What would it take to change the world? Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
The 2009-2010 Partners in Rotary installation was held on June 30th at the Café Mudial in Monrovia.
2009-2010 Board Members Installed
President: Rick Dulake
Vice President: Denise Weaver
Past President: Joanne McCullum
Corresponding Secretary: Gayla Hutton
Assistant Corresponding Secretary: Kathy Swensson
Treasurer: Sharon Novell
Recording Secretary: Carol Stromsoe
Parliamentarian: Marlene Griffith
Publicity: Patti Weber
Social Chairman: Marge Garrett
Outreach Committee: Cecilia Miles, Paula Real and Patsy Harbicht
Exchange Student Co-Coordinator: Gail Jensen
The newly installed Arcadia Rotary President - Imy Dulake, thanked the group for all they do to support the main club.
A great time was had by all.
The Rotary International Convention in Birmingham England was a great experience, the gathering of almost 30,000 people from 154 countries. We especially enjoyed the exciting Opening Ceremony and so many great activities. Speeches by out going R.I. President D.K.Lee on his Make Dreams Real, Mia Farrow on the troubles of North Africa, incoming RI president John Kenny’s word of encouragement to all Rotarians that the Future of the Rotary is in Your hands. It was a wonderful evening and great seeing you all at the Installation dinner banquet at Double Tree Hotel. I would like to thank everyone who helped plan and make the evening so enjoyable.
The first Friday lunch meeting will be on July 10th and will be a fun presentation from the Officers and the Board of Directors of our Stimulus plan for Arcadia Rotary Club, Looking forward to seeing you all there.
After negotiations with Maori leadership since October, 2008, the committee from the Kerikeri Club in Northland, New Zealand was able to come to agreement on the vision of the center. Last weekend the preparation was done for drainage, a concrete entrance and concrete floor. New windows were installed to provide ample natural light. The funds for these materials are separate from our Matching Grant which is designated only for the carving equipment and materials, not the structure itself.
The grand opening is slated for February 6, 2010 which is Waitangi (why-tang-ee) Day, the day that celebrates the founding of New Zealand and a treaty with the native Maori. As the last Maori carving center with public access was opened 30 years ago and is 8 hours by road away, national level media coverage is expected. A delegation from Arcadia Rotary, led by Brad Miller has been invited to partake in a multi-day program of ceremony, festivities and fellowship departing the U.S. about February 1, 2010.
As we move into the web based club administration and communication, we have the opportunity to survey our members easily and frequently. PLEASE take the time to complete the surveys… and thanks to the 30 or so that have participated to date.
Some interesting findings from our June 5 Survey on the High Gear:
Our administrative survey had 26 people respond.
To that end the team of High Gear contributors will continue our Award Winning reporting in 2009-2010.
The IT committee (and Webmaestro Esma) are working on updating and upgrading our website to include minutes of board meetings and financials on a protected page. Members are always welcome to attend our board meetings to familiarize themselves with the current financial issues and board decisions.
For 2009 – 2010 Rotary year, Board meetings will be held at the Red Cross building, Wednesdays at 5.30pm.
At 6 p.m. the night of Friday, June 26, 09, Arcadia Rotarians congregated at the Doubletree Hotel on Huntington Drive in Monrovia for the 83rd Installation of Officers and Directors. The evening started with photos being taken by Frank Perini. After hors d’oeuvres were served in the courtyard, Rotarians and guests found their tables in the dining room. There they dined on “surf and turf” (i.e. roast beef and shrimp) and an ice cream dessert.
After the meal, John Murphy called the meeting to order and noted the presence of such guests as, inter alia, the Honorable Floretta Lauber, Arcadia’s first woman mayor and Dorothy Cunningham, noted columnist for the Pasadena Star News whose late husband J. Lyle Cunningham served as Arcadia Rotary’s president from 1967 - 1968. Bob Daggett directed the assemblage in singing “America the Beautiful.” Dick Martinez led the pledge of allegiance and the Reverend Phil Wood gave the invocation.
Then it was time for awards. Sheila Reed presented the Ernest E Jensen Service to Youth Award to Randie Fowler who served on the Arcadia Recreation and Parks Commission, was Upper Division Coordinator of the AYSO, and who coached soccer, girl’s softball and tetherball. Eric Barter presented the John Fee New Member Award to Jack Pan, Senior District Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. Jim Kuhn presented the Alton E. Scott Community Service Award to Sho Tay, an Arcadia business owner who found time to also serve with the Red Cross and the Boy Scouts, on the Board of the Los Angeles County Arboretum Foundation, as President of the Arcadia Chinese Association, President-Elect of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, and as past Master of the Masonic Lodge of Arcadia . Bob Novell (filling in for Peggy Allison who was recovering from a traffic accident) presented the H. T. Michler Rotarian Award to Mike Real, a past President of Arcadia Rotary from 1996 – 1997 who, besides being in the food business, involved himself in education and youth programs such as soccer.
