It is with much disappointment my first letter to the club is to announce Barbara’s retirement as club secretary effective July 30th . Barbara has been an integral part of our club for the last 20 years. I have got to know Barbara well over those years both in and outside of Rotary. She is [...]

We, a few Arcadia Rotarians, were at the District Conference in Henderson, Nevada this weekend. The weather had been 109 degrees before we arrived but it was in the 70-80′s this weekend and it was beautiful. The event was well attended with 600+ members from District 5300. The Arcadia Rotary Club received seven awards from different categories. Outstanding [...]

I was at the RYLA’s parent/student orientation meeting this week. The high school students and the parents were so excited about going to a 3 day weekend at Idyllwild with many other high school students to learn about leadership. The alternative students were very anxious to be picked up to go to this event although [...]

Our guest speaker this week was Bernard Hunt, who traveled from the Rotary Club of Las Vegas West, in the rain and elements to speak to us about a very special project; his International Committee’s AIDS/Orphan Project.  Mr. Hunt calls himself a “retired boring old fart”, but in reality he is a former journalist/photographer who [...]

Alll members, I feel this is a time for sharing and of having compassion for humanity in Haiti’s tremendous disaster. We are so blessed in America’s to enjoy such a rich and full life style, that we need to reach out to the victims of the earthquake. Unfortunately there are many scams asking for donations [...]

I would like to thank the Rotarians who work so diligently to make our meetings informative, about service and lots of fun.  Last week’s meeting was a classic and made me look good!   Below is a list of those involved that deserve our thanks as a Rotary Club:  Imy and Matt had to schedule [...]

I am so excited to induct two new members this Friday for Arcadia Rotary. We are already starting to add new members in this new year of my Presidency so I thank all the members who look out and seek out the new potential members for the greatest club in the world. As all members are inviting and [...]

We had our first official meeting last Friday with the new boards presentation. We would like to thank all the board members for their wonderful informal yet funny ways of presentation. Special thanks to Mimi Hennessy of putting together of power point presentation. I know that Arcadia Rotary got talents. We want all this talent [...]

I hope you all enjoyed and celebrated the 4th of July. Our family and I had a great celebration at Huntington Beach for the parade and fireworks at the beach. We had Eve-Marie Gubert and her boy friend with us, Eve-Marie was a exchange student from France we, Arcadia Rotary sponsored 2 years ago and [...]

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 [...]

As one old-timer said to me after the meeting last Friday, “The meeting was so great I could feel the energy in the room.”  Isn’t that wonderful?  Tom Crosby filling in for Bob Young, started it by leading us in singing happy birthday to a special guest – his mom.  The new method of making [...]

During our October 24th meeting Imy briefly discussed the Vision event we will have the evening of November 14th.  I’d like to provide more information.   Vision is an activity developed by Rotary in the Eastern states and is now being used throughout the United States.  It’s purpose is to have a coordinator direct a [...]

As you know, we have been struggling to prepare our High Gear each week and are now in the process of utilizing our club website to enable us to get the job done with much less labor.  We have two objectives.    First, to enable everyone to click on an Arcadia Rotary icon on their [...]