PAT ZAMBUSCH gave the inspiration. His theme was Flexibility and Adaptability in reference to our last-minute program change. He had excellent quotes from various luminaries, including President Kennedy and Yogi Berra. CINDY BARBEE-SUGGS led us in the Pledge and Song, “God Bless America”. GARY HIRSCH accompanied on piano. MIKE DALTON introduced our guests and visiting Rotarians.
We had one Birthday Rotarian. VICKIE JACOBS came to Tucson to attend the U of A, which was selected in part because her aunt lived here. VICKIE has been a member since 2002 and is originally from Iowa. She is grateful for her friends in RCOT.
SEAN FURRIER introduced our newest member, SCOTT EHRSAM. SEAN related that SCOTT is a former Class President at Palo Verde High School and two sport letterman there. SCOTT has a history with our meeting place, the Doubletree, as he worked there for 7 years as a young man serving a variety of dinners and banquets, including our own RCOT meetings. He never thought he’d be one of “those” Rotarians. SCOTT is now with Home Instead Senior Care. SCOTT also related that he has a sister with polio that has been very successful in life and is one of his heroes. SCOTT is honored to be a part of an organization with th
e mission to eradicate the disease worldwide.BOB LOGAN introduced, with much fanfare and humor, our newest Paul Harris Fellows: TERESA LIVERZANI-BAKER, SHARLA RONSTADT, BRUCE RICHARDSON, KRISTIN ABEL, and JO DECHATELET.
Sergeant at Arms BOBBY LARSON recognized PAT RASKOB for being the subject of an article in the publication “Friends of the UofA Dept. of Agriculture and Life Sciences. PAT has helped create a Certified Financial Planner designation program for U of A students to work towards while in school, for both personal financial expertise and future job prospects.
BOBBY also facilitated the following announcements:
- MATT BLAIR has designed and sold over 7,000 Tour de Tucson shirts and is thanked by the club for his service.
- President CHUCK displayed a slide of our upcoming October schedule, and pointed out that we have no lunch meetings on 10/24 and 10/31.A make-up mixer on 10/30 in the orange grove behind the Radisson on Speedway will be finalized in the coming days.
- President CHUCK also announced our leading candidates for the Blue and Gold Ticket Selling teams, CHARLOTTE HARRIS and BILL HARLOW.Both candidates were featured in very compelling political ads, with all the requisite mud-slinging, on the video screen.
- PAT DAVITT gave an update on the Car Show Silent Auction.Also, PAT noted that only 11 spots are left for the Car Show Dinner.
Our Program featured Daniela Diamente, founder of El Grupo Youth Cycling. El Grupo’s motto is “Empowering Youth Through Cycling”, and achieves their objectives by providing structure, high expectations, and life skills through their after school and summer camp programs, amongst many other offerings for our community’s young cyclers. Daniela signed a book for our MWFB’s Library: “Lily and Bear Grumpy Feet”.President CHUCK closed the meeting with a quote from another luminary of the 20th century, Yoda, as featured on the El Grupo website. “There is no try. There is only do, or do not”.
