Welcome
Old Mission Rotary Newsletter
Meets Every Tuesday at Noon at the
The Legacy Resort Hotel & Spa
875 Hotel Circle South
San Diego, CA 92108
Hotel Phone: 619-782-9155
Oldmissionrotary.org
To Access a Club Newsletter simply click on the file on the left for that week's Newsletter. Below is an index of speakers and major events, simply locate the specific Newsletter date and open it to read.
Date Topic/Speaker
Sep 2023 - 2 Uncomplicating a Complex Economy
Pride Industries
Impactful Communication
Sep 2023 - 1 Understanding Affordable Housing
Aug 2023 - 3 Tanzania Orphanage in West Africa
San Diego Blood Bank
Aug 2023 - 2 District Governor Don Fipps
Aug 2023 - 1 A Novel of Hope and Healing
July 2023 - 2 Prez Don Demotion Dinner
July 2023 - 1 The Year of Stan Vogelsang
June 2023 - 2 Mara Elliott San Diego City Attorney
June 2023 - 1 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Return to Idyllwild
May 2023 - 2 The 11th So You Think You've Got Talent San Diego
May 2023 - 1 IRS Criminal Investigative Agency
April 2023 - 2 Charlotte Cofield Star/Pal Volunteer of the Year
April 2023 - 1 A Safe, Stable and Nurturing Home for all Children
Mar 2023 - 3 Project Rebound and Rotary Four Way Test Speech Contest
Mar 2023 - 2 The San Diego County Archives
Mar 2023 - 1 Four Way Test Speech Contest with Reality Changers
Feb 2023 - 3 VIIDAI and Visiting Japanese Rotarian
Feb 2023 - 2 Thousand Smiles Winter Clinic
Feb 2023 - 1 Evening Social and Mission Bay Resort
Jan 2023 - 3 Rest Haven Children's Health Fund
Jan 2023 - 2 Fresh Start Surgical Gifts
Jan 2023 - 1 Star/Pal Santa's Pals Holiday Giveaway
Dec 2022 - 2 Dave Ray and Mind Masters
Dec 2022 - 1 I Did It by Barbara Bry and Thousand Smiles
Nov 2022 - 2 Ocean Discovery Institute
Nov 2022 - 1 What is a Charter School Anyway
Oct 2022 - 2 Shelter Box
Oct 2022 - 1 San Diego Community Power
Sept 2022 -2 Clean Tech San Diego
Sept 2022 - 1 Fundacion Casa Serra
Aug 2022 - 2 Youth for Climate
Aug 2022 - 1 Rotary District Govenor Chuck Pretto
July 2022 - 2 San Diego Taxpayers Association
July 2022 -1 I Love a Clean San Diego
May 03 2022 Fr. Benjamin Chinnappan - Dalit Solidarity
Apr 19 2022 Burt Grossman, former Charger
Adaptive Sports & Recreation
Apr 12 2022 Mental Illness and Suicide - Dave Jones
Member of the Escondido After Five Rotary Club
Apr 05 2022 Veterans Center of Recovery Education
Apr 05 2022 Veterans Center of Recovery Education
Mar 29 2022 Stephanie De La Torre from Hope through Housing
Mar 22 2022 Four Way Test Speech Contest - Sub Regional
Mar 08 2022 Father Joe’s Village - Deacon Jim F. Vargas
Primeros Pasos Guatemala - Jamie Pet
Feb 22 2022 Toastmasters Alliance with Rotary
Gary Schmidt
Feb 15 2022 Four Way Test Speech Contest - club round
For students of the Reality Changers Program
Feb 08 2022 Desiree Perez, Corporate Relations Officer
The San Diego Girl Scouts
Feb 01 2022 Roger Showley, President of The
Committee of One Hundred
Preserving Balboa Park's Architecture,
Gardens and Public Spaces
Jan 25 2022 Jim Mendelson - Fallbrook Rotarian
Your San Diego County Grand Jury ;
How Grand Jurors Are Like Rotarians?
Jan 18 2022 Michelle Brega - San Diego Airport Terminal One Update
Jan 04 2022 Second Chance - Bill Payne
Nov 14 2021 Holiday Luncheon
Nov 07 2021 Gift Wrapping Luncheon at
Copley-Price Family YMCA
Nov 30 2021 Evening Social King’s Fish House
Nov 16 2021 Make Projects - Eat Well. Do Good.
Anchi Mei - Executive Director
Nov 09 2021 Unshackled-N-Empowered -
Norma Swan and Jennifer Zamora
Nov 02 2021 Alliance for African Assistance - Walter Lam
Oct 26 2021 Evening Social at Legacy Resort and Spa
Oct 12 2021 The Travis Manion Foundation - Heather Kelly
“If Not Me, Then Who?”
