Vol. 65 No. 26 Notes from the Podium

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President's Time

This week was important for the 92-year-old woman who completed the Honolulu Marathon in 9 hours, 53 minutes and 16 seconds.  She ran her first marathon at 86.  Last year she had to drop out because of stomach cramps at 25 miles.  So for the past year she's run 30 to 50 miles a week to prepare for her victory.

A veteran Australian pilot owes his life to a huge pile of chicken manure.  While attempting to land his vintage 1910 aircraft it veered off the runway and rammed into a 20-ton heap of chicken droppings piled there. His comment; "there was a bit of give in it..."

LAST CALL FOR MOOSE MILK  Sign up now and bring something yummy to the 40th annual New Year's celebration of our Club.  It's Saturday, January 1 from 11 until 2 at the home of Chris & Chris Tyson, 1498 Sevilla Avenue or on the third tee of The Biltmore Golf Course if you prefer to come by golf cart!

HELP SELL BRUCE'S WINGS AT THE 60TH ANNUAL BEAUX ARTS FESTIVAL NEXT WEEKEND - January 8 & 9 at the University of Miami.  Details below.  Sign up to work, eat, sell, drink or just be with your Rotary friends. 

 

Happy Birthday this week to the New Year's crowd. Remember, Capricorn is practical, reserved, disciplined and pessimistic.  Best wishes to Terry Long on New Year's Day and Zoltan Pinter on the 5th. 

Yolanda Does $$$$

In the absence of the good Doctor and the Diva (out again at the same time ... hmm)
Yoli used an age-old technique for finding happy Rotarians today.  She bullied them into giving her money!  She subscribes to the theory that guilt is the gift that keeps on giving and so she dragged up Debbie Swain who had no money and a mouth full of food but she said she's happy to be on vacation!  Next was Lan Nghiem-Phu who was happy to be out of the house and glad to be back at Rotary.  Bob Downey is happy because the person who is looking at buying his boat is returning for the second time - from Canada.  Aaron Glasser said that Dick Golden sent him some jokes for today but his Norton Anti-Virus wouldn't let him open them!  Chris Morrision came up and just gave Yoli money to get off the hook and said nothing ... but then he changed his mind and had to tell us about meeting the Stanford Team at the Airport and what nice guys they all are.  Dan Scipione is just happy that 2010 is over. Jerry Santiero is happily looking forward to a great 2011. Gloria Burns is a not-happy Gator who is happy that her daughters school, FIU, pulled off their first bowl game.  GO PANTHERS!  Bonnie Blaire put the back table under special pressure to present a united front and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Yolanda rested on her laurels and said she's spending New Years with her 11 grandchildren.  Happiness paid in 2010 so keep smiling in 2011.

Working Rotarians - December 30, 2010

Greeter - Rodney & Katrina Langer

Registration - Aaron Glasser

Collections - Abe Horowitz & Carlos Bolado

Head Table - John Wallace

Open the Meeting - Dan Scipione

Invocation - Pastor Perry

Pledge - Greg Martini

Singer - Dan Scipione

DeWitt Law Silver Dollars - Gene Mariutto

Given to - Bonnie Blaire & Lan Nghiem-Phu

Pin Drawing Gift - Dan Scipione

Pin Drawing Winner - THE Donald Trombly

50/50 Raffle - Gloria Burns

50/50 Winner - THE Donald Trombly

Today's Program

Nathan Kast, Director Research and Technology
University of Miami Tissue Bank

The University of Miami Tissue Bank (UMTB) partnered with the Rotary Club of Miami in 1984, the same year that it first opened its state of the art tissue recovery facility at the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s building. UMTB is a self-sustaining, non-profit organization. Tissue from bone, kin, tendons, veins, arteries and corneas can be transplanted. Common surgeries involving tissue transplantation include dental implants (bone powder and dermis or dora), meniscus repair, spine surgery / spinal fusion, and knee reconstruction. Cartilage regeneration is currently being developed using cartilage tissue.

UMTB is the number 1 tissue bank in the world, providing tissue for transplants to over 1 million patients and saving over 10,000 lives. It is the only tissue bank with tissue recovery facilities. We can all help by registering to be donors with the Department of Motor Vehicles or online at http://www.donatelifeflorida.org/, telling family and friends, and inviting a speaker from UM to other organizations.

 NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM:  Captain Chris Scraba, United States Coast Guard on "Protecting our Borders"

Thought of the Week

by Bonnie Blaire

Many people look forward to the New Year

for a new start on their old habits!

                                                             Anonymous




:Have a wonderful and safe New Year's Eve and a very Happy New Year to everyone.  May we all enjoy a prosperous 2011.  See you next year on January 6, same time, same place. 

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