President Helene called the meeting to order at 12:12 PM
Pledge: Manisha Puranik
Inspiration: Colleen Hudgen delivered a heartfelt inspiration on reminding us of where we were on 9/11 and reminded us to show love everyday
Rotarians with Guests:
Loy Oppus –Moe, guest of Jeff Moe, Shelly Gupta, guest of PDG Orrin Mahoney and Jenny Yuan, guest of PP Hung Wei
Birthday Celebration:
Peter Halpin and President Helene lead the room in singing Happy Birthday. September is a popular birthday month with 34 Cupertino Rotarians celebrating.
President’s Club:
PP Bev Lenihan gave an excellent tribute to former Cupertino Rotarian Nick Bogdanavich. Nick passed this last week and he will be truly missed by all of us.
Bev also welcomed Pete Goodell back after being away for a while and asked everyone to sign a special birthday card for him.
Leslie Hay told us about a former Rotarian Sandie Zander and what a great Cupertino Rotarian she was. She still follows all our activities even since she defected to Southern California. Leslie had us all say hi to Sandie, check out the photo below.
Announcements:
PE Padma presented the upcoming district AOS conference on October 4th. This is a great opportunity to meet other Rotarians and see projects around the district. Contact Padma to register, our club pays for your attendance and dinner.
President Helene reminded everyone that next week (9/19) was Bike to Rotary Day, don’t forget to pedal to our meeting on September 19th at Community Hall
Next week will also be “Talk like a Pirate Day” . There will be a pirate joke contest so send your best one to Helene this week.
PP Bev Lenihan announced the final Bocce Ball event for this summer as September 21st. Come and join the fun and thanks to Dana there will be one more Bocce Ball event on Oct 19th.
PP Hsing Kung presented the candidates from the nominating committee for the 2019/20 year.
- Strategic Development Officer (SDO) PP Liz Gallegos
- Board of Directors: Leslie Hay, Sunil Nethisinghe & Henry Buffalow
- President Elect: Stuart Rosenberg
- Secretary: Dana Stearns
TRF Campaign Update:
PP Liz Gallegos reminded everyone that we are in the middle of the campaign to raise funds for TRF. Our international programs depend on the funds from this campaign We are currently at $34,000 and 40% participation so get your pledges in this week..
Celebrating Success
PE Padma Chari showed some of the highlights of the recent Global Elegance event. Over 150 were in attendance and a good time was had by all in addition to raising funds for our international projects and recognizing our many partners. Check out all the pictures by clicking here.
Sabrina Rizk just returned from her Faces of Hope trip this summer and gave a great presentation on the program to perform surgery on cleft palette children in Guatemala. While there for 10 days, they served 95 children working with many partner organizations. This is just one example of the great work that The Rotary Foundation does with our donations.
