Rotary Club of San José Silicon Valley

Zoom at noon. Meeting ID: 880 9178 0972 Passcode: 888548 This Friday Oct 16, at 12:00pm our meeting begins. ... Our guest speaker will be: Simon Pennington in the topic: The Need for Smart Development and Infrastructure in the Face of Climate Change Here is his bio. Simon Pennington was born in Norwich, UK and moved to the United States as a teenager. He is a product of Palo Alto HS, Foothill College, San Jose State, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, where he earned his MA in Art History in 1992. Simon taught Art History at Foothill (and several other colleges) for 21 years and more recently served as Dean of Fine Arts and Communication and Kinesiology and Athletics for three years. Simon is currently serving as Interim Associate Vice President of Community Relations, Marketing, and Communication at Foothill College.

No Zoom meeting today but there will be next Friday! Be safe everyone!!No Zoom meeting today but there will be next Friday! Be safe everyone!!

On Friday, Oct 2, 2020 at noon our speaker will be Genevieve Frederick. Here is her bio. I hope you can join us!! Zoom in at meeting ID: 880 9178 0972 Password 888548 Feeding Pets of the Homeless Also known as Pets of the Homeless Founder/President - Genevieve Frederick... 400 W. King St., Ste. 200 Carson City, NV 89703 [email protected] Office: 775-841-7463 Founder/President Board Member since 2008 Affiliations: Alliance for Nevada Nonprofits Association of Fundraising Professionals National Association of Charitable Gift Planners Carson City Rotary Club since 1998, a Paul Harris Fellow, former Secretary and served on many Board of Directors Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare Foundation former Board Member Education: Attended classes at De Anza College, San Jose State and Stanford University Genevieve Frederick had a career in sales and marketing before retiring in 1998. She was the owner of a several companies. She published two books under Paw Publishing. She has volunteered her time as a board member of the local hospital foundation to raise funds for a cancer center. She has been a member of Rotary International since 1996, starting in San Jose with Kris Myers as her sponsor. With her experience, she brings organizational skills, accounting, event management, public relations and publishing expertise. Since 2006, Genevieve Frederick has researched homeless with pets and has spoken to homeless about their pets. The nonprofit she founded in 2008, Feeding Pets of the Homeless, is the first and is now one of the few national animal organizations focused on feeding and providing emergency veterinary care to pets of the homeless. Frederick is a specialist on the topic of pets and their homeless owners and the human/animal bond. Frederick, representing the nonprofit, has been interviewed on TV, as well as numerous radio shows. She has been interviewed and quoted in a number of books, magazines, and blogs in the US and abroad. She has been a speaker at numerous seminars.

We will be zooming at noon. Let us know if you’d like to join in and see what’s going on in the Rotary world. Just drop me a message and I’ll get you the passcode

Zoom at noon this Friday. Please message me if you would like to join in the meeting. I can send you the sign in. Here is our speaker Sharon Jackson’s bio: Born and raised in Compton California, my father a Minister and my mother a seamstress. I migrated to the bay area in the mid seventies after graduation from high school. Married at the age of 20, and had 2 daughters. Deciding to say home and raise my girls, I finished my education once my youngest daughter was in high sc...hool, with my degree in Psychology. During this time I spent many hours volunteering in the community and at both of my daughters' schools. This led to my work with children with special needs in 1996. I became a behavior therapist working with these wonderful babies on the spectrum. In 2001, I created a mentor and tutoring program at Piedmont Hills high school where my eldest daughter was attending. By 2011, I decided to start my own non-profit in my work with at risk (promise) youth as I began to spend more time at the high school with my daughters and saw a need for support for the students and their parents as well. My days were filled with my autistic babies and ended with my at promise babies. I soon created a mentoring program for my African American males and partnered with the school district, and a couple of local fraternities to provide services for these young men. Soon after I created a team of advocates which up until the recent pandemic met with the school district superintendent monthly. In the midst of all of this I am now spending more time with my community outreach providing food and other services to the community while providing community service hours for youth ranging from ages 2 years to 40 something. Yes, I said 2 years old! In my role as an advocate for the youth, I am called to address many issues in our community. In my work, I have received several community service awards, and advocate to the youth awards amongst others. I could go on and on but I am making myself tired at this point. I appreciate your having me as one of your speakers as you try to understand the plight of the African American Community. I will probably touch on : Plight of African American in this country Thoughts of the African American woman/mom What it takes to raise a child in a healthy environment My thoughts on meaning of the Black Lives Matter movement. Are our children really safe?

