Issues #36 - Point West Rotary

Issue No. 36: [April 1, 2011]
Volume XXVI
Gary Wants
You to Know
The Roseville-Sunrise Club
is holding two events that you
membership that might interest you.
On May 21st is the Texas Holdem
Tournament, $40 entry fee, no
experience necessary! June 25th is the
Trap Shoot Tournament, $95
experience (Class A, B, or C) or $65
amateur. There will be a raffle ($20/
ticket) for a $1200 Browning Safe.
Save the Dates!
th
Apr 12
UC Davis Business Institute
at 2 pm, contact Deb
Baron
May 14th Festa Di Vino at the
Scottish Rite Masonic
Center in Sacramento
May 23rd Annual Golf Tournament,
Northridge Country Club
Meeting dates
Places, and
Speakers
Invite a guest to one of the upcoming
weekly meetings:
Apr 8 Dawn Lindblom, CEO Red Cross
Apr 15 Alan Anderson Director of
Development Shriner’s Hospital
Apr 22 Robert Rivinius, Past President &
CEO California Building Industry
Rotary Club
Of
Point West
Founded, April 1985
Just Last Week
by Dave Christenson
Once again Point West Rotary continues to amaze
me. The highlight of our meeting this
week is what great work we are doing
for kids in our community. Matt
Byers gave the invocation reminding
us all of the importance of good
health.
Greg Lauck introduced
Suzanne Ambrosia the vice principal
of Jonas Salk and two students, Gloria
and Desmond who expressed thanks
for our Club sponsoring their field trip to UC Davis
program, Words Take Wings, which allows students to
interact with an author. They came away with the message
that anything is possible with hard work.
WeeWeeek
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Historic Moments:
Origins of Group Study
Exchange
By Susan Hanf and Lauren Kalal
Rotary International News -- 16 March 2011
In January 1964,
the RI Board of
Directors
and
The
Rotary
Foundation
Board
of
Trustees
approved Group
Study
Exchange as
an Group Study Exchange team members
visit a nuclear research project near
official
Rotary Geneva, circa 1967. From the November
program. Thirty- 1967 issue of The Rotarian.
four teams from 17
pairs of districts participated in the first round of
exchanges during the 1965-66 and 1966-67 Rotary
years.
But young people had been traveling the
globe with support from Rotary clubs well before
this decision. In 1950, six young men from
England went to New Zealand, led by English
Rotarian Geoff Morton and financed by clubs in
Yorkshire. They traveled the country, staying
with Rotarians along the way.
Rotarian Ralph Vernon proposed a similar
endeavor in 1955 to clubs in northern New
Zealand, who wanted to commemorate Rotary’s
golden anniversary with a districtwide effort.
District 39 (now districts 9910, 9920, 9930, and
9940) created the Rotary Overseas Travel Award
program, and John Ledgerwood, of the Rotary
Club of Hamilton, led the first team on a trip to
Great Britain.
Rotary
International
President
(Just Last Week continued)
We are reminded Festa di Vino is still
looking for auction items and ticket prices will
be going up after April 15th. Craig Evans
updated us on the April 10th Rotary Day at the
Rivercats. We will be providing tickets for
twenty students from Jonas Saulk and ten
students from Encina! Come out to the game
and support this event. Walter Helm shared
with us the progress Rotary International is
having with Polio Plus. Lou let us know we are
still ahead of the Sacramento Club in blood
donations. Keep dripping everyone.
Jaime
Nelson
introduced
Glynn
Thompson the Chief Academic Officer of the
San Juan Unified School District. Mr.
Thompson gave us an outline of plans that will
have a major impact on
Thomas Edison, Jonas
Salk, and Encina High
School. The plan will
close
Thomas
Edison. The facility
will be used for a
kindergarten
and
learning center. Jonas
Salk will turn into a K-8
school while Encina High School will change to
a 6-12 school. The District is holding meetings
to listen to feedback on the proposed
changes. Lou Fifer, Doug Weill and Buzz
Wiesenfeld all had great comments and
questions for Mr. Thompson. They illustrated
our continued involvement and commitment to
these schools and their students. Our Club
should be proud of these individuals and all the
members who are working to make a difference
at these schools.
