3rd
Annual International Food Festival
Thanks to
our gracious hosts Tom and Stephanie Loo and our youngest Rotarian Ryan
On Sunday afternoon April 17th 2005, at the Malibu home of Tom and Stephanie
Loo, the Club held its third International Food Festival. The
Festival featured home-prepared dishes made by members from the approximately 20
different ethnic groups to which the Club’s Rotarians or their spouses claim
ancestry. The afternoon event was the highest attended in its history and
drew over 200 members and guests, including District Governor Pat Cashin,
Past District Governors Rick Mendoza, Len
Wasserstein, and Bob White, District Governor-elect, Ingo Werk, Executive Aide, Laura
Calderwood, District 5280 Office Administrator, Rebecca Garcia-Prieto and their respective spouses or guests. The
event also included the Club’s former Ambassadorial Scholar, Masahiko
Tanaka and the District’s Rotary Group Study Exchange Team, Donn
Ennis, Natasha Mascarenhas, Susan
Valot and their Team Leader, Jillian
Alexander who will be traveling to Germany in May 2005.
The
purpose of the family-oriented Food Festival was to celebrate the diversity
within the Santa Monica Club and to raise funds to provide assistance to the
local and international charitable programs.
These international and local charities were
selected in advance by the Club's membership and change from year to year.
In
addition
to the
great food and live ethnic music from several bands, the Santa Monica Club held
a silent auction which grossed over $8500 with over 50 items secured or donated
by members. The event also included
several members from the Rotaract Club at Santa Monica City College who joined
in the festivities.
Many
thanks go out to the following for planning and putting on such a fantastic
event!
Oded
Wolf, Barry
Bouley, Jillian Alexander, Mitchell
Kraus-- Silent Auction
Steve Alexis
-- Food
Monika White -- Music
Tish Tisherman
-- Soft goods & logistics; Rotaract liaison
Sally Pai, Susan Dawson –
Event organization
Bashir Kadri; Ross Harrop
– Publicity
Tom Loo
– Guarantor of Good Weather and Cleanup
And
a special thanks goes out to Tom Loo and his lovely wife Stephanie
for helping in the planning of this event and allowing us to use their beautiful
Malibu residence overlooking the Pacific Ocean!
Our
Web crew was out in full force covering this milestone event. We obtained
dozens of great pictures of the Festival.
Don't forget to click on the small pictures to see in full size!
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PP Spyros Dellaportas (left) and Bill Dowling shows us how to carve up roasted pig. (Please note that the USC Pig for the second year is having the UCLA Bruin for lunch) |
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President Lionel poses with his Irish corned beef Pacific Palisades style. |
| President Elect Paul Leoni poses with his "Tomatoes Italiano" |
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Judy Neveau is shown next to Jillian Alexander. Jillian is leaving for Germany in the next few weeks to lead district 5280 Group Study Exchange team. |
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Santa Monica Loves its new members! New member Mitchell Kraus helped arrange for donations for several of the Silent Auction items. |
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Past president Dee Menzies (Left) and Jim and Virginia Reidy. Jim is a computer expert who teaches a computer class at Pierce College. |
| Shown (front) is Santa Monica's premiere banker Dick Lawrence and his wife Char. In the background is print expert Steve Litvack and his wife Gail. |
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Oded Wolf shown with his wife Ruth. Oded is a very active member. He worked on this years IFF committee and will be serving on next years Board of Directors. Way to go Oded! |
| Shown starting left is Dick Rice and his wife Ruth, Linda Fleischman and Bob Moore. I was proud of our Web team for finally getting a picture of long time member Bob. |
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Mardi is in love with her American Idol husband Steve Alexis. |
| Our resident real estate legal expert Tom Larmore and his wife Karon. |
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