PLANO SUNRISE ROTARY

LANO SUNRISE ROTARY

Chartered February 23, 2000

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VOL 9 NO 35	SUNRISE @ 7:27 SUNSET @ 6:59 Clear 63° F	October 10, 2008

PRAYER
Rick Chron

PLEDGE
Richard Butterly

4-WAY TEST
Don Mellor

JOKE
Susan Plonka

FAITHFUL SERVER RENE dished up the regular Mexican Breakfast starting with George Elwell.

VISITING ROTARIANS, introduced by Secretary Joyce Baumbach were Susan Plonka [Web Agency] from the Plano Metro Rotary Club, Lee Dunlap [Architect] from the Plano Rotary Club and Ken Maun [Tax Assessor-Collector] from the Plano Metro Rotary Club.

EXTRA SPECIAL GUEST was Mark McLendon [Minister] from Eastern Hills Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the guest of and step-son to Terry Dobbins.

SPECIAL TALK TODAY by Bill Peterson [Disaster], who was the Fire Chief in Plano for 23 years until his retirement in January 2006. Bill accepted a Presidential appointment as director for the Region VI office of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA's Region VI is headquartered in Denton, Texas, and oversees agency operations in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.<LINK> Bill said that it will take 10-12 years to repair the damage from Hurricane Ike. Bill is looking forward to retirement in January.

POLITELY LEAVING EARLY was George Elking who notified the President, apologized to the speaker and paid his fine to ROTOPIG.

ABSENT WERE Doug Cargo, David Daniels, Ronnie Day, Steve Dippel, Russel Head, Ray Hopper, Ken Lambert, Sharon Lewis, Bud McBrayer, Richard Wells, Vickie McClurg, Art Papathanasiou, John Payton, Becky Perry, Robert Posner, Doug Ray, John Roach, Michelle Robbins and Brenda Rogers.

TODAY'S PROGRAM, introduced by Program Chairthing David Marks, was Head Coach Troy Espirit from the Frisco Thunder Indoor Football Team. Their season runs from March through June and the play in the Dr Pepper StarCenter in Frisco. As is our custom, a book was donated to the Nellie McCall Library at the David McCall Elementary School in the name of the speaker and signed by him. The book was "My Football Book" by Gail Gibbons.

LAST MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS before President Randy gonged the meeting to a close by Richard Butterly about Thanksgiving at Poor Richard's Cafe for the less fortunate and by Judy Jackson about Oktoberfest work parties at Joyce Baumbach's house.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

President
President-Elect
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Past President
Membership
Public Relations
Sgt-at-Arms

Randy Plumlee 2008-2009
Pat Hite
Rick Chron
Joyce Baumbach
Yvonne Hanks
Richard Biggers
Brenda Rogers
Sharon Lewis
Scott Villines

Club Administration
Club Service
Club Projects
Community Service
Vocational Service
International Service
Foundation
Bulletin Editor

Warner Richeson
Robert Posner
Egrod Ratifritz
Doug Cargo
George Elwell
Bill Moore
Rod Hogan
Terry Dobbins

Program Chairthing
OktoberFest Chairs
Bookkeeper

David Marks
Rod Hogan & Richard Biggers
Colin Light

Golf Chairperson
Blood Drive Chairman
Classification Talks

Steve Blair
Jennifer Smith
George Elwell

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

DATE

PROGRAM OR EVENT

Fri, Oct 10
Fri, Oct 17
Mon, Oct 20
Fri, Oct 24
Fri, Oct 31
Fri, Nov 7
Fri, Nov 14
Fri, Nov 21
Thu, Nov 27
Fri, Nov 28
Fri, Dec 5
Fri, Dec 12
Fri, Dec 19
Fri, Dec 26

Troy Espirit, Frisco Thunder .
Club Assembly.
Oktoberfest at the Bavarian Grill.
Dr. Jeffrey Canose, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano.
Dummies for Dummies, Baron Victor Von Frankenstein.
Rotary Foundation Program. BOD @ 8am.
Ski Plano, Ralph Stow-PISD Education Foundation .
Rotary Foundation Program.
Thanksgiving at Poor Richard's Cafe for the less fortunate.
No Meeting, Thanksgiving Holiday.
Mark Hagan, Founder of Providence Homes of Dallas. BOD @ 8am.
Club Assembly and Election of Officers & Directors for 09-10.
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No Meeting, Christmas Holiday.

ON THE LIPS OF THE DISCERNING, WISDOM IS FOUND, BUT A ROD IS FOR THE BACK OF HIM WHO LACKS UNDERSTANDING. - - - PROVERBS 10:13