Revised recap of meeting July 31, 2012

Past President Anita opened the meeting in President Judy’s absence.

Gerri Felix led us in the salute to the flag.

Jim Cunningham gave the thought of the day – “Label jars not people.”

Phil Armi led us in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

Guests:

            Tom Myers asked for introduction of Guests.  Bill Mayhood, visiting Rotarian from the Los Altos evening club.  A guest from college who found us on the web site was introduced by Hiro.

Announcements:

            Bert Raphael wanted us to keep in mind an International project that we, our club, could take the lead on.

Speaker:

            Deirdre Marlaw from the Peninsula Bridge project.  The project is 23 years old and serves mostly Middle School students.  The reason being that if they can get thru High School Algebra, they can go to a State College.  They serve breakfast and lunch and provide transportation to the sites for nearly 400 students.  The cost is about $1,000 per student.  They have a 95% success rate.  Nearly 30% of the students are from other countries.  Most of their funds come from grants and some come from individuals. Deirdre has been with the program for nearly 2 years.  She used a video and power point presentation with technical help from Bert.

An email to our club via Anita:

Dear Anita,

I would like to take a moment to congratulate you and your team, for the great year you had in Annual Giving. You were at $203 per capita giving; 100% EREY; and 129% of goal. A truley outstanding performance.

What a great year, and  your leadership lead the way.

For all the people that will be served by the generosity of your members, I thank you and the club again.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Roger

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Roger Hassler
District 5170 Governor 2010-2011

Next week’s program will be Michael Becker on Mobile Marketing.  Our three-fer person is Hiro.  The meeting will be at 12:15 at the Historic Adobe Building.  Please sign in on our web site if you are NOT going to attend!