"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn t do than by the ones you did do." Mark Twain

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1 Meeting Mondays, 7:15 AM - Marriott Hotel, 1400 Parkview Ave - Manhattan Beach Officers and Directors Bill Bloomfield, President Tom Jeffry President-Elect Russ Rothner/Russ Samuels Directors Lindy Murrell Secretary Richard Ham Director John Rhind Treasurer Kathleen Terry Director Roger Cox Past President Geoff Bremer/Ron Sokol Directors Paul Allman Historian Lee Walker/Dave Long Directors ROTES QUOTES PUBLISHING COMPANY P.O. Box 691 Manhattan Beach, CA Jim Hallett Editor Ron Sokol Advertising Dennis Ridge Publisher Governor District 5280 President Rotary International Brad Robinson Kalyan Banerjee Transform Lives Reach Within to Embrace Humanity Serving Manhattan Beach Since 1950 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn t do than by the ones you did do." Mark Twain

2 Rotes Quotes Vol.62, No.18 November 14, 2011 Programs Nov 21 th Tony Arminio. Tony Arminio spent 50 years at Electrolux starting with selling door to door in He won 7 cars including a Rolls Royce. Don t miss this meeting to find out his secret to success. Nov 28 th A View from the Courthouse. This morning we will hear from Bill Hodgman, Deputy D.A. for Los Angeles County. He has prosecuted many high profile casess including, Charles Keating, Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, Suge Knight, LAPD Misconduct, and the Catholic Church. He is a dynamic speaker with some incredible stories from a lifetime of public service. Dec 5 th Craft Talks. This morning we hear from more of our newer members. Please join us this morning as we hear from members Mauricio Salazar and Michael Matthews.. Dec 12 th Avocation Day. Vocational Chair Kathleen Terry has put together a great program for this morning. Join us as we hear from our members about the hobbies they enjoy. Save The Date Dec 3 Annual Holiday Party. Our 2012 Holiday Party will be held Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the home of Bill Bloomfield, 940 1st St. Contact Tom Jeffry for more information.

3 Living By Design It was Monday, November 14, 2011, and President Bill Bloomfield called upon Stephanie Skrbin, who counseled us to live our lives by design rather than by default, after which our two Popeye-the-Sailor-Men, Larry Johnson and Paul Allman, downed their spinach and led us in a round of Anchors Aweigh in honor of our Navy veterans.chris Ullman urged us to complete our fall dine-arounds.david Harris celebrated 20 years in the club.donn Ennis celebrated 45 years of marriage with Donna.Kathleen Terry reported on the club visit and tour at Chevron.Bill Bloomfield and Nelson Gray s wife Peggy kicked off the new Richstone tutoring program.patti Panucci introduced Sofie Kupiec, the Pacific School 5th Grader who sold over 125 Brace-Lets to support Casa Hogar.Sponsor Shannon Ryan introduced Rotary Scholar Hsiao Yun Kuo, who shared slides of her home country, Taiwan (a beautiful country with great historical significance, especially for those of us who remember Kennedy and Nixon debating about Quemoy and Matsu in 1960)..Ed Kushins completed his Navy submarine stories, which included his boat getting a Presidential Unit citation after trailing a Soviet submarine for 67 days without the Soviets knowing they were there. Craft Talks - Ken Deemer Our first craft talk this date came courtesy of Ken Deemer. After being kicked out of military school, Ken managed to graduate from MIT in engineering. He went on to California to work on communications satellites, but tired of big-business bureaucracy and returned east to get a business degree, focusing on entrepreneurship. He did marketing in Silicon Valley, then joined a venture capital group investing in technology, then broke off from that to form Internet Partners, then formed his own firm. From there it was Tech Coast Angels (consulting and investing) and then Social Venture Partners, supporting not-for-profit businesses together with his wife, Candy, and others. They first focused on his passion, education. He is now Board Chairman for the Environmental Charter School and is working on creating a hybrid high school focused on digital education. He and his wife have three kids: Brown grad Kevin, now in management work; Drexel student Andy, a musician who also knows technology and business; and Costa football player Brian.

