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August 1
Chris Gaynor
"Senior Craft Talk"
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This Week...
August 1
Chris Gaynor
"Senior Craft Talk"
Upcoming...
August 8
Simon Board, Ph.D.
"Designing Online Reputation
Mechanisms"
August 9
Literacy Breakfast Lawry's Steakhouse 7-9AM August 15 Dr. Ann Coscarelli, Director "Simms-Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology" |
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August 8
Simon Board, Ph.D.
"Designing Online
Reputation Mechanisms" |
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President Mark Rogo welcomed everyone to the
friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club and invited PP
Ed Gauld up to lead the pledge. Vocational Chair,
Dick Thompson, followed to provide the invocation.
For this week's Health and Welfare
Update, President Mark asked us to please sign
cards for Sunny Friedman suffering under colon
and lung cancer and Jim Collins as he thankfully
continues his recovery. There will be cards to
sign for other members next week as well.
Visiting Rotarians and visitors were introduced,
including: LA 5 guests and Rotaractors, as well
as our speaker panel at the head table.
July Birthdays!
President Mark enacted a new honor that the
Board supported unanimously at last night's
Board meeting and the first recipient of the
Rotarian of the Month is...........Ralph
Beasom! Ralph has loyally set-up our club's
badges and house committee support EVERY WEEK
FOR DECADES! He is always one of the first to
greet members and we cherish him and his behind
the scenes service that keeps our wheel
turning. Thank you, Ralph!
Visiting ADG Lytton said a few words
Announcements:
On to our program!
Susan Berk, President of the Beverly
Hills Rotary Club informed us they
meet Mondays at the Beverly
Hills Hotel for lunch that costs
$38. Part of the reason they have such nice venues
to meet and keep costs affordable is their members
are the managers of this hotel etc. In addition to
their lunch costs, each member is required to pay up
front:
So the first year in their club is the hardest
economically but they know their members commit
financially at least to their goals. Beverly Hills
currently has:
Their programs are booked through the end of the
year and include musical performers, politicians,
UCLA professors, Sheriff Lee Baca, etc. and at the
end of August, they will be hosting a night to
network with members and their young professionals
with games such as speed dating etc.
Ken Chong, President of the LA
5 Rotary said he feels their
club is very insular, meaning their members are
not inclined to leave downtown, so he challenged
his club to go out to other Rotary clubs and see
how they run their meetings and what activities
others are involved in. He had a few members
from his club join him today who were wonderful
to meet! They meet Fridays at the California
Cluband currently have 350 members. LA5 has
an $8M Endowment so their club gives away
$250K/year. Ken's focus is on scholarships b/c
he has seen the kids who go from living under
the bridges to going to college and transforming
lives. He has a goal to raise an additional
$100K this year to add to the scholarship fund.
He is looking forward to Tuesday
Nov 26 for our combined
meetings for the UCLA/USC
football game!
Guity Javid, President of the Rancho
Park Rotary shared that their club
came about as former Rotarians from Iran came
together and formed the First Ethnic Club for
Rotary. This Iranian/Persian community meets at
Olympic and Sawtelle at The
Olympic Collection Our President
Mark attended one of their meetings but confessed he
did not understand a word as they conduct their
meetings entirely in Farsi. There are four things
she tries to share each week:
On Aug
7 the Assistant Director of
the FBI will be their speaker and one of the
projects their club is involved in is gang
violence prevention. The Rancho Park Rotary
club also sponsored the first Interact Club for
girls at Notre
Dame Academy.
Nat Trives, President of the Santa
Monica Rotary shared their club was
established in 1922 then in 1929 gave birth to the
Westwood Village Rotary Club. They meet Fridays at The
Riviera Country Clubat 12:15p.m.
They currently have 146 members but his goal is to
net 30 new members by adding corporate memberships.
They are also a 100% Paul Harris club so their first
year is more expensive b/c of these initial dues
similar to Beverly Hills. He emphasized he does NOT
want a "writing checks and go get my car club" and
listed several of their projects from Heal the Bay
to scholarships. In December he will be having a
celebration for his 80th birthday at Pacific Park in
Santa Monica and welcomed all of us to join in the
fun and fellowship.
Thank you President Mark Rogo for inviting all of
these fine clubs to share with our membership. It
was a really terrific meeting!
YYE & PE, Aly Shoji
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