A Luncheon Honoring America's Veterans

Presented by the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs of Santa Rosa

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Veterans Memorial Building

Santa Rosa, CA

Above, Chicagoan Harry "Cubby" Coffey is ecstatic in announcing the Cub's  victory in the 2016 World Series Championship. 

Here Harry gladly distributes to proceeds to pool winners, including President Merle.

Photographer Warren Smith captured Co-Cub fan Marty Behr's obvious delight, even in the half-shell shot, Marty didn't mind a loss on the pool payout, the CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES for the first time since 1908.

Dodger Fan Max Bridges gladly accepts his good luck in pool proceeds.

Note Harry's focused attention on accurately settling the World Series Pool.  His joy was truly apparent for his team enthusiasm, and anticipation of attending the celebration parade in Chicago over the weekend.  

Member Peter Treleaven is greeted by Red Badger and Greeter of the Day Arthur Chaney.

The meeting opened with Peter Steiner's poignant recitation of the poem "In Flanders Field".  Written in May 1915 by Canadian Medical Officer Michael McRae to honor his fallen comrade Alexis Helmer.  

Peter provided everyone a pin, commemorating Veterans, and a brief history of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance.  Though the one pictured above is a California Poppy, Flanders Poppy's are red, with obvious reference to soldier's shed blood.

For an informative background into the poem, click on the link. 

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/anzac-day/poppies

Wait Peter Hoberg!! There's more birthday goodies to come!  In addition to a great cookie, Peter also received a card, and approval for his youthful delight from Penny Millar and President Merle.

Why does Sunrise Administration Director Carmen Gutierrez look so happy??

Carmen was sworn in as a United States Citizen last week!!!  Congratulations Carmen, and the USA!!!

Ezbon Jen reports on the Club's recent Centennial Dental Project, last week in Monte Rio where 8 of the 25 students seen were referred for restorative oral care.

Red Badger and Culinary organizer Noel Glab announces progress on our November 12 Classic.  Still a few table spots available.

Steve Herron, aka Culinary Sommelier beckons members for a couple additional bottles to fill in the Golden Ticket fully stocked wine cooler.

Steve Zwick, Culinary Media Mogul displays his PowerPoint preview of the Live Auction treasure trove.  For a complete view, click on the Culinary Classic logo from our Home Page.  Italian Villa's, Alaskan Fishing and Mediterranean Cruise are just a few of the premium packages being bid on.

TLT, or Tomorrow's Leaders Today, was our program.  Director Chris Pack (left) and student participants Alea Baker and Eva Nelson.

Alea Baker, senior at Santa Rosa High School enthusiastically describes the TLC activities.  With a mission to develop and empower youth to become collaborative leaders, TLC offers students supervised experiences in the community to gain vocational direction and leadership skill.

Director Chris Pack, Alea Baker and Eva Nelson share narration of TLT's scope.  An outreach originating in 1992 from Leadership Santa Rosa, TLT is now affiliated with Casa SAY~ Social Advocated for Youth.  In 25 years, TLT has reached 2,000 students.  During the course of the school year, participants engage in team building exercises and attend field trips addressing Leadership, Career and Community. Issues deal with Human Services, Agribusiness, Health Care ~ Eva aspires to become a Pediatric Nurse, Financial Literacy, Government~ students attended and were listened to by the School Board, Environment, and Business and Media.  All this in addition to their already busy "normal" schedules.

Eva Nelson reports her inspiration from a field trip to the Neonatal care unit in a local hospital as pivot in her Pediatric Nursing career direction.  The audience was lead in a short exercise to glean our priorities in employee recruitment.  Invariably, Rotarians emphasized team work, critical thinking and problem solving skill as top qualities, the same taught through participation in TLT.

Closing the meeting was Viva McKenzie's try-again draw for the raffle. Next week over $250 in the balance.

That's the spirit ~~ try, try again!!

Merle provided two apt closing thoughts:   "There is a fountain of youth, it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love.  When you learn to tap these sources, you will truly defeat age.  Sophia Loren

AND,  Go forth, support freedom.  The best way to honor our vets is to VOTE Tuesday.

