Opening traditions

President Scott Dowds engaged Ken Kaisch Roger McGonagal and Nissa Newton to handle the Invocation, Pledge and Song duties for today’s meeting after he rang the Rotary Bell.

Introductions

Ken was again called to duty serving as the facilitator for the introductions of our guests and visitors. Visiting Rotarians included Roger McGonegal Past District Governor, Herb Trumpoldt and Debra Marks of Yorba Linda Sunrise joined us as Rotarian visitors. Patty Shay, Cynthia Barile and Audra McGeorge were guests of Jay Kremer, Doug Chaffee and his wife, Paulette were guests of Buck Catlin, Meg Crider was a guest of Allyn Lean, Clayton Hillhouse visiting from Alaska, was the guest of his son Bob Hillhouse, James Owens was the guest of Zoot, Sandra White was the guest of Joanne Brannock , Marilyn Buchi was the guest of Bob Hathaway and Barbara Jennings was the guest of Minard Duncan.

Announcements

-Prez Scott thanked all those who helped with the well-received Collage Concert at CSU Fullerton last Saturday night. They include: Bill Heaton, Scott Dowds, Bob Radde, Craig Walker, Joe Lins, J Richie, Sally Williams, Jeanie Stockwell, Theresa Harvey, Ron Stock, Steven Schwartz, Patrick Hartnett, Terri Prado, Milly Heaton, Allyn Lean, Vimal Seth, Winston Creel and Bill Hite. Thanks from the rest of us for your efforts and your part in a great evening!

-Sandy Hayes expressed admiration for how quickly Ken Kaisch scheduled his fellowship luncheon group to commit to a meeting date. Keep in mind that if you missed last week’s deadline for signing up to be a part of a group….. you’re too late!

-Bob Muschek invited interested members to the Program Committee meeting Thursday March 29 at 7:30AM at Coco’s on Harbor Blvd. and Berkeley Ave.

-Past DG Roger McGonegal announced that our new District Governor will be Kevin Padilla. (This could be on a future “pop-quiz” during recognitions!)

-Rick Crane introduced his dedicated Rotary Foundation committee consisting of Warren Wimer, Frank Kawasi, Allyn Lean, Tom Meyer, Lee Brocket, Vern Andrews, and Terri Grassi, J Richie and Scott Dowds. Thanks to all!

-Rick reminded us that he need some help this Saturday March 31^st at 8AM and the rest of us at Troy High School at 9AM to help with the annual track meet.

-Rick also reminded us of the April 17 Tri Club Baseball Game at Cal State Fullerton.

-Pat Hartnett has plans to help keep our club at 100% Paul Harris. Watch your E mailbox.

-Cathy Gach told us that the winners of our Speech Contest and the singers we sponsored are continuing their endeavors at Orange Coast College and Long Beach City College respectively. The Fullerton HS production “Anything Goes” plays this weekend starting Thursday.

-Joe Lins warned us that property deed fraud is taking place and passed along a flier detailing what to watch for. 

Fines

Mike Oates was nailed for admitting that he’d be leaving the meeting early. Leslie McCarthy was cited for saying that she is “Irish by contamination” and for making the other finemasters look bad when she gave out bottles of booze recently. Zoot announced that our own Buck Catlin will be speaking at the Muckenthaler April 19^th. Zoot nailed Pat Hartnett and Bill Schenk and fined Scott Dowds for his son earning a 5.0 GPA when Zoot remembers the scale going only to 4.0.

The Collage Concert Committee received applause for their great successful efforts. Bob Hathaway and Kaaren celebrated their 5 year anniversary and Griff Duncan celebrated 79 years of circling the sun.

Weekly Quiz

Drawing winner Rick Price chose “weird music” as the topic to venture a guess at, but was unable to guess the person associated with the “Lime in the Cocoanut” song. Bill Schenk is establishing himself as a “go to”  guru of songs.

Program

Joanne Brannock organized the club’s “Everyday Heroes” to celebrate a few people in Fullerton who’ve gone to great lengths to facilitate important community programs. The following is only a partial list of the awardees’ efforts.

-Patty Shay worked in Congressman Ed Royce’s office and has been in charge of nominating over 600 students to our nations military service academies.

-Barbara Jennings had involvement with Fullerton’s National Charity League, St Paul Lutheran Church, PTA, Pathways of Hope (formerly FIES) , OC Board against Homelessness

-Marilyn Buchi was president of PTA and was a district executive, president of N.Orange County ROP, President of the Assistance League in the past and now. Assistance Leage helps with the PTA at La Vista High School. She said she loved everything she was involved with.

-Sandra White was PTA president and PTA council president, National Charity League president. Meals on Wheels President since 1995. She mentioned that 1.4 million meals have been delivered since 1977.  These awardees were nominated by the following members in order: Jay Kremer, Minard Duncan, Bob Hathaway and Joanne Brannock. Fullerton’s citizens are fortunate to have these incredible women working so hard behind the scenes for the benefit of others. Thanks, Joanne for enabling our club to recognize these women!

Thought of the Day

It takes a lot to stand up to your enemies….

 It takes even more to stand up to your friends.