DISTRICT 5810

LANO SUNRISE ROTARY

"THEY PROFIT MOST WHO SERVE BEST"

Chartered February 23, 2000 Roving Reporter:          Sharon Lewis Assistant Reporter            Kevin Cain Photographer:               Bill Neukranz

Rotary International

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VOL 8 NO 3

SUNRISE @ 6:54 SUNSET @ 6:24    Partly Cloudy 44 °F

Mar 2, 2007

PRAYER
Warner Richeson


 

PLEDGE
Greg Rushin


 

4-WAY TEST
Brenda Rogers


 

PAPER TOWEL SHORTAGE EXPECTED IN PLANO NEXT WEEK. Stock up while you can. Due to the  extended winter flu season, the major Paper Products Producers have not switched over their  plants from tissues to paper towels for the summer runs. Stockbreaker Roug Day of Murky,  Lunch and Dimmer said that the Wall Street response to this touching news was to downgrade their upgrade of International Playper.

SPECIAL EVENTS TODAY. Breakfast was catered by Poor Richards Cafe <LINK> in honor of our 7th birthday. Nellie McCall was also honored on her 84th birthday as well. One of our faithful servers got to take a break.  Treasurer Jane made a coupla school librarians very happy. Steve Parry was smiling about something.

PRESIDENT ROD tried to get the meeting under control in spite of everything going to pot.

PRESIDENT ROD directed the Sgt-at-Arms to organize and call for a toast to Nellie McCall.

PRINCIPALS AND LIBRARIANS Susan Weisiak [Mendenhall Librarian], Karen Noble [Mendenhall Principal], Sharry Pereira [McCall Librarian]  and Cathy Taylor [McCall Principal]  were presented with large batches of books and checks for their libraries.  Mendenhall was the first elementary school in Plano and the late David B. McCall, Jr. was the first principal.  His wife Nellie taught there and the two boys, David III and Brian attended.  Recently a new elementary was named after David McCall and the Library was named after Nellie McCall.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY was sung to Nellie and she was presented with a bouquet of yellow roses. Nellie said that she would not tell us how old she was, but she was born on this day in 1923.

STEVE BLAIR was fined for drinking from the toast glass BEFORE the toast was given.

VISITING ROTARIANS AND SOME GUESTS, introduced by Secretary Randy, were Steve Parry [Sports Travel] from the Plano Metro Rotary Club and District Governor Elect Richard Gilman [Education] from the Richardson Central Rotary Club. Lucky guests were Bill Wray [Attorney] guest of Randy Plumlee, REALTOR® Sandra Daniels, guest of David Daniels and Nephew Philipp, visiting from Bravinschweig,  guest of Juergen.

ABSENT WERE Joyce Baumbach, Kevin Cain, Rich Chron, Reeves Davis, George Elking, Paul Huang, Glenn Justice, Ken Lambert, David Marks, Bud McBrayer, John Payton, Darrin Pennartz, Jim Stroup and Matt Moore.

DAVID McCALL III  introduced a flock of friends and relatives and told a bad joke for which he was fined. Present were State Representative Brian McCall, Nellie McCall, Joan Biggerstaff, Sandra Fay and Maerene Dilts.

SECRETARY RANDY was fined for some quotes from Church Bulletins furnished to him by Judy Jackson. Some were: "Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands." "Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days." "Weight Watchers will meet at 7 pm at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance."

PRESIDENT ROD called on Gadget Month Chairthing Doug Bicknell to hustle us for gadget auction items for Oktoberfest. Doug demoed a strap on headlamp that is useful for working in dark places such as under the hood of your car, under a kitchen cabinet or behind [or under] a computer desk. He also showed a 5-in-1 egg shaped desktop clock and a fold up soccer chair. Bring your gadgets this month.

GEORGE ELKING HAD HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY on Tuesday, February 27th and was reported up walking around and doing fine yesterday.  Then he had a mild heart attack and was in ICU. On Monday, March 5th, he had 5 hours of bypass surgery for 5 bypasses.   He is now out of intensive care and is in room 438 at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. He said that he is doing fine.
 George has had two blood transfusions and requires additional pints of blood as his blood oxygen level is down. He requests that you donate a pint of blood at any Carter Blood Center  and indicate that the donation is for George Elking. You can donate for him and also get credit for your Club and the District.
 In spite of his two operations, He is concerned about the District's Blood Drive Figures for this year. 478 units are required to achieve the District's goal for the year. Instead of cards and candy, he requests that you organize District Blood drives so that this year's goal will be reached.
 George is working on setting up a program so that blood will be available for District 5810 Rotarians who require blood transfusions.

