SDRotary - Getting Involved

January 14, 2004

This week’s Bulletin was written by Duane Horning

This week’s Rotary meeting included the usual pledge followed by a stirring invocation by Chris Blin, exhorting us to shake off the dirt and keep kicking. Jim Mulvaney and his brother and former club member Dave Mulvaney led us in Irish Eyes are smiling in honor of the corn beef hash and President De Francesco’s obvious Irish ancestry. The room was as full as it ever has been, including guests and Rotarians from other clubs.

Announcements

Ø President-elect Ron Erbetta requests nominations for club offices for 2004/2005. Contact Ron with your recommendations.

Ø The club’s next service opportunity is a Career Fair at St. Vincent’s de Paul Village on February 7, 2004, 10 am to noon. Club members will meet with soon-to-be-graduates of the two-year vocational training program. In four, 7-minute interviews one-on-one, members will share information about the member’s career and industry, and how to get started at an entry level. Orientation will be provided at the start of the event. Lunch following is available for those who would like to stay. Call Duane Horning, 619-744-7006 for more information.

Ø On Valentines’ Day, February 14, 2004, the club will serve lunch at the Senior Center. Contact Rosalie Kramm at (619) 239-0080, to be apart. Club members are invited to bring Valentine’s candy the Wednesdays before to serve as center pieces.

Speaker Ted Leitner

Fines

Ø Sergeant almost at arms Bill Poirier failed to bring the birthday and anniversary list so we were on the honor system, which is always a terrible mistake. The only member to admit to having a birthday was Kay Zurn, who also announced her engagement – congratulations!

Ø Mike Clarkson shamelessly publicized his company, Classic Courier, for which he was heavily fined, but also forgiven for giving credit to Tim Montague for designing his new very awesomely cool brochure.

Ø Other fines, brags and bitches cannot be reported without violating the members/defendants right to a fair trial which they will never receive anyway.

Student of the Month

Carol Jensen presented this week’s student of the month, Mallory Montgomery. She is her school’s newspaper editor, and likes fixing computers. She will be attending Boston University. Her classes in economics and political science have persuaded her to major in political science and is considering someday running for elected office. The rumor that Ron Erbetta is recruiting her for next year’s president-elect is completely untrue.

This Week’s Speaker

Ted Leitner – what more can be said. Except he said it and kept us all entertained and even sometimes informed for 30 minutes, which is longer than some his marriages. Bemoaning the presently hapless Charges and Padres continues, as we wait for the day a winning season returns so we can lift our collective civic heads in pride. Our town struggles with stadiums, with a two-year delay in the Padres ballpark caused by litigation, and a listless direction for a new Chargers stadium. Yet hope beats eternal. Jerry Coleman is a very young 79, and deliciously unpredictable as to what he may say at any given time. Working with Coleman is Leitner’s delight, and never ending source of comic material, some of which can be repeated to civilized audiences. Leitner would still be speaking but he was whisked away in his club-sponsored limousine (not really, Don).

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