pin in 2004 for this achievement, but it was lost when his home was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire. In a special moment, his long-time friend, FelixMasci gave him his own Bequest Society pin as a replacement.
Pat brought up Kim Mowder from Westlake Sunrise. Kim shared the news that there will be 15 Rotarians visiting our area from Uganda (primarily all men) visiting the area this coming June, the 9th through the 15th. Word has been spread to four other area Clubs. She had some specific asks – first & foremost are housing hosts. Right now, she has found six folks who are willing to host and needs nine more. The prerequisites for hosting are an own bedroom & private access to a bathroom. Kim has set a deadline of February 15th to secure host families. Secondly, volunteer drivers are needed to take our visitors to various places of attraction such as the beach, Santa Barbara, and trips around LA. Third, folks are needed to host meals, such as a breakfast, a BBQ, or maybe a light dinner and/or cocktail hour. And there will be ample opportunity for all area Rotarians to attend events with our guests. Kim said there will be a flag exchange ceremony with the Uganda Rotarians at our Thursday meeting on June 12th. To offer your assistance in any of the areas mentioned, go to kmowder1214@gmail.com or call Kim at 502-435-0885.
Laura Conway wanted to let everyone know that sandwich making for the next Lunches-for-Harbor House will be on February 22nd at Sue Engler’s home.
Pat McCoy handed out Magic of Rotary pins from Singapore to the following Rotarians for their help in the Harbor House lunch making. Steve Stanley, KenWarner, KT Connor, Jessica Sassalos, Jason Corey, Jeff Borenstein, and Carol Freeman.
Victor Hayek said we’re all set to go for Fridays’ Economic Forecast Breakfast. Ticket sales to date are 110 – the timely topic for the conference will be Insurance.
Steve Stanley is looking for names to submit for the Rotary Outreach Award, aka The Conlin Award. Contact Steve if you have a candidate.
Fine Master-Trevor Tyloch – Theme was SON OF A BEACH.Trevor showed seven photos of various beaches. He asked that the particular beach be identified - $15 for the correct answer, $50 for the wrong answer.
Jonathan Handler correctly identified Leo Carrillo Beach.
Six Rotarians could NOT identify the following beaches: Tanya Caligiuri-Big Dune, Louis Hirsch-Santa Barbara, Pat McCoy-Tortola British Virgin Islands, Haider Alawami-St. Thomas US Virgin Islands, Jason Corey-Dominican Republic, and Carol Freeman-Hanapepe Kauai-Hawaii __________________________________________________
SERVICE ABOVE SELF.....Things to do and help in our Community.....
February 22nd Make Lunches for the hungry -Harbor House 3pm Michelle Nash
March 1st Community Conscience Mardi Gras Ball- T.O. Rotary has a table- seats $200 each, register now and say- seat me at Rotary Table
March 8th District 5240 Online Training All Members -especially new board members. (Qualifies as New Member Task-District Event)
April 19th Earth Day Community Service Project- CRPD-Jim Friedl
May 4th Chili Cook Off- Mandatory Participation See Marissa Buss
May 19th Hospice of the Conejo Golf Tournament
Rotary Action Group for PEACE (RAG)-people from all over the globe meets regularly via ZOOM.
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PROGRAM:
Today the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club recognized February as Black History Month, Jeff Borenstein introduced the first of two speakers, attorney Vernelle Edwards. Ms. Edwards described growing up a preacher’s kid near Charleston, South Carolina. With numerous family members who were educators, nurses, professionals, etc., she knew she was going to college. When she went out into the world and saw so many young people growing up in Generational Poverty, she knew they needed help from others in the form of time and money. She specifically wanted to mention two individuals who rose up to greatness: Charles Drew who taught at Howard University, an HBCU, and who perfected the use of dried plasma, and Catherine Johnson, a mathematical genius portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, who went on to a long career with NASA. None of this would have happened for either of these individuals without education. Ms. Edwards then went on to introduce Dr.Irene Pinkard, who had invited her to be a part of the Pinkard YouthInstitute.
