PrezDenise called us to order (what a silly word choice --"order"-- to describe this group!). Frank led us in an enthusiastic, mostly on-key, GBA. Who was collecting ticket money?? Scribe observed a number of people. Evie, I think, gets most of the credit. Sandy called for His blessing on us and our work of "one child at a time". Bettye was in charge of the fine Fine Box.
Albany had a half of an inner club! Karen (scribe guesses Jack was the other one). Karen, it was so great to have you at our meeting. Roberta, aka The Secret Greeter, pronounced us all friendly, except for Karen, who was quickly forgiven.
Frank is chair of the December programs; please contact him if you can volunteer—you can lead the singing (Frank refuses during December), collect money, bagger folks for fines, etc, etc, etc.
THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE
Saturday November 22 9AM to 4ish PM
Contact Denise or Phuoc for details.
-Location one: 3000 9th St., Oakland
-Location two: 247 East 18th St. Oakland
RIF is coming in December. VC will be getting us the details.
HOLIDAY AUCTION
December 2.
-Tickets are $15 now ($20 at the door)
-Donations needed
-Contact Denise or VC
-Some of the donations include deYoung tickets, His Lordship dinners, ice cream maker, marmalade, cozy dinners with fellowKiwanians, etc, etc ,etc.
INTERCLUBS
We had an interclub November 19 at Alameda to sell HOLIDAY AUCTION tickets (thanks to Roberta, Frank, JohnP and Tamara).
Interclub planned to Richmond to sell HOLIDAY AUCTION tickets too.
CIRCLEK were here in force (even if it took a bit of time for all to come dribbling in). Welcome Joe, Tiffany, Joshua, Rocky, Dmitriy.
-November 21 is the Thanksgiving Kiwanis Family dinner at the Blisses. 5-10PM.
-November 22 is the Herz Playgound Workday 8-1 AND the Gateway Garden Gardening 9:30-1:30.
-November 23 is the Lakeview Elementary Gardening 9:30-1:30.
=0 A -Remember their General Meeting is each Tuesday at 7PM. Contact Phuoc for details.
Frank's donated a $ per year to the Kiwnais Foundation in celebration of his birthday. He refused to lead us in the Happy Birthday song; he refused to agree to let us sing the HB song. So we, under Phuoc's direction, hummed HB.
HAPPY AND SAD
First a note of sadness . Allen Coe's son-in-law, Brian Pugh, was murdered last Friday. Services are November 21 at 1pm at the Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos. Contact Frank for details.
--Ed read a thoughtful, moving poem, one of his own, in memory of Brian Pugh
--DadJack sad for CAL's loss, but happy to have had a great trip and time with friends
--RevBill sad for CAL's loss, happy that CAL WILL beat Stanford
--Jeff for the "infamous" trip to Oregon, the reunion with Neal and Jackie Henderson, and the unbelievable consumption of sweets….and liquid
--BobR happy to be getting rid of his stitches and sad about the Oregon game
--Karen happy that Denise is president
--Duane sad for CAL's loss, and comments about averaging 58 mph and 21.2 mpg
--JohnP for all the Park Hills folks present (Karen, the20speaker and JohnP)
--Denise sad for Allen's loss
RevBill introduced the speaker, Bill Huyett, Superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District. Bill has been an educator for 35 years and a superintendent for 13. Previously he was Lodi's superintendent; he just recently came to Berkeley.
Bill started by commenting that he was giving blood when RevBill came by with juice and cookies and refused to give him either until he promised to speak at one of our meetings!
Bill likes the size of Berkeley Unified: small enough to be personal, large enough to have a staff that can help.
A previous goal was the 2020 Vision—all kids would reach state proficiency by the time they graduated. This goal was initiated with last year's kindergarten group. And three pre-schools have been set up to get the younger ones ready for kindergarten.
He has 5 goals:
Teach proven curriculums adopted by schools and teachers—all teaching the same curriculum that gives proven results
1. Teach a diverse curriculum that takes into consideration diverse folks
2. Engage parents in the curriculum
3. Recruit and hire the best, and be diverse within that caveat
4. Invest in teacher and staff development.
Bill chose Berkeley unified because he knew the school's reputation (superb) and liked challenges (budget). Budget cuts are intense and there is rumor of a midyear additional 3 million dollar cut to education, via the governor.
Berkeley schools and the community support the arts, have improved school buildings, support smaller class size and have an incredible sports program.
Bill was a powerful and engaging speaker. We should all be proud to have him our Superintendent!
Scribe was surprised to learn (and it does impact Kiwanis) that it is a state law that no group ( e.g. parents, service club) can do any work for a school that a union member could do. It's the law, California law.
And an addition to last weeks' Newsletter:
Duane's military escapades were left out. ROTC to Adjutant General Corps. Processed GIs for oversees.
RevBill helped Denise close the meeting by leading us in The Pledge.
(tjp)
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