ROTARY REMINDER ROTA RY C LU B OF AUSTIN PRESIDENT C L UB N O. 6 3. D IS T R I C T 5 8 7 0. A US T IN, TX. Harold Ingersoll PRESIDENT ELECT Dale Lowe VO LU M E 5 3, I S S U E 4 7 JU N E 7, 2 01 6 PAST PRESIDENT Todd Smith VICE PRESIDENTS Club Service Ann Graham Community Service Mary Reynolds Global Service Ellen Hunt Membership Service Elvin Pool Vocational Service Richard Payton THE ROTARY FOUNDATION Michael Portman SECRETARY/TREASURER Mary Bird Bowman SERGEANT-AT-ARMS Bill Koen EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jennifer Olsen FUTURE PROGRAMS 6/14 Past District Governor Sherri Muniz (India) 6/21 RCA Awards Program 6/28 Changing of the Guard Program 7/5 NEW ROTARY YEAR...Speaker T.B.D. MEETINGS AND EVENTS 6/7 RCA Rotary Connect Committee Meeting, Sumners Meeting Hall (St. David s), 11:00 a.m. 6/8 Downtown Austin Breakfast Cluster Meeting, Magnolia Café (on Lake Austin Blvd.), 7:00 a.m. 6/16 RCA MasterMind Group Meeting, Mimi s Café (in the Arbor Walk), 7:00 a.m. 6/17 Wine Tasting hosted by Charles and Betsy Doty Summer Wines, 13726 Wild Turkey Pass, 6:00 p.m. (RSVP with Charles) SUSAN G. MORRISON LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Susan brings over twenty-five years of experience in school law, employment law, construction law, and litigation to The Fowler Law Firm. She serves as the Chief of the Employment Law Section. Ms. Morrison ran a statewide private practice representing public entities and employers from 19852009. She is an experienced harassment prevention trainer and investigator as well as an expert in religious rights, free speech, and constitutional law matters. Ms. Morrison is a former Assistant General Counsel for the Texas Education Agency and a former administrative law judge. She trained other administrative law judges for twenty state agencies through the University of Texas Hearing Officer Certification Program. She currently represents employers, school districts, and other governmental entities on all kinds of employment disputes, open meetings and public information, grievances, student discipline, special education, and other matters before the TEA, TWC, EEOC and the courts. Philanthropy & Community Service Susan devoted several years to Adopt-A-School activities before expanding her attention to Communities in Schools, the leading drop-out prevention program in Central Texas serving over 60 campuses in six school districts. As a CIS Past Board President and member of the Leadership Circle, Susan helps fundraise and advocate for homeless and struggling students to receive services in order to Stay in School and graduate. Susan is also a fan of the League of Women Voters and served on the Austin Area Board as editor of the Voters Guide and membership co-chair, increasing members by 6% in two years. From 1979 to 1983, Susan worked with the League to get the constitutional amendment passed allowing for garnishment of wages for child support legislation that had been attempted every session since 1958 finally passed and became law in 1983. She now focuses on public education and voter registration issues, and fundraises for voter education and registration on the League of Women Voters-Texas State Board. The Rotary Club of Austin meets most Tuesdays, from 11:30-1:00, in Sumners Hall at St. David s Episcopal Church (301 E. 8th Street)
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 2 RECAP FROM LAST WEEK S PROGRAM Rotary Club Assembly May 31, 2016 by Past President John Braun The meeting was called to order by President Harold Ingersoll. Harold Benkoski led the pledges, Laraine Lasdon gave the Invocation and Kirk Loerwald led the reciting of the Four Way Test. Lillian Aaron was our Greeter, and Steve Stearns introduced our guests and visitors. President Harold introduced our newest member, Chelsea True. Chelsea is sponsored by Brad Wiewel, and since Brad couldn t join us Membership Chair Elvin Pool stood in for him. Welcome, Chelsea! Don Busby exchanged his Red Badge for a brand new Blue one...congratulations, Don! Then we heard from Bill Baker during the Member Spotlight; and Mary Reynolds presented Past President Sherry Workman with the Rotary International Interact Club Presidential Citation Award that the Fulmore Middle School Interact Club received in their very first year! Way to go students and congratulations to Sherry, Darrick Eugene, Byron Wilkenfeld and Debbie Simmons for their leadership! President Harold made several announcements then Executive Director, Jennifer Olsen, drew Jim Furman s name as the Paul Harris Fellow winner during the Thank Goodness Basket Drawing. We also heard from Jim, Sherry and Past President Gaines Bagby during the Thank Goodness Basket led by Michael Portman. This concluded the business portion of the meeting so we broke for Fellowship and to visit the stations of the various Committees represented to learn about them and sign up to volunteer for the upcoming year. If you have questions about any of our committees, or to volunteer for one or more, please contact Jennifer in the Rotary Office.
