SOMETHING NEW

OPENING
 

 

Greeters:  Van Keck, and Jeff Stevenson

 

Frank Bumpus provided the Inspirational Moment, exhorting the membership to take the time to become better acquainted with the youth in the community, whether family, friends, or neighbors with reference to the Rotary Motto of  "Service Above Self"

Lee Vasquez  followed by leading the membership in the Pledge of Allegiance

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
 

Brent Adams introduced PHIL HUTCHINSON, current President of the McMinnville Chamber of Commerce.

Wayne Bailey introduced CAITY BERNARDS, one of our 2008-2009 Outbound Students.

Ray Fields introduced  CHUCK DORNAN, who is with Extreme Network Solutions.

Jeff Sargent introduced GIA BATTAGLIA, one of our 2008-2009 Outbound Students, JESSE GUINOT, current Inbound Student from France, and LANE ROEMMICK, current President of the Mac High Interact Club.

Cindy de las Heras introduced ROBERT WILSON, who is with Wells Fargo.

Erin Stephenson introduced SCOTT MAYTUBBY, who is currently running for the office of Tax Assessor.

MEMBER RECOGNITION, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BRAGS
 

Ryan Arzner announced that Russ Rainwater would be assuming the post of Membership Recognition Chair.  Ryan went on to thank the many members who have stepped in to handle the Membership Recognition chores over the past months.

 

Lee Vasquez was honored for his birthday (63).  In anticipation of being featured in the News Register as McMinnville’s Man of the Year, Lee generously donated to the Rotary Foundation.

 

Al Owen stole a bit of Ryan’s thunder by recognizing Dianne Haugeberg as McMinnville’s Junior Citizen of the Month, an announcement that was on the very tip of Ryan’s tongue.  Al congratulated Dianne with his unique combination of humor and candor.

Dave Pfendler proudly announced that he was the sole college graduate in the room whose alma mater reached the NCAA Basketball Tournament in both men’s and women’ divisions.  Good job, Boilermakers!

Lee Means reminded the membership that this was Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and she listed several activities going on at Henderson House.

Tom Hellie commended a number of students who were currently volunteering in the ongoing Habitat for Humanity projects underway in McMinnville.  He also announced that a special event was coming up at Linfield on Wednesday (April 9^th) regarding the current status and future challenges of Liberal Arts education in America.

Erin Stephenson announced that the result of her organization’s Customer Ballot Campaign which resulted in the awarding of $40,000 to 58 local non-profit organizations.

Jan Hartzell announced that a Chamber of Commerce “After Hours” event will be held on April 10^th at WOW.

Lane Roemmick announced that he was a candidate for the “Mr. Mac” title, with all donations going to the Doernbecker Children’s Hospital.  A donation can was passed around the room, and many members were observed contributing to the cause.

Club Secretary Teresa Smith asked the members present to complete the information sheets on the tables so that she could update the Club's database with the most accurate current information.

President Dan announced that the Interact Club from Mac High was hosting a “Black Light Dance” on the Friday evening following this meeting, and that chaperones were needed.

MAIN EVENT

Ray Fields introduced Vern LaBlanc who, with fellow guest Chuck Dornan, works with Extreme Network Solutions, a company dedicated to providing computer system security for businesses in the area.  The topic of Vern’s presentation was “Network Security Data Loss Backup”, and he began by reporting the sober fact that many organizations are victims of computer hackers, viruses, Trojans, and other forms of criminal mischief which can compromise and corrupt their systems.

Vern advised that all businesses should take careful precautions to inhibit or prevent access to sensitive and/or private files by would-be thieves.  Most suggestions involved common sense, such as protecting passwords, not sharing passwords, and using some originality in the establishment of passwords.  He pointed out that viruses, Trojans, spyware, and malware are threats that can arrive embedded in emails, from infected websites, and from software downloaded from the Internet.

Vern gave some grim statistics on the costs involved in retrieving lost data and fixing corrupted or infected systems, estimated to be in the billions of dollars altogether.

He concluded by strongly advocating a strong and secure program of data backup and the need for qualified and recognized computer security systems for all businesses.

CLOSING
 

President Dan thanked our speaker and had him sign a book to be given to the McMinnville Early Reader Program. Following the signing he was presented with the club's pen. President Dan announced next week's program as Deepak Tamang from Nepal.

Photographs by John Larsen
Captions by Walt Haight
Edited for the web by Ray Fields

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