Club Officers

President……….………. Connie G. Kraus

President-Elect…..…... Douglas S. Taylor

Vice President…….. Lester M. Hunkele III

Secretary………..………... Debbie Deibler

Treasurer…………………... Stella Kimura

Past President……. Elouise P. Kaanaana

Sergeant-at-Arms…….……. Lori Williams

Directors

Club Service…....…..…. Jeffery J. Sarver

Service Projects…..….. Shirley Robinson

International Service… William H.Q. Bow

New Generations….... Kimberly B. Moore

Membership………... Ernest G. Anderson

Public Relations………….. Raymond Noh

Interact Clubs Sponsored

Aiea High School

Farrington High School

Moanalua High School

Radford High School

Sister Clubs

Hiroshima Southeast, Japan

Tokyo Osaki, Japan

Avachinsky, Russia

Meeting Schedule

Mondays, 12:00 Noon

Oahu Country Club

150 Country Club Road

Channel Marker Published by

Harvey Gray

September 19, 2011September 19, 2011

Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor

President Connie Kraus welcomed members

and guests to the 2,821th meeting of the Rotary

Club of Pearl Harbor where we look toward the

future, keep our hearts in the present, and Reach

within to Embrace Humanity!

Providing our inspiration was Ernie Anderson,

inducted Dec. 30, 1991 sponsored by Bob

Desjardins. Ernie is with Ernest G. Anderson,

Realtors

Leading us in the

pledge of allegiance

was Lenny

Katsarsky, inducted

Oct. 31, 2005

sponsored by Augie

Rey Fernandez.

Our song leader was

George Topic, inducted Feb. 6, 1967 sponsored by Wally Backus.

George led us in singing “America the Beautiful”.

Past President Harvey Gray inducted Jeffrey

Workman as the newest and 44th member of our

Rotary Club. Jeff is a management consultant to

PACAF. He agreed to attend our club meetings

regularly, to perform his share of club service,

and to place his knowledge and talents at the

disposal of the club in its task of carrying the

principles of Rotary into the daily life of the

community. Donna McLaughlin is Jeff’s

sponsor. Jeff’s wife Vicky could not attend

todays meeting.

MEETING REPORT Aug 29, 2011MEETING REPORT Aug 29, 2011 Rotary International

www.rotary.org

President ………...……. Kalyan Banerjee

District 5000

Governor ………........….. Laurie Yoshida Asst. Dist Governor …… Mel Kumasaka

Chartered June 14, 1950

Ernie Anderson

Lenny Katsarsky George Topic

Jeff gets his Rotary

pin from Connie

Acting Sergeant-at

-Arms Kim

Moore welcomed District 5000

Leadership: Past

DG Jim Varner;

Kim Moore (RYLA Co-

Chair); Harvey

Gray (District

Newsletter).

Rotarians Guest within D5000: Alan Lloyd

(Windward Oahu); Nancy Varner (Kahala Sunrise).

Guests of Rotarians: Pat Anderson (Ernie

Anderson), Jim Gardner (Willa Gardner), and Jory

Atamian (Doug Taylor).

President Connie recognized member Inductions: Pat

Middleton, August 29, 2005 sponsored by Donna

McLaughlin. Member Wedding Anniversary: Take

and Gertrude Ogawa, August 31. Spouse Birthday:

Tina Doty, August 27.

“I Can” donators: Bill Bow, Les Hunkele, Connie and

Gene Kraus, Donna and John McLaughlin, John

Mihlbauer. Thank you for helping to feed those in

need.

Steve Dyer, $20 to TRF happy that football season has

started. Dudley Fullard-Leo, $5 to TRF because he is

happy to be back in Hawaii. Ted Meeker, $5 to TRF

happy his son survived hurricane Irene. Kim Moore,

$5 to TRF happy she is going on vacation to Europe.

Jeff Sarver, $20 to TRF he had a great day at the

Ranch Saturday with Interactors. Doug Taylor, $20 this is his guest’s first visit to Rotary. Jim Varner, $10

he sold his business and is now officially retired. Pat

Anderson, $100 to TRF, daughter Alohilani was

accepted for a doctorate program. Jim Gardner, $5

happy to be here and to buy lunch for his wife Willa.

President Connie reviewed the calendar for the next

two months

Sept 05 - Dark, Labor Day

Sept 12 - Dark

Sept 19 - 11:15am tour, lunch and meeting will be at

Shiner's Hospital.

Sept 26 - meeting as usual at Oahu Country Club, PE

Doug Taylor presiding.

