January 25, 2010 Spokesman
President Jim Feek called the January 25, 2010 Kirkland Rotary meeting to order.
Bob Webb led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Gary Bruner led the Inspirational Moment. He read a Prayer for Luck.
Visitors:
Dr Judith Hanson, this is her 4th visit. She plans on joining our club!
Terry Cole, a visiting Rotarian from the Redmond club, he will become a member of the Kirkland club when he is inducted next week!
Elizabeth Sadler, a Lake Washington High School senior is our student of the month.
Pam Hurst, a student at Cascadia College is one of last year's Rotary Scholarship recipients
Selis, our International Exchange student gave us an update on her activities which included taking her finals last week and she got an A in English!
Announcements:
Scott Rethke with the Duck Dash Committee gave an update on the status of sponsorship for our annual fundraiser. He asked club members for help with suggestions of local businesses that we can ask to be sponsors.
Roy Selvidge, with the International Service Committee gave an update on projects that our club is supporting. They are:
Nepal
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$1,500 for wheelchair for disabled
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$1,500 for New Life Center that supports disabled children to become self-supporting adults
Kenya
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$2,500 in scholarships for two schools and books
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$3,000 for school desks, library and books
Brandon Honcoop, the
Vocational Service Chair and asked for volunteers for student of the month hosts, he was able to fill the dates needed by eager Rotary club members! He does need more judges for the State DECA Competition on Friday, March 5th at the Maydenbauer Center.
Shirley Metcalf, with the
Vocational Service announced that they need help with interviews for the Rotary Scholarships. The deadline is February 1st and the interviews will take place in February and March. April 26th is Scholarship night at Rotary Club.
The Kirkland Rotary Foundation Board was introduced (David Aubrey, John Woodbery, Rachel Knight and Barb Seaton). They explained that the Kirkland Rotary Foundation is a 501c3 and we can use the Foundation to send tax deductible donations to Haiti. The Foundation will match all donations directed specifically towards Haiti up to $10,000 to a Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. They also asked for suggestions for what causes to donate the funds to that are collected form the Rotary Club auction in April. You can send your suggestion to Rachel with a contact name, telephone # and email. Let Rachel know why this group should receive the money.
Program
Pam Hurst,a student at Cascadia College is one of last year's Rotary Scholarship recipients gave us an update. In the last quarter at Cascadia College she has received Faculty Honors and a 4.0 GPA! She read an open thank you letter to the club.
Happy Dollars were collected for the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. A total of $1,074 was donated!
Rich Bergdahl, International Foundation Chair, spoke to the club. He said that on February 23rd Rotary would be 105 years old! There are 1.3 million members and 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rich's goal is to get 100% participation from club members in donations during Jim Feek's year as club President. Our club has 74 members and currently 20 members have made donations for this year. Rich wants to collect the donation by March 15th! Last year during Bob Webb's term as president we only had 75% participation. We have collected $2,500 but during Happy Dollars Bill Taylor donated another $500 towards the Foundation, so we are now up to $3,000 for Rotary International. Thank you Bill for your generous support!
Mary-Alyce Burleigh introduced our speaker for the evening Doug Wozeniak, Executive Director of the Kirkland Boys & Girls Club. He gave us some history of the Boys and Girls club (they only changed the name from Boys Club to Boys & Girls Club in 1990!) and how much service they provide to our community. He then talked about the Legacy Project that the Club is sponsoring which is the expansion of the Teen Room. It is expanding from 500 square feet to 1,400-1,500 square feet!
In Closing
President Jim announced the District Conference to be held May 14-16 in Portland, OR. He wants to get a group together to go down on the train!
Raffle Drawing
Patty Smith's ticket was picked and she gave it to Selis. President Jim put the number 5, 2 and 1 duck in his pocket. Selis had a 50% chance to win and picked #4..she won!
And just when we thought we would get through the meeting without one of President Jim's amusing Norwegian jokes he gave us his parting thoughts with a story about Ole!
Scribe for a week Sarah Brooks