Villa Park Ca Rotary Newsletter November 18, 2010

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

Happy Thanksgiving

This week's meeting began with a Sioux Indian Invocation by Kirk Parker.  Greg Mills led the Pledge of Allegiance and Bryan Nash the Rotary Four Way Test.  We sang the Star Spangled Banner our nations National Anthem. 

Guests:

Chuck Liebelt- Docent at the Bowers Museum and today's speaker

Will Warren- Union Bank in Villa Park - 2nd Visit

Dan Cregg-  2nd Visit and looking quite well.

Announcements:

Pam Dunn-  By Invitation Only event- Thursday December 9th 5-9PM

                     You can send Pam an email list of your guests or invite them on your own.

                      Pam will send an email with the invitation.  There will be a good selection

                      of items from $8 to $1000 and appetizers and wine will be served.

Nagy Ibrahim- talked about the Rotary Foundation and the requirements to be a Paul Harris

                     Fellow.  You can also donate points to help others receive the Paul Harris Award.

                     Nagy has up to date information on your individual status if you want to see

                       how close you are to getting the award.

Pete Moriarty- hosted a Fireside Chat last night and thanked Bob Kreisberg and Jay Lieberman

                     for their assistance. 

Craig Beinlich- announced that he and Paul Hudson will be at the Tree Nursery working on the

                      irrigation system next Tuesday at 2 PM- come by if you want to lend a hand

Bob Meyer- Announced that he will need some help with DVDs for his Bit of Home Program.

                   Corona Del Mar High donated 50 boxes of DVDs and Bob will need help next Tuesday

                     at 9:15 picking them up.

                    The Orange Unified School District also has DVDs that need to be picked up

                       on December 14th at 4PM.  Pick up will be at the District Offices on Katella

                        and Handy.

                     December 15th Bob will need help packing boxes at the Orange Unified District

                      Offices from 10-3 PM.

Greg Mills- Open nominations for Club Officers will be accepted in the next 2 weeks.  We need to

                  have the final slate by our Club Assembly Meeting on December 9th.  Get your

                 nominations in ASAP.   Greg, Bryan and a committee of Past Presidents will meet to

                 formalize the nomination process.

Dan Cregg-   Announced that as a thank you to UCLA Medical Center for the long term care he

                  received there, he is donating small refrigerators to the hospital to place in patient

                  isolation rooms.  He has pledged 30 refrigerators at a cost of $70 each and has so far

                   delivered 20 .  He asked for club members to help in this effort.  Multiple members

                  volunteered to underwrite the additional costs.  If you want to help make your check

                  to Villa Park Rotary and give it to Milt Stamos.  He will write a check to Dan for the total

                  donations.   Make sure to write the check is for refrigerators.

Happy Bucks:

Dan Cregg-  As above, but we were happy to see him looking well.

Bill Baker- Says he had an awesome time at the Boy Scouts Centennial Encampment at Prado

                Dam.  6,000 scouts attended and it was a fun filled weekend.

Teri Brooks- Announced that the Villa Park Spartan Football Team has won their league

                championship and will be playing this Friday(tonight) at Kelly Stadium in round 1

                of the CIF playoffs. Kick-off is 7PM.

Jim Glenn- Reported that Jill Kuli is doing well following her recent knee replacement surgery.

Bob Kreisberg- Was happy to report that his daughter brought home a fine young gentleman with

                    a Masters Degree.... a definite upgrade in the usual boyfriend pool.

Bob Meyer- Reported that his book, "Flew in, Walked Back" , will be out in May of next year.

Nagy Ibrahim- Is excited to have his kids and grand kids coming to Thanksgiving Dinner.

                   He wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving.

Pam Dunn- Appreciated Mark Schmidt who voluntarily cleans the Centennial Clock.

Greg Mills- Announced his daughter Abby's soccer team finished in first place.

Bryan "Eddie" Nash -Is awaiting a 10 day visit from his daughter and two grand kids.  He gave

               one dollar for the arrival and a second dollar for the departure.

Jim Brodsky- Announced that his grandson James Brodsky's Little League baseball team is in

              the semi-finals.

Lesslie Giacobbi- had a wonderful visit from her daughter and grand kids from San Diego last

             weekend. 

Secret Greeter- Marianne Koepnik

Drawing- Lesslie Giacobbi picked her own ticket and drew a 4

Speaker: Chuck Liebelt

Chuck is a volunteer docent at the Bowers Museum and let us know that the museum is one of

Orange County's Hidden Treasures.  The museum had its inception in 1924 when Charles Bowers

an OC land developer established the trust to build the museum to preserve OC history.

The construction began in 1931 for a cost of $54, 080 and utilized workers from the WPA project.

It was modeled to look like the Mission at San Juan Capistrano.  Construction was completed in 1934, but there was no money available for interior display cases and the opening was delayed until 1936.  A major renovation and expansion was completed between 1988 and 1992 necessitating the closure of the museum.  During this period a speaker's bureau was created to keep the public enthused about the museum. The museum reopened in 1992 rechristened as the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and expanding the scope of the exhibitions from local to global.  A more recent

30,000 square foot expansion was completed in 2006 doubling the size of the exhibition space.

This includes the 300 seat, state of the art,  Norma Kershaw Auditorium and  an exhibition hall that

can be used for banquets seating 350 people. Permanent exhibitions include:  Missions and Ranchos, First Californians, Vision of the Shamen, Song of the Priest and Art of Adornment: Tribal Beauty.   The next visiting exhibit is Ben Franklin beginning on December 18th and running through March 13th 2011.  Group tours are available between the hours of 10 AM to 4 PM.

Chuck showed a number of photos depicting items in the exhibitions as well as photos of the buildings, exhibit halls, auditorium and surrounding grounds.   Could be a good site for a fundraiser or just a good group tour.

Next Week- Dark

Next Meeting - December 2nd