Minutes of July 10, 2014 Club Business Meeting

1. Welcome new members Rose Defa and Amanda Torres!
2. Rotary Moment: Susan Marks and Laurie Pisani shared about wearing your pin, and how folks notice and ask you about it. Judy shared about traveling internationally & visiting Rotary Clubs & how that makes you understand how big Rotary is.
3. Reminder about Installation event at the Dodo this Saturday July 12 2-4pm. $30 p/p.
4. Linda Book’s swim party is on Saturday August 23, 6pm. Pot luck details to follow.
5. Random suggestions: Mustafa is an expert on clean energy and should present sometime. Perhaps the club should get polo or t-shirts.
6. Frank needs assistance in planning our Strategic Planning Retreat for October.
7. Our guest speaker was Sarah Ann Whitbeck, who suffers from hydrocephalus, and is a volunteer for the Hydrocephalus Association. She discusses the disease which has no cure, the age groups it effects, and the difficulties someone with the disease must struggle with. There is a Hydrocephalus Walk at Murray Park on Friday, Sept 12, registration at 5pm and walk at 6:15pm. Our club will support as our September service project.
8. Miriam discussed Chapter 2 of the Century of Service book on Rotary. This chapter talked about how Paul Harris started Rotary in Chicago as a networking group in 1905. The name “Rotary” grew out of the early club members’ decision to ‘rotate’ their meetings between each others’ offices. The membership grew and became quite exclusive. The organization got bad press because the membership seemed elite and only interesting in furthering their own business success. In response, the first Rotary Club took on service projects in the community as a core value. After one year, there were 140 members of the club.
9. Wine into Water update (Friday, Sept 26 starting at 5:30pm $50 p/p – members there at 4pm to set up):

• Judy reviewed the importance of members using the online payment system we will have to secure RSVPs before the event. Pay by credit card or check, but send names to Laura Egbert (Ladd’s accountant) beforehand to ease check-in. Invitations should be ready in mid-August.
• Frank will talk to Instant Payments about the system, and will make sure Laura Egbert or Ladd are good with downloading the excel format ‘backend’ of the webpage and adding RSVPs to ease check-in.
• Frank will recruit members for check-in.
• Ladd will secure wine and a sommelier from Pago, Jason will secure wine and a sommelier from Kiler Grove, Steve Barth will work with High West,  Laurie will get Wasatch Academy of Wines and one other wine tasting station that John Zone will pay for. We need Paul for grape juice!
• Rose Defa will ask her son to be our background musician. Plan B is the Barth’s neighbor.
• Laurie will pick up the 4 tables from the Youthlinc office.
• Andrea will bring a water dispenser and will donate 100 wine glasses for the event.
• Danny will buy two pop up tents for club use for this fundraiser going forward.
• Please check Judy’s previous email for your job for the event, and start asking friends to come!

1. Our July service project is the Rotary RAW bike race in Logan on Saturday July 26. Contact Shannon Tilly if you want to go shannon.tilly@hsc.utah.edu
2. We raised $31.54 in Happy $$ towards polio relief in the Polio Pig tonight.

See you on July  17 5:30pm at Café Madrid.