Feb 15th Meeting Notes

Posted by Stuart Rosenberg

Sheryl Wong greeted everyone
Frank Tsui was Sargent at Arms

Pledge of Allegiance was led by Maureen Chen
Inspiration was by Jo Lucey. She provided us an interesting quote and insight from Vincent Van Goh giving us a little valentine's day theme. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Visiting Rotarians: Birsen Gokyigit is from Istanbul-Yeşilköy Rotary Club.

Rotarians with guests: Tess Chandler and Chris Jackson, guests of Jim Jackson, Constantine Lolos, guest of Karen Morris, Julie Griswold, guest of PP Hung Wei, Jenny Yuan, guest of Bill Wilson, Dana Grova, guest of Lee McCrumb, Ann Woo, guest of Diana Ding, Jyoti Rau, guest of Jeff Moe

President’s Club: Rose Ann Woolpert joined President’s Club to in memory of Bobby Gill, an employee who was working directing traffic during the recent mud slides. He is well remembered for making a difference and helping others.

President's Corner: President Judy took this opportunity to thank a number of members of the club including the club service team for the special Valentines day theme. She thanked the Crab Feed team let by Jeanne and Dana for the excellent Crab feed- great food, great fellowship and excellent fundraising. The publicity team really kicked it into high gear this year as it was a total sellout. President Judy also thanked everyone for turning out for the Orange Harvest at the last minute where 25 rotarians picked over 4500 lbs of oranges for local food banks.

Steve Onishi presented on behalf of his team and the Vocational Service team that after extensive consideration and analysis the job support group was no longer meeting. The needs of job seekers has changed, and there are now more and varied services available from others. Steve will be leading a group to pivot rotary in a new direction to help job seekers toward New Collar jobs and is seeking volunteers to help investigate and invent this program. Contact Steve if you are interested.

Birsen Gokyigit from the Istanbul-Yeşilköy Rotary Club thanked us for our past and future support of the Avoiding Blindness project in Turkey, helping many people with corneal disease.

PP Kathy Nellis provided those in attendance some training on the CREF permanent fund, now over $1.1M and a major contributor to our club's capability to service the community. So far CREF has contributed over $275K to our Avenues of Service. Kathy then introduced the CREF board to a round of applause for the hard work they do on our behalf.