MEMBERSHIP PLUMMETS AGAIN.  Keith Sockwell [Education] has faded away because he's traveling more on Friday's so that being here is next to impossible and making up is an expensive burden.

STEVE PARRY from Plano Metro reported that he won the drawing for the 52 bottles of wine at our Oktoberfest last year and liked the idea so much that he carried it to his club for their annual fundraiser and his wife won their 52-bottle drawing.

TODAY'S PROGRAM, introduced by Program Chairthing John Roach, was Sgt. A.P. Davidson,  Texas Rangers <LINK>, Company B <LINK>. The modern Texas Rangers are an investigative division of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The 116 Rangers authorized by the Texas Legislature are posted across Texas in six companies headquartered in Waco, Houston, Midland, Garland (the Dallas-Ft. Worth MetroPlex), Lubbock, and San Antonio with an administrative office in Austin. An Unsolved Crimes Investigative Team is located in San Antonio. They have been called one of the most effective investigative law enforcement agencies in the world.  As is our custom, a book which was duly signed by him was donated to the Nellie McCall Library at the David McCall Jr. Elementary in the name of the speaker.  The book was "A day That Changed America: The Alamo" <LINK>.

AS USUAL, BUMBLING INEPTITUDE was the order of the day. Our beloved President Rod forgot to mention Texas Independence Day <LINK>, March 2,  1836 <LINK> in spite of the commemorative PC tie worn by the Sgt-at-Arms.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS met about 8:15 am. Present were Warner Richeson, Chris Roach, Rod Hogan, Jane Wyen, Richard Butterly, Scott Villines, Steve Blair, Skip Jenkins, Pat Hite, Colin Light, Richard Biggers, Randy Plumlee, John Roach, Ray Hopper, Judy Jackson, Juergen Mahneke, Doug Ray and Terry Dobbins.

We have 56 members and all are paid up. Proposed for  membership and approved for publication was Wilson E. "Bill" Wray [no relation to Doug Ray].  He's a nephew of Jeff Frauenheim from the Plano Rotary Club, lives in Murphy, wants to be active in Rotary serving the community.  He works for the Loewinsohn and Flegle law firm in North Dallas specializing in B2B law. He is ponsored by Terry Dobbins and loaned the classification of Attorney aka Aturkey-at-Law.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:  
Fri, Mar 2 -              A.P. Davidson, Sergeant, Texas Rangers, Company B
Fri, Mar 9 -               The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training <LINK>
Fri, Mar 16 -            Club Assembly.
Fri, Mar 23 -            David Schulz, VP, SPCA of Texas. <LINK>
Fri, Mar 30 -             Group Study Exchange Team from South Africa.
Fri, Apr 6 -                Don Hoke, Ph.D, Ex. Dir., North Texas History Center. <LINK> <LINK>
Fri, Apr 13 -              Ms. Chanthini Connor-Life Line Screening for Health & Wellness. <LINK>
Sat, Apr 14 -             Rotary EXPO, Auction & Rummage Sale at Texas Stadium. <LINK>
Fri, Apr 20 -              Randy Mercator, "Where ya at?"   - Google Maps <LINK>
Fri, Apr 27 -              Elena Lev - Hula Hoops <LINK>
Fri, May  5 -              Mark Trail,  Hiking in Texas <LINK>
Fri, May 11 -             Ms. Zorn, International RYLA
Fri, May 18 -             Larpy Flannel Mouth - Offbeat Tourist Attractions. <LINK>
Fri, May 25                C. M. Heavens, Astronomy Picture of the Day <LINK>
Fri, Jun  1 -                 Bluejacking <LINK>
Fri, Jun  8 -                Red Ann Black, Checker Tournament. <LINK>
Fri, June 15 -              Club Assembly.
Fri, Jun 22 -              Analemma and the Temple of Olympian Zeus <LINK>.
Fri, Jun 29 -             John Roper, Basic String Theory <LINK> and <LINK>
Sun-Wed, Jun 17-20 RI Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. <LINK>