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PRELIMINARY NOTICE- The members of LARC are largely ignorant of the training regime which the Corps of Rotator Writers (“CRW” hereinafter) undergoes. This is an appropriate opportunity to describe it.  First, every CRW “wannabe” must learn, by heart, the New York Times Stylebook.  Learning takes place in a secluded Rotary Madrasa in Los Banos.  After passing an exam, CRW wannabes write practice Rotators for 2 months.  These are critiqued by the full CRW the second Monday of the month between 3 and 5 a.m. at Egan Middle School, followed by elective basketball until 6:30 a.m. at the same facility.  Thereafter, Club Rotator Writers are allowed to write the real thing, although their draft Rotators become actual Rotators only after editing by at least two senior members of the CRW.  Finally, at the annual CRW Installation Dinner, those wannabes who have passed all tests with flying colors are accepted into the Order of the Red Pen and may thereafter write Rotators for publication, though always subject to the random and goofy editing of the Majordomo du Corps.  For example, this Writer recalls his insightful remark about Imelda Marcos’ shoes being stricken from a Rotator he wrote about a former RI President who visited LARC and made a speech.

BUT WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF ICE - CRES McFALL led the gallery in a rousing rendition of “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.”  Unfortunately, CRES does not resemble an 18-year-old Shirley Jones.  Then we heard that EX PRES STEVE ANDERSON busted 10 ribs while doing wheelies in Hawaii!  We all signed a get-well card for STEVE.

IMPORTANT STUFF PAUL NYBERG announced the Plein Air Painting Contest on September 6, where artists  sign up for $25, paint downtown all day, then compete for the $500 prize.  Contact PAUL for applications if you know an artist who wishes to compete.  PAT FARRELL introduced a visiting young lady from Russia who teaches Russian Air Traffic Controllers to talk like Lloyd Bridges.  CRES McFALL scored two more winners – visitors were his wife, PAULA and their daughter LAUREN, now studying at Columbia in New York City.  HEINZ BLENNEMANN announced he is taking a leave of absence to spend a year in Philadelphia studying at Wharton.

If you wish to head a GSE Team in Buenos Aires in March 2007, contact PREZ SAM.  Party animal STEVE GRUBER announced a progressive crab dinner on October 21, and he needs 13 Rotary homes to host the progression, 2 humongous homes for appetizers, 10 average houses for entrees, and 1 more humongous house for dessert.  The signups will be circulating within a week or two.  The cost will be around $40 per person.  And the annual Holiday Party will be on December 19 at the Jesuit Retreat House.

LARC IN INTERNATIONAL ACTION BO KEARNS discussed a continuing project involving the Rotary Club of Jakarta to fight infant malnutrition and to boost agriculture in Indonesia.  JOE CORRAL and DOUG FRANCO discussed our possible involvement in the Free Wheelchair Project with the Scotts Valley Rotary Club.  There are up to 100,000,000 people on Earth who need wheelchairs. [webmaster's note:]

"Take a look at:  http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/index.html Doug pointed out after the meeting that while this organization is a faith-based organization, he felt that they were sensitive to Rotary's goal of being a non-religious, non-political force for good in the world."

A REAL EDUCATION EXPREZ  GINNY LEAR, known as one of the sternest of Rotarians, fined SCOTT RICHES, whose Pinewood School has operated at least 47 years, CHUCK LINDAUER, who has nothing to do for another month until Foothill starts up just before Thanksgiving, TRACIE MURRAY for going to law school, JANE REED for going to art docent school, BOO BUE for being 84 years old, and CRES McFALL on general principles.

 TODAY’S PROGRAM KATHRYN RILEY, Sunnyvale Rotarian and Chiropractor, introduced us to the largest osso bucco bone ever recorded.  Alas, it had been picked clean at the last Sunnyvale crab feed, so it wasn’t that appealing, after all.  However, she did educate the gallery about the care and feeding of the spine, noting that we only have one and cannot get a trade-in.  If the spine is not floating at the right angle, and the angle differs depending where you are in the spine, then woe to the spine’s owner, who is apt to develop headaches, leg aches, and aches in between, not to mention arthritis. 

So the morning after the progressive crab dinner, when you awaken with a headache, beat your spouse to the punch.  Before he or she (probably she) accuses you of having had too much to drink, complain that yesterday’s terrific pain in the sacrum has migrated to the head due to misalignment, that you need to relax the entire spine, and that only a little hair of the dog can induce the type of relaxation you so deeply deserve and require.

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