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THE ACORN A weekly publication by the Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks

http://thousandoaksrotary.org

Board of Directors

2016-2017

Robert Bianchi

President

Tim Weaver

President-Elect

Mike Murphy Past President

Greg Kusnierek

Secretary

Trevor Tyloch Youth Service

Barbara Cornwall

Community Service

Marc Feigen Director-At-Large

Meghan Lopez

Vocational Service

Bob Lewis Club Service

David Stowell

International Service

David Masci Foundation Chair

John Bradley

Treasurer

Karen Furnari Family of Rotary

EX-OFFICIO

Mike Hebert

Executive Secretary

Larry Baker

Executive Treasurer

“Inspire others with your story.”

Program: June 15th

Rotary Scholarships

Carol Schreiber

Carol Shreiber, Chair of the Scholarship committee, welcomed our award-winning students today, and their parents. Scholarships are awarded from the club’s Ro-tary Foundation, and this is our 35th year doing so. Since Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self,” and our aim com-munity service, applicants have demonstrated a similar ethic or wish to pursue a related vocational service. Carol thanked her committee: Michelle Nash, Felix Wang, Robert Cabral, and Tim Weaver. The students were introduced by members of the com-mittee; each said a few words, and were given a plaque. Those honored were Darya Abbassi and Desireh Abbas-si, Moorpark College; Lauren Doyle, Thousand Oaks High School; Jeanette Simanek, La Reina High School (in ab-sentia); Erin Strang, La Reina High School; and Hannah Neihoff, La Reina High School Interact Club.

Program: June 22nd

Shakespeare Festival Preview

Karen Furnari

Karen Furnari introduced Michael Arndt and Kevin

Kurt from the Kingsman Shakespeare Festival at CLU,

which is celebrating their 21st year at CLU. Michael

and Kevin were very grateful for our sponsorship.

They hosted a trivia contest having to do with Shake-

speare, giving out prizes for correct or incorrect answers. Participants were

Felix Wang, Bob Lewis, Jeff Borenstein, and Martin Anderson.

Michael then went on to introduce us to Love’s Labour’s Lost. There will be

music, sets of clowns, plenty of stage comment, and a starter poem. This story

is a prequel to Much Ado About Nothing, and is lots of fun. Rotarians will

joining in the fun on July 8th at the Production of Love’s Labor Lost..

Volume 59, No. 44 Week of June 26, 2017

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BIRTHDAYS

Jun 27 Bloom, Denny

Jun 27 Buss, Nelson

Jun 29 Freeman, Carol

Jul 03 McClellan, Andrea

Jul 04 Engler, Susie

Jul 09 Krehbiel, David

Jul 11 Hanner, Chris

Jul 11 Ward, Tex

Jul 12 Lederer, Jill

Jul 19 Kossoff, Ken

Jul 25 Lundberg, Kyle

Jul 25 O'Beirne, Mike

Jul 26 Ladd, Lee

Jul 29 Lewis, Bob

ANNIVERSARIES

Jun 27 Friedl, Jim & Tracy

Jun 27 Lazar, Judy & Roger

Jun 29 O'Beirne, Mike & Jo-Ann

Jul 06 Wang, Felix & Mary Yang

Jul 09 Benson, Roger & Marilyn

Jul 09 Helmuth, Tammie & Michael

Jul 10 Wieler, Dick & Janis

Jul 13 Wilson, Denis & Sunny Morton-Wilson

Jul 16 Becerra, Daniel & Emily

Jul 18 Christie, James & Breana

Jul 18 Krehbiel, David & Betsy Friedman-Krehbiel

Jul 20 Jones, Ed & Jo Ann

Jul 20 Schreiber, Carol & Chet

Jul 25 Ladd, Lee & Susan

Jul 27 Holmes, Janeen & Bob

Jul 28 Diaz, Mario & Dawn Dixon - Diaz` Jul 28 Kourounis, Tony & Catherine

Jul 29 Harimoto, Nate & Shirley

Thousand Oaks Rotary

Minutes of Meeting

June 15, 2017

Susan Murata opened the meeting with the Inspirational Moment and a salute to the Flag. She congratulated those of us who were born in the 1930’s thru the 1970’s for surviving, then reminded us of the “simple” and even “dangerous” ways we did things “then” and the differences between then and now.

Tony Kourounis took over and conducted the meeting, as Robert Bianchi is out of town. He led us in singing God Bless America.

Dave Burns introduced our guests today. The visiting Rotarian was Jill Haney from Simi Sunset. Our guests were Matt Lallo’s wife Teresa; Mary Stec, guest of Carol Robinson; Red Stanley, guest of Steven Stanley; and Daniel Home, guest of Natalie Yanez.

