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Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Point West -- Sacramento May 7, 2004

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Rotary International President

Jonathan B. Majiyagbe

District 5180 Governor Jim Harrington

Dist5180 A-5 Assist Gov PWR PP Larry Suddjian

Point West Rotary President

Drew Houghton President-Elect

Mark Copeland Treasurer

Gary Disher Record & Correspond Secy

Doug Yoakam Membership Secretary

Ed Goldkuhl Sergeant-at-Arms

Ron Neal

19th Term Board Paul Adams

Tim Armstrong John Caselli

Kathy Copeland Rich Graber Dave Mrizek

Keith Tronson Doug Weill

RI Foundation Chair Dave Sarten

PWR Foundation Chair Jack Kasper

Program Chair Bud Ackerman

New Member Chair Judge Dave Abbott

The 41st meeting of the 19th term of

the Rotary Club of Point West was brought to order among the picturesque gardens, lawns and pool area of the Sac-ramento Inn. It was the first club meeting for this humble reporter as a PWR mem-ber (so please excuse all typos, miscon-ceptions and misinformation). The rotary theme of “Lend a Hand” was somehow transformed into the Point West Rotary theme of “Have Fun, Even If (and espe-cially if) It May be Slightly Illegal.” There are enough lawyers and judges in the club to address all problems the mem-bers may get themselves into.

Guest Steve Shiflet led the club in the pledge of allegiance and Guy Heilman whipped the crowd into a frenzy with the singing of “This Land is your Land, this Land is my land….” Candy Dahl related the observance by her grandfather (a for-mer Corning Rotary President) of the pro-ceedings of the men and women founding the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945; which was evidently, in part, the brain child of numerous ‘45 Rotarians then

Shown here with baby Nathan, the first of her six children to be, Stacy along with her husband, Mike, says good-bye to the club.

in attendance.

Editor in Chief Randy Bechtel is recuperating nicely (subject to suffering through a procedure involving the entry of a medical device into his body through his groin.) Randy should have Prez Drewz News newsletter ink on his hands in a few weeks. Additional volunteers are needed to cover the club reporting until Randy’s return. Please call (488-4420) or e-mail ([email protected]) Doug Weill if you can help out.

AUSSIES INVADE PWR

The meeting featured the members hearing tales about the trip of a lifetime to Australia by the District GSE team led by member Roger Andriesse. Team mem-bers Alesia Roger, James Ortega and Jim Sigl provided insight into the eating habits of Roger Andriesse and the team’s viola-tions of the no-fly zone in what sounded like a wonderful trip down under (literally, based on the very graphic account of what a body looks like when it is being cremated provided by team member Alesia----chucky peanut butter and the sound of a wood chipper will never seem the same). Dick Garner, the team leader from Dis-trict 9180 out of Melbourne, Australia in-troduced the visiting Australian GSE team. Accompanied by the invisible slide show, the very witty Aussie GSE Team of Dick Garner, Libby Christie, Glenn Taylor, Kirstin Coote and Simon Torok (aka the juggler) provided some of their thoughts and observations about Northern California (e.g. that we are all ignorant about the sig-nificance of the star on the California flag, that our lawns are very green, that tattooed

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Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Point West -- Sacramento May 7, 2004

PWR’s Newest Members: John, “the juice”, di Giusto; Sue, “I’m at the gym”, Redding; and Mike, “no ‘s”, Stephen. Not pictured is Richard Gallagher from the Red Lion. John is guest writing this issue of Prez Drewz Newz as Randy Bechtel recovers from his heart attack. Sue is doing residential real estate, “Redding and Associates” at Keller Williams. Mike is in office equipment sales with Smile Business Products. Welcome!

butts in San Francisco are in vogue and that Americans do not fit the Hollywood stereotype.)

Roger strongly encourages mem-bers to consider becoming a GSE Team Leader for the upcoming trip to Japan in September. Interviews occur next week. Roger claims that the trip to Australia was the best Rotary experience he has ever had (i.e. they have more fun in Australia than the club members do here?!)

