GREETER:     No greeter today SGT. ARMS:   Henry Ott INVOCATION:  Bob Gulcher

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Henry Lee and Greg Sparkman

PATRIOTIC SONG: Lynn Neuman

GUEST WELCOME: Alan Colman               GUESTS: Karen Greenberg, Assist. Govenor

GUEST SONG:  Norton Donner

RAFFLE WINNER: Henry Lee and Shawn Nejad

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

From the South Bay Club

Julia Parton announced the names of members who have a birthday, marriage anni- versary, or Rotary membership anniversary falling in the month of October. The fol- lowing were given cookies for birthdays: Norton Donner-10-22, Darrell Sidler-10-22, Chris Stillians-10-23, Bob Gulcher-10-3, Rick Mendoza-10-8. The following received cookies for marriage anniversaries in October: Lynne and Eric Neuman-33 yrs, Darrell Sidler-28 yrs., John Cameron-27 yrs. Cookies for Rotary membership anniversaries were distributed to: Norton Donner-30 yrs., Darrell Sidler, Bob Gulcher-19 yrs., Greg Sparkman-14 yrs., John Udewitz-5 yrs., and Rick Mendoza-30 yrs. Wow, congratulat- tions to all.

Greg O’Brien said,

 

 

 

 

“Saturday was magic, fabulous”, referring to the Rotary Foundation dinner fundraiser aboard the Iowa Battleship permanently berthed dockside in San Pedro. He felt it was one of if not the best Foundation dinner event he has been to in all his years in Rotary. Greg thanked Karen Greenberg the event co-chair for all her work to make the evening a great success. Greg recognized and thanked Greg Spark- man for his art work on the program cover. He thanked Allan Bond and Julian Ruscoe for their efforts with the auction donations. He acknowledged and thanked Allan Col- man for donating time in his Tahoe condo to the auction, and also Chris Stillians for donating three different portrait certificates. Lynne Neuman told us about Bob John- son at the microphone telling everyone about his time spent on the Iowa when it was touring on active duty. I heard that he took his wife Gail below decks to show her

where his berth was in the ship. Karen Greenberg thanked Julia Parton and Marc Mazorow for   their efforts at the registration table. She said they did a great job because now we have a record of who was there.

Julia Parton and Joan Behrens

 

 

Reminded us about the Educator of The Year event coming up on November 9th. They said if you want to still buy tickets to the event you should hurry up and get on it because they were going to stop ticket sales on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

OUR SPEAKER:

Our speakers Friday were our very own Bob Gulcher and Rick Mendoza.

 

 

 

 

They were introduced by    Lynne Neuman our stand-in president for the day since Allan Bond had other commitments. I think     Lynn, because Rick is a new member to our club, but certainly not new to Rotary, gave us a pretty de- tailed list of his past Rotary contributions. He was a club president in1993-1994, following that he was  club Foundation Chair for 3 years. He served as District Governor in 2002-2003, the year the “Eradicate Polio campaign began. In 2005 he was awarded the “Rotary International Citation for Meritorious Ser- vice” by The Rotary Foundation. In 2009-2012 he served a three year term as the District 5280 Rotary Foundation Chair raising over seven million dollars for the Rotary Foundation. In 2012-2015 he served Zone 26 as the Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator. In 2013-2016 he again served as club Foundation Chair bringing his club to #1 in Distric-5280 in per capita contributions at $542.31. To    top it all off in 2012 he was recognized with The Rotary Foundation’s highest award, the      “Distinguished Service Award”.

Bob led off his part of the talk with a discussion about the current Rotary magazine. He asked us if we knew who was on the cover. It was Arch Klumph. He told us that to date for the year 2016 the Rotary International Foundation has raised $300,000,000.00 in support of its many humanitarian projects around the world. The biggest is Polio eradication. He said that it will take about another $1.5 billion    and several more years to totally eradicate Polio in all the countries of the world.

Rick began his talk telling us the Rotary Foundation started out with a donation from Arch Klumph.       The amount was $26 and change. This was money that was left over at the end of the year from his Rotary club’s account. Rick told us that the International Foundation has 6 areas of focus. Clean water and Sanitation, Child and Maternal Heath, (immunizations), Micro Credit, Promoting Peace, (he told us about sending students around the worth to learn about peace and conflict resolution, Education and Literacy, Youth and Scholarships, and Polio Eradication.

Rick went on to tell us that donated money can usually be leveraged 3:1. He said the structure regard- ing the International Foundation is: Rotary International Board of Trustees/Regional Foundation Team/ District Foundation Team/and Club Foundation Team. Rick said that we had 52 Paul Harris Fellows in our club to date, that there were about 16 who were not, and the club would be willing to put up to    as much as $500 to help get those members to Paul Harris Status.

We were also told about the different levels of Rotary giving. He told us about the Paul Harris level of

giving $1,000, the Rotary Society level of giving $10,000, and the super Society level of giving

$250,000.

Bob went on to suggest that our club foundation consider giving a $200 to $300 gift to the