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Board of Directors

President: Susan Murata

President Elect: Carol Freeman

Secretary: Suzanne Drace

Treasurer: Paul Dryman

Directors

Past President: Richard Williams

Club Administrator: Susan Engler

Community Service: Mario Contini

Family of Rotary: Tony Kourounis

Rotary Foundation: Robert Bianchi

International Services: Chris Lamia

Member At Large: Joani Pappas

Vocational Service: Mike Murphy

New Generations: Russ Cornwall

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Jere Robings Executive Treasurer:

Larry Baker Sergeant-At-Arms:

Matt Lallo, Cal Henry & Phil Koonce Membership: Hugo Roche

Public Relations: Tamara Campbell

Grants Committee: Roger Benson

Bulletin Editor: K.T. Connor & Tanya Caligiuri

Bulletin Photographer: Doug Tapking & Larry Baker

Web Master: Denis Wilson Dave Butcher

Program: April 4th

Thousand Oaks Rotary Foundation

Program: April 11, 2013

4-Way Test Essay Contest

President Susan Murata introduced Past President Vicki Arndt, currently the Chair of the Thousand Oaks Rotary Foundation. Vicki explained the foundation and the money we give to organizations in our community. She noted that we've given $486,442 since 2001. Dennis Gillette, Bob Biery and Steve

Pederson are among those who have put in much work to bring TORF up to where it is today. Vicki thanked Ed Hager for his generous contributions to the fund.

Martin Anderson introduced Laura Donna from the Conejo Valley Adult Education, a new partner for us. Laura explained adult education and gave us an overview of where our money is going for it in our community. Laura showed the impact our contributions has by describing the successes the three students from last year are having.

Vicki introduced Maria Prescott of Hospice of the Conejo Valley who showed us a short video of the services of Hospice, essentially compassion and care for the dying and their families. She acknowledged our club’s impact on its activities.

We give 50% of the proceeds of the Wine and Art Event to Ventura County Special Olympics. Vicki introduced Honorary Rotarian Rafer Johnson and members of the Long Beach club and the California Special Olympics. Lois Curran-Klein, Susan,

Vicki and Joani presented a check for $31,901 to Rafer Harry Selvin added $5000.

Rafer gave us a short history of Special Olympics, and thanked us again for our generous contributions, highlighting Carol

Schreiber, Ed Hager, Harry Selvin and Roger Benson. Rafer presented a Certificate to Susan in recognition of our club.

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Guests:

Introducer

Inspirer

Thousand Oaks Rotary Meeting

April 4, 2013

Visiting Rotarians were Joe Joyce from Thousand Oaks Sunrise; Tom Ligave from Carpinteria; and Monica McDade and Jane Netherton from the Long Beach club. Our guests were Ernie Sandlin, guest of Jere Robings; Cynder Niemela, guest of K.T. Connor; Thor Challgren, guest of Susan Murata; Lordana Carson, guest of Martin Anderson; Summer, Sierra and Mike, guests of Tammie Helmuth; and Karon Wright, guest of Lois Curran-Klein.

Guest Rotarians Monica McDade and Jane Netherton came forward and exchanged club flags with President Susan Murata.

Susan asked us to please keep Hugo Roche's wife, Eleanor in our thoughts and prayers; she has taken a turn for the worse. On another note, she noted that Dan Overton is home with a bad cold.

Susan pointed out that we were given table assignments in response to member surveys to mix up our seating sometimes. On the tables are results of the member survey and suggestions. She also issued a reminder to red-badgers: April 13th is the District Assembly in Oxnard, a good opportunity to meet one of the requirements for membership.

Program: April 18

Paul Harris Unsung Hero Award

COMING SOON! April 13th District Assembly

Pacifica High School, Oxnard See Carol Freeman for details.

SURVEY RESULTS ARE

OUT

See pages 5 & 6

FINE SESSION

Chris Evans asked a series of questions specifically pinpointing interests of those picked to answer . Those fined were Sevak Khodabakhshian, Natalie Bradley, Mike Hoffman, Ken Kossoff, Norm Nagel, Neal

Scribner and Kyle Lundberg.

President Susan Murata opened the meeting introducing Daryl Reynolds, who introduced Geoff Eich for the Inspirational Moment. Vicki Arndt started us in singing God Bless America.

Martin Anderson introduced our visiting Rotarians and guests.

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Announcements:

Ed Jones said that about 23 people have taken yard signs for the Chili Cookoff. He has a few more for those who would like to put one up for us. He congratulated and thanked Anne Savko who took 20 posters and has put them up already; others doing so are Brad

Kraines, Dan Overton, and Carol Robinson. He needs more people to volunteer to do poster distribution.

Patricia Jones updated us on the Chili Cookoff fundraising. We are now at $16,300 towards our goal of $20,000.

Joani Pappas said that if any red-badgers want to go with her to the District Assembly on Saturday, contact her; she will be leaving from Los Robles Greens.

