Meeting Notes - July 29, 2013

Past President Brian Van Camp was the Chair of the Day and introduced our meeting speaker, Garrick Brown. Read below for a recap of Mr. Brown's presentation.

Dave Higdon sponsored the wine reception and Dick Wertz played piano. Our New Member greeters for the meeting were Jeanne Reeves and Tim Mattheis.

Mr. John B. Fish, president of the Sacramento Interfaith Service Bureau gave the invocation. Steve Huffman provided the "final thought", reciting the words to the song SMILE.  This song is sung by the Rotary Club of Petoskey, Michigan (Steve's hometown) before every meeting!!!

Adrian Pang, president of Rotary Club of Hong Kong South, joined by his son Aaron, revisited with us and exchanged flags with President Thom.

Paul Harris Fellow (PHF) Matching 2013/2014:  President Thom announced that due to an accumulation of RI-PHF points, any PHF contribution up to $500, will receive a 1 to 1 match, during his term. What this means is that for a $500 PHF contribution you would receive a PHF recognition, normally requiring a contribution total of $1000.

In addition, any member that makes a contribution of $100 to their PHF in recognition of a new family addition (child, grandchild, great-grandchild) will receive a 5 for 1 match ($100 will get you a $500 match). Jonathan Marz was the first to take advantage of this with a $200 contribution split between his PHF and EMF in recognition of the birth of his new son, Jonathan William (not a jr.) born July 16, 2013.  That gives Jonathan $600 towards his PHF.