Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	February 3, 2009	The  2009 Harvest Festival  will be held on September 13, 2009.

2009                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
J a n u a r y
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	4	5	6 Meeting Club Assembly (Glenn Pulliam)	7	8	9	10
	11	12 (A) Ged Andrusaitis	13 Meeting Belinda Sonnier, who is a breast cancer survivor and American Cancer Society volunteer. (Dave Mulqueeney)	14	15	16	17
	18	19	20 No Meeting Preparation for Crab Feed (Joe Nock) (B) Andy Farrar	21	22	23 (B) Bruce Norlie	24 Crab Feed at Durham Memorial Hall
	25	26	27 Meeting John Lucchesi - President of Northern California National Bank on Banking indurstry (Joe Nock)	28	29	30	31 (A) Phil Price
F e b u a r y	1 (A) Clinton Goss	2	3 Meeting Robert Obrien on Racing Pigeons (Daryle Polk)	4 (A) David Jessen	5	6	7
	8	9	10 Meeting TBA (Phil Price)	11 (B) Bruce Miller	12	13	14
	15 (B) Joe NOck	16	17 Meeting TBA (Glenn Pulliam)	18	19	20	21
	22	23	24 Meeting TBA (Tom Vanella)	25 (A) Tom Vanella	26	27	28

President Glenn called the meeting to order, with a school yard whistle. It seems that he has lost the club bell, but doesn’t appear to be concerned about it.  (There was a member who asked me for legal representation in case he gets accused of bell stealing, but since he has not paid a retainer, he is still on his own).  Dar Meyer  lead the pledge of allegiance and Jim Patterson gave the invocation.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

February Program Chairperson is Jane Ziad   February 10th:  Phil Price will present his all expenses paid luxurious trip to Antigua, Guatemala   February 17th:  No Meeting.   February 24th:  Tom Vanella   March 3rd:  Mike Wacker   March 10th:  Jane Ziad   March 17th:  Bill Apger   March 24th: Mike Crump   March 31st:  Dan Davis

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

There were none tonight, undermining Bill Apger’s theory that my announcing a Club Assembly drives visiting Rotarians away.

  

NEXT MEETING

 

I  will present something.  Let’s see.  Walt Shafer presented an interesting program to Chico Rotary last month.  He would like to do it at Durham Rotary, but is unavailable next week.  He is available February 24^th, if Tom does not have a program yet.  A couple of weeks ago,  Bill Hollingshead, the District Polio Plus Chairperson offered to present a program to the clubs in the District entitled a "Polio Booster Shot."  I took him up on his offer, however Monday he reported that he has a doctor’s procedure next Tuesday related to his post polio syndrome, and is unavailable.  So I borrowed the clubs digital projector and have it working with my laptop and you may learn about Antigua, Guatemala.  Really, the projector is really working with my laptop.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Work Day

 

Pres. Glenn is still looking for ideas for the Rotary Community Work Day. Please come up with some ideas and pass them on to Glenn.  April 25th is a worldwide Rotarians at Work Day.  We need to participate with a project, so think one up.

 

Club Financial Report

 

Steve Plume made a financial report to the members.  I could not get the numbers written down as fast as he was going, but essentially we have about $49,000 in our various accounts and budgeted expenditures of about $24,000.  Steve recommended maintaining a reserve of at least $8,000.  Steve has been doing a good job on getting a handle on our financial situation.  I am going to ask Steve to give me the numbers in a report that I can publish next week.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Glenn asked your editor where he had been to miss the last several meeting.  I reported that it was mostly business, although last week it was because my wife was having surgery the next day and I didn’t think I should leave her alone Tuesday night (she is recovering fine).  President Glenn wanted me to be more specific so I asked him which specific meeting was he asking about.  He finally got to January 13^th.  When specifically asked I had to confessed that I was in Nashville, Tennessee that week.  Went to the Grand Ole Opre at the old Ryman Theatre (where they do it in the winter), got in the taping of a TV show with Gretchen Wilson as the guest singer, went to BB King’s and the Wildhorse as well as other clubs with entertainment.   Also saw a lot of history.  President Glenn figured that a contribution of $27 plus $50 for my 50^th anniversary last Saturday would be appropriate and make me a Bell Ringer.  The only problem is that President Glenn does not have the club bell.

 

Dave Jessen also had an anniversary.  He contributed $32 for 32 years.

 

Mike Crump contributed $10 for missing a meeting. 

 

Bruce Miller said he would make up.

New Member Posting

 

Daniel E. Davey has been proposed for membership by Daryle Polk and approved by the Board. His membership has been approve by the Board.  This is his second posting, so he is ready to induct next week, if he had had his orientation.

 

PROGRAM

 

Daryl Polk presented Robert O’Brien, who has been involved in racing pigeons since he was a child.  He brought several of his pigeons and a video of a race.  He gave a very interesting talk about racing pigeons.  He talked about their history (which goes way back) and their use for messages during the Second World War.  He discussed the raising and training of racing pigeons.  He showed the pigeons he had brought and their bands.  He noted that science still has not figured how they are able to find and return to their home.  Members were so interested and asked so many questions that the program did not conclude until 7:45 pm.

 

Drawing

 

Steve Greenwood was here to be the winner of the Must Be Present to Win drawing.

 

The Rotary International web site is: www.rotary.org District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org The Durham Rotary Club site is:  www.durhamrotary.org The Rowel Editor may be contacted at pbhlaw@sunset.net

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