Rotary Club of Campbell & San Jose West

As we move toward officially rechristening ourselves as the “Rotary Club of Campbell,” it makes sense to transition to a new website address as well.

CampbellRotary.org is currently under construction, but is live for you to review. Feedback is welcome! With the turn of the Rotary year — welcome President John Shannon — the new Rotary Theme “Make Dreams Real” provides further motivation for a site redesign.

For the moment, content is being mirrored on both the original RotaryCSJw site and on the new website. Eventually, the original site will be retired.

Can you believe that more than 1.3 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year? Those are staggering statistics, but there is hope. Each of us can do something to save lives and help those already fighting this disease. That’s why I’ve decided to take action against cancer by supporting the American Cancer Society Relay For Life® event right here in my community.

Relay For Life is an overnight event that brings our community together to help support the American Cancer Society and its lifesaving mission to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. The Society works hard every day to prevent cancer and save lives by supporting groundbreaking research, affecting public policies that protect us from cancer, and educating people on how to prevent or detect cancer early. The Society helps people with cancer right here in our own community. And our efforts at Relay For Life can help the American Cancer Society to keep working toward a cancer-free future.

I want to invite you to show your support in the ongoing fight against cancer by joining us for this year’s event. Please click on the link below for more information, including details on the inspirational Survivors’ Lap and the moving Luminaria Ceremony. We hope to see you there! If you can’t join us, will you please visit the site and make a donation to support our efforts? Either way, you will make a real difference in the lives of people facing cancer and in the lives of the people who love them.

Our team- the Semi colons is named in honor of our friend Margot who has been battling colon cancer for 2 years.

I will be hosting a Luminaria decorating party at my home on Sunday, June 29th from 2:00-5:00pm. Please come by to make a Luminaria in honor or memory of someone you love.

Thank you!

Click here to visit my personal page.

Click here to view the team page for Margot’s Semicolons

Sincerely, Janine Payton

Longtime Rotarian George Miskulin passed away earlier this week.

Marv Bamburg gave a nice remembrance of George at our meeting today. George was a dedicated Rotarian and he and his wife, Ginny, were were great supporters of our club. He will be sorely missed, but the memory of his sense of humor, wonderful smile and all of his dedicated work for our club will be long remembered.

George Miskulin, age 84

His wife of 60 years, Ginny, children Sue Hughes (Jim), Leanne Teuber (Paul), Steve Miskulin (Shannon) and grandchildren Jon, Shannon, Jessica, Sarah, Colin and Lauren will forever cherish his life and devotion to family.

George was raised in Sacramento where he attended Christian Brothers High School. Shortly after beginning studies at Sacramento Community College he served in World War II as a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division, receiving two purple hearts and a bronze star. He later received a degree from San Jose State University and earned a masters degree in education from Stanford University. He began his teaching career at Campbell High School and went on to become the first principal of Del Mar High School. He finished his career in education as principal of Leigh High School.

George was proud to be member of the Rotary Club of Campbell for over 50 years. In retirement, George continued to pursue leadership roles in the community with a particular interest in senior issues.

He was a senior assemblyman of the California Senior Legislature, a former chairperson of the Council of Aging’s Advisory Council, former chairperson of the San Jose Senior Citizens Commission, an appointed member of the executive committee of the Mayor’s Aging Leadership Council and a former member of the board of directors of the Santa Clara Methodist Retirement Foundation for senior housing.

Family and friends are invited to celebrate George’s life at a memorial service on Sunday, June 22nd, 2:00 P.M., at Campbell United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Boulevard, San Jose. Donations in his memory can be sent to:

• Alzheimer’s Activity Center 2380 Enborg Lane San Jose, CA 95128.
• Campbell Rotary Club RYLA Program (Rotary Youth Leadership Association), P.O. Box 111116, Campbell, CA 95008

In addition to personal contact with Ginny, you may choose to leave your thoughts online.

The Mercury News is collecting comments at its online guest book for George, or you may leave a comment below.

Today’s speaker was Campbell’s City Manager, Dan Rich, who shared the current economic outlook for the City of Campbell.

Rich’s presentation included descriptions of major revenue and expense items, and projected a growing “structural deficit” as expense rise faster than projected revenue. He also explained the ways that City services are funded and managed, providing helpful background. He and the elected City Clerk Anne Bybee also distributed a survey, and asked Campbell and non-Campbell residents alike to provide feedback on spending priorities.

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By complete coincidence, a brief report on the presentation appears in this week’s Campbell Reporter, which is now available on newspaper racks across town.

