We had our third “virtual” meeting of the Carmichael Rotary Club, April 14th, 2020. President Vicky Boatwright, becoming astute at running "virtual meetings", introduced esteemed member Dr. Stan Roe, who led us in the “pledge” and gave the following two thoughts for the day:
HONORARY
VIVEK AND VAYUN TIWARI, UPENDRA AND SMITA KULKARNI
EVENTS CHANGED OR POSTPONED OR CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE (COVID-19) PANDEMIC
♦ "RISE AGAINST HUNGER": IS POSTPONED, TO BE ANNOUNCED.
♦ "REAL" - Rotary Education Assembly Live - is POSTPONED
♦ "ROTARY REBOOT": - Saturday, 4/25 - 3 in 1 Membership, Marketing and Service is CANCELED.
♦ "SPECIAL OLYMPICS BOCCI BALL TOURNAMENT - on Sunday, 4/26 is CANCELED
♦ THE CARMICHAEL ANNUAL EASTER SEALS GOLF TOURNAMENT - is CANCELED
♦ "DISTRICT AWARDS": ARE POSTPONED BUT THE AWARD PACKAGES NEED TO BE IN PLACE.
♦ "ROTARY CONVENTION": IN HAWAII - CANCELED
•Blood is badly needed, stocks are down:You can go toVitalent.orgto find a location to give blood. President Vicky has been there recently and it is done spaced out and in very comfortable surroundings. One location close to us is BloodSource, 11713 Fair Oaks Blvd (916) 722-7119.
► April 21: (Virtual Meeting) Shelter Boxes - Bill Tobin
► April 28: (Virtual Meeting) Carmichael Parks - Mike Blondino
► May 5: Historic Sacramento Cemetery - Robt. La Pierre, M.D.
Our speaker for the day was introduced by esteemed member George Abraham. George said thatVivek Tiwari is employed at Intel and that is his day job, but that’s not what he is here to talk about today, It is about his passion for birding (or birdwatching) . Vivek will share with us how he got started with birding and share also pictures and stories of some of his favorite birds and adventures around the world.
Vivekstarted with a slide entitled “My Birding Journey” – photos by Vivekand Vayun Tiwariand continued with showing us hundreds of pictures of beautiful birds and his life story. Viveksaid that he has been interested in nature since he was a 13 year old growing up in New Delhi, India. He had access to “National Geographic” and “Scientific American” and got inspired with the natural world. In particular, a National Geographic special edition in 1983 about Tropical Rain Forests left a big impression on him as he learnt about the wealth of biodiversity in rainforests. Then he went off to college at the Indian Institute of Technology and saw some birds up close through binoculars for the first time, during a nature club trip, and was immediately hooked on to birds. This is where we also met his future wife, Gargi! During college he also went to a WWF Nature Orientation Camp in southern India where he was wowed by seeing a Great Hornbill and further deepened his interest in birds and nature.
After that he came to Princeton as a graduate student and was impressed by seeing a Northern Cardinal and went to a bird refuge and met ThomasandMargot Southerland who ran a Nature Tours company and also taught birding classes, which Vivek joined. Thomasbecame his great teacher and mentor. Vivek mentions that the Institute of Advanced Studies near Princeton University where Albert Einstein spent his last years, dying in 1955, is also a famous birding site. During his graduate years, Vivekalsoused to drive up to New Haven in Connecticut to volunteer for the New Haven “Hawk Watch”, an effort to monitor the Fall migration of hawks.
In 1995, he went bird watching to the Amazon in Peru, the realization of a childhood dream. He came to be employed by Intel and so moved to California and now 25 years laterVivek says that he has seen 3,500 different species of birds, 1/3 of those on Earth!
NowVivek goes birding with his son Vayun who also loves birding and has become quite a good photographer. In fact, his son has made up an impressive bird calendar for which he is asking for a $20 donation which will go to bird’s charities and in helping to save endangered species of birds (a picture of the calendar and email address will be given at the end of this article). SoVivek went on to show pictures of many beautiful birds that he and his son have photographed – too many for this bulletin, but I have picked out 20 or so photos just to give an idea of the beauty and quality of their work (end of article).
