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It's his last month, and Prez Phuoc still is not collecting sufficient fines. If he's going to make it up by October 1, watch your wallets! Today started off in disorganized usual fashion with no one prepared for anything. However, tickets were sold by Volunteer Roberta, GBA was led by Bob Rice and Bill Fay gave a pithy invocation. It is VC's month but she is away on another cruise and no plans were made for the meetings. We had a great last-minute speaker today, but more on that later.
We had a club guest – scholarship winner Richard Gong, formerly of Albany High, but now attending Harvard dropped in to tell us "whas happening". (Isn't that how they speak back there?) JP introduced Richard with the comment that after he had been awarded the scholarship we "lost touch", but tenacious Grumpy found him. Richard has taken a bit of time off to gather himself (translated: "earn money") and plans to get back to his Junior year "soon". He is
studying computer science (duh) and investments and noted that his two "heroes" are Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Not so much for their accumulation of wealth, but what they do with it. Sounds like Richard would be a good Kiwanian.
A couple of familiar faces were seen at the back table and Debra introduced them as Miguel, a former BCKer and Dan ?. Is he "the Guy"??? Anyway, application action was seen at that table after the meeting.
Monica was called up to introduce her UCB Circle K compatriots, and she identified Joe, Gail and Alex, all very important members and also very familiar. Of course, Grumpy had problems (has problems?) with their names, but then that's normal. There's a very important "first meeting" of the UCB's best service organization in Dwinell Hall Room 145 next Tuesday, and Kiwanians are especially invited. A large crowd of potential members have signed up and apparently the current officers don't think the presence of us old folks would discourage any of them. And, Monica gets extra points today, she didn't "punt" to Joe or Alex at all. She's now the "in charge" Kiwanis Family Chair.
There are some important dates in the near future calendar.
TONIGHT (if you receive this by e-mail on Wednesday) there will be an informal meeting of Debra's group at the "Cactus", top of Solano Ave. 6 PM .
THIS FRIDAY evening the often post-poned BK Social at Speisekammer in Alameda
THIS SATURDAY evening the Division 2 current LtGuv will become "Past" and the new LtGuv will be installed. It's too late to make a reservation, but I'll bet Jack could squeeze you in. We haven't seen Ed in a while, but maybe his back will permit him to make that event.
SEPT. 11, 12 and 13 we hope to accomplish the drainage project at Longfellow MS. The sign-ups have been sparse, and JP hopes to get more folks interested.
SEPT 20 is our OKTOBERFEST. A very few tickets have been sold and we need all members to get to work and sell them as well as buy their own and sign up to help out. It is a fund raiser, after all, and we should all be participating. A dedicated few will attempt to sell tickets after all the weekend services at the Oktoberfest venue the next 2 weekends.
SEPT. 23 (Yes, that's a Tuesday) we will celebrate the installation of Phuoc to status of Past President and usher in the year of Denise. It will be at Chevy's in Emeryville, and of course you all will be there. DO NOT come to the City Club that day – we will be meeting for dinner instead of lunch.
SEPT. 24 and 25 will be RIF
The weekend of the 24th/25th will be the Key Club training weekend and drivers are needed who can also spend the night as chaperones. Phuoc needs to hear from you.
There was some mention of a couple of very senior Kiwanians attempting to install bulletin boards at Le Conte School. It took 2 hours to figure out the job Thursday afternoon and then about 55 minutes to do it Friday morning. And both of them are still walking around.
There was mention that the tennis ball brigade struck at a school in San Leandro (or nearby) this past week and still has a large supply to be handed out.
Duane has 09 Entertainment Books available for $25 and expects the Eco Books any day now.
Among the many H/S$ was Sandy who was sorry for her neighbors who had the fire and happy that it didn't spread to her house. We can all agree with that.
Our speaker was none other than Linda who wanted to bring us all up to speed on the quilting project. Sounds as though the quilts are being turned out on her production line and she had some samples of the types that are being made. For those of us who don't really know a quilt from a blanket, she explained that a quit is analogous to a baloney sandwich. The outer quilt layers are the bread of the sandwich (the top is fancy and the bottom plain); and the quilt filling is batting whereas the sandwich filling is baloney. One hold the sandwich together with toothpicks, but the quilt is sewn.
Finally, many of these quilts will not be used on a bed but will be hung on a wall. In fact, she is now getting into artsy quilting which is meant to be hung only.
jp
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