Oct 05 2021 Veterans Yoga Project - Jaime Yslas
Sep 21 2021 San Diego River Foundation
Rob Hutsel "River Bob"
Sep 14 2021 Flying Leathernecks Museum -
Brigadier General Michael Aguilar
Sep 07 2021 Assisting Survivors of Victims of 9/11 Attacks
Steve Nunez and Ben Bunn
Aug 31 2021 Model UN - Pauline Lim-Endresen
Aug 24 2021 OMR Evening Social with Pacific Beach Rotaract
Aug 17 2021 San Diego Oasis - Jolyn Parker
Aug 10 2021 National Cemetery Administration - Tom Basham
Aug 03 2021 Design Forward Alliance - Carlos Christianity, Director
July 27 2021 Community Housing Works - Denise Obrero, Director
of Programs and Shannon Morrison, Resource
Development Manager
July 20 2021 District Governor Dan Gensler Visit
July 13 2021 San Diego Public Library Foundation - Natalie Ganz
Demotion Dinner - Gary John Collins and Matt Risi Demoted
July 06 2021 Michelle Malin - Our new President 2021-2022
Michelle's theme for this year is "All In"
June 22 & 29 "Apples and Clovis Points" and Gil's Third Paul Harris Award
June 15 2021 First Live Meeting at Legacy Resort & Spa
Art Pratt Foundation Grant - Waldorf School
June 08 2021 Donate Your Body to Medical Science - Luke Zabel
June 01 2021 Electoral College - Paula Whitesell
May 25 2021 Honoring USA Heroes - Ed Presnillo Founder
May 19 2021 Our Southern Border - Agent Pirro Community Liaison
May 11 2021 Casa de Armistad - Nichol Mione-Greene
May 04 2021 Cal Expo and State Fair - Jess Durfee
Apr 27 2021 San Diego Humane Society - Laura Leonard
OMR Community Partner of the Year with STAR/PAL
Apr 20 2021 The Salvation Army - Lt Colonel Lee Lescano
Art Pratt Foundation Grant to Youth Assistance Colation
Apr 13 2021 Pacific Arts Movement - Kent Lee, Executive Director
Apr 06 2021 The Electoral College or Popular Vote? - Jeanne Weider
San Diego League of Women Voters
Mar 30 2021 Save Moms Campaign - DR. Fran Ayalasomayajula Msc.D.
Mar 23 2021 Rotary in the Post-Pandemic World -
District Governor Steven Weitzen, District 5340
Mar 16 2021 Rotary Four Way Speech contest District 5340
Sub-Regional Round
Mar 09 2021 Rotary International Foundation - Geoff Cochran,
Annual Giving Officer
Art Pratt Foundation Grant to Resounding Joy
Mar 02 2021 San Diego County Sheriffs Department - Bill Gore
Feb 23 2021 Alliance for HOPE International - Casey Gwinn
Feb 16 2021 Four Way Test Speech Contest Reality Changers
Feb 09 2021 California Oil Museum - Jeanne Eigner
Doors of Change - Jeffrey Sitcov
Feb 02 2021 Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego - Danny Sherlock
Jan 26 2021 The Rotary Children's Fund - Vitaliy Bedroznov
Jan 19 2021 Global Care Alliance - Niles Sharif, Founder
Jan 12 2021 District Governor Visit - Steve Weitzen
Jan 05 2021 Corona Conversation - Don Krupp
Dec 16 2020 San Diego Gulls Hockey - Casey Callahan
Dec 08 2020 Making Democracy Work - Jeanne Weidner
Dec 01 2020 JustServe.org - Robin Gephart
Nov 25 2020 Captain Encouragement - Nicholas Domingo
Nov 18 2020 Moreton Fig Tree Project - John Boalthouse
Art Pratt Foundation - San Diego Military Outreach Ministries
Nov 11 2020 Black Lives Matter Closing the Racial Gap - Elaine Swann
Nov 03 2020 Star/PAL - Claire LeBeau
Oct 27 2020 San Diego District Attorney - Summer Stephan
Project Mercy - Home Building - Gary Stemple
Oct 21 2020 The Old Globe - Barry Edelstein
Oct 13 2020 Voting in San Diego - Rosie Rascon
Oct 06 2020 Good Will Industries - Darlene Cossio
Sep 29 2020 San Diego Food Bank - James Floros
Sep 22 2020 Doors of Change - Jeffrey Sitcov and Joanne Newguard
Sep 16 2020 Kitchens for Good - Jennifer Gilmore
Sep 10 2020 On & On Ministries - Philip Cunningham
Aug 28 2020 San Diego Airport Authority - Michelle Brega
