On Wednesday, August 4, there will not be a regular Malibu Rotary Club in the Fireside Room at Pepperdine University. Instead, there will be a Malibu Rotary Club board meeting and planning session in the Faculty Dining Room adjacent to the Fireside Room at Pepperdine University, at 7:30 a.m. If that room is unavailable Malibu Rotarians will meet outside in patio adjacent to Faculty Dining Room.
The next regular Malibu Rotary Club meeting will be Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 7:30 a.m. in the Fireside Room of Pepperdine University in Malibu. Speaker will be Scott Wagenseller,Chairman of the Board of the Malibu Chamber of Commerce and head of Gates Security.
The Annual Malibu Kiwanis Chili Cook Off will be held September 4th and 5th in the Malibu Civic Center area. It is a fund raiser not only for Kiwanis but other service organizations, including Malibu Rotary Club. In addition to selling water, which the Malibu Rotary Club had done for the past several years, Kevin Boling will be cooking and selling his award winning Tri-Tip Bar B-Q and burgers in the Malibu Rotary Club booth using his portable barbecue oven. Bring the whole family and enjoy the live music, food and fun.
Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Malibu, California, USA. The Malibu Rotary Club was chartered in 1971 as part of Rotary District 5280 in the Los Angeles area, which is part of Rotary International. A list of upcoming events and speakers of the Malibu Rotary Club can be seen by clicking CALENDAR or SPEAKERS on the blue tool bar at the top of this page. You can read and see pictures of past events and speakers by clicking on links to past issues of the club weekly bulletin, The Malibu Rotary Club Surfwriter at the bottom right of this page (requires Adobe Reader).
When Malibu Rotary Past President William Wishard signed up, along with 110 other District 5280 Rotarians, to go on the trip to Ecuador to visit the various humanitarian projects that clubs in the Los Angeles area had contributed to in that South American country, he knew it would be an unforgettable experience, but he did not know how great it would be.
Bill said that Rotarians often talk about their "Rotary Moment," when they realize what Rotary is all about. For Bill, he experienced that moment and more.
The 2010 Annual Malibu Rotary Club Middle and High School Singing Competition was held April 20th, on the stage of the Malibu High School Auditorium. Members of the Malibu Rotary Club voted on the performances given by a dozen of Malibu High School Choral Director Amy Loch's students. A total of $1,000 in cash prizes were awarded to the top three winners in the middle school division as well as the top three winners in the high school division.
Malibu Rotary President Chris Bauman gathers the playground balls donated by the Malibu Rotary Club to the Topanga Elementary School to be used in their celebration of Earth Day Week. Malibu Rotarian Kevin Boling used the balls later to demonstrate how the trucks in his company Universal Waste Systems, does commercial recycling.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the recent earthquake in Haiti, and we are touched by the commitment of Rotarians to assist the communities affected by this disaster. Rotary International is coordinating relief efforts, and we are writing to you today to provide you with information on how you may work through Rotary to make a significant contribution toward alleviating this major humanitarian crisis.
Malibu Rotary Club voted to send $500 to the Rotary Club of Pontiac Michigan to help build and install BioSand Filters in Santo Domingo De Los Colorados, Ecuador. As was noted by Carol Cousineau, who, along with husband Ron brought the project to our attention, after installing the first BioSand filters in Ecuador, "That money would be matched by the next District Grant, which we have been assured we will get. So, for instance $500.00 would become $750.00.
The need for clean water and sanitation is staggering in Ecuador, a country of 14 Million people. Water borne diseases are the major cause of deaths and illnesses in the young population. Infant mortality is 21.35 deaths for 1000 live births. There are few cities with adequate water supply and none with sanitation. The vast majority of the population does not have access to clean water. BioSand filters offers hope to poor families who get water from shallow polluted wells or rivers and streams and must spend a significant portion of their daily earnings to boil their water.
Palisades Rotary Club President Sanda Alcalay (2009-2010)
was so impressed with Rotary's commitment to Polio eradication and the importance of the current last push effort "End Polio Now" campaign that she decided share her passion with others. She is pictured here presenting an End Polio Now cap to Chris Bauman, who was presiding over the Malibu Rotary Club meeting for Holmes Osborne
Congressman Henry A Waxman of the 30th District in California, spoke at a special meeting of the Malibu Rotary Club on February 19th in the Grazadio Excecutive Center of Pepperdine University in Malibu.
Rotary District 5280 Governor Susanne Sundberg, Executive Aide and District Governor Nominee Brad Robinson and Zone 4 Assistant Governor Glenn Mitchell Tell the Malibu Rotarians RI President John Kenny's Theme "The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands"
Kaitlyn Connors, who was awarded firstprize in the high school division of The Annual Malibu Rotary Middle and High School singing competition, placed second in the Rotary District 5280 event held in March this year.
It is unusual for one university to produce Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars in consecutive years, but Pepperdine Dean Emeritus and Malibu Rotarian David Baird is proud that Pepperdine University can boast producing five Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholars in five years.Last December we were able to meet Amy Joehlin-Price who was the 2007-2008 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar sponsored by the Malibu Rotary Club and District 5280 to study public health at the Malawi College of Medicine in southeast Africa.She now is at Ohio State Medical School.When Braden Mogler, who was a junior at Pepperdine University asked Dean David Baird about applying for a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study public health in a Spanish speaking country he recommended Braden apply through the Rotary Club in his home town of Mankato, Minnesota, rather than through the Malibu Rotary Club.
At the Malibu Rotary Club meeting of April 15 Dr Richard introduced fellow ER doctor Lawrence Stock, MD, who lives in Malibu. Among other awards and accomplishment Dr Stock was awarded Volunteer Clinical Faculty Teacher of the Year, voted on by the resident doctors at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, a teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Harbor UCLA Medical Center is a trauma center and one of Los Angeles County's Public Hospitals. It is easy to understand why he was given this honor when one learns about Larry's dedication to, as Rotary puts it, "Service Above Self." He not only saves lives in the emergency room, but he teaches others the skills he has learned.
When Don Schmitz built his home in the hills near the Corral Canyon area of Malibu he was told by the fire department that he was so isolated from the main roads that they probably couldn't help him in case of fire. Don, who is a consultant in land development and permit processing, didn't let that stop him. He put in his own water tower, sprinkler system, and has his own fire truck. During the Corral Canyon fire the fire department used his water to help fight the fire in the surrounding area. As he watched the fire spread the thought occurred to him that if there was a water and sprinkler system in place along the Santa Monica Monica Mountains, fires which seasonally threaten the Malibu area could be thwarted before they created fire storms and the resulting damage.
In front of an audience made up almost equally of Malibu Rotary Club members and faculty and administration of Pepperdine University Pepperdine Provost and Professor Dr Darryl Tippins delivered and address at the April 1 Malibu Rotary Club morning meeting entitled "Ferment and Change in the Modern University: What Lies Ahead".
The lastest issue of our club bulletin Malibu Rotary Club Surfwriter, as well as archives of previous issues, appear on links at the bottom right of this page, below listing of club officers. Click on PDF downloads, arranged by date, on the right of this page. Computers must have Adobe Reader (a free download) to view these files.
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