Month: January 2016

Surf Beat: January 5th, 2016

Surf Beat LogoJanuary 5th, 2016

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Cindy Goodman asked Pat Stouffer to the podium, assuring our treasurer that there were no fines involved. She presented him with a gift from her daughter Tiffany – a Houston Astros cowboy boot mug. Pat took it home to complete his set.

 A Few Highlights from our Club Meeting:

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  • Welcome and Introductions:  President Lora Fisher welcomed club members to the first meeting of the New Year, noting that we are the club that has the best view of the Pacific, that makes a difference in our community as well as internationally, and has a lot of fun too!
  • Invocation: Gwyn Jones
  • Pledge: Kate Adams
  • Song: Ron Spellman bid farewell to 2015 by leading a verse of “Auld Lang Syne”
Gwyn Jones doing the invocation
Gwyn Jones doing the invocation

Vistors:

The Club Welcomed…

  • Sally Fuller’s guest, John Donaldson
  • Bob Pechora’s Guest, fellow attorney and relation Brian Cline

 Happy Bucks:

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Nigel Mallett
  • Nigel Mallett is happy to be back at the club. He thanked club members for their support, emails and cards of encouragement during his illness.
  • Cindy Greatrex is happy to see her friend and community leader John Donaldson as a guest of the club.
  • Dave Weston challenged club members whose college alma maters won bowl games this holiday season to each chip in $20 to the Rotary coffers – a successful fundraising scheme!
  • Jane Reldan said she was happy to get to know fellow Rotarian Claire Reiss better as they spent time together over the holidays salsa dancing and enjoying other activities.
  • Claire Reiss was happy to have had an “amazing holiday season” spent among friends, at church events and with family.
  • Bob Pecora is just happy to be part of this club!

 Announcements:

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Cal Mann
  • Lora joyfully welcomed back Nigel Mallett, returning to the club after an extended illness. Cal Mann is back as a regular after a 6-month leave of absence. Eleanor Ellsworth will be returning to the club later in January.
  • Cal Mann shared photos from the most recent Tijuana home build, our 25th home, which took place during the holidays, and thanked all who took time from their holiday celebrations to help build and/or contribute money to the cause. The house replaced the home of the family of one of the club’s Tijuana scholars, which had burned to the ground in late November.
  • Cindy Goodman asked Pat Stouffer to the podium, assuring our treasurer that there were no fines involved. She presented him with a gift from her daughter Tiffany – a Houston Astros cowboy boot mug. Pat took it home to complete his set.
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Cindy Greatrex
  • Cindy Greatrex said that financial support for the club’s January 9 Dia de Reyes trip to Tijuana is still needed. She also noted that a last-minute request for three wheelchairs for the children was being looked into with the help of Kevin Quinn.
    • Just to recap: the event is for special needs children from 11 centers around Tijuana. The 350-400 children have a variety of disabilities and are either orphaned or from very low-income families. The festivities take place at El Trompo, an interactive children’s museum. http://eltrompo.org
    • Cindy has put together the following schedule:
      • —7:30 We will meet at the Starbucks by Trader Joe’s off of Nobel (exact address:                        8657 Villa La Jolla Drive)
      • —10 am – Dia de Reyes
      • —12:30pm Tour of Community Center with TJ Rotary
      • — 1:00 lunch hosted by TJ Rotary
    • Questions?
      • Cindy —  858-922-0263
  • Lora Fisher reminded members of the Rotary World Peace Conference, which will take place in Ontario, California, January 15-16. For those who missed the Rotary International Conference, this is the next best thing. Information at www.peaceconference2016.org.

La Jolla Joint Club Meeting – Friday, January 22nd

Bill Burch discussing the upcoming joint meeting
Bill Burch discussing the upcoming joint meeting

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What’s My Line?

Nigel Mallett, Cal Mann, and Sid Stutz stumped the club when members were challenged to figure out who did what many years ago.

  1. Who lived in Japan as a Lion’s Club exchange student? (Cal, and he’s not Lion)
  2. Who played professional soccer for two years? (Nigel)
  3. Who was paid to measure and count raindrops? (Sid)

Speaker: Paula Claussen, Project Mercy

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Cal Mann introduced Paula Claussen, the President and CEO of Project Mercy, a non-profit she founded in 1991 to improve living standards in Tijuana’s poorest neighborhoods by providing basic housing to families. During the past 25 years, some 2000 homes have been built. Project Mercy board member John Zawis showed a video segment from NBC 7 coverage of one Project Mercy effort to build 44 homes in a colonia, where 50-percent of the residents are single mothers raising two-to-three children. John went on to describe Project Mercy’s home building site for 2016, a new colonia called Fuentes del Valle, where people currently live without running water, sewers or electricity. There are no schools and only dirt roads. The 2016 goal is to build 400 homes including a classroom for the children.

