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Club News: February 2008February 8th 2008 Posted in Club News HIGHLIGHTS: Interact Club Serves in Maras, Peru and La Paz, Bolivia Announcements: On Wednesday, February 15, 2008 we will meet at 7:20 am in the cafeteria at Holy Cross Hospital. We will meet some new staff and have a tour that will include new equipment. Wednesday, February 22, 2007: Club Assembly. Please e-mail Lou with items you’d like on the agenda. Board meeting February 4, 2008 We reviewed our Club’s balance sheet and P&L, which are now in good order. A big thanks to Lisa O’Brien and Linda Valaika for bringing our financial records up to date. Approximately three members’ 2007 – 2008 dues remain unpaid. We discussed courtesy and punctuality at meetings at some length. We reaffirmed these commitments to each other: • Meetings will start punctually at 7:30 am and end at 8:30 am. Meet and greet from 7:20 am to 7:30 am. Interact Club Serves in Maras, Peru and La Paz, Bolivia Sixteen members of our Taos High School Interact Club went to Peru and Bolivia on a service trip during the Christmas holidays, led by our own Chavi Petersen and accompanied by four additional adult chaperones. In order to raise the money necessary for this trip, they worked hard for over a year, holding car washes, bake sales, a rummage sale, sale of food at the Rotary Club bazaar and the Taos Balloon Fiesta, soliciting donations from local businesses and much more. As the trip drew near, four members of our club matched the final money needed, and raised by the students, to make the trip happen. The students presented a well-organized and moving report to the community, their friends and family and our Club at the Rio Grande Hall on February 6th. Their video clips, images and words made us all proud of them. They had one of the most powerful experiences of their young lifetimes. More on this, including images, can be found on our club website. (The article will be posted within a week.) New Members During the last 12 months our club proudly welcomed three new members. Paul Maurer is a customer service officer at Centinel Bank and additionally serves on the board of the Maurer Family Foundation, which makes grants to George Jaramillo, who shared a bit of his own journey and his hope for the Taos Public Library at our meeting of January 30, 2008, is a native of Albuquerque who spent much of his professional life in management at the library systems of the University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University. He recently became the director of library services for the Town of Taos and hopes to lead an expansion of our library from 14,000 to 28,000 square feet. George’s wife, Lucille Gallegos-Jaramillo is the principal at Arroyos del Norte Elementary School. Richard Burns and his wife, Susan, an artist, recently moved to Taos from Austin Texas, where he worked for many years as an admissions officer at a private school that recruited youth from Latin America, as well as domestically. He was born in Mexico City and lived in Mexico for 15 years. Richard is fluent in Spanish. His current interests include energy efficiency, and his brief tips to us every Wednesday are extremely useful. Taos Milagro Rotary Club Website Thanks to the hard work of our president, Lou Morgan and her web-savvy son, our website is back up. Visit it soon at www.taosrotary.org. By using our user name and password you can access the interactive pages on the site. Lou or I can give you that information. Service Project Our Board is considering a local service project to recommend to the club at large. Two that have been discussed are a program of mentoring elementary school children for literacy, including providing books, and a cleanup or recycling program. Chavi, Peter and Yale visited the Santa Fe Downtown Club on Thursday February 7th to learn more about their literacy program. Lorraine Goldman and Grady Jaramillo of the Santa Fe Downtown Noon Club were generous in sharing their materials and what they have learned about how to implement a primary school program. Chavi, Peter and Yale will meet soon with Lucille Gallegos-Jaramillo, principal of Arroyos del Norte Elementary School to discuss the shape of a possible program. Look for more information and a recommendation after our Board meets on Monday, March 3, 2008 Club Officers The officers-elect for the July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 club year are: Strategic Cooperative Relationships From Rotary International News – 7 November 2007: |
