Newsletter - Archive  May 27, 2009

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P.O. Box 620700                                                   Russ Ketron                                                             Sandra Pugh 

Woodside CA 94062-0700                                District Governor                                                       Club President

                                                      http://wpvrotary.org                                          

Regular Meeting                                                                                         May 27th, 2009

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Wednesday with breakfast by Encore Performance Catering, fellowship, project updates and an interesting speaker from the community.  The last Wednesday of each month we meet at 6:00pm at a local restaurant for and hors d'oeuvres and no host bar and meeting new people.  Please check our website calendar for details. 

Morning meetings:  Guild Hall, Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, California  Guests are not only welcome but encouraged!

This Week's Program:  EVENING MEETING AT MOUNTAIN HOUSE RESTAURANT AT 6PM

We will meet at the Mountain House Restaurant.  Family, friends and prospective members are welcome.  Please let Dave Hyman (dave@epcatering.com) if you are coming and with how many guests.  Appetizers and no host bar.  Please bring lightly used clothing and non-perishable food donations for the St. Francis Center.  Please consider staying for dinner as a way of thanking the restaurant for their support of Taste of Woodside.  Check out their website for directions and their offerings.  http://www.themountainhouse.com/

Last  Week's Program:   (courtesy of Last Week Editor, Dean Babcock) 

President-Elect Dave Hyman (former Navy Seal) spoke about the training given Navy Seals that helped in the recent rescue, from the Somali pirates, of kidnapped merchant ship Captain Phillips. Dave was a Navy Seal from 1974 to 1978.  .  They are good at what they do because of  training, equipment and intelligence. It’s all about teamwork! 

The Seals (sea/air/land) were created in 1962 by JFK.  The Seals undergo the toughest training in the world.  In basic training Dave saw a movie about the Frogmen and got really excited.  He signed up for the Seals training which consisted of  endless situps/pushups/pullups, swimming (above and below the water), running in boots and full clothing in the sand, parashooting, being sleep deprived for 5 days, being waterboarded, learning to shoot underwater and above, learning to use C-4 (plastic high explosive) without blowing himself up, being ejected from a submarine and then retrieved.  He said the last phase was the diving phase where he trained with dolphins.  The dolphins would swim under him and try to push him to the surface and it was his job to avoid this maneuver. Each man (never has been a female Seal) got two tries at every test or he could simply quit.  They began with 72 men and finished with 12. Nine of these men stayed in the service until just a year or so ago. The credo of the Seals is survival, evasion, resistance and escape.  Dave is quite the guy!

Next Week's Program:  Traveling the Country by Motorcycle 

Ken Broome will introduce his neighbor and our newest member, Jim Sanderson, who will recap his motorcycle side car trip around the country. 

Club News:  Rotary Foundation Funding Have you given paid your annual $150 contribution (more will gratefully be accepted) to the Rotary Foundation for the 2009-2009 Rotary year.  Todd Moore will accept the checks and do all the paperwork.

Coming Events:

Next Board Meeting:  Tuesday, June 2nd, 7:30am, Church Library 

Rotary Means Business:  Wednesday, June 3rd, 5:30 pm Encore Performance Catering

Rotary International Convention, Birmingham, UK, June 21st-24th

Taste of Woodside:  Sunday, September 20th 2009, 3-7pm, Woodside Village Church

Announcements:   Have you had a look at the Rotary International website lately for what is going on in Rotary's world?  www.rotary.org   How about finding out about what is going on in the district?  www.rotary5150.org