October 1 - no Swirls - Rescheduled for February

October 3 - No meeting, Moved to Oct. 7th

October 7 - Joint meeting with North Central Clubs: Pearlridge, Mililani Sunrise and Wahiawa/Waialua

A wine tasting and lunch. Details will follow

October 10 - Dark, Columbus Day

October 17 and 24 - back to regular schedule at Oahu

Country Club

Program: PP Ernie Anderson introduced guest

speaker, Alan Lloyd, who was born in Honolulu,

Territory of Hawaii, went to Punahou School and Swarthmore College where he graduated with a

Bachelor of Science degree. After college, Alan sold

Westinghouse power equipment to utilities and sugar

plantations in Hawaii for 13 years before joining Maui

Electric Company. He transferred to Hawaiian Electric

Company in 1969. Alan retired in 1996 as Executive

Staff Engineer. Alan gave us a history lesson about the

Battle of the Coral Sea.

The Battle of the Coral Sea was a

tactical victory for Japan. But, a

strategic victory for the Allies

who sunk one of Japan’s carriers

and damaged one of the two

Japanese premier carriers so

badly that they missed the Battle

of Midway.

Beginning on 7 May, the carrier

forces from the two sides

exchanged airstrikes over two

consecutive days. The first day,

the U.S. sank the Japanese light

carrier Shōhō, while the Japanese sank a U.S. destroyer

and heavily damaged a fleet oiler (which was later

Doug Taylor & Jory Atamian

scuttled). The next day, the Japanese fleet carrier

Shōkaku and Zuikaku were heavily damaged, the U.S.

fleet carrier Lexington was critically damaged (and was

scuttled as a result), and the Yorktown was damaged.

With both sides having suffered heavy losses in aircraft and carriers damaged or sunk, the two fleets

disengaged and retired from the battle area. Because of

the loss of carrier air cover, Japanese Vice Admiral

Inoue recalled the Port Moresby invasion fleet,

intending to try again later.

This was the first aircraft carrier versus aircraft carrier

battle in history. Alan pointed out other significant

notes of historical importance…

-Almost all Australian troops were deployed overseas

in North Africa leaving Australia substantially

defenseless against the Japanese invasion except for

the US fleet.

-A US Navy pilot, Butch O’Hare, from the Lexington

shot down 5 Japanese planes; the Chicago International

Airport is named after him.

-The Yorktown was hit, but repaired in Pearl Harbor.

-The USS Canberra was named as a US replacement

ship…the only US ship named

for a foreign capital…and

testament to the close

relationship between the US

and Australia.

President Connie thanked Alan for his very educational

presentation and asked him to

sign a children’s book, Wacky

Wednesday by Dr. Seuss,

which will be donated to Aiea

Elementary School in his

honor.

Debbie Deibler led us in the Four-Way-Test.

On August 30th President-Elect Doug Taylor hosted

the annual Dictionary Labeling Project at the Ice Palace. The label crew - Interactors from Farrington &

Radford HS, our members & ohana, and Ice Palace

staff. Doug hosted a post pizza party and John

McLaughlin served his carrot cake. Now over 1000

dictionaries are ready for distribution to 3rd graders at

18 schools!

Alan Lloyd & Connie

The Rotary District 5000 Conference Hawaii held at

the Sheraton Kaua’i Resort September 9-11 was well attended by members of the Rotary Club of Pearl

Harbor. Those in attendance were Bill & Cathy Bow,

Debbie & Mimi Deibler, Harvey & Merilyn Gray,

Ellie Kaanaana, Connie & Gene Kraus, Donna & John

McLaughlin and Doug Taylor. The Conference was

very informative and a great time was had by all of

those who attended.

September

New Generations Month

Sep 19: 11:15 am Shriners Hospital Tour and Lunch

Sep 26: Neil Tepper, “The Creativity Doctor”

October

Vocational Month

Oct 3: Dark

Oct 7: Joint meeting with North Central clubs,

12:00 noon, a wine tasting, Chuck Furuya, Master

Sommelier, and lunch at Pearl Country Club

Oct 10: Dark, Columbus Day Oct 17: TBA

Oct 24: TBA

Oct 31: TBA

THE 4THE 4--WAY TESTWAY TEST

Of the things we think, say or doOf the things we think, say or do

1. Is it the TRUTH?1. Is it the TRUTH?

‘Oia ’i’o i keia o’lelo‘Oia ’i’o i keia o’lelo

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Kupono ia ka kouKupono ia ka kou

3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Kukulu lokomaika’i a me pilialoha maika’i a’eKukulu lokomaika’i a me pilialoha maika’i a’e

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Pono ia ka kouPono ia ka kou

PDG Roy King, DG Laurie Yoshida, Gloria

King, Donna McLaughlin &