President Del welcomed a great turnout for our traveling Rotary meeting, and thanked BTC and their Culinary Program for the wonderful lunch.
Announcements:
The April 13th Board of Directors meeting has been changed to Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 4:30 at the Dorothy Haggen Building.
The Rotary Club of Everett is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. This means that the RC of Everett has been thru the "Great War", the "Roaring Twenties", the "Depression Years", "WWII", "Baby Boom", "Viet Nam", "Watergate", "the Berlin Wall", "9/11", the "Millennium" and they keep on going. They are holding a (click on invitation) Charter Day Party, May 2, 2017 from 5:30-7:30.
The annual Major Awards nominations are being accepted by the Executive Committee for The Will J. Griswold Club Service Award, The David C. Morse Sr. Community Service Award, The Michael K. Mischaikow International Service Award and The Karen W. Morse Vocational Service Award. They will be presented on June 26th at our changing of the guard. Please turn in nominations to President Del, Past President Chuck Snyder, Teri Treat or Sandy McIntire.
Here are documents explaining the criteria and past receipients: RCOB Major Award CriteriaRCOB Major Award Winners
President Del announced Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner date is April 28, 2017, 6:00 pm and urged us to sign up as a host or participant using the Sign Up sheets on our tables.
Guests of Rotarians:
Dominique Zervas introduced Izaac Burrows with Corion Landscape and Sabrina England who works with Dominique
Steve Adelstein brought Sue Cole
Bob Trunek introduced his wife Diane
Andy Day brought his wife Connie Cogburn
Jack Westford introduced his wife Nancy
Scott Wallace brought his wife Marge Laidlaw and grandaughter Teagan
Dan Whittle introduced his wife Holly
Presentations:
Rotary Minute
Brian Griffin noted that we (as a club) turn 100 in 2017. He recounted the last big milestone of 50 years as a time when he (Brian Griffin) was President, they met at the Leopold and Horace Griggs (John’s grandfather), Stu Blythe, Bob Diehl, Jack Mulhern and Ron Jepson were noted as members that year.
He recalled that in 1969 there was a move afoot to put apartments along what is now Boulevard Park, the permit was not granted and thence started the move to preserve the waterfront, prevent loss of view, provide public access and an eventual park. Rotary stepped in early 1974 to help move the project forward. In 1980 Boulevard Park held its dedication ceremony, a major accomplishment for Rotary and Bellingham.
Program:
Kim Perry welcomed the group and introduced us to 4 remarkable students:
Heather Meyers, a HS dropout, former drug addict and survivor of domestic violence, who graduated from the welding program and is successfully holding down a full time job.
Cheryl Alvis, also a recovering drug addict, managed to graduate from BTC and is currently a BTC employee in Advising and Career Services.
Booie Borden is the first of her family to graduate from College, she is a single Mom , was Student Body President and graduate from the Precision Machining Program and now works at Intalco.
Chris Zacharias was in an auto accident, which resulted in his being a quadriplegic, got involved on the Student Leadership team, involved in Accessibility Resources, graduated with a Civil Engineering degree earning placement on the President’s List.
Kim mentioned this was only a small sampling of the terrific students attending BTC. She then released us to go on our various campus tours.
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