On a regular basis, our resident photo pros Warren Smith and Jack Strange submit pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.

Thanks for all the great pictures Warren and Ross! Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!

Additional photos may be found on the SR Sunrise Facebook Page.

John F. Germ

President 2016-17

Looking back at the momentous 1917 Rotary Convention in Atlanta, it is difficult to see what could have been contentious about the words of then-President Arch C. Klumph: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.” Yet, at the time, support for the idea was far from unanimous. Some thought an endowment fund would create more trouble than it was worth. But Klumph’s idea received the support it most needed in the form of an initial donation of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Mo.

Nearly 100 years later, we recognize Klumph’s idea as not only visionary, but revolutionary: It set in place the mechanism that allowed Rotary to become the vast force for “doing good in the world” that it is today.

In many ways, our Rotary Foundation is the foundation of Rotary as  we know it. It has created a mechanism for cooperation and partnership among clubs and between Rotary and other organizations; it has enabled us to  be ever more ambitious in our work and to reach for goals of historic proportions, such as the eradication of polio. It is impossible to quantify the  good that has been done over the last century as a result of The Rotary Foundation. All we can know for sure is that Arch Klumph, if he could see it, would be proud.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our international convention in Atlanta: the city where our Foundation was born. I hope a record number of Rotarians will be there to celebrate the centennial of our Foundation. In the meantime, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate! I encourage you to read more about the Foundation centennial at centennial.rotary.org. There, you’ll learn about the history of our Foundation and find ideas for events and projects in your clubs and your community.

One of the most important ways we are celebrating the Foundation centennial is with a fundraising goal of $300 million. Your gift to your Foundation is the best way of ensuring a strong second century for Rotarians Doing Good in the World and for Rotary Serving Humanity.

Culinary Committee members Noelle Glab and Steve Herron describe the Exclusive Sunriser events that have received lively bidding in the past and are favorites of Culinary attendees.  Members are encouraged to form creative groups and create more exclusives events this year.  

A form, which can be accessed from the home page on the Website by clicking on the Culinary Classic logo and scrolling down to 2016 Donor form, needs to be filled out with complete information, including description, minimum bid, value of the auction item and donor's name.  Other auction items are encouraged and most welcome.  Give completed forms to Don Floriani or Nancy Aita this week.  The time for your auction item is NOW!

Kalyan Banerjee

Trustee Chair 2016-17

Celebrate Rotary Foundation Month

Back in 1956, the Rotary International Board of Directors designated a week in November urging all clubs “to devote a program to The Rotary Foundation. ” In 1982, the Board determined that the entire month of November should be dedicated to the Foundation.

Since then our Foundation has grown and flourished in ways that few Rotarians could have imagined. In 1985, Rotary took on its first corporate project – a bold campaign to immunize the world’s children against polio and create a polio-free world.

Our humanitarian programs grew so rapidly that the Foundation could not process the volume of requests for grants efficiently. That led to the creation of a new grant model that supports global grants with greater and longer-lasting impact and district grants which fund small-scale, short-term activities. And we fulfilled Rotarians’ long-held dream for a “peace university ” with the launch of the Rotary Peace Centers.

Rotarian financial support has skyrocketed as well. In 1982-83, contributions barely totaled $19 million. Compare that with 2015-16, when the figure jumped to $265.6 million.

This November, we’ll celebrate not just Foundation Month, but also The Rotary Foundation’s centennial. The Rotary website offers many creative ideas for honoring this very special occasion, but there are three activities that I especially recommend.

The first is to hold an event for the entire community that spotlights the Foundation’s 100 years of Doing Good in the World. Second, plan and sponsor a project that addresses a critical problem. It could be done from locally raised funds, or you might seek a global grant. There are so many options to choose from – from providing clean water, to ensuring basic education for girls in every part of the world, to tackling malaria or HIV/AIDS or any number of preventable diseases.

The third activity I recommend is for every Rotarian to make a centennial donation. Let’s never forget that The Rotary Foundation belongs to all of us. You and I provide the funding for just about every bit of good that our Foundation is doing in the world – and has been doing for an entire century. Let’s make sure we continue that tradition for the next 100 years.