President BOB LOGAN opened our meeting with a sad announcement that LIZ MCMAHON is facing surgery for a brain tumor. All our prayers and best wishes to you LIZ!! The pledge/song was led by JOE ZARAGOZA and our inspirational video was “Dogs On The Train.
After introduction of guests and visitors by ROB LAMASTER, president BOB explained that in order to prevent (or delay) the raising of our club dues, our meeting today was underwritten by sponsors Rusing, Lopez & Lizardi (Pat Lopez) and Stewart Title (Shawna Ruboyianes). Pat and Shawna each had a few moments to address the club, recognizing the good things Rotary does. WE think THEY are great, too! Thank you to both companies for your generosity!
GARY HIRSCH introduced our speaker of the day, Charlene Grabowski, CEO of Perimeter Bicycling Association of America/El Tour de Tucson. Now, don’t you just love technology? Great when it works! We had a glitch with our projector, so President BOB continued with our club business while the problem was being solved.
Birthdays were celebrated by TOM ELITHARP and EMERY BARKER. Happy Birthday to you both!
CHUCK SAWYER introduced our newest member, JEFF HOTCHKISS who took the place of retiring Scout Leader KEN TUCKER. Welcome JEFF! 
Then Charlene started her presentation again. What an impressive leader she is! She thanked Rotary for being such an important contributor to El Tour and explained her goals being at the helm. She was happy to report that non-profit El Tour has now raised over $100 Million for participating charities!! It is clear that we need to keep this tradition/event going (which is so important to Tucson), and she is making sure she does all she can to make it happen.
CHARLOTTE HARRIS reviewed the impressive accomplishments of MIKE and SUSAN ANDERSON (WeBuyHouses.com), recognizing the huge generosity of their donations to Rotary, and presented them with pins and a crystal.Sergeant at Arms for the day, BOBBY LARSON, conducted the drawing. KEITH WIEGAND won the drawing but did not draw the King of Clubs to win an even larger amount!
DAVE GALLAHER donated 15 baseball game tickets which will be at the Rotary office for anyone who wants them - no charge!
TCCS 2020 Chair CLIFF BOWMAN introduced JOE DANISZEWSKI (JOE D. as we call him) who is the head of Member Ticket sales this year. He gave us a pep talk on selling car show tickets this coming year. Next week we will sit with our birthday month selling partners to get everyone in the selling mood!
DOT KRET, encouraged us to donate to TRVFA with another of her clever raps, and (after a bad AV day) BRUCE RICHARDSON meekly pled to the membership for more AV volunteers to help at our meetings.
President BOB pointed out the lovely table set for our visiting past exchange students who for some reason did not make it to the meeting and then adjourned our meeting with a toast.
