1. Winter
Weekly
Reader
Volume 51, Issue 114 January 16, 2014
UPCOMING
MEETINGS
January 16
“MLK Presentation” MLK Holiday, January 20,
2014 - Earnest Burke
January 23
“Plano ISD Teacher of the
Year Award” Karla Oliver
January 30
General Rick Lynch “Adapt or Die”
February 6
Jamee Jolly “Texas House of Representatives District 66 Primary
Election Candidate Forum”
(Joint Forum with Plano
Chamber of Commerce)
February 13
Alex Johnson “Four Way Test Contest”
JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS
Hammel, David
Little, Pamela
Via, Jo
Anderson, Jim
Solomon, Yoram
McWhorter, David
Aris, Jerry
Showalter, L.B.
Millender, Sherman
Brodhead, John
Feigenbaum, Alan
Kilmer, Bev
Jan 01
Jan 04
Jan 05
Jan 08
Jan 08
Jan 15
Jan 17
Jan 17
Jan 19
Jan 20
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Jan 24
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The Plano Rotary Club
www.PlanoRotary.com
Polled Not Shafted
HERE
was a surprising number of
members shown up for that annual
equivalent of a colonoscopy: the
Assembly.
relevance of the revelation. He missed
April Spigner, lunching with Dad, Reedy.
Club
Some members, apparently oblivious to the program, even brought guests.
Go figure. But our innovative President Kirk had promised that this would
be unlike any past effort, and he delivered.
So it wasn’t a colonoscopy; it was more like a
trip to the dentist.
Kirk Belled us to order early at
12:10, sending shivers down the spines of his
captive audience; it seemed to imply that he
had 5 more minutes of Club Assembly than
could be fitted into the normal hour. He
called upon LB the Good
for the Invocation and
Jason Kramer for the
Pledge. Kirk commented that it was “g0od to
hear that (Scary) Bob
doesn’t have the flu.” The
Good Captain recognized Sara Akers
for having Greeted and called upon sergeant barbera to announce (1) Visiting
Rotarian and Guests.
nathan welcomed
Dennis
Luellen (Frisco).
he then encouraged
“grand
poohbah and Old
Dog” DG Ean Sullivan to introduce his
guest, Jennifer Beck. The Governorship
has had a salutary effect upon Ean’s introductions; they now rarely involve him tasting his toes. It would have been otherwise
had he introduced Cathy Tyler’s guest,
Diane Korzenieuki; his tongue wouldn’t
have worked for hours. Cathy explained that
she had just picked Diane up from the airport, leaving us all to speculate upon the
In a special “New Year’s Eve Edition” of
Inside the Rotarian Studio, nathan
cornered PSHS Principal Sarah Watkins.
She was born in Olney, TX, and attended
UT. Her first job was with Williams High,
but if she couldn’t teach, she’d rather be a
tennis pro (to challenge Bobby Riggs?). She
spent New Year’s Eve at a neighbor’s party,
eating black-eyed peas and making a resolution “to avoid New Year’s resolutions.” Her
favorite College Bowl is OKLAHOMA! And
she’s 3 years a Rotarian, having been “encouraged by Doyle Dean.” She believes in
PRC’s focus on students.
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2. Kirk recognized Herb Hoxie and Lori
Phantom
Crotchetienne Roberts for their Birthdays then gave the
floor to Dennis Luellen who encouraged us to donate to the Boys & Girls
Club of Collin County that has “run over
on kids and under on budget.” He mentioned the club’s fundraiser on January
CHILI COOK-OFF
to be judged by a
25th, a
man who can stand the heat, Fire Chief
Brian Crawford.
Raconteur Larry Flash Flannery demanded Equal
Time to tell a tale of a man who sought prayer for his hearing at a church service. The pastor covered the man’s ears
with his hands and beseeched the Deity on his behalf to
which the congregation echoed “Amen.” He then asked the
parishioner to “Tell be about your hearing now,” to which
the fellow replied, “Well it’s not until next Thursday.”
Captain Kirk called Pam Little, Dave
McWhorter, Lori Roberts, Larry Bisno, and Randy
Wright to the podium for a pep talk on what the Club has
accomplished. Randy explained that the format for the day
involved discussions at individual tables about the direction of the Club. We were to appoint Table Captains, who,
at 12:50, were to report our findings and espouse our suggestions within a two-minute window. An agenda and
timeline were both on our table and on-screen. Pink
sheets were to be completed by the Captains and left with
Lynette.
