The second and important meeting of the 2019-2020 Rotary Year was opened by President Vicky Boatwrighton July 16th, 2019 and the "thought for the day"was given by esteemed member Jay Boatwright- fitting for the day!.
♦ THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE will be on October 25-27 at the Peppermill in Reno, "Escape to Rotayville " A discount in registration fee is extended until July 31st.
♦ ROTARY FOUNDATION - SEMINARS:
CALENDAR OF CLUB EVENTS
► JULY 23 - Joint BBQ with Sac Breakfast Club
► JULY 30 - SOCIAL MEETING- Disk Golf at Mark Beil's course
Our beloved Assistant Governor, Desiree Wilson introduced our new District Governor Ray Ward, but first, on her way to introducing Ray, she thought it fitting to introduce Guest and Ray’s travel insurance person, Stacy Graham who will be the guiding light of Ray’s Rotary existence during his year. Stacy is a member of the Auburn Day Breakfast Club which is in another District. She is a Paul Harris +9, a Triple Crown Major Donor, plays in a band, is an Assistant Governor and if that is not enough, she runs an automotive repair shop. Her job is to keep Ray in line, and be, in effect, Ray’s big sister (rumor says he needs it).
Ray Ward, 5180 District Governor, is a super star, just look the video on the District’s website (It is great!) He is a Paul Harris +5, and has the Classification of Employee Benefits and is a member of the Fair Oaks Club.
Ray came to the podium and immediately announced his District’s Theme: “CONNECT & INSPIRE”.
He then dispensed of two pleasant duties of giving out two important Club Awards: “Soaring Rotarian” Award that went to Jay Sedlak and the “Quiet Rotarian” Award that went to your bulletin editor Phil Danz. Both awards were richly deserved (but then, I am a little biased).
Ray said that our Club should have a plan. It should do a “community assessment” to find out what your community think about your Club. Your Club has a product and so needs to “target” individuals who will benefit from your Club.
One suggestion is to make great events that people will want to attend and be welcoming, give the prospective member social time, introduce him/her around and bond together.
Be sure to promote Rotary to members and to target prospective members. One great project was the “Rise against Hunger” accomplished before the District Conference – each box of food goes to disadvantaged student (worth $75) and will feed a child for a whole year. The District is thinking to get a “Go Fund Me” account with proceeds to go to “Rise Against Hunger”.
District Governor Ray talked about continuing the Vitalant project giving blood. Blood donation saves 12,000 human lives a day and is one of the easiest ways people can make a positive impact on the world. If younger people don't start donating, we could run out.
Then he showed us a funny, professionally done lip sync video (it is on the District’s website) and is to “Don’t Worry, everything will be all right”.
You can join the lip sync contest and make a video for the District Conference and win! The District Conference is from October 25 -27, in Reno at the Peppermill – act now and get a significant discount.
To see Video, go to the District Website and look under "District Conference 2019"
As is traditional with our Club, D.G. Ray was given a SWELL cowboy hat. President Vicky took advantage of the opportunity to tell District Governor Ray about a book which will be donated in his honor to the Carmichael Library (Sacramento Public Library).
A.G. Desiree Wilson, D.G. Ray Ward, Soaring Rotarian Jay Sedlak, President Vicky Boatwright
A.G. Desiree Wilson, D.G. Ray Ward. Quiet Rotarian Phil Danz, President Vicky Boatwright
Third from left District Governor Ray Wardwith his new swell cowboy hat presented to him from the Club
Travel Insurance provider Stacy Graham with Assistant Governor Desiree Wilson who were presented flowers by the Club
Tony Marques had a good reason to smile today and he selected the Ace of Spades and won the raffle! I don't have a specific amount of what he won, but it was over $1000! He didn't even care about not getting the bottle of wine. Now the Raffle starts again and the rest of us will just have to "dream on".........
Therewere three $500.00 awards given from Vocational service. The students were selected by ARC staff because they would know best about each of our suggested requirements. Also, $1000.00 was given to establish an ongoing growth scholarship account In the name of Rotary Club of Carmichael. Distribution of said monies will come at a later time at our discretion. Thank you letters from recipients are below.
"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….
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 some 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
SPEAKERS/BOOK DONATIONS TO THE CARMICHAEL LIBRARY
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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