April 30

May - END POLIO NOW

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Teacher of the Year Program

11
Steering Committee Jake's Deli 11:30 AM

13
Vision Facilitation 5:00 PM Brookdale Senior Living Villas 775 NE 27th St, Mac.

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Jeff Peterson - Forget the Box - Linfield College as a Point of Intersection

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Board Meeting - 11:45 AM American Legion Hall.

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Inbound Exchange Student Aof

OPENING

Greeters: Auf Sombatpiron, Art Bradley, Edwina Castle (not pictured). President Jan Hartzell called the meeting to order. Darrick Price provided a brief and simple prayer of thanks during the Inspirational Moment. The Pledge of Allegiance was then led by Maryalice Russell.

INTRODUCTION OF VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

Kris Olsen introduced LEESA NOVAK, mother of one of the current Students-of-the-Month (more on that below)

Walter Haight welcomed TOM VAIL, a visiting Rotarian and frequent guest from the McMinnville Sunrise Clan.

Edwina Castle introduced CONY ANDREA CAMPBELL, our current Inbound Student from Chile.

Pam Watts welcomed SAM PATTINSON, a former Rotary Inbound Exchange Student, and his friend COEY STELLFLUG, along with AOF SOMBATPIRON, our current Inbound Student from Thailand.

MEMBER RECOGNITION

Darrick Price took the podium to administer the Member Recognition portion of the meeting, and kicked things off by making the case that some of his jokes were, in fact, funny.

Wayne Bailey was recognized for his 12th wedding anniversary to his wife, Nicolette.

Norm Goss happily announced his 396th “Month-iversary” to his bride, Phyllis. This equated, of course, to 33 years, but Norm insisted that 396 was a much more impressive number.

BRAGS AND ANNOUNCEMENT

Teresa Smith announced that the annual flower basket sale was approaching, with the proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Carol Benedict made a brief apology for a moment of misinformation she had provided earlier. She was unanimously forgiven.

Paul Elias took it upon himself to pay Erin Stephenson’s “fine” for having her picture appear in the News Register. Nice going, Paul!

Bob Emrick shared his recent experiences at a “self-challenging workshop” in Calistoga, California, citing it as seven unforgettable days.

Chuck Pattishall announced that a “Goodbye Celebration” to honor Jan Hartzell’s term as Rotary Club President will be held on June 18th. Details forthcoming.

Bruce Dickson reminded the membership that a Vision Facilitation Event, designed to explore how the needs of our club could be better met, will be held on May 13th.

Walt Haight announced that the Pacesetter Committee is looking for an additional photographer to join that prestigious group.

Darrick closed the Brags & Announcements portion of the meeting, returning to form by intoning several lame jokes that didn’t disappoint.

Kris Olsen presented the current Students-of-the-Month at McMinnville High School, NAVNEET KAUR and HALEIGH NOVAK.

See detail below

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


Jeff Sargent, Chair of the 2010 Wine & Art Auction (“Uncorked!”) provided a brief update on the planning of this big event, reminding the membership that it is only ten weeks away. Bob Emrick and Kelly McGraw then took the microphone to exhort members to develop ideas for auction items that would be attractive to our patrons.

MAIN EVENT

Erin Stephenson introduced CONI ANDREA CAMPBELL, who gave her “Vocational Talk” to the membership. Erin cited CONY’S amazing grasp of English, attained in just the few short months that she has been in McMinnville, and lauded her tremendously cheerful and upbeat attitude about anything and everything.

CONI then took the podium, and opened her presentation by showing a picture of the Chilean flag, and describing what each of the colors (red, white, and blue) symbolized. The language of the country, she said, was Spanish, and the total population is over 16 million inhabitants. Of that, 70% observe Roman Catholicism as their chosen religion.

In a wonderfully clear and concise manner, CONI described the basic geography of Chile, noting that it is 80% “mountainous”, but quite varied in its climatic regimes. Surprisingly, the Pacific Ocean maintains a constant temperature of about 59 degrees (F) along most of the Chilean coastline.

Politically, the country is divided into 15 “Regions”, which are further sub-divided into 54 “Provinces”. The “Provinces” are broken down into “communes”. The currency of the country is the Peso, and the current exchange rate is 500 Pesos/Dollar.

CONI provided a variety of photos showing typical celebrations enjoyed by the populace, along with examples of the different foods and beverages that are common to Chileans Her hometown, Copiaco, lies on the fringes of the Atacama Desert, a region known worldwide as one of the driest places on earth. Although her region receives scant rainfall (12 mm.year), there is a well-established wine industry that covers the foothills of the Andes Mountains. The principal industry in the area is mining.

Following her presentation, Lee Means took the opportunity to discuss her experience as host-mother for the past year. Lee echoed Erin’s comments about how amazingly fast CONi has developed a fluent understanding of the English language.

CONI then “took the stage” to entertain the membership with a Flamenco Dance. Her performance earned loud and sustained applause.

CLOSING

Jan Hartzell then asked CONI to sign a book for the Early Reader’s Program at the McMinnville Library. Jan Hartzell then adjourned the meeting. Next Week will be Teacher Recognition.

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

President Jan Hartzell and fellow Rotarians, it’s my pleasure to introduce to you one of McMinnville High School’s students-of-the-month for April 2010, senior Navneet Kaur, representing Business & Marketing.

Navneet is the daughter of Harinder and Harbhajan Kaur.

Navneet attended elementary school in Portland, OR before moving with her family to McMinnville. She attended Patton Middle School before enrolling at McMinnville High School in her freshman year.

Navneet currently holds a 3.94 grade point average, has been on honor roll each semester of her high school experience, will graduate in June with the Honors Diploma, and will complete the requirements for the Health Services and Business Pathway Endorsements. This semester she is currently enrolled in Pre-Calculus, Anatomy & Physiology, Accounting, College Writing, United States Government, Microbiology, Medical Terminology II, and is a student assistant in the Business Department. .

In addition to her academic pursuits, outside of school, Navneet works at her family’s business in Dallas after school and on the weekends.

Her future plans include attending George Fox University where she plans to study Nursing. Her hope is to one day serve as a medical professional in a 3rd world country.

Navneet’s fondest memories of high school are from her freshman year, when our student body won a contest to have Brooke Hogan, Hulk Hogan’s, daughter come to our school to put on a concert.

President Jan Hartzell and fellow Rotarians, it’s my pleasure to introduce to you one of McMinnville High School’s students-of-the-month for April 2010, senior Haleigh Novak, representing Computer Science.

Haleigh is the daughter of Tim and Leesa Novak.

Haleigh attended Memorial Elementary and Patton Middle School before enrolling at McMinnville High School in her freshman year.

Haleigh currently holds a 3.33 grade point average, has been on honor roll through first semester of her senior year, and will graduate in June having completed the requirements of the Pathway Endorsement in Computer Science. This semester she is currently enrolled in Aerobics, Advanced Topics in Computer Science, Computer Game Development, Pre-Calculus, Murder/Mystery/Madness, and Microbiology.

I addition to her academic accomplishments and involvement in Computer Science, Haleigh has been active in pursuits outside of school – 7 years with horses, snowboarding, fishing, and art – drawing & paint.

Her future plans include attending Portland Community College where she plans to study Software Engineering. Haleigh hopes to be a computer software engineer in the future.

Her fondest memory of high school, senior skip day at Cape Kiwanda, and changing the tire on her pickup with friends in the sand.

Photographs by Molly Walker | Captions by Walt Haight | Edited for the web by Jeff Sargent and Ray Fields

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