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October 2, 2015

Be a Vibrant and Visionary Model of Service Above and Beyond Self

THE HUB The Rotary Club of Park Cities

Volume 67, Number 12

Program Chair of the Day: Ariane Urschlerand Janie Loveless

Itʼs Game Day!

George RibaCollege Football: Then and Now

TODAY’S PROGRAM

George Riba retired from Channel 8 on February 20, 2015 after working at WFAA TV for 37 years and five months. He spent nearly 42 years on Dallas Fort Worth Television having also spent time at KTVT TV Channel 11 and KXAS TV, Channel 5. 

He joined Channel 8 in September 1977 and worked as a sports reporter, weekend sports anchor, executive sports produ-cer and sports director. Long time Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen estimated that Riba filed more than 8,000 stories during his years at WFAA. 

Riba was raised on a farm and ranch in Stonewall, Texas and began his broadcasting career in 1966. At the time he was a stu-dent at Fredericksburg High School in the Texas Hill Country. His first job included being a country disc jockey for radio station KNAF in Fredericksburg, Texas. He later worked for radio stations in Fort Worth, Texas, including KWXI, KFJZ and KFWD before turning to television.

During his years at Channel 8, his contributions have helped the News 8 Sports Department win numerous awards, including the Texas Association of Broadcasters award for Best Sports-cast, the State Associated Press award for Best Sports Feature as well as a Regional Emmy for Monday Night Football Live. George Foster Peabody Award: 1986 WFAA Sports for "SMU Investigation", Contributing Reporter Texas AP Broadcasters:

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1982 Best Sports Feature "Pony Express" 2006 Best Sportscast, Dale Hansen & George Riba & Linda Ting Katie awards, given annually by the Dallas Press Club: 1987 Best Sportscast for team coverage in the Southern Metho-

dist University investigation. 1988 Best Sports feature for "Day Care Basketball." 1989 Best Sports Story for "David Richards NFL Draft Story." 1990 Best Sports Story for Duncanville basketball and their "Third

Straight State Championship." 1995 Best Sports Story for - 'Replacements Replaced." 1997 Best Sports Feature for "Derric Evans- Renewing the Dream" 2000 Best General News Story "Special Delivery" Fort Worth

Tornado Coverage. 2001 Contributing Reporter for Best Sportscast "Eating Worms"

OU-Nebraska Game Lone Star Emmy:2004 Contributing Reporter for Monday Night Live 2007 Granny Ball.

Riba is an avid runner, having logged 29 marathons. He has run the White Rock Marathon in Dallas on 22 different occasions with a personal best of 3:01.   Riba is a graduate from the University of Texas in Arlington with a bachelor's degree in Speech-Communications. He is married with no children. 

Come enjoy the food and fun – and support RCPCWhere? Haggard Party Barn, 5948 McKamy Trail, Plano, TX 75024When? Saturday, Oct. 3, 7:00 pm til ??Bring Friends and FamilyDinner? Barbecue and the fixinʼsDrinks? Water, Soft Drinks & Iced Tea (you may bring your own adult beverages) Cost? $10 per PersonRegister at www.rotary5810.org

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Pantry ProjectYour contribution toward this mobile food pantry truck will be matched! so add a zero to your dona-tion! It also will count as your donation to the RCPC Foundation!

To donate online, go to https://www.cftexas .org/donate-ntfb-mobile-food-pantry-fund (Link on the RCPC website) OR make your check payable to NTFB Mobile Food Pantry Fund and give to Jim Weichel..

Date & Time:October 22, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmLocation: 7070 Turtle Creek LnChef DAT and 20 other local eateries from the DFW area, wine and spirits provided. Entertainment.Tickets: $45 per person plus abottle of wine for the wine raffleTo Purchase Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-taste-ofchange-benefiting-the-north-texas-food-banks-mobile-pantry-tickets- 18234121749?aff=es2

A Taste of Change

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The Hub is the weekly newsletter of the Rotary Club of Park Cities (Dallas)

Betty Dawson, EditorShutterbug Committee

Fred Speno, ChairBullet in /Internet Advert i s ing

Chris Short, Chair

Karen Farris, PresidentTracy Gomes, President ElectPam Carvey, Vice President

Jim Zapffe, SecretaryLarry W . Nichols, Treasurer

Jerry Washam, Sergeant-At-ArmsLisa Amsberry, Club Service I

Mary McMahon, Club Service II Kathy Schatz, Community ServiceTom Rhodes, Community Service II