Next Frank Perini handed our immediate past President Bruce McCallum a very large and thick photographic album of the past year’s Rotary events and activities. Our past president found himself straining under the album’s weight but managed to hold it up for photos to be taken.
Bob Daggett took the stage to honor Frank Perini’s 50 years of continuous membership (with perfect attendance), extending from June 8, 1959 through June 7, 2009. Frank followed this up with a joke about “memories.”
Past President Bruce McCallum then recognized Arcadia Rotary’s Officers and Directors for the past year: Imy Dulake (President-Elect), Matt Weaver (Vice-President), Richard Hutton (Past President), Jack Lamb (Secretary), Gerard Tamporang (Treasurer), Barbara Barnes (Executive Secretary), Brad Miller (Membership Development), Eric Barter (Community Service), Al Laghab (International Service), John Davis (Youth Service), Nancy Nien (Vocational Service), and Tony Parille (Environmental Service).
It devolved upon Laura Freedman, Rotary’s first woman President (1995-1996), to install the incoming Officers and Directors: Imy Dulake (President), Matt Weaver (President-Elect), Brad Miller (Vice President, Club Service), Tony Parille (Community Service), Al Laghab (Youth Service), Sho Tay (Membership Development), Mimi Hennessy (Vocational Service), Frank Hall (International Service), and Bruce McCallum (Past President). All were duly sworn in. Laura Freedman noted that incoming President Imy Dulake would now be Arcadia Rotary’s second woman president, after over a decade had passed since Laura’s pioneering presidency. This was truly an historic occasion.
Bruce McCallum again took the podium. First, as past President, he turned over the president’s pen and gavel to incoming President Imy Dulake, remarking on the significance of each. He then presented Past Director pins to Nancy Nien, Eric Barter, and Brad Miller.
John Murphy introduced our new President (2009-2010) Imy Dulake, recommending that we all read her biography as given on the installation program. That biography recounts Imy’s birth in a remote Korean village, her father’s death while she was only six years old leaving the family penniless, the family’s emigration to the United States, her attending school at night while working to support the family as its bread winner, her rise in the field of banking, her marriage to Richard (who immigrated from England), her role as Korean/English interpreter for the Arcadia School District, her involvement in Rotary, and her leadership in the real estate profession.
President Imy Dulake gave the President’s Address, ushering in the 2009-2010 session. Our new president had just returned from a Rotary International Convention in Birmingham, England. She commenced her remarks with a quotation from Prince Philip: “Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat.” Thus, under Imy’s leadership Arcadia Rotary’s service to humanity would continue. She pointed out that the effectiveness of Rotary’s president in pursuing that purpose is only as good as the resolve of the membership. Imy then asked the audience, “You will not let the club fail. Am I right?” She recognized Arcadia Rotary’s tradition of strong leadership in fulfilling that mission. In so doing, Rotarians would realize what Imy called “the three Fs: Fun; Fellowship; and Friendship.” The emphasis under Imy’s leadership will include (1) the international clean water project in Thailand; (2) the membership drive (to retain and increase members); (3) polio eradication (noting the donations to that effort from Mia Farrow and Bill Gates); and (4) locally, the support of Arcadia’s teachers. Imy encouraged Rotarians to be part of these great tasks and to say “yes” when asked to help. She noted that the new President of Rotary International was from Scotland. Imy concluded by thanking all of Arcadia Rotary’s officers, directors, and chairpersons.
And thus commences the historic term of Arcadia Rotary’s second woman President.
Were you aware that the Rotary Club of Reno, Nevada, is farther west than the Rotary Club of Los Angeles, California?
Would you guess that the meetings of the Rotary Club of Portland, Maine, are farther south than those of the clubs in London, England?
Can you imagine that the Pensacola, Florida, Rotary Club is west of the Detroit, Michigan, club?
It’s a fact that the Cairo, Illinois, Rotary Club is south of Richmond, Virginia.
There are 69 Rotary clubs with the word “Tokyo” in their club names.
The Rotary Club of Nome, Alaska, lies west of the club in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Santiago, Chile, club is located east of the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rotary geographers will know that virtually every Rotary club meeting in Australia is east of the Hong Kong Rotary Club.
What do the Rotary clubs of Quito, Ecuador, Libreville, Gabon, Singapore, and Kampala, Uganda, have in common? You guessed right if you said they all meet approximately on the equator.
There are many interesting relationships and things to learn as you become acquainted with the approximately 1.2 million Rotarians in more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
The demotion of Bruce included an opportunity for him to win $1,000,000.
Part 1
Part 2
If you missed the demotion and can’t remember who Bruce McCallum is here is a video of Bob Harbicht’s introduction of Bruce at the demotion.