Rotary SJE/E eBulletin for March 15, 2018 (Mar 15, 2018)

Welcome to our Club!

Chartered Sep 12, 1966

We meet Thursdays at 12:15 PM

San Jose County Club

15571 Alum Rock Ave
San Jose, CA 95127
United States

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How Blessed are we?

Posted on Mar 14, 2018

In spite of being diagnosed with ALS at the young age of 21, he took life as a challenge and soared to great heights, and lived on to be 76 years! How incredible is that? Makes us wonder why we crib and quarrel at silly things!

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Club Meet March

Posted by John Goldstein on Mar 14, 2018

San Jose City Council Member Johnny Khamis gives his take on the state of San Jose!

General Manager of the San Jose Country Club where we meet was with us today!

Our Speaker talks about ending Polio!

Two more new members inducted into the club! Welcome Aboard!

March Speakers

Posted by Suguna Alluri on Mar 14, 2018

On March 1, Commodore Russ Robinson of the South Bay Yacht Club, will talk to us about the history of the South Bay Yacht Club in Alviso..

On March 8, San Jose City Council Member Johnny Khamis will give his take on the state of San Jose and what his ideas are for San Jose going forward.

On March 15, Past District Governor Dwight Perry will update us on the Polio Eradication Efforts that Rotary has been working on since the 80's.

Rotary Club Membership Recruiting

Rotary San Jose East/Evergreen club President Charlie Wasser will be discussing what it takes to locate and recruit new Rotarians. The questions to be answered are (1) From where do Rotarians come? (2) What is the best way to recruit them? (3) Why do we want to grow a Rotary club?

Charlie has been a Rotarian since 2004. He has held several club and district positions as follows:

Communication Technologies - Chair 2012-2015; 2017-2018; Polio Plus - Chair 2013-2015; Rotary U - Chair 2014-2015; District Training Assembly - Member 2016-2017; Foundation Resources - Chair 2012-2014; Avenues of Service - Member 2014-2015; 2017-2018; Membership - Member 2014-2018; Rotaract - Member - 2008-2009; Public Image - Member 2012-2014; Membership Functional Area Rep (FAR) 2007-2009; District Conference - Member 2014-2015; Club Extension - Chair 2015-2018; Scholarship - Member 2017-2018; Peace Fellows - Member 2013-2018; RYE interviewer of students 2016-2018

Cheers!

Posted by Sara Calkins

Treasurer Marianne has posted a file detailing income/expenditures of our recent Crab Feed. To access it, log on to our website - in the My Clubrunner section, click on View Club Documents. The file is in the Club Finance - Budgets and Reports section.

This coming Thursday, we will hold a drawing at the end of the meeting for one of the remaining bottles of wine from the Crab Feed.

Drawing tickets are $1 each. Those members paying $20 for lunch will get one free ticket -- buy more tickets to increase your chances of winning. Those paying $10 and non-paying guests are encouraged to participate too @ $1 per ticket.

Bring your dollar bills or rob your piggy banks!

District Training Assembly

Posted by John Goldstein on Mar 14, 2018

What do you want to receive from your Club membership this coming year?

What do you want to achieve through your Club membership this coming year?

What can we contribute to our Eastside communities through our Club membership this coming year?

Lets start answering these questions together by participating in the

DISTRICT TRAINING ASSEMBLY

SATURDAY APRIL 14 8AM - 2PM

West Valley Community College

Lets all meet each other there and build our friendships, knowledge and purpose!

LIVESCAN WILL BE AVAILABLE ALL DAY!

and see you Thursday at our regular Club meeting.

Robotics Project Update

Posted by Harbinder Sikka on Mar 14, 2018

I would like to give an update from the Vocational Services desk of the Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen. We had a successful crab feed and the club has allocated $4040 to the Vocational Service towards our AI/Robotics project. With that our present total for this AI/Robotics project has now increased to $6000.

Our club endowment president Mr. Robbie Izat has also announced the availability of $38000 for the year 2018 from the club endowment funds towards club projects. The deadline for the application from the club members has been extended to April 30th, 2018. There is a limit of $11,000 per project. We hope that our Vocational Service project will be able to get the funding from the club endowment board making the total amount raised to be $17,000.

Since there is a delay in obtaining these funds so I would like to request high school AI/Robotics clubs to recruit more Juniors so that we can hold the competition in the fall. Since now all the funds are coming from our own club so there are some changes to the rules regarding the equipment.

1. The equipment now will remain the property of the Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen.

2. Rotary SJE/E will monitor the progress of the clubs to ensure that the provided equipment is used properly otherwise we have the right to reclaim the equipment.

3. Rotary SJE/E may use the equipment for different summer clubs at the same high school or different high schools in ESUHSD.

4. Club advisors will be required to provide a monthly update on the progress to the Rotary SJE/E vocational chair.

We would like to visit the schools AI clubs in April before our club endowment application deadline so that we can provide a proper funding guidance for our project.

We would advise all clubs to make sure that their students have signed up on the following website

www.bwsix.mit.edu

for an account to be created by MIT beaver institute.

They need to complete the following course

'BWSIx: BWSI100 RACECAR 2017’

before we can provide the MIT race car to the clubs.