Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka
November 4, 2013
Jim Davis led the Flag Salute. Eric Bergel gave the invocation, quoting C.S.
Lewis “It is better to give too much than to give too little.”
Grace and Jordan from Eureka High Interact
introduced themselves.
Sam, the Russian
whose last name shall not be spoken, at least by Ziggy, reported that he is
more comfortable in school. Ziggy vowed
to pronounce his name correctly before the end of the year.
Bill Morrill of the Southwest Eureka Rotary
Club invited everyone to attend the Veterans Day celebration at the Adorni Center
on 11/11 at 11am. Our Rotary club will
not meet on that day so you can attend the ceremony.
Pat Folkins reminded us once again of the Foundation
dinner on 11/9 at the River Lodge. Bill
Gates has promised $2 for every $1 donated to Polio Plus.
Don Smullin received his Blue Badge, and then
fined $50 for having had the temerity to let J Warren Hockaday take the fall for
him on the Chamber of Commerce imbroglio last week.
Ken Stodder was singled out for wearing a
Boston Red Sox hat and jacket. He was
born in Boston and went to school there at Boston University. He said that he had interviewed Ted Williams
and even saw Babe Ruth play. He was also
one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence and knew George
Washington when he played for the Senators.
He received a Rotary shirt for his longevity.
While we’re on the subject of longevity, Jim
Howard won the Spengler Science Fair raffle again, along with Dale
Warmuth.
Our program was the amended
Rotary Bylaws. Discussion of the changes
went on for almost 45 seconds before someone called for the vote. They were unanimously approved. Gregg
Gardiner gets kudos for having worked on the changes. Carlton Nielsen, Kim Bauriedel and Jason Eads
also contributed. Carlton then talked about our new website
design. www.rotary1.org
now will have some of the information formerly contained in the Roster and some
new things, like Bored minutes [sic].
Your user name is your Foundation number. Ask Gregg for the password. Ziggy asked for the support of Club members
to help Matthew Owen find speakers for our programs. Michael Cunningham reminded us that the
Rotary Christmas party will be held at the Ingomar Club on December 14th.
Once again the meeting ended early-so early
that I was unable to write anything humorous about it.
Penned by Hank Ingham
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