SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD

As another tradition of your club, your Service Above Self Committee comprised of Heidi Hershenhouse (Chair), Cris Hoover, David Chavez and Chris Johnson have been hard at work selecting this year’s recipient, from a plethora of very qualified nominees. The award is being presented to one deserving public servant (i.e. police officer, sheriff, firefighter, highway patrolman or woman and so forth) by your President Elect Nominee, Thom Gilbert, at District Attorney Jan Scully’s 13th Annual Public Safety & Community Appreciation Breakfast, earlier this week, at the Doubletree, attended by nearly a thousand, all in uniform.

The Award, this year, is going to Sergeant Janet Schaefer (Citrus heights PD) in recognition of her exemplary service which you can read all about below in this Pulse and in addition, her efforts to orchestrate the delivery of 23,000 Haitian women’s shoes, affording them the ability to work to provide for their families in the aftermath of the earthquake, as well as her outreach work through the Associated Press to assist Afghan policewomen vis a vis the donation of old department bulletproof vests (otherwise not issued to female officers in Afghanistan), messages of empowerment and support from U.S. counterparts (as Afghan female officers only have limited arrest powers) and providing translated information on domestic violence prevention. 

We salute Sergeant Schaefer for her diversified contributions and service to her community and worldwide … and a big thank you to our Committee for their dedicated work on this Club tradition.

The Club was treated to some fine pre meeting musical entertainment during the wine and beer reception this week from Old Bones or Judge Shubb and the Legal Beagles featuring none other than the Judge on the ukulele (and a mean one at that!) Jeff Stone on electric guitar and Paul Stone on the ivories. What a combo… you guys are welcome back any time!

We welcome to the Club, new member, Hermann Haastrup who has transferred from the Aurora, Colorado Club as the new General Manager of the Woodlake Inn, our Club meeting location. (please see Hermann’s bio below in this The Pulse)

The leading bibliographer of California history, Director Emeritus of the State Library Special Collections and Executive Director of the California State Library Foundation (CSLF), Gary Kurutz, graced our podium delivering to a captive membership, lively and colorful accounts of your River City during the Gold Rush era this week (read all about it below in this Pulse).  Many of you, post meeting, inquired about membership in the Library Foundation. Please refer to the Foundation website at www.cslf.org to sign up. One of the perks of membership is an annual subscription to The Bulletin, a National Geographic quality and caliber quarterly magazine highlighting many of the remarkable treasures of your State Library and the fascinating historical backgrounds which accompany them.

Many thanks to Pam Saltenberger (with Susan Sheridan) as this week’s meeting sponsor, to Past President Wes Yee in recognition of the Jamaica medical /dental services trip in which he participated, the opening of his Sunflower Market in Land Park and in honor of the recent passing of his brother, Doug, to Explorer Norm Marshall in recognition of his ink in the Dining section of the Bee, to Mountaineer Barbara Arnold in recognition of her upcoming art exhibit (and thanks Barbara for teaching those wonderful blind classes at the Crocker rendering the beautiful note cards), to Explorer Rick Davis contributing to his next Eddie, to Mountaineer Past President George Basye in recognition of fifty years in the Club and to Past President Brian Van Camp introducing Superior Court Judge Tami Bogert, up for re-election.
 
A tremendously generous week as we look forward to Bids for Kids at the Hyatt, Saturday night, May 12th at 6pm. See you there with bidding paddle in hand!

Enjoy a terrific week and strive for those summits! We are dark next week so we will otherwise see you on the 21st at the Woodlake for Armed Forces Day with Kitty O’Neal!
       
Ken Noack, Jr.