Bulletin for March 5, 2007
"Mind Aerobics " with Chance
Massaro, author of "Easy Genius"
By Anne Abrams
Preliminaries
| The meeting was called to order promptly by President Chris Rosell. |
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| John Palmer led us in the pledge. Rotary Moment offered by Willard Richards, about the pleasure of being apprehended when doing a good deed that no one would have found out about. Now that is good timing. | |||||||||
| Pres. Chris Rosell thanked the following Rotarians for providing Club Service at this meeting: Bob Zeni for covering the till, Louie Capuano for selling raffle tickets, Gary Lucas for set-up, Greeter Pam Davis, Willard Richards for Rotary Moment, Jim Valinoti for photos, Anne Abrams for bulletin, and Susan Nowacki for program. Thanks to Gary Lucas for getting everyone present and on task. | |||||||||
| Gary Lucas introduced our two Visiting Rotarians from Sunrise Club, George Wagner and Randy Sealy. Guests of Rotarians today were Glenn Ceruche, from Smith Barney and Jeff Gilman who announced the great news that donors have stepped forward and St Rose Shelter is not going to close after all. GREAT NEWS! |
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| Gary Lucas circulated the club service sign-ups and encourages all to sign up. | |||||||||
Announcements and Such:
| Crab Feed Talk: Our President elect, Fred Zmarzly announced that we have a few volunteers for next years Crab Feed Committee. Susan Nowacki volunteered to be in charge of the Silent Auction. Bill Dodson signed up again for Crab/kitchen duty (AWESOME crab this year by the way) and Gail Johnson will be in charge of decorations. However we are still in need of a Crab Feed Chairperson and a Chair for the bar unless we decide to go to the Vets Building. We all thought that Chris Young raised his hand to volunteer but it was to nominate Dave Wattell for the job. I think Chris you should give it another thought... David McDonald did a fantastic job so that is a hard act to follow. Thank you all for volunteering!!! |
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| Foundation matching donations: Harry Rubins, Foundation Chair, announced that a club match has been authorized to encourage additional contributions to our Paul Harris accounts. This helps members to achieve their Paul Harris ($1,000) for their or their family member's Paul Harris Award. These donations are the heart of Rotary and they are fully tax deductible. This offer is only available for the next four meetings, not counting the week we are dark for St. Patrick's Day and expires after March 26 so act now. Last year we had 95% of the club members participating. As of last week we had just 55% and this week it is up to 60%. Let's see if we can make it to 100%. The club match is good for any donations over $140.00 and up to $300. Thanks to all those who have already participated. Funds to the Foundation will benefit RI efforts in our District 5130 and throughout the world improving Education, Health Care, Nutrition, and World Peace. Questions: hrubins@foothillsecurities.net or call 542-9449. |
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St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Club Social: We will be dark on March 19 as we will be attending the St. Patrick's Day Dinner that night at Sam's For Play restaurant on Cleveland Avenue in Santa Rosa.
A member of the Petaluma Rotary Club announced an invitation to attend a "Pot O' Gold" party for March 17 from 6-10 PM. The event includes a Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner, Raffle, and Live Irish Music and Dancing with Atlantic Shore. Tickets are $30 and reservations are required by 3/14. The event will be at Hermann Sons Hall, 860 Western Avenue, Petaluma. Call 283-8039 for more information.
Petaluma Club will also sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt free to children 10 and under at Lucchesi Park at 320 North McDowell Blvd. Petaluma 10-12pm on Saturday, March 31st. The event includes children's activities, beverages, and snacks, Easter Bunny, martial arts demos, face-painting, and Clo the Cow. Call 773-2273 for information.
Recognition
Chris Young (Mr. Volunteer) was recognized for volunteering Dave Wattell for Crab Chairperson. He was also recognized for 19 years of in his words "marital bliss" ($20 for the anniversary).
Gary Lucas returned from Waikiki Beach where he celebrated his 38th anniversary. He donated $38 split between the Club and the Foundation.
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Jim Benoit was fined for something about Idaho and remodeling a house ($20) but the side talk overwhelmed the note taker.
Mike Merrill has been spending a lot of time training the incoming District Governor. He's enjoyed the chance to work with board members in this capacity. He's also been able to fit in some cross-country skiing into his schedule. Thanks, Mike for the $200. donation to the Foundation.
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Fred Zmarzly having misplaced the bag of marbles protested a fine saying the marbles could easily be replaced for $3. He was reminded that they were in a special velvet bag which might indeed represent a greater loss. He suggested burlap. It cost him $20.
Louie Capuano announced the merging of his company with two other firms. His company went from 3 employees to 70 employees and will power up in two weeks with three drill rigs from Texas. Work will begin at Geysers as well as Nevada and Southern California. Sounds auspicious Louie. Congratulations. Thanks for the donation to the Foundation matching program!
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Raffle
Janet Codding produced 26 pennies for the raffle and Chuck Olson won the bottle of wine. Jim Valinoti lost his chance at the odd penny.
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Program: "Easy Genius" with Chance Massaro
Matt Delaney introduced our speaker Chance Massaro who hails from San Francisco State University and UC Davis. He has written 4 books and provides much training to Santa Rosa Junior College on managing time and learning. His latest book is called "Easy Genius".
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How many of us have said "I'm having a senor moment"? Chance Massaro invites us to take a different approach and to look at what you DO remember under the theory that "what you think about comes about." He mentioned five principles to become aware of in improving your memory: focus on what you remember, how you remember it, use your senses, make associations, and recall what you did later.
Chance Massaro talked about the following steps as a recipe to remember using as an example trying to remember names:
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| Chance Massaro, author Mind Aerobics Workshops 707/526-9196 www.mindaerobics.net |
When we have positive associations with a person and a name, we are more likely to remember that name. Associations should be personalized to our own strengths, such as interesting language, math, visual, spatial, and emotional content etc. Bill Fisher shaves his head and calls himself baldy, for example.
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