Membership Day!

Posted by Jim Culleton - Photos By: John Swentowsky on Dec 15, 2016
 
Journey's Lights of the City welcomed Rotarians to our December 13th meeting at the Dante Club.  Greeters Clayton Lee (C.K.L. Trust) and Liz McClatchy (Safety Center Incorporated) spread warm holiday cheer.
 
Dennis Cook (Cook Brown, LLP) provided a lengthy thought of the day recounting a John Dunne Story.  Tom Bacon (Kidder Mathews) introduced a Guest Rotarian Martin Garozzo, a respiratory specialist from West Sacramento.
 
PP Susan Sheridan and PP Dave Murphy are chairing Daughter's Day on 12/20.  They highlighted our next meeting with Irish Dancers and a Children's Chorus. Please RSVP to the "Not to Miss" event.
 
Roast Boast and Toast was healthy today!  Nine Rotarians spoke up with Lev Kaganovich (Energy, LEED & Commissioning Consulting) leading the way.  He is proud of his son and the development of a new mobile app.  Jim Mattesich (Greenberg Traurig) celebrated a new grandchild as did President Dan McVeigh.  Bob Rosenberg (Inve$tnet Inc.) highlighted his son's achievement as CEO of Accent Foods in Texas.  Todd Andrews (Andrews Construction, Inc.)  has a wedding coming up where he will welcome a new Son-in-Law to the family.  Jerry Haley (State Farm Ins.) stood up just because and donated generously.  Michelle Amaral (Dick James and Associates, Inc.) mourned a great Aunt.  Liz McClatchy's (Safety Center Incorporated) grandchild will graduate from Purdue University in a few weeks.  Elfrena Foord (Foord, Van Bruggen, & Pajak) is also celebrating a new graduate in the family.
 
 
President Dan and President Elect John Lemmon (Knox, Lemmon & Anapolsky, LLP) introduced their new board and officers which will install in July of 2017.  Board Members Roy Alexander (Sacramento Children's Home), Bob Miller (First US Community Credit Union)         , Barbara Thompson (Sky Ridge Ranch), Nancy Teichert (Writer), and Kevin Smith-Fagan (KVIE Public Television) all said yes!  Kathe Nathan (The Merchants National Bank) will be the treasurer and Callee Setzer (Setzer Forest Products) will be out Sargent-At-Arms.
 
 
 
 
 
Our President Elect Nominee, Diane Woodruff was introduced by PP Susan Sheridan.  Diane thanked our congregation and shared 3 things that have bolstered her Rotary spirit.  Her trip to China with PP Wes Yee (Yee Dental Care), a Rotoplast trip to Guatemala and 3 of her YIP students graduating from CSUS.  Diane also shared a funny story of how PP Susan Sheridan "duped" her at a tennis match into meeting with the nominating committee at Gold River Racquet Club.
 
 
President Dan shifted the meeting focus back to mercurial questions such as "What do you like about or Rotary? or Why did you join Rotary or remain in Rotary? and lastly; What can we do to attract and retain new members into our Club?"  These question launched us into table discussion each with a moderator taking copious notes.  Laura Heintz (Stanford Youth Solutions) and Len McCandliss kicked off the session with fond memories and proud moments of their Rotary careers.
 
Hopefully these think tank moments will lead us to a call to action and bolster our ranks with new energetic members.