Dr. Pinkard founded her institute with her husband because they felt that young people did not have good role models. Dr. Pinkard described three programs that were developed to for youths to see how others live: 1) They took eight students to Prairie View A&M in Texas, 2) Raised money for internships at various businesses to help kids get a job, 3) Developed an enrichment program for kids to stay on a college campus, specifically Cal State Channel Islands. Dr. Pinkard pointed to examples of two students who have gone through the programs, one who has a 3.8 GPA at CSUN, and another who is currently a college professor. She concluded by saying she saw a need in the community to be filled. At the conclusion of the program, President Pat had our two speakers sign a book to be donated to a Title One school.
President Pat presented the usual 'speaker gift'- a book that will be donated to a title one school in the speakers' honor.
It Takes a Village to Run our Rotary Meetings.....Thank you to those who helped.
Club Administrator: Maria Prescott
Greeters: ??
Guest Introductions: Jeff Borenstein
Pledge/Inspirational Moment: Ken Warner
Song: Dr. Fred Lindberg
Happy Dollars: KT Connor
Fine Session: Trevor Tyloch
Photos: Rich Folsom
Note Taker/Bulletin: Marc Feigen (thanks Marc)/Susan Murata
Tech Support- Ean Kleiger, Trevor Tyloch
Sgt. At Arms: Hugo Roche, Jim Gilday, Jim Friedl, Steve Stanley, Felix Masci, Jason Corey, Eric Rubenfeld.
All things fiscal$$: Chris Steele & Nancy Wohl.
Pat's closing words: Pat thanked all those who helped make it happen, but due to the length of the Program he would be unable to name anyone individually.
PAST PRESIDENTS
58-59 Don Odell
59-60 John Heywood
60-61 Marv Burrow
61-62 Ross Duskin
62-63 Roy Mc Comber
63-64 Paul Pace
64-65 John Conlon
65-66 Carlos Scuria
66-67 Merrill Darling
67-68 Phil Ozab
68-69 Wm Vanderwann
69-70 Alvin J Hotz, Jr.
70-71 Ben Cranmer Jr
71-72 Glenn Goodwin
72-73 George Vasliff
73-74 Henry Still
74-75 John Tuel
75-76 Kenneth Hanson
76-77 David Huang
77-78 William Haas
78-79 Felix Masci
79-80 Harland Jones
80-81 Dave Wender
81-82 George Gibb
82-83 Norman Nagel
83-84 Bill Peterson
84-85 Mike O'Bierne
85-86 Marv Sosna
86-87 Fred Ferrarni
87-88 Doc Needham
88-89 Kenneth Roberts
89-90 Jeff Borenstein
90-91 Dennis Gillette
ROTARY CLUB T. O.
91-92 Merv Kopp
92-93 Tom Glancy
93-94 Hugo Roche
94-95 Brian Back
95-96 Tony Kourounis
96-97 Dick Wieler
98-99 Judy St. John
99-20 Mike Gonzales
00-01 Neil Scribner
01-02 Bob Biery
02-03 Harry Selvin
03-04 Rick Lemmo
04-05 Doug Tapking
05-06 Kathy Hill
06-07 Pete Turpel
07-08 Vicki Arndt
08-09 Martin Anderson
09-10 Keith Parks
10-11 Frank Corrigan
11-12 Richard Williams
12-13 Susan Murata
13-14 Carol Freeman
14-15 Nate Harimoto
15-16 Mike Murphy
16-17 Robert Bianchi
17-18 Tim Weaver
18-19 Karen Furnari
19-20 Herb Gooch
20-21 David Stowell
21-22 John Bradley
22-23 Paul Dryman
23-24 Patricia Jones
MANDATORY PARTICIPATION EVENTS FOR ALL THOUSAND OAKS ROTARIANS:
CHILI COOK-OFF- SUNDAY MAY 4TH- SEE MARISSA BUSS
WINE FESTIVAL-SUNDAY AUGUST 24TH- SEE DAVE MASCI
STREET FAIR -SUNDAY OCTOBER 19TH SEE CRYSTAL EVANS
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