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The case of. Rotary International VS. Mary Rogren
Narrator;
Plaintiff Mary Rogren claims she served the 2020/2021 year as Club
President and expects to be granted full honors and credit for doing
so. Rotary International challenges the assertion as she was never
seen in the rightful meeting space conducting a single meeting
throughout said year.
The case was assigned to the Lowest Court, presided over by the
Honorable Rufus Leaking who after hearing the charges has rendered
his verdict based on the Four Way Test:
The Honorable Rufus Leaking;
Is it the truth? The court finds that indeed Mary Rogren did not
conduct meetings in the rightful meeting space being the Community
Room of the HMB Library or other announced physical space for the
duration of Rotary year 2020/2021.
Is it fair to all concerned? The court finds that it was not fair to
Rotarians who wanted to convene, visit, eat together, hear a speaker,
conduct club business and mingle. They were unfairly denied the
expected benefits of membership during the subject year.
Does it build goodwill and better friendships?
The court finds that building goodwill and better friendships was on
hiatus during the subject year.
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
This court finds that indeed with the absence of the benefits of the first
three principles the year could not have been beneficial to all
concerned. This concerns the court and leads it to issuing the
following summary decision:
We find that “she was never once seen in the rightful meeting space
conducting a single meeting!” And based on the four way test she is
found guilty and sentenced to doing her year over again properly in
the Rotary Year 2021/2022.
If anyone in attendance has a word to say in relation to this case and
this decision rendered speak up now or forever hold your peace.
Narrator;
A breathless person enters the court room and identifies himself as a
member who has just walked here from Princeton and wishes to bear
witness to an event which transpired in Princeton by the Sea that will
change the facts of the case and thus the judgement rendered.
After catching his breath the member takes the stand and proceeds
with this declaration under oath:
Breathless member;
“On June 17th I attended a Rotary meeting in “an otherwise
announced space” being the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company at
which President Mary did indeed preside over a Rotary meeting,
conducting the business of acknowledging and celebrating the Club’s
Fiftieth Anniversary...ringing the bell and all. This transpired before my
very eyes so help me Dog!”
Narrator;
So said he dyslectic witness before he collapsed into a nearby chair.
Judge Rufus Leaking thought long and hard on the witness’ statement
and it was visible to all in the courtroom that the starch and pomposity
was draining out of him before their very eyes. But there was still
some spark in his eye as he declared:
Rufus Leaking
“Well the nitpicker has found his nit to pick and his testimony has the
gravity to cause me to reverse my rendering! The allegation of “her
never once being seen in the rightful meeting space conducting a
single meeting!” has in the eleventh hour been disproved by the fact of
this single event and thus I must reverse myself and tell Rotaty
International to back off and go find bigger fish to fry...like they do up
in Princeton by the Sea, California.
Narrator:
The courtroom, filled with Mary’s club mates and fiends, erupts in
applause and merriment for they know the true heroic story of Mary
Rogren saving the day, indeed saving the Rotary year 2020/2021 by
adhering to the Four Way Test and brilliantly leading the Rotary Club
of Half Moon Bay through a dark, difficult and tragic pandemic year.
