Centennial Rotary Meeting Notes for 01/24/2006

President weakly rang the bell at 7:31. A re-ring brought the members to their feet.

Announcements

• Roxy took a few minutes to share details of the 4 District Foundation dinner held Friday evening, January 20th.
• R.I. President Stenhammar talked about Rotary matching the Gates Foundation's donation of $25 million to the World Bank.
• Polio should be eradicated by end of 2006 with the exception of Nigeria.
• Club extension is stretching into China, new portions of Russia, Laos, consolidation of clubs in Cypress, maybe Cuba and North Korea. The Korean extension would be spearheaded by South Korea. The Cuban extension is being considered for ok by the US State Dept.
• Thewinning ticket for the Paul Harris Fellow was a Centennial ticket and after haranguing his wife Mary and Club treasurer Barb, Randy found the winner stuck behind the ticket he had in his pocket. He apologized to Barb and Mary again and announced that their daughter would be the recipient of the award.
• Ken asked if children from Denver Children's Home could be taken to the upcoming Rotary careers project at Arapahoe Community College. Dan H. will look into it.
• Paul Meadows will speak to the Club on February 7. Any old laptops you have can be donated to Paul.
• Ken H. talked about the Winter Park ski train outing on March 4. Call him this week with any additional people.
• Details are coming together on the February 3-5 hosting of Youth Exchange Students. Saturday night, 2/5 the entire Club is invited to an event with them at the Lone Tree Rec. Center. Pizza and finger food, plus desserts will be the fare. Jennifer is bringing one Girl Scout cookie. Other donations are needed.
• January 9 was Tom Buck's 61st and the appropriate song was sung to him
• Barb laid out details on the visiting GSE team from Finland/Estonia in May. Our responsibilities will be finalized in the upcoming weeks and she will share them with us. May 2 is our day to host them.

Happy Bucks

• Tom B. for going to the Rodeo instead of the Bronco game.
• Kent for Friday night's entertainment being the Jazz choir from C. Creek HS and for them singing the Swedish National Anthem to President Stenhammar, in Swedish.
• Jeff for selling his business to folks in Oregon and upcoming retirement in June.
• Our guest (apologies for not naming him) gave a buck for our Club responding to his e-mail about joining a Rotary Club.
• Tex had $2 out on the table and Jennifer asked him if they were for Happy Bucks or if he was waiting for a TABLE DANCE. The Club erupted, many dollars were held aloft for her and both Tex and Jennifer's cheeks turned rosy with embarrassment. When order was restored, Tex claimed that he did nothing and that the money was for Roxy's invocation (a prayer by Mother Teresa) and for upcoming visits to see three kids, eight grandchildren (ages 18-30) and two great-grandchildren.
• Mark P. coughed up a dollar for having the chance to eat next to Greg, who along with his FULL plate, reminded Mark of eating next to his father.
• Mark G. for the invocation.
• Randy for winning the Paul Harris Fellow and presenting the first Invocation book to President Stenhammar. Hugh for buying out his partner in the Winter Park hideaway they've owned for 4 years.
• Dan H. for the good condition of their son who fell off the bleachers while at a basketball game Friday night while the Hoopes were on their way to the Foundation dinner. Catscan clear.
• Bryan M. gave a belated buck for an enjoying a relaxing time with his wife in Leadville, but no lap dance. Den H. asked if that meant a new little one was on the way. Bryan said no.
• Ken H. for the fact that their son was officially an Eagle Scout.
• Roxy gave two Sacagawea (sp?) dollars, one for the Foundation dinner and one for Randy presenting the Invocation book to R.I. President.

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Presentation

Ken H., as president of the Centennial Rotary Foundation, called to order the annual meeting. With 17 members present, a quorum was present.

First order of business was the election of a new trustee to replace Pete, who's 3 year term expired. With nominations from the floor, Pete was nominated to continue for another 3 years by Tex and seconded by Mark P. With no other nominations, Pete was unanimously re-elected.

Ken discussed the financial report, submitted by treasurer Barbara and passed out to each member. He highlighted three fundraisers, the peach sale headed up by Jennifer, the beverage sales in Littleton, headed up by Mark G. and Mark P. and the State of the City, headed up by Greg and committee. Greg mentioned that Pete has already secured verbal commitments from title sponsor, Jeppesen and two other banks as contributing sponsors. He has feelers out to about 5 others and the financial base for the event is secure. Greg's committee will begin meeting next week.

Ken talked about a trip to Denver Children's Home last week, where he and Randy met with Jerry, the executive director and Rebecca, his assistant. The ensuing tour gave them both good ideas for upcoming projects, possibly with other Rotary Clubs. Tex pointed out that the event, while very successful in raising money last year, cannot be counted on to expand. He also reminded the Club that it's important to know that the city doesn't want the fundraising aspect of the event to be exploited. Ken agreed and shared that the Board has no expectations and is pleased that any monies are garnered for the Foundation. The goal of the Foundation is to establish a corpus of $100,000.

Ken then shared the history of the Foundation's scholarship and the Board's disappointment in not getting a candidate last year. The Foundation would like to make the scholarship an on-going one that a student would get for each of their four years in college. Continual tweaking of the way it is awarded and the requirements of the student is going on. New guidelines may be drawn up. Several comments came from Jeff and Dan H. With time running short, Randy explained more in depth the trip to Denver Children's Home last week. There is a good possibility that candidates for the scholarship can come from there. Randy also mentioned that Roxy has turned in a qualified application and references from a family friend. The presentation was wrapped up with every member receiving a "piggy bank" to fill up between now and June 30. The money raised will be donated to the Foundation. The concept was developed by Roxy and Pete has set up two donated dinners for the member who's pig is the heaviest and for the one that has the most money in it. Randy asked members to "scheme" by buying a $1.06 item at the store with $2. This example would put $.94 in the pig.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:33.

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Marbles

Pete was absent and other Club members were absent-minded and no tickets were sold this week. Alas, the pot, near $800 will be available next week.

 



 

 

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