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COUNTY SUPERVISOR COAD
Cynthia Coad, Supervisor of the Third County District Gives a "State of the County" report.
Large Rotary attendance listens intently. More under"PROGRAM" section . . .

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DICK ROCKE led off with the Pledge followed by the Quartet from Rotary Revue, JIM BLACKBURN, BOB SAVAGE, RAY ASHCROFT and DALE SCHUMACHER were in especially good voice. (They're always "up" when the Program Speaker is judging the quality of the Rotary Choral Brethren as a bellwether of the organization's "heart").

DAVE SCHOEN's "Thought for the Day" drew on his recent experience with a new granddaughter which he related to a passage about David in the Holy Bible.

VISITOR
RABIN LAI, Educational Software - Fullerton Sunrise
GUESTS
AL "T" TETRAULT, guest of JANA BOGART; DICK GLAUS, guest of RAY HANSEN

ROTARIAN OF THE WEEK
ALAN ATWELL, for planning, organizing and conducting the Senior Christmas Luncheon. Big job! Well executed!

Valentine's Day Rotary meeting - Wed Feb 14th. The ladies will be in charge of the program under the leadership of CHRIS FRASCHETTI. (One Rotarian heard a rumor that See's Candies will be the table favors.)

ROTARY CONCERT - Sat Jan 26th. Last chance to avoid a spouse's remark often heard, "What? You didn't get tickets to Davis Gaines?"
ROTARY LICENSE PLATES: The Club batting average on those 56 indicating they would participate in the program: 0.018. (You do the math.)

INDUCTION OF NEW ROTARIANS:
SCOTT DOWDS underscored the Goals of Rotary and the value of being a member of an organization characterized by SERVICE ABOVE SELF. He introduced their sponsors, first DAN KIERNAN, who presented DICK HOPPING, longtime community leader and former President of Southern California College of Optometry. Since retirement he has been a member of the Fullerton Railroad Plaza Association, and now its President. DICK never hesitates to add his administrative skill and energy to community advancement activities. Welcome aboard, DICK!

Then, BUCK CATLIN, presented his son-in-law CHRIS MEYER, Acting City Manager, City of Fullerton. CHRIS came to the City in 1973 and has risen steadily to higher, responsible positions of authority. Highly respected by his peers and councilmembers for knowledge in municipal affairs and forthrightness, CHRIS continues the tradition of government leaders in our Rotary ranks. DICK and CHRIS are worthy new members given a standing "welcome" ovation.

RAFFLE
As if by "word from Above", Newest Nine CHRIS MEYER drew the winning raffle number, but was subjected to an archaic quote about doing what you dreamed about doing when you were 20 years old -- but didn't. PREZ PELOQUIN gave him a hint, " The author lived from 1835-1910". Big deal! No help from the wiseacres in the audience, either. (Ans: Mark Twain. Lighten up, Bill. )

RECOGNITION
FINEMASTER JIM BLACKBURN took the floor and was denied the fun of giving both barrels to absentee LEE MYHRE (NEBRASKA alum) for his school's embarrassment on Jan 3. JIM allowed that the BSC football committee needed to improve its stadium security procedures to prevent unqualified teams (NEBRASKA) from getting into next year's contest. A spate of birthdays : CHUNG LEE's spouse, (57 years); GREG FRANKLIN (40); RICK PRICE's anniversary to GALE. All increased the Foundations coffers.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION, Proud Father Category: TOM MEYER, for being the father of an offspring, daughter Laura, who achieved a Troy High School GPA of 4.6. Proving that there's nothing to this theory of genetic inheritance.

PROGRAM
SUPERVISOR CYNTHIA COAD took the podium and did an admirable job of covering all the bases on what the Orange County Supervisors deal with in managing a population of 3.2 million souls. It is a complex administrative/decision-loaded job addressing such issues as decaying and needed infrastructure, education, health care, water quality, drainage, law enforcement to name a very few. Her priorities as focused on making Orange County "family friendly" appreciating that it is already "business friendly". She has initiated many community oriented County programs. "There must be measurement objectives" in all. In addition, all County programs to help the community must have an "education element" as part of the concept. Few of us Rotarians were aware that there are 72 unincorporated County "islands" that present special law enforcement and community problems not addressed by established county Cities. EL TORO Land disposition. Cynthia, in response to SCOTT DOWDS question, "What are the consequences of EL Toro not being converted into a County airport?" laid out some cold economic facts about future employment, housing, transportation and the like problems which will come "home to roost". The county money to support a "Great Park" does not and will not exist. Building more parks in Irvine does nothing to make the "Greenery" the older areas of Orange County in need of such any "greener".