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Program for Friday December 13, 2002

Holiday Auction

Who will win the coveted brown bag of fine Muscatel?

Door Duty: Ted Abreu and Charlie Wong

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Program for Friday December 20, 2002

Ted Abreau and Judy Kafka
Discuss their Polio Plus Trip to Ghana

Door Duty: Richard Alexander and Father Chris

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Program of December 6, 2002

Sebastian Ilzig, Rotary Exchange Student

Sebastion Ilzig is from a town called Hanau in Germany. Of course his native tongue is German and so his English was heavily accented. Ilzig is in high school and is probably around 16 years old and yet he demonstrated the confidence of a person twice his age. He thanks his current host family Terry and Pete. The second half of the year he is spending with Lao and Fred Taralini from Marin who are also sponsoring him. He is very thankful for being sponsored by Rotary.

Hanau is 20K from Frankfurt and near one of the largest airports in Germany. It is an historical town that was settled in 14th century. Many of the early immigrants were metal tradespeople who worked with gold and silver. The author of the grim fairy tales also was a resident of the town. The town has around 100,000 inhabitants.

The remainder of his talk involved showing a video of his town and narrating the sights.

Recognitions:
Leslie Levy had a birthday at thanksgiving, which she celebrated by donating $100 to the club. Charlie Fender also had a birthday. Jim Cannon is having an anniversary this Sunday. It is his 18th. Red ribbons were distributed for all those members in the club that contributed more than $100 to the RI foundations. Virtually every member of the club got ribbons and those that didn't felt they should have.

Happy & Sad Dollars
Joann Blum is playing the roll of grandmother in an upcoming production of the Nutcracker for which she gave happy dollars. Jon Lawlis also had happy dollars to celebrate no going on the sick Disney ship last weekend.
Josh Genser had some sad dollars because of the passing of Sy Zell at the age of 77. Sy was a cornerstone of the community and has many good deeds to his credit.
Jim Beaver also had $5 sad dollars to commemorate the passing of Sy who had done many thing to support the hospital. He also had some happy $ to congratulate Joe Nusbaum and Donna Bell for the terrific jobs they have done and will continue to do for the club. Paul Hogden had some happy dollars to celebrate his high school team's unbeaten record and their championship game this Saturday.
Richard Alexander has a happy $5 to honor his son who has just been awarded most improved certificate in freshman football.

Joe Bagley proposes for membership Pastor Ben Dailey under the classification Minister-Non Denominational. Please forward any objections to Secretary Joe Nusbaum

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Last Week
PRESIDENT DAVID BROWN rang the bell. DAVID BROWN'S thought for the day was: "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. --Benjamin Franklin.

Visiting Rotarians:
Terry from the Tiburon Rotary club and Greg from the Marin sunrise club attended the meeting today. These two are the hosts for Sebastion Ilzig our speaker today.

Guests:
Werner introduced his first wife Lea.

Announcements
Holiday auction is this coming week. This is the principal fundraiser for the Richmond Rotary Club so please support it. Jim Beaver highlighted some of the auction items: 1. Dave Brown's estate planning package as it has been for the last three years is the club's mainstay auction item. I bought it last year and received more than value out of it than I expected. $850 is the minimum bid. 2. Sailboat trips on the bay. 3. Charlie Wong is donating a stay at his cabin in North Shore. 4. Don Miller is donating a weekend at his estate in Capitola. 5. Several golf outings at various courses around the bay. 6. Herb Cole is offering a day of Sturgeon fishing. 7. Jim Canon is donating a ride on the Levin Terminal short line Railroad. And finally the priceless bottle of Muscatel with its long a storied history.

Holiday party will be at the activity room at Brickyard Cove the same evening at 5:30. It will be the same location as last year's party.

Elections will be held this Friday. The nominated slate is as follows:
President:                Horace Stoney Stonework.
Vice President:        Herb Cole
Secretary:                Joseph Nusbaum
Treasurer:                Donna Bell
Board: (Vote for three members)
Paul Hodgen, Jon Lawlis, Chris Woerz, Gloria Johnston,
Don Miller, Barry Gordon, Nominees from floor.

The District Governors invite you to attend:
The Rotary International Presidential Dinner
Jan 3,2003 in Monterrey, Ca

The RI Convention for 2003 will be held in Brisbane Australia
Registrants from our District are eligible for the Visa known as Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) provided they hold a US Passport. They can apply online or through a travel agent. To apply online have them visit: http://www.eta.immi.gov.au/index.html.
Both a Passport and Visa are required, and you don't want to be "stopped at the gate" because a Visa has not been ordered early enough for travel to Australia.

The district is looking for a district bookkeeper. The position involves filing tax documents, storage of 1,000's of lbs. of district records, posting of the GL and other fun activities. The position will be paid at Rotary rates. The person that takes this position will earn the sucker of the year award

Nominations for district governor are being accepted for the period 12/1/02 through 2/15/03. Please contact Bill Spaulding with any nominees at 925-938-0700.
The district conference will be held in Fairfield on 4/24-27/02. A Golf tournament will held concurrently

Coming Speakers
12/27/02 Round Table
01/03/02 Michael Hingson, Guide Dogs for the Blind.
01/10/03 Dr. Liebgold (Dr. Fear)
01/24/03 Mindell Penn of PG&E
01/31/03 Nancy Erbe - Rotary Peace Scholar at Cal

Raffle
There was $112 dollars in the raffle bag. Charlie Fender won the raffle and picked the white ball. Too Bad Charlie.

Hasta Luego Viernes
Mark R. Howe