March 29, 2006

This Week's Bulletin Was Written By Tom Sayer

THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our bell rang a bit early this morning to give our Four Way Test Speech Contestants as much time as possible.  Bobbi Spinner-Flack reminded us that, “Those That Do Are The Envy Of All Those Who Merely Thought.”  Warren Potts led us in the pledge and then Linda Jalving and Jim Mulvaney led us in the Star Spangled Banner.  Pete McGuire introduced our many guests and visiting Rotarians.

Sgt.-At-Arms

Ø      Sgt. Larry had the three preliminary “winners” of the Final Four competition from last week pick one of the final four teams out of a hat (this was based on having at least two correct picks).  Tom Sayer picked Florida, and Larry had Maureen pick UCLA for Dave Ferguson and George Mason for Dave McKee.  Then he auctioned off LSU as the final team in the Final Four.  A spontaneous round of Let’s Make A Deal ensued as Tom Sayer paid $10 for LSU and gave up Florida to Jim Mulvaney for another $20. 

Ø      Mary Engles paid a few bucks to brag about a presentation she gave on canes.

Ø      Ron Erbetta filled the coffers with $60 for his 60th Birthday!  Spontaneity struck again with an instant round of the Happy Birthday song.

Ø      Margaret Oppliger reported that she had just returned from celebrating her parent’s 60th wedding anniversary!

Ø      Leah Swearingen was successful in securing a TV appearance for a client.

Ø      Karny Stefan offered some dough, but I missed the punchline.

Announcements

Ø      Student of the Month:  Mary Dawe introduced Maria Aguilar, an exemplary student at the School of Science & Technology at San Diego High School.  Maria recently completed a JAVA programming course at City College and plans to pursue a career in computers.

Ø      April 11 District Council:  Please sign up to attend this event at 6 pm at the La Jolla Marriott.  This meeting will feature the finals of the Four Way Test Speech Contest.

Ø      Thousand Smiles: Mel Gallegos presented Kim Muslusky with a thousand bucks for Thousand Smiles.  (Sorry, the picture didn’t turn out).

Ø      Fundraiser Auction Items:  Joe Marshall pleaded for creativity in coming up with live auction items for the May 20th Fundraiser.  Caroline Chen then added a plea for silent auction items.  We only have 20% Club participation to date, and the deadline is April 15th.  She threatened a $200 fine for failing to provide at least one item.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Today we were fortunate to have as our program four superb high school students competing in the Four Way Test Speech Contest.  Under the threat of a $100 fine, all cellphones (except for one, I guess) were quickly silenced.  Nancy Vaughan then deftly led us through the competition.  At the conclusion of the 4th speech, we had a little amateur hour at the comedy club as we concluded Club business and waited for the judges results.  Shown L-R in the photo and in the order of their speeches are the following contestants:

Ø      Sara Barnat, who attends Ramona High School, spoke on Leadership (She was a finalist);

Ø      Elizabeth Alexander, attends Bishops and was sponsored by La Jolla Rotary, spoke about Religion (She was a finalist);

Ø      Davene Mignott , attends the Helix Charter High School ( where she is a sophomore), and she spoke about stereotypes.  she was sponsored by Helix Sunrise and she was the grand prize winner.   She will go on to compete on April 11 at the District Conference; and

Ø      Tonya Luxemberg who attends Abraxas school   She was sponsored by the Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary and had 9 people present to support her and here her talk about Labor Unions and Walmart ( she was the first runner up!).

Next week’s meeting will feature a Club Assembly.  Have a  great week!

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