August 13, 2003
This week's Bulletin was written by Mary Dawe
This Week’s Meeting
Carol Jensen and her guest, Captain Andrew Ruff, USMC, led the club in the pledge of allegiance and, with help from Jim Mulvaney, Jr. and Linda Jalving, led a spirited rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.
Ken Juen gave a delightful invocation. Looking on the Internet for something
quotable from Will Rogers, Ken also came across quotes from Mr. Rogers and Roy
Rogers and chose for his invocation the Roy Roger's Club Rules - rules for all
of us to live by. Guest were
introduced, including visiting Rotarians from the La Jolla Golden Triangle Club
and from Club 33.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Frank DeFrancesco announced there will be a
District Counsel meeting the second week in November at the La Jolla
Marriott. At the last District
Counsel Meeting, Christopher Blin sold stacks of leftover tee shirts from the
Margueritaville fundraiser netting $65 for the club!
Other Upcoming Events:
Ø September
6 - Rotary Foundation Meeting,
September 6, at 7:00 a.m. at the Salk Institute
Ø September
6 - The Escondido Sunrise Club is having a "Last Barbecue at the Q"
event. Barbecue at 5:00 p.m., game
at 7:05. Email Frank if you are
interested.
Ø September
20 - Orange County Zone Institute, including speeches by former Rotary
International presidents. Tickets
are $50. Frank has more
information.
Ø September
19 - 21 - Thunderboat Regatta.
Frank is the contact person for this event also.
Frank urges all members to sign up to lead the pledge of
allegiance and give the invocation at upcoming breakfast meetings.
Frank presented Dave Dawson with his blue badge, commenting
that Dave epitomizes what a new, younger member should be, energetic, involved and
enthusiastic. Dave noted he is
still single.
Frank plugged the Entertainment Book that the Rotaract Club
is selling. If you use the $40
book just a few times, it pays for itself.
sgt.-at-arms
Sergeant at Arms, Bill Poirier opened his remarks by
passing a Kansas City Jay Hawks football to Martin Blair, who caught it on his
first try for $10. Carol Jensen's
guest, Captain Andrew Ruff, won $32 in the 50/50. Don Lang's birthday was August 7. Mike Lewis and Pat Cowett were fined for getting media
attention. Alan Talbott bragged about
an upcoming trip to Maine and Vermont.
Ken Juen told of work for Afghanistan by his guest. Margaret Oppliger told how she and Leah
Swearingen were stood up by Pat Cowett, who told of Gary Green's 14th hole in
one. Hugh Largey was happy to
announce his daughter will begin nursing training and Ron Erbetta was glad to
say his latest check was a paycheck not a disability check.
Billy is heading up a team of chefs to compete in the
October 25 chili cook off at Portuguese Hall in Point Loma and asks members who
would like to join or can offer a name for the team to contact him.
THIS WEEK’S SPEAKER
Pat Cowett introduced the guest speaker, Kathleen Jones,
Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. Dr. Jones has been teaching at SDSU
since 1980, and has been active in the field of women and politics and feminist
theory since 1975. She received
her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School of the City of New York
and has published widely on feminism and the politics of the women's movement. She is founding co-editor of a new
journal, International Feminist Journal of Politics (Routledge, London) and is
the author of Compassionate Authority:
Democracy and the Representation of Women, (Routledge, 1993). With Anna Jonasdotter, she published
The Political Interests of Gender, (Sage, 1988), and with Cathy Cohen and Jean Tronto,
Women Transforming Politics, an innovative anthology of essays on women and
U.S. politics that foregrounds the political activities of working class women
and women of color (New York University Press, 1997).
In Professor Jones's new book, a memoir, Living Between
Danger and Love: The Limits of
Choice, (Rutgers University Press, 2000), she reflects on the murder of one of
her students, using that tragic event as a window to examine the choices that
she - and others - have made when confronted with violence. Dr. Jones served on the City of San Diego
Commission on the Status of Women and the San Diego Domestic Violence Council
from 1995-1998. She is a trainer
for the Family Violence Prevention Fund's Workplace Awareness Project.
Professor Jones spoke to the group about her experience
playing the part of Bernarda Alba in the Muse Theatre's production of "The
House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca. She likened playing this character to
being a feminist spy in a house of patriarchy. The play takes place in the 1930's in Franco's Spain and
opens on the death of Bernarda's husband and the father of her daughter's. Bernarda assumes control of the household
and is determined that all of the daughters, with the exception of the eldest
who is engaged to be married, will remain in the house under her control so
that she can keep them from going through what she has in her life. Her determination to control her
daughters; lives has tragic results for them and herself. Lorca's play takes place in a family of
women, but is a metaphor for what happens in society when rules are imposed
that restrict people and don't allow trust, compassion and love to develop
between them, allowing them to do horrible things to each other.
Frank announced that next week's speaker will be Cindy
Davis, who will speak on identity theft.
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