Vivek showed pictures of what he thinks is the most beautiful bird (in pictures at the end of this article) which is the Indian Peacock. He then showed us many pictures of hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are only found in the New world (Americas). Then Toucans of different kinds and Manakins, and told us that he went to Brazil in search of a particular species of Manakin (the Araripe Manakin) which is found only in a small area of rain forest of about 26 square kilometers. Last year,Vivekand Vayun went to Ecuador looking for a new species, the Blue Throated Hillstar andVayun took a beautiful picture of it.
Now, Vivek turned his slide show to California Birds – those named with California in their name and showed examples:
California Quail (the State Bird of California), Scrub-Jay, Towhee (a large sparrow), Gnatcatcher (found near San Diego), Gull (which is really the state bird of Utah), and Thrasher.
And he showed pictures of Central Valley species, snow geese, swans, cranes, ducks, kingfishers, egrets, western meadowlark, horned lark, sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, raptors - you see a lot of them in winter – red-tailed hawk, harrier, kestrel, turkey vultures, and the little burrowing owl (which is a threatened species).
You can donate $20 and receive Vayun’s beautiful calendar by emailing spiderhunters@gmail.com
Vivek’s knowledgeable and comprehensive presentation was great and showed well in the virtuality format.
President Vickytold Vivek that in reality we would donate a book, in his honor, to the Carmichael library (subsidiary of the Sacramento Public library.
Happy Fines, by a "virtual" Chuck McBride was abbreviated due to time constraints and GeorgeAbraham donated his allotment ( in lieu of lunch) $20 in celebration of Vivek Timari's fantastic presentation; Greg Herrera made a comment about the birds in Bodega Bay (and gave his allotment).
(Your bulletin editor admits that he might have missed some of the goings on because his computer battery ran low and he had to take it into another room.)
BELL RINGERS
DICK BAUER (2); MARK BEIL; KATHA DANZ; PHIL DANZ; ED BUNTING (3); VINCE IOSSO (2); JAY BOATWRIGHT(X3); VICKY BOATWRIGHT (3); GREG HERRERA(2);WALTER MALHOSKI (4); TONY MARQUES; CHARLES McBRIDE;
KAREN MUNSTERMAN; RICH PLATH; STAN ROE
BONG GONGERS
HAMID AHMADI (3); DICK BAUER; MARK BEIL; JAY BOATWRIGHT; VICKY BOATWRIGHT; ED BUNTING (7) ; GREG HERRERA (3); VINCE IOSSO (2); STAN ROE; TONY MARQUES; KAREN MUNSTERMAN; RICH PLATH (2)
EXPLANATION: A BELL RINGER IS SOMEONE WHO DONATES $100 TO THE CLUB IN A GIVEN YEAR; A GONG BONGER IS ONE WHO DONATES AN ADDITIONAL $100 TO THE CLUB FOUNDATION (FOR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC PURPOSE)
RAFFLE
SO (DITTO FROM LAST WEEK)there was no Raffle because we need a genius to figure out how we can do the Raffle on an online (Virtual) format. There isn't much money in the kitty anyway. It would be good to get a "virtual" bottle of wine. It might take some time folks....
During the incumbency of President David Thorman,(2013-14) it was decided that instead of giving a particular gift, ie coffee mug, pen etc. to honor our guest speaker each week, we would simply donate a book to the Carmichael Library. So below are many of the books that we have donated in honor of recent speakers.
It is the "gift that keeps of giving" because those who will check out these books from the library will derive many hours of pleasure for years to come, and it enhances learning and literacy. The books are chosen byBertaBoegel, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
rboegel@saclibrary.org
BOOK DONATIONS - as of 3-12-20
SPEAKER
TITLE
AUTHOR
BILL DONNOE
"Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern
World and Will Take Us to the Stars"
Andrew
Rader
DAN McKAY
"That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through
the Past, Present, and Future of American's Public Lands"
Mark
Kenyon
JIM QUINNEY
"Hunger: The Oldest Problem"
Martin
Capparros
THOMAS GREEN
"Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization
and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools"
David
Ravitch
BOB
MUTCHLER
"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,
But Nobody Wants to Die"
Bioethics and the transformation of
Health Care in America
Amy
Gutmann
CHUCK
McBRIDE
"Apple Tree: Writers on Their Parents ed."
