1. Winter
Weekly
Reader
Volume 52, Issue 114, January 23, 2014
UPCOMING
MEETINGS
January 23
“Plano ISD Teacher of the
Year Award” Karla Oliver
January 30
General Rick Lynch “Adapt or Die”
Williams, a Paul Harris Fellow investigating the Club for membership.
many of you will admit to
having caught that reference?) to summon the
February 6
Jamee Jolly “Texas House of Representatives District 66 Primary
Election Candidate Forum”
(Joint Forum with Plano
Chamber of Commerce)
February 13
Alex Johnson “Four Way Test Contest”
February 20
Earnest Burke “Annual Black History Celebration Program. (Meeting
adjourns @ 1:30).”
JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS
Hammel, David
Little, Pamela
Via, Jo
Anderson, Jim
Solomon, Yoram
McWhorter, David
Aris, Jerry
Showalter, L.B.
Millender, Sherman
Brodhead, John
Feigenbaum, Alan
Kilmer, Bev
D
had
another program lined up for this
day, but at the last minute, it fell
through, and Earnest Burke pulled his fat
from the fire by taking charge in just the
manner that David had told us he wanted
done: presentations by members.
President Kirk plunked his magic
twanger (be honest: how
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Club’s attention at 12:18,
calling upon DG Ean
Sullivan for the Invocation and Rick Horne
(unassisted by an AWOL
Scary Bob [Randy was substitute photographer]) for
the Pledge. Bev
Kilmer was credited with Greeting.
Calling
Rick
Maucieri as substitute sergeantat-arms, Kirk
fined him $5 over
his hesitation about announcing the presence of Dennis Luellen (Frisco Rotary).
Rick protested, “How do
you spell the difference
between Dennis and Denise?” Bert Kraft was
here again from Metro,
presumably as a spy to
confirm the rumor that
Plano Rotary wants to
buy Metro.
Earl Simpkins welcomed Linda
James, and Herb Hoxie introduced Ed
Rick’s victim for Inside the Rotarian Studio was DG 1st Lady Jan Sullivan.
Jan grew up in Tiffen, OH, (Seneca’s County
Seat) taking, as her 1st job, maintaining the
Buffet line in her family’s restaurant. She
attended New Columbian High School
where she was a “band geek, choir geek, and
intramural geek.” Larry Cummings was
her 1st date, and, yes, Ean knows about him.
Ean wasn’t even her 2nd, that honor went to
Ted Brockney. Favorite movie: Parent
Trap, “a chick flick.” Her dream vacation is
a beach on Hawaii. College: University of
Kentucky. Masters: Divinity at SMU. Rick
wanted to know if she could marry folk.
“Yes, but not divorce. But I can bury you.”
His response: “You just did.” She’d take Ean
to the proverbial desert island because “he’s
handy and creative.” Her Dad would accompany them. Greatest achievement: her
two children. Joined Rotary in 2000, and
her greatest memory was meeting a doctor
from Indonesia at the Bangkok Convention.
Kirk honored Sara Akers for one year
in Rotary. Chris Parr and Kelly Palmer
(12), John Ernst (13), Olin Jaye (20), and
Mark Geller (38).
He acknowledged
Birthday checks from Pam Little, Dave
McWhorter, and Nancy Humphrey who
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2. swore hers was for double her age. Birthday greetings
went out to LB the Radiant and Sherman Millender,
and Jerry Aris.
Jamee Jolly announced that there’d be a Candidates’
Forum here on February 6th.
Dennis Luellen invited us to Plano’s
Chilly Chili Cookoff
with Silent Auction at
Rutledge’s Party Barn on January 26th.
Kirk announced that several fellow
Rotarians arrived at Memorial Elementary
to judge the Science Fair, but only Sainted
Editor showed up in a lab coat. Kirk had taken his Girl
Scout cookies to Memorial to avoid temptation.
He also proselytized for our completion of the Club
questionnaire on line to raise our participation level from
the current 50% to Randy’s target 93%.
He acknowledged Camille Ussery for her yeoman
work organizing our Angel Tree project. He thanked her
on behalf of the Club which gave her a round of applause.
Dave McWhorter had promised his shortest introduction to date of speaker, Earnest Burke, “Mr. Wonderful.”
