Meeting Notes from August 20th

Dear Proud Rotarians of Sub-West,

It was another great meeting! Bill Sheffield got us started with a Groaner. John Brick led us in Prayer, followed by Betty Wasson with the Pledge to our Flag, and Charlie Hass with the 4-Way Test.

I passed on that I had spoken to Jack Brown during the week and his business is tough, but they are going to make it. He hopes to be attending meetings again soon. I also thanked Ronnie Arnold and the Sub-West Grill Crew for serving dinner to the FAMU Marching Band Saturday night and Bill & Molly Cleary for hosting the Welcome event for our Long-term Exchange Student, Rodrigo.

Bill Cleary started the Happy Dollars with his jubilation over school starting. Harry Tuttle followed with how blessed he feels to be part of Sub-West. Wayne Etheredge was happy to see Britt Landrum at Sub-West because it was Britt who sponsored him as a Rotarian. And I was happy to have my son Alex at the club just before he heads back to his sophomore year at UF.

Braden Ball introduced our Visitors and Guests. Our visitors included my son Alex Lambert, Paul Sinor, friend of Bill Sheffield, and Christine Viets, from the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, guest of Bill Cleary. We had a ton of Visiting Rotarians to include most of the Pensacola North Club with Derek Ferebee, Dan Livingston, Eddie Hill, Jonathan Taylor & Frank Kay. We also had John Griffing from Five Flags; Roger Matthews from Milton; Britt Landrum from Downtown; and Patrick Quinn from New Orleans.

Mac Parker came forward with Heidi Blair and took some measurements of me for Dress the Prez for Polio. They seem to think the club will raise $2000 by October 21st, however they need $20/member to hit the goal. The club can choose what I will wear to conduct the October 22nd meeting if $2000 is raised. I think Mac and Heidi wasted their time, but they did raise another $100. I think this puts the total at $941. We will see…

The Woolly Booger was Angie Neumann who tested us on Wisconsin trivia. It was a lot of good information for those interested in the Cheesehead State.

John Brick had the winning raffle ticket and drew the Two of Hearts from a deck with only 48 cards left to miss out on a $341 pot.

Dee Dee Ritchie gave us an update on the Charter Commission’s efforts to date. There has been a lot of work and listening to testimonies accomplished by this group to date.

Thank you again for displaying your pride by wearing your symbols of Rotary. I am proud to be a Rotarian and I hope you are too.

Next week our speaker will be Dr. Judy Bense, President of the University of West Florida.

Have a great week!

Be blessed or be a blessing,

Rick