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Program for Friday October 10, 2003

Gary Mills

The Importance of Team Building

Gary will speak on the importance of team building in your personal and business lives.

Door Duty: David K and Thomas Cameron

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Program for Friday October 17, 2003

Drake Zimmerman

A Rotary member from Normal, Illinois will inform us about the Rotary Malaria project that he is trying to raise money for.

Door Duty: Donald Lau and Bud Martin

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Program of October 3, 2003

No Meeting

Program of September 26, 2003

Barbara Smith, Historian

The program was provided by Barbara Smith, Historian at the Mountain View Cemetery at the top of Piedmont Blvd. Barbara has been giving tours at the cemetery for 40 years and has gotten to know the residents very well. She gave an energetic presentation on the history of the grounds and the folks who reside there.

Mountain View was planned by the same architect that designed Central Park in NYC. The cemetery was opened in 1865. Residents include John Marsh, a Harvard graduate who practiced medicine in the East Bay using his college of letters degree, and later became a successful rancher and developer; Moses Chase who built the first house in the East Bay; George Chabot, who invented many of the hydraulic mining techniques that forever altered the Sierra foothills; Dominigez Ghirardelli, who built a spectacular marble crypt for his daughter; and Henry Durant who started a prep school, that developed into small college upon which he bestowed the name Berkeley, and that he later steered away from the Agriculture and Mining focus, toward a college of letters. Which made Barbara wonder why VP Herb attended USC for god's sake. Tulips to tulips, this was a fascinating presentation.

New Members
With appropriate pomp, President Stoney inducted two new members into the Club - Thomas Cameron and Paul Washington. I'm looking forward to their "Who AM I's" already. Welcome Thomas and Paul.

Upcoming Speakers
10/24/03 Michael Becker, Rotary iin Vietnam
10/31/03 Malcom Sproul, Save Mount Diablo
11/07/03 Cornell Green (son of the great db for the Cowboys) talking about his dropout prevention and student motivation program at Peres.
11/14/03 Graham Hawks - Updates us on Deepspace.com

Important Dates
10/17/03 Peres Honor Roll BBQ
10/18/03 Brazilian Carnival in Dixon
11/07/03 Community Services Mtg Mira Vista 11:45-12:15
11/19/03 Peres Bedtime Story Night
11/28/03 No Meeting. Happy Turkey!
12/05/03 Holiday Auction and Club Elections
12/11/03 Holiday Party at Mira Vista CC
01/25/04 Annual Reno Train Trip
02/20/04 Help celebrate Rotary's 99th B'day
06/04/04 D-Day meeting on The Red Oak Victory

Where to Make Up
San Rafael   Monday       12:15 Seafood Peddler
Albany        Tuesday       12:30 Mira Vista G&CC
El Sobrante Tuesday       12:15 Joe's of El Sobrante
Berkeley     Wednesday 12:15 His Lordships
Hercules     Wednesday   7:15 am Hercules Senior Center
San Pablo   Wednesday 12:15 San Pablo Casino
El Cerrito    Thursday       12:15 Mira Vista G&CC
Pinole         Thursday      12:30 Outback Steak House
Vallejo        Thursday      12:15 World Holiday Inn

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Last Week - Sept. 26. (October 3 Meeting Cancelled)
With a good turnout for our last meeting in September, Prez Stoney asked Past Prez David Brown to lead the pledge. The Prez then read three very thoughtful quotes that were very well received, if not long remembered by your scribe.

Visiting Rotarians
Visting Rotarians were Bill Frank, the current District Director of Communications(?), Don Farquharson from El Cerrito and Michel Burleson attended from San Pablo Rotary.

Guests
Guests of Rotarians included Rhonda Harris and Cheryl Black.

Announcements
Paul Hodgen, the BEST Community Services Director this club has ever had, gave reminders about the District Conference, the upcoming Community Services meeting and the need for Peres sponsors.

Sunshine Report
David K. reported he was going to report on the recovering John Nicol, but ran into him at the meeting today and decided John looks pretty good - so nothing worth reporting. Don Hardison is recovering from his ordeal during the Rosie the Riveter Nat'l Park planning workshop, and daughter Jan Brown says Don would have been at the meeting today except for a medical appointment. Somewhere in the discussions your scribe admitted to being with Don when he stumbled in a dark stairwell, not that it was any help to Don! Norm Lundberg is recovering from some heart issues - David K. reports Norm was on his feet in record time and has passed his treadmill test.

Recognitions
Hank Covell, long a pillar in our community, was recognized for his recent birthday. Hank noted that he was born here in Richmond, the oldest of 10 children. Hank had a generous donation for the Pere's School Foundation.
International traveler Bart Wallace was recognized for a birthday as well. Recently back from Japan, Bart admitted he was born in 1945(one year before Ralph Hill joined the Club). Bart has been on the road a great deal and a home cooked barbecue, in his back yard, will be his favored way to celebrate. Domo Arigato for the donation Bart.

Happy/Sad $$
Joanne Blum had sad dollars recognizing the frightening number of new cases of polio every year. She is willing to do something about it, and donated $500 to Polio Plus. AND, her husband Arthur will match her $500 dollar donation if two more Rotarians will come up with $500 a piece. Club members up - don't pass this up. Past Prez David Brown was happy and sad that his partner Cheryl is retiring from the law firm. David had a big check to acknowledge that his loss in the firm is more than balanced by the gain of Cheryl as a full time life partner. Congratulations Cheryl. Dan Ercolini had big bucks for the Giants, and only small bucks for the A's. Leslie tossed $50 into the Joanne/Arthur Polio Plus match. Vice President Herb had an anticipatory donation, expecting USC to rough up the Bears, and invited bets. Ever passionate and supportive of CAL, but never dumb, Erle is matching the donation when sweetened with 13 points. Henry Kelman's take on the whole thing was the donation should be a box of trojans, because that's all they're worth.

Raffle
Results - White Ball, Free Lunch!
The pot continues to grow.

"By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher" Socrates

Semper Paratus

After the meeting Jonathon pledged $500 to Joanne for the Polio Plus program. Please see Joanne and let her know what you will kick in to get the additional $500 so that Arthur has to pay! We could come up with multiple smaller donations like Leslie's to match the remaing $450

Door Duty Reminder
10/24/03 Jonathan Lawlis and Norman Lundberg
10/31/03 Leslie Levy and Oscar Lugo
11/07/03 Paul Allen and George Alvarez
11/14/03 Jim Bates and Charles Belcher
11/21/03 Jim Cannon and Josh Genser
11/28/03 No Meeting
12/05/03 Dick King and Ken Leverich
12/12/03 Theodore Abreu and Charles Wong
12/19/03 Richard Alexander Father Nick