Spring was in the air at ye olde Rotary meeting this week, as that smoothest of orators, Past President Todd Koolakian, filled in for El Presidente, Bobby Reed, who was off camping with a bunch of 6th graders in Sly Park (if you can’t understand Bobby’s slang at next week’s meeting, blame the kids). Past […]
It was Fat Tuesday as the club’s weekly lunch meeting was called to order by President Bobby Reed. Meeting sponsor Nancy Smith-Fagan gave her time to Reina and Mel Chan of the Olivia Chan Foundation. After the passing of their daughter Olivia from leukemia, the couple found a shortage of grief and healing programs. Their […]
Sacramento’s role as an emerging leader in global culinary circles was celebrated at the club’s Tuesday luncheon. John Wood took the stage to deliver the Thought for the Day—which, in true Rotary fashion, included a few well-aged jokes about bad cooking. Rumor has it, Gordon Ramsay may have shed a single tear. In the meeting […]
OK, so they didn’t get it done in 80 days, but our luncheon speakers did fly around the world in 90 days – and raised $2 million to fight polio. More on that later. President Bobby Reed gaveled the meeting to order and invited his father-in-law, Phil Goldman, to deliver our Thought for the Day. […]
“Get ready to hit the road” by Christie Holderegger President Bobby Reed kicked off the travel-themed meeting by welcoming the club to public television station PBS KVIE, the meeting host, and thanking Nancy Teichert for facilitating today’s meeting. In Elfrena Foord’s Thought of the Day on the enriching value of travel, she quoted the Dalai […]
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and upcoming MLK Day, President Bobby Reed blasted the U2 hit “In the Name of Love” as our convening music. Bill Wygant’s Thought for the Day featured a pearl of wisdom from Albert Einstein, “Try not to be a man of success, instead try to be a […]
The first Rotary meeting of 2025 kicked off with President Bobby Reed showing a video from his December service trip to Nandyala India with Rotoplast International. Rotoplast is an independent nonprofit that started out as a service project of the Rotary Club of San Francisco, and, nearly 30 years later, has provided more than 21,000 […]
Daughters Day, a longstanding holiday tradition for our club, unfolded in full Yuletide glory this week. As is custom, the daughters control the proceedings. So President Bobby Reed called the meeting to order and immediately handed the gavel to the day’s president Ella Keefer, Loyola Chicago sophomore and daughter of PEN Paul Keefer. President Ella […]
Holiday music summoned our members to the tables on Tuesday. Yes, next meeting is Daughters Day so be sure and RSVP because you know your children and grandchildren are writing to Santa Claus. More about flying objects later. PP Walter Dahl filled in for President Bobby Reed, who is on a service mission to India. […]
The Rotary Club was convened by Past President Kevin Smith-Fagan, filling in for President Bobby Reed, who was on a Rotary Service Trip to India. Dee Johnson’s Thought for the Day featured quotes exalting wine — which has been around since at least 7,000 BCE. Historically it was a status symbol of kings and rulers, […]