President Terri Grassi began our opening routine by welcoming all and having the following assist her: Flag Salute - Frank Kawase, Song - Howard Wood, and Thought for the Day - Don Bankhead. Don asked us to focus on being Americans by joining hands and working together for a better world.

Visitng Rotarians were Steve Eldredge - Fullerton Sunrise, Ted Russell - Placentia (52 years of perfect attendance!) and J.T. Warring - Newport-Irvine.

Jim Young presented Walt Barnes a new pin containing three rubies! Walt has donated $8,000 to Rotary International!

Walt then presented Peter Argarwal with a Paul Harris pin, and spoke about our Rotary club’s new international project named “Deaf India.”

Announcements:

Bob Jahncke wants Rotarians to let him know if Directory information needs changing.
And, did you know that many cruise ships have Rotary make-ups!
Dick Daybell passed out Fellowship Luncheon arrangements.
Bill Gorman showed us an interesting way to invest his $100 that Jim Vanderburg gave to several members. Bill gave the money to other Rotarians who he thought would do a better job investing the money!

Minard Duncan gave his money to four groups: Boys and Girls Club (Fred Johnson), Cherami House (Jo Brannock), Fullerton Interfaith Emegency Service, Rotary Club of Fullerton for Rotary International (Don Ludwig)
Bob Savage read a humorous piece about “Only In America”, then proceeded to recognize the following birthdays: Pat Frank, Kathy Allred, Griff Duncan.
Spousal birthdays were Jim Lapak’s wife Judie and Cameron McCune’s wife Lorri. All were fined appropriately.

Bill Hite won the raffle but did not pull out the joker from Pres Terri’s deck of cards but he won the $10 consolation prize donated by Mark Zane.

Bill Mathy introduced Richard Smith who presented a very interesting program about Leo Fender. Leo’s wife, Phyllis, was in attendance. Richard is the new curator at the Fullerton Museum. Richard attended Fern Drive Elementary School, and received his teaching credential from CSUF in 1970. He taught a couple of years and then decided to become a musician. Eventually, he became an author and wrote a book titled Fender, the Sound Heard Around the World. Leo was born in Fullerton. He played the saxophone. One day a friend asked him to fix his guitar. Leo did and became very interested in develoing guitars of all kinds. His skill was so keen that he developed the most famous guitars in the world. It is amazing how much influence he had on the world of music. Oddly, he did not like to speak so he would get his wife, Phyllis, to speak for him. Leo passed away in 1991 and Phyllis continues speaking to groups about the legacy of Leo Fender. She is highly involved with the Fullerton Museum and does a lot of public speaking.

Terri closed the meeting with “A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.”