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 3 SOCIAL CIRCLE UPDATE Wednesday, June 8 Downtown Austin Breakfast Cluster Meeting at Magnolia Café (on Lake Austin Boulevard) at 7:00 a.m. Thursday, June 16 RCA MasterMind Group Meeting at Mimi s Café (in Arbor Walk) at 7:00 a.m. Friday, June 17 Wine Tasting Hosted by Charles & Betsy Doty at 13726 Wild Turkey Pass theme is Summer Wines at 6:00 p.m. RSVP with Charles See page 6 for more info. Sunday, June 26 RCA Changing of the Guard/DG Installation Luncheon for Bruce Golden at Horseshoe Bay Resort at 11:30 a.m. RSVP on our Rotary District website See page 7 for more info. Thursday, June 30 RCA North Breakfast Cluster Meeting at Waterloo Ice House (on Burnet Road) at 7:00 a.m. IN RECOGNITION FOR THEIR SERVICE TO OUR CLUB We d like to take a moment to recognize and thank the hard working members of our Hospitality Committee who helped us before last week s meeting (on May 31, 2016). Lillian Aaron, Nadir Abdeladim, Myron Burse, Bill Davies and Steve Stearns Thank you all for your service! If you d like to assist the Hospitality Committee at any of our weekly luncheons, please contact Bill Davies (or Jennifer Olsen).
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 4 ROTARY BIRTHDAYS The following people are celebrating their birthdays this week: Amy Jackson (June 6th) Pat Von Dohlen (June 11th) Please join us in wishing them a VERY happy birthday! PROSPECTIVE MEMBER (OPEN REVIEW PERIOD) Per the request of the Board of Directors, all prospective/transferring members will now be posted in the Rotary Reminder (newsletter) for an open review period by all members. We ve received the following Proposed Member Application for consideration: Jeff Lambert is sponsored by Michael Portman THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK to notify Elvin Pool, Membership Committee Chair, if you have anything you d like to share about Jeff. WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOST A ROTARY WINE TASTING? It s easy...we plan to have monthly wine tasting parties (the first one is coming up on June 17th, hosted by Charles and Betsy Doty), and we need volunteers to host! Please contact Charles Doty if there s an upcoming Friday evening any month from July, 2016, to June, 2017, when you d be willing to have a group of Rotarians each bring a bottle of wine and share Fellowship at your home! If you ve got questions or if you d like to volunteer please let Charles know!
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 5 PECAN SPRINGS EARLY ACT FIRST KNIGHT PROGRAM The Pecan Springs Elementary School s EarlyAct FirstKnight (EAFK) program had their knighting ceremony at the end of May and we knighted and chartered their student service club. kids did several service projects including: made greeting cards and cookies and took them nursing home across the street and they became pen pals with kids in Mexico and Kenya exchanged letters. last The to a and IN MEMORIAM We re profoundly sorry to report that Richard Payton's mother, Helen, died peacefully minutes after his father, Howard s, funeral on May 29th. Helen and Howard had been married for 62 years. Please join me in continuing to keep Richard and his family in your thoughts and prayers during this tragically devastating time of grief.
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 6 WINE TASTING HOSTED BY CHARLES & BETSY DOTY ON FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH SUMMER WINES
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 7 RCA CHANGING OF THE GUARD/DG INSTALLATION LUNCHEON ON SUNDAY, JUNE 26TH
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ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 9 2016-2017 COMMITTEE PREFERENCE SHEET PAGE 1
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ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 13 SUPPORTERS OF THE ROTARY REMINDER (PAGE 1) ROTARY CLUB OF AUSTIN: 301 E. 8TH STREET, AUSTIN, TX 78701 PHONE: (512) 462-1333 WWW.ROTARY-AUSTIN.ORG E-MAIL: OFFICE@ROTARY-AUSTIN.ORG
ROTARY REMINDER (6/7/16) PAGE 14 SUPPORTERS OF THE ROTARY REMINDER (PAGE 2) ROTARY CLUB OF AUSTIN: 301 E. 8TH STREET, AUSTIN, TX 78701 PHONE: (512) 462-1333 WWW.ROTARY-AUSTIN.ORG E-MAIL: OFFICE@ROTARY-AUSTIN.ORG