Bulletins - 2007 - 12/05/2007
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Jenny K. Goodman
Sheila Hardin rushed in to give this week's invocation and encouraged us all to give the gift of peace this holiday season. Sheila dedicated the invocation to Dr. Paul Marsh whom she credits for literally saving her life by telling her to go to the emergency room and even went so far as to write a letter advising the emergency room doctors what is wrong with her in his opinion. Dave McKee lead the pledge of allegiance. We sang a spirited holiday song, "Jingle Bells".
Lots of different brags and fines this week too numerous to list. Of special note, Karen Bucey and Melissa Blackburn proudly told the group they had each obtained a $100K grant from Bank of America for their respective organizations.
Many guests this week including the District Governor Elect-Pam Russell. Several prospective new members were also in attendance today.
Jonathon Stone announced the wine tasting event netted nearly $600 in funds for the club foundation.
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Rotaract announced they raised just under $5K from their Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes event.
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Wednesday December 19th will be the club Holiday Party at the Coronado Senior Center.
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Sign-ups are taking place for the Ensenada joint project which will take place Jan 4th and 5th. You can book a room at the Hotel Coral for $121. Drivers are also needed for this.
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Butterfly Enterprises is embarking on a new venture, embroidery. See some of the samples at the booths set up in the back of the room.
 John Rusikey introduced this month's student of the month. Catherine Campos is a student at the Monarch School. Catherine was a delight to meet and we know she will do great things in the future.
 Stephen Weber, the President of San Diego State University, and a club 33 Rotarian, was this week's speaker. Mr. Weber talked about SDSU's vision for the future. Last month SDSU was recognized as the #1 small research university (meaning a program with less than 15 doctoral programs). SDSU has the third highest applications in the nation. The average incoming student has SAT's of 1100 and a 3.5 GPA. SDSU has spent over 600 million on new facilities over the last ten years. A new alumni center will open in March. Mr. Weber was proud of SDSU's "roll up your sleeves community engagements" which includes partnerships with various school districts. In fact, SDSU runs three schools of their own. The Compact for Success Program guarantees students in certain underachieving schools admission to SDSU. The program is essentially a reverse engineering approach to help students learn how to succeed in college. First they have to acquire the skills beginning in at least 7th to succeed in college. SDSU believes we need to grow our own brains here in San Diego. For example, the hospitality and tourism industry is one of San Diego's largest industries. SDSU has developed an excellent program to grow professionals that are needed for this industry. SDSU produces two-thirds of San Diego's teachers and over half of the engineers. SDSU's game plan for expansion is premised on the belief that SDSU must grow in order to meet the needs of the current generation and anticipates that growth must occur not on on campus, but off campus as well. The expansion is needed to meet the long-term needs of San Diego.
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