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Bob Frobish and Cindy Sekkel were awarded Blue badges today. Ed Titus gave us his biographical talk toward earning the Blue badge. Finally, our four-year scholarship student Katie Lamb received her 2nd award of the $1,000 per year Fawcett/Griffin scholarship. Joe Griffin did the honors. Linda and Joe established this scholarship to honor their parents.
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Ed Titus
Katie Lamb
Minutes of Rotary Club of SLV
July 25, 2018
Members in attendance: Linda, Karen, Ken, Joe, Don, Janet, Julie, Mary, Cameron, Mike, Charlie, Ralph, Carol, Bob, Ed, Franziska, Cindy, Ed, and Laurie. Guests: Jeremy Griffin, Jenny Yeaney, Katie Lamb, and Eric Brown.
President Karen opened the meeting with the flag salute, introductions and the Thought for the Day.
Announcements: Aug 13 is the New Teacher Breakfast, meet at 7:00 am; Roaring Camp Thomas the Train on July 27, 28. 29, Aug 1-5—sign up or pay $50; Bob and Cindy were promoted from red badge members to blue badge members. Scholarship grantee, Katie, was here and accepted her check for her second year at Western Washington State University. College is going great!
Guest speaker: Ed Titus, Red Badge Speech
Ed lives in Ben Lomond- he is married and has two kids and three grandkids. His mother’s family is from Santa Cruz, though he was born in Berkeley, CA. Ed’s grandparents had a hotel in the Seabright area where the Murray Street bridge is today. Ed graduated from Berkeley High School in 1965 and graduated from San Francisco State in 1970. Following graduation, Ed and his wife joined the Peace Corp as teachers - one year in Saipan and two years on a small pacific island. To go into the Peace Corps, he had to get drafted and promise to go into the service when he returned. Fortunately, Nixon repelled the draft so he didn’t have to serve. Next, Ed and his wife went to live in Reno and worked in the casino industry. He went back to school and graduated from University of Nevada- taking a job in Nevada Bell, transferring to ATT in Denver, and eventually Western. As the phone companies broke up, Ed went to work as a contractor. He heard about a group of former phone people working in Europe – Macedonia – and Ed ended up going to work with them for two years. Next he moved to Budapest. One of his wildest times was going into Sarajevo during the war and his narrow escape from the airport. After a year, Ed moved to Scotts Valley and took a job at Cisco where he was responsible for a worldwide system and the work just about killed him. His last job at UCSC was his best. He said it was fun moving from phones in the dorms, to Internet campus wide, to installing cell sites on the campus to support all the cell phones. Ed’s hobbies are sailing, building boats, and Burning Man.
Detective: Karen stumped the club with trivia about candy!!
Drawing: I pulled the 3 of Clubs – leaving the big money for all of you!
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 a.m.
Minutes respectfully submitted by J. Haff