Rotary Club of El Cerrito

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Laurie Ann Lepoff, private dance instructor (Rotarian Host Nancy McCarthy)

Sep 16
Amanda Royal, League to Save Lake Tahoe (Rotarian Host Michael J. Dougherty)

Sep 23
M. Louise Stanley, contemporary painter (Rotarian Host Karen Nierlich)

Sep 30
Steven Van Yoder, Manila Poverty Project (Rotarian Host Marty Kaliski)

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El Cerrito Rotary: The Wheel March 5, 2009


Editors: Gary Buffon & Michael Doughtery
Week of March 5th  
 
 
President Jack welcomed us to the friendly El Cerrito Rotary Club.  Andy led the flag salute and Past Pres Thom provided a thought for the day.
 
Introduction of guests and Visiting Rotarians: Sec John asked the Rotarians with guests to introduce them. John F had Wendy Hanbrook from Windrush School. Gary B introduced Interact Pres Cassarah Chu. Andy introduced son Jack. Mark S introduced Gary L a financial planner.
 
Announcements:
  •  Board meeting next Tuesday at noon at President Jack’s office
  • Sunday is GGF dollar day booth duties
  • Karen announced a change in the speaker schedule. Next week will be a fellowship meeting and the week following Karen’s husband Tod Abbott will do his presentation on website development
  • Cassarah announced the Interact Club’s fund raiser, The Black and White dance for high school students. She encouraged any Rotarians who want to help with sponsorship. The funds raised will be use for the LN-4 hand project for the District Interact project.
  • Tracy is happy her sister rebounded from her bought with cancer and is doing much better – she thanked everyone for their thoughtfulness and prayers.
 
Happy dollars:  Kathleen is happy for Tracy being back and for the larger audience at Rotary today. Marty is happy for Tracy’s return and for his business doing well. John F is happy Paul will be inducted next week into our club. Kevin is happy ToFuYu is rising from the ashes and he also won a lawsuit. Mark S is happy for Tracy’s return. Karen is happy for Tracy’s return and for her experience with Blackjack playing at the Albany Rotary event. Don is happy for Jack’s persistence in getting the check GGF owed us from last year. Jack is happy for everyone being on time today with the new lunch protocol where we get our food after we register. 
 
Sgt at Arms: Was on duty and did a Jeopardy type event with John F, Marty, Don, Michael C, Thom, Gary B, Mike G, Sil, incoming Rotarian Paul Keith and Joe. Good fun and a lot of laughs.
 
Today’s Program:
Gary B introduced today’s 4-Way Test Speech program in which Cynthia Wong, Jessica Tran and Rebecca Phuong being the speakers. Today our speech judges included Andy, Karen, and Nobuko. 
 
The first speaker was Cynthia who related the 4-Way Test to the SAT testing that takes place for all high school students who want to attend college. He read the defined goals of the SAT and compared these goals with each of the 4-Way Test principles. After comparing them she concluded that the SAT testing was inconsistent with the 4-Way Test
Cynthia comparing SAT testing to the 4-Way Test
 
Rebecca share how the 4-Way Test relates to people with disabilities
  
Our second speaker, Rebecca, focused on how the achievement of the disabled people in the world and specifically in our country relate to the 4-Way Test. She used her experience of the theatre presentation for the ECHS open house as a way to relate her experience of a person who had a disability.  This individual was one of the happiest and most dedicated performer was a disabled individual. Through this experience she discussed how the 4-Way test applied to the efforts of this student and theatre performer.
 
Jessica relates how stress in High School relates to the 4-Way Test
 
Jessica selected as her subject the issue of stress in high school for students to compare with the 4-Way Test. She evaluated each element of the 4-Way Test and compared it with the stress of managing priorities, mountains of homework, tight deadlines for assignments, extra curricular activities and other life enhancing activities such as music lessons and cultural activities.
 
Each of the presentations was informative, interesting and delivered very well which added to the difficulty for today’s judges. After lengthy deliberation the judges chose Jessica as the winner today. The judges were so impressed with each speaker they indicated they thought this year contestants were the best we have ever had.  
 
 
Today’s Lottery Winner: Jim had his ticket pulled (actually he and Mike had traded tickets so Mike was not sure that was a good idea, Jim was) for a chance at winning the pot and selected cats-eye marble winning the Peets coffee.  Next Week the pot is worth $160. 
 
 
 
 
Interact Corner by Gary Buffon – Rotary Advisor to Interact: 
The club is choosing the new board members, planning the Black and White dance fund raiser, and nominating the officers for next year. Busy Interact members doing very effective work for their club and the community.
 
Thought for Week:
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
--Helen Keller