UPCOMING PROGRAMS

June 20: Prez Ken Demotion

June 27: Club is Dark

July 4: Closed for the Holiday

July 11: Alan Bernstein’s

Inaugural Meeting

July 18: Michael Feinstein,

Conductor Pasadena Pops.

July 25: Andrea Van de Kamp,

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Aug 1: Patrick McClenahan,

President Special Olympics

Aug 8: Dr. William Covino,

President Cal State LA VISIT WWW.ROTARYLA5.ORG FOR MORE

INFORMATION ON SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Event draws hundreds to Dodger Stadium

Record Turnout for Scholarships

S peaking before one of his largest audiences this

year, Prez Ken presented 24 LA5 Scholarship re-cipients with awards that will change their lives, the

lives of their families and, someday, the lives of the

recipient’s children.

LAUSD Superintendent Dr. John Deasy addressed the over-

flow group. Referring to the students who were rigorously se-lected and interviewed by the LA5 Scholarships Committee co-chaired by Bob Donahue and Josh Mandell, Deasy said,

“I am inspired by the greatness among us every day.”

The crowd concurred. Scholarship Luncheon Chair Penny

von Kalinowski had no trouble convincing the audience to

contribute $80,000 towards future scholarships.

Rotary Club of Los Angeles

established 1909

June 20, 2014

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demotion meeting friday, June 20 california club noon

President Ken

without question this will be your favorite meeting of the year

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Dodger GM Ned Colletti not only hosted LA5's scholarship lunch-eon, he officially became a Rotarian! Prez Ken congratulates Ned

with District Governor Doug Baker and sponsor Charisse Older.

If you missed seeing the gang last week

Dodger legend Don Newcombe, 88 years young, was on hand to congratulate the scholarship recipients.

Program Chair Penny von Kalinowski whipped the crowd into a fundraising frenzy and raised $80,000 for LA5 Scholarships.

Ben Turner forks over a fat wad of bills to Calvin Chan who won the largest 50-50 pot in some time.

Past Presidents David Bland, Dave Tomblin and Victor Walch haven’t missed noticing scholarship recipients (not to mention LA5

Presidents!) look younger every year.

Marjorie Heller wasn't the only luminary at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey lent her support to send

another batch of deserving students to college.

Ben’s Lunch Advice On Saturday World-class Gastro-

nome Ben Tunnell flies to Fes, Morocco, then takes an hour’s

drive to the small ancient walled city of Sefrou for its annual

Cherry Festival. He wouldn’t

miss this wonderful Friday lunch for any-

thing. Please RSVP to guarantee your seat!

ENTREE: Atlantic White Cod, sautéed Provençal,

basil potatoes, tomato coulis, tapenade.

VEGETARIAN: Porcini-Parmesan Frittata with Il

Boschetto cheese and arugula greens, aspara-

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T he Rotary Global Scholarship Com-

mittee of District 5280 conducted in-terviews last Saturday with ten nomi-

nees submitted from clubs across the district including candidates selected by LA5’s World Peace Fellowship & Global Scholarship

Committee. Chair John Langfitt was notified that the district committee awarded two of the four scholarships for the 2014-2015 scholar-

ship year to LA5 nominees Michelle Iafe and Thea Trindle. Britney Tsao, the third LA5

nominee, was chosen as an alternate if one of

the four scholarships cannot be claimed.

Once the District Governor and the District

Rotary Foundation Chair confirm the commit-tee’s selections, the awardees will begin work

closely with The Rotary Foundation. Each scholarship is a $30,000 award and The Ro-

tary Foundation scrutinizes every expenditure.

Awardees must provide proof of university ad-mission to a graduate-level program or letter of invitation to conduct postgraduate-level re-

search when applying for the grant. Awardees must also meet stringent insurance require-

ments. Once their program begins, scholars must make presentations before Rotary Clubs in that region and submit detailed progress

reports to The Rotary Foundation.

John is making arrangements for Michelle and Thea to be introduced at LA5 before each head

overseas for their advanced education.

John is also making arrangements for LA5’s

most recent returned Rotary World Peace Fel-low Carolina Scheinfeld to visit the club and

address the membership on her experience in

the Professional Certificate Program.

Our annual contributions to The Rotary Foun-

dation are returned to this district to support humanitarian and education programs such as the Global Scholarships and World Peace

Fellowship. The district funds the scholarships from contributions made previously and LA5

does not pay any additional contributions.

Another Winner Last Week!

V ic Marovish contacted the El Rodeo within minutes of seeing his name

published last week as potentially winning $6,250. Congratulations,

Vic! The arbitrary and unwritten contest rules require winners to (1) personally respond to the Club President or Club Executive Director

within the stated deadline; proxies or power of attorneys will not be acknowledged; (2) at-tend an LA5 lunch within 30 days and before

the contest end to claim the prize drawing materials; and (3) at that meeting participate

in the chance drawing conducted by Prez

Ken. Whew!!

