ISSUE NO. 34 May 5, 2004 OUR 82nd YEAR
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VEGETARIAN VIRGINIANS AND LAUDABLE LEGALESE
It was craft talk day again, and this week we had MIKE HYLER, who admitted in a group of hearty meat eaters, that he was, shocking though it is, a vegetarian. We also had another shocking revelation from TOM LARMORE, he’s a lawyer, and he likes his work. His lovely wife joined us in supporting him as he amiably chatted about the law, and the practice thereof. Do you think these lawyers will ever stop practicing and just get it right?
Thankfully MIKE HYLER has the food and beverage deal down pat, which is good news for us at lunchtime!
THE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION PROGRESS REPORT
The Rotary Club of Santa Monica is well on the way to having a banner year in supporting the Annual Programs Fund, which includes the contributions of Paul Harris Fellows.
126 members of our club supported District 5280’s Paul Harris Celebration with the record-breaking total contributions of $11,505. The total contributions by our club members was sent to RI Foundation in support of the Annual Programs Fund. 100% of all contributions are spent on health, Hunger and Humanitarian Programs and Scholarships.
As of April 1, 2004 ten members of our club became Paul Harris Fellows for the first time, and an additional seven members became multiple Paul Harris Fellows, Our new PH Fellows gave a total of $8,750 of new money to the Annual Giving Fund of the The Rotary Foundation.
To date, the total donations of this club this year are $20,255!
Our PresiDEEnt, PP Hal Quigley and Marvin Levin congratulate all the members of the club who made this possible!!
ANNOUNCMENTS
NEW MAKEUP TIME
NO, I’m not becoming a Mary Kay rep, to supplement my journalism career, the Palisades club has become a Breakfast meeting.
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 14, 2004 Janie Harding Jones Santa Monica College Musical Theater
MAY 21, 2004
The Club, through one of its members, is bringing to Los Angeles, Roderick
MacLeish, lead counsel for the plaintiffs’ who are victims of Priest Sexual
Abuse, who will discuss the landmark settlement with the Boston Archdiocese.
May 28, 2004 DARK Memorial Day Holiday
June 4, 2004 June Lockhart Santa Monica Mounted Police Program Chair is Jim Menzies
June 11, 2004 Craft Talks Program Chair is Jack Siegal
June 12, 2004 Children's Immunization Clinic
June 18, 2004 Bill Rehder of the FBI Program Chair is Alonzo Hill
June 25, 2004 Dethroning Party
DAVID’S DOODLINGS
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)