ISSUE NO. 22 February 6, 2004 OUR 82nd YEAR
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WE WERE “HUNT”ING SIEGALS AND PAYING OUR BILLS TRIBUTE
The ANNUAL PAST PRESIDENTS DAY meeting was a fun time to see what our club has created as a leadership base. Of the 28 past Presidents who are still strutting the earth, we had 16 of them with us this past meeting. BILL HUNT did an invocation that evoked his Rotary experience. BILL WERNER was the Hunters right hand man today. Program Chair was the kitschy BILL, MR. FRITZSCHE. Keeping him company was the ever charming, Mr. NAT CHARNLEY. That golden voice of radio, JACK SIEGAL was in charge of our Visitarians and Guestatarians.
That Maestro of Mirth CLYDE SMITH got us going with ZEST again. This must be a new theme for the songsters!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FLOWERS BEING DELIVERED!
This Friday, flowers that were ordered will be delivered and available for pick up.
NEXT WEEKS MEETING IS ON THE MOVE!!
Next week, FEBRUARY 20th, the club meeting is being moved to the Masonic Lodge on Santa Monica Boulevard. We will be having the Esther Johnson Music Awards as our program.
AMBASSADORIAL SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
Annie Bird has returned from her time in Buenos Aires, and we can look forward to hearing from her in the near future. BUT, the committee that puts up applicants for the scholarship, needs help interviewing candidates. MONTE HERRING would like some assistance, and you can contact him at wahoo569@aol.com.
GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE
The Group Study Exchange is looking for some hosts, so if you would like to meet and get to know someone from around the world, you should contact JUNE DOY and get the details.
FINES AND FUN
Our Resident President of Entrepreneurial Enterprises, BILL CROOKSTON has a new line to add to his already extensive CV, he and Kathleen have moved and have a new address. Oh yeah, he got a promotion also at that downtown university he’s associated with, to Director of Family Business ( I think I got that one right, but I’m hoping the Professor with correct me!)
The FRITZSCHE family turned FIFTY!! Having an anniversary date of 10/31 might put some people off, but not Brave Bill, he used it is a launching pad for 50 years of marriage. Cost him a cool $300, that’s $6.00 a year, talk about a deal!
Not to be outdone, FRANK BLENKHORN celebrated his 60th anniversary, and got billed $4.00 a year.
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING MEETINGS
February 13, 2004 - Gail Ruderman Feuer - Environmental Impact on the 21st Century
Gail joined the staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Los Angeles office as a Senior Attorney in 1993, after serving as a Deputy in the Environment Section of the California Attorney General’s office.
Gail is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former clerk for Honorable A. Wallace Tashima in the Central District of California. In 2000, Gail was named one of California’s top 20 lawyers by California Lawyer Magazine.
As the director of NRDC’s Southern California air quality program, Gail has represented environmental interests before the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of local rules that require the purchase by public fleets of only cleaner alternative fuel trucks and buses and successfully forced the Port of L.A. to consider the air quality impacts of a planned terminal expansion.
February 20, 2004 - Esther M. Johnson Music Awards PLEASE NOTE THE
CHANGED LOCATION FOR THIS MEETING
February 27, 2004 - Four Way Test
March 5, 2004 - Craft Talks
DAVID’S DOODLINGS
In 1938 two out of work guys pooled $538 and built a company that would become a $31 billion dollar industry leader. They believed that if they couldn’t find a job, they’d just create one, and Hewlett Packard was founded.
The two hardest things in life to handle are failure and success.