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 Assistant Webmaster Michelle Robbins

Rotary International

County of Collin

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VOL 9 NO 16

SUNRISE @ 6:19  SUNSET @ 8:29         Partly Cloudy 72° F

May 30, 2008

PRAYER
John Payton

 

PLEDGE
John Roach

 

4-WAY TEST
Greg Rushin

 

JOKE
Terry Dobbins

 

SERVER RENE is ready to dish it out and Sgt-at-Arms Doug is ready to take it in.

VISITING ROTARIANS, introduced by Secretary Pat Hite, were Z.Z. Kamruddin [Photo Supplies] from Donelson-Hermitage, Tennessee Rotary Club and Jim Anderson [Realtor] from the Plano Rotary Club.

LUCKY GUESTS, all proposed for membership by Judy Jackson, were Mabrie Jackson, Russel Head and Art Papathanasiou. 

ABSENT [BUT MAKING UP SOMEWHERE] WERE Matt Brown, Richard Butterly, Rick Chron, David Daniels, Steve Dippel, George Elking, Yvonne Hanks, Rod Hogan, Sharon Lewis, Juergen Mahneke, David Marks, Don Mellor, Danny Morris, Robert Posner, Doug Ray, Michelle Robbins, Brenda Rogers and Don Wilhelmus.

PERFECT ATTENDANCE PINS were presented to Eric Hartter - 1 year, Bill Moore - 1 year, John Roach - 5 years, Tom Rodgers - 5 years, John Payton - 6 years, Greg Rushin - 6 years, Bob Warren - 8 years and Ken Lambert - 19 years.

PRESIDENT RICHARD II presented a Club Banner to Z.Z. Kamruddin [Photo Supplies] visiting us again <LINK> from Donelson-Hermitage, Tennessee Rotary Club <LINK>.

ATTORNEY JOHN ROACH has been looking for years, for a good breakfast wine that was under $2 a bottle.  Sommelier and Oktoberfest Wine Auction collector Warner Richeson presented him with just such a bottle and said that all he had to do was open it and let it ferment.

PRESIDENT RICHARD II called on Blood Drive Chairthing Tom Rodgers to remind us of The Campus Challenge Blood Drive on June 24th, and the Battle of the Badges Drive July 11-13th, which will be kicked off with a float in the 4th of July Parade. Sign up sheets were passed around.

SGT-AT ARMS Doug Cargo politely left early. He notified the President, apologized to the speaker and paid a fine to ROTOPIG.  Then he passed the fine duties to Ken Lambert before he slipped out.

TODAY'S PROGRAM, not introduced by the absent acting Program Chairman Michelle Robbins [who has gone to the dogs], was supposed to be Army Captain Brad Parker. He was AWOL stuck in traffic on I-30, but may appear again to tell us about Army Recruiting. Also appearing on the program by his own request was WestPoint Cadet Chris Villarreal from Allen who expected to give us two minutes but admirably filled in for the whole program time. Chris just finished his 3rd year and is taking 18-24 hours per semester in Civil Engineering plus mandatory sports.  He mentioned MIT and So Cal as great Engineering Schools but failed to mention Ken Lambert's Alma Mater, UTA, and so Ken fined him two-bits. Chris detailed the academics of the cadets and noted that there was about a 15% attrition rate. As is our custom, a book was donated to the Nellie McCall Library at the David McCall Elementary School in honor of the speaker and duly signed by him.  The pop-up book was about the Pledge of Allegiance, illustrated with well known National Monuments.

Board of Directors beginning July 1, 2008 looks like:

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

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:  
Fri, May 30 -            Army Captain Brad Parker & WestPoint Cadet Chris Villarreal.
Fri, June  6 -            Catherine Cuellar, Pegasus News <LINK>
Fri, June 13 -           Bill Bragg, The State Fair of Texas, Sept 26, - Oct 19, 2008. <LINK>
Fri, June 20 -           Trans-Siberian Orchestra. <LINK>
Thu, June 26 -        2009 Officer & Director Induction at 6:30 pm.
Fri, June 27 -         NO MEETING.
Fri, July 4 -            MEETING will be on our float at the 4th of July Parade.
Fri, July 11 -          Jed Clampett, "Ya'll come on back now, ya hear!"   BOD at 8 am.
Fri, July 18 -          Armando de la Fuente (KUVN), Digital TV transition on Feb 7, 2009.
Fri, July 25 -          An Irreverent look at Country Music.  <LINK>
Sun-Fri, June 8-13    Camp RYLA.
Mon, Oct 20 -           Oktoberfest at the Bavarian Grill.