The Voice of the Vineyards The Weekly Electronic Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Healdsburg

“The mission of a bulletin is inform the membership, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”

Author: Lisa Martinez

Photographer: Rick Tang

Editor/Publisher: George Heath

March 20, 2017

WELCOME

President Lynda Guthrie called the meeting to order and

asked Joe DiSalvo to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

“Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a

mosquito in the room” - Christine Todd Whitman

VISITING ROTARIANS

Joe DiSalvo introduced George Lawson from the

Healdsburg Rotary Sunrise Club

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS:

Marc & Jeanie Kahn, guests of Henk Peeters

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Green Hair Day 2017 - raised $256.00 from non-Rotarians: If you raised money please

place in envelope and turn in. If you include email and/or address they will receive a

donation receipt. President Lynda had a new banner made that says “End Polio Now”

and “Green Hair Day”. The shamrocks are cute.

Reminder - Rotary Noon Social Events April 6 & 8:

Dinners for Eight

Great Opportunity to Help! Re-Forestation Project, Saturday, March 25th

.Lunch will be

provided. Please bring your own bottled water. We will be carpooling and meeting

somewhere in town, probably Big John's since we are heading that way. Bring gloves and

a shovel.

District Training Assembly, Saturday April 1st @

8am. Mendocino College 1000 Hensley Creek Road,

Ukiah, CA. Register Online Today! RED BADGERS,

NEW & CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS, ANYONE

WHO IS INTERESTED. Club will cover $50 registration

fee. PE Kate is encouraging her new board to go.

S.C.A.R.C. Dinner Thursday, March 20th

@ Fountaingrove Inn Conference Center 101

Fountaingrove Parkway, Santa Rosa, CA District Foundation Chair Jim Flamson “State

of the Foundation” 6pm no host cocktails, 7pm dinner.

George Lawson announced that The Wonder

League starts on April 8th

and goes through June

3rd

. Foss Creek Community Center Baseball Fields.

Registration Parent orientation meeting and Spring

Training Saturday April 8th

- 10:30am

HBWonderLeague@gmail.com

Gloria Egger reminded us to bring 1 dozen

plastic eggs and the candy to fill them for the Easter

Egg Scramble.

RECOGNITIONS

Patty Manatt - Her $10.00 husband came home

for 1 week and she worked his butt off clearing brush for

7 days. Her home now looks like a park! Plus in 3 weeks

she is traveling to Montana for a week of fly fishing.

George Lawson - Gave $10.00 for green hair day, he is happy that it washed out of his

hair…others were not so lucky.

Mark Decker - He needed a retirement truck, so he

bought one, donated $35.00 to Polio +.

Paul Frechette - because he too bought a new

car, he pledged $50.00.

Richard Norgrove - Gave $100.00 to Paul Harris for his 1 week vacation with his wife

in Hawaii. He stayed in PP Nita’s condo watching whales and spending time by the pool.

He also just returned from a trip to Australia and his birthday was on March 6th

.

RAFFLE

Paul Frechette had the winning ticket but not the winning

marble. He received a bottle of Bertapelle Wine.

PROGRAM

President Lynda Guthrie Introduced Today’s Craft Talk speakers Max Dunn & Richard

Norgrove

Max Dunn joined Rotary 24 years ago in February

1992. Born 5/19/1922 so is "54" years old. Max has

arthritis in his right knee and hip and cannot walk and

hopes it goes away.

6/11/1974 was the day Max met Jesus, it

changed his life and he’s been joyous ever since.

On 6/1/1943, Max graduated from UCLA with a

Bachelor’s degree. One week later he was off to fight in

the war. He was on active duty for 3 years on a destroyer

in the Mediterranean. He was in the Reserves for 20 years and retired as a Lieutenant

Commander so he received free medical care for himself and his wife for this service.

On 6/20/1991, he and his wife, Carolyn, decided they needed a change and moved to

Healdsburg from Newport Beach, CA

On 11/19/1992, Max joined Healdsburg Rotary. This was the 9th

club he was a member

of. Two of those clubs he was President-Elect but the presidency did not come to be. In

2002-2003, Max was the president of this club and he was accused of being a heavy

handed finer!

Max has been blessed in Healdsburg in many ways. In 1992, a series of crazy

circumstances led him to become the CEO of the Alliance Medical Center and is credited

with moving the Alliance to the new building next to the hospital.

September 1959, Max met his wife Carolyn. At the time he worked at Standard Oil who

sent Max to be an Executive Assistant Manager directing teams and course preparations

for the Winter Olympics Games in Squaw Valley. His wife was working there too. They

were married in September of that year, the games were in 1960.

