MEETING OF MAY 31, 2001 By John Sines
PRE-PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
JOANNE KAVALARIS was greeted with applause and a PAUL HARRIS FELLOWSHIP upon her return after a lengthy illness. Welcome back, JOANNE!
PREZGINNY was also back after a lengthy interlude. GINNY experienced all there was to Paris and had no reason to remain any longer.
See page 4 of the latest ROTARIAN MAGAZINE for mention of LARC and license plates.
DICK HASENPFLUG reports four Russians who speak English much better than any of us will be visiting this summer and need lodging for a week or so each. So contact DICK if you want help with your English.
SAM PESNER is selling leftover wine from the ART SHOW- J.LOHR Chardonnay at $84 per case and Merlot at $110 per case. Most of the bottles are still fairly full. Contact SAM if interested.
PREZELECTFIROOZ passed out his volunteer survey, which please fill out and return to him no later than June 7, 2001.NANCY TRAFICANTI PRESENTS
The melodies of Henry Mancini accompanied NANCY'S latest film, entitled "SO YOU WANT TO KNOW JUST WHAT QUESTIONS THOSE REALLY OLD ROTARIANS ARE GOING TO ASK YOU IF YOU APPLY FOR A ROTARY GRADUATION SCHOLARSHIP." Potential scholarship applicants of the future will now have the ability to determine what the process consists of by watching this 5-minute film. Thank you, NANCY! One suggestion from this reporter - have THE PINK PANTHER do the credits.2001 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS LUNCHEON
SAM HARDING assisted SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDS COMMITTEE CHAIRMARLENE COWAN and her committee of MIKE SCHNEIDER, ROB HOLDEN, CAREW MCFALL, MARY MARLEY, JERRY TOMANEK, SHIV SHASTRI and BOB ADAMS in presenting this year's scholarship awards winners, as follows:
EGAN JUNIOR HI: ALEX KUO and WEI WEI LUI
BLACH JUNIOR HI: ALEX ADAMS and LISA KERNER
Mercilie Sowers from Alta Vista - $800 to study Business or Psychology at Foothill College.
Rosalinda Rodriguez from Alta Vista - $800 to study English/writing/history at Foothill.
Miguel Valencia from Alta Vista - $800 to study computer programming at Foothill.
Charity Ting currently studying at both Mt.View/Los Altos Adult School and Foothill College - $800 to study biology at Foothill College as a sophomore next year.
Nicholas Perry from St. Francis - $2500 to study City Planning and Architecture at UC Berkeley
Serena Chang from Los Altos High - $2500 to study Journalism/Law at Dartmouth College
Silvana Vetere from St. Francis - $2500 to study Biochemistry at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo plus a $500 Charles Cowan Scholarship for Science and Technology.
President's Message
This week I am happy to share a message I received Thursday afternoon, from District Governor Karl Stucki.
"Congratulations! We (District 5170) submitted your site for the Best Club Website. You are to be awarded! One out of 68 worldwide!!!
Karl Stucki, DG 2000-2001In the organization of Rotary International, there are clubs, districts, and zones. There are 34 zones. We are the Los Altos Rotary Club in District 5170, in Zone 24. A Zone is 1/34th of RI, so it's quite a large area. Each club has a president, the district has a governor, and a zone has a coordinator. Our coordinator is Jerry Barden, whom I do not know. But he has excellent taste in websites.
Jerry writes: "Zone 24 received several outstanding club website nominations, an excellent indication of the progress in electronic communications made due to this year's technological focus of President Frank Devlyn and the Technology Task Force. The decision was very difficult. However, after due consideration, I ask that Rotary and President Frank honor these two websites as the "Best Club Websites" in Zone 24:
Rotary Club of Los Altos, District 5170, Zone 24
www.losaltosrotary.orgRotary Club of Angels-Murphys, District 5220, Zone 24
www.a-mrotary.orgThe sixty-eight clubs receiving this award will be listed in the special
International Convention newspaper published at the Convention. Award Certificates will be forwarded by Rotary International to respective Governors for later presentation at the District and/or local club level.My congratulations and thanks to our Club Information Officer and Webmaster, Steve Gruber. And though he is pleased for our club, as might be expected, Steve says, "We can do even better."
See you Thursday,
GinnyPrograms
June
June 7 – Art Show Appreciation Day
June 10 - Rotary Family Picnic, 12:30 - 3:30 Serra Park, Sunnyvale
June 14 - LAREF Annual Meeting
June 15 - Bruce Babbitt Celebrity Forum Talk, 8 p.m. and Rotary Reception, 9:30 p.m.
June 21 – Bob Hoffman, Cleaned up Mt. Everest
June 28 – Ginny's Kick-out, part 1
June 29 - LARC Kick-out, Dinner/Dance, Fremont Hills Country Club"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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