THE LIGHT, Volume 83, No. 40, June 30, 2007 Rotary Club of Maywood Bulletin
Attendance, June 21, 2007
Anderson, Dawson, Fox, Hall, Huntington, Laabs, Libka, Mitchell, Murphy, Peoples, Sanchez, Sykes, Williams, Wilson, G. Woll, J. Woll, Wright
Attendance, June 28, 2007
Bruno, Dawson, Fox, Hall, Huntington, Klaas, Laabs, Lewis, Libka, Mitchell, Murphy, Peoples, Sykes, Wilson, G. Woll, J. Woll, Wood, Wright, Yarbrough
Guests: Modupe Oladeinde (Wright), Jason Irving (Yarbrough), Jessica Bruno (Bruno)
Make-ups
None were noted at either the 21st or 27th regular meeting
Adorations
Please keep the family of Rotarian John Lewis in your prayers so they may recover from the loss of his daughter due to a drowning accident.
Speakers
June 21, 2007 – Evan Plummer, our Ambassadorial Scholar, gave a wonderful presentation on his time in Mozambique. He went there with the intentions on learning Portuguese, in which he appeared to have mastered. He told us how he acquired a better understanding of the importance of perseverance, having to deal with racism in a country with unwritten rules on the matter. During his visit he was able to become an art instructor at a school he had tried to be a student at. He highly suggests visiting the Rotary Club of Polana if you ever get a chance. Evan said he felt the most welcomed each time he visited them. “Icaro Maputo” was a fantastic film he produced and starred in, based on the story of Ikarus, with reflections of his own journey. Look for it to be a winner at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania this July.
June 28, 2007 – Sue Smallwood, District Governor, joined us as a representative of Alliance for Smile. We presented her with our check to support the cause. We in-turn were presented with a video of her recent trip to Ju Jiang, China where many volunteers performed corrective surgery for approximately 125 children. What a great way to make a difference in someone’s life!
Club Business
My apology goes to Bonnie Libka for the error in the attendance calculations.
Perfect Attendance Awards went to:
Chuck Laabs – 26 years
Gary Woll – 13 years
Bonnie Libka – 11 years
Leon Wilson – 1 year
Honorable Mentions went to:
John Lewis – only 1 day missed.
John Wood – only 1 day missed.
JoAnn Murphy – only 2 days missed
Mike Dawson – only 3 days missed
Jim Mitchell – only 3 days missed
Don’t forget the new year starts on July 1, 2007, so if you want to be among those with perfect attendance, you have to start now. Make-ups are good for 14 days before or after the missed meeting. Let’s see if we can set a new record next year!!
To help offset the cost of producing the video of Richard Hunt creating our centennial sculpture “Reaching Up Reaching Out” President Dawson is selling copies for $10.00. What a deal to have this event captured on film by such a grand producer! Please contact Mike at interprod1@aol.com if you are interested in purchasing one. This is a great way to show Mike how much we appreciate all his hard work.
July 14th is the day for our Third Annual Jazz Fest. Mark your calendars. Mike Dawson will be giving us an update on the details and how everyone can assist in this major event.
If you haven’t purchased tickets to the play “HIZZONOR” showing at the Prop Theater in Chicago, there’s still time. You can purchase vouchers for the show until July 31st. The vouchers are $50.00 and the club receives more than half of the voucher price. This would be a great birthday or anniversary gift for your favorite person!
Reminders
The next board meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 18th at the home of our new president, Mike Dawson. Please reply to interprod1@aol.com so that Mike and Barb can plan accordingly.
The next Capital Development Committee meeting is TBD.
The Presidential Conference “Sharing the Magic of Rotary” is set for July 27th & 28th in South Bend, IN. Club Presidents and any Rotarian enthused to build Rotary. Additional details to follow.
Program for July 5, 2007
Chuck Laabs will begin the new year with a recap of last year. This is one you won’t want to miss!
Program for June 12, 2007
Bob Libka will be speaking to us on the subject matter covered in the book The World Is Flat.
Etcetera…
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold
I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. ~Ada Louise Huxtable
These and more summer sayings can be found at http://www.quotegarden.com/summer.html
AND THERE WAS LIGHT
Murphy, Editor
Bonnie Libka