Thousand Oaks Rotary

Minutes of Meeting

June 22, 2017

For the Inspirational Moment Patricia Jones shared the story of an

old man with sons who were always in discord. The old man pre-

sented a bundle of sticks to his 1st son and asked him to break the

bundle of sticks. He tried and tried, but was unsuccessful. He then

presented them to his 2nd son who asked him to break the bundle of

sticks, who was also unsuccessful, as was his third son. His 4th son

took the bundle and broke the bundle one stick at a time. The 4

brothers never fought again, since from this lesson they learned

that is easy to break sticks one at a time, but that unity is strength.

As Rotarians, we are stronger if we work together.

Ed Jones introduced visiting honorary member Skip Roberts and

Rotarian Nike Richardson from the Camarillo club.

President Bianchi announced the passing of John Newhouse, Dis-

trict Governor Assistant. Celebration of John’s life will be held on

Friday, June 30 at Westminster Westlake Village, at 1:00. Recep-

tion will be held at the family home 6128 Braemar Circle, Agoura

Hills. He also mentioned that there was a joint Board meeting on

Tuesday evening, and how proud he is of his board. He then pre-

sented Ronnie Stone with his blue badge


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Announcements 6-15 HAPPY DOLLARS 6-15

Marc Feigen carried the cup. Dave Wender reminded us that the 15th Midsummers Eve Wine Festival is coming up in 8 weeks on August 19th. We have donated through it more than $388,000 to Special

Olympics. The rest has gone into the club’s Rotary Foundation, and we are close to a million dollars there. We netted around $75,000 from the event last year. Dave then passed out the Silent Auc-tion Donation letter.

Lois Curran-Klein reminded us that they had emailed all of us about the Silent Auction and about getting donations for it. On the tables is a list of sug-

gested theme baskets that could be donated.

Mike Murphy said we are hav-ing our annual demotion party for Robert Bianchi on June 30th here, starting at 6:00 p.m. The theme will be golf, so please wear any golf attire you

may have. Signup sheets are on the tables.

FINE SESSION 6-15

Trevor Tyloch asked a series of questions about computer acronyms. Those fined were Joani Pappas, Betsy Friedman, Susan Murata, Karen Furnari, Maria Prescott, Pat Paulucci, Hugo Roche, Marissa Buss, and Andrea McClellan.

Carol Shreiber donated for the 8 gold and 2 silver medals that were won at the special Olympics Sum-mer Games last week by our swimmers.

Dave Burns (1) asked us to sign up to carry the Happy Dollars cup next year; and (2) he will be performing 3 times in the next month at Barone’s in the San Fernando Valley.

Steve Pederson’s youngest son turned 44, and to celebrate he allowed his son to beat him at golf yesterday.

Tanya Caligiuri read a paragraph from an arti-cle in the Wall Street Journal on June 13th showing that Rotary International and other major donors had together pledged over a bil-lion dollars to vaccinate millions of children against the polio virus.


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Announcements 6-22

HAPPY DOLLARS 6-22

Bob Biery carried the cup.

Sharon Renshall announced

that she and Jim will be

traveling to Europe for the

month of July.

Martin Anderson described

an emotional day at Rotary Convention when 1.2

billion dollars was pledged for Polio eradication.

Barbara Cornwall said their business just got the

Dallas Cowboys Training Camp account.

Richard Williams noted that Susan Murata owes

him $5.00 from Happy Dollars several weeks

ago, although Susan said it was just for a week.

Carol Freeman will not miss Robert Bianchi’s

phone calls after his term as President is over.

Nelson Buss will be wearing a kilt at the Scottish

Highland Games in San Diego on June 25th.

Joani Pappas said that we’re still look-

ing for volunteers for the Storybook

Project. We need 12 volunteers for

July 28th. Background check forms

must be turned in by Friday, June 30th

if not before.

Mark Feigen announce the rolling out

draft of the Rotary Newsletter. Any

members not wanting their names

published, must inform him by June

30th.

Dave Wender mentioned that he is

getting a 4-H pig this year. He also

asked members to consider any items

that can fit into a box that can be

used for a basket for the silent auc-

tion for the Midsummer’s Eve Wine

Festival.

Mike Murphy reminded everyone

about President Bianchi’s Demotion

Party Friday, June 30th.

