This Thursday's Program:  Past District Governor Carolyn Schuetz talking on Rotary International Peace Program.

Upcoming Events:

September 23rd:  Red Badge Function

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October 24:  A Sante´
(see current Rotator)

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ROTACARE FREE CLINIC

The following restaurants continually donate food for the staff at our RotaCare Free Clinic.

Please thank them by frequenting their restaurants

 
A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING AND ETC., ETC.
Many great organizations get that way and stay that way because they have divided up the work between two leaders, not one.  One leader, who is often called “The Chairperson,” is the big picture guy (or gal), is the face of the organization, the one who represents the organization to the outside world and, coincidentally, raises the big bucks and makes the big decisions.  The other leader, often called “The CEO” or “The President,” is the detail guy (or gal), who takes care of the details and fills in behind the Chairperson’s big, broad strokes.  Well, the Los Altos Rotary Club is no different!  Our big picture guy is PREZJOHN, and our detail guy for the year, until he ascends the THRONE and becomes the next big picture guy, is SETHTHEMAN.  Detail No. One for the year is this – clap for visiting Rotarians.  When Bubba from Little Rock comes a visiting, do not call out “Hey there, Bubba Boy!”  Instead, clap politely.
 
MARRY ‘EM OFF
BONNIE BURDETT heaped effusive praise on some guy half her age, and then she announced that he is her daughter’s beau!  Then KAILAS introduced his son, who has been in the Orient so long that he may soon qualify as a youngish “Old China Hand.”  However, KAILAS announced his son is still available.  All we have to do is shoot the daughter’s beau, and our problems are solved.
 
TRACIE MURRAY and JOANNA MEDIN are in charge of the fifth A SANTE´ party and auction to benefit ROTACARE on October 24.  We’ll hear more about it as it draws near.  Start thinking about things to donate.
 
CLYDE NOEL announced renewed efforts by local civic organizations to educate publicly-minded citizens as to how local government works.  This Reporter failed to get the name of the organization or organizations (That’s LEAD), but the initial meeting is September 24, and if you are interested, contact CLYDE for information.  After a career as a reporter for THE TOWN CRIER, CLYDE is more knowledgeable than most as to what makes local government tick.
 
NANCY DUNAWAY reported on a successful 28th Los Altos Art and Wine Festival.
 
NANCY DUNAWAY also announced the upcoming Red Badge Fundraiser:
Sunday, September 23rd 5:00 p.m., Pre-Party at Borel Private Bank, beverages of all variety and heavy hors d’oeuvres 7:00 p.m. Bus Barn Theatre performance of A Chorus Line.  Tickets will be $75.00. Sign ups begin next week at Rotary, so watch for the clip board!  Space is limited, sign up early and guarantee a spot!  Raffle tickets will also be sold.  Be sure and buy one, two, or?  You could win a stay in Hawaii!!!
 
LEGAL BEAGLE
COETA CHAMBERS, who bicycles annually from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money to fight AIDS, gave us a snapshot of her life.  She came from Washington State to Stanford, where she met and married her husband and father of her two children.  They purchased a Los Altos bungalow for $38,000 in 1968, and as the children grew up, COETA attended Santa Clara U. Law School, then became a member of the faculty, followed by stints with Morrison & Foerster in San Fran and Intel down here in the apricot orchards, all the while practicing employment law.  COETA retired to knitting, quilting, bicycling, and Rotarianizing, which keep her busier than ever.
 
FINE KETTLE OF FISH
STEVE SHEPHERD fined himself for his 36th wedding anniversary, all with the same wife.  Then STEVE acknowledged JULIA ROSE for successfully running the 18th CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GOLF TOURNAMENT, which this Reporter believes was held this year at Blackberry Farm (Actually, it was Los Altos Golf and Country Club).    Then he fined TIM BYRD for winning the Longest Drive Championship with a 300-yard poke.  MEL must not have played this year.  ROY LAVE was fined for his brand new set of golf clubs, bought on sale at Costco for $250.  BOB ADAMS was fined for being alive after being hit from behind by a Peterbuilt Truck.  DENNIS YOUNG and SAM PESNER paid fines for being at Candlestick when Bonds hit #881 (#756- Cute, Sines).
 
TODAY’S PROGRAM
SETHTHEMAN, whom we are relying on as described fully and completely hereinabove, advised the assembled multitudes that our speaker was ready to speak in Los Gatos.  Our speaker, JURGEN MOLLERS, traveled from Los Gatos to Los Altos in record time and gave an interesting presentation on “Writing Our Own History.”
 
EDITOR’S NOTE:  Inquiring Minds wanted to know-
It seems that at the meeting of the previous week, there was a place made mention by the name of Schleswig-Holstein.   Apparently there were a few people who recognized the name of this region, once a Province of Prussia, but most were unfamiliar.  One of our brighter Rotarians thought to take a look at Wikipedia and find a full history of this region, from which only a small section in Germany, still is known by that name.   Holstein cattle and Kiel (small town), Wisconsin are two things that were influenced by this region from a Cheesehead who never heard of the place before.  
Thank you, Karen Fox!

URGENT NEED:  PP DUDE ANGIUS sent in this request:  "Does any member have a contact [at the] Naval Language School  in Monterey ( hopefully a Russian translator). If so, please contact Dude @ dudebarb@yahoo.com."

COMEDY TONIGHT
SHIV SHASTRI introduced us to his rendition of "Comedy Tonight."  Bruce Cann entertained us before the meeting.

And with that, here is a deep Thought for the Day by Herbert Spencer delivered by John H. Sylvester:

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.