Mountain View Rotary
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Greeting/Ring Bell (Scott)
Hello everyone! Welcome to our meeting of the Mountain View Rotary Club. This year's International Rotary Theme is "The Magic of Rotary." Our local club theme this centennial anniversary year is "Mountain View Rotary: 100 Years of Creating Magic through Service and Fellowship."
Pledge of Allegiance by Jarod Partlo
Thought for the Day by Jack Wong
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a lifetime, helps someone. – Chinese Proverb
Club Business/Announcements
- Recent Club Success:
Naiel Chaudry won the Area Speech Contest
Naiel Chaudry with Catherine and Scott Johnson. Taken at the Area 12 Rotary Speech Contest where Naiel took first place. He goes on to the Region competition next. He took 1st place at our Mountain View speech competition on March 18th.
Satellite Club recruited 8 members, enough to charter
The club surpassed our TRF goal of $4,800
Great social last Tuesday night at Sanjay and Dipti’s home
Fred and Debbie returned from their trip to Chile
- Upcoming Club Dates: (slide)
MV Rotary Pickleball – Fridays, 9:30 a.m., Rengstorff Park
Tuesday, April 8th Meeting: “History of Moffett Field” – Tom Spink
Monday, April 14th Regional Rotary Speech Contest - Hollister
Tuesday, April 15th Mtg: _____________________
Tuesday, April 22nd– No Meeting, DARK for Easter (20th)
Wednesday, April 23rd – Rotary Board Meeting, 5 p.m., Tori’s Office
Saturday, April 26th – Stevens Creek Trail Clean-up – 9 a.m.
Tuesday, April 29th – Social, 5 p.m. hosted by Catherine (no Meeting)
Friday, May 9th – MV PAL Youth Extravaganza (service opportunity)
Friday, May 9th - CSA Grand Reopening
Tuesday, May 20th Social hosted by Tom & Hart
Friday, June 13th – 11 a.m. Golf Tourney – Shoreline Golf Course $75
Program – Lt. Colonel (Retired) Roger Dong (Introduced by Alex)
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Roger S. Dong shared an overview of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1975 to address criticism of the U.S. intelligence community from the media and Congress. The AFIO has about 5,000 members in 24 active chapters. While full membership is limited to current and former U.S. intelligence officers, it also offers an "associate" membership to the general public if an individual supports its principles and abides by its code of ethics.
The AFIO is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity and its primary mission is educating the public.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Roger S. Dong has had a most unusual career with the United States Air Force. He spent 38 years in the military as an intelligence officer and China specialist, serving all over Asia, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Singapore.
While it is unusual for someone to serve more than 25 years in the military who is not a senior General, Lt. Colonel Dong’s skills were in high demand. He is very competent in several Chinese dialects and Japanese so immediately after his official retirement, he was called back to serve as defense attaché in Taiwan, giving up the job of CEO of a computer company to serve again.
In recognition for his successful intelligence efforts, the Secretary of Defense, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Director of the Central Intelligence all awarded him the highest awards for exceptional performance. He did not serve undercover but openly interviewed many knowledgeable sources of valuable and relevant information to prepare all his intelligence reports.
In retirement, he continues as a journalist and publishes several newsletters every week. He has previously served as the Commander of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and will be returning to manage the AFIO in the weeks ahead. Roger has also been very active in the American Legion where he has been a Post Commander and once managed their monthly newsletter rated the top newsletter in the American Legion.
