Our club meeting January 10th featured a presentation by former Green Beret Bob Seper about his experiences in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict. We wrapped up the meeting with a new member ceremony for Allan Johnson.
Alzheimer Research Initiative Project
Christmas Presents for the Needy
Celebrating our seventeenth year partnering with nearby Jerry D. Allen Elementary School at Christmas, Rotarians will be delivering bags of goodies for girls and boys on December 15th.
Alzheimer’s Walk for Freedom included Rotary support. Pictured is SA West member Jane Luke Hill accepting a donation to the club research projects at the Biggs Institute.
Our South Central Texas Rotary District engages 55 Rotary clubs and leading those clubs involves an annual visit with each club. Next week it is our turn!! District Governor Craig Hardy meets with our Board at 11:00 and addresses the club over the lunch hour. DG Craig's tour started 1 July and suddenly we were flooded with opportunities to serve--and you can look forward to hearing many first-hand accounts of what it meant to be a Rotarian in our disaster response to the Guadalupe River flood and other flooding in our district.
DG Craig is a retired health care consultant and his Rotary service includes having been an Assistant Governor, District treasurer, Rotary Leadership Institute chair, District Conference chair and many other roles. He was the Club President of the Year for our District when he led his Rotary Club of San Antonio Northwest. He and his wife Carole are multiple Paul Harris Fellows and members of the Bequest Society.
He has degrees from Baylor and Trinity--and is often seen wearing burnt orange as a huge Texas Longhorn fan.
Learn of the challenges of Afghan refugees in our community from former Afghan diplomat Naqib Ehsas.
The last week in July the club will be helping the Center for Refugee Services fill and distribute over 1300 backpacks filled with school supplies for children of refugee families in San Antonio. The boy pictured is part of the Afghan refugee community resettled here since the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago. At its April 22nd meeting, the club welcomed new member Mark Delaney and congratulated Dwayne Hopkins and Dan Van Syoc for their contributions to the Rotary Foundation earning multiple Paul Harris Fellow recognition levels.
SA West Rotary earned District 5840 recognition as the #1 club in per capita giving to the Rotary Foundation; club recognition from The Rotary Foundation trustees for financial support for Polio Plus; and club member Jerry Hardy received the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service. Pictured at the April 4th awards ceremony L-R: John Wendt, John Paul Sullivan, Jane Luke Hill, Jerry Hardy, and club president Dwayne Hopkins.
TUESDAY'S PROGRAM: Renee Garvens, Vice President of Development and Jill
Wagner, from the Tobin Performing Arts Center, provided us a look into the Tobin
Center after 10 years. The Tobin Center was renovated by the City from other uses
and opened in September 2014. The facility has a main area that seats 1700 with a
unique floor that routinely is at an angle and can be flattened in a very short time to
allow events requiring a flat floor (there are only 5 venues with that ability). There are
also other small and outdoor areas for events.
(see www.tobincenter.org for
more details)
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