Sept 15, 2021
 
Thanks to Turner for Greeting!
Jason will be our greeter next week
 
Thanks for Jon Secrest for being Sargent at Arms. Dan Deitz will be next week. 
 
Scribe this week: KJ, filling in for Diane
Scribe next week: Rich Hoppe, Jon Secrest will check-in with him. 
 
Rotary Minute: 
THE SPONSOR OF A NEW MEMBER
The bylaws of Rotary clearly outline the procedure for a prospective member to be proposed for Rotary club membership. The "proposer" is the key person in the growth and advancement of Rotary. Without a sponsor, an individual will never have the opportunity to become a Rotarian.
The task of the proposer should not end merely by submitting a name to the club secretary or membership committee. Rotary has not established formal responsibilities for proposers or sponsors, however, by custom and tradition these procedures are recommended in many clubs. The sponsor should:
1. Invite a prospective member to several meetings prior to proposing the individual for membership.
2. Accompany the prospective new member to one or more orientation/informational meetings.
3. Introduce the new member to other club members each week for the first month.
4. Invite the new member to accompany the sponsor to neighboring clubs for the first make-up meeting to learn the process and observe the spirit of fellowship.
5. Ask the new member and spouse to accompany the sponsor to the club's social activities, dinners or other special occasions.
6. Urge the new member and spouse to attend the district conference with the sponsor.
7. Serve as a special friend to assure that the new member becomes an active Rotarian.
When the proposer follows these guidelines, Rotary becomes stronger with each new member.
Quote :  “Only a life lived in the service of other is worth living.” – Albert Einstein 
Student Rotarians -  
Rotary Anniversaries  -   Josh Goldberg 4 yrs, Sep 13, Michelle Pong 11 yrs, Sep 14
Birthdays   -   Tristan Toleno Sept 5th, 
 
Announcements
Thanks to Josh G for filling in last week! 
 
History Walk: Jon is spearheading, has some folks to work with. 
 
Overflow shelter: meal coming up middle of October
 
Quilt Raffle: over $500 already, keep selling those tickets!
 
Brags:
Stacie: trivia night went really well, we had 4 full tables, made $220 for the charity. 
 
Josh Traeger: Trivia crew, represented and brought the whole crew together and did a fantastic job.
 
Nick: son joined the Storm soccer program, doing a ton of traveling (for which Nick is somewhat regretful as it is EVERY week!). The progression of the kids is amazing and fun to watch. Brag for Kevin for finally getting fined! He paid his whopping $0.25 for being late. 
 
Jon: Learned many years ago that when people ask how you are, they want to hear about medical diagnosis in detail. He has 3% word recognition in his left ear. He is getting a Cochlear implant in his left ear. Jon gave us great detail on how the hole drilling into his head will go. 
 
Turner: Kay came up with a wonderful saying when people are talking about their surgeries, it’s an organ recital.
 
Mona: Little fur baby (who is her world) had surgery to remove a growth on his eye and a dental cleaning, the dentist took 25% of his eyelid and 22 teeth. Mona is done moving her mother-in-law, she lived in the same place for 25 years and she held on to everything! Sorted everything out, moved her and unpacked everything in her new apartment! 
 
Kevin: a brag for Toni’s new look! 
 
Toni: She’s going to let that slide, cuz obviously “I looked like crap before”. Kevin replied that is NOT what he was saying… 
 
Cards: no winner of the $3 jackpot
 
Speaker: Norm Vancor is here to talk about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall. 
There is a lot of detail surrounding the Wall and all of the memorials in Washington D.C. 
The east wall is pointed directly at the northeast corner of the Washington monument, the West wall is pointed at the northeast corner of the Lincoln memorial. At the vertex the wall is over 10 feet high. Made of black granite quarried in Bangalor India, all of the granite work was done in Barre Vermont. The granite was selected because this granite has a reflective quality that we do not see from other granite.
The wall was designed very specifically, there are a lot memorials on the Mall in Washington D.C. There are 70 inscribed panels on each side (east and west), each panel is labeled 1-70 at the base and meets at the vertex of the wall. 
On each wing there are two panels which have no names for a total of 140 with names. There is a listing of those killed by name and another by day so people can locate the name of someone on the wall.
All of the names are on the wall chronologically from when they died. 
There are symbols next to names, a diamond for confirmed killed and a cross for missing in action. If remains are found and identified the cross is covered over with a diamond.
The names of eight woman (all nurses) are inscribed on the wall, 160 Medal of Honor recipients on the wall. There are 120 individuals on the wall who listed foreign countries as their home of record. There are a number of clergy on the wall.  
Much of the funds were raised with funds from the American people. 
The wall is on two acres and receives about 3 million visitors a year. There was a contest to pick the design of the wall. There was a public outcry against the design, so much so the secretary of the interior would not issue a building permit to have the wall built. Now it is considered a work of art and shrine to the men and women killed in Vietnam. Symbolically it is described as a wound that is closed and healing.  Items left at the memorial are collected and transferred to the museum where they are cataloged and kept (with the exception of flags and organic/perishable matter). 
Changes are made on Mother’s Day every year.
 
Take a look at the Moving Wall website for more information: http://www.themovingwall.org