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JUST ONE VICTORY ISSUE
JUNE 8, 2019
NEWS,NOTES & NONSENSE
ANDREW IS PINNED BY JOE
Prez Patty and Joe welcomed out newest member Andrew Ambrose. He is the East Alton Regions Bank Branch Manager. Please give him a warm East Alton welcome.
Nateintroduced the program presenter, Wood River Mayor, and Rotarian, Cheryl Maguire. She opened by complimenting Joe on his "gift of gab". Cheryl spent a few minutes talking about some of the good things going on in her berg. Among them: reduced tax bills, completing the downtown streetscape project, the new police station and the restarting of the housing development on Moreland Rd @ IL143.
The entree was pork in apple stuff, accompanied by carrots, boiled quartered red taters, rolls and layer cake. Wendell was not convinced that it was pork.
Nice to have Alex back in the house.
East Alton clean up day is TODAY. If you can't join us at 8:30 at the Keasler Rec Center, meet up at Eastgate and find us collecting along Highway 3. We will be around until late AM. FYI-the shoulders have been recently mowed.
It seems as though ChrisH found himself shut out from Wendell's table, so he planted his butt at the other front table and then began dissing on the other table. MarkS has been tasked with having a "conversation" with Chris about this 4-way test violation.
Let's recognize Erin for her 12 years of club service.
No Cory, no worries. MarkS covered for him.
No Bill, no worries, there must be a Cardinal day game.
Where was Emily last Thursday? Taking her first vacay day of the year. Where was Patty? Enjoying her time with her grandchildren, sans parental "guidance".
Thanks to Allen for sharing some of his archival collection with Rick.
Things that make you go hmmm...it's better to be able to get your boat to the house than to get to the boat from the house.
Lori has your packet of 15 Baseball Mania tickets. Hardcopy and online sales options are available.
Opening duties were handled by ChrisH, Joe and Dave.
Allen brought and introduced his new pastor, Rodney Durr. Rodney was most recently serving a church in Grand Prairie, TX. He was also a Texas Rotarian and may be joining our club.
Allen, Darren, Emily and Alex served as the early arrival vanguard of the proud 21. Rhonda arrived just after Prez Patty banged the bell at 12:24. Other post-nooners included ChrisH, Randy, and Patty.
Wood River Rotarian Tommie was with us breaking bread.
Our Installation Dinner is scheduled for June 27th. Fellowship starts @ 5, dinner at 5:30. Signup on line or at the meeting.
Dave shared a listed of Business of the Year nominees. He will have ballots next week.
SAA Queenie was not in the house. Prez Patty invited "a different kind of queen" to cover. Randy accepted the challenge and drafted ChrisL to serve as his $$ wingman. Randy admonished us to "not shoot the messenger", we didn't. We did contribute a bunch of $$ for the D-Day trivia questions. We celebrated MarkV's birthday. Announcements were forthcoming from Dave, Rick and Patty. Not in the house last week? Pay a $.
After Emily drew a 50-50 dud, Lori picked the joker to win $38 (she last won on, wait for it, June 6, 2014). Good for her! Randy had the scratch-off.
That's it, have a fine and dry weekend. Ciao!
THAT'S A WINNER, ICE CREAM ANYONE?
ALL BANNER ACCESS
Finally...the project to scan and upload all Rotary Banner issues is complete. Start by heading to our home page http://eastaltonrotary.org Banners from 1971-2014 will require you to login via the "member login" link at the top of the page. Once there, click on the "member area", also at the top of the page. Under "My ClubRunner" click on the "view club documents" link. Scroll down to the "Rotary Banner" file and open it. You will find dated files, mostly by calendar quarters, click the file to open.
If you are looking for Banners from 2015 forward, no login is required. Near the top of our home page click on the "Banner newsletters" link to go to the year by year listing. You can use the "year" tool at the top to move between years.
Go ahead and explore. Find anything interesting? Please share. Also, if you have any problems or suggestions to improve access, let Rick know.
TRIVIA
Steven Kandarian stepped down after eight years atop a venerable organization. Which of these did he run, and which famous mascot did he cut loose?
A-Kraft Heinz and Mr. Peanut
B-MetLife and Snoopy
C-Kellogg and Tony the Tiger
D-The National Crime Prevention council and McGruff the Crime Dog
June 8th is National Best FriendsDay
What is the world’s largest natural history museum?
