On a Thursday that felt like a Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Sacramento gathered in our usual spot to hear Mary Teichert, upcoming CEO of Teichert Inc., share insights into one of California’s oldest businesses – and debunk a few urban legends! Turns out, the success of Teichert is driven more by smart and ethical […]
Though it was the day after St. Patrick’s Day, our club celebrated nonetheless. Members wore everything from blinking bow ties to stylish green jackets. Our tables were decorated with shamrock necklaces for those needing Emerald attire, along with green mints and chocolate gold coins. PP Kevin Smith-Fagan entertained us with an Irish song. Money is […]
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 […]