Meeting February 11, 2016

Posted by Jeff Hata

on Feb 11, 2016

Vance Thompson led us in the Salute to the Flag.

Rich Stewart announced that our raffle prize was a bag full of Valentine's goodies!!!

Jeff Hata gave our Inspirational Message followed by Tim Hughes who gave our joke of the day.

President Bruce nominated Harriet Clune to a board position for 2016. The club unanimously voted Harriet onto the board. President Bruce then announced that Harriet has accepted the PEN position! We now have a succession plan for the next 4 - 5 years in place.

Tim Blackwell spoke about membership and reminded us about the domino theory. When asked how many people had their domino's with them about half the club said they did.

Joe Strohman let us know that the essays are coming in from Buena and we will need people to help ready through them. The Foundation Board had 3 people who have expressed an interest in serving on the Foundation. The Foundation will be meeting tonight at Joe Strohman's office tonight at 5 and Morgan Stanley will be there to report on our funds.

In regard to membership, Joe Strohman has gone through his Outlook (address book) and has identified about 15 potential members.

Tom Swan introduced his guest Cecilia Johnson. Cecilia was our program awhile ago speaking about "Scholarship" bootcamps and is interested in joining the club and possibly doing some bootcamps at Buena in conjunction with our scholarship application period.

Rich Stewart read a letter from the Salvation Army thanking us for our help with Bell Ringing this past Christmas. We raised $159.16 for the day! If you are interested in helping with the homework club at Atlas School, please let Rich know.

Tom Swan announced that he will be the club's Administrative Assistant for Husam and that Todd Juvonen will take over Community Service for 2016-2017.

Tom Swan also announced that we have a Community Service project tentatively lined up at the City Center on March 19th for Light maintenance and gardening.

President Bruce announced that there were 2 sign up sheets going around. One was for the YMCA Victory Dinner on March 4th and the other was for the joint meeting with Ventura-South on February 29th.

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Bob Noville.

Cecilia Johnston spoke about college bootcamps and how to secure scholarships and grants.

President Bruce then led the club in a Club Assembly.