Jerry Avila introduced our speaker Jamie
Susslin the host of The Ultimate Sportsman
television show. Jaime chronicled her path to
being a host of an outdoor adventure show from
growing up as a tomboy to becoming a law
enforcement officer, then private investigator,
owner of a model agency, real estate agent to
finally a TV host. You had to be there,
especially to hear of her close encounter with a
rhinoceros on a African dart safari.
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(GSE continued)
The program was so successful that district
leaders in New Zealand decided to continue it
after the anniversary celebrations had ended. Over
the next few years, teams from New Zealand
traveled to Canada, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, and
the United States. New Zealand Rotarians
welcomed visitors from these countries as well as
from Pakistan.
In the early 1960s, the Trustees began
considering programs for non-Rotarians that
would promote international goodwill and
understanding. One plan was for small groups of
young business and professional men to travel
from one Rotary district to a district in another
country.
Harold T. Thomas, a New Zealand
Rotarian who served as RI president in 1959-60,
shared information about the Rotary Overseas
Travel Award with the Trustees. Soon after the
Board and Trustees approved Group Study
Exchange, Vernon and other Rotarians with
experience in group exchanges and vocational
training were invited to finalize the details of the
new Foundation program.
In the nearly five decades since, more than
70,000 young men and women have traveled the
globe as part of Group Study Exchange teams.
What pets do
when we’re at
work
UC Davis Institute for
Regenerative Cures
Business Tour
On April 12th at 2:00 pm is our second business
tour. It is a tour of the UC Davis Medical Center, 2921
Stockton Blvd., in Sacramento of the Institute for
Regenerative Cures.
For patients and families suffering from chronic
disease or injury, the promise of stem cell therapies offers
great hope. UC Davis is a leader in advancing that
promising goal. It has brought together physicians,
research scientists, biomedical engineers and a range of
other experts and collaborative partners to establish the
UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures, a facility
supported by the California Institute for Regenerative
Medicine. The new $62 million Institute is located on the
University’s Sacramento campus, where collaborative,
team-oriented science is working to advance breakthrough
discoveries and bring stem cell therapies and cures to
patients everywhere. It benefits from being on a campus
near a nationally designated cancer center, a renowned
neurodevelopment institute, state-of-the-art imaging and
biophotonics programs, and an academic medical center
that is at the forefront of advanced patient care.
The institute’s facilities include primary
laboratories, a shared-vector core, microscopy and cell
sorters, space for academic, postdoctoral and
administrative offices.
Those members wishing to attend please RSVP to
[email protected] or call 488-6350
Brittani in Argentina (Our GSE Student)
An excerpt from her blog: In Argentina, it's definitely
Trivia Question of the Week
Who had 50s No. 1s with Rag Mop,
Sentimental Me and You, You, You?
a culture where everyone is always keeping busy and
doing something-no matter the hour of the day. It's funny
because sometimes I just like to relax and lay in my bed
and listen to music. I was just relaxing in my room one
day, and my mom came in and asked if everything was
okay, of course! I guess my mom perceived it as
something being wrong but that definitely wasn't the case!
So I explained to her that I don't need to be constantly
doing something or be out of the house to be happy. I'm
perfectly content sometimes just doing nothing and
relaxing.
Sundays are normally family days, where we go
to the grandparent’s house in the countryside and spend
the day there. I’m tan and freckled more than ever. It gets
extremely hot here. It’s crazy though because the weather
can change incredibly fast.
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My Favorite Catholic Joke
Rotary Club of Point
West
(Catholics are some of my favorite people)
'Father', he confessed, 'it has been one month since my last
confession. I had sex with Nookie Green twice last month.' The
priest told the sinner, 'You are forgiven. Go out and say three
Hail Mary's.'
Soon thereafter, another parishioner entered the confessional.
'Father, it has been two months since my last confession. I've had
sex with Nookie Green twice a week for the past two months.'
