President Del announced that on this day 40 years ago Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first cell phone call to Joel Engle of competitor, Bell Labs, who claimed he didn’t remember the call!
Announcements:
The regular Monday, April 10, Rotary meeting next week, will be held at Bellingham Technical College with lunch prepared and served by BTC Culinary Arts Program students at a cost of $12.00. They will not be set up to take credit cards, so please bring cash (exact if possible) or check made out to BTCF Board of Trustees.
The Rotary Club of Everett is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. This means that the RC of Everett has been thru the "Great War", the "Roaring Twenties", the "Depression Years", "WWII", "Baby Boom", "Viet Nam", "Watergate", "the Berlin Wall", "9/11", the "Millennium" and they keep on going. They are holding a (click on invitation) Charter Day Party, May 2, 2017 from 5:30-7:30.
The annual Major Awards nominations are being accepted by the Executive Committee for The Will J. Griswold Club Service Award, The David C. Morse Sr. Community Service Award, The Michael K. Mischaikow International Service Award and The Karen W. Morse Vocational Service Award. They will be presented on June 26th at our changing of the guard. Please turn in nominations to President Del, Past President Chuck Snyder, Teri Treat or Sandy McIntire.
Del mentioned the deadline to complete the Region 5050 club survey has been extended to this Thursday and urged all members complete the survey. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CZDNBB2 Nathan Twining announced Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner date is April 28, 2017, 6:00 pm and urged us to sign up as a host or participant using the Sign Up sheets on our tables.
Doug Starcher of the Bellingham Theater Guild reviewed the elevator addition project in detail that was our Major Project this year and was proud that the project came in under budget, so they were also able to replace the roof on the entire building. Doug presented President Del with a plaque thanking our Club for our significant participation in the very successful project.
Minister of Fun, Dan Whittle, presented a fun review of beer which raised considerable funds even among our beer drinkers.
Guests of Rotarians:
Mark Knittel introduced Izaac Burrows with Corion Landscape
Arlie Norman brought his wife Diane
Matt Dorsch introduced his daughter Lauren
Larry Halgren brought former President and member Dr. Dan Brown
Sandy McIntire introduced Doug and Lynn Starcher, representing The Bellingham Theatre Guild
Presentations:
Paul Harris +1 Awards were made to Ann Jones and Sandy McIntire.
Program:
Dr. Don Berry was introduced by Sandy McIntire. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Berry is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St. Josephs Hospital. He described our outstanding 24 bed facility that is fully staffed 24 hours per day and reviewed several exceptional cases of life saving results that would not have been possible in many other ICU facilities with less skilled professionals.
Intensive Care Units were introduced in the 1960’s when technology advanced beyond the Iron Lung and the rapid growth of many new skills and advanced equipment continues to improve outcomes and allows many people to walk out of hospitals to resume productive lives that would not have been possible just a few years ago.
St. Josephs has adopted a “process approach" utilizing teams of professionals to assure consistent positive results. The ICU is now very much a “Medical Team” as compared to a more individual approach that has been more common in the past. We are fortunate to have such an outstanding facility in our city.
Dr Berry reminded all of us to review our Living Wills with our family members and cover a variety of possible health issues so the desired intents will be known as generally the patient is not able to communicate such wishes at the time decisions need to be made.
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President Del thanked visiting past member and past president Dan Brown for attending our meeting.
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