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Subject: Rotary - Rotary Club of San Jose eBulletin - May 9 2009From: "Welcome to the Rotary Club of San Jose Web Site" <[email protected]>Date: Sat, May 09, 2009 10:36 am

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Welcome to the Rotary Club of San JoseWeb Site

Rotary Club of San Jose eBulletin

for Richard FribergSaturday, May 09, 2009 Club Web Site

Hello Richard! This email has been sent to you as a friend of our Club, courtesy of WebAdministrator. We hope you enjoy receiving this newsletter!

Editor: Web AdministratorIf you have any comments orquestions, email the editor.

Future Speakers

May 13 2009San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed"The "State" of the 10th LargestCity in the US"

May 20 2009Jim "Griff" Griffith"The World of eBay"

May 27 2009Rotarians Personals"Personal/Scramble"

Jun 3 2009Club President"Rotary BBQ"

Jun 10 2009Tony West"Obama's new DOJ pick"

Jun 17 2009Gavin Newsom"Is He Running for Governor? "

Jun 24 2009Club Debunking Committee"Our Club President's Year"

Upcoming Events

100 Year Celebration - PastPresidentsMay 11 2009

Downtown DevelopmentCommittee -- 8 AMMay 12 2009

Membership CommitteeMeeting -- 7:30 AMMay 12 2009

Program Committee Meeting-- 11:45 AMMay 12 2009

Rota-Arts Committee Meeting-- 11:15 AMMay 13 2009

Club Finance Meeting -- 7:30May 13 2009

New eBulletin In Club Runner

The first "Official" eBulletin will be sent out on May 22, 2009. Only people in our database will get the ClubeBulletin. You can add friends to the email list. Use this feature after loggin in and choosing My Friends. This is a great recruiting tool for new members!

Only Club members can login. Club members can login by downloading the instructions located on the left inthe Brown column under SITE PAGES by clicking on the link titled "How to Login." Only Club Members whoare in the Club database can login. NOTE: This site is password protected and encrypted.

This new site is run by software developed by DOXESS. It is called ClubRunner. ClubRunner is the award-winning membership management and communication platform for clubs and districts. We hope to be ableto better organize our club, improve our communication, and empower our members by using this software.This software supports the web page, eBulletin, event planning, Club Email system, the membershipdatabase, meeting attendance, and many other things.

Your Public Relations Committee reviewed many alternatives and after a year of study, recommended to theClub Board to use the ClubRunner Software. The Board approved the recommendation.

Issues about the web site and eBulletin should be directed to the Web Administrator by [email protected] and NOT to the Rotary Office.

Speaker for May 13by Administrator, Web

With San Jose facing a $78 million budget shortfall, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed willprovide the Mayor's annual update to Rotary on the state of the city. From closing thebudget gap to the possibility of new professional sports franchises, Mayor Reed willanswer Rotarians questions about the issues you care about most.

From his small-town roots in Garden City, Kansas to his role as Mayor of America'stenth-largest city, Reed has always had a strong work ethic and a focus on honesty,

fiscal responsibility, and open government. In his early years, Reed's family lived in a publichousing project, teaching him from an early age the importance of government aid for workingfamilies. As a child, he took jobs sweeping floors while still in elementary school, digging ditches,shoveling gravel, and working in the fields before becoming a teenager and working part timeoperating a bull dozer and driving an 18 wheeler semi truck while in high school.

Reed left Kansas to attend the United States Air Force Academy and served in Thailand during theVietnam War. He received a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University andgraduated from Stanford Law School.

Mayor Reed and his wife, Paula, have been married for over 35 years. Paula manages a medicalclinic specializing in the care of cancer patients. They have two children, Kim and Alex, who bothattended public schools in San Jose. Kim is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force with more than 100combat missions. Alex works in Washington D.C. to help prevent the spread of weapons of massdestruction.

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Rotary Meeting -- NoonMay 13 2009

Rotary Chorus Practice --11:30 AMMay 13 2009

District AssemblyMay 13 2009

District AssemblyMay 16 2009

Board of Directors Meeting --4 PMMay 19 2009

Adult Gift of Life Meeting --7:30 AMMay 20 2009

Digital Bridges Meeting --11:15 AMMay 20 2009



Endowment Board Meeting --7:30 AMMay 21 2009

Los Amigos de WashingtonSchool Meeting -- 7:30 AMMay 21 2009

International Service Meeting-- 12 NoonMay 21 2009

Rotacare Committee Meeting-- 4:00 PMMay 21 2009

Trustee Orientation -- 8:30May 21 2009

Red Badge Meeting -- 7:30 AMMay 27 2009



Membership InvolvementCommittee Meeting --7:30 AMMay 28 2009

Spring BBQJun 3 2009

District 5170 Celebration 2010Apr 23 2010 - Apr 25 2010

News

May Birthdays

District 5170 -- 2010 --Celebration!

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Rotary Golf Eventby Administrator, Web

WHAT: SCRAMBLE TOURNAMENTWHERE: Boulder Ridge Country ClubADDRESS: 1000 Old Quarry Road, San Jose, 95120WHEN: Thursday, May 14th TIME: Shotgun 12:00pm

FOOD: Appetizers to Follow PRIZES!!!PRICE: $130.00

SIGN UPS: Email Steve [email protected]

District Assemblyby Administrator, Web

San Jose Doubletree Hotel - San Jose, CA

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

4:30:00 PM - 9:30:00 PM

District Governor Elect Lorn Harper invites all of his 2009-2010 Club Leadership teams to attend this event.The objective of this event is to share information that will help strengthen our Club Leadership Teams.

Activity Leader: DGE Loren HarperPhone: 408-918-6121Email: [email protected]

Historic Storefront Walking Tourby Administrator, Web

You are the key!

