Rotagram - Meeting Notes and Club News Wednesday, April 6, 2005

President Bob Savage brought the meeting to order, inviting Bob Jahncke up to lead us in the pledge which he did.

Dean Heiser shared the thought of the day followed by a prayer:

• Character is doing what is right when no one is looking.  JC Watts
• A smile is contagious - be a carrier.

Introduction of Guests

Rick Crane asked David Kang to introduce his guests (Shine Kim -prospective member and John Bae a conductor at Disney Hall) and then Rick asked Vern Andrews to introduce his guests (Glenn Klevens-of Fullerton Flyers who has applied for his membership, and Rick himself introduced Chuck Davis.

Announcements

• Bob announced that a board of directors meeting for next Tues at 7:30AM at his office.
• Rick Crane took the microphone again and invited our members to join in this event which will bring all three Rotary Clubs of Fullerton together. It promises to be a real hit! He will bring tickets next Week.
• Glenn Klevens is looking for host families for three months for some of the Flyer baseball team members. A pair of season tickets is in the offing!
• Minard Duncan announced an event to raise funds for the Womens Transitional Living Center to be held May 1 at 5:30PM at the Ebell Club. It is a Fiesta, Dinner, auction will feature live music by The Relics.
• Di Masseth-Jones announced a Tee Off for Tots miniature golf fundraiser for the YWCA to be held at Camelot Golfland from 9-noon Saturday May 14^th. Competitive miniature golf enthusiasts will be relieved to know that the event will be run under the auspices of the US ProMiniGolf Association, so no "redos" will be allowed!
• Joyce Capelle, our next president reminded us of concurrent meetings of the Planning and Membership meetings at Carrows, Thursday at 7:30AM
• Joyce also mentioned that our Fullerton singing contest students won 5 or the twelve awards given for the 80 singers who made it to the final singing competition!

OC Register 4/7/05: Arts Orange County has announced winners of its annual Cultural Legacy Awards, which honor lifetime achievements in the arts. James Young, founder of Cal State Fullerton’s theater department and primary force behind CSUF’s new performing arts center, will receive the Artistic Visionary award.

• President Bob acknowledged and thanked Randy McFarland for preparing the District Awards booklets which have been turned in to District on time!
• Bill Peloquin thanked those who attended the recent District meeting and encouraged members to register for the upcoming meeting in Chicago , mentioning that our zone is high in registration. 
  He then shared that there are 87,000 people waiting for an organ transplant in California and passed out brochures about an event on April 23^rd at Cal State Fullerton. The 5K run and 1K walk will raise awareness and funds for www.Donatelifeoc.org, where you can go online and record your decision to donate your tissue and organs.

Recognitions (euphemism for a fine time) was suspended due to time constraints. Just think-Today I could have cut in the lunch line with impunity!

Program (introduced by Bill Klinghoffer)

We were serenaded by about 7 individual performance of a group of jazz and blues singers (called the J Train) from Fullerton College. It was apparent that they have certainly practiced, not only from their performances but from the fact that they are headed to Carnegie Hall (to perform- not just sit in the audience like the rest of us) in a couple of weeks!  Jamie the director of jazz at the college was obviously and justifiably proud of her students and the singers were having a good time performing. There were several toes tapping in the audience, too! Jamie announced a May 7 the Jazz Concert at Wilshire Auditorium and offered lip balm for sale to  help raise funds.. Some of the performances featured what I heard is called Scat singing which I think might be a musical version of speaking in tongues or maybe is something they do when they can remember the words. Regardless, it sounded great!

The final performance was an upbeat piece called On the Sunny Side of the Street, not too dissimilar to our old standard, .

Thank you, and we wish you a great trip to New York !

Adjournment

In his well crafted plan to keep us in suspense, Bob Savage refused to divulge what our program will be for next week an obvious ploy to assure we will attend next week just to see what happens next!