Rotary International President
Kalyan Banerjee, Vapi, Gujarat, India

Board of Directors
President: Carolyn Inglis
President-Elect: Pearce Boyer
Past President: Eleanor Kenitzer
Secretary: Eleanor Kenitzer
Treasurer: Ellen Davis
Director at Large: Dennis Geare

District 5190 Governor: Allan Cain
Assistant Governor: Gil Matthew

Board of Directors
Club Service: Austin Farrar
PR / Community Service: Karen Young
International Service: Nancy Kemp
Vocational Service: Nicole Dillard
Foundation: Bob Buhlis
New Generations: Pearce Boyer
Membership: Walt Stickel

Who Frank Finnigan was?
   NC attorney and 1st NC Club "vice-president"
What places our club has met?
   Coach House
   Deer Creek Inn at the New York Hotel
   Saddle & Sirloin at the National
   The Bank Club
   The Elks Club
What our Newsletter has been called?
   The Miner
   The Jackhammer
   The Rotario
The member who has been a Rotarian the longest?
   John Taylor since 1956 (our club in 1977)
   John Hensley with our club since 1975
   Tom Coleman with our club since 1980
   Ben Baretta with our club since 1985 -
   Ben also has the distinction of being the only member who has completed 2 full terms as President.
   Terry Boyer will match his record this coming year.

Thanks to:
Cathy for the wonderful presentation and yummy cookies!

Eleanor Kenitzer for her personal moment. Who knew we had a rod and chain person in our midst? What a great story. Eleanor is a woman of many talents!

Congratulations to:
Business person of the year John Hensley! I was privileged to attend the dinner and give the award to John. Thanks to Nicole for her work on this award and to Ben for making sure John was at the dinner! Well done all.

New bell ringers Derek Poppell and Ben Barretta. Both did a smashing job of ringing the bell.

Wheel of Misfortune:
Jim Phillips spun the wheel and will be our greeter next week and Derek spun the wheel and passed his $5.00 fine along to Eleanor. I'm thinkin' Derek is going to enjoy his bell-ringer status.

Are you a bell-ringer yet? It's easy. Just fill out your PCP and off we go...

from www.rotary.org regarding Rotary history:
Did you know that Rotary founder Paul Harris wasn't the first president of a Rotary club?

That distinction is actually held by Harris's friend Silvester Schiele, who served as the first president of the Rotary Club of Chicago. Harris deferred his club leadership duties until February 1907, when he was elected the third president of the Chicago club.
Club firsts:
On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Chicago for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting. A second club was formed in San Francisco in 1908, and soon after, clubs began to pop up across North America.

On 1 August 1912, the Rotary Club of London became the first club chartered outside of North America. The Rotary Club of Dublin, Ireland, had been organized earlier, but didn't receive its charter until 1 May 1913.

Presidential firsts:
Paul Harris was elected as first president of the National Association of Rotary Clubs (which later became Rotary International) in 1910, and is the only president to have served two terms.

Other firsts: Canadian E. Leslie Pidgeon (1917-18) was the first Rotary president from outside the United States, Sydney W. Pascall (1931-32) was the first from Great Britain, and Maurice Duperrey (1937-38) was the first from continental Europe.

Reminders:
February 9th will be a fun meeting with local author Chris Enss as our speaker. It will be our second "bring your spouse or significant other to lunch" meeting. Lunch will be 2/$20.00. What a great opportunity to start your Valentine's celebration a little early!

Club Assembly is April 21st at John Ascuaga's Nugget. If you want to learn more about Rotary in a fun way, mark your calendars.

Change, change, change - our little boot that can made the rounds last week and did very well!

Recipes - bring me your most loved family recipes and you can put some candy in your pocket. Thanks to all who have brought in recipes - I love seeing my recipe folder grow!

Thursday Tickler:
You don't have to be at a desk but you must be sitting.
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot.
While doing this, draw the number " 6 " in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.

• Did we forget your birthday or anniversary? Have you recently moved or changed email addresses? Please update your profile on our club website. If you have forgotten your password, you can click on Forgotten Password, and it will be sent to your email address. Click on the Member's Area. Then, on the blue banner at the top of the page, click Profile. Finally, you can change or add what you need to.
• Do you have a fun picture that you'd like to share? Have a picture of the meeting? Be sure to send any pictures to rotario@ncrotary.org. Or you can also post them to the Club's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NCRotary!

○ Feb 2	Sierra College Speaker - Gene Cook
○ Feb 9	NC Author, Chris Enss (lunch special, 2 for $20 - bring a friend)
○ Feb 16	SYRCL Speaker - Caleb Dardick
○ Feb 23	The Legacy of a Life Story Speaker - Marianne McKnight
○ March 1	State of the Court Speaker - Judge Tom Anderson
○ March 8	Club Music Contest
○ March 15	CoRR Speaker - Warren Daniels
○ March 22	Club Speech Contest
○ March 29	CATS Speaker - Bob Buhlis
○ April 5	Ol' Republic Brewery
○ April 12	CNS (Center for Non-profit learning) Speaker - Karen Marinovich
○ April 16	Area Speech Contest
○ April 19	...to be announced
○ April 22	Area Music Contest
○ April 26	Money Management Speaker - Marc Cuniberti

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For future programs and events, please see the Club Calendar at: www.ncrotary.org/services/calendar.htm

*Board Meetings are usually held at 5:30p on the 1st Monday of the month at 431 Crown Point Circle, Ste 150, Grass Valley. All club members are welcome!