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Cocoa Beach Rotary Club
8/19: TBD
Happy Rotary Anniversary to:
Joe Strater - 7
AUGUST 12, 2015
DISTRICT
ROTARY
Invocation… John Alexander
SERVICE ABOVE SELF
Pledge… Peter Cunningham
One profits most
Song... John A. & Kalyn
Who serves best
A big Rotary “Thank You” to Kaitlynn Watkins,
Annual Giving Coordinator, Nemours Fund for
Children’s Health. Kailynn shared some of the
great things Nemours, Lake Nona area, is doing to
help children. Soliciting input from parents in
designing rooms, floor to ceiling windows (seeing
nature improves healing), pick your room lighting
color! They have the only pediatric ER in the area
and are fundraising for their own helicopter lease.
Visiting Rotarians and Guests… JoAnn Yardley (prospective member), Kent
Oliver (MN), Suzanne Violet (Cocoa), Jim Tumelson (guest of John T.), Roman
Alexander & Marinne Vanderlinden (Grand guests of John A.)
$14 Roman Alexander $225
20 Larry Hedersin, Ron Paul (politician)
22 Tim Cool, Bill Parcels (NFL coach)
8/21: Friday Fest beverages by Rotary,
volunteers let Pete know you will be there
57 years, 1958-2015
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS
Happy Anniversary to:
Tim & Kathy Cool - 40
Larry & Joann Hendersin - 37
22 Howard McCabe, Norman Schwarzkopf
26 Joe Triscari, Michael Jeter (actor)
27 John Alexander, “Mario” (musician)
RI President K.R.
"Ravi" Ravindran
2014-15 Theme…
Be a gift to the
World
Did’ja know... On August12, 1939 The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland
and featuring words and music by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Harold Arlen,
receives its world premiere in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
The beloved characters and familiar plot points were mostly all there in the
original children’s book, from the Kansas farm girl in shiny slippers
transported to Munchkin land by a terrible tornado, to the wicked witch, the
brainless scarecrow, the heartless tin woodsman and the cowardly lion she
encounters once she gets there. But what’s missing, of course, from Frank
Baum’s bestselling novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is the music that
helped make those characters so beloved and those plot points so familiar.
First published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was adapted numerous
times for the stage and screen and even set to music prior to 1939.
Absent… Tim, Ollie, Lady Grundy, Brenda, Antoinette. John S., Bobbie,
Bob T.
Rotarian John Alexander quickly handed off 4-way to new
Rotarian Joe Triscari…all Rotarians need to brush up
though... 4-Way is on the bulletin
”The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall
into lazy habits of thinking.” - Albert Einstein