Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue, WA
WEEKLY BULLETIN
DECEMBER 12, 2006
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Heather Tarr , Women's Softball Coach, University of Washington" | Penny LeGate Documentary on Ethiopia | Rotarians Doing Business with Rotarians | Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program, Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders | The Best Books of 2006
THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
NEWEST RED BADGE
MEMBER(S)
Cecille Schuman
Andy Barlass
Lourdes Tsukada
GREETERS
John Matheson
David Foster
BACK TABLE DUTY
Steve Hopp
Dave Miniken
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Bill Grimes, 12/02
Terry Posner, 12/03
Peter Kalunian, 12/04
BJ Rasmussen, 12/08
Debra Hauser, 12/09
Diane Tebelius, 12/14
Norris Bevan, 12/18
Dave Martin, 12/18
Rich Herzberg, 12/23
Rick Hervey, 12/25
Bob Evans, 12/28
Monte Snider, 12/31
Classification Report: “Banking” classification is currently full.
Heather Tarr
Women's Softball Coach, University of Washington
Heather Tarr embarks on her third season at the helm of the Husky Softball team after two successful seasons that resulted in back-to-back- Super Regional appearances.
Washington finished last season with a 32-25 record and finished seventh in the Pac-10 Conference. In her first season with the Huskies, Washington finished the year with a No. 14 national ranking, with a 35-22 record.
Before taking over the Washington program, Tarr spent a six-year stint at Pacific as an assistant coach and then associate head coach. Her previous coaching experience includes six seasons with the Pacific softball program.
In 2001, Tarr and Pacific head coach Brian Kolze were named the 2001 NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding the Tigers to within one win of the Women’s College World Series and a No. 18 final national ranking. That team also finished the season with a .973 fielding percentage, ranking second-best in the country.
Tarr joined Pacific prior to the 1999 season after an outstanding career as a Husky. As a four-year letterwinner, Tarr helped lead UW to a second place finish at the Women’s College World Series in 1996 and a third place finish in 1997.
She earned various honors while playing softball at Washington, including a three-year member of the Pac-10 All-Academic team from 1994-97, being named to the Pac-10 All-Conference team from 1995-97, and being a member of the NFCA All-West Region team in 1996 and 1997.She also worked at Washington as an undergraduate assistant coach during the 1998 season, helping the Huskies to a third-place finish at the 1998 Women’s College World Series.
Tarr also brings experience from the professional level as she spent the summer of 1997 as a member of the Women’s Professional Fastpitch Softball League’s Tampa Bay Fire Stix. She was the league leader in fielding percentage for first basemen and also led the league in walks.
Tarr earned her BA in Geography from Washington in 1998 and her M.Ed. at Pacific in the fall of 2003. Tarr, 32, is a Redmond native and is a graduate of Redmond High School.
Penny LeGate Documentary on Ethiopia
Margaret Doman
Mark your calendars!
December 19, 9:30 PM, KIRO 7
Be sure to watch Penny LeGate's half-hour documentary on Ethiopia, "Seattle to Ethiopia: Bridges of Hope". It will cover the issues of polio, water, fistula and AIDS orphans, all stories with local connections.
The Ethiopia Water Project was the raffle beneficiary during Katherine Thompson's presidential year. Special thanks go to Don Mings for his super-competent raffle management, which yielded a BRC contribution of $17,567!
Rotarians Doing Business with Rotarians
Our District Governor, Mike Montgomery, is encouraging all Rotarians to do business with fellow Rotarians, both club-wide and district-wide. One way we have done this is to ask Mike Schaeffer, our Sergeant of Arms, to have members recognized by not only their profession, but by their company name as well. He has done a great job to raise awareness of the different professions within our club.
Remember that our membership is comprised of people of high standards who are encouraged to follow the Rotarian Four Way Test. This 24-word test for employers and employees to follow in their business and professional lives is the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company. It asks the following four questions:
Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program
Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders
Peter Wang, Chairman, Community Grants Committee
Four classes of the 2nd Graders from Lake Hills Elementary School, BSD, attended the Forest Explorers program at the Woodland Park Zoo this fall, courtesy of Bellevue Rotary Community Grants. The Forest Explorers program presents the students an opportunity to experience first-hand the differences between tropic and temperate rain forests and the effect that they have on our environment.
The students and teachers from these classes have expressed their appreciation by sending us 79 original masterpieces of thank-you pictures and drawings. These wonderfully drawn thank you pictures are being displayed with Club Administrator for all to enjoy.
Here are some of the many wonderful comments from Mrs. McClanahan, Ms. Okawa, Ms. Tzucker’s classes and the fabulous writers of Room 111:
Amazing hands-on experience …
My favorite is a gorilla because the gorilla was picking it’s nose.
I saw a funny looking squirrel, a jaguar and a fat white owl …
I learned about the temperate rain fores t…
The live jaguar — that is our school mascot.
We learned the four layers of the forest …
Amazing … so cool … thank you …
Really appreciated that you let us go …
Great learning experience and appreciate your wonderful gift to us!
It was a real live jaguar! I love zoos.
And the penguins and peacock too.
I learned that the forest floor has bugs that eat the leaves and poop the soil out.
I love going to the zoo. I never been to zoo.
The bats make me scream, I jumped …
I learned about the monkeys, the ones with the beards.
