President John Has Three More Weeks by Jim McFarland
Flag salute and Thought of the Day by Jason Hearne. His thought was to wish our incoming president Cedric Tuck-Sherman the best in his upcoming presidential year!
President John Acker. Had a great two weeks gone. Three more weeks of his presidency.
Guests: Dave Barnes, Greg Geilman and Mark Shoemaker, all guests of Walt Kasha; Kavita Patel, guest of Coby McDonald; Chris Cage, guest of Mark Maruyama; Lisa Schlager, guest of Sandesha Singh; and Kate Omth.
Happy Dollars!! No one was happy???
Rotary District Conference “Rotary Uncorked: Service, connection, and growth,” June 12-15, South Coast Winery and Resort. Funny photo - Who knew Larry Johnson had so many kids? It was a fun picture of Larry, on one of his many trips to Africa, with a group of kids. Also, a picture of Lisa Hemmat-Lupercio and kids with one of the comedians from MIG.
Mystery Rotarian… Tarek Shaer. Joke: Three people walk into a bar, a mathematician, an engineer, and an accountant. The bartender asks the mathematician, “What is two plus two?”, and he answers 4. He asks the engineer. His response was somewhere between 3.98 and 4.02. He then asks the accountant. His answer was “What do you need it to be?”
Cedric spoke about the revisions to our bylaws and constitution. He mentioned that John Ranaudo brought up that our bylaws had not been updated in years, so a committee was formed with John, Cedric, Loli Ramezani and Richard Montgomery to review and update our bylaws to our constitution. They removed redundant bylaws. Then it was presented to our existing and future boards for review. Cedric will be emailing us files of the constitution with the redlined bylaws for review and comments. Once received, we will have 10 days to comment.
Late arrival had Happy Dollars!!! Dan Graham had happy dollars for his son Colby and the Mira Costa Boys’ Volleyball team, who won the State Division 1 Championship. They also won the CIF Southern Section Championship. Dan commented that they will be ranked number one in the nation later this week. They completed their season 37 and 2!! https://www.dailybreeze.com/2025/06/02/mira-costa-boys-volleyball-wins-cif-state-division-i-championship/ Congrats Mustangs!!!
President John commented on our “healthy breakfast” which includes Honey Nut Cheerios, Fruit Loops, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Nice try Westdrift.
We have a volunteer opportunity June 7th to join with the Altadena Rotary Club to hand out goods to those in need due to the January fires. Pleas sign up and go. There will be future opportunities with Altadena Rotary. John Ranuado will be donating some tee shirts from our storage locker he cleaned out and organized.
Rotarians in the Wild…photos of MusicFest, soccer, President John in Switzerland and the MBEF Wine Auction!!
Who should be fined? Photos of former club presidents talking during the meeting.
Advisor in the house. “Hope. One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” Sigmund Freud
Our guest speaker for today was Dr. Pulin Sheth, Medical Director of the Breast Imaging Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Chief of Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) staff radiologist at Keck Medicine and Verdugo Hills Hospital.
Dr. Sheth gave us of list of questions he hoped he could answer in his allotted time.- Why and how do we screen for breast cancer?
- Difference between screening and diagnostic imaging?
- Mammogram, Ultrasound, MRI, other...which is best?
- The dreaded "Call Back"!
- Breast interventions and next steps
- Working as a Team - radiologists, surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, plastic and reconstructive surgeons, pathologists, geneticists, techs, nurses, and patient advocates/navigators
- When to start screening? When to stop? How often?
- Who is at high or higher risk and what does that mean?
- How is Al changing breast cancer management?
Most important item he stressed. Get screening every year after 40. If you have the BRCA gene or family history, it is so very important. AI will not replace doctors, but will be an important tool to use to recognize and highlight possible cancer. Dr. Sheth’s info 323-865-3452, pulin.seth@med.usc.edu, keckmedicine.org.
Amy Zimmerman, with Redondo Beach Rotary, thanked us for our gift to fund her Global Grant project in Israel. Her project is to train 30 women to be medics and ambulance drivers. The women will be trained to speak Hebrew and Arabic. They have raised over $105,000.
Rod Spackman was the double winner of the drawing today…a nice bottle of Justin Cab and unfortunately, a no go on all the marbles.
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