Learn more about Project Mercy Here

President Lora says if you think the past year brought changes, take a loot at the last DECADE…

There was no Twitter, Facebook was still in its infancy, the Wii was just released, and the iPhone was a year away. Lehman Brothers, WAMU and IndyMac all still existed. The top grossing movies were Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Cars. Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s home run record (with an asterisk forever in the record books).  And….The Fed raised interest rates for the last time until December, 2015.  Almost a decade!!! Wow.

As we reflect back on this past year … we’ve experienced:

1. The tragedies of an earthquake in Nepal and terrorist attacks in Paris, and San Bernardino (and others as well)

2. A visit by a Pope to the United States – Pope Francis

3. Re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba (after 54 years)

4. The bail- out of Greece (part III)

5. Polio is eradicated in Africa and remains only in two countries.

In 2015, we lost:

1. BB King – The “King of the Blues” died at 89. (performed well over 200 shows a year well into his 70’s with his guitar “Lucille”)

2. Yogi Berra – a baseball legend who became even better known for some of his quotes (“It ain’t over ’til it’s over” and “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”)

3. Leonard Nimoy – actor and director best known for his role as “Mr. Spock” in Star Trek

4. Donna Douglas – actress who played Elly May Clampett (Beverly Hillbillies)

5. Paul Prudhomme – a celebrity chef who popularized Cajun cooking with dishes like Blackened Redfish and Turducken (New Orleans Legend)

 Where in The World?

Where In The World is this Rotarian and who is he or she? Be the first to indentify your fellow Rotarian and the location to win.  Please send your answer to mahalosu@gmail.com.

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Please keep the photos coming, even if they are only from your own backyard!

If you have an interesting travel photo of yourself in a recognizable destination you would like to submit for the game please send it to: mahalosu@gmail.com. Photos do not have to be recent, older pictures are welcome!  All submissions will be considered, international and domestic! May the best globetrotter win!

Please keep the photographs coming, recent or not, in far distance places or not . . . La Jolla Rotarians go to interesting places and do interesting things, and it is fun (and sometimes challenging) for us to keep up with each other’s doings.

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January 2016 Edition

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What its Like to Tell Your Club Your Secret

Dushan “Dude” Angius

Rotary Club of Los Altos, Calif.

On Christmas Eve 1988, I picked up my son Steve at the airport. He always kept himself in good shape, but he was so skinny it was really beyond the pale. I didn’t say anything, but Christmas morning I asked him, “Are you right?”

He said, “No, actually, I’m not well at all.” At first, he said he had Kaposi sarcoma, which is a manifestation of AIDS. You see, he didn’t want to say the word. Finally he said, “When I was at UCLA I got this virus.”

Now I knew it was AIDS.

We were devastated. And in my case, it was followed by months of depression. Oh, my God. I was so tired all the time. I was trying to hide my depression, too, and that was killing me. And as I thought through it, I said, “I’ve got to do something with this.” I decided to tell my Rotary club. I wanted to see if we could get an education and awareness program going….

You can read the rest of this article in the January 2016 Edition of the Rotarian. 

 

Club Meetings Unless otherwise noted, all club meetings are Tuesday, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m. at La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St., La Jolla (Map)  Check out the Upcoming Guest Speakers on the Club Calendar

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RI President K.R. Ravindran and Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith have announced a series of Presidential Conferences in the first quarter of calendar 2016 that will highlight Rotary’s areas of focus. Between January and March 2016, five conferences will be held around the world.

The first of thee Presidential Conferences is The Rotary World Peace Conference 2016.  It will be held in Ontario, CA. on January 15 – 16, 2016.  It is the only Presidential Conference that will be held in the Americas.

Now is the time to make your reservation for this conference.  Because it is scheduled to precede the International Assembly that brings District Governor elects to San Diego for mandatory training, this conference will have visitors from around the world.  If you have never been to an international meeting, this is your chance to participate in an international event without having to cross any borders.  This conference is being sponsored by the Rotary districts in Southern California.

To view the latest information about the schedule of events as listed in the Peace Conference Newsletter, click this link

To view the invitation from RI President K.R.Ravindran and Ray Klinginsmith, Chair, The Rotary Foundation Trustees, 2015-2016 click on this link.

 

 

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