Welcome to my Rotary Blog!

Welcome to my Rotary Blog.  I've decided as President –Elect (Thank you very much, Simi Sunrise for having faith in me!) to start a blog and begin to journal my thoughts on a blog to share with the club.  Blogs are an interesting creature, they typically will morph into a very user friendly page where bloggers can not only read the content that has been posted, but add comments and thoughts as well.  Perhaps now is the time to give you a slight warning, you have nominated an educator, although I was a dirt farmer, always outstanding in my field (that’s a little humor for Marshall), I even had all my agriculture students do a lot of writing, reading and pushing the educational envelope with new ideas and technologies.

Hopefully this blog will follow me not only through the rest of this year, but as your President-elect next year and your president the following year.  We’ll see if it’s still alive (or that matter if I've survived the year) and continue on as the Past President’s blog.

This morning after consuming some of the best tasting ribs I have ever had for breakfast (and for dinner as well), it finally hit me that there was no turning back when Steve Smith asked for the vote…although I was campaigning heavily for the “no” vote, it seem to be close to unanimously ( George Kerr???) and the standing ovation took me by surprise…thank you!  Poor Savi had to almost sell her soul to have me say yes (get a glass of wine in her and she might actually tell you what sold/closed the deal), and the support that all the past presidents and the club has been offering I’m sure that it will be fun ride…just going have to strap down my seat belts and enjoy the ride!

Kudos to Pat for putting together an awesome board for his upcoming year, my table mates were all in awe as he named each person that agreed to be part, they all seemed to be a perfect match…from newer members to well-seasoned members and Jim Lowry as Cajun chair…wow!

Here’s the list of Pat’s Board:

                President – Pat Abruzzese

                Past Pres – Savi Bhim

                Pres Elect – Steve Pietrolungo

                Secretary – Dick Erbe

                Treasure – John Tolson

                Avenues of Service:

                Club Service – Vince Dulchich

                Community Service – Paula Williams

                Vocational Service – Mike Johnson & Hal Reniger

                International Service – Pam Perry & Jarrod DeGonia

                Youth Service – Mary Paseta & Wayne Snyder

                Rotary Foundation – Deb Davila & Peter Cicciari

                Directors at Large:

·         Maggie Kestly-Grindstead

·         Gary White

·         Tim Shannon

·         Steve Smith

Cajun Chair – Jim Lowry

Grants Mentor – Doug Feco

Family of Rotary –Stella Ortiz

            Parliamentarian - Craig Foster