THE HUB The Rotary Club of Park Cities www.parkcitiesrotary.org Service Leaders united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical Above standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Self October 15, 2010 TODAY’S PROGRAM Program Chair of the Day: John Gilchrist The Hon. Tom Leppert City of

om Leppert was elected mayor of Dal- such as Dallas Convention Center Hotel, dents. Mayor Leppert donates all of his Tlas in June 2007 and since that time the Woodall Rogers Deck Park and the salary as Mayor to scholarships. has instilled a professional, supportive and Calatrava-designed Margaret Hunt Hill In addition, Mayor Leppert has led two business focused approach and a strong Bridge over the Trinity River are now under successful referendums to build major pro- sense of cooperation, optimism and “can construction. And targeted efforts in un- jects in the City, a reform of local ethics do” spirit within the City and community. derutilized areas of the southern and west- standards and the holding of tax rates As Mayor, he has aggressively pur- ern part of the City have produced record while Dallas has continued to make these sued policies that have dramatically impro- investment and new opportunities for the major investments. ved the quality of life in Dallas. In the areas future. Additionally, the Mayor has institu- Dallas has also emerged as one of the of public safety, economic development, ted a strong trade agenda leading delega- top sustainable cities in the country. Wor- education and the environment, Dallas has tions to China, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and king closely with the building and design in- emerged as a focal point in the nation. Canada. dustry, Dallas was the first large city to de- The crime rate has been reduced by Mayor Leppert has also pursued a velop comprehensive “green building” stan- double digits, by significantly increasing strong education agenda. The Mayor has dards and has been recognized nationally the size of the police force and focusing introduced the Mayor’s Intern Fellows pro- for a variety of other initiatives in this area. responsibility and accountability at the gram, which places high school students Prior to his election, Mayor Leppert led local beat level. from challenged schools in corporate major national and international corpora- Economic development has also been offices for the summer, an early reading, tions in the areas of construction, financial a priority. is experiencing pre-literacy program, which has reached services and real estate, including CEO of a renaissance with AT&T, Tenet Health- over 40,000 pre-school children, Opera- The Turner Corporation, the nation’s lar- care and over 50 other companies having tion Front Door, which improves the curb gest general building company. moved to Downtown Dallas, and the open- appeal of select campuses and the May- A lifelong community volunteer, he ing of the world-renowned AT&T Perfor- or’s Chesapeake Energy Scholarships, has served numerous community groups ming Arts Center. Major new investments which provides financial support for stu- and charitable organizations. COMMITTEE TIME Fellowship Picnic RI FOUNDATION October 23, 11:30 - 1:30 Coffee Park (SW corner of World Polio Day Hillcrest and NW Hwy) In honor of World Polio Day, News Hamburger Man + Cookies on Sun, Oct. 24, 2010, The Rotary Foundation is happy to announce One of our Club's June, 2010 RYLA award Bring Your Family! 2 for 1 recognition points for every winners, Ileen Banos, has just been chosen 15.00/person, online contribution of $100.00 or more made to be a Student Coun- Kids 8 or younger - free, but sign to PolioPlus during Oct. 18-24, 2010. selor at the June, 2011 up all online before Oct 22! Rotarians may go to www.rotary.org/ RYLA camp. Very few Give checks to Anne Harper contribute to make a contribution, but will are chosen for this or Elizabeth Hart need to be registered with Rotary's Member position, and we can all Access. be proud of this Hill- crest H. S. and Interact member student. Rangers Rock! Chartered in 1948 THE HUB The Rotary Club of Park Cities LAST WEEK October 15, 2010 - Page 2 Presiding: Rick Amsberry member Candice Griswold. THE HUB Invocation: Orville Salmon Howard Fitch presented a Newsletter of the Pledge/Song Leader: Rod Pirtle Blue Badge to Roger Allspaugh. Jarl Rotary Club of Park Cities (Dallas) Introductions: Charlie Bond Johnson gave an update Betty Dawson, Editor Four Way Test: Chris Short on the Mentoring Program Shutterbug Committee Photographer: Bill Kelly at Hillcrest H.S. The Bill Kelly, Chair program started in Chair of the Day: Greg Pape Bulletin/Internet Advertising Jan, 2010, with twenty-two students Speaker: Jim Plumlee Dax Seale, Chair and twenty-two mentors. The students Program: Cardio-Vascular Health are Seniors and members of AVID (Advance- President Rick Amsberry ment Via Individual Determination). In Jan, called the meeting to order by 2011, mentors will start working with Junior recounting how Paul Harris began students. He invited more members to be- Rotary and its root in vocational come involved in this very satisfying activity. service. Orville Sal- Eric Heitkamp reported on the Dis- OFFICERS and DIRECTORS mon gave the invoca- trict’s Adoption Awareness Car- 2010-2011 tion and noted that there were no nival. Of the seventy-four chil- members who were ill or in the dren who attended, forty-one Rick Amsberry, President hospital. Rod Pirtle led “The Star are in the process of being adop- Jim Mills, President Elect Spangled Ban- ted. Several of the adoptive Fred Brown, Vice President ner.” He was then families adopted several siblings. Barb Jeffries, Treasurer joined by two Greg Pape introduced our speaker Maryllyn Hargrave, Secretary “Gatlin Borthers,” today, Jim Plumlee from Stroke Bill Clark, Sgt. at Arms aka Karl Von Scan. He began with a quote from Eric Heitkamp, Club Service I Bieberstein and Hoyt Neal, to sing a “mo- a Japanese philosopher, “If you Bart Noble, Club Service II dern” song from the 70’s, “All the Gold in Cali- don’t take care of your Jack Kearney, fornia.” Charlie Bond introduced our body, where will you Community Service I guests today. Greg Pape reminded live?” He related his own experi- Tracy Gomes, us of the many projects funded by the ence of being told that he was Community Service II Rotary Foundation. To date there have very close to having a major Pam Carvey, Vocational Service been twenty-three donors from RCPC, inclu- stroke or fatal heart attack, and Roger Hogarth, ding the latest very generous contribution from being scheduled for immediate surgery. He International Service Charlie Bond. Howard Fitch introduced said there are ways to prevent these kinds of Doug Gill, At Large The Hub and the web ad- health problems. The circulatory system pro- Phillip Bankhead, vertisers of the week. vides oxygen to all of the cells, and if that cir- Immediate Past President PE Jim Mills pre- culation is blocked, the cells will die. Athero- Ben Young, Parliamentarian sen- sclerosis is the build up of fatty plaque in the Jim Wolf, Historian Members with ted arteries which can create blockages. It is a Laurie Aldredge, guests a grant of $650 to Mi Es- silent killer, in that there are no symptoms. Club Administrator Ruth Alhilali cuelita to help make their 6704 Snider Plaza Mark Cameron classrooms safe for the President Rick’s quote from Paul Harris: Dallas, Texas 75205 Hal Copeland children. Mi Escuelita is a “When you know a man’s business, you Office Phone: 214-739-4170 Kendall Laughlin community-based pre- know him. A man may be a great success Office Fax: 214/363-6980 Randy Michero school which has its class- socially and still be a business miscreant, www.parkcitiesrotary.org George rooms in churches. but a good businessman is not likely to be Email: [email protected] Patterson Sammy Bickham a social miscreant for any great length of Sandra Starr introduced our newest time.”

