Another great Rotary meeting! Bill Sheffield lead us of with groaner (pretty funny), Paul Parks lead the prayer, Bill Bassett lead the pledge and Al Swann lead the 4 Way Test. I gave a happy dollar for having known Carl Leahy (former club member who passed away very unexpectedly), and the crowd responded with bunches of happy dollars to celebrate happier occasions.
Mac Parker introduced our five visiting Rotarians and four guests. The downtown club was well represented by Nancy Fetterman and Jeff Lewis, while Five Flags brought us Bobby Fair and Suzanne Kahn and the Gulf Breeze club was represented by Stephanie O'Connor. Big Ferd had a guest, Gerry Goldstein while T'gill brought Charles Bare as his guest and Moses Atwood brought Freddie Augustin as his guest. Our program chair and Vice President, John Stein had his lovely wife Jill as his guest.
John Stein then got up and talked about how the club foundation was going to do its own matching gift program for Manna Food Pantry, and many club members gave checks to the club foundation, which will be matched (up to $1,000) and then presented formally to the charity for it's special needs at Thanksgiving. I am very proud of how the club and its foundation have responded to this appeal. Give yourselves a pat on the back!
Skip Dennis had the reins of the Woolly today, and did a special tribute to veterans of all our conflicts and then shook us down for working on Veteran's Day. Thanks, Skip - I hope we raised a good amount of money to fight Polio!
Heidi Blair then came up to introduce our Rotary Youth Exchange student, Giuliana. She is from France and has been staying with T'gill and his family since arriving late this summer. She told us about making the big adjustment to American life and high school. She is from a very small town, and it sounds like Pensacola is very different from what she is used to. She must be fitting in as she had just attended an FSU home football game and learned the tomahawk chop and Seminole war chant!
Nobody won the big drawing prize, so it rolled over again - things are getting interesting!
Hope everyone enjoyed the meeting, it was fun. Photos coming soon! BC.
Mac Parker introduced our five visiting Rotarians and four guests. The downtown club was well represented by Nancy Fetterman and Jeff Lewis, while Five Flags brought us Bobby Fair and Suzanne Kahn and the Gulf Breeze club was represented by Stephanie O'Connor. Big Ferd had a guest, Gerry Goldstein while T'gill brought Charles Bare as his guest and Moses Atwood brought Freddie Augustin as his guest. Our program chair and Vice President, John Stein had his lovely wife Jill as his guest.
John Stein then got up and talked about how the club foundation was going to do its own matching gift program for Manna Food Pantry, and many club members gave checks to the club foundation, which will be matched (up to $1,000) and then presented formally to the charity for it's special needs at Thanksgiving. I am very proud of how the club and its foundation have responded to this appeal. Give yourselves a pat on the back!
Skip Dennis had the reins of the Woolly today, and did a special tribute to veterans of all our conflicts and then shook us down for working on Veteran's Day. Thanks, Skip - I hope we raised a good amount of money to fight Polio!
Heidi Blair then came up to introduce our Rotary Youth Exchange student, Giuliana. She is from France and has been staying with T'gill and his family since arriving late this summer. She told us about making the big adjustment to American life and high school. She is from a very small town, and it sounds like Pensacola is very different from what she is used to. She must be fitting in as she had just attended an FSU home football game and learned the tomahawk chop and Seminole war chant!
Nobody won the big drawing prize, so it rolled over again - things are getting interesting!
Hope everyone enjoyed the meeting, it was fun. Photos coming soon! BC.
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