After a delicious lunch, Prez Tom Meyer welcomed our members to The
Rotary Club of Fullerton meeting. He called upon the following
members to lead us in our usual routine:

Prayer - Mark McGee

Song - Howard Wood led us in song with "Let the Rest of the World Go
By" and "Smile" with sipport from Keith Mills, Ray Ascroft, Maryallyce Jeremiah,and Randy McFarland.

Guests and Visiting Rotarians - Bekah Havard
Derek Smith - Bill Schenk,
Ken Benjamin - Randy McFarland,
Dan and Jan York - Tom Meyer and Jim Williams,
Lane Calvert - Bekah Havard,
Cathy Gach - Sal Tinajero,
Marty ? - Drew Napolin.

Announcments:

Rotary Concert on Friday, April 11 at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim -
"Fab Four." It is billed as GREAT! Don't miss it!
Event Chairs - Reports due to Randy McFarland in 1 month. Write Up
workshop is at 11:29 a.m. on the 3rd floor at Hope U. before our
February 6 meeting.
Community Investment Award applications due on February 11.
Titan Women's basketball game is on Thursday, February 7. Dinner is
at 6 p.m. and game at 7 p.m. We must pay for parking. It is a really
fun event!

New Full Fledged Members
Newest Nine Members Bekah Havard and Wolf Knabe had their blue
ribbons pulled off respectably by Lee Brockett and Jim Blake. Way to
go Bekah and Wolf!

Recognition Master - Bill Schenk

Bill presented a unique way of recognizing our members birthdays and
anniversaries. He matched up special days, events and celebrities
with our Rotarian's special days:
Anniversaries
Wally Swatkowski - 16 years. On February 2, Frank Sinatra debuted
with Tommy Dorsey. David Letterman began the Late Night Show.
Ken Kaish - 2 years. On February 4, Patty Hirsch was kidnapped.
"Our Town" debuted.
Mike Oates - 41 years - On February 4, Robert E. Lee was named
Commander-In-Chief.
Birthdays
Mike Oates - Near February 30, the first beer can appeared.
(Rotarians also think the first six pack was consumed on that day, too.)
Mark Geiss - February 19. Pretty Boy Floyd and Norman Rockwell were
born. Horace Greeley said, "Go west!"
Bill Kincaid was not in attendance but Schenk let us know that
Henry Heimlick was born on Bill's birth date.

Program- Bob Hathaway

Bob introduced Dane Masseth-Jones who thanked Cathy Gach and Ed Atkinson for their help in arranging the program. We had five students from Fullerton High compete in a Speech Contest. Judges were Joyce Cappelle, Terri Grassi, Keith Mills and Jim Young. Randy McFarland was the tie breaker if needed. Bob Radde was the time keeper.
Instructor Sal Tinajera informed us that the Fullerton High Speech and Debate Team consistently ranks in the top 200 schools in the United States. They finished 5th in the nation recently. The Speech and Debate Team is volunteering at Nicolas Jr. High and coaching 140 English Language Learners and Special Education students and are
getting great results. The contestants did a great job with the topic of Rotary Cares. Each of us learned a lot about what Rotary is doing internationally.
1st Place - Pricilla Merritt - She praised John Phelps for the
support he gave her at the beginning of her high school years in
Speech and Debate.
2nd Place - Andrea Slobodien
3rd Place - Amanda Rippy
Runners Up - Shirae Christie and Vanessa Garcia
All students did a good job. The judges had a difficult picking the
winners.

Fullerton Rotary Foundation - Vern Andrews

The Fullerton Rotary Foundation has a Rotary Endowment Fund that has
been developed over the past 17 years from current and former Rotary member estate contributions and Club contributions. Based on the Foundation's Gifting Mission Statement, the Endowment profits are to be used for one-time special awards to the Fullerton community. Since 1999, these funds are in addition to the annual Club Community Awards. For Rotary year 2006-07, over $10,000 was provided for the completion of its three year school award program to 23 Fullerton Schools. Four schools consisting of Richman and Fisler Elementary Schools, Parks Jr. High and Fullerton High were provided awards to purchase library books, music equipment, school campus benches and to establish poor performance student council services at Richman. In the current Rotary year of 2007-08, a total of $14,000 was provided
to the All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation for a partial Musical Education school bus payment and musical instruments to out-fit the bus, and to the Fullerton Academy of the Arts.

Reminders:

Bill Mathy's Super Bowl Party - Sunday, Feb. 2.
Tickets for the Concert will be available at next Wednesday's
Rotary meeting.

Next week's program - Ed Munson on Sports.