Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	November 18, 2008	The  2009 Crab Feed  will be held January 24, 2008.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
N o v e m b e r
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	2	3 Meeting Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes	4 No Meeting Election Day	5	6	7 (A) Dan Davis	8
	9	10	11 Meeting Rick Farley and his helicopter (Dave Jessen)	12	13	14	15
	16	17	18 Meeting  Derek Wolfgram, Director of the Butte County Library (Norm Larsen)	19	20	21 (B) James Patterson	22
	23	24	25 Meeting Ken Collins on Chico Ecocars (Dan Davis)	26	27	28	29
	30
D e c e m b e r		1	2 Meeting Barry Sherwood on How to make a lot of money in stock market in a bear market (Dar Meyer)	3	4	5	6
	7 (A) Stephen Plume	8 Meeting Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes	9 No Meeting BCCC not available	10	11	12 (B) Roy Ellis	13
	14	15	16 Meeting Christmas Party at BCCC (Dave Mulqueeney)	17	18	19 (A) Jim Patterson	20
	21	22	23 No Meeting Christmas	24	25	26	27
	28	29	30 No Meeting New Year	31

 

President opened the meeting.  Since a Girl Scout troop was present to sell cans of nuts and candy to us, he asked Taylor, one of the girls, to lead the flag salute, which she did.  Jim Patterson then gave the invocation.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

November Program Chairperson is Mike Crump   November 25th:  Tom Knowles   December Program Chairperson is K. R. Robertson   December 2nd:  Dar Meyer   December 8th:  Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes.   December 9th:  No Meeting.  BCCC unavailable.   December 16th:  Christmas Party.   December 23rd:  No Meeting   December 30th: No Meeting   January Program Chairperson is Chris Hatch   January 6th:  Bruce Miller   January 13th:  Dave Mulqueeney.   January 24th:  Crab Feed

 

 Girl Scouts Nut and Candy Sales

 

Jane Ziad had a Durham Girl Scout Troup at our meeting, to sell cans of nuts and candy to us.  Many members purchased some.

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Jim Patterson introduced Norm Larson who introduced Derek Wolfgram (his program).   Dave Jessen introduced Dar’s guest, Craig Hastian (now I think I have his name spelled right).  He also introduced his grandson, Dave Jessen.  Jim Kirks had no guest at his table, nor did Daryle Polk (who was sitting alone with no one at his table). 

 

Since there were no visiting Rotarians in attendance, President Glenn decided not to assess the usual $1 each to the two tables with no guests.  Instead he asked a member at each table a question about something in last week’s Rowel or about Durham Rotary.  It was going to cost each member at the table a $1 if they could not answer the question.  Mike Crump knew that Dan Davis had been awarded a sponsorship pin.  Norm Larson, with the help of other members at his table was able to list the 4 club service chairpersons.  Daryle Polk knew that the club had been chartered on 1945.  Another member (sorry, forgot to write your name in my notes) knew where Ryan Sutton worked.  No one was assessed.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

The program will be Kent Collins of Chico Ecocars.  He will talk about the new electic cars.

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Christmas Party

 

Dave Mulqueeney reported that the Christmas Party on December 16^th will be a turkey dinner with a silent auction and a 40 piece symphonic band.  If we can get Larry Bradley to visit, we will get him to lead us in Christmas Carols.

 

Remember to get your donations to the silent auction to Dave Mulqueeney. 

 

Tell your spouse about it and get in on his or her calendar now.  Let’s do a better job of getting spouses and significant others to the party.  It is also a good time to bring a guest, with spouse or significant other, who would make a good member.

 

Crab Feed

 

Roy Ellis continued passing around tickets.  Each member will get 4 that they will be responsible to sell.  Members are encouraged to take and sell more, but if not sold they must be returned by the Christmas Party meeting, December 16, 2008.  That does not include your required 4 tickets.  You cannot return those.  Any extra tickets you retain after December 16^th, you have bought.  We are trying to avoid what happened last year, when it was thought that all tickets had been sold and then members returned unsold tickets too late to sell them.

 

A live auction is also being planned for the Crab Feed.  Start thinking about your donations to the auction.

 

Tom Knowles

 

Members are asked to keep Tom and his family in their prayers.  First, Tom had neck surgery last week.  While still in the hospital, their daughter Daisy was again hospitalized with difficulty breathing following what appeared to be just a cold.  She was intubated and has had a number of tests.  She now seems to be improving.  For more information see Tom’s blog at:  www.norcalblogs.com/pilot.  Tuesday’s posting includes a photo of Daisy.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Glenn recognized the anniversary of Bruce Miller and his wife.  It cost him $28 for 28 years.

 

Jim Patterson asked Andy Farrar and Roy Ellis to sing “Happy Birthday” to him.  They did, sort of.  He paid $10 for the privilege?

 

Dave Jessen reported that he had gone to Fort Benning, Georgia to pick up his grandson, Dave Jessen.  While in Georgia he visited the Coca Cola plant in Atlanta.  He presented to President Glenn a Christmas ornament bell, which Glenn needed, since he had lost the Club Bell.  It still cost Dave $30.

 

PROGRAM

 

Norman Larson introduced Derek Wolfgram, Director of the Butte County Library.  Members may recall the he spoke to us about 2 years ago, shortly after he arrived to become the director.  He now reported on progress the Library system has made including longer hours. He also noted a substantial increase in library use.  He discussed various programs the libraries now offer.

 

DRAWING

 

Tom Vanella was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

 

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