Meeting Recap from February 25, 2013
Want to become president of Rotary Club of Sacramento some day? Your odds will greatly improve if you go to law school (and get even better if you graduate).
Nine of the 32 living Rotary Club of Sacramento past presidents were/are attorneys according to Past President Walter Dahl - himself a lawyer and, on Monday, keynote speaker for the club’s annual Past Presidents Day.
If law school doesn’t work out, and you still want to be RCS president, give real estate a try. Seven past presidents work in that field.
It also might help if your parent had been club president. There are four father-sons pairs on the list of past presidents: Teicherts, Sleepers, Murphys and Coles.
And regardless of how you get there, it just might be worth the effort. Presidents get to travel to the annual International Rotary conference at club expense. Our past presidents have gone to such exotic conference locations as Tokyo, Melbourne, Munich and Portland (can’t win ‘em all).
Twenty-eight of the living past presidents were present at the Red Lion Hotel - Woodlake on Monday for the annual salute to past club leaders. The complete list of living past presidents include:
· Henry Teichert (1961-62)
· Douglas Sleeper (1969-70)
· Charles Gray, Jr. (1972-73)
· Robert Cole (1973-74)
· John Bowker (1975-76)
· Forrest Plant (1976-77)
· George Basye (1980-81)
· Edwin Weidner, Jr. (1981-82)
· Herbert Rodebaugh (1984-85)
· Carl Schubert (1986-87)
· David Murphy (1987-88)
· J. Gary Kearns (1989-90)
· Daniel Cole (1990-91)
· Ernest Farrington (1991-92)
· Brian Van Camp (1993-94)
· Robert Crawford (1994-95)
· John Frisch (1995-96)
· Thomas Hammer, Jr. (1996-97)
· Frank Poelman (1997-98)
· Hal Bartholomew (1998-99)
· John Hamlyn, Jr. (1999-2000)
· Diane Mizell (2001-02)
· Robert Scherer (2002-03)
· Jon Snyder (2003-04)
· Harry Skip Lawrence (2004-05)
· Frederick Teichert (2005-06)
· Walter Dahl (2006-07)
· Wesley Yee (2007-08)
· Timothy Pinkney (2008-09)
· Beverly Brautigam (2009-10)
· Scot Sorenson (2010-11)
· Kenneth Noack, Jr. (2011-12)
Past President Walter was given 46 seconds per past president to describe their exploits and accomplishments. He finished exactly on time.
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Past President Beverly Brautigam announced that Bob Daly is the second winner of the Ludy Spirit Award. The award is named for the 32-year club member, Ludy Langer who died unexpectedly on Feb. 27, 2010, and honors a club member who has displayed outstanding commitment to RCS through volunteerism.
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Bruce Hester and Paul Kucharski announced that the somewhat ironically named Giants team (led by one of RCS’ most diminutive members, Oleta Lambert) won the membership contest and thus will receive a wine dinner at Clarksburg’s Old Sugar Mill. Other members of the winning team include: Bill Badham, Ruth Blank, Larry Booth, Steve Meyer, Skip Lawrence, Karen Diepenbrock, Clayton Lee & Bob Waste.
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Tod Stoltz was installed as the newest member of RCS by current President Peter Dannenfelser II. Stoltz was sponsored by Bob Waste and Tim Maurice; all are from UC Davis Health System.
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Dr. Michael Merring from Cosumnes River College made a brief presentation about the Group Study Exchange trip to South Africa and presented President Peter with a number of club banners collected on the trip.
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Past President Brian Van Camp provided the thought for the day. Bonnie Plummer sponsored the pre-meeting wine reception, which featured piano music by Dick Wertz and Dick Osen led the club in singing “God Bless America.”