Max worked for Bullocks Department Stores for 20 years

His 50th

Wedding Anniversary is something to remember

Max received his Master’s in World Missions and has done extensive traveling. Fifty

countries!

Max was a counselor at the Salvation Army, counseling addicts and it's his best

experience. It’s a special treat to see people grow and change and in many cases turn to

Jesus…he also conducted baptisms.

Max says it has been a lifelong journey that’s been very rewarding and he wouldn’t give

up for anything.

Richard Norgrove joined Rotary 20 years ago in

June 1996

Was introduced to Rotary by Kent

Mitchell who was his mentor and is still his mentor

today.

The 3rd

of 7 children. He has 4 sisters

and 2 younger brothers. He was born at Santa Rosa

Community Hospital on March 6, 1947. He claims to

be the only child born that day, the doctors called all the nurses and interns in and

took a bunch of pictures and they said they had never seen such a beautiful young

boy.

He grew up in Sebastopol. Father was with the Flying Tigers in the Army, uncle was

in the Navy.

Richard moved to Sonoma and was one of the original valley guys. He moved mid-

year and had to go to a one classroom school and claims to not have learned much.

There are only 3 things that he truly wanted to be in life:

1) His father asked him about his future and Richard said he wanted to be a

priest. He had no understanding of the female anatomy.

2) The second thing he wanted to be was a minister. This was around puberty

and thought about advantages of the opposite sex.

3) The third thing he wanted to be but never had the chance is a Teacher.

In the 8th

grade he was the #1 high jumper in Sonoma. He was selected as one of the

athletes that got to go to Cal Palace to watch a professional track meet. He was

enthralled with pole vaulting and figured that was something that would attract the

opposite sex. So he turned his high jump pit into a pole vaulting pit and pole vaulted

all summer with a 10’pipe. In high school, he was in a total of 54 track meets and

won 1st place 52 times. He lost the first and last meets.

His GPA - nothing less than an A in mathematics and history but never opened a

book in all the others. GPA was 1.85. He needed a 2.0 to graduate so the principal of

the school rounded up his GPA to 1.9. The superintendent of school whose brother

was the track coach at the JC rounded his GPA to 2.0 only if he went to the JC and

joined the track team. That’s how he managed to go to SRJC, #2 on track team, #4 in

state. Met wife, Sandy, in sophomore year and that was the end of his track career.

Only weighed 147 lbs.

Married Sandy in 1967, took a semester off. When he got back from his homey moon

his II-S student deferment changed to 1-A. Took enlistment papers to Navy recruiter,

passed test and back dated his enlistment papers to a week before the postmark on his

enlistment papers. Eight weeks in boot camp. He ended up on USS Bradley headed to

Vietnam. ECM operator. The last 24 months in service he spent 21 of those months in

Vietnam.

Married at St Rose Church. In October will be married 50 years. He has 3 children

and 6 grandchildren. His son works with him. Other son was the lead fireman in

Vacaville until he got in an accident, he now works for Apple Computers. Daughter

also works with him, she runs the HR Department.

Got out of the service in 1972 and went back to college and received his

undergraduate degree in mathematics. Joined a company, Optical Coating

Laboratory. Worked on the space shuttle program, Anti-glare filters produced in

Santa Rosa. Platens on copy machines were so good that you could copy money and

get change in a machine. Government paid them a half million a month for 6 years to

produce the optical variable ink that is in 90% of all currency in the world. Worked

here for 20 years. Retired in 1992. He tried to leave in 1991 but they wouldn’t let him

leave, he had to get rid of a few programs and they held all his stocks over him, so he

hired an attorney to sue the company so he could leave.

After 2 years in retirement, he joined DPI, medical diagnostic equipment and was

Vice President there. He went to visit his son in college and realized he was spending

his retirement money. So he wrote him a loving encouraging letter and said this was

his last check. His son really liked making beer. He told his son to work in a brewery

for 2 years without pay and if he still had a burning desire in his gut then they’d get in

the beer business….which he did. For 22 months while he worked at a Marin brewery

they traveled and visited all the breweries from Canada to Mexico. Met Kent

Mitchell who sat at his bar every single day until Richard agreed to go to a Rotary

meeting.

Richard was our Rotary President from 2009-2010 and has enjoyed being part of

rotary and giving back.

Richard likes to drink whiskey rather than beer.

CLOSING

PRESIDENT Lynda Guthrie remembered Kent Mitchell and thanked our visitors and guests

for coming and rang the bell.

NEXT MEETING

Don McEnhill “Russian Riverkeeper Update”