EVENTS CALENDAR Get involved! In- Interact at Hillcrest H.S, AED = Defibrillator Training 8 am. See Tracy Gomes October Bl = Blood Drive M = Meals on Wheels (Differ- BD = Board of Dirs. Mtg, 7 am ent teams on each day) S M T W Th F S LaMadeleine, 75 & Mockingbird See Charles Delphenis CM = Circles of Success Mc = Ronald McDonald Mtg AED Mentoring See T. Gomes House-See Jina McDaniel Ray Klinginsmith, U.S.A. 3 M M M M In Mtg Cn = PCR Connect Event. NM = New Member Event President, Rotary International NM VV CP = ChildsPlay Work Mtg Pr = Program Committee Mtg Mtg www.rotary.org 10 M M M M In D = District 5810 Event Reading and Radio Resources Cn Web DH = Dentistry with a Heart See Hal Copeland M M M M In Mtg FR = Family of Rotary Event SpE = Special Service Event Linda Elliott,Grand Prairie 17 Mc BD F F = Fellowship Event VV = Vet to Vet - See Bob Dill M M M M In Governor, District 5810 24 Mtg FF = RCPC Foundation Fund = Web-lite after noon mtg Mtg. See Jim Mills Blue = Activities on own schedule www.rotary5810.org THE HUB The Rotary Club of Park Cities UPCOMING PROGRAMS October 15, 2010 - Page 3