Not surprisingly, Earnest’s theme
was (I have a) dreams. He spoke of a
Rotarian flying back from Malaysia in
1979 dreaming of initiating a Rotarian
project that would change the world.
And we’re “this close” to achieving his
dream, the genocide of the Poliomyelitis
virus. He talked to a local pediatrician
who passed the request on to vaccine
researchers Jonas Salk and Albert
Sabin, who had the ear of the World Health Organization.
“Dreams have strange effects upon many people.
Some feel dreams and some don’t dream as much as they
used to.” What Dr. King dreamed was that the world
would “be better if we were all good to one another.” (Indeed that message has been extent for over 2 millenia.)
In particular, it would be improved if we each internalized King’s notion that “The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
No one thought in 1979 that we’d all be toting tiny cell
phones that would become our standard of communications. “Someone had to dream that.”
Dr. King’s dream was that one wouldn’t “be judged by
the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” He carried on nonviolent reaction to prejudice after
the model of Mahatma Gandhi, whose philosophy was
to use the very force of attacks to condemn the attacker. It
was used by Dr. King to achieve what he wished for the
United States.
“Traveling extensively around
the country, I’ve seen ‘The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly,’ and, yes, I’ve seen
the movie too.” Communicating with
one another opens doors, so “when
I’m President,” “We’ll have toga parties?” interjected one harasser. No, a
President Burke “will get that done.”
Plano has “dynamically embraced” Martin Luther King. Then
Mayor Florence Shapiro walked in the first Plano MLK
Parade in 1985, commenting to a chatty Earnest that this
was “the best event the City has ever taken upon itself to
do.” Earnest thought he was having one of the best days
he’d had since he moved to Plano, and this was before Earl
Simpkins told him he’d been chatting up the Mayor all the
while.
So he takes pride in chairing the event this year, planning the (last) weekend with activities outlined in the flyers
on our tables. It begins with the 17 th Candlelight Vigil organized by Plano Community Forum. Ever safety conscious, they will be flameless candles.
To promote the Power Leadership Breakfast, he enlisted the aid of Cary Israel, whose Collin College will host
the event “because classes don’t resume until Tuesday.”
Cary noted that, as last year, the Collin students have made
a documentary movie, hoping again for the accolade: Best
Student Video in the nation. The event will draw every
elected official from Collin County and its major cities.
Cary won’t be giving them talking points because he wants
them to “think on their feet,” and, being “younger than
35,” he expects that they can. He believes the College is
right to host it because “there’s a tremendous amount of
prejudice on campus,” a stunning no-holds-barred admission. And, as always, it will be stark raving free.
Sunday sees the All Community Choir performing at
the 1st United Methodist Church. And (this) Thursday,
PISD will host a program in Williams High Auditorium
which Myrtle instructed Earnest to present in exactly these words: “Tell them all that I expect to see them there!”
So she’s given us our marching orders.
John Ernst asked, “How long is the
award-winning video?” and was told “12
minutes.” Well, he continued, “Why not show
it here?” “We did. You were absent when we
screened it.” “OK,” he concluded, “I’ll have a
private showing,” actually in the privacy of
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Earnest, a TI employee when he arrived
here in Plano’s “bedroom community,” wanted
to thank the City for all the opportunities it
has given him to get things done. “I feel very
good about it!”
Kirk presented him
with the “coveted Rotary
Clock,” and launched into
diatribe about the opportunities for advertising offered
by the Weekly Reader’s
back page. Randy Wright
made his perennial offer to
auction off the ad space.
Tino introduced his late-arriving duo of
guests from Venezuela, Rotarian Janet
Lopez and her daughter, Diance Romen.
Janet arose to make a banner presentation in
Spanish, which Tino apparently didn’t dare to
translate. Then Diance
thanked us in English
for our banner, and
there were hugs all
around for President Kirk, who
immediately
announced his departure
for Venezuela.
But, as his flight
hadn’t yet been called,
he had time to lead us in the Four-Way Test
and Bell us out at 12:59.
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Guests & Visiting Rotarians
Guest
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Linda James
Diance Romen
Herb Hoxie
Earl Simpkins
Tino Frujillo
AWARDS:
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Dr. Myrtle Hightower
Visiting Rotarian Home Club
Dennis Luellen
Bert Kraft
Janet Lopez
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