February 14, 2001
This week's Bulletin was written by Jim Lauth.
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Colette rang this Valentine's Day meeting to order. Dan Cleaves led the pledge of allegiance, Pauline Getz provided the invocation, and Linda Jalving led a romantic rendition of "Bicycle Built for Two" in honor of the holiday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gary Green, back from Africa, was in fine form as he announced guests and visiting Rotarians, and then fined a Rotarian from Georgia for liking his trip to San Diego "so far," and auctioned off heart-shaped boxes of candy in honor of the holiday.
Frank DeFrancesco re-re-inducted Dr. Steve Waterman and awarded him his new blue badge.
CHAIR OF THE DAY
Alan Talbott was chair of the day. Alan proudly reported on his sons' activities as a video producer at Stanford and a Junior Olympics fencing contestant, respectively, and on his wife's success in Amazon-dot-com-land selling her book about beadwork. Alan is an estate planning attorney whose small firm -- based on a previous bragging bucks announcement -- has recently merged with a large California law firm.
FINES! FINES? FINES!?!
Sgt. Getz attempted to fine a clubmember for his anniversary, and then was fined from the floor herself since the clubmember had in fact been divorced for several years. Oops! The Sgt. fined all present who were wearing red in honor of the holiday, among some grumbling that those who were NOT wearing red should have been fined. (So next week, for Presidents Day, do we fine clubmembers who are or were President of the United States, or those who are not and never were President of the United States?)
SPEAKER
Newly re-inducted Dr. Steve Waterman introduced our speaker, Dr. George Flores, the Public Health Officer for San Diego County.
Dr. Flores reported that San Diego County is at the crossroads of many changes that affect public health: aging baby boomers, growing ethnic diversity, a globalizing economy, increased research in genetics and technological developments.
The philosophy of public health is that "The health of each of us depends on the health of all of us." In a sense, Dr. Flores is a physician for everyone in the county, and his job is to monitor health and health care issues for all of us. He advocates preventive care, and encourages all to change unhealthy behaviors. Many serious health problems are caused by behavior that can be changed; smoking, diet, exercise, sexual behavior, firearms, alcohol and substance abuse.
As a demonstration of simple preventive routines that we all could incorporate into our daily lives, Dr. Flores got us to our feet for some simple exercises. Then, he asked each of us to sit down if we participated in one or more of a series of unhealthy behaviors that he listed for us. The only three people remaining standing (and two of the three were guests!) were awarded "health hero" pins by Dr. Flores
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