Meeting Notes
September 22, 2020
President Paul welcomed everyone to today’s Mountain View Rotary Meeting. The Rotary International theme for this year is “Rotary Opens Opportunities.” Our Club theme is “We Open Opportunities For Everyone in the Community.”
Paul welcomed our District Governor Gregg Giusiana along with the Lieutenant Governor, Art Testani, and Assistant Governor, Katie Cooney. Visiting Rotarian Alba Alamillo joined our meeting once again and expressed her willingness to join any Club activities or service projects.
Paul welcomed Mandy as the Club’s new Foundation Chair. Or goal this year is for 100% Club participation. You can send your donation for The Rotary Foundation to Mandy Andrei at 2934 Vivian Lane, San Jose, CA 95124. If you prefer, you can also make your donation to The Rotary Foundation on line at https://my.rotary.org/en/donate. If you make an on line donation, please send a message to Mandy to let her know.
Paul informed Club Members that we will be sending four students to RYLA this coming year.
The President’s Club is $150 with $100 going to the Club Endowment and $50 going to the Club Account. For those who would like to join, please make your checks out to the Mountain View Rotary Club and send them to Mountain View Rotary President’s Club, PO Box 390280, Mountain View, California 94041.
From Heather: If you have speaker ideas for the upcoming year, please sign up for a week(s) or month via this spreadsheet or contact me by email (hsten@me.com) or phone: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yWN7DTtzVo5i8Zk8lAeZFM8f6fZ0D5-b/view?usp=sharing.
If anyone knows of any of our members in distress or that need anything, please let President Paul or one of the Board Members know. We want to make sure everyone knows that we are here to take care of each other.
Speaker
Assistant Governor Katie Cooney introduced our District Governor Gregg Giusiana to the Club.
Gregg has been a member of the Gilroy Rotary Club for more than twenty years. His theme for this year is “Make Membership Meaningful.”
Gregg was excited to announce that Jennifer E. Jones has been selected as the first woman President of Rotary International for the 2022-2023 year. He also told us that it was recently announced that the continent of Africa is now polio free. The only two countries in the world with new cases of polio are Afghanistan and Pakistan and progress continues to be made.
Gregg shared Rotary International’s new Vision: Together we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities and in ourselves.
With the COVID challenge this year, we need to be flexible and adaptable to change which may include:
-Virtual meetings
-Virtual fellowship and social events
-Creativity to conquer challenges
To make membership meaningful for new members, get them engaged in Club activities and provide them with a mentor.
Gregg thanked the Club for their continuing support of The Rotary Foundation and encouraged us to keep up our great effort as it is needed now more than ever.
It is important to get the word out about all the good work we do and the District now has a Public Relations Team available to help.
Next Meeting
Our next Club Meeting is Tuesday, October 6, 2020, via Zoom. Social time starts at 12:00 pm followed by the meeting at 12:15 pm. Our speaker is Steve Geisheker on the topic of “LEAD Africa and Monrovia Football Academy.”
The next Board Meeting is Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 5:30 pm via Zoom.