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OPENING |
 
Greeters: Nancy
Nelson and Jesse Davis
Dan Corrigan provided the
Inspirational Moment
Sharon Larson led the Pledge
of Allegiance |
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VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS |
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Randy
McCreith introduced several members of his family, including his
wife, JOANI, and two of his daughters, AMY and MOLLY |
Nancy
Nelson introduced ELVA SALINAS-GARCIA, Outreach Coordinator at
the Virginia Garcia Clinic.. |
 
Richard
Weed introduced JESSE GUINOT, our current Inbound Student from
France, and CAITY BERNARDS, our 2007-2008 Outbound Student |
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MEMBER RECOGNITION AND BRAGS |
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Elise Hui
happily announced 8 years of wedded bliss. |
Brent Adams proudly
bragged about Oregon State’s yawner of a victory over Maryland
in the Emerald Bowl football game.
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Not to be
outdone, Van Keck boasted of Oregon’s thorough
dismantling of South Florida in the Sun Bowl football game.
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Bruce Huffman followed
suit with a cheer for Michigan’s improbable victory over Florida
in the Capitol One Bowl Game.
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Dudley
Frost concluded the scoreboard re-cap portion of the meeting
by hailing California’s thrilling win over Air Force in the
Armed Forces Bowl.
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Dan Gardner excitedly
spoke of his participation in the upcoming Boat Show in
Portland, to be held at the Expo Center and announced that
the Darrick Price family welcomed a new arrival into the world
mere hours before the ringing of the New Year.
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MAIN EVENT |
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 Randy
McCreith gave his Vocational talk. Born in Canada, Randy’s
family moved to southern California when he was a child, settling in
Burbank. Randy discovered at an early age that he was a
confirmed workaholic, happily working at his first job for the
then-princely salary of $1.65/hour. He and Joani were high school
sweethearts, and he happily recalled their first kiss, which
occurred at the stroke of midnight at New Year’s, 1973.
 Randy
attended San Jose State, then brought his new family up to Oregon in
early 1980. Living in various locales, including the Scholls area,
Tualatin, and Newberg, he embarked on a remodeling business while
splitting time as a church pastor.
Eventually, the family moved to
McMinnville, where Randy established a real estate
brokerage. Randy spoke with unbridled optimism about the
business, and lauded his colleagues in the industry as being part of
formula of success. He concluded his talk by predicting a healthy
future for the real estate industry in Oregon, citing some current
adjustments in the business climate as being necessary to the future
health of the economy. |
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CLOSING |
 
President Dan presented Randy
with a club pen and had him sign a book for the Early Reader
Program. He then closed the meeting
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Photographs by Jon Triest
Captions by Walt Haight
Edited for the web by Ray Fields
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