IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK, October 5, 2011
By Tim Messmer
On this rainy Wednesday President Ann Murakami called our weekly meeting to order promptly at 12:15. Joel Foreman has been striving to keep our President on schedule and it appears to be working. Richard Marcus (former Culver City Mayor) gave the Invocation followed up by John Cluff leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Now that the swim season has slowed down Alan Goldman has become a regular again and guided us in singing the Patriotic song, "God Bless America."
We had a very busy schedule today and Ann jumped right in and asked Jim Machado to introduce his guests, leading off with his mother (a very young 92) Gayle Machado, the matriarch of the family, and Rod, Sara, Gracie and Raphie Machado. Clint Ehlers introduced his daughter Taylor who along with Gracie Machado were our Club’s representatives in Australia for our International Youth Exchange.
Joel Foreman introduced the Birthdays and Anniversaries for October. Joel researches and provides interesting facts that happened on the day of our birth or wedded bliss. A chocolate cake with strawberries between the two layers was this month’s celebration cake. I had to try three slices before I could determine how well I liked it and I’m sure I saw Don Trepany going for more than seconds.
Ann pointed out an article in our local paper about Janet Chabola, which promptly earned Janet a fine.
Melissa Mooney announced that there will be a meeting at the Grandview Palms Senior Living Community presented by the Alzheimer's Association titled "Memory in Aging." Apparently I should attend as I forgot to send in this report before leaving town over a week ago.
Gracie Machado and Taylor Ehlers gave us a report along with photos of their trip to Australia. They had a fantastic trip and spent a lot of time with the Aussie students who have visited with us in the past few years. Nearly all the top sites in Australia were visited by the two young ladies. While they did not have photos to share with us Taylor pointed out that the Aussie boys are awesome and well mannered. (I believe that last point was made for Clint Ehlers benefit.) They also pointed out that the King Tut exhibit that they visited at the Natural History Museum had different artifacts then the ones they saw in the Los Angeles exhibit last year.
A quarterly report was made by the Board Members to keep the Club updated on our current status.
Meeting adjourned.