February 6, 2006 Spokesman

Posted by Pat Dye 
 

Kirkland Rotary Minutes, February 6, 2006

 

The meeting was called to order by President Joanne Primavera.  The pledge was led by Jerry Campo.   Deedee Rusnak shared an inspirational moment.

Sorry there was  no Jan. 30th Spokesman.  The scribe notes were not sent to the editor.

Guests:   Rock Roth, District Vocational Service Chair

               Carl Borack

               Deborah Wakefield, Columbia Tower Rotary

               Jean Hodgeson, "Friends of Woodlands"

               Gail Auslander

               John Spangenberg

               Sally Gray, District Governor

               Students of the month:  Alisha Ells and Ashley Johnson

               Exchange student, Vlad

 

Jean Hodgeson gave a brief presentation about the new playground being built by Kirkland businesses and designed by the children.  There will be a work party in June.  We need 300 volunteers and currently have 100 committed to the project.  $95,000 was raised from local businesses, but a total of $115,000 is needed to complete the project.

 

Announcements: 

  • Sweethearts Night will be February 13th.  Be sure to sign up if you haven't done so already.
  • The Spelling Bee will be Tuesday, Feb. 28th at 6:30 pm
  • Mike Hunter announced that scholarship interviews are all set.  Team leaders are G.G. Getz, John Overleese, Val Gurin, Alice Volpe, and John Uvila.  I believe there is one more, and I apologize for not capturing all names.
  • Linda Julian requested that we sign up to host our students of the month
  • John Overleese announced that Duck Dash tickets will go to print this next week, so see Pat Swenson for last minute sponsor sign-ups
  • Feb. 16th, 7:30 a.m., at the Crab Cracker, there will be an initial meeting to plan for the new Rotary Club in Kirkland.
  • March 18th, there will be a Novabossa party hosted by the Auslanders! more info to come.

 

Vernell Sutherland gave her classification talk.  Vernell has roots in Minnesota, but has lived everywhere from Texas to Hawaii, coming to us most recently from Carmel, CA.  She and her husband, Duncan, currently work in the field of organic skin products.

 

Joanne reminded us all of the District Conference in Whistler, April 21 through 23rd. 

 

This was a special "Getting to Know You" night at Rotary, with 4 Rotarians sharing their histories, both professional and personal.  We learned much from Steve Shinstrom who joined his family business in 1992 and has a long legacy of Rotary in his family.  Rich Bergdahl grew up in Sacramento and currently works with his wife, Nannette, in the real estate industry.  Dennis Newell aspires to be part of Costo, working in their corporation Community Relations department, where he feels a sense of shared values.  G.G. Getz comes from Iowa, moving to Seattle in l968, and becoming a part of the community through her profession in real estate and her community board activities.

 

Dwight Olson introduced our speaker for the evening, Scott Jackson.  Scott is a Rotarian with Seattle 4 and currently works for PATH, Program for Appropriate Technology and Health.  Prior to that Scott worked for World Vision.  Scott said that he felt that 2005 was the Super Bowl year for global health and development.  He shared some of the struggles from his personal history and how the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship program had had a profound impact on his life and subsequent career choices.  He said that one of the punctuation marks in his life was the time spent with Bono, who is part of the Voice of One Campaign, and ended with the remark that he felt that Rotary is one of the significant movements of mankind.

 

The Honeypot was won by our guest, Rock Roth, who donated his winnings to the Foundation.

 

The meeting was dismissed at 7:50 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted:  Pat Dye