The meeting was called to order by President Joyce Capelle. Howard Wood backed up by Dick Glaus and Randy McFarland led us in singing God Bless America and Smile.
Mike Oates told us that we should count our blessings every day and acknowledge how lucky we are to live in Fullerton and America.
Carl Camp introduced Paul Jones, a Senior Active from East Moline.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Jim Young told us that Buck Catlin has a kidney infection.
-Joe Lins and John Shipley's 11th Annual Discovery Charity Dinner and Silent Auction is on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the Wyndham Park Hotel at 6 pm. Advance ticket sales only -$50. RSVP to Olga at 626-2000.
-Annual Fundraising Concert featuring Vicki Lawrence is Saturday, January 28 at 8p.m. at Plummer Auditorium - Balcony - $30 Orchestra - $50.
Purchase tickets through Fullerton Civic Light Opera or Winston Creel.
-Recognition Master Jim Williams thought Thanksgiving should be more fun and gave us an interesting bit of history of the holiday which included dressing Prez Joyce in a turkey headdress and tail feathers and instructed the following, for various reasons, to shoot her with an air rifle loaded with nerf balls:
Birthdays - Mary Ruth Ashcraft, Norma Jones, Sue Savage
Miscellaneous: 21st year anniversary - Dick and Jane Mathewson, Expert Marksman (Person)
- Jo Brannock, Jeff Hutchison's son's award winning photo,
J Ritchie's new car, Dan Fisk's Teddy Bear story,
Griff Duncan's Miss Saigon awards as Best Director - Jan Duncan, Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Actress.
Walt Barnes recognized Paul Harris Fellows: Lonnie Blake, Carl Camp, Scott Dowds, Bob Foust, Dan Kiernan, Pete Magoski, Mike Oates, Bill Schenk, Wally Swatkowski, Al Triay,and Howard Wood.
Mark Geiss introduced our newest member John Braun and Jim Young gave him a grand welcome.
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Bill Schenk won the raffle and answered the question of how many members are Paul Harris Fellows. He got away with answering All. Actual number is 126.
CRAFT TALKS
Bob Foust was born and raised in Anderson, Indiana. He and wife Sue have been married for 31 years. They have lived in Fullerton since 1974 and have a 25 year old son who graduated from CSUF, and two beautiful golden retrievers. His hobbies are real estate and geneology. Would you believe he has 55,000 people in his family tree! In high school, he played football, basketball, baseball and tennis. He loves tennis and continues to play. As a senior in college, Bob played football with the great Bob Greise. He graduated from Purdue in 1968 with a degree in metalurgic engineering.
He has been active in our Fullerton community coaching baseball, basketball and soccer.
Bob, it is a pleasure to have you as a member of our Rotary Club!
Shine Kim came to the U.S. from Korea as a heavy drinker of alcohol and makes the claim that Koreans are the biggest consumers of alcohol in the world. He relates that he was one of the heaviest consumers and when he tells his story.
you believe him. Before coming to America, he earned an engineering degree in college, and at that time he despised Christians. Several times in school Christian students tried to convert him and he would not have anything to do with the religion. After his father unexpectedly died, he began asking, "Is there a God? Is there life after death? These questions puzzled him for a long time. After some time, he moved to Los Angeles and got a job and his boss asked him to go the Grace Ministries International Church but instead he went to a different bar each night. Finally, his boss told him if he did not go to church he was going to fire him! So he went and his life took a tremendous turn. He went to the Fuller Theological Seminary, graduated and is now an ordained pastor. He has a lovely wife of one and a half years and a five month old son.
We proudly welcome Reverend Shine Kim to our Rotary club.
President Capelle ended the meeting with a Thanksgiving poem.
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