U P C O M I N G P R O G R A M S

August 24, 2006

This Week

Program Chair

Tracy Kiser August 17, 2006 Meeting Notes

Bob Allison, Editor

September 14

Kevin McDermott

September 21

Rachel Esquivel

Cotton Merchandising & Commodities

South of the Track Baseball

August 31

Jon Van Boening

September 7

Shawn Kelly

Memorial Hospital 50th Anniversary

Education Letters

President opened the meeting with greetingsand salutations to all. performed the invocation,

led the flag salute, and , did herusual fine job as song leader. This week’s selection was

President Greg then introduced those sitting at thehead table, , program chair, and our speaker, coach

. He also introduced coach .Greg welcomed back , who introduced visiting

Rotarians, among which was former Downtown Rotarianvisiting from Santa Barbara. Guests were introduced by

their hosts.President Greg took special note of the presence of

and who have returned.

told us of the arrival of his first grandson.Jim Baldwin announced that has donated an

almost-new box truck to BARC.heralded another victory for Bakersfield. The

Bakersfield contestant won the second runner-up spot in thelatest California Junior Miss competition. Eddie also mentionedthat his daughter has been the California Junior Miss for the pastyear.

announced that the 52nd annual BakersfieldCollege Barbeque is being held on Thursday, September 14th inStramler Park. Socializing starts at 5:30 PM and dinner is served

Greg Gallion

Jim Baldwin

Claude Fiddler Daphne Harley

Tracy Kiser

Gerry Collis Bob Covey

Harry Starkey

John

Sarad

Richard

Beene Rogers Brandon

David Ebel

Ben Stinson

Eddie Paine

Bob Allison

“America

the Beautiful.”

Good News Announcements

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Jay Blackmon, President ofEdison Mission Energy a subsid-iary of Edison International.Edison Mission Energy (EME) isan independent power producerengaged in the business ofowning or leasing, operating andselling energy and capacity fromelectric power generation facili-ties.

Kern County

Power Plants

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

ROTARY OFFICE

- NoonHoliday Inn Select

- NoonValley Rose Golf Course

- NoonHoliday Inn Select

- 6:30 a.m.Homestead Restaurant

- NoonStockdale Country Club

- NoonHeritage Inn

- 6:30 a.m.Shafter Vet’s Hall

- 6:45 a.m.Petroleum Club

- NoonJo’s Restaurant

2:40 p.m. BHSAuditorium #301

- 7:00 a.m.Dream Castle Cafe

NoonBakersfield Art Museum

- NoonKelcy’s Restaurant

- NoonMary’s Heavenly Bites

- 6:00 p.m.Ewings

NoonVeteran’s Hall

Bakersfield South

Wasco

Bakersfield North

Inyokern

Bakersfield West

China Lake

Shafter

Bakersfield Breakfast

Taft

Interact -

Frazier Park Rotary

Bakersfield Downtown -

Tehachapi

Delano

Kern River Valley

Bakersfield East -

Phone: (661) 325-0696

Area Meetingsbeginning at 7:30. Tickets are $20 and can be obtained from Bob,

or by calling the BC Ticket Office at 395-4326.told us a long shaggy horse story, the

point of which was that the big winner was a horse that seems toshare his last name.

announced that Oktoberfest this year will includelocal talent, and he is looking for some. A professional levelkaraoke machine will be available, and Tim needs acts. He sug-gested duets (Richard and Rogers, for example) and groups (oilindustry, financial, etc.). They might even conduct auditions.

revealed that he will be a grandpa again soon.reminded Rotarians to sign up for the rolling

readers storytelling program this year. In order to help prepare forthis assignment, the Kern County Library is conducting storytellingprimers on Sept. 6 at 1:00 PM at the Library and on Sept. 7 follow-ing the Rotary meeting at the Museum of Art. If you wish to attendeither, call at 868-0712.

asked for volunteers to go to Nigeria December7 – 12 in order to work on the Polio Plus campaign during thatcountry’s national immunization day. The objective is to get allchildren immunized.

was recognized for her wedding anniversary,August 11, which she and her husband celebrated in Cambria. Itturns out that her husband, also a lawyer, announced this event athis Rotary club and was duly charged $10. It cost Lorna $50.

President Greg called to the podium in order topresent him with a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of his manycontributions to Rotary, particularly the Bridging Program. Jeffaccepted the award with typical modesty.

Tracy asked former BC track coach to introducethe speaker, Inhis introduction, Bob said thatGerry had more influence onBC football than anyone. Hecoached more seasons (17)than any other BC coach andhad an outstanding record of121 wins, 49 losses, and 2 ties.He also coached baseball for10 years. And Bob emphasizedthat Gerry did all of this withintegrity.

Bill Andrews,

Gordon Wickersham

Tim Terrio

Fred Porter

Diane Duquette

Lucinda Soria

Wendy Wayne

Lorna Brumfield

Jeff Johnson

Bob Covey

Gerry Collis.

Recognition

Special Recognition

Program

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Officers

Board of Directors

R.I. President

District 5240 Governor

Assistant Governor

Group Representative

Rotary Office

William Boyd

Richard Abbott

Del Garcia

Michael O’Doherty

P.O. Box 1628, 93302

Phone: (661) 325-0696

FAX: (661) 322-2311

evelyn@bakersfield-rotary.com

www.bakersfield-rotary.com

Greg Gallion ...........................Gene Spinozzi ........................Harvey McCown .....................Pat Collins ..........................

..............................Bruce Biggar.............................................Ray Karpe............................................Bob Tebbe.................................Stephanie Weber

...................Tom Anchordoquy....................................Sheryl Chalupa............................................Tracy Kiser...........................................David Price

.....................................Richard Beene

.....................................Daphne Harley

President

Secretary

Treasurer

Sgt. at Arms

1 year

2 years

Past President

President Elect 2006-2007

Auckland, New Zealand

Montecito, California

Shafter, California

Bakersfield Breakfast

OfficersGerry talked about football, the people he knew in Bakersfield(apparently that is just about everyone), and doing things becauseyou love them. He said he was not that hard being honest whenworking for Gil Bishop because if you cheated, Gil would “put youon waivers.”

He said that told him not to use profanityduring his Rotary talk. Gerry said he replied that “there is no G__D___ way he would not swear at Rotary.”

He said as a young man he would read about “anyone who hada jockstrap.”

He knew about Burr Baldwin when he came to Bakersfield in1957 and he knew Harvey Hall when his business was still a dream.He said that Eddie Paine used to play BC football and that Eddiewas “probably the ugliest guy on the team.”

Gerry came to BC for a year and is still here 49 years later. Hesaid he was fortunate to be at BC during the years when there were12,000 or more at every game. Because of this, there was plenty ofmoney back then. Things are different now, and fundraising isneeded. Plenty of people help, including many present today.

He told about his friendship with Buck Owens and when he firstspoke with Buck.

In response to a question, Gerry told about losing to LongBeach CC 21-20. After the game one of the Long Beach playerssaid “we might have won but they beat the living hell out of us.”That says a lot about BC coaching.

Gerry announced that the first game this year, on Sept. 2against Fullerton, will include a 1976 reunion. That year BC woneverything, including a national championship.

He also announced that BC will have a swimming team startingin 2006/07

President Greg closed the meeting with a reminder to sign upfor rolling readers and an announcement that he has ten thoughtsfor 2006, one each week. For this week, thought #10:

The meeting was closed.

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