Pledge: Led by
Mandy Andrei
Presidents Club:
Louisa Roberts joined President’s club to celebrate her daughter Charlotte’s graduation with honors from the Paul Mitchell School in the Aesthetics program.
Birthdays and Birthday Quiz:
Peter Halpin introduced 27 Rotarians celebrating birthdays in September.
Luciano, Marj, PP Stuart and President Jeff all shared baby photos.
Service Corner:
Itsuo and Marian Uenaka Memorial Scholarship Presentation by
Susan Latshaw, who gave a brief background of the scholarship and the life of Itsuo Uenaka. The scholarship is granted annually for $40K over 4 years. This year’s recipient is Anna Bui, 2024 graduate of San Jose High School. She also plans to apply for the nursing program. She loves to dance, sing, play sports and drink Boba.
Please view the full presentation here.
VA BBQ Summary
Mauri Okamoto-Kearney organized a lunch BBQ for veterans with a small group of volunteers from Rotary and American Legion Post 642, flipping burgers and enjoying an afternoon with the veterans in Palo Alto.
Call for Volunteers by
Bill Furniss for the Cross-Cultural Partners program, an opportunity to volunteer with an ESL student at DeAnza College. Commitment is to meet for 5 one-hour sessions via zoom or in person over De Anza’s fall quarter (Oct 17-Dec 9). Online applications must be completed September 23 thru Oct 4. Please contact Bill (wefurniss@gmail.com) by Sept 9 if you are interested.
Affinity Moments:
Bocce Ball and Golf Combined activity Friday, September 20th Wendell Stephens and Dana Stern announced the last fellowship of combined Bocce ball and Golf. Join for Golf (contact wendellstephens@mac.com) and/or light Dinner (contact danastern19@gmail.com), or if you want to just come play Bocce Ball, show up! Remember to bring your own drinks. Nominal fee for golf and dinner.
Fundraisers:
Fall Fest is September 14
th Bill Furniss announced, featuring a Kid’s Zone, Craft Beer tasting and Entertainment. It’s a fundraiser for our club and a great community builder, and a lot of fun!
Susanne Millar is the volunteer coordinator and announced there are still 28 empty volunteer slots so please look online and sign up. Parking Assistance and Rotary Snack Booth are high-need spots.
Keith Kreft, Craft Beer Tasting Manager, enticed us with the possibility of 24 beers for tasting at the Fall Fest and serenaded us with a great song and invited everyone to “come by and taste some beer”, “sign up to volunteer,” “tell your friends we are sipping beer”. Did we mention there will be beer?
Membership Moments:
Personal talk and fly up for
Sujatha Venkatraman. She was born in a small state in India at her grandparents. Sujatha was troubled why no one was helping them. She was led to a bachelor’s degree in Humanistic Psychology and Applied Psychology and was introduced to the world of non-profit. Her mother and future mother-in-law met at a gathering and arranged a meeting where Sujatha met her future husband. She lived in Atlanta; Georgia and he was in Chicago. They later moved to the Bay Area, and she found West Valley Community Services. She felt it was a full circle moment. She has two children, the oldest is in college and youngest in elementary school. Rotary has helped her be compassionate and patient with her journey and aligns with her work at West Valley Community Services.
You can view the full personal talk here.
Next was her fly-up to red badge. Dana Stern shared many of Sujatha’s Rotary activities, including Dr. Seuss Reading, Rise against Hunger, Back to School Shopping, Gifts of Hope, and Chili Cook-off to name a few and is a member of Housing and Youth Services AOS. Mentor PP Judy Wilson and Sponsor Craig Cummings removed her Red Badge sticker and presented the 4-Way test paperweight.
Announcements:
India Men’s Cricket Team for the Blind are coming to our meeting Sept 11 to do a demonstration Memorial Park at 11:30am before our meeting and will be presenting at our meeting afterwards.
President’s Corner:
Thank you to the Meeting Team, always there to keep us organized.Hunger at Home distributed food at PayPal Park Sept 2, first Monday of the month.
Program: District Governor Jill Duerig.President Jeff Moe introduced our speaker
District Governor Jill Duerig. Jill joined Rotary in 2003. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Livermore and served as its President in 2019-2020. She was an Assistant Governor for Area 4 in 2020-2021 and served as Lieutenant Governor-Avenues of Service from 2021-2023
. Check out DG Jill’s full presentation here. Jill is a retired General Manager of Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore and a former General Manager/Chief Engineer for Scotts Valley Water District. It’s no surprise that her passion for potable water got her involved in the Haiti National Clean Water Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy (HANWASH, a partnership between Rotary’s WASH Rotary Action Group, other NGOs and the government of Haiti).
Jill and her husband Tom have three children and six grandchildren. She was a Suunday school teacher, babysitter and grandma cookie maker demonstrates that she lives the motto “Family First.”
The district strategic plan is to be here to serve you. Clubs are where things happen. Kudos to our very well-run Cupertino Rotary.
Jill’s Two Goals for the Year:
1. Remember the 4 Way Test. Being a Presidential Election Year, remember, don’t get mean, do things that are beneficial to all concerned, get through the year, be kind, respect one another even if your political views are different from friends or relatives. Even if we disagree.
2.Care about what we are doing, find the magic. Remember “Three T’s: Time, Talent, Treasure.” Find them, use them, find your passion.
Jill called up a Cupertino Rotarian Panel to comment on “What was your very favorite Rotary project” and b) “How do you see the Magic in a Rotary beneficiary’s eyes?”
Fun bird fact: Purple Martins are the largest swallow in the United States, they eat mosquitoes and demonstrate impressive aerial acrobatics. They never touch the ground.
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