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Welcome to all from President Greg. The Pledge was led by Tony Amato, songs joyfully rendered by Dunc & the Grif Tones and blessing for the meal by Al Triay. A special thank you needs to go out to Don Ludwig for the wonderful piano playing while we settled to our meals.
Raffle
Can you believe we did not have to try to answer a sports question today? Janie Noppe was asked what special Rotary anniversary were we celebrating shortly (100 years), and then stumped with where the conference was to be held in the Spring (Chicago from 6/18 to 6/22). Thank you to Leroy Fulton for the $10 consolation prize. A side note: Past Pres. Bill told us to register ASAP on-line under the Rotary.org Convention Site as they were filling up the rooms fast if you are interested in attending!
Visitors introduced:
No visiting Rotarians were sighted today, so we went straight into our special guests.. They included:: Bruce Hird, past member and Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Buena Park as a guest of Chuck Munson, Buck Catlin introduced us to his grandson, Brandon Clyde, Don Bankhead is tired of paying for the lunches of Bill Klinghoffer and would really appreciate it if his membership application could be rushed through and Leroy Fulton brought Joe Jung, a visiting professor to Hope University. Welcome to all the guests.
Announcements - Announcements - Announcements
- Ron Soderquist announced the "Youth in Harmony" concert at Pearson Park Saturday, August 21, at 8:00 pm. Fliers to be found on the table.
- Al Tetrault Gave out program schedules today with one minor change - Offsite meeting for the Southern California College of Optometry will be 8/11/04. Please mark your calendars.
- Warren Wimer, Bob Jahncke & Dan Kiernan will be our board representatives for the Library at CSUF.
- Bob Sattler needs a big thank you for being our own Foundation President for the last three years. He is so good, he has been drafted for another three year term (This could go on for some time as I don't think we have voted in term limits yet.) Thank you Bob!
- 8:00 am on Thursday July 22nd will be the first meeting for planning the 2005 Rotary Concert. Mark your calendars again as it will be on January 29, 2005.
- The final segment of President Greg's self help program revolved around the experience and wisdom of Cliff Claven (from Cheers). It started with the survival of the fittest, stampeded into a discussion about buffalo and wolves and ended with something about always improving your intelligence by consuming a few beers each evening after work.. See Greg for full details!
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Proposed new Members:
  Walt Barnes, by Ray Hansen
 Foust, by Tom Meyer
 Klinghoffer, by Don Bankhead
 McGrade, by Bob Sattler
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Recognition and Fines by Jim Blackburn:
Last time I recorded Rotary bulletin material, Jim McKamy opened with a favorite joke, What has 18 legs and catches flies? I told you not to worry because Jim Blackburn would be taking the finemaster's chair the following week. Well - Jim B. opened with a 'blond joke' this week and was greeted with the same groans I heard a month ago. He went on to redeem himself though by fining Mike Oates $100 for the privilege of announcing Master Jamison's first birthday, commiserated with Jim McKamy who remained 39 years single, but ended it with an accepted proposal last Friday (congratulations Jim!). Jim and Mary Jane Thompson are actually well into their third decade of marriage this month (all family bets were blown out of the water after ten years because we didn't think MJ could put up with Jim's shenanigans for any longer.) Congratulations to Jim and Continued Patience and Good Luck MJ! Marilyn Little's birthday led to a find of $25 to Ed, Russ Kauffman is celebrating his 2nd anniversary with his lovely wife, Wally Swatowski celebrated 60 years of life last week, Buck Catlin is a lively (and still driving) 86 and Bob Bean is 72 this week. Happy Birthday and best wishes to all!
Correspondence
A thank you note was received from Women's Transitional Living Center for the $1000 donation recently given as noted by President Greg. Fish of Fullerton also sent a thank you note to Buck wishing to express its gratitude for Rotary's 2004 award of $1500. They summed up their letter by stating Rotary's generosity will greatly aid us in our mission of providing free medical and shopping transportation and other urgent assistance to those in our Fullerton Community in need of such service.
Program - Interesting Facts from California's History
Jim Vanderburg was pleased to introduce his own brother-in-law, John (Jack) Hayes. His biographical introduction was impressive to us all and seemed a surprise to Jim. Notable points included 81-82 Rotarian of the Year and 1956 Man of the Year at Fullerton College, a 2003 award for helping develop a Masters Program in store planning and design and 1981 Champion of the City of Fullerton's Trivia Contest. Jack has a wealth of knowledge about State history and shared the following strange occurrences starting with a quote from the Book of Genesis, . . . God saw it was good and called it California.
- Written history of California began about the time of the American Revolution.
- 7-17-79 God and Queen Elizabeth granted this land to Sir Francis Drake and his descendents in perpetuity.
- Pirates attacked San Juan Capistrano and raided the Mission's wine cellars. 4 pirates jumped ship and 2 Indian women returned with the pirates.
- 1860 - The biggest gold strike in Southern California began and resulted in a boom town called Belleville, famous for 1 hanging a day for 20 years (4 miles north of Big Bear)
- 1867 - The last Indian attack was recorded at Chimney Rock near Victorville.
- 1928-1965 - Fontana had an experimental program for breeding rabbits.
- Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of US, Protectorate of Mexico and was treated that way by the residents of the community of San Francisco until his death in 1880. Ten thousand mourners viewed his body when displayed in state by the City.
- In the 1950's we had an officially sanctioned red light district.
Jack is a fascinating resource for California History and we thank him for his presentation.. President Greg actually gave him a wonderful Fullerton Academy of the Arts CD. An AOL On Line CD is being saved for the craft talks next week.
Meeting was adjourned by President Greg
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