FINE SESSION 6-22

Nelson Buss used trivia having to do with summer. Anyone called upon had to select the

next person to be called upon. Those fined were Martin Anderson, Jeff Borenstein, David

Masci, Robert Bianchi, Richard Williams, Felix Wang, and Tim Weaver.


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CLUB ASSEMBLY

June 22, 2017

President Robert Bianchi

President Robert expressed pride in our club, as we have funded $54,175

in local community projects. $11,500 in Matching Paul Harris Fellow funds,

$27,767 Club money and our Club’s involvement in District and Global

grant-writing has resulted in local project funding of $156,022.

Robert then recognized his Board for a job well done, handing out recogni-

tion awards to the following members:

Mike Murphy for time contributed as Past President,

Barbara Cornwall for her dedication to Community Service, whose favorite moments were training Marissa

and Nelson Buss as the new chairs of the Chili Cook-off,

Mark Feigen, Director-At-Large, for his work in publicity,

David Masci ,Foundation Chair, for his commitment to the importance of the Foundation. David was happy to

report that our club’s Foundation has $179,00, whereas San Luis Obispo has $46,267, and the average club in

our District has $12,565

John Bradley, Treasurer, whose knowledge of Bylaws were a standout, and other standout moments have

been in working on the grants and projects

Greg Kusnierek for his contributions as Secretary

Larry Baker for all his service as Executive Treasurer

Bob Lewis, for all of his coordination of Club meetings as Club Administrator who thanks the Club for their

cooperation and making his life easier

Karen Furnari,much appreciated for her role as Chair of Family of Rotary, whose highlight has been bringing

the sponsorship of Kingsman Shakespeare Festival back.

Tim Weaver, incoming President who is most appreciated for his expertise in conflict management. His most

inspiring moment was listening to Bill Gates and Jack Nicklaus at the International Convention, and the impact

they made, especially considering that Jack Nicklaus had Polio at the age of 13. He was also extremely moved

by the story of a Polio survivor who without the use of her legs, completed 2.5 miles of swimming, 115 bike

miles, and a wheelchair marathon. She was extremely inspirational.

Carol Freeman, who was recognized for always being there as wise counsel to President Bianchi, who always

took the time to answer questions and to direct. Carol said that she was thinking of Patricia Jones inspiration-

al moment, with regard to the pile of sticks. If we all stick together we will be strong.


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The ACORN is a weekly publication of the Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks.

Editor K.T. Connor, notes by Tanya Caligiuri and Nancy Wohl. photos by Rich Folsom

58-59 DONN ODELL

59-60 JOHN HEYWOOD

60-61 MARV BURROW

61-62 ROSS DUSKIN

62-63 ROY McCOMBER

63-64 PAUL PACE

64-65 JOHN CONLAN

65-66 CARLOS SCURIA

66-67 MERRILL DARLING

67-68 PHIL OZAB

68-69 WILLIAM VANDERZWANN

69-70 ALVIN J. HOTZ, JR.

70-71 BEN CRANMER, JR.

71-72 GLENN GOODWIN

72-73 GEORGE VASLIEFF

73-74 HENRY STILL

74-75 JOHN TUEL

75-76 KENNETH HANSON

76-77 DAVID HUANG

77-78 WILLIAM HAAS

78-79 FELIX MASCI

79-80 HARLAND JONES

80-81 DAVE WENDER

81-82 GEORGE GIBB

82-83 NORMAN NAGEL

83-84 BILL PETERSON

84-85 MIKE O’BEIRNE

85-86 MARV SOSNA

86-87 FRED FERRARINI

87-88 DOC NEEDHAM

88-89 KENNETH ROBERTS

89-90 JEFF BORENSTEIN

90-91 DENNIS GILLETTE

91-92 MERV KOPP

92-93 TOM GLANCY

93-94 HUGO ROCHE

94-95 BRIAN BACK

95-96 TONY KOUROUNIS

96-97 JACK CAINE

97-98 DICK WIELER

98-99 JUDY ST. JOHN

99-20 MIKE GONZALES

20-01 NEIL SCRIBNER

01-02 BOB BIERY

02-03 HARRY SELVIN

03-04 RICK LEMMO

04-05 DOUG TAPKING

05-06 KATHY HILL

06-07 PETE TURPEL

07-08 VICKI ARNDT

08-09 MARTIN ANDERSON

09-10 KEITH PARKS

10-11 FRANK CORRIGAN

11-12 RICHARD WILLIAMS

12-13 SUSAN MURATA

13-14 CAROL FREEMAN

14-15 NATE HARIMOTO

15-16 MIKE MURPHY

PAST PRESIDENTS

ROTARY CLUB OF THOUSAND OAKS


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