Paul Pirok, New GenerationsJeff Sheehan, International Service

JIm Mills, At LargeEric Heitkamp ,

Immediate Past PresidentJim Weichel, Sergeant-at-Arms

Doug Means,ParliamentarianDennis Harrison, Webmaster

Laurie Aldredge, Club Administrator6704 Snider Plaza

Dallas, Texas 75205Office Phone: 214-739-4170

Office Fax: 214/363-6980Email: club@parkcitiesrotary.org

www.parkcitiesrotary.org

Larry Webb, Prestonwood RCGovernor, District 5810

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LAST WEEK Presiding: PE Tracy GomesInvocation: Cleve ClintonPledge: Rick AmsberryIntroductions: Nolan DuckPhotographer: Ley WaggonerChair of the Day: Tracy GomesSpeaker: Matt Hackler, Chef David Allen Temple, Richard MauldinProgram: A Taste For Change:RCPC Takes A Bite Out Of Hunger

M T W Th F S AED = Defibrillator TrainingBl = Blood DriveBD = Board of Dirs. Mtg, 7am LaMadeleine, 75 & MockingbirdCn = PCR Connect Event.CP = ChildsPlay Work MtgD = District 5810 EventDH = Dentistry with a HeartFR = Family of Rotary EventF = Fellowship EventFF = RCPC Foundation Fund

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House-See Jina McDanielNM = New Member EventPr = Program Committee MtgRU = Rotary UniversitySpE = Special Service EventWeb-lite = on your computer

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with othersINSPIRE tomorrow’s leaders with

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PE Tracy Gomes called the meeting to order. PP Cleve Clinton gave the invoca-tion; then wished Bob Heard a happy birth-day and led the singing of “Happy Birthday.” PP Rick Amsberry led the Pledge of Allegi-ance and singing the “Star Spangled Banner.” Nolan Duck assisted by Daniel Drabin-ski with the mike, introduced our visitors and guests. Shawn Foster announced the Mar-ketplace advertiser of the week.

PP Ley Waggoner and PP Phillip Bankhead updated the club on the Mobile Food Pantry Truck project. To date $3,000 has been received from about forty members. They reminded us of the very generous chal-lenge grant from one of our members that will match donations up to $50,000. They urged everyone to donate as much as they could and to urge interested friends and associates to donate, as well. They announced that any-one donating $1,000 or more would receive a model truck similar to the actual truck.

today, Matt Hackler of the North Texas Food Bank. He began by saying that the goal of the food bank had evolved from just feed-ing the poor to providing the most nutritious food to the most vulner-

PP Ley Waggon-er introduced our new-est member, David Childs, who grew up in Christchurch, New Zea-land. He has a PhD in church music and is the Director of Music at University Park United Methodist Church. He has eighty pieces of church music in print. PE Tracy awarded Stan Carr his Blue Badge.

PE Tracy then called on Tania Bough-ton who announced that Texas Cap-ital Bank had donated $100,000 to the Food Truck Project. PE Tracy then introduced our first speaker

able. He said that 92 million meals are missed in their thirteen-county service area. They want to improve the accessibility of food. He outlined the three pillars of their strategic vi-sion. The first was community engagement; they are revamping their warehouses and mo-ving the warehouse to the Farmerʼs Market. The next was network improvement; they are creating a hub and spoke model. The third is client visibility; they are gaining insight into the impact of the food bank through a partner-ship with the Parkland Center for Clinical Inno-vation. Only eight percent of their clients are actually homeless. In Dallas County twenty percent of the population is food insecure. Older clients may need continuing support, but many clients are transitional.

Next to speak was Chef Da-vid Allen Temple, of Restaurant Twenty-Seven, who is the chief chef of the Taste of Change Event. He said he grew up on a farm and learned the value of fresh food. He said his restau-

rant donates a lot to charities, and he likes to teach people how to cook and grow food, and eat well with little money.

The program ended with Richard Mauldin of Texas Capi-tal Bank, which is a collabora-tive partner and the prime donor for the Food Truck Project. He said that he was particularly concerned about children who go hungry. Very young children cannot get food for them-selves if their parents do not take care of them. He is very glad that his bank is invol-ved in this project.

