The March 8, 2012 Newsletter has been published to the Villa Park Rotary website. A copy has been included below. |
Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter Induction of New Members Rick Barnett and Glenn Weingarth Annual Speech Contest
Opening Ceremonies: Invocation: Lesslie Giaccobi Pledge of Allegiance: Stan Van Den Berg Rotary Four Way Test: Jane McDonald Song: "Roll Out the Barrel" Teri Brooks Guests: Rick Barnett Glenn Weingarth Steve Lopushinsky Bob Grandolfo District 5320 Governor Greg Owen Students and Guests for the Speech Competition.
Special Presentation of Paul Harris Award To Bob Kriesberg
Tom Grundy presents Bob Kreisberg with his 4th Paul Harris Award
Induction of Rick Barnett, Glenn Weingarth Pete Moriarty Presiding Special Guest District 5320 Governor Greg Owen.
Speech Contest "Reach Within To Embrace Humanity" Participants: Gavin Munro- Jr. VPHS- Honorable Mention Alex Delgado- Sr. VPHS- 3rd Place $50 Tara Sanders- Sr. VPHS- 2nd Place- $75 Sally Baker- Sr. VPHS -1st Place - $100 All the participants gave excellent speeches. Sally Baker will move on to represent the club at the District Finals. Alex, Tara, Sally and Gavin Announcements: District Assembly this Saturday 8 AM to Noon at the Argyros Center, Chapman University. All Chairman and new Rotarians are encouraged to attend this very informative session. Coffee and refreshments will be served. Wayne Silzel announced a golf outing to benefit the Covenant Presbyterian Church School will be held on Monday, May 7th. Golf, Dinner and a raffle are included. Tee Off at 12 noon Alta Vista Golf Club. For more information contact Wayne.
Happy Bucks: Tom Grundy attended the Boy Scout Troop 850 fundraiser at Tutto Fresco last evening and had a great time. He invited the owner to attend one of our future meetings. Bob Kreisberg is looking for Stem Cell Donors and is encouraging club members to join the "Be A Match Program" anyone age 18-60 can volunteer. Volunteers have a 1/540 chance of being called to give a potentially live saving bone marrow donation. Screening consists of a mouth swab. The website to sign up is: http://join.marrow.org/friendofbob. I will forward more information from Bob. Bob Meyer announced that a lady is tithing her income to Bob's "Operation A Bit of Home" Wayne Silzel had an outstanding week. His daughter, a professor of Economics and History at Cal State Fullerton, published a book and his son was promoted to full professor at Biola University. He has a phD in Chemistry. Lesslie Giacobbi commented on the speech contest, and making sure the speeches are long enough to qualify. Teri Brooks- had a great time as "Principal for the Day" at Villa Park High. She sang high praise for the job that Ed Howard is doing as principal and his dedicated staff. Nagy Ibrahim was proud to announce his granddaughter was baptized last Saturday. District Governor Greg Owen commented on the Speech Contest and how great a job the speakers did. He also welcomed Rick Barnett and Glenn Weingarth into the Rotary Family. He also spoke about Polio Plus and how in the last year we have eliminated Polio in another country, leaving only 3 countries where Polio still exists. Tom Grundy gave special thanks to Pete Moriarty, our membership chair, for the outstanding job he has done in the last year. Bryan Nash thanked our speakers today's event.
Next Week: Program: Speaker John Stewart, Esq. Community Issues |
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