Rotary Club of Malibu

Next week, May 29th, instead of a normal lunch meeting at Pepperdine University, the Malibu Rotary will be having a special evening event, the Malibu Rotary Club Brazilian Bash Blowout scheduled for May 29th at 5:30 pm at a mansion in Pacific Palisades owned by an NBA star. 

Event will be held  5:30  to 9:30 p.m. at an NBA star's Pacific Palisades mansion, the location of which will only be devulged to those who pay to attendTicket prices  $100.00/single  $150.00/couple $75.00/Rotarians and Guests of Rotarians Registering on line.  
Price includes Brazilian food buffet, wine, and Brazilian fire dancers, fire show, fire breathing, fire eating, poi and much much more! 

 For too much partying there will also be represented: Dr. Taber Chinn - Doctor of Chiropractic - Shannon Hearn -  Massage Therapist/Neuromuscular Therapy and Trigger Point Therapy - complimentary massage and Tracey Brown, Health & Nutritional Coach.

Links to over 20  silent auction are below: 

For full descriptive sheets and pictures of donated items 1-12A click here

 For full descriptive sheets and pictures of donated items 12B-20 click here 

Deadline for Registration and payment by check was scheduled for May 22nd.  To find out if there are still last minute tickets available and to contact event chair Maggie Luckerath go to the  Malibu Rotary Club Brazilian Bash Blowout Event at top left of this page.  Only paid registrants will be given the address to the May 29th Bash.  Address of the entrance gate is 16701 Via La Costa, Pacific Palisades, CA  90272.

That day, May 29th, there will be no regular Malibu Rotary Club meeting at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

The next regular meeting of the Malibu Rotary Club will be Wednesday, June 5th,  at 12:00 p.m. noon in  Room LC  152 at Pepperdine University Drescher Graduate Campus Learning Center.  

For directions to Malibu Rotary Club meeting see story below.

For listing of future speakers at the Malibu Rotary Club click speakers link

After meeting in the Pepperdine University Fireside Room on Wednesday for breakfast  for a couple decades the Malibu Rotary Club changed the venue and time of its weekly meetings.  Starting April 3rd, 2013 the Malibu Rotary Club began  meeting on Wednesday at noon for lunch in Room LC 152 (and other rooms) of the upper Drescher Graduate Campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu.

Directions to Malibu Rotary Club meeting in LC 152 of Pepperdine Drescher Graduate Campus

• From Pacific Coast Highway turn into Pepperdine Campus at John Tyler Dr (which becomes Huntsinger Cir)

• Turn Left at sign "Drescher Graduate Campus" up hill onto Via Pacifica

• Stay on Via Pacifica past Catalina Dr and turn right into first parking lots, either Lot S or T, and park. Parking is free.

• Walk through right doors of entrance to Henry and Virgina Braun Center (aka Learning and Tech Center) into hallway and go through doors on right in hallway into large patio.

• A spectacular view will be in front you. LC 152 (the the usual Rotary meeting room) is first door on right off patio. The Waves cafeteria is first door on left.  For those who wish to buy the reasonably priced lunch, food is ordered in cafeteria and paid to cashier by cash or credit card. No money will be collected in the Rotary Club meeting room for lunch, but donations are always accepted for Rotary Foundation and Malibu Rotary Club charities.   Food trays can be brought into meeting room LC 152.

• We are sure you will enjoy this beautiful venue as much as we do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryavz-cr-bg&feature=youtu.beThe 2013 Annual Malibu Rotary Club Middle and High School Singing Competition was held in Stauffer Chapel at Pepperdine University on February 12.  Members of the Malibu Rotary Club judged a dozen entrants and the top 3 contestants in the high school division and the middle school division were awarded cash prizes of $250 for first, $150 for second, and $100 for third place in each division. The singers are all students of Amy Lock's choral classes at Malibu Middle School and Malibu High School. 

 Pictured: L to R Malibu Rotary Singing Competition high school division winners Nancy Walecki, Martha Thatcher and Holley Hoffman, with middle school division winners Violet Finn, Ava Diakeler and Catherine Bogie

by Emily “EM” Blair Charnelle

District Governor Elect Jim Dyer wore many hats in his lifetime including loving husband, father, grandfather, friend, humanitarian, marketing executive, computer systems wiz, ShelterBox Ambassador, volunteer, and Rotarian. In my experiences with Jim he was always a great listener and really took the time to absorb everything he could about you, the project at hand, or even the most tiny details. Jim really cared about other people and showed great compassion, humor, and fairness in all that he did. There is no doubt in my mind that Jim was one of a kind. In our loss I am slightly comforted to know that he is undoubtedly continuing to do good on the other side and will likely rise quickly thought the ranks of angels above.

The Malibu Rotary Club again sponsored the Thanksgiving Dinner for Homeless  on November 15th at Webster School  the week before Thanksgiving in conjunction with the SOS group (Standing On Stone), which serves a dinner there every week.

  David Baird (L), Maggie Luckerath(R)  and other members of Malibu Rotary Club prepared and served the dinners at the Thanksgiving Dinner.  Maggie headed up the kitchen.

The Malibu Rotary Club sold watermelon and water at the 2012 Malibu Kiwanis Chili Festival on Labor Day weekend. Maggie Luckerath (L) ran the Malibu Rotary Club booth and was also a Chili judge.

On his visit to the Malibu Rotary Club on August 22, 2012, Rotary District Governor Lew Bertrand gave Visionary Awards to three members of the Rotary Club of Malibu.  The three recipients of the awards for 2012-13 are Maggie Luckerath, John Elman and David Baird. The awards were given to members of the club who provided "insight into means of providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations and helping to build goodwill and peace in the world."

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This is the story of how members of Malibu Rotary Club networked to assist Rotary Ambassadorial scholar from Zurich, Switzerland get a car to use in California while she continues her studies at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu.

 (pictured)Rotary District Youth Exchange Director Warren Bobrow (L) introduced Rotary Youth Exchange student Zoe Dunne (R) to Malibu Rotary Club President Bill Wishard (center)
Zoe Dunne was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Malibu to be a Rotary Youth Exchange student in Germany.  Zoe will be returning to Malibu High School for her senior year after spending her junior year going to high school in Germany and touring most of the countires of Europe.

Luci Prosapio is a Pepperdine University senior  History and International Studies student who was chosen by Rotary District 5580  to be the beneficiary of a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship to work on a Masters in Development Studies at  Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.  

Ben Allen, at age 32, the youngest member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, spoke about the achievements of the District at the Malibu Rotary Club meeting on January 26.

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.

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.

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

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.
 

With matching  grants from The Rotary Foundation, Rotary District 5280 (District Designated Funds [DDF]), and in  partnership with other Rotary clubs in Rotary District 5280 and host clubs in Puerto Rico, the Malibu Rotary Club is involved in two humanitarian international projects  in Puerto Rico in 2012. Barbara Riley (front row third from left) represented the Malibu Rotary Club at the Centro Geriátrico San Rafael, Arecibo, PR Rotary Project in February, 2012. Malibu Rotary was one of the lead sponsors of the project, along with 4 other Rotary Clubs from Los Angeles, CA Rotary District 5280 who also sent representatives.

Malibu Rotary Club was also a sponsor of a secont progect, Hogar Santisima Trinidad (HST)in Barrio Macarabones, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico which involves rehabilitating alcohol and drug abusers at the HST Center to train for job skills and also educate in recycling and train in solid waste management. 

More on Rotary District 5280's humanitarian trip to Puerto Rico can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/PuertoRico5280.