Meeting was called to order by club President James Ripley. Today's meeting was an anticipated two years in the making event. "It's great to have all you here. I'd like to start off with introducing our guests this afternoon."

Today's guests include Alice from the Placentia Rotary Club. George Lowe, a returning Fullerton South member and guest of Jim Williams. Mike Kennick, guest of President Jim Ripley. Milo Karnes, guest of immediate past president Joe Lins. John Jacker, guest of Dr. Thad Sandford.

For our Commencement Ceremonies, FUHSD Superintendent Steve McLaughlin led us in our Patriotic Moment. "For me, Patriotic Moments are really wrapped in schools. So, here is some data that I looked up today. Students in public education in the United States is almost 51 million students. About 10% of kids in the United States have public education. The reason why I bring all this up as a Patriotic Moment is that August is 'back to school' month." Steve led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Travis McShane led us in our Invocation. He led us in a prayer, "Lord, help us to make an impact in the communities that we are involved in and help is lift one another."

Our Songmaster today was Bill Edman and his banjo. He led us in the bluegrass version of "You Are my Sunshine." Awesome job, Bill Edman!

Our Finemaster/Recognition Master today was Mike Cochran. He prefaced that he was not feeling to well but mustered on to help generate some money for the club. He asked Rebecka Forrester to please stand and be recognized for her 1-year Rotary Anniversary. Congratulations Rebecka! "Bob Jahncke, now on Saturday, it's a very special day. Does it have any meaning to you?" Bob replied that he went to church with his wife 62 years ago and got married. Congratulations to Mr. Jahncke on his wedding anniversary. President Jim Ripley was recognized for his birthday on August 6. Dr. Thad Sandford was recognized for his upcoming birthday on August 8^th. He plans to play golf that day. Bill Hite was recognized for his wife, Vickie's birthday. Mr. Cochran asked if he had any big plans to celebrate her birthday, "Yes, we are going to donate $5 in honor of her celebration," said Mr. Hite. Lastly, Mike played a game of 'Is It The Truth?' with the tables to help generate money for the club. He fined any member in attendance that doesn't resemble their photo in the clubs directory. All in all, he made a lot of money for the club. Everyone had a fun time with Mike Cochran as Finemaster.

Today's announcements; President Ripley announced that Cathy Gach is waiting for those who have not paid their monthly dues to make your payments soon. He also made an announcement from Rotary International that if you've been president of a Rotary Club in the past 7 plus years, you are eligible to run for district governor. Also, if you have not been receiving the President's Weekly emails, please check your spam for them.

Pat Harnett announced that he his houses was burglarized over the weekend. He used his time to announce to not keep cash, jewelry, high end equipment and tax returns, which thieves can use to steal one's identity. He also advised to keep some lights on during the night and invest in some security cameras.

Alice from the Placentia Rotary Club announced, "The 14^th Annual Cowabunga BBQ N' Beer Festival" taking place on September 16, from 4-9 pm at Kraemer Park. If you have any questions, please email mail@placentiarotary.org with questions. To purchase tickets for the event go to www.rotarycowabunga.com.

"Today's program at hand was introduced by Dr. Thad Sandford,"It's really an honor of introducing today's speaker and his important story. He is going to tell you about one of the most magnificent pieces of machinery the nation has built and how it was done. He's worked his career in the space business, dealing with lasers, optics, and space photography. He is Chief Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope. Please welcome Dr. Jonathan Arenberg." Dr. Arenberg thanked everyone in attendance and gave a special shoutout to Steve McLaughlin, "I want to say thank you because I am a product of a California Public Schools." Like Dr. Sandford mentioned, Dr. Arenberg is the Chief Mission Architect at Northrop Grumman Space Systems, the company responsible for the James Webb Space Telescope. At Grumman, Dr. Arenberg leads engineering and concept development for future science missions which include developing, planning, and conducting strategic analyses for space science missions. Dr. Arenberg has over 30 years of experience working on astronomical programs such as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the starshade and the James Webb Space Telescope. In addition to his work on astronomical systems, he has contributed to major high-energy and tactical laser systems, laser component engineering, metrology, optical inspection and technology development projects. Dr. Arenberg earned his bachelor's in physics and a master's and doctoral in engineering from UCLA. He is a fellow SPIE, the international optics and photonics society, for his contribution to astronomy and lasers. He holds 15 European and U.S. patents in a wide variety of areas of technology. He co-authored "Systems Engineering for Astronomical Telescopes." He received the Professional Achievement Award from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in 2020. According to him, the James Webb Space Telescope starting date was sometime in the middle of the 1980's. The physical development of the telescope took somewhere between 60 to 100 million hours to complete. In total, 300 science agencies, 700 companies, 3 National Space Agencies spread out over 29 states, 17 countries, 12 time zones got to be a part of it. Dr. Arenberg says that astronomy is one of the oldest sciences because of its limited technology science, which is why the James Webb Telescope was built, "the era of the naked eye observation and discoveries with the naked eye ended over 400 years ago when Galileo built his first telescope and pointed to the sky." Galileo gets the credit for wanting to explore space and wanting scientist to build more sensitive, precise, exquisite instruments. Webb's revolutionary science mission is based around 4 themes, the first theme being the end of the dark ages or the observation of the first luminous bodies in the history of the universe. "You're designing a machine to see the beginning of time. We can take pictures of Galaxies throughout cosmic time and understand the role of various types of man, both the things we can see, the things we can't see and how the current universe came to be."

"With the James Webb Telescope, it brings us to an era in cosmic history that has never been directly observed, making it the last missing chapter in cosmic history. The telescope is the largest telescope for space that humanity has ever built and operated in space. It measures 21.5 ft across which was bigger than the actual rocket that took it into space. "The sunshield itself is made up of membranes thinner than a human hair." The project took on many difficulties with zero tolerance to failure. According to Arenberg, for almost 20 years, thousands of people spread all over the world were working on the telescope. The sunshield is roughly a 300,000 SF parasol, which creates a dark shadow where the telescope lives allowing it to radiate the heat that is conducted from the oxide from the spacecraft into space and reaching its final operating temperature of 45 kelvin, making it 45 degrees above absolute zero. The telescope's mirrors are made out of light strong metal with its ability to maintain shape throughout the potential temperature range of mirrors. "The Webb Telescope was the result of years of evolutionary design. When you look at a star, your eye is collecting about a million protons a second. The Telescope can collect 1 millionth of that area with great image quality." Currently, the Webb Telescope is orbiting the sun a million miles away from earth, in cosmic terms though, it is not that far, "it's actually rather ideal because the Webb sun shield is flat and in the opened position. If we are wanting to detect very faint objects, hiding the 3 brightest objects; the sun, the earth, and the moon, away from the telescope make it ideal. It means when one of those 3 objects are above the horizon of the sun shield it will make the telescope out of business." Choosing the telescope's orbit to not match any of those 3 objects allows the telescope to be in use more often than not. It took many years, many man hours, drills, practice and test to get the Webb Telescope out in space and work the way it was intended to. At the end, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day 2020, "there's probably enough fuel without interruption to operate for the next 20 years!" After his presentation was over, President Ripley awarded him with a certificate for a donation in his name toWorking Dogs for Warriors, a nonprofit dedicated to helping our Nation's Warriors by training and donating service dogs to Veterans and First Responders.

Last thing on the agenda was the 50/50 drawing. Lucky ticket holder 6370623 wins the money. Next week's program is a New Member Craft Talk with retired State Senator and Fullerton Yacht Club Commodore, Dick Ackerman. President Ripley closes the meeting with his signature line, "Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe - Meeting adjourned."