2018 05_03 Mtg - Women in Rotary

 

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Women in Rotary, President Dan asked President Elect Caron to run the meeting.  She introduced 3 Past Women Presidents in attendance and named the others.

 

The pastor from Summit Church, Chris and his wife, Lisa were at the meeting to receive our check for $1,000 toward the Every Room project at every Western Placer Unified School.  This will insure that every classroom door has an impenetrable lock that is easy to put in place in case of an emergency.  They need about $43,000 to finish the job and are about half way there.

 

 

President Dan announced the selection of the Rotarian of the month of May and it was our own Stix (Tony) Bellacera who took the prize home for a month.  A great example of someone who lives by the Four Way test.  Congrats to Tony !!

 

Dan also announced our District level award nominees. These honorees have bee submitted to District for consideration and will be announced at the District Conference May 11-13.

Kris announced that Book Buddies follows the meeting today; only one more session after this. She also announced that the Bikes for Books awards will be starting up soon and she will send out an email with the dates and times for each school.  If you haven't been to one of these, try to make it, it's such fun to see the kids.

 

Our Speaker was Caron Russell on the topic of Women in Rotary.  It was a good perspective and a timely one since on  May 4, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary clubs may not exclude women from membership on the basis of gender. Caron looked back on how women were finally allowed to join Rotary and was very surprised to learn that it took the Supreme Court judgment to make it happen.  She went through a lot of the history of that time and the brave clubs who made it happen.  Several of our members provided their own memories of the time and how it impacted them and their clubs.  It was noted that we have 20 women members or 38% of our Club membership.