The Pulse - September 6, 2016

 

President Dan opened the meeting by thanking wine reception sponsor Jim Craig, and recognizing music director Kevin Williams (KVIE Public Television), along with A/V director J.D. Dannenfelser (JD Enterprises).  Also saluted were greeters Dee Hartzog and Todd Koolakian (Sacramento Children's Home), plus the setup crew of Ted White (Sacramento Delta Property Management) and Mike Bullington (Pacific Advisors).

 

Tanya Kravchuk (Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento) provided the meeting invocation.

 

Meeting sponsor Jim Mattesich (Greenberg Traurig) recounted that 50 years ago, to the day, the Stockton Record reported a $1,000 college scholarship awarded to Jim by a local Rotary club. Jim calculated the present day value of that award at nearly $7,500 – and repaid Rotary’s investment in his future with a $7,500 donation!

 

 The day’s recognitions included a Paul Harris pin for Dianne Woodruff, and Eddie Mulligans to Larry Cassidy (Northern CA Collection Services) and Ted White.

 

The club announcements offered the usual array of Rotary good works.

. the Sacramento Century event on October 1 is looking for volunteers, reported Todd Andrews (Andrews Construction) and Bridget Tarzwell (Print Infinite)

 

. the club’s literacy committee is backing an October 15 “Walk for Literacy” and Jeff Curcio (Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP) encouraged club members to participate.

 

. Point West Rotary is raising money for the Boys & Girls Club with a performance by the touring group “Up with People”, and is hunting for Rotarians to house members of the traveling troupe, said Past President Susan Sheridan.

 

Keynote speaker Robyn Raphael of St. Baldrick’s Foundation underscored the importance of the money to be raised through the club’s Sacramento Century event. Childhood cancer is the #1 cause of child deaths (besides accidents), and while 80 percent of afflicted children survive, most of them suffer lifelong complications from the harshness of treatments. St. Baldrick’s to date has funded over $200 million in childhood cancer research, working toward the day children no longer suffer the ravages of cancer.

 

Chair of the Day Walter Dahl (Dahl Law, Attorneys At Law) appealed to Rotarians to get their heads shaved on October 1 – or keep your hair, and donate to support the club members who are getting shorn. Among those getting clipped are Kevin Smith-Fagan (KVIE Public Television), Bob Miller (First US Community Credit Union), ANNNND, if we get 10 Rotarians on board, president Dan himself will also submit to the abjection!