President Del opened the meeting at 1230. We sang America the Beautiful, accompanied by the Rotary Brass, consisting of President Del and Brad Burdick on trumpet, Greg Baker on sax and John Dunne and Doug Cole on Trombone.
Nathan Twining gave an invocation relating to Spring pruning and pruning of the busyness of life.
Monty McAllister introduced Isabel Cybula, our Student Exchange student who will be heading to Germany for one year. Isabel is a sophomore at Sehome High School.
Announcements:
The new batch of Rotary Club of Bellingham shirts has arrived! If you already ordered one, or even if you didn’t but wish you had, please see Dominique she has a number of sizes available in both men’s and women’s styles. Cost is $35.00 (pay Sandee).
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.
The Board of Directors approved the transfer of Las Vegas Night proceeds to the RCOBF Undesignated Account to match the value of the donor contributions.
We have opened a Capital One Credit Card for the club to earn mileage for future Convention trips: $15,000 credit limit. It is a Visa – No annual fee
The Centennial Celebration on September 23, 2017 will be held at Four Points by Sheraton at 5:30pm. A ‘Save the Date” email will be sent by Clubrunner soon. It will include social hour, Speaker Howard Bebar, former resident of Starbucks International, now retired, our Video, Music and Dancing with Swing Connection. Tickets will be $100 per person. Jan Marchbanks and her committee will be in charge of completing the details.
Next year Board meetings set again for the second Thursday of each month at 4:30 at the Dorothy Haggen Building.
The Service Fund Committee has approved the following grants and grant requests have been submitted to the RCOB Foundation:
Kids Need Books sponsored by Doug Cole $1,000 They hand out new and gently used books to low-income Whatcom County families each week. The distribution takes place Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Cordata and Alderwood Elementary School pop-up Food Banks.
Evergreen Christian School sponsored by Del VandeKerk $1,000. These funds were approved contingent on them raising the additional funds ($740) needed for the project. They have created The World Music Drumming program that provides students with a diverse music-making experience with drums. They currently have 7 drums and a class size of 15 students. They wish to purchase additional drums
Sandy McIntire reported that there will be a Sunnyland Memorial Park clean-up May 20th from 10:00-12:00
The Board certified Teri Treat as our voting delegate at the RI Convention in Atlanta, Georgia June 10-14, 2017
NEW BUSINESS:
President Del received a letter of resignation from Marilyn Mastor and the Board accepted her resignation with great regret.
The Honorary Membership Criteria revision has been completed and is attached. Click Here
Results of Club Assembly and the District Survey were discussed. President Del will make a presentation to the membership on May 1, 2017
Guests of Rotarians:
Dominique Zervas introduced Izaac Burrows with Corion Landscape and Jennifer Moehl with Zervas Group Architects
Dick Tucker brought Gorgin Arasteh with Dick Tucker Dental Office
Austin Huang introduced his wife Nina
Nathan Twining brought his wife Lisa and daughters Finley and Annalise
John Inglis introduced his wife Donna
Monty McAllister brought our new outgoing exchange student Isabell Cubula and her parents Michelle & Dan Cybula. She will be going to Germany
Presentations:
Austin Huang was given his first Paul Harris award. Congratulations Austin!!
A Service Fund grant of $1000 was awarded to the Assumption Church Holy Hoops program. Lisa Twining accepted the award and provided information about the program, which benefited all 5th grade students at a one-week basketball camp.
Program:
Our program was by RCOB member Dick Tucker titled, “Conquering Major Mountains of the World.” Dick’s first major climb was Mt. Baker, 10,781’. This was so much fun that he set out to conquer a few more. On the African continent, 19,341’Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was next, which he labeled, “Most Cultural.” 20,310’ Denali in Alaska followed and Dick labeled it, “Prettiest.” 19,347’ Cotopaxi in Ecuador was next and will not be repeated as the summit was eliminated by an eruption in 2015. Next was 22,841’ Aconcagua in Argentina, the tallest in the Western hemisphere. 18,510’ Elbrus in Russia was “the most politically interesting and took two tries as the first attempt was abandoned due to weather.
Vinson Massif, 16,050’ in Antarctica was the “most unique” due to the most un-earthlike terrain. Because there is no liquid water, there is no life. The average temperature is -20F. He would like to do it again! The Grand Paradiso in Italy, 13,323’, was the most fun. Dick has since climbed Mt. Baker numerous times, including leading a group of Rotarians to the summit in July of 2010. He also showed pictures of an ascent of Mt. Shuksan and winter ice climbing near Ouray, Colorado.
Dick started climbing because sailing wasn't athletic enough...
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