Aug 18 2020 Cultivating Literacy - Julia Neff and Leigh Monistere
Sep 15 2019 Assistant Police Chief Paul Connelly - San diego Police
Aug 31 2019 John Musselman - Flying Samaritans
Aug 17 2019 John Bolthouse = Friends of Balboa Park
Aug 11 2019 District 5340 Membership Seminar
Jul 26 2019 Marta Knight - District Governor visit
Jul 19 2019 Thousand Smilles and Nativity Prep Academy Donation
Jul 14 2019 Martha Bothwell - San Diego Parks Foundation
Jun 26 2019 Pres Bob Chalfa Demotion dinner
Jun 19 2019 Hamburg ist ein Schones Stadchen - RI Convention
Jun 13 2019 Model United Nations - Pathways to Peace Youth Event
Jun 11 2019 Hamburg ist ein schones Stadtchen - RI Convention
May 30 2019 Chantal Sicly-Kira - Autism
Bea Halk inducted into YMCA Hall of Fame
May 20 2019 Diane Crawford - The World Needs more Rotarians
Ninth Annual "So You Think You've Got Talent San Diego"
May 13 2019 Jerry Saunders - The State of Business in San Diego
April 30 2019 Lisa Pedace - Fighting Stress with Humor
April 16 2019 VIIDAI
Mar 30 2019 Anna Arancibia - Rotary Area 8 Joint Meeting
Mar 19 2019 Four Way Test Speech Contest - Second Round
Feb 14 2019 Four Way Test Speech Contest - Reality Changers
Jan 28 2019 Reception for District Governor Elects
Jan 14 2019 Reception for International DGEs
Feb 2018 Sofia Huertero - San Diego Blood Bank
Marge Cole - Rotary International Foundation
Barb Fiorina - Meals on Wheels
Tom Leach - Fun on the Job
Jan 2018 Jean Farb Middle School Lead Students
Curt Waugh & Sean Nickelson - San Diego Padres
Dr Kevin Glynn - Tuberculosis in San diego
Niles Sharif - Global Care Alliance
Mike Rogers - Old Mission Rotary History
Heather Rogers - Kilimanjaro
OM Bell Nov Dec 2017 Sheriff Bill Gore Update
Pre 2017 Listing of Speakers and Topics
OM Bell 070913 Demotion Dinner President Omar
OM Bell 120313 The Tax Man Cometh - Dan McAllistar
OM Bell 121013 Copley YMCA Gift Wrapping Luncheon
OM Bell 121713 Old Mission Christmas Party
OM Bell 010714 High Heel Golfer - Jennifer Harris
OM Bell 011414 Workshops for Warriors - Hernan Luis y Prado
OM Bell 012114 Pathways to Peace - Clara Harris
OM Bell 021814 Old Mission 4-Way Speech Contest
OM Bell 022514 Burundi Challenges - Onosphere Manirakiza
OM Bell 022514 Art Pratt Foundation Grant to San Diego Rescue Mission
OM Bell 030414 UP” The Next Five Years - San Diego Outlook - Alan Nevin
OM Bell 031114 4-Way Test Speech Sub Regional Contest
OM Bell 031814 Can American Manufacturing be Saved - Michele Nash-Hoff
OM Bell 040114 Mission Valley and Copley YMCA Updates - Omar Calleros and Rich Wilson
OM Bell 040814 Model United Nations
OM Bell 042214 A Champion on and off the Field - John Brockington
OM Bell 042914 Do Pigs Fly? Welcome to Scripps Health - Susan Taylor
OM Bell 042914 Rotarians at Work Update
OM Bell 050614 The San Diego Library Foundation - Vickie Church
OM Bell 050614 Sasebo North Rotary Club of Japan
OM Bell 050614 International Service at Colonia Vicente Guerrero
OM Bell 051314 The San Diego Senior Games - Blaine Phipps
OM Bell 052714 RYLA Program Update - Tom Sandler
OM Bell 053114 Sea World Training Programs - John Spafford
OM Bell 053114 Art Pratt Foundation Grant to Robotics Club at John Muir School
OM Bell 061014 The Art of Story Telling- Carolyn Ayres
OM Bell 061714 Surfing Madonna – The Virgen de Guadalupe - Artist Mark Patterson
OM Bell 061714 Art Pratt Foundation Grant to K-9 Friendly Visitors
OM Bell 062314 LEAD Program - John Harmata
OM Bell 062414 I hate my Yard – DIT Network - Sara Bendrick
OM Bell 070114 Demotion Dinner for Steve Nunez
OM Bell 070814 White Labs use of hi-tech Yeasts in Beer and Wine - Megan Dekorne
