May 5, 2009 - Surfbeat 5/09 - Rotary Club of La Jolla
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May 5, 2009
Presiding (4/21): President Ted Rutter "Welcome to the Tuesday lunch meeting of the Rotary Club of La Jolla. I'm President Ted Rutter, and I'd like to propose a toast: Here's to the Rotary Club of La Jolla."
Invocation (4/21): Jerry Allen, "Eleanor Roosevelt is frequently listed among the greatest women of history. She was described as the conscience of the New Deal during her husband's presidential years. Without her influence there would be no Tuskegee Airmen. This prayer is from her book The Moral Basis of Democracy written in 1940:
"God of justice,
You adorned the human race
With marvelous diversity,
Yet clothed each of its members
With a common dignity
That may never be diminished.
Put within us, respect for that dignity
And a passion for the rights that flow from it,
That we may always champion for others
The justice we would seek for ourselves.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Your son, who lives and reigns with You
In the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God forever and ever."
Pledge of Allegiance: Diane Huckabee
Song Leader: Betty Dow,
"So many people have never seen a mountain's purple majesty, or oceans white with foam, and we get to live with them."
Song: "God Bless America"
Visiting Rotarians (4/21): We welcomed Robyn Bottomley, San Diego Breakfast, Research and Development, and George Shipp, Mission Valley, Travel Agency.
Guests of Rotarians (4/21):
- Lee Vida hosted general medical practitioner Dr. Jane Reldan of La Jolla.
- Dorothy Woods presented her husband Ty Woods.
- John Trifiletti hosed USD Marketing Director Renda Quinn.
- Joe Snyder introduced California Bank and Trust representative Amber Brackrog.
- Blair Blum spotlighted Burnham Institute for Medical Research workplace associates Jocelyn Wyndham, Chelsea Jones and Todd Lass. Blair reminded us that Jocelyn and Chelsea appeared as bachelorettes number one and two at past president Davis Cracroft's demotion party last June.
RotoRutter (President's Time): We extend happy birthday wishes to these Rotarians born in the merry month of May: David Shaw, Stanley Mendoza, Bryon Gould, Penny Shurtleff, along with absent friends Jeanne Hawkins and Ray Vellinga.
The past three weeks have been inordinately busy for the members of the RCLJ: On April 21st nearly thirty clubbers gathered at Sante's for fellowship at this year's second Tom Wilson-organized Club 24 social even, created solely to "mix, mingle and drink." (All three goals were happily realized)
Then, only a few days later on Saturday the 25th, over 40 Rotarians (some with recruited family members), LJHS Interacters and a few motivated citizen volunteers spent a labor day at the Riford Adult Community Center - the focus of this year's International Rotary At Work Day - where painters outfitted with splatter-proof RAW t-shirts and armed with rollers and brushes, began the day as the early shift (9 a.m. - noon) fortified by coffee and bagels and then relieved later in the day (1-4 p.m.) by a second team lured by the promise of pizza and adult beverages. The teams completed the Center's hallway painting plans as mapped out by Michael Morton of Marengo Morton Architects, Community Services chair Dan Keyes and general contractor Pancho Dewhurst of GDC. To the relief of all, Pancho had a crew of professionals prep the walls, taping boundaries and painting all of the doors; all that was necessary for the amateurs was to paint within the lines - and most did.
Last Tuesday evening's RCLJ-meets-the-Interact-families dinner was a success. The Verandah Room, according to attendee Jerry Allen was overflowing with Rotarians, and the program was filled with meaningful speechmaking.
Continue to keep George Philips in your thoughts as he battles pancreatic cancer with eight more weeks of difficult therapy.
