Thanksgiving Day 2003

Dedicated and Fun Loving Rotarians Gathered To

Honor our Police Department

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Most Rotarians arrived as the sun came up to decorate the tables with china, silver and flowers for the lovely dinner served to our officers. The amazing sumptuous meals were brought to the new Santa Monica Public Safety Building by our generous Klaus Mennekes of the elegant Casa del Mar Hotel and our friends from the Lowes Hotel. From the top left …. First-man … Jim Menzies, then our great Committee Organizer and Author of these photos ... The Rev. Joe Metoyer, George and Pat Collins, First-Son … Jamie Menzies, Alan Young, Steve Litvack, Bashir Kadri, President-Elect Lionel Ruhman; bottom left … our near golf-pros … Shirley and Bill Dowling, President Dee Menzies, Spyros Dellaportas and Community and Youth Director Susan Dawson.
	Bashir Kadri, Lionel Ruhman and Soraya Kadri working to serve our friends in uniform.
Thea Dellaportas, Chief Jim Butts, Soraya Kadri, Pat Collins and Steve Litvack sans mustache ! What fun to see the Chief ! *Jim always has good humor and friendship for his fellow Officers and Rotarians.* It was daughter’s day as Thea and Soraya joined their Dads.
	*Con and Catlin Oyler* With Catlin’s friend Sheanine Ta
*Brenna and Joe Fitzsimons. Brenna did a great job helping* her Dad with serving and the big clean-up !
	Susan Dawson, *Kris Andresen*, Jamie Menzies. Thank you Kris for doing such a great job in writing this page's editorial and captions!
*Clyde Smith surrounded ….* With Clyde … Detective Cory Rytterager Sitting … Records Department Lisa Gonzales and Nanci Twitchell Right … Officer Calisse Lindsey
	*Spyros Delaportas ….* showing everyone that he was not kidnapped … that it WAS Thanksgiving Day ! With ….. *Sgt. Annemarie Gray and* Officer Dave Chieruzzi Spryros is shown holding a picture from a 10 year old article in The Santa Monica Evening Outlook. The article covers this event for its year of inception. The newspaper caption read "To Protect and be Served".