Friday, June 20, is the final meeting of the

term and the contest officially ends.

Our Nominees are chosen more often than any other club

LA5 Utilizes Rotary Funds Again

Chartered June 25, 1909

Club Leadership 2013-14

Ken Chong, President Alan Bernstein, President-Elect Jose Vera, Vice-President Elizabeth Wheeler, Secretary Don Robinson, Treasurer Jay Richardson, Past President

Club Service Arthur Kassel Paul Richey

Community Service Margaret Karren Jim Hoyt

Funding Todd Johnson Al Shonk

International Service Laine Wagenseller Rick Sarmiento

Membership and Retention Charisse Older Erick Weiss

Vocational Service John Miller John Jaacks

Youth Service Anthony Calloway Paul Jacques

Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Ekstrand Barry Hytowitz Steve Sommers

Executive Director Jon Gibby JON@ROTARYLA5.ORG

Rotary Club of Los Angeles 523 West Sixth Street, Suite 718 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Telephone 213.624.8601 Facsimile 213.624.2694 WWW.ROTARYLA5.ORG

District 5280 Governor Doug Baker

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Rotarians You Want to Know:

Jon Gibby

J on Gibby joined LA5 in 1995 and

the club wasted no time in calling him to serve as a Board Director

when Dave Tomblin was Presi-dent. He still remembers the pleasure of chairing the Junior Achievement Commit-

tee when it was a thriving standing com-mittee. Jon is our Executive Director for LA5—one of the 20 largest of the 34,707

Rotary Clubs worldwide.

Jon is an Eagle Scout, a Hollywood High

graduate and a former Shakey’s Pizza Parlor piano player. Now Jon provides stewardship over LA5’s resources and he takes it as seriously as if it were his

own business. Jon says, “Our club is filled with peo-

ple who contribute so much to the community. The most passionate and satis-

fying thing I have ever done is to run this historic or-ganization. I know that in

some small way this is my opportunity to make a dif-

ference.”

“Being a member of LA5 is like going to your favorite

buffet in Las Vegas: lots of great entrees (programs and avenues of service), wonder-

ful appetizers (fellowship opportunities) and delicious

desserts (rewards for active participation). Rotary is ul-timately about sharing and

caring and making a differ-ence in people’s lives that

you have not met or may

never meet!”

If you haven’t met Jon yet,

then please introduce your-

self at the next meeting.

Jon’s Favorites

The best city I have ever visited

was Hong Kong.

If I had only one last restaurant meal in Los Angeles I would go

to El Coyote Mexican Café.

The last book I read was Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch

Albom. I am currently reading a book Jessica Hernandez gave

me: Stephen Covey’s The 7

Habits of Highly Effective People.

If I could take only three albums

to a desert island I would bring Led Zeppelin II, the Beatles’

White Album and Chicago’s

Greatest Hits IX.

I know it is junk food, but my guilty pleasure is ice cream with hot-out-of-the-oven chocolate

chip cookies.

I graduated from high school in

1973. When I hear the Doobie Brothers “Long Train Running” on the radio, it takes me back

again.

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Wrap Up to a Spectacular Year

Prez Ken Thanks LA5 Members

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

I want to thank you for your participation in LA5. We are all members of this great organization because we care about the community and the well-being

of others. Rotary works as long as one person makes the effort to help an-other. When we make this effort together anything is possible. This is what we

all accomplished this year:

● We strengthened the club by asking more and expecting more from our members by instituting an attendance policy and raising dues. Our average

participation doubled from 25% to 50%!

● We brought 200 kids from the Sheriff’s Youth Activity League, LA County Parks & Rec and LA City Rec & Parks to Disneyland. For many, it was a

first time experience.

● We deployed $60,000 in Community Service Grants, helping thousands of

people in the Los Angeles area.

● We provided Thanksgiving Dinner Baskets at the SOS Mentor Healthy Har-vest Festival and thousands of toys to kids who would have no presents

during the holidays at the Angel City Giveaway.

● We provided suits and dresses to high school juniors and seniors for prom through A Place Called Home’s Cinderella and Prince Charming Project in

South Central Los Angeles.

● We led over $230,000 in international projects in Turkey, Colombia and the

Philippines.

● The Club members and LA5 Foundation came together and raised addi-tional money to send $10,000 in aid after the hurricane in the Philippines

and $17,000 to buy a much needed anesthesia machine for a hospital in

Uganda.

● We had a fun filled Scholarship Awards Challenge Luncheon at Dodger Sta-

dium where we awarded $150,000 in college scholarships to the most de-serving students. We raised an additional $80,000 for the LA5 Foundation Scholarship Fund. We honored this year’s scholars in style with the help of

Dodger players and alums with the help of newest LA5er Dodger GM Ned

Colletti.

It was an absolute honor to serve as the President of LA5 this year. Thank you all for your participation, support and leadership in the community. Together,

we have made a difference!

Yours in Rotary Service,