OM Bell 071514 Excelsior Chess at Joan Kroc Salvation Army Center - Mike Hedman
OM Bell 072914 District Governor Louise Andres Visit
OM Bell 072914 Old Mission Rotary Donation to Thousand Smiles Foundation
OM Bell 080514 San Diego Water Authority Update - Teresa Penunuri
OM Bell 081214 Joys of World Travel and Studying abroad - Kathleen Harris
OM Bell 081214 Wounded Warriors Visit Old Mission
OM Bell 081914 Shelter Box - Pete Griffith
OM Bell 082214 Rebuilding Together San Diego - Stella Villasenor
OM Bell 090214 Solar Cooker - Roger Haines
OM Bell 090214 Colonia Lomas de San Ramon Update
OM Bell 091614 San Diego Airport Authority Update - Keith Wilchetz
OM Bell 092314 Labor Law - Ward Henirichs
OM Bell 092314 Art Pratt Foundation grant to YWCA
OM Bell 093014 Vesta’s 100th Birthday Celebration
OM Bell 100714 Preserving Our Past with Storytelling - Bob Goodman
OM Bell 101414 Rotary Youth Exchange -aren Strabala
OM Bell 101414 Project Mercy Update – Two Homes Built
OM Bell 102114 Veterans Research Alliance - Seve Lewandowski
OM Bell 102114 Art Pratt Foundation Grant to City Heights Community Development
OM Bell 102814 Money Can’t buy Me Love… Or can it? - Katherine Willey
OM Bell 110414 City of San Diego Pure Water Program and Katherine Willey's Challenge of RI Foundation Donations
OM Bell 111414 Community Campership Council - Susan Thorning and Jack Cottrell Inducted
OM Bell 111414 Art Pratt Foundation Donation to Community Campership Council
OM Bell 111814 What is VIIDAI?
OM Bell 112514 Thanksgiving for the Wounded Warriors
OM Bell 120214 Rotary Fellowship and International Exchange and Interactions for Peace Kenya
OM Bell 120914 Coply YPMC Luncheon and wrapping presents
OM Bell 121614 Paula Kelly on International Relief Teams
OM Bell 011315 Heart Beat Music Academy by Tyra Hawthorne
OM Bell 012715 Project Peanut Butter by District Governor Nominee Marilyn Sanderson
OM Bell 013015 Special Edition - Katherine's Farewell Event
OM Bell 022015 Four Way Speech Contest and Catholic Charities Homeless Women
OM Bell 022415 San Diego Education Fund Briefing
OM Bell 030315 Social Media - Scott Carr
OM Bell 031715 Caitlin Edwards Irish Dancing and Steve Nunez receives Paul Harris Fellowship
OM Bell 032415 Rotary 4 Way Test Sub Finals
OM Bell 033115 From Chechnya with Love & Artem Luzukin visits
OM Bell 042115 Big Brothers and Big Sisters
OM Bell 042815 Vision Therapy
OM Bell 060215 The Trabajodores of San Quentin
OM Bell 061615 Prez Jerry Back from Brazil and Gift of Van to UABC
OM Bell 062315 Shelter Box Nepal, Climate Change
OM Bell 070715 Lead Students Visit, Wonder Writers and Televisionaries
OM Bell 071415 Home Start and Art Pratt Foundation Grant
OM Bell 072815 Western Service Worker's Association
OM Bell 081115 Art Pratt Foundation Grant Carol's House
OM Bell 081815 Lead Program for Middle School
OM Bell 082515 District Governor Janice Kurth Official Visit
OM Bell 090815 Youth Exchange and Crowdfunding
OM Bell 092215 ReBoot Workshop and USS Midway
OM Bell 092915 The Play is the Thing and Making Music
OM Bell 101315 Darkest Africa and Live on Alcatraz
OM Bell 102715 Lead and Project Mercy Presentations
OM Bell 110315 Thousand Smiles
OM Bell 111015 Rotary Foundation
OM Bell 111715 A passion for Education and Rite Care Childhood Language
OM Bell 120815 Rob Weinberg on Leveraging Foundation Grant
OM Bell 121515 Annual Copley-Price YMCA Gift Wrapping
OM Bell 122915 Best Western Seven Seas Remodel and Pizarro Brothers
OM Bell 011216 Meeting at the YMCA in Mission Valley and Tom Sandler
OM Bell 020216 Meeting at San Diego Airport
OM Bell 022316 4 Way Speech Contest
OM Bell 030916 Joint Meeting with PB Rotaract
