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AUGUST 12, 2008
PUBLISHING ITEMS IN THE BULLETIN
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Ivan Lumala, Senior Product Manager, Emerging Markets, Microsoft Learning
Microsoft Corporation, "Building Leaders in Africa Through Educational Advancement" | Memorial Mass & Reception for Roy Wahle | Looking for a Rotary Barbecue Location | Fellowship: Scotch Tasting | Annual Fall Golf Fellowship | 2008-09 Bellevue Rotary Community Grants | Rotary District After Hours Social | GSE Team Leaders Needed | Instructions for Life
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Alan Fulp, 08/16 PLEASE NOTE: If your birthday is this month but does not show in the list, you need to add it to your directory page online. |
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PLEASE NOTE: If the regular parking garage is full and you are turned away or redirected, please go to the Harbor Club parking lot.
Ivan Lumala, Senior Product Manager
Emerging Markets, Microsoft Learning
Microsoft Corporation
"Building Leaders in Africa Through Educational Advancement"
Ivan was born and raised in Uganda East Africa. He first came to the United States as a chaperon, teacher, and sound technician for the African Children’s Choir. The group was mostly orphan children 5-12 years old who were singing in the US and Canada to raise funds for orphanages in their homeland after Idi Amin.. While touring in the Seattle area, Ivan stayed with a family which offered him college tuition at a local university. He returned as a foreign student and graduated with a Computer Science degree, and later a Masters of Software Engineering degree. Mr. Lumala is a Senior Product Manager in the Microsoft Learning group, responsible for emerging countries.
About 5 years ago Ivan, his wife Loi, and 2 friends co-founded Leadership Advancement International (LAI) whose mission is to bridge the leadership gap in developing countries by educating young men and women of high leadership potential, nurturing and mentoring them to realize their potential, and facilitating their successful repatriation to their home countries.
Memorial Mass & Reception for Roy Wahle
Please join family, friends and colleagues for a special memorial mass and reception to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Roy Wahle, faculty emeritus, on Friday, August 22, 2008, at 1:30 P.M. At the Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University. Reception immediately following in Hunthausen Hall, 2:30 - 4:30 P.M. Parking is available in the lot near the main entrance off of 12th & Marion.
Please RSVP by August 20 to susancj@seattleu.edu.
Looking for a Rotary Barbecue Location
The Fellowship Committee is looking for a home to host a Rotary Barbecue on Sepember 7th or September 14th. If you have a level yard that will work and you don’t mind 50 or so folks showing up at your place on one of these dates, call Byron Piro (Ph 425-890-5981). The event is completely catered, so no worries about food, drink or table set-ups or take-downs.
Fellowship: Scotch Tasting
Cecille Schuman
The BRC is holding it's first-ever Scotch Tasting Event on August 15th, at 6:30pm, at the Harbor Club. The cost is $35 per person and includes:
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8 different scotches from around the world
- an incredible Master of Whiskey who has been in the business for 30 years to provide you with a wealth of knowledge and interesting details to turn an amateur into a connoisseur
- a delicious selection of peppered angus strip loin of beef served with herb aioli and French bread
- Smoked salmon on dark rye
Parking is at the Symetra building, and the event is limited to 45 attendees, so please RSVP as soon as possible. This event is open to members and guests and will be a wonderful social opportunity to bond with other Rotarians over a nice glass of Scotch (and finally know what in the world you are drinking).
Annual Fall Golf Fellowship
Brad Hunt
We have reserved 32 spots for our Annual Fall Golf Fellowship on Wednesday, September 17th, at Bellevue Golf Club. The cost is only $80.00 for carts, golf, prizes and a BBQ after the event.
The format is a "Scramble," and the first tee time is 12:00 noon. We will fill the 32 spots on a first-come, first-served basis.
Contact Brad Hunt for more information.
2008-09 Bellevue Rotary Community Grants
Peter Wang
The 2008-09 Bellevue Rotary Community Grants Bellevue Rotary is soliciting applications for community service grants until October 15, 2008.
The following are some of the guidelines, not limiting to:
1. The funds must be community service oriented, beneficial primarily to the residents of the City of Bellevue and secondarily to residents of the neighboring Eastside cities.
2. Funds will be granted for capital investments in service projects and not for general operating expenses such as overhead and salary, etc.
3. The maximum grant per organization is $5,000.
4. A simple Letter of Inquiry must be filled out and received by October 15, 2008.
- The Letter of Inquiry should provide the following information:
- Organization information (name of organization, contact person, address, & telephone number).
- Single summary sentence of service project.
- Population & number of people benefiting from project.
- Total estimated budget of proposed project.
- Grant proposal and how the grant money will be utilized.
Upon favorable review, a Full Request may then be requested by a Bellevue Rotarian of the Community Grants Committee for final review.
The Community Grants Committee will then select the final list of grant proposals for approval by the Bellevue Rotary Executive Board.
Please send all Letters of Inquiry on or before October 15, 2008 to:
Bellevue Rotary
Attn: Community Grants
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
For further questions, contact Peter C. Wang, Chair, Bellevue Rotary Community Grants Committee (Ph 425-241–0110), or Phil Noble, Vice Chair (Ph 206-689-2129.
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Rotary District After Hours Social
District Governor Jesse Tam would like to invite everyone to the District's first quarterly after-hours social on Thursday, August 28, from 5:00 pm-7:30 pm, at Maplewood Greens (Maplewood Golf Course), 4050 Maple Valley Highway, Renton. Admission is $5.00 and there will be a no-host bar,along with hors d'oeuvres provided by Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club (BBRC) and District 5030, as sponsors of the event. Space is limited and RSVP is required to Lilly Tam. or click the link on the home page of the District website.
All Rotarians and guests are invited to this after-work fellowship/social event. If you have potential Rotary members for your club, bring them to this event so they can see the larger Rotary experience! Come meet new friends or renew acquaintances from other clubs.
If you can't make this event, we will have three more after-hour socials over the course of the Rotary year, in different parts of our district. Check the District calendar for updated information.
District 5030 needs Team Leaders for exchanges to India and France in 2009. Club members are encouraged to submit applications to serve as GSE Team Leaders for upcoming exchanges to India (01/24/09 to 02/23/09) and Southwest France (03/28/09 to 04/26/09). Fluency in French is required for the latter.
Past President Gary Zimmerman has served as a Group Leader for several exchanges and would be happy to discuss the duties and benefits from serving in that position. The application deadline is September 9, 2008.
For more information contact Judd Lees at or go to the GSE website.
Instructions for Life
From a recent invocation by George Northcroft
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self,
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.