Newsletter - Archive  Nov 5, 2009

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

Welcome to New Members Sr Pastor Stan Van Den Berg

& Retired Engineer Pete Moriarty

Milt Stamos and George Poulos split the pot

We started the new month with an invocation by Millie Alexander followed by the Flag Salute by

Jill Kuli and the sang the "Marine Corp Hymn" led by former Marines Milt Stamos and Neal Peake.

Guests:

Inge Drost- visiting Rotarian from Denmark

Lorraine Glenn- wife of Rotarian Jim Glenn

Induction of New Members Sr. Pastor Stan Van Den Berg and Pete Moriarty a transfer to our club

By Steve Stern

Stan Van Den Berg was sponsored by Jim and Lorraine Glenn.

Pete Moriartyis a retired engineer who has recently moved to Villa Park he was a Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow in Louisiana.

Welcome to the club.

 Steve Stern Inducts New Members Stan Van Den Berg and Pete Moriarty as Jim and Lorraine Glenn look on.

Announcements:

Tom Davis  announced that the club made about $400 at last weeks Halloweenfest despite lots of competing food options.  Thank-you to Tom Davis, Steve and Lainey Stern, Craig and Millie Alexander,  Ken and Bob Meyer, Ken Fischer,Paul Hudson, Lesslie Giacobbi, Jim Glenn, Jay Lieberman and Jay Applebaum and other Rotarians Eric Sense, Greg Mills, Teri Brooks, Craig Beinlich, & Jill Kuli who helped out at other booths to make this a successful community event.  Photos from the event can be seen on this website in the Photo Album Section.

Steve Stern is planning a fireside chat for new members in the near future..stay tuned for the date

He also announced that the VP Women's League is sponsoring a home tour on December 11thand his home is the Hanukkah House- he will be making brisket and latkes for 600 and needs some freezer space- contact Steve if you can help provide some space in your freezer. 

Foundation Dinner is this Saturday Evening at the Irvine Hilton- 6PM featuring key note speaker

Fritz Coleman NBC weatherman and comedian.  $75/person- so for club attendees include: Steve and Lainey Stern, Jay and Terry Applebaum, Pam and Art Dunn, and Lesslie Giacobbi- its not too late to sign up for this event- that will feature a Parade of Clubs and our club being awarded a 100% Paul Harris Banner.

Secret Greeter - Tom Davis, who claimed to have avoided this job since joining Rotary, did a great job of collecting the dollars from those unfortunates who didn't shake his hand.

Happy Bucks:

Jay Lieberman just returned from a trip to DisneyWorld in Florida with his grand daughter.

Millie Alexander- was happy that the Chargers beat the Oakland Raiders and that she got to meet tennis legend Rod "The  Rocket" Laver before the game.  She thanked Eric Sense for the introduction. See the photo on our website's Photo Album.

Bob Kreisberg is now able to video stream from his office and has already made contact with some prospects.  He streams under the name OpusBob.

Ken Meyer is going to Texas to visit with his wife Angel, who apparently has a list of honey-do projects for him.  Ken asks that we all pray for rain.

TerI Brooks announced that it is son Foster's 27th birthday and was proud of his 8 years of Army Service

Jim Brodsky returned from a trip to Cabo San Lucas with another big fish story- he claims to have hooked a 400 Blue Marlin that got away; he did catch a bunch of Mahi Mahi that he had prepared in various ways by the hotel chefs.

Nagy Ibrahim- soluted the World Series Win by the New York Yankee who beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in game 6 of the World Series last night.  This is the Yankees 27th Title.

Tom Davis announced that 10 of our Live Oaks from the tree nursery have found a new home in Mason Regional Park in Irvine.

Greg Mills sold two ornamental frogs to Bryan Nash who will display that in his new turtle pond

John Broussard just returned from a several week trip to Europe- he visited many countries, saw many castles and churches.

Stan Van Den Berg, whose son is on the Villa Park High Cross Country Team, announced that the team has qualified for the CIF  finals.

Greg Mills made one more plea for the names and address of Oktoberfest attendees and donors so thank you letters can be sent.  Contact Greg so  we can get these letters out.

Drawing:  Milt Stamos and George Poulos split the winnings which are close to $1200-  they say they are going to Athens, Greece Stag.

Speaker:  Capt Bob Meyer

Bob relived his WWII glider pilot experience through a documentary done about him by the Dutch Government.  He went back on a recent trip to the Netherlands to commemorate their liberation from the German Army.  This included  visits to museums, landing sites and other places where he served 65 years ago as he says, " not to be honored, but to thank the Dutch for helping the crews of the gliders and the soldiers during this conflict".  Thank you for sharing this with the club. It's hard to believe that Bob is 87 years old. We should all raise a glass and toast Bob for all the things he does for our club and our country's  service people.

Veteran's Day is November 11th - Thank You to all of you who have served our country and helped preserve our freedom throughout the years.