MEETING OF MAY 8, 2003 By Cindy Luedtke
HE’S NOT JUST WHISTLIN’ DIXIE… On his best behavior and in his best voice, Al Lambert led the group in a fine rendition of Suwannee.
Mountain View Rotarian and PNG Committee Member, Judy Hannemann, gave an inspiration appropriate for the occasion about volunteerism, followed by a memorable phrase which went like this. “You may only be one person in the world, but you can be the world to a child.”
ELLEN FLANAGAN announced that there are two short weeks to the end of the Polio Plus fundraising drive. The Los Altos club is only $3,000 from its goal of $45,000. Seth and Marilyn Manning have generously offered to match funds up to $1,500 to assure our success. With that news Ellen and her husband, Kevin gave a push start with the first $300 for matching funds. Members that are considering making a donation can do so now and get double the results, so don’t delay.
PARTNERS FOR NEW GENERATIONS
Today was a special meeting held in honor of the volunteers that have made Partners for New Generations a successful program to serve youth in our community. Outside of the normal lunch
crowd were 40 volunteer guests. In front of a full house of 150 attendees, Mary Marley, Chair of this year’s PNG committee, presented the day’s program.
Partners in Education- Elementary
The first line of order was to acknowledge the many years of dedication and work of NANCY TRAFICANTI for Partners in Education. Without her commitment of time and effort in coordinating tutors for the nine elementary schools in the district over the past seven years, PNG would not have been successful. In fact, its going to take three people to attempt to replace her. Nancy will still be involved with Partners in Education on a consulting basis and is looking forward to having more time to pursue other interests.
Mary mentioned other PNG committee members who have made notable contributions to the program this year including BOB AND LOIS ADAMS, JOANNA MEDIN, JOHN CARDOZA, MONA ARMISTEAD, MONIQUE KANE, JUDY HANNEMAN, AND CINDY LUEDTKE.
MARGE GRATIOT followed by expressing her positive feelings about how the tutors with the Partners program have become a positive force in the schools in her district. She encouraged the volunteers to continue their good work.
High School Mentoring
The focus of today’s program was on the progress of expanding the High School Mentoring Program. With continued financial support from the Los Altos Community Foundation and the special help of a two-year grant from the Packard Foundation, PNG has been able to offer a mentoring program to both Los Altos and Mountain View High Schools as well as continue its program at Alta Vista High School where the program started. The program supports three part-time counselors, one at each campus, who select and match mentors to their mentees and provide expert assistance in training mentors.
HINDA WEBER, a psychologist with the school district oversees the program and is responsible for measuring results from the program which will be crucial to its continued success.
Next, three mentor/mentee matches described to the group their unique experiences with the mentoring program and why it works for them.
RICH FISCHER, Superintendent of the High School District gave us words of encouragement for the Partners program and the need to continue our efforts. Statistics show that kids with mentors do better in school and making the transition to college and work life.
ROY LAVE of the Los Altos Community Foundation and Nancy Glaze of the Packard Foundation were able speak a couple minutes about their organizations that have been so supportive of the PNG efforts.
Child Advocates
BUD OLIVER rounded up the presentation with a short description of the Child Court Advocate Volunteer opportunity that exists in Santa Clara County. Most of us heard about the program from Judge Len Edwards who spoke to our group a couple weeks ago. Bud and his wife Ann, along with several other dedicated Los Altos Rotarians have been in the program as advocates for years now. For those of us that may be interested, this club has a good core group of advocate volunteers to draw answers to questions we may have about being a child advocate.
In Closing, Mary again thanked all the volunteers who have made a difference to the children in our community and urged them to continue and bring others who may be interested in becoming a tutor or mentor to a child.
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Rotary Golf/BBQ/Poker Event of May 9, 2003
By Steve Shepherd
Closest to the Pin Contest
Lady winner: Patsy Ouye 6' 6"
Gentleman winner: Howard Nelson 4' 7 ½ "
Longest Drive in the Fairway
Lady winner: Patsy Ouye, 150 yards
Gentleman winner: Jack Emmons, 355 yardsLow Net-Blind Bogey Division
1st Place - Ladies: Cindy Luedtke, Net score of 63
1st Place - Gentlemen: Carew McFall, Net score of 55Low Net-Handicap Division
1st Place - Ladies: Norma Rayl, Net score of 69
2nd Place - Ladies: Patsy Ouye, Net score of 75Honorable Mention - Ladies: Ann Oliver, Lois Adams
1st Place - Gentlemen: Roger Eng, Net score of 65
2nd Place - Gentlemen: Howard Nelson, Net score of 66Low Gross - Rotary Championship Cup
1st Place - Ladies: Patsy Ouye, Gross score of 101
2nd Place - Ladies: Norma Rayl, Gross score of 106
1st Place - Gentlemen: Brian Smick, Gross score of 76 (Tiebreaker)
2nd Place - Gentlemen: Jack Emmons, Gross score of 76Lowest Cost per Stroke Champion
1st Place - Patti Rose and Nancy Traficanti ($0.48 per stroke)
Yellow Ball Team Award
1st Place Team: Steve Shepherd, Larry Chu, Lindsay Casto & Brian SmickSpecial Thank you to Steve and Cathy Anderson who provided the Host home for the BBQ and Poker portion of the Golf Tournament.
Thanks also to all participants who played in this year's 2003 Annual Rotary Golf Tournament. We had 56 players which established the largest field of participants our tournament has had in its history.
Extra thanks to the Golf Committee that helped to organize and remember all of the details of this event. Those members included Rick Glaze, Larry Madsen, Steve Anderson, Victoria Emmons, Cindy Luedtke, Bill Moison, Roy Lave, Mel Kahn. Also thank you's to Ginny Lear for her Tournament Check-In assistance, Dick Henning and Baidra Prochnow Murphy, for their photography of the players, and Bank of Los Altos for its tee prize gifts of tees and ball markers.
Programs and Events
May
May 15: Cheryl Houts, Community Librarian, Los Altos Library - Topic: "The Los Altos Library in 2003 and Beyond"
May 17 and 18: Rotary Fine Art Show
May 22: George Koo, Director of Chinese Services Group, Deloitte & Touche - Topic: " Economic Integration of Greater China and Implications for California".
May 29: Scholarship Awards ProgramOTHER ROTARY CLUB MEETING PLACES
MONDAY
Palo Alto: Rickey's Hyatt House, 12:15 p.m.
TUESDAY
Los Altos Sunset: The Echo Restaurant, Los Altos, 7:15 p.m.
Sunnyvale: Ramada Inn, 12:15 p.m.
Mountain View: Adobe House, Moffett & Central, Mountain View, 12:15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Menlo Park: Menlo Park Recreation Center, Menlo Park, noon.
Woodside/Portola: Woodside Village Church, Woodside, 7:30 a.m.
Sunnyvale Sunrise: Wild Woodys Grill, Sunken Gardens Golf Course, 7 a.m.
Cupertino: Quinlan Community Center, 12:15 p.m.
East Palo Alto Bayshore: Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, 2031 Pulgas Avenue, East Palo Alto, 12:15 p.m.
FRIDAY
Palo Alto University: Sheraton, El Camino, Palo Alto, 7:30 a.m.
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