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WORDS TO LIVE BY

VAL CARPENTER (with an arming help by HERB MARSHALL) challenged Rotarians and guests to live life fully and  completely     with the following words, and more:

Question corruption!
Watch movies with subtitles!
Pledge allegiance to the earth!

Rotarians and guests devoted their 9 1/2 minutes of collegial time to the exploration of VAL’S stirring exhortations.  Alas, the LOUD SHOOSH descended on the noisy throng, and in a room where suddenly you could hear a pin drop, Thursday’s show commenced.

HIP, HIP, HOORAY

Dude ANGIUS has a new hip after successful surgery. Hurry back, Dude!  Jakarta Central Rotary Club invites Los Altos Rotarians to visit on August 25 and 26 for the launching of 4 fishing boats built with the proceeds of our Red Badge Auction.  On September 24, Rotary’s International President will speak in Sacramento at a Zone Dinner, to which all are invited.  Contact PREZ MARLENE for details.

NEW BLUE

LARRY CHU introduced new Blue Badgers KENDRA GJERSETH and SHOSHANA ZIMMERMAN.    KENDRA sells greeting cards and stationary products  (here with PE Poobah)  worldwide from her Los Altos store, BIRCH, and SHOSHANA practices Naturopath/Natural Medicine.  KENDRA is a valuable member of our softball team, and SHOSHANA was formerly a member of the Nevada City Rotary Club.

CHAMBERFOLK

MONA ARMISTEAD     fined STEVE SHEPHERD, current President of the Chamber of Commerce, for his performance as Co-Chairman of the Chamber Golf Tournament last week at Los Altos County Club.  KURT HUEG will be Chairman next year, and for that honor he was fined, as well.  LARRY CHU is a Director of the Chamber of Commerce and of the YMCA, and he paid a stiff fine. 

LARRY MADSEN,     who plays golf but has never even come close to a hole-in-one, has a granddaughter who more than makes up for his misery on the links.  As a 14-year-old, she participated on a relay team that just won a U.S. National Swimming Championship.  LARRY peeled off a twenty as a cheap yet memorable tribute to his granddaughter’s triumph. 

LEN MCBIRNEY proclaimed his good fortune of 59 years of marriage to the same woman.

FIVE MINUTES

KATIE NUTTER is on her   third full court press – first the Peace Corps, then Hewlett-Packard, now Los Altos Rotary.  Welcome aboard KATIE! 

Honored with Service Above Self awards were DENNIS POTTER of barbeque fame, and Internet guru MATT CABOT.

TODAY’S PROGRAM

Hoover Fellow Bill Evers    spoke about his 6 months in 2003 as Education Advisor to Paul Bremer, former boss of our regime in Iraq.  His job, in part, was to pay 340,000 educators in Iraq in cash every payday.  He also presided over the DE-BAATHIFACTION of Iraq’s textbooks. 

He spent much time traveling in convoys armed to discourage bad Iraqis in order to meet with local school officials and other good Iraqis.  He reports that the good Iraqis received him into their homes with gracious hospitality and friendship.  He performed under difficult conditions – substandard sanitation and intermittent air conditioning in a place hotter than Houston. 

In answer to a      question from CLYDE NOEL about when we should pull our troops out, he said the decision would be political, as neither the Iraqis nor the Americans can stomach more than another 2 or 3 years of our benevolent occupation.