Monthly Auction

We held the monthly auction for the Ed Webster Vocational Scholarship Fund and President Bola did it differently. Each item auctions off was handled by a different club member. We had Rory Olson, JohnPaul Jourard, Jon King and others acting as the auctioneers. End result was a total of over $70.00 - and then Bola challenged the group assembled to make the total $100.00 - and they did! Even our visitor Ellis Aronson helped make up Bola's challenge.

New Member Installation

Ken Burgess officiated at the installation of the club's newest member Ade Stephen. Ade is no stranger to Rotary since he is the husband of our President Bola Stephen...and Bola has a very long history of being active in Rotary both in the USA and in Nigeria.

Ade is a pastor for their church and he is very active in youth-oriented educational projects and community service activities. We look forward to Ade being an active participant in the various activities of our club...especially those that are youth oriented.

Our other new member, Terrence Thompson, was unable to attend the formal installation ceremonies but we will play "catch-up" at a future meeting. Terrence is already involved with Karen Blakeman in working on the U.S.Vets Mid-Town Facility Project.

Guests, Visitors and Other Good News

Ken Burgess introduced his friend Ellis Aronson as a visitor to the club.

Bill Landers got "lei'd" by Karen Blakeman as the latest club member to fulfill the "Every Rotarian Every Year" donation to the Rotary Foundation.

The club was led by Delores Delsing in a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday" in honor of our beloved President Bola Stephen.

Annual Wine Tasting Dinner & Silent Auction

April 17th - Dinner and Silent Auction, 6:30 PM at the Hilton Houston Southwest
This is our big fund raising event for the year and it needs to be successful to enable the club to fulfill many of the service projects planned for the coming months. All members should try to find items for the auction...small, medium or large...just something that people would like to bid on and own. All information on the items for the auction needs to be given to Ken Burgess or Jeff Novy. Click here to download the item info form. Click here to make reservations.

Thus far we have a DVD Player with remote control ($90 value), Pass for four to play golf at Sharpstown Golf Course ($100 to $200 value), a beautiful boxed set of polished wooden puzzles ($50 value) and a rolling TV table stand ($20 value), some incredibly beautiful jewelry from India (values from $100 up), an assortment of pashminas and scarfs from India (values from $10 to $50), a vibrating/massage seat cushion ($100 value), a one-hour flight school test flight and a number of restaurant gift cards. A fuller list of items is posted on the club's website at www.strotary.org.

Get your donations to Jeff Novy or Ken Burgess. And...TUESDAY, APRIL 6TH, IS THE FINAL DATE FOR RESERVATIONS.

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