It was a beautiful October 9th day for the Best Rotary Club in the World to meet as interpreted by Ramona Pleva!
President Awesome Allison did the honors of ringing the meeting bell.
God Bless America was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance followed by our Thoughts of Gratitude and Reflection by Lee Olewinski.
Ramona Pleva led us in “Oh When the Saints go Marching In” (only 28 weeks away from the 2019 Rotary Show!) and a few spirited Rotarians embraced the kazoos on the tables courtesy of the super Fun Committee!
President-elect Homey Nye introduced visiting Rotarians and guests, which included his beautiful wife Becky!
President Awesome introduced not one but TWO new Rotarians today! (She’s such an overachiever!!) Jean Derenzy is the CEO of the DDA. Jean is a native of Traverse City, a graduate of NMC and CMU (Fire Up Chips!) Maureen Michaels is apart of guest services at Interlochen Arts Academy and comes with a plethora of marketing experience! Welcome to our newest Rotarians! We look forward to serving with you.
President Awesome thanked Regina Jager for enhancing our awareness that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month with pink lemonade and pink ribbon table décor. President Awesome recommended that we all get checked…… and that’s all I’ll say about that.
Al Bonney stepped up to the mic to provide impressive polio stats!
- 1988 Global Polio eradication began
- 1994 the Americas were deemed polio-free
- 2000 Polio eradicated in the West Pacific
- 2011 Rotary and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined forces for a combined billion dollars to eradicate polio
- 2014 India declared polio-free (and that was a tough one to get! WHEW!)
- 3 countries remain not polio-free: Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- 193 countries are polio-free
- 19 polio cases year to date
Sakura Takano was having a STRIVE meeting after today’s meeting.
Mac Beers walked away $69 richer from today’s 50/50.
Sponsor & Club President Allison Beers with New Member Maureen Michaels
Allison Beers Welcoming & Sponsoring New Member Jean Denrenzy