MEETING OF OCTOBER 5, 2000 By John Sines
BUS BARN THEATER
JOHN SYLVESTER announced that the current production includes members of the TRAFICANTE, GLAZE and SYLVESTER families. See for yourself.I'M LATE, I'M LATE, FOR A VERY IMPORTANT DATE
Sign up for the Progressive Dinner October 27. The Avenue of Service Dinner in Hayward is October 25 from 6 to 9. Contact GINNY. DICK HASENPFLUG says contact him about the Community Services Dinner on October 20 at Michael's at Shoremoor.DAVID DEMATTEIS gave his introductory talk to the membership. DAVID's family goes back practically to the Gold Rush, and he is a former high school drummer, then an accountant, who now engages in commercial real estate. He is married with children in Los Altos schools. Welcome, DAVID! He has taken on the post of Head Greeter.
THERE'S MORE
MARY MARLEY engaged in a marawalk and raised $9,000 for leukemia research. MIKE MENKE climbed Mt. Lassen. DAN O'DONNELL is assigning birthdates randomly again.TODAY'S PROGRAM
WILLIAM HOFFMEISTER, a lawyer at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, who specializes in drug and device regulatory law, spoke about the FDA, which regulates drugs and devices. It costs $500 million to take a drug from inception to market, and it also takes 15 years. A patent is only good for 17 years, at which point anyone can manufacture and sell the drug, so the drug companies must make their money early and often, yet the politicians all want to control and drive down the price of drugs. Something has to give. Drugs and devices approved elsewhere must still be approved by the FDA - there is no reciprocity.Editor's Note: The following was submitted by DR. RICHARD HENNING, who has also been appointed a "deputy sheriff" to round up participants for the next R.I. Convention.
Howdy Rotary Cowboys & Cowgirls,
Some of us of the Los Altos Rotary Club are going to support Firooz by attending the Rotary International Convention in San Antonio Texas on June 24 to 27, 2001. Now is the time to make reservations for the conference and to make reservations at the hotels. We would like to be together in the same hotel.
The 92nd International Convention will be fun. San Antonio is a great city to visit and tour, particularly the River Walk and the Alamo. There will be "Night in Old San Antonio" on Saturday, featuring a community fiesta in historic La Villita. On Sunday, the "Flower the Tower" activitie where Rotarians and guests will help plant a commemorative Rotary garden and on Tuesday, a Texas Ranch Party and Rodeo with armadillo races and gunfighters at the Don Strange Ranch.
Let's get a good size group and support Firooz and have a fun time in San Antonio. If we act now, we can get a hotel on the famous River Walk; ferries will take us down the river directly to the convention center.
If you would like applications, please let me know, and I will fax them to you, although you can get everything yourself on the R.I web-site. But I am happy to supply them to you.
Dick Henning
Editor's Note: JOHN SINES, a former Texan, has contributed the following travelogue about Texas. The Rotator staff has not been able to verify that JOHN is a former football player.
OLD SAN ANTONE
A Northern general, shortly after leaving the state, said,"If I owned Texas and Hell, I"d rent out Texas and live in Hell." Until the advent of air conditioning, the British government doled out hazardous duty pay to consular officials in Calcutta, Lagos, Mombasa, Texas and similar places, because of the wretched climate. In most of Texas, you're either in the tropics or in the desert. In San Antonio, you're in both. While this intrepid Reporter was playing football in Texas in the 5th Grade (in full pads, of course), he came down with sores all over his body. His well-intentioned but naïve mother (a New Englander) inquired of the family physician, who replied that the sores were normal for anyone who sweats, because once you start, you never stop until the first "norther" of the fall, which blows in around Thanksgiving. The most sacred ground for every Texan, the San Jacinto Battleground, lies underwater because the oil pumped out of the ground has caused it to drop below sea level. The San Antonio River makes San Francisquito Creek look like the Amazon. The most distinctive architectural edifice in San Antonio is the Alamo, a mud-walled mission reduced to rubble in 1836. San Antonio employs a full cadre of airraid wardens whose job it is to warn the populace on those summer evenings when the mosquitoes are flying. The mosquitoes have flown every evening of recorded history excepting those evenings when hurricanes have come inland. Do not worry - June is not hurricane season. DICK HENNING has very graciously invited all Club members and spouses to join him and FIROOZ in San Antonio for the next RI convention on June 23-27, which includes an evening in old San Antonio and a barbecue the next day. You may log on to rotary.web for more information and reservations, which are even now being taken.
President's Message Congratulations to Mary Marley, who walked, and and Arley Marley, who ran a marathon in Portland, for Leukemia, and also celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary. Mary became a member of the President's Club for her bragging rights. Thanks to Dwight Matthews who also joined the PC, because life is good.
My thanks to John McAlister for bringing sound back into our meetings. We are renting this system weekly, until we can track one down that is permanent. Our little microphone has lost its voice in that big room. There is help in high places assisting in this search. Thanks also to Roland Payne who is serving as assistant Sergeant at Arms, with Bob Rayl. And thanks to Dick Hasenpflug for bringing the Community Services Agency casino night fundraiser at Michaels at Shoreline to our attention.
Rene Zimmermann wrote me this week that she is being transferred to the Redwood City YMCA. Rene lives in RC, and she now will be able to work part-time and spend more time with her children. Congratulations, and we will truly miss Rene. Her last meeting with us is Oct. 26. She said that if she should join another Rotary Club she will make up at Los Altos, "The best club on the peninsula!"
Be sure to come to our meeting next week. We will have another in our great series of speakers. This one is a friend of the mighty and a mighty good friend of Rotary. See you Thursday. Ginny
Programs
October
Oct. 12 - Richard L. Henning
Oct. 19 - Supervisor Joe Simitian and Deborah Wilder
Oct. 26 - Rose Johnson, RotaCareNovember
Nov. 2 - Sharon Williams, Exec. Director, OICW
Nov. 9 - Dane Stark, Page Mill Winery
Nov.16 - Partners for New Genarations program
Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving
Nov. 30 - World AIDS Day"Information in this newsletter is intended for the exclusive use of the members of the Rotary Club of Los Altos to facilitate the work of the club and to promote club fellowship. It is not to be used for any commercial or outside, unrelated, non-profit purposes. No publication of material in this newsletter should occur without the express permission of the club President or the Editor of the Rotator."
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