Meeting Summary July 17, 2012

President Judy opened the meeting at 12:35.

Pledge of Allegiance  by Fred Storek

Thought for today: Hal Taylor

Song: Phil  Armi led us in “Home, Home on the Range”.

Bruce Barsi used up the last of the selections for Rotary Jeopardy on Phil Armi, Jim Cochran and Sheila Hodgkinson.

A clip board went around for signups for finding speakers for our meetings. Only four months remain without  someone to get speakers.

Jim Spangler confirmed a report by Ken Schwaderer that former Member and School District Superintendent  Bill Graft's wife, Marilyn passed away. In addition member Tim Sandis passed away 7/1/12 and Rosemary, the wife of former member Dan Ciernick passed away on 6/17/12.

Chuck Osborn explained in a little more detail about how to decline coming to our lunch meeting so that the caterer will prepare the appropriate amount of lunch. This goes for bringing guests as well.

Once on the Club’s Home page, click on the upcoming meeting, then click on “Members”, after that you will be able to accept or decline or register a guest.  The time for registering closes at noon on the Monday prior to the meeting.

Chuck passed around a sign-up sheet for this Saturday’s San Jose Giants baseball game and BBQ. Game starts at 5PM.  Alan will be playing with his group at the Main Street Bar until 10PM.  One could go to both events.

President Judy suggested that it would be great if more members would go to the events that the district put on as they are really a great opportunity to chat with and get to know more about other members. She went to the roast for outgoing District Govenor Arley Marley and incoming DG Joe Hamilton. It was a great time,  but our club was under represented.

Bruce Barsi introduced our speaker today as Lyle Bickley who was one of the founders of the Computer Museum, the president of his own consulting firm and an active community volunteer.

Lyle explained that the Computer Museum is a repository of the computer industry going back over 100 years. Their Vision is to explore the computer revolution and its ongoing impact on the human experience. Their Mission is to preserve the artifacts and stories of the information age.

They occupy a 25,000 square foot building which they own. It took $19 million to set up and they display about 5% of the artifact that they have on a rotating basis. They have an educational program, catalog search, research database, publish Core Magazine, they restore historically significant computers and hold events. Currently they have 46 full time employees and over 200 volunteers.

A picture of most of the RYLA campers at the recent BBQ held at Camp Campbell.  Our club had 4 counselors at the event (more than any other club).