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Sharon Larson and
Lee Means were this week's
greeters. President Chuck called
the meeting to order and asked Ray
Fields to present the inspirational
moment and Mike McKenzie to lead
us in the salute to the flag.
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VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS |
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Jan Hartzell
introduced MIKE CARUSO, our
District’s Administrative
Assistant Governor and frequent
visitor to the club.
Jan
also introduced MARCIA BARAGARY,
who recently took over for the
retired Carol Benedict in the
City of McMinnville Finance
Department.
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Colin Armstrong
introduced KEN TILL, a former
aerospace engineer and current
Director of Operations at the
Evergreen Space Museum.
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Gary Eastlund introduced
MOLLY WALKER and JIM WALKER,
formerly of Gold Beach and now
residing in McMinnville.
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Bruce Huffman
introduced DOUG KOCH and DAVID
KOCH, who were visiting the club
with their father, none other
than our own Ezra Koch.
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President Chuck
Pattishall noticed
that our current Rotary
Inbound student, TAMARA
BORGES, arrived in time
to enjoy lunch, so he
naturally made her stand
to have her photo taken.
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Lynda Wiegan
introduced her guest,
JULE GRADEK, a manager
with the Evergreen
Agricultural Division.
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Not
introduced to the
assembled where Bruce
Huffman's wife,
Ester and Mina Brumfield
the wife of Kirby (Mark
Twain) Brumfield
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MEMBER RECOGNITION, BRAGS AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Darrick Price conducted member
recognition. He reminded the membership
that Veteran's Day had been observed
several days before and asked that all
Veterans stand and be recognized.
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Russ Rainwater acknowledged the
passing of another birthday (37)
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Richard Weed happily announced
his birthday (he is marginally older
than Russ Rainwater)
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Russ Rainwater announced that his
company (AmeriTitle) was a sponsor of an
upcoming rodeo event in Redmond.
Specifically, it is the “Pro Rodeo
Circuit Final”, and Russ offered two
tickets to anyone who might wish to
attend.
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 Mike
Caruso gave a brief report on the
upcoming Rotary dental mission to
Guatemala. The organizers of the
mission have been approved for a grant
of $17,305 by the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International and additional
funds are being contributed by District
and other clubs in the District. A
planning meeting is scheduled for
Thursday November 20th at
7:00 pm in the Newberg Urgent Care
facility.
Mike also announced that a “bowl-a-thon”
fundraiser is scheduled to take place on
December 6th at Walnut City
Lanes, the proceeds to assist the Thugz
Off Drugs program. He called attention
to sign-up sheets being passed around
the room for members who wished to be an
event sponsor.
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 President
Chuck Pattishall read a letter from
the club’s 2007 Rotary Exchange Student
from England, James Gorry. James is
having continued success in his college
pursuits, and is planning a visit to
McMinnville in the coming year. (see
complete letter below)
 President
Chuck then handed out “Perfect
Attendance” certificates to the
following (consecutive years of perfect
attendance in parentheses for the period
ending June 2008.)
(1) Dudley Frost, Erin Stephenson,
Russ Rainwater, Jill Methven, Robert
Mason, Elise Hui, Al Hansen, and
Carol Benedict; (4) John Elliot,
(5) Gary Reuter, Van Keck, Jan
Hartzell, and Bob Emrick;
(6) Richard Weed, Dan Gardner, Bruce
Dixon, and Maureen Chapman;
(7) Ron Benek; (8) John
Larsen, Guy Everingham; (9) Lee
Vasquez; (14) Teresa Smith;
(38) Bob Rhoads; (45) Ray
Fields; and (50) Norm Goss.
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MAIN EVENT
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  Bruce
Stewart introduced the great American
humorist Mark Twain (Kirby Brumfield), who
provided a very entertaining lecture on his life
and his many accomplishments.
Mr. Twain
provided many classic anecdotes and stories of
his time in various parts of America, notably
from his days in California and in Virginia
City, Nevada (where he was the newspaper
editor).
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Following his
presentation, Mr. Twain was asked by
President Chuck to sign a book for the Early
Readers Program. Note: Mr. Kirby
Brumfield, who played Mark Twain, is a longtime
Portland resident who recently relocated to
McMinnville. He has performed as Mark Twain for
many years, and in fact did a performance at
Gallery Theater over twenty years ago.
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A Note from James |
Chuck, Richard and the ENTIRE Rotary
Club of McMinnville,
I
realize it has been a very long time
since you last heard from me, and recent
events in my academic life reminded me
just how long it has been, so thought
that I should let you all know how I'm
doing!
My
first year of university flew by! I'm
studying English and American Literature
at the University of Kent, and whilst
everybody else spent the first few
months feeling homesick, I was getting
out and doing as much as I could (being
only 200 miles from home seems like
nothing compared to when you spend a
year 6000 miles away!). That's one of
the great things that you gain from
Youth Exchange, that you don't even
realize until returning home- the
incredible growth in confidence that you
gain. I think most of my friends were
shocked at just how different I was.
Anyway, my year at university was
incredible, I passed my first year with
a distinction, which led me to look into
transferring onto a 4 year course (most
university courses are only 3 years in
the UK). To cut a long story short, I
will probably be spending my 3rd year of
university (the '09-'10 academic year)
in the USA.
It's all still in early stages, but out
of the 15 or so universities I could
choose from, I've started my application
with the following 3 universities, in
order of preference:
1)University of California
(for which we had to choose 3 campuses,
again, in order of preference: (i)
Berkeley, (ii) Davis, (iii) UCLA)
2)University of Maryland at College Park
3)University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Right now I am so excited, I feel like I
did 2 and a half years ago when I found
out I would be spending the year in
Oregon, I also know that this excitement
will cause the next 10 months to feel
like 10 years!
I'm
sure I'll come to visit, regardless of
where I end up. In fact, my visa should
allow me to visit for a few weeks before
term starts in August/September.
I also imagine that I'll end up
visiting during the holiday
period. In any case you will definitely
all be seeing me!
This e-mail has ended up resembling an
essay rather than a quick "Hello". I
will keep you all updated with
everything, as it happens, and would
love to hear how you are all getting on,
in my second home, McMinnville (I have
been regularly scouring the Club
Bulletin... but it's so difficult to see
what you've all been up to, via pictures
of the Grand Ballroom!).
James Gorry (Rotary Youth Exchange
Student '06-'07)
P.S. I now realize just how much I talk
about my exchange, as all my new friends
at university tell me that about 99% of
my anecdotes begin with the phrase "When
I was in Oregon...", and that can only
mean one thing- I'm still carrying
everything that I experienced and all of
the stories with me- which I am
endlessly glad about! (however, the
endless barrage of 'When I was in
Oregon...' stories is slowly starting to
infuriate them!)
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New Member Proposal |
The Board of Directors has approved
the following for membership:
Richard D. "Rich" Schieber proposed by
Jon Triest
for the classification "Clergy-Retired". He will
automatically become a member unless
anyone objects in
writing within ten days of publication of this
notice.
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Photographs by Jon Triest | Captions by Walt Haight | Edited for the web by
Jeff Sargent and Ray Fields |
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