American Museum of Natural History, New York
National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Natural History Museum, London
Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History's 570,000 square feet extends across four city blocks and contains over 30 million artifacts and specimens. Arguably its most popular allure are its famed dinosaur exhibits. When you first enter the main entrance you will be greeted by the awe-inspiring skeletal remains of two predatory Allosaurus engaged in an attack on a hulking Barosaurus and her child. On the fourth floor, there are entire halls dedicated to these prehistoric wonders, containing classics along with lesser known dinosaurs like the Titanosaur, a massive sauropod who is so large that its head juts into the hallway outside its already-oversized room.
On This Date-
452 – Italy invaded by Attila the Hun.
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages.
1966 – The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
JUNE 6, 2013
Current members in a leadership position: Rhonda, Lori, Cory, Paul, BradL, MarkA, Rod, Allen and Rick
The program presenter, Nicolette Watson, was introduced by ChrisH. She was the Case Manager for the MadCo Veteran Treatment Court
MarkS, Cory and Dick covered the opening duties
Lunch featured mostly meatless spaghetti and 'Rotary g-beans
MarkV offered an IOU to cover his birthday dun
Dick wasn't sure when to sell. ChrisH has the answer
Rhonda was preparing to assume the duties of our club presidency
BradL was seeking Business of the Year nominees
MarkS posed the question, what is a lawnmower but a blade?
Do you remember Jenny Lewis?
AUGUST 2011
DATELINE:RI
EVERY WHISKEY TELLS A STORY
Rüdiger Niemz, Rotary Club of Mondseeland, Austria
“When I was invited to join Rotary, instead of giving a presentation about my job, as everyone is expected to do, I did a whiskey tasting.
“I became interested in whiskey when I was traveling a lot as a journalist. I was working on travel shows about foreign countries. You would come back very late from the filming and editing, and then you’d meet somebody at the bar. You’d start talking, and start sharing whiskey. You don’t drink whiskey to get drunk. It’s part of an exciting lifestyle.
“I got to know a lot of different places and whiskeys, and after a while I got asked to host curated tastings. I got a master’s degree in food science so I researched a lot about the history and sociology of drinks and food. Every whiskey contains a story. Every cheese contains a story.
“Life is so interesting. You cannot limit yourself. Journalists are always trying to look behind the curtain. We are trying to discover something. We are trying to get new ideas, new perspectives. I also have my master’s in philosophy. Philosophers are quite similar to journalists: We are both curious about life.
“This is the interesting thing about Rotary. You always meet exceptional people. They have different backgrounds, different experiences. It is so exciting.
“I like the worldwide view. In these days where people are developing backwards in a way that we stick to ourselves, our region, to our nationality only — where we are getting more ruthless in terms of how we treat each other in national and especially international politics — Rotary is an alternative.”
AND I QUOTE
"Fame simply means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."-Erica Jong
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."-Stephen Covey
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."-Garrison Keillor
"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."-David Bowie
SMILE
My ability to remember song lyrics from the 80's far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen
As I watched the dog chasing his tail, I thought dogs are easily amused. Then I realized I was watching the dog chase his tail
1st rule of cleaning while listening to music-the toilet brush is never the microphone...never
Sometimes, I shock myself with the smart stuff I say and do. Other times, I try to get out of the car with my seat belt on
Just found out those stick people on the back of vehicles aren't for keeping track of the pedestrians you've hit
I think bees teach us an important lesson. You may be small, but when you are chasing someone with a sharp object...people will still run from you
BY THE NUMBERS
Job postings for AI (artificial intelligence) positions in the U.S. increased 159% over the past year. Add to this estimates that there are more than 700,000 unfilled IT jobs in the U.S.-CompTIA
At the peak of the tech bubble in 2000, Microsoft Corp. jockeyed for the title of world’s most valuable company with Intel Corp., which made microprocessors; Cisco Systems Inc., which made communications gear; and General Electric Co., which made locomotives and turbines. Nearly two decades later, Microsoft is once again atop the market-value rankings. Cisco, Intel and GE are—combined—worth about half of Microsoft.
Nationwide enrollment in colleges and universities declined by 1.7%, or nearly 300,000 students this year. The decline in Illinois was 5%, 30,000 students-National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
How Americans rate their BBQ skills: excellent-50%, good-41%, hits or miss-6%, not great 3%-2019 Rufus Teague BBQ Survey
$4,270 per capita credit card debt in Alaska, highest in the USA. Lowest: Mississippi at $2,020. U.S. average: $3,100-Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of February
44% of consumers use only 1 to 5 passwords to access all of their online applications, indicating many use the same password for different accounts-The Hartford SteamBoiler Inspection and Insurance Company Survey of 1,551 U.S. adults
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