Lise
Finderburg
GLENN
FONG
"Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes
Thought."
Barbara Tyersky
DAVID THORMAN
"Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve
More by Doing Less"
Michael Hyatt
JACK FROST
"How Change Happens"
Cass Sunstein
KENT KERN
"I Wish for Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids
to Make a Difference"
Kyle Schwartz
MICHAEL HARDING
"The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking
of America"
Margaret O'Hara
PHIL DANZ
"Natural Rivals, John Muir & Clifford Pinchot, Creation of
America's Public Lands"
John Clayton
VIRGINIA STONE
"Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon"
Tucker Malarkey
WAYNE BEIL
"Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence
We can Trust"
Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
BOB DEERING
"Trust First: A True Story
About The Power of Giving People
Second Chances"
Bruce Deel
HAMID AHMADI
"The Power of Human: How our
Shared Humanity Can Help Us
Create A Better World"
Adam Waytz
MICHAEL REINERO
"Blue Print: How DNA
Makes Us Who We Are"
Robert Piomin
RACHAEL TAYLOR
"Outsiders: Five Women Writers
Who Changed the World"
Lyndall Gorden
RAY WARD
"The Second Most Powerful Man in the World:
The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy,
Roosevelt's Chief of Staff"
Phillips Payson O'Brien
DESIREE WILSON
"Children of the Dream"
Richard Rothstein
LIZ BLUM
"Upcycling Outdoors": 20 Creative Garden Projects
Made from Reclaimed Materials
Max McMurdo
PHIL DARKE
"Hike It Baby": 100 Awesome Outdoor Adventures
with Babies & Toddlers
Shanti Hodges
DAVID RADAR
"Revolutionary George Washington at War"
Robert O'Connell
TERRYL SUMMERS
"The Pianist from Syria"
Aeham Ahmad
ALAN GALLAWAY
"Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England"
Liza Picard
JIM QUINNEY
"Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking won't solve our
Problems and What we can do about it"
Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, Sinikka Elliott
MARK MANNIS, M.D.
"How to be Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating
the World of Modern Medicine"
Sana Goldberg, R.N.
MATT ZIMMERLING
"The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained"
D.K. Publishing
MICKEYMcMULLEN
"Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and
"Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit economy is Threatening our Future"
Louise I. Shelley
Jay Boatwright
"What Makes Wine worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime"
Terry Theise
Deputy Lacy Nelson
"The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well being."
Richard Wilkinson
&
Kate Picket
Moses Osono
"The Seasons of my Mother:A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers."
The Wonderful Mr. Willughby, the first true ornithologist”
Tim Birkhead
Glenn Fong
“The Spy Who Left Behind”
Michael Pullara
Jay Boatwright
“Einsteins Monsters, The Life and Times of Black Holes”
Chris Impy
Jim Thompson
“Barons of the Sea and their race to build the fastest clipper ship”
Steven Ujifusa
Mark Steffens
“A Forever Family; Fostering Change One Child at a Time”
Rob Scheer
Yourbulletin editor just couldn’t help bringing to your notice the relevance of the last six “Book Donations” by Branch Supervisor, Berta Boegel given “in honor of” our recent keynote speakers to the Carmichael Library (Sacramento Public Library) at our Club meetings. Note that Berta has fined tuned the speakers topic to the subject of the book! They are below:
Missy McCall, who talked about “Human Trafficking”, book donated in her name: Under theBirch Tree: A Memoir of Discovering Connections and Finding a Home by Nancy Chadwick.
Mark Urban, who talked about a trip to Ethiopia, book donated in his name: The Pharaoh’sTreasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization by John Gaudet.
Dr. Beverly Wesner-Hoen, who talked about being a part of Rotary Fellowship, book donated Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee’s Book and Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today by Tom Santopietro
Doug Haaland, who talked about his trip to Israel, book donated in his name: Shaya: An Odysseyof Food, My Journey Back to Israel by Alon Shaya.
and 6. Bill Baxter and Rich Plath, who talked about “Fly Fishing” – get this – “On the Fly”: HoboLiterature and Songs 1879-1941 ed. By Iain Mcintyre. How appropriate….
As of June 26, 2017, we have purchased nearly 160 titles in honor of our speakers! Because of the large number of books, we are not showing them all at this time.
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