Hi All!
If you missed this meeting, you missed a good time! We started off with a groaner from Bill Sheffield. It began on a political note and ended that way, with some strange football comments in the middle. Then Rick Lambert said a nice prayer, Navy veteran Bob Jacobson lead us in the Pledge, and Kirk Ball lead the 4 Way Test.
The happy dollars came pouring forth with many folks celebrating the safety of friends and family who evacuated New Orleans and Baton Rouge and stayed with family here in Pensacola. There was another round of Happy Dollars for the victorious football teams of the SEC and ACC, with much bragging about what might happen this coming weekend. I'm glad Andy Hinton was here to defend Alabama this time around, the Tide seems to be a bit underrepresented lately!
Sandi Starr did a marvelous job introducing our visitors and guests, and was extremely surprised to see two of her ministers from church in attendance. I think they are checking up on you (or is it all of us they need to check up on?) Sharon Gallant was Bill Sheffield's guest (and new business partner). Kathy Karsten was Heidi Blair's guest (and fellow USO leader). Harold Cohen joined us as Jack Brown's guest (and knew many SubWesters), while T-Gill introduced his guest Dan Filardi, Rick Lambert introduced his wife and guest Suki Lambert, and John Stein introduced his wife and guest Jill Stein. We had 5 visiting Rotarians; Dan Livingston and Kenny Morgan from Pensacola North, Randy Jackson and Jeff Lewis from Downtown, and KC Etheridge from 5 Flags.
Charlie Peppler made an announcement about our renewed Eyeglass Project (part of our international service effort lead by Trisha Woodburn) and Bill Marchi told us about the electronics donations he is collecting for the Lupus Foundation. Bill came in a little winded from schlepping an apparent huge donation brought in by new member Bill Hooper. Thanks, guys!
Skip Dennis was our Wolly today and fined Big Ferd for losing his cell phone, an entire table for not knowing one of the new members, another table for not knowing about our upcoming Shrimp Boil (send me the info guys - I'll' put it in the blog!) at Big Lagoon the end of this month.
Kirk Ball had the winning ticket in the Raffle, but did not draw the Ace of Spades, and contributed his $10 consolation prize back to the pot, so it will start about $225 dollars next week! Buy those tickets and help the Rotary Foundation!
John Stein then introduced Dr. J.D. Smith to speak to us about Navy Junior ROTC. It was an extremely interesting program, full of facts and figures from a macro sense, and further illustrated with stories about the purpose of the NJROTC lessons. John Stein is doing a magnificent job of getting us interesting programs! Film at eleven....
We wrapped up the meeting by presenting JD with an imported coffee travel mug, and then awarding Ed Holt with a "Sponsor" pin contributed by Membership Chairman and PE Rick Lambert.
Board members - remember our meeting this Wednesday at noon at the Bait Shop room in the Fish House. Main topics will be project status reports on avenues of service and voting to approve a new prospective member. See you there! Until next time, pray that Ike takes a route away from here. Far away. Bill C.
If you missed this meeting, you missed a good time! We started off with a groaner from Bill Sheffield. It began on a political note and ended that way, with some strange football comments in the middle. Then Rick Lambert said a nice prayer, Navy veteran Bob Jacobson lead us in the Pledge, and Kirk Ball lead the 4 Way Test.
The happy dollars came pouring forth with many folks celebrating the safety of friends and family who evacuated New Orleans and Baton Rouge and stayed with family here in Pensacola. There was another round of Happy Dollars for the victorious football teams of the SEC and ACC, with much bragging about what might happen this coming weekend. I'm glad Andy Hinton was here to defend Alabama this time around, the Tide seems to be a bit underrepresented lately!
Sandi Starr did a marvelous job introducing our visitors and guests, and was extremely surprised to see two of her ministers from church in attendance. I think they are checking up on you (or is it all of us they need to check up on?) Sharon Gallant was Bill Sheffield's guest (and new business partner). Kathy Karsten was Heidi Blair's guest (and fellow USO leader). Harold Cohen joined us as Jack Brown's guest (and knew many SubWesters), while T-Gill introduced his guest Dan Filardi, Rick Lambert introduced his wife and guest Suki Lambert, and John Stein introduced his wife and guest Jill Stein. We had 5 visiting Rotarians; Dan Livingston and Kenny Morgan from Pensacola North, Randy Jackson and Jeff Lewis from Downtown, and KC Etheridge from 5 Flags.
Charlie Peppler made an announcement about our renewed Eyeglass Project (part of our international service effort lead by Trisha Woodburn) and Bill Marchi told us about the electronics donations he is collecting for the Lupus Foundation. Bill came in a little winded from schlepping an apparent huge donation brought in by new member Bill Hooper. Thanks, guys!
Skip Dennis was our Wolly today and fined Big Ferd for losing his cell phone, an entire table for not knowing one of the new members, another table for not knowing about our upcoming Shrimp Boil (send me the info guys - I'll' put it in the blog!) at Big Lagoon the end of this month.
Kirk Ball had the winning ticket in the Raffle, but did not draw the Ace of Spades, and contributed his $10 consolation prize back to the pot, so it will start about $225 dollars next week! Buy those tickets and help the Rotary Foundation!
John Stein then introduced Dr. J.D. Smith to speak to us about Navy Junior ROTC. It was an extremely interesting program, full of facts and figures from a macro sense, and further illustrated with stories about the purpose of the NJROTC lessons. John Stein is doing a magnificent job of getting us interesting programs! Film at eleven....
We wrapped up the meeting by presenting JD with an imported coffee travel mug, and then awarding Ed Holt with a "Sponsor" pin contributed by Membership Chairman and PE Rick Lambert.
Board members - remember our meeting this Wednesday at noon at the Bait Shop room in the Fish House. Main topics will be project status reports on avenues of service and voting to approve a new prospective member. See you there! Until next time, pray that Ike takes a route away from here. Far away. Bill C.
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