(Sincere apologies for the lack of detail on the Log; notes were taken by Kaye Phinney and attempts to make sense of them by Betsy, who was not present for the meeting)  Thanks to Kaye for taking the notes for me.

Greeters for this meeting were:  Rich Anderson and Michael Hawks                    

Meeting  #48 (5157) of THE ROTARY CLUB OF EVERETT on June 21, 2016 was brought to order by President Deborah Wright, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Thought of the Day by Kathy Webber called “Walk the Road”.

The opening song, The Swedish Walking Song, was performed by Kathryn Goforth, with apologies to the Norwegians.

There were no visiting Rotarians, but two guests. Michael Hawks’s guest, Calvin Long was a RYLA participant, and Sally Lancaster’s guest, Lance Balla, is the new Everett High School principal.

A new member was brought in by Ron Thompson.(sorry, no name on the notes!) 

Amy Norman provided free dental work for a student who changed his life (a very moving presentation).

 

Announcements included:

Local Impact Committee: Clothes for Kids pick up next week – Eileen Simmons

Fellowship Update: Marina Crawl – Marybeth Dingledy

Music4Life; collecting and refurbishing musical instruments – Mark Valentine

National Holiday: “National Skate Day”, “National Yoga Day” – Jim Staniford

 

Happy Bucks/Birthday Bucks/ Raffle :

Don Senter presented an original piece of art for incoming president Ed Peterson, who won the opening bid for $200.

There were happy dollars for Fred Sjholm (retiring? Last day as member?), Mark Nesse paid for “2 Rotarians on 2 wheels” across the country: Will McMahon (riding his bike across the country), and Marc Baker (riding his Harley to Newfoundland), Russ Kimball (notes say 24, so maybe 24 years of marriage?), Steve Juntwait for  his birthday, Sally Lancaster for 280 EHS graduates, Dick Schlosser got a hole in one yesterday! (was it in putt putt or a real course?). Raffle winners were Don Senter, Steve Miller and Andrea Sekora. Greg Tisdel won the Losers drawing.

 

Jeff Cornish introduced the Program for today: “Year-End Award Presentations” presented by Deborah Wright. While it was difficult to come up with words to describe President Deb, the word KIND was expressed, and she was thanked for her fantastic year, which included many family and hands-on opportunities to get involved, $180K in scholorships, ongoing support of AVID, a Dominican Republic International Service Project in the works, an outbound and inbound Exchange student, and some very successful centennial planning, among many other accomplishments! President Deb was provided a gift of an engraved photobook and wine glasses, and some wine.

                Awards presented by President Deb:

                                Service Above Self: Marc Baker, Denney Austin, Steve Ellis, Mike Holcomb, Don Steward

                                Special District 5050 Awards: George Bowden, Walt Greenwood

                                Paul Harris Awards were presented to Mike Holcomb (#8), Steve Ellis (#3), and Don Steward (#2)

                                Rotarian of the Year: Ted Wenta

                                Rookie of the Year: Tina Gilson

Greg Tisdel recognized Committee Chairs including Kathy Webber, Jim Schraeder, Fred Safstrom, Jeff Cornish. Outgoing Board members were: Jeff Mitchell, Ted Wenta, Sally Lancaster.

Awards were also presented to Ed Peterson for his work on the Strategic Planning, and Judi Edwards for holding the club together.

 

 

Next Program:   “Changing of the Guard/Centennial Kick-off” Presented by Deborah Wright and Ed Petersen introduced by Jeff Cornish

 

 

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MAKEUP OPPORTUNITIES:

1.            Rotary Board Meeting, June 23rd ,  7:30am 3rd Flr Chapel at Bethany

2.            Year-end Celebration, June 28th at Xfinity Arena, 5:30pm (social begins) $40.00 or $75.00 a couple (Prepay please)

3.            Wheeler’s Meeting, July 12th will be next meeting

 

1:15    Closing Remarks  - Be a Gift to the World