Meeting Notes - December 20, 2016

 

Mountain View Rotary Club

December 20, 2016

Meeting Notes by Scott

                                                                             

Dick introduced Sheila who gave an interesting and informative vocational speech about her career in architecture.  She and her husband Peter moved from Great Britain to the Bay Area in 1959.  She told about her invitation to join Rotary.  She later served as our Club President in 2008.
 
Club Announcements:
  • Jim Cunningham gave updates on community service.  The CSA project this past Sunday was great.  Volunteers for the Community School of Music and Art service project are set through the New Year.    
  • Next Board Meeting, Thursday January 19th, 5 pm at CHAC
  • President’s Club: We are not doing fines again this year.  Club members are encouraged to join the Presidents Club…we have had great participation so far, 22 members, please join them!
  • Our Auctions are going great…our next auction is in January….please let us know if you have anything you would like to donate as an auction item.
  • The District Conference is scheduled for May 6-7 in Santa Cruz. If you would like information on hotels, please let Jerylann know.
  • Speech Contest for our Club is February 7th (Judy & Sanjay in charge). The Area 9 contest will be hosted by the Los Altos Sunset Rotary Club on March 14.
  • Alan discussed the January 28th Crab Feed.   It was decided that $50 will be the ticket price and Alan will have the tickets ready for distribution at our next club meeting:  January 10th.  This year an art auction will be added. 
  • The RI Internation President’s Dinner is January 3rd at 6 pm at the SJ DoubleTree.
  • Dick made the Club aware of a San Jose Mercury News article about Hopes Corner that includes Dick and Sanjay.    
 
President Jerylann presented Jose and Steve, who support our club meeting each week, with gifts.  
 
 
Speaker:
Jack Wong, Club Member, was our speaker.   His topic was: “Outlook 2017 – Wealth Management Perspectives.”  He presented several “bottom-line” recommendations, among them:  “The old economy recovery has been ongoing all year.  The Trump victory simply ‘turbocharges’ the same trends that were already in place prior to the election – rising inflation and interest rates and cyclically geared sectors outperforming defensive areas like bonds and interest rate- sensitive assets.”      
 
 

President Jerylann led us all in repeating the slogan:  We are a Fun, Enthusiastic & Inspiring Rotary Family…we are the BEST Rotary Club around!  She also announced the International theme for 2016-2017: Rotary Serving Humanity, and our District Governor’s call to action: Attract the Young, Have Lots of Fun, Get More Done! …. our Clubs call to action is: Make the World A Better Place!

 
Judy led the Pledge of Allegiance.  Scott, “4 fer” for the day, shared a Holiday thought.  He was thanked for providing the dessert.  Phil led the club in songs: Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas.   No visitors were present.  
 
Next Meeting:  We will be off for the holidays for the next two weeks… no meetings on 12/27 or 1/3.  We will see you on January 10th.    Our 4fer will be Monique.