CALENDAR “Swing Into Spring”

Orange County’s First Service Club
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Chartered March 31, 1920
THE TUSTIN-SANTA ANA ROTARY CLUB
May 17, 2012
Volume 92 Number 32
5 pages
www.rotarytustin-santaana.org
Club No. 852, District 5320
Last week’s Mothers’ Day Fashion Show (L to R) Shawn Shahidi, Bindu Dhasmana, Captaiin Steve
Lewis, Danielle Weber and Cindy Speer.. Very much a presence in the show but not in the above picture
was Jim Kane (pictured inside).
CALENDAR
May 2012
05-17 “Unity of Religions”
Valentina Klan
05-19 Club Fellowship Evening
“Swing Into Spring”
An Encore Dinner Theatre
Event In Old Town Tustin
05-31 “Transportation - What is
Happening with the Orange County Freeways”
Carolyn Cavecche. and
Students of the Quarter
Mark Eliot,New Generations Chair
June 2012
Rotary Fellowship Month
06-14 “The Greatest
Adventure of All”
Al Enderle
06-21 Annual Fathers’ Day
Putting Contest and Bar-B-Que
06-22 Demotion Party for 2011-12
President Garry Heath
06-01 through 6-03 District 5320 Induction of 2012-13
A journey back to the big band era
Conference
President Gerry Aust
features a 13 piece orchestra, period Long Beach Hilton
Hotel
`Nautical or Hawaiian Attire
dancers, crooners and swooners!
Celebrating the achievements of At Claire and Garry’s Home
the
Rotary Clubs of District 5320
$30 per person includes
05-24 This year’s RYLA Camp Report
Food and Drinks
Meet this year’s campers
06-07 Club Foundation
Reception 6 PM Dinner: 7 PM
Karrie Good & Jill Spencer,
Cash Awards to Non-profits
RYLA Co-Chairs
Jill Spencer, President, and
06-29 No meetimg
High School Scholarship
Awards: Gerry Aust, Chair
At last week’s Meeting
THE TUSTIN-SANTA ANA ROTARY CLUB
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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T-SA CLUB LEADERSHIP
President
Garry Heath
President-Elect
Gerry Aust
Immediate Past-President
Ali Danta
Secretary
Steve Lewis
Treasurer
Roger Carlson
Membership
Cindy Speer
Community Service
Beverly Loughran
Club Service
Leo Middleton
International Service
John “Riz” Rizzo
Rotary Foundation
Alice LeDoux
New Generations
Mark Eliot
Vocational Service
Susan Shahidi
Public Relations
Donna Lea
Newsletter
Brian Herdeg
Administration;
Executive Secretary
Rose Mary Kovacs
TRANSITION DINNER JUNE 22nd
Freshly back from a frigid
tour of Alaska, President
Garry Heath returned to
the podium after a two
week absence.
Invocation: Jim Kane who
preceded the prayer with
a moment of silence in
memory of lost Rotarians,
acknowledging the one year
Anniversary of the loss of
Debbie Reines.
Flag Pledge: Steve Lewis
Four-Way Test: Riz Rizzo
An announcement by
Beverly Loughran assured
members of a evening of
fun and good food at our
Demotion Party June 22nd.
With the Tustin Chili
Cook-Off and Street Fair
coming up Sunday, June
3rd, sign-up sheets were
distributed. Need cooks for
Saturday morning, chili
and drink servers, booth
set-up and take-down
volunteers and information
booth volunteers. This is
an opportunity to raise
funds for the clubs
programs.
Those who ordered tickets
are going to have an
evening of Dinner Theater
on Saturday, 5-19
at Tustin’s Reprise Theater.
It is one of the first club
fellowship events under the
chair Leo Middleton.
The Club Directory
is being updated
and if you need to
change any of your
information please
CALL ROSE MARY
President Heath called the Meeting
to Order
President Heath displays a hat he
bought on a frigid Alaska morning
(Demotion/Installation Party)
Bid Farewell to 2011-12 President Garry Heath
Welcome 2012-13 President Gerry Aust
Nautical or Hawaiian Casual Wear
At the Home of Claire and Garry Heath
6 PM Reception 7 PM Dinner
Keeping with the New Orleans
theme, Susan Shahidi, Chair, and
Ail Danta narrated the Fashion
Show wearing ornate masks.
(SEE PICTURES ON PAGES 4 And 5)
Thursday, Mary 17, 2012
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MAY BIRTHDAYS
(L-R) Don Avery , Sharon Avery, Dave Smith, Bruce Grant,
Doris Allen, Ken LaTourette and Tony Mumolo
Gerry Aust
Roger Carlson
Pamela La Tourette
Troy Linaker
Ed Cottone
Karen Olmsted
Keith Loughran
Gaylord Whipple
5-03
5-06
5-08
5-09
5-12
5-14
5-20
5-28
MAY ANNIVERSARIES
Steve and
Jeanette Lewis
Dave and
Karen Hackett
Greg and
Debbie Franklin
Cindy and
Ivan Speer
Model Shawn Shahidi
and his wife Sharon
5-19
5-22
5-27
Mo
an
Jay and Danielle “Trophy” Weber
Bill Moss and Sepehr Said,
a guest of the Shahidis.
President Garry Heath
on the Microphone
Mohan Upasani dines with Rotarian Jhun Jhun
Jhunjhnuwala and his friend. This will be Jhun
Jhun’s last visit for four months.
BUSINESS PEOPLE YOU CAN TRUST
5-14
A smiling picture of Jay
Weber and a beautiful
mysterious masked lady.
BUSINESS PEOPLE YOU CAN TRUST
Model Bindu Dhasmana and cocommentator Ali Danta without masks.
Model Steve Lewis and his
lovely wife Jeannette
BUSINESS PEOPLE YOU CAN TRUST
Mo
an
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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ANNUAL MOTHERS’ DAY
FASHION SHOW
CINDY SPEER
JIM KANE
STEVE LEWIS
DANIELLE WEBER
TUSTIN HIGH GOOD IDEA AWARD
WINNING TEACHER THANKS CLUB
BINDU DHASMANA
I would like to thank the Tustin-Santa Ana
Rotary Club for their kind donation to the
Tustin High Robotics Club in February
2012. We finally got to the competition
sponsored by OV Vital Link in April with one
of our robots. It placed 5th in a field of 10
teams which was quite good considering this
was our first time in the competition and we
clearly had a lot to learn about the strategy
of the game.
We naively focused on simply scoring
goals while the experienced teams realized
there was much to gain in blocking one's
opponent or even removing their balls from
the goal. We will be wiser next time.
In any
case, a sincere THANK YOU to the Rotary
Club which made this possible. My students
had a tremendous time. The picture is from
a YOU TUBE video which shows our robot in
action in the first three preliminary rounds.
The competition is based on working in pairs
with another school’s robot to maximize
your score vs the other team which is an
alliance of another two school’s robots.
In the first round we are the blue alliance
and our robot is the one with the conveyor
belt loader, which turned out to be quite
unique and successful.
Thanks again.
Dr. Brian Leslie, Tustin High School
Robotics Club SHAWN SHAHIDI
Susan Shahidi, Chair of this Event,
thanks The Hanger for providing the
Clothing from their Tustin Store stock
for our models to show each year.
Thursday May 17, 2012
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