Jun 16 2015 - Rotary Forum

 
Program June 16, 2015: “Member Spotlights for Jay Bond, Mary Ann Reese, and Mike Kee”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Michael opened the meeting at 12:40 PM and put the first member spotlight on
Jay Bond, who was born on August 22, 1955 in Santa Maria and has been a lifelong resident of parents that came to California in 1927, His dad left his mother when he was only 2 and she married his stepfather when he was four years old. He has only seen the father on two occasions once 17 years ago and last February. He went to Harloe Elementary school and graduated from Arroyo Grande High School. He got a job as a Jaguar dealer in San Luis Obispo and at the age of 20 he went to Hancock where he got his associate degree. He then went to Florida and got a Master’s degree in Internet marketing, which has been of great help to him. After a period time at Keller Williams Realty Company, he recently went to work for a Bakersfield company. He lives in Arroyo Grande and was recently engaged to be married. He has been with our Club for two years where he has been very active.
Mary Ann Reese was born of Italian immigrant parents in upstate New York where she enjoyed winter activities when she was very young. Her dad, with only a third grade education rose to become a manager of a paper company where he invented the process for making two-ply toilet paper. Her mom had an eighth grade education and knew the importance of schooling so that when Mary Ann was rejected as being too young for kindergarten, the next year she enrolled her in first grade, which made her first two years of school very difficult. Her first job was in a paper company where she worked in the CEO’s office and in the finance and sales departments. Her mother took her to California where she met her first husband and took a job in Human Resources.   She received her AA from Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga and her Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Redlands. During her 27 year human resources career, she met and married Bert in 1995. In 1994, he moved to Pismo Beach and has not looked back. She got interested in politics immediately and became Pismo Beach’s first elected mayor in 2004 and has been on the Pismo Beach City Council for more than 15 years.
Mike Kee is a native Californian born on January 6, 1948 to parents who came to California from Oklahoma and Texas during the dust bowl of the 30’s and settled as migrant workers in the Valley. He was born in Napa, but in one and half years he moved to Lodi and then to a rural area near Riverside. He remembers the fun he had playing in the barns and in the fields. He has fond memories of his high school athletics where he was a two sport letterman (baseball and basketball) and played baseball in college. And at 67, he still plays in a local adult baseball (hardball) league. He graduated from California Baptist University with honors. His first job after college was as a cost accountant for Bank of America in 1972. He has held numerous positions over the years at several banks including President, CEO of a community bank in Santa Maria for 3 years. He has held various other positions over the years including Executive Vice-President and Chief Credit Officer, Regional Vice President, and Senior Vice President of Lending. He is currently with Coast National Bank. Besides athletics, a second primary interest is music. He has played in a number of San Luis Obispo Little theater productions as Roy Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Elton John and other leading roles. He still plays in a rock and pop band.
Montisa Phelan Lopez was “born yesterday” 45 years ago in California and traces her ancestry back six generations to 1840. She grew up in Arroyo Grande during the school year and on an 8000 acre ranch near San Simeon in the summer where she worked on the family business of cattle ranching and farming.  She still lives in Arroyo Grande with her husband, Leon Lopez of 22 years and their three children, a 20-year-old daughter, on 18-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. She has been the Vice President of Philanthropy for the Arroyo Grande Community Hospital Foundation since 2006.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jim Lewis reported on last week’s successful vocational visit at the Arroyo Grande hospital as the last vocational visit for the year.  Pres. Michael reminded us of our last social for the year tomorrow, June 17, at Rosa's Italian restaurant starting at 5:00 PM. Greg Baker reported that the Rotary foundation golf tournament may just a little under $15,000 which will go to scholarships for three of standing Arroyo Grande high school students. Greg also reported that the Summer Sizzle meeting will take place after this meeting. Steve Curry announced that Grover Beach is being re-branded as a Wednesday noontime club on July 1 at Rosa's. He invited everyone that can possibly attend to do so on that date. Assistant to the District Gov. Sandy Nichols reported that the literacy book giveaway was a financial success because of the job Burdine Printing’s of the books.
 FINES:
Jeff King turned another year older and recently returned from a 4000 mile US driving tour that included Wichita, Kansas. For these 2 events, he was given an $80 spin-the-wheel fine.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY PAUL JONES:
"Be patient. I won’t keep you very long.”
 Elizabeth Taylor."
“If you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there.”