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THOUGHTS ON . . .

There's two times of year for me:Football season, and waiting forfootball season.

~ Darius RuckerFootball is a mistake. It combinesthe two worst elements of Ameri-can life. Violence and committee meetings. ~ George F. WillSome people think football is amatter of life and death. I don'tlike that attitude. I can assurethem it is much more serious thanthat. ~ Bill ShanklySure, winning isn't everything. It'sthe only thing.

~ Henry SandersI don't really trust a sane person.

~ Pro football linemanLyle Alzado

Our Funders for Next Week areRCPC FOUNDATION

Sign up at www.parkcitiesrotary.org

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

RI has its own channel on YouTube of-fering a growing collection of videos and psas.

ROTARY CONNECTED

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Interesting New Thread: Your Rotary Group and Social Media

.RCPC has its own channel: http://vimeo.com/channels/rotaryclubofparkcities/

RI: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid= 858557&trk=hb_side_g RCPC: www.linkedin.com/ groups?gid=1248747&trk=hb_side_g

Tweet of the week: .@humansofny shares the story of Muhammad, a Syrian refugee, and the Austrian #Rotary club he encountered. http://on.rotary.org/Rotaryhony 

RI: www.facebook.com/rotaryDist. 5810: www.facebook.com/Rotary District5810.

Interesting New Thread: We have started a group for the Education of our Polio Program... Ask to join so you can share this information www.facebook.com/groups/1387011464939322

Miss a Meeting? Watch it Online!

Check out or add to RIʼs Flickr group often, www.flickr.com/groups/familyofrotary/

http://pinterest.com/rotary/ RI has Pinboards on major projects.

Dist Awards Banquet, Sat, Oct 3, 7:00pm-?? Details on 5810 webA Taste of Change, Thurs, Oct 22, 7:00-10:00 pm, at 7070 Turtle CreekLane, Dallas 75205 (complimentary valet). Chef DAT, of “Twenty-Seven” restau-rant, and twenty other local eateries from the DFW area, wine and spirits providedTickets: $45 per person plus a bottle of wine for the wine raffle; link on RCPC webRotary University. The Rotary Basics class is scheduled for Sat, Sep19th, 8:00am to 3:30pm at SMUʼs main campus. Questions? See K. FarrisContribute to the Mobile Pantry Truck for the North Texas Food Bank on line or by check. Your contribution will be matched! Give your check to Jim Weichel.

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Happy Birthday

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oct. 9 Cal JillsonThe Upcoming Presidential Election/Texas Politics

Oct. 1 6 Bonnie Hardick, Dir. of Marketing and Adv,Patriot Paws

Oct. 2 3 Rena PedersonFormer Dallas Morning News Editor

Oct. 3 0 Mark Roglán, DirectorMeadows Museum – Celebrating 50 Years

HE PROFITS MOST WHO LAUGHS BESTSad, but true . . .Most new books are forgotten within a year,especially by those who borrowed them.The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think itʼs their fault.Iʼm suspicious of people who donʼt like dogs, but I trust a dog who doesnʼt like a person.

Always be wary of any helpful item thatweighs less than its operating manual.A good listener is often thinking aboutsomething else.

Laurie Aldredge 10.3David Goodson 10.4John Chiles 10.4

The girls were alone. Their families were dead, or gone, or lost in the broken landscape of southern Sudan. They had nowhere to turn, and no one to turn to. Some lived in the market, others in the cemetery. When Cathy Groenen-dijk saw them, she couldnʼt help herself. She offered them tea, then some food, then a place to sleep in her guesthouse.

This was in 2006. A peace accord had been signed the year before, ending a 22-year civil war and paving the way for the indepen-dence of South Sudan. The region was still bro-

The Lost Girls of South Sudan and the Rotarian Who Found Themken in many ways. While the story of its “lost boys,” who traveled hundreds of miles on foot to reach safety during the war, is well known, little has been written or said about the girls who stayed behind, and who were just as lost.

For two years,” she says, “I was providing tea and one meal, which was better than no-thing. Some of the kids had never had a meal apart from scavenging and eating leftovers from restaurants. The whole story is at- www. rotary.org/myrotary/en/news-media/lost-girls-south-sudan-and-rotarian-who-found-them