Observer for March 5, 2013
AT THE GONG
El Presidente, Tony ran a bit late, but better late than never. Helmut had the privilege to lead the Club’s pledge of allegiance and conveyed some wise words from Mahatma Gandhi.VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
Visiting Rotarian: Chuck Orr, Energy, from the Marin Sunrise Club.
Monica Brewer, Novato Rotaract(er) who collects “Clothes for Success” collected a lot and will collect more until April 3rd. Bring your jackets, suits, shoes etc. She has a Tax Deduction form for you.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CLUB
We had 24 Rotarians at the meeting, 6 short of the lunch “break even” cost.
The Crab Feed was successful. According to Tom, we netted anywhere from $18 k to $ 20 k.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Tiburon and Ross Valley Clubs have their crab feed on March 9th.
On March 16th is the District Assembly in Foster City. It is free to members. Join Tom Martz for the set up at 7 am. (That is the middle of the night for some of us.).
Tom has a bag full of TL Club pins for the nominal cost of $5.00 each.
The GSE Team from Finland is due to be in Marin from 4/26 to 4/30. If you can house one or 2, contact Christine.
“Rotary Means Business” is scheduled for April 1st at a location to be announced.
Jeff attended the PET’s conference and had a very positive report.
MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS
Ann had a big birthday with a zero in it. She donated $100.00 to the Club Foundation. (She did not disclose if it was 40 or 50 or ?)
RAFFLE/MARBLE
Tom Martz won 2 bottles of Sangiovese and Trevor pulled a green marble. Trevor, I hope you have better luck next time.
PROGRAM SUMMARY
Margo Mellon was our program speaker. She is the Literary and Program manager of the Marin Theater Company which is based in Mill Valley. The Company is 45 years old, employs 18 full time staff and 80 seasonal workers. (All locals, if possible). The annual budget is $2.9 million of which 40% is earned income and 60% from donations.
The Theater has 35,000 to 40,000 patrons and has 6 different plays per year.
In 3 weeks time, the new play is “The Whipping Man”, a Civil War story with some Irish humor.
All actors have other jobs as the top earners max out at $35,000 per year. The average actor costs the company $9,000 per play which includes costumes, insurance and other expenses.
Margo reads 500 to 600 plays per year which are then narrowed down to 6 for production. That’s a lot of reading.
Not to forget, Margo is a graduate of Chico State.
NEXT WEEK’S SPEAKER
Angelo Capozzi, a surgeon and founder of Rotaplast.
Helmut Sommer