Meeting Notes - May 21, 2019

Meeting Notes – May 21, 2019

 

 

Good afternoon!   I’d like to welcome you to the Rotary Club of Mountain View.
My name is Bert Raphael, your President for 2018-2019. 

 

Our Rotary International theme for this year is “Be the Inspiration”. 
Our Mountain View Rotary Club theme is “Have Fun Being the Inspiration.”  

 

Pledge of Allegiance:  Paul

Thought for the Day:  Ken

“If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.” Stephen Hawking

Introduction of Visiting Rotarians & Guests:  Paul – none present

Thanks to Ken  for being our 4-fer today

Community Service – Dave, CSMA June 1 is their major fund raiser in Los Altos Hills. They would like help from 9-12 setting up.

Membership efforts -- Bring a friend to Rotary!

Foundation & Polio Campaign Report: MV Rotary is close to 100% club participation. Please make at least a $25 donation to the Foundation if you have not already done so.

Scholarship thank-you letter from Jade Thomas of Saint Francis HS. It was a very personal and heartfelt thank you.

District Conference, President Bert reported on an enthusiastic District Conference. The main speaker was Astronaut Scott Kelley who had spent a year in space. Bert encouraged all leaders to attend next year.

 

June 22: Rotary Club Kick-Out Dinner at Michaels at Shoreline.   Reception/Drinks at 6 p.m., followed by dinner/program at 7 p.m. The entertainment will include a group of fiddlers. With a possible solo by soon to be past president Bert.

 

Vocational talk: Sheila Hodgkinson presented a history of her life that began in England. She loved both the arts and sciences. She realized that both of these disciplines come together in Architecture. She graduated in 1946. In 1953 she met and married Peter our former member. They moved to the United States where she specialized in designing Health Care facilities. She then focused on housing and remodeling. Then in 2008, she became President of Mountain View Rotary. Thank you, Sheila.

 

 

 

 

Friends of the Stevens Creek Trail: Greg Unangst presented the history of the Stevens Creek Trail. Founded in 1993, the goal was to have a trail from the Bay to the Mountains. This local community group was established to raise community awareness and support for the completion of a trail in the Stevens Creek Corridor. The Stevens Creek Trail is currently 56.9% complete measured from the mouth of the Stevens Creek Trail on the Bay to the Stevens Creek Dam and 59.61% complete measured from the Bay to the Ridge Trail.

 

 

CANOPY Program was presented by Natalie Brubaker and Kammy Lo. Canopy plants and cares for trees where people need them the most. Their mission is to grow an urban tree canopy in Midpeninsula communities for the benefit of all. Canopy was created in 1996, to support the City’s urban forestry programs and engage residents in learning about the importance of trees and how to care for them. Canopy became an independent 501(c)3 in 2002, and has extended its programs to the neighboring communities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and to Mountain View.

 

 

 

May 28 -- Dark

 

June 4 – Kris Manfrina – Health Care – Plan for costs in retirement

 

June 11 – Dr. Jack Higgins  – Los Altos Rotary

                World Community Services – Provides us an update on the projects we supported and projects for the future.   

 June 12 – Combined Board meeting

           

 

Have a great week!