Zoom at Noon Rotary Meeting. Friday 8/21/2020 Sounds like an interesting story. Our guest speaker will be Lorie M Cinco ... Our speaker was born on Oct. 24, 1964 at Kaiser Hospital in Oak- land. Within a few days of her birth she was adopted by a loving family that raised and nurtured her. In 1992 she began to look for her bio- logical parents with no help from the internet or hired persons. On Oct. 15, 1992, nine days before her 28th birthday, mother and daughter met for the first time. It was emotion- al, to say the least. Since then they have been like best friends and the time lost between them a distant memory. This is her/their story.

Zoom at Noon on Friday From member Ken McLaughlin: This Friday the Zoom meeting will be very unique as our speaker will be coming to us from Kauai, Hawaii. Our speaker, Lauren Havlick, will be with us at 9:00 am HST in order to be at our noon meeting. Kit and I heard her presentation on "Plastic Free Living" when we attended the Hanalei Bay club's Zoom meeting last week. I thought that it would be fun to take advantage of Zoom and get a speaker that wouldn't otherwise be able to join us at an in-person meeting. It is amazing how prevalent plastic is in our daily lives in ways we can't imagine. Plan on joining us to hear a terrific presentation and to see your club friends.

Our speaker tomorrow on Zoom will be Matt Schlegel. He will be speaking about the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a powerful system that describes personal dynamics, be- haviors and motivations. It has be- come popular among people who are interested in making their life better, both personally and professional- ly. The system describes nine core types of people and is helpful to bet- ter understand yourself, others and your inter-personal interactions. In this talk, Teamwork 9.0 author Matt Schlegel introduces the Enneagram and shows how he applies it to max- imize team effectiven

No Zoom meeting this week. Take care friends. We will Zoom in soon!

This Friday at noon we RotaZoom. Our speaker will be John Belz. John Belz provides a twenty minute presentation on English Handbills. Starting with a very brief history, John explains how the bells work, how they are played, various techniques and his experience playing in his church hand bell choir of thirty years. The presentation includes two videos of duets he has performed. One is from the current shelter-in-place time and the other is a very complicated duet of O Holy N...ight where the pair play 23 bells. John Belz graduated in 1979 from VA Tech and in three weeks married and moved to the Bay Area. He designed main- frame CPUs for Amdahl Corporation. He worked his way up to VP of Engi- neering and then also at VERITAS Software and Symantec before retir- ing in 2008. He and his wife, Martha, have two children who are married and one granddaughter. Foothill Community Presbyterian Church has been a big part of their life and they have both played in the Hand Bell choir for over 30 years. John started his musical career learning piano at five from his mother who went on to teach many students. He played nu- merous instruments in the school bands and really enjoys the hand bells. John and Martha are now re- tired and living in Milpitas with their cat and dog. Besides volunteering they love to travel and have been to 49 states.

This FridayJuly 10 on RotaZoom at Noon our President, Jill Meyers, will be presiding over a club assembly - creating a vision for this coming year. What can we do as an organization to support our members, help one another’s businesses, reach out into the community and the world? Such opportunities exists...what will we create???

We will NOT be having a Zoom Meeting this Friday. Happy 4th of July everyone!!

Here is a welcome to our President for 2020-2021, Jill Meyers!! Jill finished her position at the end of February with the Triton Museum in Santa Clara where she had been for 28 years, the last 6 and a half years as Executive Director. Jill has joined in a family business as Chief Financial Officer for Pacific Motorcycle Training. We are excited and look forward to her tenure as President!!!

Last Friday we said thank you to our outgoing President, Lou Bash! Thanks for guiding us Lou! We appreciate all you did throughout the challenging year, with COVID-19 and more! Thanks to the participants that made it a fun and funny Zoom meeting! We heard from ED JANKE, BRIAN AND STEPHANIE BIANCO, CAROL GOEDDE, MARY LYNN PELICAN, JANETTE ROSALES AND KEN MCLAUGHLIN