The second official meeting of the 2018-2019 Rotary Year was opened by (BELL-LESS) President Greg Herrera. Instead of the Bell poor hapless Greg brought along a noisy irritating noise maker to use.....It seems that some despicable, deplorable person snatched the bell while Pres. Greg was posing for a picture just at the last minute of the last meeting. Vince Iosso, feeling sorry for our new president, offered up a small "desk type bell" that was woefully insufficient.
The "pledge" and "Thought" was given by Past president Dick Bauer:
"THE ONLY SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE IS EXPERIENCE"
Albert Einstein
GUESTS
RICHARD HANSEN FROM THE FOOTHILL-HIGHLANDS CLUB; TAMMY PEREZ; SPEAKER AND ASSISTANT GOVERNOR JOE SCHEIMER
Doug Haaland reported on the Rotary club of Carmichael’s new web site. A committee was formed recently to look into upgrading our website. It consisted of Doug Haaland, Walter Malhoski, Ed Bunting, and Phil Danz. Doug took the project in his hands and with input from the committee and help from Club Runner’s technical experts – particularly Zach, Doug was able to set up a dummy website and then after it was approved, transferred it live to the web.
You can see the new website by going to www.carmichaelrotary.org – it has a nice clean look with the famous “Carmichael Wall”, and a feature story and information and pull down menus which will go to our history, bulletins, photos, foundation etc.
It was so beneficial to our Club to have Doug’s experience with websites to help us out. Thanks Doug!
♦ Finally, there was a joke presented at our July 24th meeting that met the high standards of the Bulletin's oversight committee. It received a hearty laugh:
JOKE OF THE DAY - ALAN GALLAWAY
Me: I was doing an overnight at a hotel away from
home. I took my computer down to the bar to do
some data entries. I sat down at the bar and I ask-
ed the bartender, ‘What’s the WI-FI password ?’
Bartender: 'You need to buy a drink first.'
Me: 'Okay, I’ll have a beer.'
Bartender: 'We have Molson’s Canadian on tap.'
Me: 'Sure. How much is that ?'
Bartender: '$8.00.'
Me: 'Here you are. OK now, what’s the WI-FI
pass word ?'
Bartender: ' "youneedtobuyadrinkfirst" . . . no
spaces and all lowercase.'
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♦ It's a small world! Today at our meeting, we had a delightful guest Tammy Perez and she introduced herself to our President Greg Herrera. Soon a light bulb went off and Tammy realized the Dr. Greg Herrera was the one who delivered her son, 26 years ago!
♦ OUR SACRED BELL (TAKEN FROM DEMOTION SPEECH TWO YEAR'S AGO)
YOU SEE THE ROTARY BELL ON THE SLIDE – ISN’T IT BEAUTIFUL?
I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU OF IT’S ORIGENS……
“IN 1922, U.S. ROTARIANS ORGANIZED AN ATTENDANCE CONTEST; THE CHALLENGE WAS THAT THE LOSING CLUBS WOULD JOIN IN GIVING THE WINNING CLUB A PRIZE. THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY WAS DECARED THE WINNER AND TO THEM WAS AWARDED AS A PRIZE, A BELL FROM A POPULAR PATROL BOAT, WHICH WAS PLACED ON WOOD THAT CAME FROM HMS “VICTORY”, ADMIRAL NELSON’S VESSEL AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.
SINCE THEN, THE BELL USED IN ROTARY MEETING STARTED TO REPRESENT, AS ON THE SHIPS, ORDER, DISCIPLINE AND THE TIME TO GUIDE US THROUGH THE WEEKLY HOUR AND A HALF MEETINGS. THE BELL INFORMS US WITH IT’S SOUND FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE ROTARY MEETING, AT WHICH TIME PEOPLE PRESENT SHOULD STAND, SAME AT THE END, IN ORDER TO SALUTE THE NATIONAL AND ROTARY FLAGS. THE GAVEL SYMBOLIZES THE AUTHORITY INVESTED IN THE ROTARIAN ELECTED TO THE HIGHEST POSITION IN ROTARY, AND THROUGH HIM (OR HER), REMINDS THOSE PRESENT OF HIS/HER AUTHORITY. WHEN PRESIDENTS TRANSMIT THEIR POSITIONS TO THEIR SUCCESSORS AT THE END OF THEIR MANDATE, THEY GIVE THE BELL THEIR LAST HIT, TURNING THE GAVEL OVER TO THEIR SUCCESSOR, SYMBOLIZING THE TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY.”