October 22 New Members November 5 Curtis Meadows Speeches Meadows Foundation

October 29 Garrett Boone, Ed Fjordbak November 12 Jess Johnson Woodall Rodgers Park Veterans Day

Sign up at CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS www.parkcitiesrotary.org ROTARY CONNECTED WebLite for New Members, Today, 1-1:20 See Dennis Harrison Interesting new thread: Quick Survey: All things being equal, would you hire a Rotarian over R McD House, Mon, Oct 18, 5:00-7:00pm. See David Rench. a non Rotarian just because they are a Rotarian? Fellowship Picnic, Sat, Oct 23, 11:30-1:30. Coffee Park Tweet of the Week: You display The Four-Way Hamburger Man, $15.00 per person over 8 yrs old. See Anne Harper Test. But what about the Declaration of Rotarians in Busi- nesses and Professions? Get yours. http://cot.ag/cPKRdB Blood Drive, Sat, Nov 6, 10am-5pm. NorthPark, near Dillards. Interesting new thread: Read about the top five Volunteers and Donors needed. 3 shifts. See Michael Rainwater. reasons to support the Foundation at http://www.rotary.org/ en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/091230_news_5reasons. Dist 5810 RI Foundation Seminar, Sat, Nov 6, 8:30am-12:30 aspx?fb The Biblical Arts Center. $15.00. Learn more at www.rotary5810.org. RI has its own channel on YouTube offering a growing collection of videos and psas. The Hillcrest H.S. Mentoring Program will begin working with Juni- Check out or add to RI’s Flickr group often, or students in Jan, 2011. See J. Johnson, S. Bickham or T. Gomes. www.flickr.com/groups/familyofrotary/

THOUGHTS ON . . . ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Are You Ready for Some Afghan Students Help Eradicate Polio Football? Tall Buildings Afghan students from project of the RC of La Jolla The loftier the building, the several high schools fanned Golden Triangle, CA, which out across Jalalabad in Sep- administer Internet training HP Scots - 24 deeper must the foundation tember, raising money and labs in six high schools and a Wylie Pirates - 21 be laid. ~ Thomas Kempis awareness for efforts to era- central training facility in Jala- Good Job, Scots! The more I know about busi- dicate polio from labad. The ef- ness, the more I’m convinced their country. fort is funded that it is conducted in homes The students by a grant from HHS Panthers - 36 were all participants the U.S. State and churches far more than Lincoln Tigers - 21 in the Global Con- Department as Way To Go, Panthers! in office buildings. nections and Ex- part of a tech- ~ Laura Moncur change Program, a nology initiative We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of good- THEY PROFIT MOST WHO LAUGH BEST ness: first, the doing their Simple Home Remedies: 4. Remember: Everyone seems normal until practical duty well: then that 1. Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vege- you get to know them. they be graceful and pleas- tables by getting someone else to hold them 5. Never pass up an opportunity to go to the ing in doing it; which last is while you chop. bathroom. itself another form of duty. 2. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over ~ John Ruskin and going back to sleep after hitting the snooze Happy Birthday The higher the buildings, the button. Ben Young 10.15 lower the morals. 3. You only need two tools in life - WD-40 Roger Hogarth 10.16 ~ Noel Coward and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and should, Bobby Majumder 10.16 use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, Roger Allspaugh 10.18 FOUNDATION FUNDERS use the Duct Tape. Ruth Alhilali 10.18 Our Funders for Next Week are We gratefully acknowledge Chris Short 10.20 Fred Brown 10.20 Richard Stanford ASTRO-GRAPHICS Herb Durham 10.20 Sandra Starr Robert Ellington 10.21 Mark Stephens for the partial funding of the weekly Tom Stutz printing of The Hub We Gratefully Acknowledge

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