Meeting Recap for December 9, 2013
Senior Gleaners - RCOS-RAW Day
President Thom Gilbert opened the meeting on Monday with the following “news report”, reminding the club of the good things our members have been up to. Those things included; (1). New Members Reception last Wednesday at the Capitol Dime with almost 40 folks in attendance, thank you Luann Richardson and Randy Friedman for co-chairing that committee. (2). Over 160 people (many Rotarians & family among them) turned out for the RCOS-RAW Day at Senior Gleaners warehouse on Saturday to pack boxes of food and necessities to be distributed to those of our community in need. Records for the number of volunteers, volunteer hours and pounds packed are now held by RCOS. Thank you Diane Schachterle and Gary McDonald for making that happen! (3). On Saturday night 38 Rotarians and guests enjoyed more fellowship when they attended Rotary Theater Night. Dinner before the show was at Lucca’s Restaurant followed by “It’s A Wonderful Life The Musical” as the feature presentation. Tom Chase continues to arrange theater entertainment for our members, thank you Tom. (4). Blood Drive results for the month of November are in and we had 53 credits! In addition to being a remarkable month, we beat RCOPW by 22 credits. (5). November 14th’s Presidents Breakfast had 12 in attendance and generated several ideas for club operations and committee assignments. Additionally: John Shelby is recovering at home from a ruptured appendix but should be back in service next week; hopefully, to attend Daughter’s Day with his daughter Carly.
President Thom opened the Annual Meeting and stepped aside for President-elect Susan Sheridan to announce the newest Board of Directors members elected for her term starting in July 2014. Treasurer for 2014-15 will be Linda Geery and Sergeant-at-Arms, John Lemmon. Directors for 2014 - 2016 will be Todd Andrews, Amin Elmallah, Becki Roberts, Kevin Smith-Fagan and Virginia Wade. Past President (Emperor) Wes Yee took his turn next, announcing the clubs president-elect-elect. Our club presidential nominee for 2015-2016 is David Cohen, who PP Wes bestowed with a Chinese Emperor Hat.
Mark Huffman’s Rotary Moment gave a short history of Daughter’s Day, which can actually be traced as far back as 1922. An ever popular program, this year will feature Polar Express entertainers.
Meeting Sponsor was Fred and Nancy Teichert, who graciously gave the time to KVIE. Thom noted that Nancy is a member of the KVIE board. Club member Kevin Smith-Fagan, VP of Development for KVIE, spoke about recent programing that highlighted the worldwide problem of human trafficking.
Our reception wine was provided by Dan Fenocchio and Elfrena Foord entertained us with beautiful piano music, which included spontaneous Christmas carol singing by a small group of Rotarians. The invocation was given by Reverend Michael Monnot of All Saints Episcopal Church. Our greeters were Rex Berry and Roger Salazar, and we closed the meeting with a final thought by Jim Craig.