7/11/14; Red Badgers in Singapore and nonembryonic stell cells
Our first meeting of this Rotary year started by giving Bill and Suzanne Sutton their well deserved Blue Badges. Steve Weitzen followed with his new Past President Gold badge.
Happy Dollars were given by Paul Butler, as a proud dad for his daughter starting her Rotary President role this year. Bill Sutton gave for their passage to blue badgers. Venky Venkatesh gave happy dollars for his grandchildren arriving for a visit.
Our fine master, Steve Weitzen, fined himself for not knowing the four way test thoroughly?? We should have checked that while he was President. He also fined Bill and Suzanne Sutton for completed another Rotary club requirement; as Red badgers, by attended a Singapore meeting. Raising the bar too high for those that follow. Wait a minute, didn't they give happy dollars?
Susan Hennenfent, Membership Chair, passed the Polio Plus jar around while announcing there were less than ten cases of Polio in Nigeria.. Afghanistan had fewer. Rotary is focusing it's efforts in Pakistan, where problems persist. Please give what you can knowing that your dollars are, at least matched by the Gates Foundation, and matched again through Rotary's efforts.
Our Community Chair, Ellen Griffin, asked the club members to provide her with feedback on her recent email (providing a list of all the various community activities our club has participated in). Please let her know which ones you want the club to undertake. George Sousa, Sargent at Arms, passed around the sign-up sheet for Stand down, which takes place July 18-20th. We need more volunteers. Please sign-up and if you would like to bring friends to help, please do.
Our speakers were introduced by Natalie Ganz, Director of Gift Planning, Scripps Health Foundation. Sherrie Gould, N.P., Summit for Stem Cells and Scripps Clinic, discussed their recent climbs/fundraisers at the top of Kilamanjaro and Mt. Everest. Also recent local fundraisers for funding disease research being done by our presenter's research. Dr. Andres Bratt-Lael, Director of Parkinson's disease nonembryonic stem cell project, gave us a presentation on the progress they are making introducing healthy cells to replace infected cells for Parkinson's disease. For those of you who missed the meeting, if you would like information, please let me know, I will provide a contact for you.
Next Friday, July 18th, our speaker is Tony Perez, Operation Game On, a charity that serves severly injured military personnel by teaching them and their families to play golf while coping with their disabilities. This is Randy Jones' guest.
See you next Friday!