Pres. Sue's New Year's Message
I hope everyone had a healthy and safe
and restful holiday. I cannot believe the Rotary year is half over! Still so
much to do.
I would like to thank Mike and Terri
Long for hosting a wonderful Holiday Party. We had a great turnout.
Very Important Breakfast Information
Kirkland has, unfortunately, made some drastic changes
to our breakfast situation. They have increased to the weekly cost of our
breakfast to $10/week. Some of you might not be aware but previously, Kirkland
has charged us $8.50 for breakfast. We have charged members $10. The additional
$1.50 covers the cost of guests – such as the speaker, exchange students etc…
The Board will decided at the next Board meeting how the club should address
this issue, either by raising the breakfast fee or by raising dues. You may
certainly offer your input. Please understand that it is a little bit difficult
to increase dues in the middle
of the year but we will try to figure out something “fair to all concerned”.
In addition, Kirkland has increased
our minimum attendance requirements to 35, from 33. So please do your best to
attend meetings as we have to pay for 35 members every
week.
ELECTION RESULTS
At
our Christmas meeting we voted in our new Board of Directors who will take
office on July 1st, 2013.
Please
join me in congratulating them:
President: Jean Searfoss (previously
selected)
President Elect: Tom Kolepp (previously
selected, to serve as president 2014-15)
Vice President: No Nominee
Secretary: Val Walk
Treasurer: Sue Reeps
Directors thru June 2014: (previously selected)
Marianne Aronson, Gary Hartney, Jeff Kicska and Ben Tenaglia
Directors July 2013 - June 2015:
Rafael De La Hoz, Robin Metzler, Ellen Roberts and Barb
Seifert-Sigmon
Sergeant-at-Arms: Russ Pacala
The position of VP is still open. If you got to thinking, over the
holidays that this is something you were really interested in, it’s almost
never too late to speak up!
Lots of Reminders:
January 24 is our Race Sponsorship Recognition breakfast – this is always a fun
meeting
If you move, get a new phone, a new
birthday (anything is possible) – don’t forget to update your profile in ClubRunner
– so you don’t miss any important communications from the club, or your
birthday chocolate bar!
The District Conference is coming up, the last weekend in April. More
info is available on the District website
The Rotary International Conference is also coming up; it’s in Lisbon, Portugal this year.
More info is available on the RI website and in your monthly Rotary magazine.
Our Exchange Student, Retief van der Lingen, is almost
here!!! Please plan to spend some time with him, even if it is just to invite
him over for dinner or a brunch.
If you only paid for half of your dues, the other half is now
due.
Our speaker this week is Dr. Joel Rosenfeld who is the Dean of the new St. Luke’s /Temple University School of Medicine.
See
you in the morning! - Sue