MINUTES OF MEETING: Tuesday, November 4
Editor: Tess Pierce
Meeting Called to Order at 6:30 PM
Grace: Larry Hurren
Toast to the KING: Bev Fiddler
Land Acknowledgement: President Dave
We respectfully acknowledge that the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood is meeting on the traditional territory of the Mississauga of Scugog Island First Nations, within the jurisdiction of the Williams Treaties. We are committed to our responsibility of stewardship, in these relationships and for this land on which we learn, share and live.
Toast to CANADA: Bob Stewart
Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Prospective Members Neil Gonsalves & Suzz Sandalwood
Bob & Kathy Wallace (members of the Rotary Club of Port Hope)
Sharron Morrison
Linda Biddle
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES:
Nov 1: Farzana Ali
Nov 2: Lenore & John Baboolal
Nov 10: Janice Coupland
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hilda
T-shirts and Golf shirts. Tees are $15, and golf shirts are $45. Golf Tees require a minimum order of 12 due to embroidery requirements.
The Whitby clubs are sponsoring a Breakfast With Champions on Dec 3 at Deer Creek. Our club agreed to sponsor a student to attend. Tickets are $75. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
Kids Against Hunger was a great event. Wonderful to see clubs collaborating.
Welcome to all our guests.
Tess
Dec 16 is our annual Holiday Party. Janice and Tess are coordinating. It will be held at Berry Hill Food Company in Oshawa. Details and sign-ups coming soon.
Ted M.
It’s down to the wire for our Cakes and Hams fundraiser. All orders need to be submitted to Ted BEFORE November 12.
- The Grants workshop for District 7070 is Saturday, November 15, 2025, at the Oshawa District Shrine Hall, 1626 Simcoe St N, Oshawa, 8.30 am to 2 pm. REGISTER HERE for this important training opportunity
SGT AT ARMS: Donald Igbokwe, with the help of Larry Hurren
ACE OF SPADES: Lucky David Penny drew the Queen of Clubs. The pot grows
HAPPY BUCKS:
- Kids Against Hunger was huge success. Together we packed 36,000 meals and finished early!
- Rice! Rice! Everywhere.
- Happy to be back.
- Went to see the new Pickleball courts and was able to exchange pleasantries with a member he had never met. When exchanging names the new friend revealed that he had never heard of a guy named Bob Stewart. Bob replied, Maybe you’ve heard of “Birdie Bobby?” His new friend smiled and said, “You’re a legend!” BTW: The new friend? His nickname is “Pantsy” because he owns so many pairs of pants. This made us all laugh!
- Always happy to be with friends.
- Happy to announce the Book Sale is a go at the McLaughlin Library. Sale runs Thursday-Saturday. Last year the Friends of the Public Library raised over $30,000 for Oshawa Libraries.
- Thanks to Ted for his hard work on Kids Against Hunger.
- Welcome to our guest speaker Bob Wallace and his wife, Kathy
- Welcome back Stewie (or should we say “Birdie Bobby”)
- Shashi is always happy. And tonight, she was especially happy to be welcome Neil and Suzz.
- Also, the packing party was so much fun!
- Just now getting over the Jay’s loss. He was there. The ride home on the train was very quiet.
- Great success at Kids Against Hunger
- Sad buck. Al is home sick-but he also wanted everyone to know he was sick.
Bev
Sad Jays lost, but Happy Habs are winning!
Larry
His joke, “Who’s the boss of the body?” was well timed and the punchline delivered well. If you must ask, the boss is always an a-hole. We all appreciated this nugget.
David P
Win or lose, the Jays gave us a wonderful year.
Neil
The importance of community is evident in this club, and working at Kids Against Hunger reinforced this.
Also, when his son was three, Neil began teaching him to play chess. Now, at age 13, his son beats his dad. This makes him very proud.
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Ted’s Topic: November is Rotary Foundation Month
What a beautiful story of Archibald Klumph’s tenacity that resulted in what we know of as the Rotary Foundation.
In 1914, Archie was the President of the Cleveland club. He was elected to the Board of the Association of Rotary Clubs (now Rotary International). At his very first meeting, the Secretary of the Board announced the Association was insolvent. The solution was to ask every club to make a one-time donation to keep it going. They did and saved Rotary. Klumph was no stranger to innovation. He developed the idea for Districts, created the position of District Governor and wrote the inaugural message read at new member inductions. (This is the same message we use!) He had a vision to launch an endowment fund to help clubs do good deeds across the world. This was not initially supported; it took him until 1928 for the Foundation to exist as a separate entity from RI, governed by a set of Trustees, and by 1951, when Archibald Klumph died, the fund had accumulated 3 million US dollars.
The first grant, in 1930, was $500 to the Society for Crippled Children (now March of Dimes). In 1947, when Paul Harris died, clubs from all over the world donated to the Foundation. Today, the Foundation is a multi-billion-dollar entity. Since its humble beginnings, the Foundation has given grants totally 4 billion dollars. Our recent success with Kids Against Hunger was possible with the help of this fund. Thanks to a visionary with an idea and the tenacity to see it fulfilled, we can say the Rotary Foundation is truly the engine that drives Rotary.