As chosen by the Materials Selection Team at the King County Library System.
ADULT BOOKS
FICTION
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
ISBN: 0679454683
This is the third novel by Ford that chronicles the life of Frank Bascombe, a man now in his fifties facing a Thanksgiving get-together.
The Girls by Lori Lansens
ISBN: 0316069035
29-year old conjoined twins share a life on a rural Ontario farm.
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
ISBN: 030726419X
A circle of friends working in the media face adulthood in this modern comedy of manners.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
ISBN: 1400065208
A small Northwest town attempts to isolate itself from the 1918 flu epidemic, with violent results.
The View from Castle Rock: stories by Alice Munro
ISBN: 1400042828
A master in short fiction delivers a collection of stories focusing on her family’s Scottish heritage.
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
ISBN: 0060825391
Marie Antoinette tells her side of the story.
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers - National Book Award Winner
ISBN: 0374146357
Mark awakes from a coma sure that the woman caring for him is not his sister but an impostor.
The Crimson Portrait by Jody Shields
ISBN: 0316785288
When a war widow donates the use of her estate as an army hospital, she is ill-prepared for the reality of the wounded.
NONFICTION
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
ISBN: 0151013500
A collection of biographical essays from the New Yorker fiction editor and famed baseball writer.
Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
ISBN: 0618477942
Alison’s home life was not fun, especially the parts involving her father.
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
ISBN: 068485712X
This final volume in Branch’s biography of Martin Luther King ends with King’s death in 1968.
The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
ISBN: 061834697X
This local author won the National Book Award for his account of Dust Bowl settlers on the Great Plains.
The Good, Good Pig: the Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
ISBN: 0345481372
Montgomery’s domestic life is transformed by her friendship with Christopher Hogwood, the runt of the litter who eventually grows to 750 lbs.
Truck: a Love Story by Michael Perry
ISBN: 0060571179
A man falls in love twice — once with a woman and once with a truck.
Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 0670037605
The historian re-examines our assumptions about the Plymouth Colony.
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Ggreatest Traveler by Jason Roberts
ISBN: 0007161069
Blinded at the age of 25, James Holman nonetheless became the greatest traveler of his age.
TEEN BOOKS
The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation: Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
ISBN: 0763624020
Octavian and his mother are subjects of an Enlightenment experiment that will end in tragedy.
Side Effects by Amy Goldman Koss
ISBN: 1596432942
When Izzy is told she has cancer she cannot find one book where the kid with cancer survives. This is the book, day by day, treatment by treatment.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
ISBN: 0375835318
Nick and Norah meet cute and then share a long night’s journey into day in the Manhattan club scene.
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
ISBN: 0152058265
You will never again look at the moon the same way after reading this gripping story of survival in a world altered by natural disaster.
King of Attolia by Meghan Whelan Turner
ISBN: 0060835788
Her subjects wonder what the beloved Queen of Attolia sees in Eugenides, her “goat-footed foreigner” of a King.
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
ISBN: 0375831002
Death narrates this powerful story set in WWII Germany where nine year-old Liesl Meminger and her foster family live their lives in the midst of the violence of war.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
FICTION FOR AGES 4 - 8
"I'm Not Cute!" by Jonathan Allen
ISBN: 1415671133
Baby Owl is definitely not cute. He is a “huge and scary hunting machine” unaware of his own adorableness.
G is for One Gzonk! by Tony Diterlizzi
ISBN: 0689852908
Silly sounding made-up word combinations create letter and number fun.
I Am I by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 1596430540
Two prospective boy kings learn the futility of fighting.
The Room Of Wonders by Sergio Ruzzier
ISBN: 0374363439
Pius is a collector, until a visitor to his “Room of Wonders” convinces him to throw away the first object he ever collected.
Flotsam by David Wiesner
ISBN: 0618194576
A camera found on a beach shows untold wonders under the sea.
Don't Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems
ISBN: 0786837462
Pigeon is not tired (“that was not a yawn!”) and does not want to go to bed.
FICTION FOR AGES 9 - 12
Looking for Bapu by Anjali Banerjee
ISBN: 0385746571
A local author tells the story of a boy who misses his deceased grandfather and will do anything to bring him back.
Victory by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 1416914773
Alternating chapters tell the story of two 11-year-olds, one a modern English girl living in the United States and the other a ship’s boy on a 19th century warship.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
ISBN: 0763625892
A pampered and proud toy rabbit is separated from the little girl who loves him and learns tough lessons about what it means to be a real friend.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
ISBN: 0618654798
Two children become caught in the Massachusetts millworkers strike of 1912.
The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Pauslen
ISBN: 038574661X
Paulsen tells the story of the first black US Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi River.
NONFICTION
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman
ISBN: 0060850957
A Newbery Award winner brings to life the famous magician.
World’s Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer
ISBN: 0399241906
Bram and the elephant Modoc were born on the same day. Their circus act brings them celebrity but it is their friendship that sustains them through many hardships.
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant by Jack Prelutsky.
ISBN: 0060543183
A collection of amusing creatures populate this collection by local resident and 2006 Children’s Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky.
To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel
ISBN: 0689867476
This illustrated autobiography tells the story of a young girl whose dancing dreams take her to the New York City ballet.
Dizzy by Jonah Winter
ISBN: 0439507375
Another biography, this time a picture book, about the life of bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.