4 Ken s dad, a Kansas U. professor, took a young Ken along for a year in South America reviewing university engineering programs, another year in Paris, and another year in Mexico City, not to mention RI Conventions (his dad was a Rotarian). Thus was born the traveling bug Ken and his wife and kids lived for a year in Barcelona. He loves adventure travel and photography, and travels annually with a group of friends who, after climbing Mount Ranier 23 years ago, have since climbed more mountains, up waterfalls, down into caves, and have generally devoted themselves to similar life-threatening-if-notinsane activities. Which is the state of mind that would lead a man to work on an upcoming documentary on the Burning Man Festival. Craft Talks - Nehal Patal Our second craft talk came courtesy of Nehal Patal. How do you follow an act as compelling as Ken s? Nehal showed us you do something completely different. She titled her talk From India to America. The interesting part of it was this: rather than tell us about it, she lived it right before our eyes. Nehal comes from a huge extended family in a small town in India. She lived a life of festivals, each an opportunity to eat, play and pray together. She came to the U.S. as a 13-year-old 10th Grader and hated her first three years here, missing her family and friends, but she precociously kept moving forward, graduating at age 20 with an engineering degree from U.Mass- Amherst. She went straight to work in airborne systems, learning American social mores on the fly. At age 22 she entered into an arranged marriage (the wedding was their 4th date), moved to L.A. and quickly ended up divorced. The thing is, Nehal s beloved family has still not accepted the divorce. Thus forced into independence (more like alone-ness), Nehal focused on work, joining Raytheon, starting with the E2D Hawkeye, a radar plane. Nehal realized that one mistake in the design of that plane could cause the death of innocent civilians, and she was hooked doing her work well became her passion. She got a Masters, worked on other planes, and then landed at Booz Allen as a risk analyst working for the Air Force. And she found another passion Eric. Torn

5 between two worlds, America and India, Nehal has been clinging to the people who make her whole her family, and Eric. The trouble is, her family is not accepting the American Nehal the fact that Eric is a pilot, an engineer, and a solid guy has not persuaded the family members who now disown her. And so she stood before us, still in the throes of sorting out these impossible life choices, and showed us who she is, still in the act of becoming. Hot Boats Ed Kushins lived on a hot boat a sub with a skipper who goes looking for trouble and has a Presidential Unit Citation to show for it. Ken Deemer has family, adventures, and a list of accomplishments that won t quit. Nehal Patal has decided that education has been her key to freedom and so formed H2D Vision, an arts education program for children. And these are just three of our members. To paraphrase President Bill s closing comments to Nehal: we each have 105 close, non-judgmental friends in this club, upon whom we can rely as we each find our hot boats and keep on becoming. Yours in Rotary, Jim Hallett Rotarians at 2011 Chevron Plant Tour

6 Operation Teddy Bear at Moffett Elementary Friday, November 18, Rotarians arrived at Moffett Elementary to distribute backpacks to every 1st grader as part of Operation Teddy Bear project for The South Bay Volunteer Center. The backpacks are filled with books and school supplies.

7 Attendance & Make-ups Attendance is an important part of our commitment to Rotary. Our secretary, Lindy Murrell, regularly files attendance reports with District 5280, and each club's attendance record is reported district-wide. Let's help Lindy keep that attendance record high--report your makeup to her. (And, of course, do the make-ups in the first place!) What is a make-up? Board meetings, for one--you are always welcome even if you're not a Board member, and it's a fun evening to boot! Other clubs are also a make-up. So are many of our projects. So make Lindy's job easier--when you do a make-up, tell her. If you're not sure it's a make-up--hey, tell her anyway! Rotary Make-Up Clubs - 12:15pm Rotarians Participate at Weekly Meetings! Hermosa Beach PV Sunset Redondo Bch Westchester 2521 Valley Drive Red Onion 7:00pm Blue Water Grill 5855 W. Century 736 Silver Spur 655 N. Harbor Dr. LAX Marriott Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday LA Int l Airport El Segundo Lawndale Palos Verdes Raddison Hotel Hacienda Hotel Hacienda Hotel Palos Verdes 6255 W. Century 525 N. Sepulveda 525 N. Sepulveda Country Club Thursday Thursday Thursday Friday Meals on Wheels Schedule Rotarians serving their community! Monday Wednesday Nov 21 Wendell Harter Nov 23 Lisa Hemmat Nov 28 Dave Hornbecker Nov 30 John Hugunin Dec 05 Eric Iverson Dec 07 John Osten Dec 12 Ian Jackson Dec 14 Tom Jeffry Birthdays Anniversaries Nov 29 Ken Deemer Nov 29 Mark & Janet Curran Nov 29 Lincoln Stone Nov 30 Kathleen & Michael Adams Dec 02 Dave Harris Dec 03 Ed & Terry Kushins Dec 15 Charlie Steinmetz Dec 21 Lindy Murell & Roger Morell The Rotes Quotes is now available on the web at

