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This Week...
April 25 - Auxiliary
Appreciation Day
Jack Paul
"Senior Craft Talk" Ann Samson "Update on PPLUS Program" Upcoming... May 9 ***DARK*** May 10
Joint Meeting with Santa Monica Rotary
Garen Baghdasarian, Ph.D."The Ocean Today" Riviera Country Club |
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April 25 Jack Paul "Senior Craft Talk" |
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May 2-5
District Conference Santa Barbara, CA |
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Athena got us started with the Flag Salute. Jim Crane mentioned our
Rotaractors in his invocation. Guests: Sally Brant brought her friend and associate, Chris Stamatia. Dr. Alexander Lentze came all the way from Hannover, Germany. He's a past president of his club and is visiting his grandson at UCLA, where he plays soccer and studies sometimes. Leo Tseng introduced his granddaughter, Nicole Leppi, and retold his charming story about delivering Easter baskets to children in hospitals-which he is still doing. His granddaughter received such a basket from another family when she was only 18 months old and in the hospital. Keep paying it forward, Leo! Announcements:
Pres Dwight introduced our speaker, Prof Ara Norwood. He is a consultant, business coach, professional speaker and seminar leader. His clients include JD Power & Associates, Boeing, Bloomingdale's, Princess Cruises, and Northrop Grumman. He holds a degree in music from Brigham Young University and in management from Claremont Graduate University (under Peter Drucker). He is a member of the adjunct business faculty at both College of the Canyons and the University of La Verne-his topic is "Six Great Men." Pres Dwight encouraged any members who personally knew any of our Founding Fathers to chime in.
Being an information entrepreneur, Ara came with plenty of
ammo. He showed pictures of the "Six Greats" across the top of
the large screen and then deluged us with all types of
information about them, making many interesting comparisons.
The subjects were, of course, George Washington, Ben Franklin,
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Madison, and Alexander
Hamilton. In an organized fashion, he described their origins,
spans of life, education or lack of it, accomplishments,
religious beliefs, political affiliations, and more. We could
only agree with him that they had two things in common: they
were all geniuses of great accomplishment and made fundamental
contributions to our nation. Some of their differences in
education, interest, views on slavery, reputations, and physical
presence were remarkable and unknown to most of us. Ara
certainly came prepared to present and was comfortable handling
all sorts of questions. Quite a few members signed up for his
free newsletter-Uncommon Sense.
Don't forget to come (and bring a guest) to our Celebration of
Auxiliary Appreciation Day and the announcement of Rotarian of the
Year next week on April 25.
-YPE Dwight Heikkila
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