The Downtown Development's Historic Storefront project subcommittee needs your insight, factsand interesting stories to enhance an exciting downtown project. The group is compilinginformation that will go into 30-second audio clips advertised on 2-foot by 3-foot posters in 20+downtown storefronts. Please take a few minutes to visit the Web site, and enter informationbelow each photo on their respective pages.

www.SJHistoricStorefront.com

Save the Date April 23-25, 2010by Gary Shara

SAVE THE DATE for our District 5170 Celebration on April 23-25, 2010 atThe Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort and Spa. Enjoy golf at the Old DelMonte Golf Course, the oldest golf course west of the Mississippi andadjacent to The Hyatt Regency. Tennis at the beautiful courts of TheHyatt Regency. Park, stay and play for the weekend. EnjoyMonterey/Carmel, music, wine and good food, the arts, excellent Forums,speakers, entertainment, hospitality and fellowship as we celebrateRotary and what Rotarians do. Gary Shara will be the District CelebrationChair and Kay Walker will be the Manager so we are looking forward toseeing as many of our friends as can make what we know will be awonderful weekend. More details to follow, but just a tease, the roomrate for this 5 Star Hotel that just underwent a $50,000,000 renovation isfantastic! See you in Monterey. Contact: Gary Shara at


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[email protected] for more information or to volunteer to help.

Prepaid Lunch & Parking Optionby Administrator, Web

To eliminate the awkward issue of having cash or preparing a weekly check, many Rotarians haverequested the option of paying for their Lunch and Parking charges in advance. The Club Boardhas now decided to make this option available to all Members.

The following conditions will apply to this program:

1. A Member must prepay for a one year period.

2. During the one year period, each participant will be entitled to:

All Rotary lunches at the Summit CenterAll parking at the Summit CenterWaive all Missed Meeting charges

3. This will not include the Holiday Lunch or the Barbecues.

4. The one year period must start on the first of a month.

5. There will be no credits or refunds.

The charge for this program will be $1,272.

The Rotary Office can either send an invoice or you may decide to pay using your credit card.

This offer will be available to Rotarians from February 23 until June 30, 2009.

Please contact Carol at 408-297-6100 for more information or to enroll in the program.

Meeting Summary of May 6by Administrator, Web

05-06-09 Rotary Summary

(More photos available after text)

This was another of President BERT's innovative Chat 'N Chew meetings. No speaker, but plentyof speaking among Rotarians. It went like this:

The reception line consisted of Jason Stein's Membership Involvement members.

As usual, there was Bert's Wine Line, with participation not only in the meeting room, but alsoout on the . whaddya call it? . veranda.

Those of you who participate: how do you do it? I'd be asleep all afternoon!


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At about 12:20, President BERT rang the bell and told us that we have about 35 minutes forvisiting with fellow Rotarians.

Incidentally, the luncheon had a Hawaiian theme, thanks to Cyril Isnard's Fairmont Hotel.

So we chatted among ourselves. I was lucky enough to sit next to Police Chief Rob Davis, so mychatting was especially fun.

At one o'clock, President Bert rang the bell and started the meeting. In other words, the planwas to devote the first half hour - normally President's time - to the Chatting. And devote thenormal speaker's time to what would normally take place before one o'clock.

With PHIL STRONG and PAUL TUMASON leading us, we sang God Bless America.

President Bert called on TODD TREKELL to provide the Reflection, which Todd did, admirably. Before he began, he noted that it would be brief. Some of us, having already endured standingthroughout the singing, were delighted to hear that. It was something of a departure from someof our more recent Reflections which, while interesting, were really too long. Editorialcomment: Does the Reflections Committee (if there is one) appropriately instruct the Reflectorswhen assigning them?

Anyhow, Todd's brief reflection follows:

If you think you are beaten, you are;If you think you dare not, you don't.If you'd like to win, but think you can't,It's almost a cinch you won't.If you think you'll lose, you're lost,For out in the world we findSuccess begins with a fellow's will;It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are;You've got to think high to rise.You've got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.Life's battles don't always goTo the stronger or faster man;But soon or late the man who winsIs the one who thinks he can.

WALTER D. WINTLE, Thinking aka "The Man Who Thinks He Can"

Although JOHN MCLEOD was scheduled to do his thing, he was called away from the meeting, and we went directly to introduction of guests, with CHERYL MARTINEZ handling the one of thetravelling microphones. I noted that, although he wasn't scheduled to do so, CLARENCE STONEhandled the other one. Clarence made a point of the fact that he is related to LARRY STONE. .Orwas it the other way around: namely, that he was NOT related to LARRY.

Appropriate boos.

President BERT called on JACK WIMBERLY to talk about the San Jose Store Front Project. Jacksuggested we take a look at the website called sjhistoricstorefront.com. I just did. Thecommittee is hoping to place pictures of historic San Jose in storefronts, especially during theupcoming Jazz Festival. Asks for us to provide information about those pictures. Sounds like avery interesting project for Rotary.

President BERT next alluded to his impending departure from the President's podium and said he'dlike to thank two other Rotarians who have helped him this year. He called up JOE WYNN andJACK HAYES and thanked them for their activities in connection with the weekly wine-line.

He asked us how we felt about the Chat 'n Chew routine and got a lot of positive "yeahs"

Told us that, next week, he's going to see the Giants play and that, as part of that trip, he'sgoing to visit with an old Rotarian: Rabbi JOE GITIN, who will be 103 years old.

And that, pretty much, was it. The time was 1:11, and BERT told us that the meeting was over, but that we could stay and continue our conversations, which some of us did.

Respectfully Submitted By: Bob Kieve, Rotary Summary Committee


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Photos Provided By: Paul Tumason


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