NEWS IN BRIEF:

District Conference. The most important aspects of the report about the District Conference seemed to involve: (1) Presi-dent Drew providing shelter for homeless member Maria O’Neil (who designed the GSE brochure for our District Team); (2) in an apparently completely unrelated event, the discovery by Drew of a thong in this bed the morning after---- at least it appeared to this reporter to be a thong (this was later confirmed by Todd Murray-- evidently being his brand of

thong). (Tom Knox and other club lawyers—am I covered by the looser libel standard afforded the real press here???) More to come in the Star In-quirer; and (3) the Club captured third place at the District Conference in the vocational services category and gar-nered a first place award in the interna-tional service category. Congratulations PWR.

Stacy Schuman Departure. Member Stacy Schuman showed up with new son Nathan and husband Mike in tow. Stacy is moving to beautiful Antioch and therefore will be resigning as a member of the Point West Rotary—the club bid her a warm adieu.

Golf Tournament. Bob Porter re-minded everyone about the upcoming club golf tournament on June 4 at Tur-key Creek. Get your four together for play and do not miss out on remaining sponsorship opportunities (as the fund-raisers refer to them.) Please contact

Point West Rotary P.O. Box 15006, Sacto, CA

95851-0006 www.PointWestRotary.com

www.CalBrewFest.org

Newsletter Editor Randy Bechtel

[email protected] Web Master

[email protected]

Board of Directors Mtg 7:00am first Tue each month

C/o Pres Drew Houghton Port of Sacramento P.O. Box 980070

West Sacramento, CA 95798

http://www.PointWestRotary.com

Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Point West -- Sacramento May 7, 2004

Bob Porter or Roger Gaskin for informa-tion.

New Member Orientation. David Ab-bott reported on the new tally of new members for the term. In between urging members to keep up recruitment efforts, Judge Dave instigated a new member team dispute over credit for new members—was he trying to drum up new business for court system? Mandatory new member orientation on Wednesday May 26, 2004 from 6 to 9 pm at the Red Lion Sacra-mento Inn, Comstock Room. All members read in after June 30, 2002 must attend. Dinner and hosted bar. Learn about func-tions, responsibilities and benefits of club membership. $20 cost.

Blood Drive. Lou (the vampire) Fifer whips the Point West steeds into a Ken-tucky Derby lather in its blood drive com-petition with the Downtown Geriatric Ro-tary Club. Point West leads 16 donors to 7 donors for the old guys. Coaches will help out with Blood Mobile on June 4 and June 11. Please donate. If you go to the blood center, our code is 6656.

Foundation. Jack Kasper reminds the club that May is Foundation month and to keep the $1 to $1,000 checks rolling in. Jack, in honor of Dave Suter, this re-porter pledges to become a Foundation Fellow. For those of you who knew and respected Dave Suter, the May 28 meet-ing will be a perfect time to show your support for the Foundation by making a contribution in honor of deceased member Buckeye Dave.

Rotary Youth Exchange. Insurance and bonding guru Dave Garese celebrates one child leaving home (Jesuit grad) and another graduating from college (off the payroll?!) by contributing $800 to the Rotary Founda-tion. Two boys, one from Belgium and the other from Spain, are looking for hosts as part of the Rotary youth exchange program. Dave urges you to open your homes and yourselves up to a great experience by be-coming a host. Call Dave Garese for in-formation.

New Member Posting Mercedes Ivie, Classification Advertising and Marketing, is being sponsored by Kathy

Copeland and Paul Adams.

Next Meeting Speaker: Drake Harrison, Youth and Business; Judee Daniels, Invocator; John di Giusto and Jerry Reguera, Greeters;

Tom Safford, Money Changer; and Dave Sarten, tickets.

May 21 Meeting

Police Officer of the Year Awards

June 4 Meeting Teacher of the Year Awards

All of May- PWR Foundation Month

June 25- Drew’s Demotion Party

ROTARY

INTERNATIONAL MISSION

To support its member clubs in fulfilling the Ob-jectives of Rotary by:

Fostering unity among member clubs;

Strengthening and ex-panding Rotary around the world;

Communicating worldwide the work of Rotary; and

Providing a system of international administra-tion.

The Objectives of Rotary

1st. The development of acquaintance as an oppor-tunity for service.

2nd. High ethical standards in business and profes-sions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the digni-fying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportu-nity to serve society.

3rd. The application of the ideal of service in each Ro-tarian’s personal, business and community life.

4th. The advancement of in-ternational under-standing, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and profes-sional persons united in the ideal of service.

DONATE Your BLOOD Call (916) 456-1500 to make an appointment and be sure to credit PWR Acct #6656.