Meeting opened by President Bill. Opening thought was provided by Buck Catlin based upon the example of the Highland Underpass, “If you persevere, goals can be reached.”, followed by our own barbershop group singing along with the wonderful accompaniment provided by Don Ludwig.

Visitors introduced by Jack Hayes

Phil Silverman returned The Judge Marty Harabedian to our fold for the day.

Mike Escalante almost filled a table for us with Barbara Kilponen, Kathy Franz an Bill Dunton

Visiting us from Sunrise was Lois Bergman, from Rancho Santa Fe was Jim Boyce and Honored by Jack Hayes and Nate Kvetney with special award for Visitor of the Yearr, Dick Boyle from South. (It was noted at our podium that when things go bad, they go South.)

Announcements

>   9/4/03 (Thursday) Blue Ribbon Panel Meeting of Newest 9 at Carrows on Harbor and Berkeley at 7:30 am. Call Mike Oates for more details.

>    9/13/03 YMCA Crab Fest at 6:00 pm, $50 at the door, $40 if prepaid for adults and $10 for children.

>    9/20/03 Meet the President of Rotary for the 2004-05 at Costa Mesa Hilton with a $50 cover.

>    10/6/03 Fullerton South Golf Tournament at Black Gold in Yorba Linda, $225 fee and best ball format.

>   10/11/03 Los Alamitos Joint Forces BBQ from 12:00 to 4:00, $50 and includes access to Base simulators.

>   Check out your Rotary magazine for the article regarding Costco and John Matthews.

>   Rotary International will receive $5.00 for each purchase of Averyys clean edge business cards by a Rotarian for Polio eradication. Avery Dennison is pleased to sponsor this great project.

New member induction

Introduced by Bob Savage and sponsored by Greg Franklin, let's all give a big welcome to Russ Kauffman of Kauffman Financial. He will fit well into this group as he is a big sportsmann and beer connoisseurr. Do you think he can play softball?

Rotarian of the week

Goes to Jim McKamy for orchestrating the Poker Night Party which raised $2,000 for Polio eradication. Great job Jim!

Raffle

John Kunau won Dave Batess $10 for missing the split between $20.50 and .50 cents. No one got it at our table either President Bill. Higher math is beyond our reach.

Fines, Brags, Birthdays and Anniversaries as presented by Tony Lagomarsino:

>   Birthdays were celebrated by Minard Duncan, Jimmy Williams and Ken Kaisch bringing substantial funds to our foundation with their combined ages. Happy Birthday to you all!

>   Anniversaries celebrated by Alan Atwell-32 years, Jo Brannock-42 years, Rick Crane-20 years and Art Levine-29 years. All our best wishes go to you and your spouses!

>    Also congratulations to Lee Brockett for the advent of his first grandchild

>   Cameron McCune was fined $100 for the elementary school test results which were quoted as being quite goodd and Mike Escalante received the same find as his students were doing really welll because of the wonderful education they were receiving at the lower grade levels.

Program - Craft Talks

Diane Masseth-Jones and Dr. Bill Peloquin provided us with excellent craft talks. Diane has a strong sense of family, enjoys and appreciates people and wants to make a positive difference in her community. She is a true California native, having been born in Berkeley and raised in Norwalk, played Frieda Falcon at Cerritos College and now is Executive Director for the YWCA of North Orange County. Dr. Bill was born the same year Kate Smith introduced us to her version of God Bless America and in true patriotic fashion joined the Navy because they had the best uniforms and stations. (Bill forgot to mention that they also had the best food of all the armed services.))From the Navy he moved into private practice in 1986 and relocated to Fullerton. Now semi-retired, Bill is finding himself busier than ever and will provide us with incredibly strong representation with Rotary in the District. Thank you Diane and Bill.