DISTRICT 5810



 

LANO SUNRISE ROTARY



"THEY PROFIT MOST WHO SERVE BEST"

Chartered February 23, 2000

Roving Reporter:          Sharon Lewis
Special Reporter:               Doug Ray
Photographer:               Bill Neukranz
 



Rotary International

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VOL 9 NO 8

SUNRISE @ 7:10    SUNSET @ 7:49  Rain 54° F

April 4, 2008

PRAYER
Robert Posner

 

PLEDGE
John Payton

 

4-WAY TEST
Greg Rushin

 

 




 

 VISITING ROTARIANS, introduced by Secretary-Elect Pat Hite, were Doyle Dean [Education-Senior High] from the Plano Rotary Club, Boyd Craig [HVAC] from the Plano Rotary Club and Ken Maun [Tax Assessor Collector] from the Plano Metro Rotary Club.

HONORED GUESTS were Nellie McCall, celebrating her oldest birthday and Hunter Hanks celebrating on the youngest end.


SPECIAL GUESTS OF JUDY JACKSON were daughter-in-law Mabrie [candidate for City Council Place 3] and grandson James "Spook" Jackson. Judy paid a fine for a political statement.

ANOTHER GUEST of Judy Jackson was County Commissar Phyllis Cole. Judy paid another fine for a political statement.

DAVID MARKS
introduced his beautiful wife Karen, who gave a plug for the Thursday night Event benefitting the Relief Nursery of Collin County <LINK>. It will be from 6-8 pm at the Plano Centre.

PROPOSED FOR MEMBERSHIP and approved for publication was Becky Perry.   Becky is an Associate Executive Director at Plano Sunrise Senior Living <LINK> at Parker & Preston. She is sponsored by Brenda Rogers and will be loaned the classification of "Senior Living".
EXTRA SPECIAL GUEST was our Assistant District Governor Courtenay Tanner from The Richardson Rotary Club.

SECRETARY-ELECT PAT HITE introduced Art "The Greek" Papathanasiou, who was the Guest of Don Mellor.  Art is in the insurance business and has expressed interest in our hard working, Service Above Self, humerous group.

RUDELY LEAVING EARLY was Don Wilhelmus at 7:32 am.

ABSENT WERE Steve Blair, Matt Brown, Rick Chron, David Daniels, Reeves Davis, Ray Hopper, Bud McBrayer, Bill Peterson, John Roach and Brenda Rogers.

PRESIDENT RICHARD II introduced the special guests: Karen Noble, Principal at Mendenhall Elementary, Susan Weislak, Librarian at Mendenhall, Cathy Taylor, Principal at McCall Elementary, Sherry Pereira,  Librarian at McCall ,  Connie Krell, Library Staff at McCall and Nellie McCall, Guest of honor.  The books that have been accumulated over the past year were presented to the ladies for the two libraries.
 

OKTOBERFEST THIS YEAR IS CO-CHAIRED by Rod Hogan and Randy Plumlee.  They presented a PowerPoint, developed by Juergen Mahneke,  that detailed the origin and history of the event  which started under the administration of our Third President: Sharon Lewis. This event continues to grow and provide us with the ability to contribute significantly to several groups. Not everybody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

 
PRESIDENT-ELECT RANDY PLUMLEE reported on his adventures at the recent President Elect Training Seminar [PETS].  Our club is well known around the state for everything from Penelope the real pig, to Oktoberfest. Everybody knows  George Elking and the Blood Drive.

PAST PRESIDENT RICHARD I was recognized for his annual catering [today] for the Nellie McCall Birthday and Library Book Celebration.
DAVID MARKS hustled us again to meet the troops returning to DFW tomorrow.  This time sponsored by the Richardson Rotary Club.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS met after the regular meeting. Present were Richard Biggers, Scott Villines, Richard Butterly, Warner Richeson, Joyce Baumbach, Colin Light, Doug Cargo, Pat Hite, Doug Ray, Richard Wells, Judy Jackson, Bill Neukranz, Juergen Mahneke, Robert Posner, Rod Hogan, Sharon Lewis and Terry Dobbins.  Absent was Community Service Director Rick Chron.

Membership is at 48 with one in process and two requests for membership information packets. The Treasurer reported that some money had come in, some had gone out and there was some left over. Vocational Service is having a slow time getting students from Plano East to sponsor for RYLA.  We need a President-Elect, a Secretary and  several directors for the coming Rotary year beginning July 1st.  Secretary-Elect and Treasurer Pat Hite agreed to move up early and step into President-Elect. Joyce Baumbach agreed to step in to the Secretary spot and move up in subsequent years. That coupled with the elections last December 14th makes the the Board of Directors beginning July 1, 2008 look like:

President:      Randy Plumlee                        Club Admin:      Warner Richeson
Pres-Elect:     Pat Hite                                   Club Service:     Robert Posner
Vice-Pres:      Rick Chron                              Bulletin Iditor:  Terry Dobbins
Secretary:      Joyce Baumbach                     Club Projects:   ?
Treasurer:      Yvonne Hanks                         Comm. Svc:      Doug Cargo
Foundation:    Rod Hogan                               Voc. Svc:          George Elwell
Membership: Brenda Rogers                         Int'l Svc:            Bill Moore
Public Relat:  Sharon Lewis                            Past Pres:          Richard Biggers
Sgt-at-Arms:  To be elected by the above BOD.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
 
Fri, Apr  4 -               Oktoberfest PPt. Nellie McCall Celebration.  BOD Meeting.

Fri, Apr 11 -               Andrea Allen, Your business from a financial standpoint.
Fri, Apr 18 -            
Barry Diamond, Supercharging Your Board.
Sat, April 19 -           District Assembly, Sachse High School, Garland ISD <LINK>
Fri, Apr 25 -             
Coleen O'Donnell, "Generous Kids".
Fri, May  2 -             Don Hooton, Anabolic Steroid Use.
Fri, May  9 -             
Garland McWatters,  Unleashing Heart & Soul in the Workplace again.
Mon, May 12-19 -    United Kingdom Adventure.
Fri, May 16 -          
Mark "Red" Boswell, Finding opportunities and having fun.
Fri, May 23 -           
Armando de la Fuente (KUVN), Digital TV transition on Feb 7, 2009.
Fri, May 30 -            Heinrich Hertz,      How GPS Receivers Work. <LINK>
Fri, June  6 -             
Michio Kaku,  The Future of Time Travel. <LINK>
Fri, June 13 -            
Bill Bragg, The State Fair of Texas, Sept 26, - Oct 19, 2008. <LINK>
Fri, June 20 -
Fri, June 27 -

Sun-Fri, June 8-13    Camp RYLA.
Mon, Oct 20 -           Oktoberfest at the Bavarian Grill.

 FALSE WITNESS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED AND HE WHO TELLS LIES WILL NOT ESCAPE.  --- Proverbs 19:9