Rotopep for September 6, 2018

President Michele began our meeting by leading us in the 4-Way Test.

Visiting Rotarians:

Paulo Giordano, Orlando (father of President Michele)

PDG Kenichi Maruo and Yu Okuda, both from the Kobe Sieshin Club
AG Roger Crawford, District 6140
Rebecca Tanaka, Rotary Club of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff
Tina and Colin Arthur, Rotary Club of West Perth, Western Australia
Herbert Rivera, Rotary Club of Evanston (former member)
Dr. Sandita Bhansal, Rotary Club New Delhi

 

Visitors: Cameel Halim (our speaker), and his guests, Alan Didesch and David Wolf, and also his daughter and grandaughter. Dave Stumpf introduced Michael Livshutz to us again.

 

Announcements: 

September 9:  Club Tent at Streets Alive. 12-5 pm. Need Volunteers

September 11: Trivia Night at Bar Louie ("fun raising") 7 pm

October 13:  Northwestern Football Game vs. Nebraska Tailgaiting

October 20: One Rotary Summit - District Training at Harper College

October 24: World Polio Day - LiveStreaming Event at One Rotary Center (no club meeting October 25th)

November 10-11: Rotary UN Day in Nairobi, Kenya & our club service site visit

November 15: Heads Up Evanston!

 

Lock Out Hunger Box is in R.I. Main Lobby--bring your non-perishables to donate

New Instagram for our Club: @evanstonrotary

 

Treasurer Dave reminded us to get our dues in

 

Orchids & Onions:  Gary Bowen has a new condo in Florida

Jason Orloff announced that his group has completed cost of goods analysis on rape kits.  They should be able to analyze assault kits at 3/5 of the going rate.  Jason has also been accepted to the Forensic Management Academy.

 

Sgt-at-Arms:  John Robertson liberated money from members' pockets with ease.

 

Speaker: Mr. Cameel Halim was the youngest of 8 in Cairo, Egypt.  He studied civil engineering at Cairo University before coming to the United States.  He was a member of the Wilmette Rotary Club.  His fascination with clocks, watches, and stained glass led to  a hobby which led to a passion which then led to a new museum in Evanston, the Halim Time & Glass Museum.  He chose Evanston over Chicago because of his love for Evanston.  His collection of clocks and watches is the best in the world.  He also has a fantastic collection of Tiffany Glass and stained glass.  Most of his collection is around 300 years old.

He began his museum in the building that used to be the The Evanston Catholic Women's Club.  During the third year of the expansion and renovation, there was a fire that gutted the entire building.  So, he started over with a new building that would be built as a museum.  He won awards in 2017 for the best construction in Evanston for both the inside and outside of his building.  Some of his collection is permanent, some is rotating.  His American clock collection is special.  The American clock industry began as a result of tariffs, and developed into the first assembly line, long before Henry Ford's line.

Mr. Halim is hoping to attract support from the Evanston business community.  He is hoping for the museum to operate as a self-funding business museum.