Karen Seda has been proposed for Club membership.
Consulting: Business Development / Sponsored by Usha Balakrishnan
Please express concerns by Oct. 30, 2017
Dr. Christopher Peters has been proposed for Club membership
Medical: Venous Disease / Sponsored by Joe Barry
Please express concerns by Nov. 3rd, 2017
President Mike addressed the assembly with regard to the following announcements:
1) Rtn. Sherry McKay is stepping down from the new member committee, Rtn. Jon Brown will take over this role.
2) Rtn. Gene Fisher is taking over the classification committee chair for Rtn. Dave Siebert
3) Liberty High School has been approved for an Interact Club. Rtn. Joe Vens has been working with the high school to coordinate the club.
4) The grant request for a new park bench in the University Heights area has been approved for $3,750. Many have worked on this project.
Rtn. Jim Conard introduced our speaker, Jessica Pray Patel. Jessica is an opera singer with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Voice (Opera) from Yale School of Music. Jessica has performed in Europe and will be singing and performing in New York and Europe in the months ahead.
Jessica began her address to the members by singing an aria.
Jessica thanked all in attendance and indicated that she is happy to be living in Iowa City. While growing up in Urbandale, it is no surprise that she chose music as a career since her Mom was a music director at Church and both her brother and sister were musical as well. While in college, Jessica questioned the earning potential of a musican and discussed this with her father who was a lawyer. Jessica compared the earning potential of high perfoming professional basketball players at $300,000 per game compared to the earning of the most popular opera singer, Renee Fleming who earns $15,000 per performance. Jessica’s father encouraged her to not give up on music. Jessica encouraged those in attendance to support music by attending performances, playing or singing in a choir or taking lessons. She provided many benefits for including music in your life. Music is helpful to brain development, and language acquitision, to name a few. Jessica made a special plea to help keep musicians in Iowa. If Jessica could be an Ambassador of Music in Iowa, she would work to support music teachers and resoures and help to educate on the scientific benefits found in music. Jessica has an upcoming performance at the UI Recital Hall on Monday, October 30th at 7:30p.
MEETING:
Singing: America the Beautiful led by Bob Crane.
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It is our policy to have all members silence their cell phones before the meeting and refrain from answering their cell phones during the meeting out of respect to the speaker and fellow members.
Our Greeter Glen Weisner, announced visiting Rotarian, Kecia Boysen (CR Downtown)
Guests of Rotarians, Tracy Tritle (Usha Balakrishnan); Birhanu Ayana & Woubalem Zewde (Tom Cook); Frank Attere (Ryan Bell); Deveon Inman (Chad Johnson); Nancy Bird, Bob Pacha, Ravi Patel, Angie Patel, Sajni Patel (Tom Cilek); Susan Mims (Charlie Funk)