I am settling into my term as President and the feeling I have is one of immense pride in our club. We have so many active and contributing members that give back so much of themselves. We are fortunate to have this opportunity in our lives to be of service.
I have begun meeting with some of you and will continue to seek counsel on how to move our club forward and gain new and younger members. This won’t happen by itself, I will need your help. Rotary International has some new and innovative ideas that could be effective if we work hard on them and be willing to change some of the way we view things.
Some of you have already stepped up to the plate and offered your suggestions and also volunteered your time in making this happen. I hope a few more of you will do the same. Please feel free to call or email me and we can schedule some time to talk.
I want to take a moment out to acknowledge a member of our club. I want to say thank you to Bryna Hornstein. Bryna is working diligently as the Program Chair which is quite labor intensive and also as our Club Secretary, no small job either. As I can attest after three weeks, a quarterback can’t win without a good team around him.
I was just a young boy growing up in New York when Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated. I remember the funeral on TV and my parents and their friends crying. As I grew up, I read and watched history on “Bobby” and was moved by his message of social justice and equality.
Here is a favorite quote of Robert Kennedy that I would like to share.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Yours in Rotary service,
President Paul
Fleet Street: Volunteers are Needed for Saturday Night Lights
Fleet Street will be working at various parks during this year's Summer Night Lights. About six volunteers on August 5 and 12 are needed from 6 to 10 p.m. Carpools/rides can be arranged (we have a 15 passenger van). Free food is served at the site (hamburgers/hot dogs). We will circulate the sign-up sheet at club meetings. Security will not be an issue because of the presence of park staff people and LAPD officers. There is no limit on the number of dates you can attend. Guaranteed to be a good time.
Aug 5 — Wilmington Park ♦ 325 N. Neptune Ave., Wilmington 90744 (near LA Harbor College, the 110 Freeway ends at the Harbor/USS Iowa....we REALLY need help here)
Aug 12 — Highland Park ♦ 6150 Piedmont Ave., Los Angeles 90042 (near Ave 60 and the 110 Freeway, Highland Park)
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Bird Brained Rotarians
It is a STORK reality that many Rotarians don't take full advantage of all Rotary offers. Don't be GULLED and AUKWARD. Don't GROUSE, be BITTERN or BUZZARD off. Don't be HAWKISH or emotional. I don't EGGagerate.
If EMU give it chance, Rotary CROWS on you, like ROBIN the cradle. For a LARK, just put PETRAL in the tank and get to your meeting.
For a Rotary presentation, don't be discouraged at first and throw in the OWL. Don't GROUSE or try to DUCK out since if you don't speak up, WIPPERWILL. TOUCAN do it. You CANARY come through in a FINCH. To prepare, you don't need to OSPREY. Use your CRANE and SWALLOW your pride. TEAL a quiet moment alone to prepare and use a PENGUIN to make notes. Then PIPER up. Speak the BIRDS slowly and clearly and recite like a PARAKEATS. Just do your NEST and ignore any audience COOTS. Confidence is the KIWI to success. You will not FALCON on your face. Forgetting the words is not GREBOUS, just recite a SWIFT SWAN song.
It will certainly be a STARLING performance. Your time will seem to FLY, like VULTURE reality. FEATHER you were great or not, you will get an adrenaline THRUSH, like you were a TANAGER again. You will be a HERON, in the JAYBIRD seat and the CHICKS will be impressed. WREN you are finished, relax with a COCKATIEL.
With Rotary, you must learn to AVES no EGRETS. EAGLE be very satisfied. DOVE try to have a PHEASANT time. The CARDINAL rule is you must leave no TERN un-stoned. Remember, an OSTRICH in time saves nine.
Yours in Rotary,
Woody Woodpecker
Around the Club Photos by Neal Goldman
Past President Sheri Polak at the Club's Demotion Dinner.
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District Governor Nominee Joe Vasquez, installed the 2017 -2018 Board of Directors at the Demotion Dinner.
Michelle Goldwater at the Club's Demotion Dinner.
Sandy Rosenholz MC'd the Demotion Dinner.
Kevin Wallace, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, spoke at the July 12 club meeting. President Paul Gross (l to r), Wallace, and Dana Sherman.
Bernie Otis.
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