This time, the priest questioned, 'Who is this Nookie Green?' 'A
new woman in the neighborhood,' the sinner replied. 'Very well,'
sighed the priest. Go and say ten Hail Mary's.
At mass the next morning, as the priest prepared to deliver the
sermon, a tall, voluptuous, drop-dead gorgeous red headed
woman entered the sanctuary. The eyes of every man in the
church fell upon her as she slowly sashayed up the aisle and sat
down right in front of the priest. Her dress was green and very
short, and she wore matching, shiny emerald-green shoes.
The priest and the altar boy gasped as the woman in the green
dress and matching green shoes sat with her legs spread slightly
apart, but just enough to realize she wasn't wearing any
underwear. The priest turned to the altar boy and whispered, 'Is
that Nookie Green?' The bug-eyed altar boy couldn't believe his
ears but managed to calmly reply, 'No Father, I think it's just a
reflection from her shoes'..
2010 - 2011 Board of Directors
President
Gary Hardesty
Secretary
Lisa Ryan
Treasurer
Scott Daulton
Directors
Club Service I
Richard Price
Club Service II Trish Harrington
Community Service I
Craig Evans
Community Service II
Toney Sebra
International Service
Robert Halleck
Vocational Service I
Jamie Nelson
Vocational Service II
Cori Badgley
Past President
President-elect
Al Howenstein
Jennifer
Curtsinger
Publicity/Membership
DeWana Ljung
Sergeant at Arms
Gary Pevey
Admin. Assistant
George Daniels
Visit our website for more information
http://pointwest.clubwizard.com
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING PWR
MEETINGS
Penguins
Did you ever wonder why there are no
dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica where do they go? Well, wonder no more!!!
It is a known fact that the penguin is a
very ritualistic bird, which lives an extremely
ordered and complex life. The penguin is
very committed to its family and will mate
for life, as well as maintaining a form of
compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life. If a
penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the
family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice,
using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep
enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried. The male
penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:
"Freeze a jolly good fellow, freeze a jolly good fellow."
Then they kick him in the ice hole.
MARCH
25
PWR Meeting
APRIL
1
PWR Meeting
8
PWR Meeting
15
PWR Meeting
22
PWR Meeting
5180
District
Governor
Governor Jo Ann Lemmon’s newsletter
http://pointwest.clubwizzard.com/IM
Upload/11-02-01-District-5180News.htm
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THE FOURWAY TEST
1.
Is it the TRUTH?
2.
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3.
Will it build GOODWILL and
BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4.
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all
The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of
service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to
encourage and foster:
FIRST
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for
service;
SECOND
High ethical standards in business and professions, the
recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations,
and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an
opportunity to serve society;
THIRD
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s
personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH
The advancement of international understanding,
goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of
business and professional persons united in ideals of
service.
Missed a Meeting?
Here are some of the nearby clubs. For a complete list in our District go to
www.rotary5180.org/clubmeetinglocations.aspx or make up on-line at
www.rotaryclub.org to experience eClub.
11:30 am –
12:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 am 12:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 am 12:15 pm
5:30 pm
7:00 am
12:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:15 am
12:15 pm
2:15 pm
MONDAY
South Sacramento – Casa Garden Restaurant
Sacramento – Radisson Hotel
Fair Oaks – F. O. Comm. Clubhouse
TUESDAY
Sacramento Breakfast – Gonul’s J Street Café’
Arden Arcade – Community Service Center Marconi
Sheriff’s Substation
Carmichael – Café’ Capri Restaurant
WEDNESDAY
Rocklin Loomis Basin – Whitney Oaks Golf Club
North Sacramento – Double Tree Hotel
Midtown Sacramento – Café’ Bernardo
THURSDAY
Roseville Sunrise – Carrows Restaurant
East Sacramento – Salvation Army
Folsom – Rotary Clubhouse at Lew Howard Park
FRIDAY
Natomas – Hamilton Inn and Suites
Granite Bay – Piati’s Restaurant
West Sacramento – Pheasant Club
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