President-Clent presided over our meeting, Art guided us in prayer, Phil Goode led us with the pledge to our flag, and Terry Smith with the Four Way Test. Thoughts of the Day provided by John Stewart: “Good judgement comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgement…….The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” Will Rogers.

 

Linda Mast introduced new member Barb Bruce as the new Touchmark representative, Jim Huffman reminded us that the club is looking for volunteers to assist with the April 17 Cruising For Vets event, Art announced that all three Prescott Rotary clubs will be joining together for the first time and will be led by the PHS Interact Club for the Rotary at Work Week food drive scheduled for April 24-25, Richard Hernandez reminded all to please fill out and return the emailed membership survey and International Chair Jerry Hulm provided us with a summary of the 2021 US/Mexico Friendship Conference and he described the four global grant projects to which Sunup pledged support.

 

Jerry Fohrman was our Sgt. at Arms and fined those who had not returned the membership survey, Phil Goode for his attendance at the new airline ribbon cutting, and Bud for not recognizing him at the supermarket. Clent, Jerry, Roy, Teresa and Terry donated happy bucks. Jim Huffman was happy his daughter and family were coming to town, Linda Mast made a donation towards the successful medical treatment of Stan Steiner, John Stewart was happy about his dog Foxy’s success surgery, Barb Bruce celebrated her new membership, and Todd paid up to wish everyone a Happy Year of the Ox.

 

AJ introduced our own Art Harrington as the guest speaker. Art provided the club with a presentation entitled Understanding Your Rotary Club Fiduciary Responsibilities. The presentation detailed the vast financial responsibilities every Rotary Club is required to meet at the Rotary District and Rotary International levels. Please contact Art if you would like a copy of his power-point presentation. Thank you, Art, we are most fortunate to have you in our club.

In 1979 two partners and I opened the first retail computer store in Sacramento, CA. We grew quickly to four locations. I used to make the 2 ½ hour drive to Cupertino in the Bay Area often to pick up inventory from Apple and other computer companies. I was raised in Cupertino in the 60’s and my parents still lived there so it worked out well. Often, I would attend computer dealer meetings at Apple and other companies hanging out with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were schlepping their next big invention. In 1985 This new guy showed up on the local talk radio station in Sacramento. He was very funny and talked politics but with deep thought. I remember hearing Rush Limbaugh “With Talent on Loan From GOD” on his very first day in talk radio. You could hear him tapping his pencil while he was thinking and waiting for the next caller. He became very popular and was also a computer customer of ours. He purchased three computers from us over the three years when he was in Sac. He spent every day for two weeks in our store studying just prior to leaving for the bigtime in New York. Everyone had been telling him he needed to go national and he finally did. Last Wednesday he returned his TALENT to GOD.