Newsletter

(5-18-06 Meeting)

 

Opening

Steve Govreau opened the meeting and led us all in the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Guests

 Today was the “Mother of All Guests Attending Days” as there were about 15 total.

           

            Guest                      Representing                  Sponsor/Host

            Scott Dold               Dold Family                  Mark Dold

Emily Spencer          Strater                             Dave Ganevsky

John Marshall         California                           Former HNR

Clint Jaworsky        Acordia                          Leanne Jaworsky

Phil Zartman           Red Badges                    Evening Club                 

          *Bob Tyner               Eye and Ear                   Bill Cartwright            

            Dana Burns              Mike’s Wife                  Steve Wheeldon

            Brad Kreikmeir       Red Badges                    Morning Club

Marcella                  Exchange Students

Marcella’s Dad                                               Marcella

Ray Scmudde          Reed Library                  Chandler Jackson

Susan Weirather      Ted W.’s wife                Ted Robson

 

 

* Bob (a noontime Kiwanian) is the Director of the Eye and Ear non-profit that provides assistance to those who need glasses or hearing services in our community.  He has been in the organization for 20 years and he was on a recruiting visit to Rotary seeking volunteer directors for the agency to replace him and fill a couple of other director vacancies on the Board.  Give him a call, he is in the book.       

 

                                   

Visiting Rotarian

Tom Crabb was visiting from Coral Gables, Florida and is about to close on a house locally.  Tom Galbreath was visiting again from the Caribbean Club.  Nancy Hammond, one of our own in High Noon Rotary who is on a leave of absence, graced us with her presence.  We miss her and she misses us.

 

 

New Member Inductions

 

 Mike Burns, president of Alpine Bank, was introduced by sponsor, Steve Wheeldon.  Steve was able to shout down the Doubletree loudspeaker system in order to wax eloquent about Mike who, according to Steve, is both a young buck and has young blood.  When Mike was able to pull together a $16 mm loan and make a good deal for a client, Steve deemed he would make a good Rotarian and predicted Mike would be president of HNR some day.  Mike talked about not being a high school graduate, the education system in Ouray, marrying his accounting tutor, Dana, at Mesa State and becoming a two time father soon.  He also announced the opening of the bank at the new location on October 10th.  Mike will do us proud.

 

Sponsor Ted Robson introduced Ted Weirather and mispronounced his name for the 7th and last time.  Ted W. is a very seasoned Rotarian who rose through the ranks to be president of his former club within 18 months of his acceptance in the club.  Not satisfied with that lofty achievement, he went on to be the assistant district governor during the very next term.   Ted W. is a retired banker of 33 years experience having been the VP of commercial lending in a $46 billion dollar bank.  Ted W. was drafted and served our country in Viet Nam and Germany prior to turning his talents to banking.  Ted and his wife, Susan, are from Iowa, love Durango and are currently building a house here.  You can bet that Ted W. is going to keep us all on our toes.

 

Announcements

 Steve Govreau gave a run-down of the 5/16/2006 Board meeting’s significant events.  He highlighted the Board’s approval of the $25,000 check for the children’s play area of Buckley Park when that project is approved by 9R. He also cited the $21,000 in scholarships approved for this year with disbursements of funds this fall. Finally he discussed the $3,000 allocation for dictionaries for third graders in the 9R school system and St. Columba.  Steve also mentioned that the Board approved $300 for him and Dave Ganevsky to purchase supplies which they will cook for a fund raiser for the Women’s Resource Center on June 2d.  The entire efforts is expected to raise $30k-$40k.

Manuel Pozo-Alonso announced a get together on the patio of Carvers on May 27th to honor the armed forces.

 

Sgt. of Arms

Mark Prouty was back and in his prime. A fine went to Jim Burpee for a wedding anniversary.  Ted Gibson paid a happy $ for his bike trip to the Napa Valley along with a number of other superannuated folks at his table.  Vern paid a $ since he was happy his house does not sit along Highway 1 of the California Coast.  Bill Cartwright paid a couple of bucks in recognition of Nancy Vanderwal sitting at  the Ted Gibson, Vern Swanson, Bud Poe and Bob Chaput table and bringing the average age down by 15 years.  Ellen Stuart Roberts paid to announce an ice cream social that she is throwing down near Bondad in a place called Avalon Acres which is also near the Durango Nature Studies Park.  Ellen said that your attendance does not mean that you have to vote for her. Monte Bjorling paid a $ to celebrate her first meeting as a full fledged HNR member.  Judy Heafley paid a birthday fine which she said was for being the “new forty.”  It did not qualify her for the discount though.  Bud Poe paid a fine because he is “a joiner” and wanted to keep up with the fast paced crowd that he runs with at his table.  Mike Matheson proudly announced that his daughter’s Destination Imagination project team from Riverview was the State winner and now they are on their way to Nationals.

 

Program

The program was our very own Chandler Jackson who put a few librarian stereotypes to bed.  Subdued and fragile he’s not.  Big, hairy and loud he is.  Chandler gave an excellent, fast paced summary of all the information resources available to our community at the Fort Lewis Library.  Among other outstanding attributes, the FLC library was voted as having the best views of any library in Colorado.  (Chandler had several pictures in his power point that proved this point). It is also open 80 hours a week, has ample parking on weekends and from May to August when enrollment declines. It has five group study rooms, 20 network ports, 190,000 volumes and is the most heavily used of any academic libraries of its size.  The library has a number of different data bases that would be particularly useful to local businesses and are real time. In short, we are lucky to have this valuable information resource in our community and more folks should take advantage of it even if you only go there to get away from the hub-bub of your work place.  Great presentation Chandler! The next Librarian action figure should be patterned after Chandler.

 

Closing

Steve Govreau gave us an update on his son Brian’s exchange experience in France.  Brian is looking forward to coming home after having the opportunity to stay with four French families.  It is reported that Brian is extremely well mannered and speaks French fluently. It would make any parent extremely proud to get that kind of report.

 

Marcella, our exchange student, thanked the club for its hospitality and invited any HNR member who wished to attend her graduation.

 

Steve rang the bell to release us.  It was a very full meeting.