Newsletter for April 30, 2008
GMW reporting..JPB editing..DJ shooting

Next speakers:
5/7     Jerrie Patterson  India Through the Windshield
5/14   Nigerian Group Study Exchange
5/21   Dark 

President Sally presiding.
Forrest leads the pledge


Thought for the Day:
John Burns quotes Mary Pickford:
"Today is a new day; you'll get out of it just what you put into it. If you
have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you can make a new start whenever you choose. For the thing we call failure is not the falling, but the
staying down."

PVR guests:
Dave Matson, Petaluma Sunrise Rotary club.
David Harkin, husband of Tabitha, Prince Charming company.
Bill Johns, president (twice) of Sea Ranch-Gualala Rotary, and a 35 year Rotarian.
Jerry Besses, Jerrie’s hubby and Libby’s sponsor (and pesterer).
Patricia Landrum, Petaluma Health Care Consortium.
John Polzoni, Petaluma Dog Walkers.
Eric Schmautz, San Francisco Rotary club, speaker, president-elect.

Announcements:

Check out the scheduled events and announcements to the left in the blue! If you have trouble reading them, please contact Jerrie..jerrie47@comcast.net

    Last Saturday Butter and Eggs, Cinnabar Theater won the Golden Hammer award and $150 for best float (congrats Elly).  Chili Cook Off helpers that day too- thank you to all who volunteered!  Next year, PVR will have a cook off before the actual cook off contest.  We won ten year participant award.

Fines:
Julie Rustad celebrates birthday numero 30- Happy Bday Julie!.
Libby celebrates 7th wedding anniversary with dinner at wedding and Butter and Egg videos (John and her were grand marshals), dinner at John Ashe and tennis!

Chuck Lewis quoted in newspaper for his latest cinema roles in Sherrman’s Way and Milk. 

Moe Jacobsen- does a family wedding in Hawaii (with a gift for Sally), ate 91 yr       old mom’ cooking in Indiana, and  welcomed son Noah joining Raymond  James Associates.

Feature: A History of Petaluma
Joann describes two prominent past Petalumans:

Earl Bond, 1913-1986, a window dresser for various stores, lived in 2 story pent-house at Western and Kentucky Avenues.  He hosted parties with movie celebriities and notables such as Bill Sobrantes.  Played piano at Green Mill Inn during Joann’s youth.

Helen Putnam, lived in Petaluma for 1909-1984, has two parks- one city and one regional- named after her.  She was a teacher and elementary school principal.  Lived on B Street and whose husband owned car dealership (Joann bought her first car from there).  In 1965 elected as mayor serving thru 1978.  In 1971, she established a first ever growth policy which set development boundries.  This was challenged by developers and which the Supreme Court decided not enough basis for it to heard.   She was tall, over six foot, with silver braclets on each arm, warm and graceful to all.   First woman on League of CA cities as well as Sonoma County supervisor.



Raffle:
One marble left, Russell Rice becomes $294 richer! Congrats Russell!


Speaker:
Eric Schmautz, president-elect.
Rotary club of San Francisco, Rotary Club Number 2.

Eric started Rotary in high school becoming an Interact president, and Rotarian in his senior year in Lake Seminole, Florida.  He went to college in Denver and joined the University Park Rotary Club.  He is president-elect of the 300 member San Francisco Rotary Club which is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The San Francisco Rotary Club (SFRC) is the second Rotary club established after Rotary founder Paul Harris established the first one in Chicago in 1907.  Paul Harris, who was raised in close knit New England, wanted to have similar close relationships in business in Chicago where the spirit of helpfulness, joy of service to mankind, and mutual fellowship would thrive.
After unsuccessfully trying to start clubs in Boston and New York city, Paul enlisted his friend Manual Nunez, who had moved to San Francisco just after the 1906 earthquake, to establish Rotary club number two which started in 1908, followed six months later by the Oakland club, and then followed by the Seattle club and Los Angeles clubs which both started about the same time and to which a rivalry that exists to this day. Rotary Clubs stated taking off in many other American cities and then internationally.  SFRC started many of the Rotary procedures for meetings that we still use today.

Eric has participated in many Rotary International programs in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Sri-lanka, Thailand, and Cambodia involving programs for wheel chairs, pediatric vision and strabismus aid, as well as elementary school building.

The SFRC built and sponsors the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club- built by 85 years ago and which supports 1100 kids in the city.  SFRC also supports the Sunshine School for handicapped students.  SFRC also started Rotoplast, the international program for cleft surgical repair.  In addition, Eric has chaired four years for SFRC’s camp for urban kids in Marin Headland.   SFRC built three homes for Habitat for Humanity as well as supports the Harbor Light program to help in transitional housing.

SFRC has hosted four International Conventions with four past presidents become RI presidents.  SFRC started the Rotary spoked wheel symbol (although with seven spokes representing original seven CA cities) in 1915.  Current, SFRC has a history book in progress to be published which covers the history of Rotary expansion from single club to international prescence.


SFR will have an centennial celebration with a parade down Market Street for which all clubs are welcome to come and display their club banner.   Other activities include the opening of their centennial project- replacement of a club house to be renamed the Rotary Mission as well as a Beach Blanket Babylon special spoof of Rotary.  Come join Eric and SFRC’s anniversary party- for more info contact them at www.sfrotary.com/CentennialCelebration.cfm.

Thanks Eric and congrats to SFRC!



Peace,
Gordon