Carol Freeman will be sending an email today with the forms with which to sign up for District Assembly.

PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS

Steve Pederson awarded the following Paul Harris Awards: Maria Sanchez 2nd John Bradley 4th Phil Sheridan 4th K.T. Connor 4th Cal Henry 5th Carol Schreiber 6th Steve Stanley 7th

Tammie Helmuth joined Steve at the podium, and received her 5th Fellow. She in turn awarded Paul Harris Fellows to her daughters Summer and Sierra, her Rotary helpers at home.

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April Birthdays

Apr 3 Joani Pappas Apr 4 Carol Schreiber Apr 9 Richard Ibarra Apr 10 Hugo Roche Apr 13 Tony Kourounis Apr 17 Peter Winfield Apr 25 Dennis Bays Apr 26 Russell Spoto Apr 27 Tim Weaver Apr 28 Pedro Chavez

Anniversaries

Apr 4 Karen and Stephen Furnari Apr 4 Monica Walker and Rick Bavetz Apr 6 Bob and Pat Biery Apr 21 Lois Curran-Klein and David Klein Apr 25 Chris and Rhonda Lamia Apr 28 Steve and Janice Boggs

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23-26 June 2013: 104th Annual

Rotary International

Convention

Go to Lisbon with the folks who are going. See Carol Freeman for details.

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Happy $$$ (Jeff Matson carried the cup.)

Keith Parks said that his daughter, Ashley, had her presentation before the doctoral board, and will be receiving her PhD in chemistry from Duke in one month.

Lois Curran-Klein pointed out the flyers for the Westlake Village Garden Club’s tour of gardens on May 5th. They deliberately changed the date this year--so as not to conflict with our Chili Cookoff and Lois’ duties there, so that Lois could be the chairman of the Tour the following week.

Steve Pederson (1) spent a week at spring training in Arizona. (2) He seems to be the only golfer who was kicked out of the golfing table to a new table today, but the silver lining is that he is sitting with nice young ladies. (3) He and Pat McCoy, Cal Henry and Robert Bianchi played golf yesterday, and $30 that they contributed goes into the cup today. (4) Fellow Minnesotan, Dick Winchester, foolishly bet on UCLA in the NCAA basketball tournament, and the winnings of that bet are also going into the cup.

Cal Henry said that the $30 Steve thought he won was for the Shot of the Day--which he really didn’t get. The money he received was really a refund of overpayment of the entrance fees. Cal thanked Steve for giving even that to the Happy Dollars cup!

Carol Freeman asked those who took Chili tickets last week to tear into strips, please return them to her if you haven’t already done so.

Matt Morrison said they had a really nice fellowship at the bowling alley last night, celebrating Joani’s birthday. They bowled against the Rotary team - and killed them.

Dave Burns shouted that Matt’ s team must have cheated.

Haider Alawami (contributing his first happy dollar ever) said that the Civic Arts Plaza is celebrating its first 20 years, and are asking us to respond to a survey about the shows. Please go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/tocap_20 for the survey.

Bob Biery and wife Patty are celebrating their 40th anniversary.

Visiting Rotarian Joe Joyce (1) thanked us for making him feel welcome and he loves coming here for lunch; (2) he just found out that Keith Parks is moving--and going to be his neighbor; (3) he thanked Mike Murphy for doing a great job on the vocational projects; (4) new member Natalie Bradley will be helping with the New Generations Symposium at the District Assembly; (5) he has flyers for the Conejo Valley Days kickoff poker tournament fundraiser, proceeds going to Many Mansions, Wednesday, May 1st.

Karen Furnari is celebrating 14 years of wedded bliss with Steve.

Keith Parks pointed out the flyers on the tables for this year’s Midsummer Eve Wine event, Saturday, August 17th, 4:00 – 7:30. The first committee meeting will be next Thursday in this room at 11:30. Anyone wishing to participate please contact Keith.

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We Asked Ourselves: How Are We Doing? (Survey of January, 2013)

WHAT THE CLUB IS DOING RIGHT OR WELL

Membership: Well rounded representation of businesses “Tremendous” effort to support club events and

activities Camaraderie and fellowship of club members Engaging of new members to commit to “Service

Above Self” Attract and maintain good members Diverse membership (Age and Employment) Members are “movers and shakers” of the

community Club members are generous Volunteer service by members Outstanding members, friendly, open, good

humored, fun, happy Young members make all the difference

Service and Activities:

This club is active in all areas of service Club gets things done Social Events: Mystery Night, Fireside Chats,

Temperance Society, Choir

Fundraising: Club is strong in fundraising Events are well organized (Chili Cook Off, Wine

and Art, Street Fair) Club is raising more money than before Club asks members to participate in

sponsorships to their ability to give High participation in Paul Harris Fellowships Involvement by the community in our events Leveraging of dollars for projects Fiscal Strength – balanced budget International Committee is awesome

Communication:

Club keeps past officers in the loop Newsletter, web site and public relations

Meetings: Susan is doing a great job Everything is done well … well-oiled

club Running of the meeting- good Food is good Consistently good and balanced

programs Members take meeting obligations

seriously Inspirational Moment is wonderful Fine sessions are great Giving a book to speakers (to sign) for

school libraries

Avenues of Service and Club Organization: Our club’s commitment to Polio

eradication is wonderful Our club President serves one term -

new dynamics Committee structure works well Project management structures are very

effective Much improved Vocational Service

Committee – great leadership

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THINGS CLUB CAN IMPROVE ON

Service and Activities:

Need more social events looking into Happy Hours, Summer Picnic

Shift emphasis to participation and less about money. Avoid “rich man’s club”

Improve attendance a Fireside Chats

A surfing club

Bowling scores need improvement

Hold lunch or social with Interact and Rotaract Clubs

Lunch or social with all Rotary clubs from the Conejo Currently do Group 4 Mixer, will be having Group 4 social/mixer May 23rd

Select Vice-chair to assure continuity of three major fundraisers already required, not always successful

Better document how we organize events – planning and implementation guides already completed for Street Fair, working on Chili Cook Off and Wine Event

Mix up member job assignments on club events

Increase number of members participating

Increase club member participation in Wine & Art event

Don’t require club members to sell/buy raffle tickets for Wine & Art event confirmed

Hold a new fundraiser for Autism

Meetings:

Healthier food (Need more Zucchini, too much Zucchini

Large Room – gives the impression of a more successful club with room for more

Quarterly Craft Talks, Weekly Craft Talks featuring career highlights Starting weekly Craft talks this month thru end of year

Mix up seating

Have a Program Committee This year's calendar is full thru year end. Looking at having committee for next year.

Membership:

Need another District Governor from our club Felix Masci is former DG. Any Volunteers???

Hold new member socials Membership committee is working on this hopefully this year

Conduct member education about the club Foundation this is done in Foundation month and April

Better mentoring of Red Badge members Currently establishing a Mentoring program

Need a more formalized process to make new members feel welcome

Work harder to retain new members

Create an “associate membership” for two business partners or husband and wife Investigating this.

Need more local business women in club

Create a “new member advocate” for women, by women in leadership

Need younger members

New members are not asked to serve on committees Yes they are; they are assigned to a committee when they are inducted

Improve on diversity of club

Need more opportunities to meet new members

Programs relevant to business community

Improve sound system

More Off Site Meetings Avenues of Service/Club Organization:

Improve Club officers reporting to members about Foundation, Club Activities, Annual reporting of Fundraising: Reported on ‘State of the Club” in January. Club Assembly held later this year will further update members.

New Generations Outreach

Train more members in Internat'l Grant Program

Club Survey forms should go to committee chairs – especially new members

Communication:

Improve publicity of club events

Advertise donations to the public

Technology, social media developing a BLOG

Wear Rotary shirts and pins, pins with magnets

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SOME OF WHO WE ARE……

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58-59 DONN ODELL

59-60JOHN HEYWOOD

60-61 MARV BURROW

61-62 ROSS DUSKIN

62-63 ROY McCOMBER

63-64 PAUL PACE

64-65 JOHN CONLAN

65-66 CARLOS SCURIA

66-67 MERRILL DARLING

67-68 PHIL OZAB

68-69 WILLIAM VANDERZWANN

69-70 ALVIN J. HOLTZ, JR.

70-71 BEN CRANMER, JR.

71-72 GLENN GOODWIN

72-73 GEORGE VASLIEFF

73-74 HENRY STILL

74-75 JOHN TUEL

75-76 KENNETH HANSON

76-77 DAVID HUANG

77-78 WILLIAM HAAS

78-79 FELIX MASCI

79-80 HARLAND JONES

80-81 DAVE WENDER

81-82 GEORGE GIBB

82-83 NORMAN NAGEL

83-84 BILL PETERSON

84-85 MIKE O’BEIRNE

85-86 MARV SOSNA

86-87 FRED FERRARINI

87-88 DOC NEEDHAM

88-89 KENNETH ROBERTS

89-90 JEFF BORENSTEIN

90-91 DENNIS GILLETTE

91-92 MERV KOPP

92-93 TOM GLANCY

93-94 HUGO ROCHE

94-95 BRIAN BACK

95-96 TONY KOUROUNIS

96-97 JACK CAINE

97-98 DICK WIELER

98-99 JUDY ST. JOHN

99-20 MIKE GONZALES

20-01 NEIL SCRIBNER

01-02 BOB BIERY

02-03 HARRY SELVIN

03-04 RICK LEMMO

04-05 DOUG TAPKING

05-06 KATHY HILL

06-07 PETE TURPEL

07-08 VICKI ARNDT

08-09 MARTIN ANDERSON

09-10 KEITH PARKS

10-11 FRANK CORRIGAN

11-12 RICHARD WILLIAMS

PAST PRESIDENTS

ROTARY CLUB OF THOUSAND OAKS

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