Lewis Carroll
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Program June 16, 2015: “Member Spotlights for Jay Bond, Mary Ann Reese, and Mike Kee”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Michael opened the meeting at 12:40 PM and put the first member spotlight on
Jay Bond, who was born on August 22, 1955 in Santa Maria and has been a lifelong resident of parents that came to California in 1927, His dad left his mother when he was only 2 and she married his stepfather when he was four years old. He has only seen the father on two occasions once 17 years ago and last February. He went to Harloe Elementary school and graduated from Arroyo Grande High School. He got a job as a Jaguar dealer in San Luis Obispo and at the age of 20 he went to Hancock where he got his associate degree. He then went to Florida and got a Master’s degree in Internet marketing, which has been of great help to him. After a period time at Keller Williams Realty Company, he recently went to work for a Bakersfield company. He lives in Arroyo Grande and was recently engaged to be married. He has been with our Club for two years where he has been very active.
Mary Ann Reese was born of Italian immigrant parents in upstate New York where she enjoyed winter activities when she was very young. Her dad, with only a third grade education rose to become a manager of a paper company where he invented the process for making two-ply toilet paper. Her mom had an eighth grade education and knew the importance of schooling so that when Mary Ann was rejected as being too young for kindergarten, the next year she enrolled her in first grade, which made her first two years of school very difficult. Her first job was in a paper company where she worked in the CEO’s office and in the finance and sales departments. Her mother took her to California where she met her first husband and took a job in Human Resources.   She received her AA from Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga and her Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Redlands. During her 27 year human resources career, she met and married Bert in 1995. In 1994, he moved to Pismo Beach and has not looked back. She got interested in politics immediately and became Pismo Beach’s first elected mayor in 2004 and has been on the Pismo Beach City Council for more than 15 years.
Mike Kee is a native Californian born on January 6, 1948 to parents who came to California from Oklahoma and Texas during the dust bowl of the 30’s and settled as migrant workers in the Valley. He was born in Napa, but in one and half years he moved to Lodi and then to a rural area near Riverside. He remembers the fun he had playing in the barns and in the fields. He has fond memories of his high school athletics where he was a two sport letterman (baseball and basketball) and played baseball in college. And at 67, he still plays in a local adult baseball (hardball) league. He graduated from California Baptist University with honors. His first job after college was as a cost accountant for Bank of America in 1972. He has held numerous positions over the years at several banks including President, CEO of a community bank in Santa Maria for 3 years. He has held various other positions over the years including Executive Vice-President and Chief Credit Officer, Regional Vice President, and Senior Vice President of Lending. He is currently with Coast National Bank. Besides athletics, a second primary interest is music. He has played in a number of San Luis Obispo Little theater productions as Roy Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Elton John and other leading roles. He still plays in a rock and pop band.
Montisa Phelan Lopez was “born yesterday” 45 years ago in California and traces her ancestry back six generations to 1840. She grew up in Arroyo Grande during the school year and on an 8000 acre ranch near San Simeon in the summer where she worked on the family business of cattle ranching and farming.  She still lives in Arroyo Grande with her husband, Leon Lopez of 22 years and their three children, a 20-year-old daughter, on 18-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. She has been the Vice President of Philanthropy for the Arroyo Grande Community Hospital Foundation since 2006.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jim Lewis reported on last week’s successful vocational visit at the Arroyo Grande hospital as the last vocational visit for the year.  Pres. Michael reminded us of our last social for the year tomorrow, June 17, at Rosa's Italian restaurant starting at 5:00 PM. Greg Baker reported that the Rotary foundation golf tournament may just a little under $15,000 which will go to scholarships for three of standing Arroyo Grande high school students. Greg also reported that the Summer Sizzle meeting will take place after this meeting. Steve Curry announced that Grover Beach is being re-branded as a Wednesday noontime club on July 1 at Rosa's. He invited everyone that can possibly attend to do so on that date. Assistant to the District Gov. Sandy Nichols reported that the literacy book giveaway was a financial success because of the job Burdine Printing’s of the books.
 FINES:
Jeff King turned another year older and recently returned from a 4000 mile US driving tour that included Wichita, Kansas. For these 2 events, he was given an $80 spin-the-wheel fine.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY PAUL JONES:
"Be patient. I won’t keep you very long.”
 Elizabeth Taylor."
“If you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there.”
Lewis Carroll