RotaryCSJw picked up the news release on a Twitter Feed published by the SJ Mercury News. For anyone interested in micro-blogging on Twitter, Campbell Rotary is on Twitter, maintaining a presence on your behalf.

Rotary Club of Campbell Joins the 21st Century

During the next month our meeting room will be upgraded by the addition of a large screen Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Television that will make Power Point, video, and picture presentations many times better. When the question was first presented to the membership last month, it met with enthusiastic response.

We have looked at available big screen TV’s and found a very good, bright, 65 inch, high definition liquid crystal display (LCD) that fills every need.

Our non-profit status gets us a substantial discount, and the overall project cost estimate, including accessories, installation, and Contingency allowance, is $6,500. EMQ and the Club Board have reviewed and accepted the plan.

Initial sponsors among Club members (Davis, Highley, Ellington and Bamburg) have donated $2,500 (all tax-deductible) to Club Foundation for the project. Additional sponsors are welcome and should contact Marv Bamburg

To complete the project funding, every member is encouraged to offer a donation. Checks should go to Phil Neilsen, they should be made out to “Campbell San Jose West Rotary Foundation—display project.”

The suggested amount is $100 per member for those who find it convenient to donate this amount. Naturally, we will accept more.

On Tuesday, Bettina Kohlbrenner, will introduce Sass Somekh, Chairman of Novellus Systems and a pioneer of electric vehicles.

This should be an outstanding program — a great time to bring a guest, especially a potential new member. We hope to see all of you at our meeting.

Have a happy and safe Memorial Day Weekend.

Chris Vongsarath from the Campbell Reporter attended our luncheon meeting on Tuesday, May 20, along with our guest speaker Ed Syre. Chris filed this report, published on May 30:

Rotary speaker explains plan for ‘Nuclear Green Farms’

Ed Sayre doesn’t like to look at things as “waste.” He prefers to look at possibility instead.

Sayre is a Los Gatos resident with 40-plus years of developing and building jet engines, space propulsion systems and nuclear power plants for General Electric. He offered his thoughts on the California Nuclear Green Farm as the May 20 speaker at the Campbell Rotary Club.

According to Sayre, the nuclear farm would be the most efficient way to provide California with environmentally clean energy and fresh water, securing the economic and social well-being of the state at a relatively low cost to the economy. The farm would also increase food production while reducing California’s carbon footprint.

The article continues with additional perspective from Sayre’s presentation. Inexplicably — and fortunately for your wallet — the article does not mention any club members by name.

It’s not actually her picture, but Dr. Sue Klear’s “Brain Music Therapy” appears on the cover of this week’s Metro newspaper:

I’M RELAXING in a chair upstairs inside Suite 11 of the historic Kiely House in Santa Clara, a Queen Anne Victorian dating back to the 19th century. Dr. Sue Klear, a licensed psychologist specializing in neurofeedback, has just attached seven sensors to my head and face with an odorless skin-prepping gel to prepare me for the initial stages of Brain Music Therapy, an experimental treatment for insomnia, anxiety, depression and stress.

The treatment records an individual’s brain waves using an Electroencephalogram (EEG), analyzes them and then converts them into two piano tracks—one “relaxing file” and one “activating file.” These are eventually burned onto a CD for the patient to play while going to sleep and after waking up, the idea being that the musical sounds form a correlation to your specific brain waves in order to help eliminate imbalanced brain activity. So, theoretically, you end up sleeping much better and function more productively during the day.

Read the full story about Brain Music Therapy on Metro’s website.

If you’ve got the paper edition in your hand, the story starts on Page 26, and Sue’s picture appears a few pages later. She’s also pictured online attaching sensors to the reporter’s head … undoubtedly brainwashing him to portray Rotary in a positive light …

Wait a minute … does the article mention Rotary?

It’s coming right around the corner … Campbell’s Boogie on the Bayou is Saturday-Sunday, May 17-18, 2008. RotaryCSJw will again be selling food suitable for community-building.

To volunteer your time, contact Bill Ellington.

RotaryCSJw will not have a meeting on April 8, due to the District 5170 Annual Conference staring on Friday, April 11.

If you are not signed up for at least one of the Conference events, please sign-up on-line before Sunday, April 5; Fax registrations must be received by April 8. You can register on-site, but it will cost you an extra $5.00 per event.

The club will pay for “new members” going to the new member breakfast and for all women going to the Women’s Saturday Luncheon … but you have to register (the club will reimburse you).

Area 8 has the highest percentage of members registered for the whole District — Congratulations to us!