Sep 20, 2016-Rotary Forum
Posted by Dick Dannells on Sep 22, 2016
PROGRAM September 20, 2016: District Gov. Nick Frankle- “What It Means to be a Rotarian”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:36 PM, with his on ‘this date in history’: Billie Jean King faced off against and beat Bobby Riggs in 1973; Buddy Holly’s "That'll Be the Day" became a top hit in 1957; Sandra Day O’Connor took her seat as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court in 1981.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lee Ann Liscombe needs a few volunteers for the pie eating contest at the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival this coming Saturday. Terry Fibich requested volunteers for this Saturday's highway cleanup starting at 7:30 AM with free breakfast at Coco’s and will be done by 10 so it will not interfere with the pie eating contest. Connie O Henley announced that this week is the AG High School Interact Club’s first meeting. Pres. Greg announced that he hopes that our club will have strong representation at the Rotary District Conference and 100th anniversary of the Rotary Foundation on the weekend of October 14 through the 16th at the Hyatt in Westlake Village. Karen Zappia reminded everyone to bring jackets and chairs for the Dist. Gov. barbecue at Steve and Linda Curry’s ranch starting at 5:30 PM. District Gov. Frankle had the honors of awarding a Paul Harris Fellow to Sharron Durrant and stated that the donation that led to this award is part of the $3 billion donated to the Rotary Foundation over the past 100 years. He also had the honor of presenting District pins to Erik Mund, Jeff King and Steve Curry for the great work they been doing with our club.
FINES:
Fine Master Jack Hardy fined Shannon Bowdey $5 for her wedding anniversary with Bradley. Karen Zappia and Mark Olson were fined $25 each for not wearing their Rotary pins. Lee Ann Liscombe’s three-year club anniversary cost her $50. He welcomed Jim Lewis back to the club after surgery but did not levy a fine on him.
District Gov. Nick Frankle- “What It Means to be a Rotarian”
Pres. Greg introduced Nick who joined the Westlake Village Sunrise Rotary Club in 2002 and rose to be its president in 2006. He is spent his entire business life in the field of computer science primarily working on government contracts by starting out out doing programming for NASA. He began by telling a true story of the first time he went to Honduras to meet a woman that Rotary had adopted to make her life economically self-sufficient. She told him that God sent me Rotary and you Rotarians are God’s angels. He stated that Rotary Foundation makes the difference in the lives of people we never meet. That reminded him of his father’s motto: Doing God’s work. Nick had not been in Rotary until 2002 when he joined at his wife’s insistence. He then got so involved in Rotary that his daughter came to him and said, “Let me know when you are not on Rotary business so my fiancée and I can set a date to get married.” Before becoming president of his club, he was a Meals on Wheels volunteer. One of his deliveries was to a wife whose husband was on a ventilator. She took him to her garden and showed him her beautiful trees and flowers that she was so proud of and picked an orange gave it to them. At that moment he realized that you become a Rotarian the day you make a difference in someone’s life. There are only three things that it takes to do good in the world and that is: time, talent and treasure. In that first visit to Honduras people walked around with their heads down but four years later on a visit he noted that they had new wells, everyone had Eco stoves that directed the smoke out, there were books in the schools and they had a medical clinic.
PROGRAM September 20, 2016: District Gov. Nick Frankle- “What It Means to be a Rotarian”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:36 PM, with his on ‘this date in history’: Billie Jean King faced off against and beat Bobby Riggs in 1973; Buddy Holly’s "That'll Be the Day" became a top hit in 1957; Sandra Day O’Connor took her seat as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court in 1981.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lee Ann Liscombe needs a few volunteers for the pie eating contest at the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival this coming Saturday. Terry Fibich requested volunteers for this Saturday's highway cleanup starting at 7:30 AM with free breakfast at Coco’s and will be done by 10 so it will not interfere with the pie eating contest. Connie O Henley announced that this week is the AG High School Interact Club’s first meeting. Pres. Greg announced that he hopes that our club will have strong representation at the Rotary District Conference and 100th anniversary of the Rotary Foundation on the weekend of October 14 through the 16th at the Hyatt in Westlake Village. Karen Zappia reminded everyone to bring jackets and chairs for the Dist. Gov. barbecue at Steve and Linda Curry’s ranch starting at 5:30 PM. District Gov. Frankle had the honors of awarding a Paul Harris Fellow to Sharron Durrant and stated that the donation that led to this award is part of the $3 billion donated to the Rotary Foundation over the past 100 years. He also had the honor of presenting District pins to Erik Mund, Jeff King and Steve Curry for the great work they been doing with our club.
FINES:
Fine Master Jack Hardy fined Shannon Bowdey $5 for her wedding anniversary with Bradley. Karen Zappia and Mark Olson were fined $25 each for not wearing their Rotary pins. Lee Ann Liscombe’s three-year club anniversary cost her $50. He welcomed Jim Lewis back to the club after surgery but did not levy a fine on him.
District Gov. Nick Frankle- “What It Means to be a Rotarian”
Pres. Greg introduced Nick who joined the Westlake Village Sunrise Rotary Club in 2002 and rose to be its president in 2006. He is spent his entire business life in the field of computer science primarily working on government contracts by starting out out doing programming for NASA. He began by telling a true story of the first time he went to Honduras to meet a woman that Rotary had adopted to make her life economically self-sufficient. She told him that God sent me Rotary and you Rotarians are God’s angels. He stated that Rotary Foundation makes the difference in the lives of people we never meet. That reminded him of his father’s motto: Doing God’s work. Nick had not been in Rotary until 2002 when he joined at his wife’s insistence. He then got so involved in Rotary that his daughter came to him and said, “Let me know when you are not on Rotary business so my fiancée and I can set a date to get married.” Before becoming president of his club, he was a Meals on Wheels volunteer. One of his deliveries was to a wife whose husband was on a ventilator. She took him to her garden and showed him her beautiful trees and flowers that she was so proud of and picked an orange gave it to them. At that moment he realized that you become a Rotarian the day you make a difference in someone’s life. There are only three things that it takes to do good in the world and that is: time, talent and treasure. In that first visit to Honduras people walked around with their heads down but four years later on a visit he noted that they had new wells, everyone had Eco stoves that directed the smoke out, there were books in the schools and they had a medical clinic.