NOW YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT OUR SACRED “BELL” IS TO OUR ROTARY CLUB. BUT, MY FELLOW ROTARIANS WHAT MAY BE WORSE, DEPRIVING BELL RINGERS, GOOD AND SOLID CITIZENS, BECAUSE THE BELL IS BRUTALLY AND GRIEVOUSLY TAKEN FROM THEM, THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DEPRIVED OF THEIR PROPER RECOGNITION!!!!!!
CALENDAR
► JULY 31: "URBAN FARMING" - Land based learning - Sara Bernal
► AUGUST 7: "STRONG HARVEST MISSION IN THE WORLD" - Rick Kemmer
► AUGUST 14: "CARMICHAEL CLUB HISTORY" - PDG Jim Thompson
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► SEPTEMBER 4: Running for Sec. of State - Mark Mueser
► SEPTEMBER 25: "Fly Fishing" Bill Baxter & Rich Plath
Joe Scheimer, our esteemed new Assistant Governor and member of the Fair Oaks Club was introduced by President Greg Herrera. Greg said that Joe had graciously accepted our invitation to speak on a subject of which he knows a lot – The Vietnam War.
Joe said that he was in Vietnam from 1970-71 and was a pilot and also worked for the CIA in Laos. He spent 24 years in the Air Force winding up as Colonel. His specialty was directing air strikes in Vietnam. He says the responsibilities were enormous especially for a young man of 26 years..
Joe volunteered for special opts and got into Laos. Later he got into Europe and spent some time in the Coxwalds in England (good time) and then went to the Pentagon (on the civilian side) and wound up as a financial advisor!
Joe showed us a video in which he talks about his exploits. This had been aired on KVIE TV in July of 2017. You can see it by Googling “My Vietnam Story” – Joe Scheimer or by clicking on www.kvie.org/vietnamhistory .
Joe also went through some history of the war, and he said that he had become disgruntled with the handling of the war and thinks that we probably should not have been there. It would have been better just to let the North and the South handle it themselves.
Bell-less President Greg Herrera informed Joe that a book will be donated, in his honor, to the Carmichael library.
Some photos of the meeting:
President Greg Herrera and Assistant Governor Joe Scheimer (note pathetic bell in Greg's left hand)
N ow Vicky Boatwright was looking for a good response of "Happy Fines" for the 2nd meeting of the 2018-2019 year. Karen Munsterman was resplendent in her Oakland "A"s outfit and happy that the "A"s won the battle of the Bay; Rich Shipp put in $10 'cause he could; Bill Baxter was celebrating being back from Mexico and so RANG THE BELL; Dick Bauer liked that Bill was back; Phil Danz put out $10 in order to express what a travesty it was to steal the Bell; Doug Haaland concurred; Jay Boatwright ( and Vicky) said something about serving wine at the fair; Greg Herrera BONGED THE GONG in a pathetic attempt to influence the dirty, nasty, felonious thief to give the bell back!
BELL RINGERS
BILL BAXTER; VICKY BOATWRIGHT; ALAN GALLAWAY; GREG HERRERA; RICH PLATH; STAN ROE; WALTER MALHOSKI; DAVID THORMANV
BONG GONGERS
GREG HERRERA
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 PURPOSE OR OUR NEW WATER PROJECT IN UGANDA)
RAFFLE
THE fact of the matter, non with standing, that there is now over $800 in the kitty, it would have been unseemly if Bill Baxter would get the Ace of Spades. He didn't he just got the 7 of Hearts and a nice bottle of wine!
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 150 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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