June 14, 2016-Rotary Forum

By Dick Dannells

Pres. Joel began his next to the last meeting at 12:34 PM with the usual guest introductions.

Michael Boyer reported that a short demotion meeting will take place immediately after this meeting. Jeff King reported that an August 28 Summer Sizzle meeting will be held after the latter meeting. Sharon Ellis called the representatives accompanied by their sponsors of the following charities to come forward to accept their Community Giving checks: American Legion Cambria Post 432-Welcome Home Military Heroes; American Legion Post Unit 66-Military Parents and Friends; and Jack’s Helping Hands.

Fine master Mark Olson held his usual trivial pursuit quiz show resulting in $20 fines for Karen Zambia and Don Weber, $10 fines for Cliff Nagler, Eric Mund and Andrea Lugar.  John Traversaro was fined $10 by Pres. Joel for accepting $10 of Don Weber’s fines. Pres. Joel then recognized, without fines, John for his wife’s birthday and for Steve Curry’s 70^th birthday.

Ashley Boyer introduced John who began by presenting a slideshow of his family and then a number of photos taken at the recent Rotary International convention in Seoul, South Korea and while he attended the District Conference in Korea in April. The first S. Korean Rotary club was started in 1927 and now there are over 59,000 members with over 28,000 Paul Harris members. This makes them the fourth largest Rotary club in the world behind the US, India and Japan. He noted that Korea is doing very well economically and his experiences indicate that they are a very generous people. He noted that their Hyundai plant manufactures 6000 cars a day. He met with a past District Gov. of Korea that counts Maria and Arnie Dowdy as good friends and John showed a picture of Maria taken during a trip to South Korea a number of years ago.

“The person that never made a mistake, never made a discovery.”