8 Manhattan Beach Rotary Active Members Strong! The 2011/12 Rotary year is another growth year. You can see by scanning the classifications below John Acker Financial Planner Dr. Richard Ackerman Aerospace Management Kathleen Adams Financial Advisor Susan Adams Aerospace Paul Allman Personnel Training Deborah Arnold Business Software Consultant Tim James Auringer Automotive Dealer Wade Austin, Jr. Photography Harris Bass Business and Tax Law Bill Bloomfield Commercial/Laundry David Boochever Consultant/Computer Jim Bowser Insurance (ret.) Geoff Bremer CPA Jan Buike Social Worker Giusy Buonfantino International Marketing Kent Caldwell Insurance James Caprell Artist Tom Callahan Music Ind. Executive Marc Castellani Wealth Management Richard Chase College Professor Roger Civalleri Business Broker Roger Cox Business Consultant Mark Curran Advertising and Marketing Steve De Baets Truck Refrigeration Ken Deemer Private Investor Arturo Di Pietro Int l Bus Consultant Mike Doell Moving & Storage Patrick Donahue Advertising Donn Ennis Oil Refinery Engineer Monica Farrell Non-profit Development Richard Farrell Video Production (ret.) Vinny Fazzino Builder/Engineer Robin Gary Pilates Instructor Nelson Gray Honorary Member Robert Guilford Business Consultant Mimi Haines Toy Manufacturing Megan Hall Caterer Jim Hallett Criminal & Family Attorney Richard Ham Aerospace Engineer Jay Harkenrider Real Estate Residential Dave Harris Wealth Advisor Wendell Harter Peace Advocate Lisa Hemmat - Restauranteur Dave Hornbecker Office Supplies John Hugunin Community College Professor Jim Hunter Property Management Eric Iverson Web Developer Ian Jackson Mortgage Banker Tom Jeffry Attorney - Health Care Lawrence Johnson Investment Banker Don Jung CPA Business Manager Bill Keenan Interim CFOs Harry Keller Education Technology Anne Konie Interior Designer Brad Koppel International Trade what areas are open. Let s think and then act. Serving Manhattan Beach Since 1950 Ed Kushins Home Exch. Executive David Long Executive/Recruiter Kathy McElroy Physical Therapist Mike Matthews Education Barbara Matles Travel Agent Randy Meadors Architect Dennis Morehead Property Mgt Gerry Morton Nutritional Products Steve Murillo Mortgage Broker Lindy Murrell Communications Wayne Nelson Marketing Dr. John Nylund Dermatology John Osten Commercial Publishing Dr. Ray Padilla Dentist Dr. Patricia Panucci Orthodontist Nehal Patal Engineering Matthew Peck Accounting Jordan Peister Graphic Designer Dave Peters R.E. Invest/Develop/Mediation Don Redman Mfg Executive (ret.) Jan Rhees Residential Real Estate John Rhind Accounting Dennis Ridge Printing Dr. Deborah Robertson Veterinarian Roger Rombro Attorney - Family Law Russ Rothner Business Consultant Joel Ruben Attorney - Real Est. & Bus. Lit Shannon Ryan Financial Planner Daniel Saks Insurance Mauricio Salazar Airline Operations Russ Samuels Fitness & Personal Training Dr. Paul Sanchez Dentist Bill Sauber Auto Club Services (ret.) Dr. Les Silverman Optometrist Stephanie Skrbin Real Estate Ronald Sokol Attorney Darrell Sperber Automotive Dealer Charlie Steinmetz Investor - Real Estate Steve Stepanek Aerospace Engineer Bob Stephenson Accountant Corporate Lincoln Stone Business & Immigration Law Marc Teitelbaum Honorary Member Kathleen Terry Management Consultant Herb Trachtenberg Aerospace Engineer Dr. Chris Ullman Chiropractic John Van den Akker Property Mgt/Invsts June Vantrimpont Window Treatment Mfg. Russ Varon Jeweler Lee Walker Insurance - Casualty Ingo Werk Manufacturing Duke Winser Honorary Member Larry Wolf Real Estate Broker/Owner Alexander Yoffe Attorney Active Past Presidents