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President Larry Iggulden called our meeting to order today at The St. Catharines Golf & Country Club. Joining President Larry at the head table were:
Guest Speaker Introducer: Martha Abra
Guest Speaker: Jaquelyn Bradshaw
Sgt-at-Arms: Jim Denham
Member in the Spotlight: Ross Burns - Introduced March 4,2004 by John Crossingham. Ross is Senior Counsel at the Ministry of Transportation. Ross' interests include gardening, golf and travel.
Guest Introducer: Peggy Davidson
Peggy introduced our guests including:
Phil Porter, guest of Doug Geddie
Bill Williams, guest of Chris Bangham
Dr. David Fernandes, guest of Nancy Hostick
Guy, Berto, Mary-Lou and Marina Rebelo, guests of Rick Evans
Alex McKee, guest of George Darte,
Erick Garcia, guest of Lezlie Murch, and
Wendy Thompson, guest of Tim Rigby.
Birthdays: Ray Bukovec, January 6
Board of Directors ballots must be returned no later than Friday to the Rotary Office.
There will be a District Conference meeting Monday January 9 at 5:30 pm at Rodman Hall.
The Major Grants Committee meeting has been postponed to January 11 at 5:00 pm at the Brian St. Hilaire's office.
Nancy Hostick will have an Auction Committee meeting January 9 at 5:30 pm at the St. Catharines Golf & Country Club.
Nancy Hostick and Dr. David Fernandes (Joe's son) presented the award this year to Dr. Ken Taylor. This award goes to the Rotarian who brings in the highest canvass bid value. Betty-Lou has pulled herself out of the competition again this year. Ken's canvass was $8,306 with a net value of $4,422. "It's amazing the things you can accomplish during an Annual Physical Examination!" was all Dr. Taylor needed to comment. Well done, Ken!
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Ken Taylor , Dr. David Fernandes, Nancy Hostick
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George Darte introduced Alex McKee as a new member to our Club. Alex is a former Rotarian from Montreal. He is a Financial Consultant. Please welcome Alex to our Club.
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President Larry, Alex McKee, George Darte
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Earl Alton wielded the basket and began with a story of an Irishman.
The hero of the story walked into an Irish Pub one Saturday night and asked the barman to pour three mugs of Guinness. He took them to his table and drank from the mugs by sipping from the first, then the second, then the third and back to the first etc. until all three mugs were drained. The barman asked why he was drinking in this manner. Our hero replied by saying that he gets together every Saturday night with his brothers located in Australia and Canada. After several months of Saturday evenings our hero ordered two mugs. The barman quickly drew the conclusion that one of the brothers must have passed away and offered his condolences. Our hero replied, "No, they're fine; I quit drinking".
• Rick Evans was $50 happy; Jane turns 50 tomorrow and god to see former Exchange student Guy and his family.
• Liz Palmieri is surprised to see that Stan Magda was finding errors in accounting and that Peter Mahoney had until Monday to review Stan's work!!
• Chris Bangham is happy and unsettled; his daughter has landed a United Nations job, but it is in Liberia (P.S. there is an Airedale looking for a good home).
• Rick Vanderkuip is $20 happy because he completed our club's first delivery of ice wine this morning and because on December 23 his daughter gave birth to twin boys.
• Norm Kreger is happy to be making another visit to Jamaica.
• Sangeeta Hollo is happy to have spent time in India where she attended 3 Rotary meetings in 3 nights with her Dad.
• Vicky Rudachuk is happy to have visited Guatemala and delivered drugs for Dr. Ken Taylor.
• Brian St. Hilaire was sad to note the passing of Art Smith, a long-time community supporter in St. Catharines.
Guy Rebelo is happy for his Youth Exchange experience and for the hospitality shown by his host families and for his family on this trip to St. Catharines, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
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The Rebelo Family with Larry Iggulden
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50/50 Draw:
Bill Cole won the right to try for the $417.50 pot - not successful though.
Martha Abra introduced Jaquelyn by noting her work with Camp Enterprise, Youth Leadership and Rib Fest.
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Jacquelyn Bradshaw |
Jacquelyn grew up in the west end of Toronto and attended Scarlet Heights High School. Her Mom worked in the social field and her Dad was a CA. Jacquelyn participated in badminton, tennis, basketball, canoeing, camping and water skiing. She was an Ontario Scholar and Class Valedictorian. During her high school career she was motivated by the phrases, " Do your best" and, "I am disappointed"; phrases which we are all familiar with.
Jacquelyn attended University of Toronto (Victoria College) where she studied Physiotherapy in he Faculty of Medicine. She enjoyed her classes, yoga, the downtown nightlife and met her future husband. He went on to RMC in Kingston to develop a career as an officer. After marrying, their first posting was Penhold Air Force Base near Red Deer Alberta. Memories include no shopping in Red Deer, no bagels in Red Deer lots of great food (Base Chef was retired from Chateau Laurier) and pilots are lots of fun. Over the next 5 years Jacquelyn and her husband were stationed in 5 provinces.
Following her divorce, Jacquelyn took an MBA course at Western University. This two year intensive program taught her the importance of teamwork. Following this experience she landed work at the Newmarket Hospital in the Rehab Department. Here she met the famous Whipper Billy Watson. ( It is claimed that Watson won 99 percent of his 6,300 matches during his 30-year professional wrestling career.) They worked together on hospital related endeavors and campaigns. Whipper taught her a lot about value and imparted many "Whipperisms". Everything you need for a campaign should be gotten for free or at cost. Save and invest 10% of what you earn. When you volunteer, you should be having fun.
Jacquelyn worked as Executive Director for Social Service agencies in Markham. One of these provided day programs for 300 people.
Jacquelyn joined Edward Jones in Fonthill. Here she is able to combine the technical expertise she gained through her MBA and Whipper's lessons about value.
Rick Vanderkuip thanked Jacquelyn for her presentation.
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Jacquelyn Bradshaw and Larry Iggulden
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This installment refers us to a time in the late 1920's when the Catholic Church (primarily in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Quebec) believed that Rotary's true purpose was to promote a "universal religion". The Church banned membership by Free Masons and it was not until the late 1970's that official endorsement came from Pope John Paul II.
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