Service Chair Larry began by extolling the Club’s virtuous actions in
• Heroes on the Water
• 9-11 Dinner
• Back to School supplies for Memorial Elementary
• Habitat for Humanity
• Hendrick Golf Tournament
• Citizen of the Month
• Battle of the Badges, and
• Angel Tree
He included a slide of proposed projects to include
• Memorial Science Fair Judges
• Four-Way Speech Contest
• Memorial Elementary Mentors
• February’s Peace Symposium
• 5810’s trip to Nicaragua in March
• A Rough Riders game in April with Memorial
• PISD Elementary Student of the Year in May
Club Historian Lori described plans to archive all Club records digitally and beseeched Past Presidents to bring forward documents to be scanned and preserved. She asked
for volunteers to help with the scanning.
Program Chair David said he was
“impressed with the number of contacts
who wish to speak” to Plano Rotary. He
intends to rotate topics and speakers.
He’s left March through May “free for
suggestions.” Dave wants to see more
fellow Rotarians presenting; he gave an
example of Yoram Solomon as “an
accomplished speaker” on a wide variety
of topics.
He told us that we will be “ejected
from the hotel” on March 6th, and we’re
trying to get Williams High as our venue for that date.
Someone unassociated with PISD asked if we were to dine
on cafeteria food, but President Kirk said we’d likely be served something edible from Jersey Mike’s.
Pam Little (Membership Chair) spoke
of 118 members (including 5 corporate
members); we’ve inducted 7 and lost 8.
She wants us to “brainstorm” how to
attract young people to the Club with a
wider variety of service projects.
Randy gave us our marching orders,
asking for particular attention to question #6 on the questionnaires at our tables. Also we’d be asked to respond either at the meeting
or online; he said he was
hoping for a 93% response
rate.
We were to talk
among ourselves and come
to consensus on recommendations for the Club. After
sufficient time had passed
for discussion, the Table
Captain arose, one by one,
to report our findings.
Lori reported a suggestion for “one more big
event, not golf.” She said that Table 11 recommended that
we concentrate on fewer charities so that we could become
“more effective with what’s left.” On a personal note, she
wants to “bring back the Fish Fry.”
Hubert Aaron, reporting from he knew not what table, that we should (1) develop Club goals, (2) respond to
community needs, and (3) support Rotary International.
Rick Kasmiskie seconded the notion that we should
“not spread ourselves too thin” but schedule more socials.

3. Bev Kilmer recommended that we host a
party to which we each invited a guest to be proselytized about Rotary and Plano Rotary in particular. She also advocated a better Facebook page
and web site to interact with a user-friendly interface. She went on to propose a Chamber membership for the Club.
The next table wanted to “break up tables” so
that we’d meet someone new. He who shall remain nameless proposed a Groundhog Day Social
complete with medical marijuana (cheaper than the
recreational kind, apparently).
Rick Horne began his litany when Ken
Roberts chimed in “time’s up!” Rick advocated
bringing more students to our meetings and to
spread Citizen of the Month to more schools. He
suggested sweat equity, which, he conceded, would
imply younger member.
LB the Radiant said, “We need more men
at my table.” As if to illustrate that point, Lynn
McLean took point to recommend that potential
new members volunteer for Club projects before
they join.
Yoram recommended that we “buy Plano Metro Rotary Club.” He echoed the “young people”
sentiment so widely suggested, and said that they
would be more apt to join if they could find us on
the new media.
Jerry
Kezhaya,
pointing to the international efforts of the
Club,
recommended
that the Club have a
booth (I’m not sure we
could afford the $15) at
the PLANO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. He also advocated increasing the corporate membership.
Nathan Barbera advocated that we “have more
fun,” proposing an alternative venue for the March
6th meeting: Total Wine. On a more serious note,
he suggested that we work for “more cooperation
with the other Plano clubs.” Instead of Inside
the Rotarian Studio, he recommended bios
in the Weekly Reader or Lynette’s enewsletter.
Kelly Palmer suggested increasing the number
of local projects. He also would like to see the
Wheelchair Project revived. Finally, he proposed
paying attention to the plight of homeless students
who number 200 in Plano and 1,000 in Collin
County.
Randy made us swear to complete the questionnaire this afternoon or online. Then he told
Table Captains to turn in their pink sheets and
returned control of the meeting to Kirk who
echoed the importance of completing the survey
thoughtfully and promptly. Then he led us in the
Four-Way Test, and belled us out at 1:02.
Guests & Visiting Rotarians
Guest
Guest Of
Jennifer Beck
Diane Korzenieurki
Ean Sullivan
Cathy Tyler
Visiting Rotarian Home Club
Dennis Luellen
Frisco
AWARDS:
2013 Citizen of the Year
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President Elect
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Secretary
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Treasurer
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Past President
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Sergeant at Arms
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Membership Chair
Pam Little
Membership Vice Chair
Jayson Killough
Service Chair
Larry Bisno
Service Vice Chair
David Bowman
Public Relationship Chair
Mary Jo Dean
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Club Admin Chair
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Foundation Chair
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