From our January 27th meeting:

 
 
Thank you to Jay Her, who led us through a very informative and entertaining presentation about hypnosis, both for entertainment and for healing.
 
 
Hypnosis and meditation have their roots in ancient India, and help ease you into a state of calm. The hypnotist uses an “induction routine” to prepare their subject into a more relaxed state where the hypothalamus (back of the brain) becomes more active and the rest of the brain more dormant and the subject is able to focusing better on instructions and followings directions better.
 
Jay led all in attendance through a gentle refocusing exercise that filled us with positive energy, and another fun exercise that showed the power of energy we can envision just between our fingers.
 
Jay does Stage Hypnosis for entertainment and also works with the FABLE Center in Anchorage with hypnotherapy to help people succeed in overcoming issues in their lives.
 
We had many questions from the audience, particularly if someone can be forced to do something against their will under hypnosis. Jay reassured us that generally not, unless subconsciously we really did want to do it. Andy Varner wanted to know if hypnosis might work as sleep therapy for toddlers and Jay suggested that maybe yoga might work there.
 
 
 
 
President Bruce is back from Hawaii
 
 
 
President Bruce is back from Hawaii, running last Friday's meeting sporting a Hawaiian shirt under his jacket. He paid in his happy bucks to thank everyone for covering for him while he soaked up the sun. Aloha President Bruce!
 
 
 
PH+4
 
Congratulations to member Zulie Mason, who was awarded her Paul Harris +4 level for her contributions to Rotary Foundation.
 
 
 
 
 
AI Rotary Foundation co-chair, Celeste Cohen, presented Zulie with her pin.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WhoAmI Presentation
 
 

Leverette (Hoov) Hoover was last Friday’s candidate for the WhoAmI presentation and very enthusiastically shared his lives story with us.

 

 

Leverette was born and grew up in Michigan where his dad worked for GM for 20 years and later for a meatpacking company for just as long, and his mom worked for GE for 45 years. His parents just celebrated 65 years together.

 

He met his wife Jackie just down the street from where he grew up and they have been together for 25 years and have two sons and a daughter.

 

Leverette attended Western Michigan University and was planning to get a degree in Aviation, but it turned out that he excelled in “beer” and sales thereof. He decided to join the Air Force and after applying to missile defense wound up in Air Traffic Control and Radar Maintenance in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler AFB.

 

While in the Air Force he was awarded a coveted remote assignment to Shemya Air Force base on the Aleutian chain in Alaska. While working there he brought his family to Anchorage and also worked for Reeve Aleutian Airlines.

 

Leverette is still in the Guard and Reserve, is the honorary commander of the 176th Guard Wing and today is the Alaska general manager for Siemens. Siemens would like him to take on more responsibility and move south, but he has told them that he will not move while his youngest is still in school, so he should be able to continue to attend our meetings for another five years, between business trips that is.

 
 
 
 
Happy $
 

Nina Mann showed off a stack of thank you letters from Muldoon Elementary 3rd graders for the dictionaries they received.

 

Jeff Promish announced that he will be changing companies.

 

Angie Rush thanked everyone for all the bottles of wine that were brought in for the foundation auction, and put a dollar into the hat for each bottle - $39! The offer stands again for next week, so bring in those bottles!

 

Bob Huston announced that he will be a grandpa in August and proudly showed of a sonogram that showed all fingers and toes were present.

 

Celeste Cohen showed off the “pay it forward basket” for the foundation auction that includes all kinds of goodies, including 102 pairs of socks. Make sure to get your paperwork for your donation in to her.

 

Andy Varner is back from trip to California; apparently traveling with four kids is exhausting.

 

Past President Greg O’Keefe announced that both he and his wife will be retiring in September and will move down to Oregon to their beach house. We will definitely miss him!