Ruzak’s Rotary Renditions for Record Meeting Sept 20^th

      Tuesday’s meeting was “one for the books”,  breaking all kinds of Rotary records, as President Mike orchestrated a record amount of business conducted in an hour (or close to it), making sure there was sufficient and an appropriate amount of time for the presentation of a Paul Harris award to Liz Sayre King AND to watch a wonderful tribute to Howard King shown at the Big House several weeks ago, AND for a terrifically informative presentation by Greg Weykamp on design plan possibilities for Discovery Pier.

  An unprecedented, thus record, number of Rotarians were nominated for the boards of Rotary Charities and Camps and Services. Announcements were speedily accomplished primarily as “shout outs” from the floor with even the normally verbose Cindy Ruzak keeping it to 10 seconds. Keeping with this spirit of brevity the students of the week, Tyler Moreno and Taylor Hammond, kept their award acceptance “speeches” to just minutes, a welcomed reversal of the previous week. Paul Morris led a rousing rendition of Anchors Aweigh recreated with words appropriate to the Discovery Pier, and set a record for how long an instrument sat dormant in a garage as he resurrected his horn for the song after some 60 years he claimed, and he still played beautifully!

  While not perhaps a record there were quite a few visitors introduced, including our visiting foreign exchange students Lana Saric (Croatia, hosted by the Morning Club), Joao Ameno Farinelli (Brazil, hosted by the Noon Club), and Beatriz Gaya Sesmes (Spain, hosted by Twilight Club). And Dan Bodamer won close to a record $55 in the 50/50, but likely after buying a record number of tickets over the year if that had actually been tracked in some way.

 

 The members voted to accept changes to Article VIII on Attendance which basically removed a specific percentage of acceptable attendance; and to Article IV on Meetings, the gist (and record short version) of which was to allow the board to change the meeting day time and place, and to cancel a meeting for justifiable causes up to four times per year, and requiring written minutes to be available within 60 days.

 

Gregg Smith, Chair of Rotary Charities opened a special meeting under Article 3 section 4B to present the Governance and Nominating Committee candidates for Rotary Charities and Rotary Camps and Services with the election to be held on September 27^th during the noon meeting of the Rotary Club at the Park Place.  The nominees for Rotary Charities are Elaine Wood (incumbent), Mark Eckhoff, Marilyn Fitzgerald, John Hall, Denny Lauterbach, Kurt Rivard, and Ken Weaver. For Rotary Camps and Services they are Bob Stow (incumbent), Phil Ellis, Randy Kamps, Mark Newhouse, Dan Rickard, Cindy Ruzak, and Lee Torrey. Short biographies for the candidates are included elsewhere in this newsletter.

 

 Gregg added some comments for members consideration that were so eloquent and relevant that they are included here verbatim: “ A slate of this size is unprecedented. We are encouraged by the interest and support demonstrated by all 14 of the candidates.

 

Both Charities and Camps & Services are at pivotal and exciting times in our history. Now more than ever it is important that we elect board members that can lead our important community service work forward. Here are the key characteristics that we think need to be present in our board members:

On the Camps & Service Board we are seeking members with expertise, interest and experience to help guide one of our 3 major projects: