Rotary Club of Eureka, California

Meeting Of The Rotary Club Of Eureka July 30 2012

President Nancy Dean welcomed everyone to the fifth meeting of the Rotary Year.  No one had thought to bring a fifth, so she abandoned the idea of drinking and asked Dave Dillon to lead the pledge.  Dillon has been a member since 1967, a Past President, Past District Governor and multiple Paul Harris Fellow.  Ryan Fray delivered the invocation.  

 Dean congratulated Dennis Hunter and Tom Schallert for sitting at the head table five weeks in a row to avoid a birthday fine.  Two Rotary opportunities for Fellowship are coming up in August.  A Day at the Ferndale Fair Races with barbeque occurs on the 15^th and a Rafting Trip on the Trinity River is going down on the 18^th.  Eric Bergel promises White Water and asks everyone to bring their water cannons.  Other events coming up: a Softball tournament on September 1 sponsored by Lost Coast Rotaract and The Foundation Dinner on October 13 at River Lodge in Fortuna.   

Eric Bergel was called up to the podium to receive his Paul Harris Fellowship.  Our special guest District Governor Michael Juric did the presentation, noting that for each PHF, four lives were saved.

Then the Club acquired a new member, Dana Jones Cal. State Parks NC Redwoods District Superintendent.  She is a transfer from the Carmel Valley Rotary Club and carries a gun.   PP Steve Justice told a lengthy story about starting the Blood Bank project in Nigeria as an example of what is possible for an involved Rotarian.   

Dean then donned her “Recognition chapeau”, a top hat with a cardboard sun appended.  First up was Corky Cornwell who married off his last daughter.  He said they were on their honeymoon in Mexico.  He had given his daughter enough money to get back. The son in law, he said, is on his own.   

Gary Todoroff’s daughter Clara married Eric Metcalf. Their honeymoon was a week of camping with the in-laws.  Sounds romantic.   Both proud fathers received rain sticks.   

District Governor Michael Juric then addressed the Club.  He’s a school administrator from Petaluma.  His goal is to increase and distribute leadership across the District.  The District will be incorporated and have a board of Directors.  He shared some quotations.  “What is going on here and what are we going to do about it?  “What would you attempt to do if you could not fail? (Robert Shuller) and “I can do things that you cannot.  You can do things that I cannot.  Together we can do great things” (Mother Teresa). He answered a few questions and then signed a book about Manatees

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Briefly submitted while wearing briefs by Hank Ingham