Paul Wrubel mentioned that he had the pleasure of meeting our exchange student, Giada Perrero’s mother the night before at a party at Rose Serdy’s house. Giada’ mother has been visiting over the past week, and is a delight. Paul also attended the District Assembly event up at Redwood High School this past weekend along with Warren Barmore and others in the club. Paul gave accolades to Mitone Griffiths for her spectacular presentations and organization of the event as the incoming District Governor, Sue Rokaw’s Chief of Staff.
Mitone commented that she so appreciated the support of the club and the District. The planning for the District Assembly event had been in the works for a year, and it had been a lot of work for her and others behind the scenes. She was very pleased that the feedback from the attendees was so very positive. She is looking forward to the year ahead of being Sue Rokaw’s right hand. Mitone noted that this is a pivotal time for Rotary as the population of members is aging and shrinking. She noted that Sue will be different from other past DG’s as she is a working professional (and an attorney) and she hopes to attract a new and younger breed of Rotary members.
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Ed Daniels, our President Elect, shared highlights of his recent trip to Chile and Argentina that was arranged by Ginger and Mary at Bay World. His travels included going to Iguassu Falls on the Argentina/Brazil border; visiting an Alpine village with 64 German chocolate manufacturers; kayaking and visiting many wineries. He also crossed the Andes in 4 buses and 3 boats. Mary Corcoran commented that Ed’s extensive recap of the trip was so inspiring that Mary and Ginger will be organizing a trip to Patagonia around one of the upcoming eclipses.
Paul Wrubel announced that our returning member David Maahs has agreed to be our new treasurer.
On the Youth Exchange front, Mary Rogren and John Evans discussed that we will be sending two exchange students out in the fall to Chile and to Belgium. There is a need at the District level for our club to take in two students as we are having difficulty at the District level in finding high schools willing to accept exchange students as they are “impacted.” John indicated that he felt that we had the bandwidth to find families . Our club has only budgeted for (1) student -- $2K to cover a monthly allowance for one exchange student. John and Mary expressed that we are looking for ways to find money from other clubs around the District, and discussion ensued about possible ways to fund the students. But the club “voted” and agreed that the exchange program is so valuable that we will plan to take two students in the 2019-2020 year.
Kevin O’Brien (given his Irish sense of humor) was not ready to move on from St. Patrick’s Day. He shared with the club a litany of jokes including . . . . in being asked by a policeman why the Irish man had not noticed that his wife fell out of the car while he was driving. The Irishman told the policeman, I thought I had just gone deaf.
Dictionary distribution - We are looking for volunteers to distribute dictionaries to 3rd graders. On April 2 – books will be distributed at 8AM at Hatch; and 9AM at El Granada. April 4 at 10:30 at Farallon View. Dates for Pescadero, SeaCrest and Wilkinson are TBD.
Wruby Awards:
Paul presented Erik Piro with a Wruby Award for “hitting the road running” with assuming Diane Bobko’s Foghorn and other publicity-related obligations. Thank you Erik!
Paul also presented Warren Barmore with a Wruby for being the “Chauffeur Extraordinaire” in being the designated driver to go the District Assembly this past weekend.
Charise McHugh announced that she was still looking for volunteers for the Life Skills Course at Pilarcitos – and needed help with the interviews on March 29.
Rose Serdy is always looking for volunteers for Abundant Grace breakfast. Rotary volunteers to run the breakfast on the last Wednesday of every month.
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