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Tuesday March 6, 2007

Today’s Events:

President Linda Kaplan presiding

ROTARY
THEME
2006-07


* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S * * *
President Linda Kaplan opened today's meeting with announcement that she would be deviating from the standard meeting agenda. With that said, she invited our very own Horace Feliu, his honor the mayor, to address the membership. Horace called upon PDG Roy Gonas to the front of the room and in honor of Roy's 65th Birthday, presented him with a proclamation from the City of South Miami declaring March 7th as Roy Gonas Day in the City.

President Linda then invited Ann Wendschuh, who announced that today was also Peter Wendschuh's birthday. Ann then marched to the podium carrying a birthday cake -no you couldn't count the candles -which she presented to the Club for dessert. A rousing rendition of Happy Birthday was sung to both our honored members.

President Linda then announced a quick Board Meeting would take place at the podium, following the Club's regular meeting. She then informed the membership that no location was volunteered for the annual garage sale. Roz Gonas spoke of a single mother who had just passed away from cancer leaving behind two children. The Coral Gables Congregational Church is conducting a garage sale for the benefit of the children and suggested we support this endeavor. Linda then asked the membership that whatever contributions were planned for Rotary's garage sale be made, instead, to the Congregational Church for the benefit of these children


New Club Fundraiser


Starbucks Gift Cards

Buy $25 worth of product for $20

See Linda for the cards.

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Coral Gables Cycling Celebration

Attendance in activities related to the Cycling to Serve Fellowship constitutes a make-up attendance for our club's weekly meetings.

www.cyclingtoservecanadaus.com

BICYCLING THROUGH THE GABLES

OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
the First Sunday of the month: March 4, April 1, & May 6
11:00 am - 2:00 pm

BICYCLING THROUGH THE COUNTY

For ROTARIANS: Meet to cycle @ 7:30am EVERY Saturday
@ Patricia's (5911 Maynada, Coral Gables)

Check out Patricia's website: www.Watch-Inc.org

To become a cycling fellowship member:

Go to www.cyclingtoserveuscanada.com

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$

Accepting empty inkjet cartridges

Bring them to the meetings or take a postage-paid plastic envelop home - ask Mike Mills


DID YOU MISS A MEETING 'CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Visit www.rotary6990.org to find a club to make up an absence.

What a great opportunity this can be to visit another club and meet new and interesting members who are business owners and community leaders. They might be interested in the services that you provide.

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/download
center/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity. This offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn an attendance credit, Rotarians usually log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, and submit a form to the club secretary.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally:

http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY DOREEN REITNAUER, SECRETARY, OF ALL MAKE-UPS:
Doreen_reitnauer@colonialbank.com

Mark Your Calendars

Friday - Saturday March 9 - 10, 2007

PETS in Orlando

Saturdays, March 17 & March 24, 2007

Rotary Leadership Institute in Weston

Saturday, April 21, 2007

District Assembly venue TBD

RI Conference - Salt Lake City

Thursday - Monday November 15-19, 2007

District Conference aboard the

Carnival Imagination Carnival Imagination

Meeting Functionaries

Invocation:

Horace Feliu

Pledge:

Cathy Miller

Guests:

Mike Newman

Happy $$:

Bill Enright

Door Prize:

Diana Phillips

$$$ Prize:

Donna Gaines

It's Your Turn

March 6, 2007

Door Prize: Horace Feliu / Dessert: Ernie Swift

March 13, 2007

Door Prize: Fabio Fernandez / Dessert: Don Streaker

March 20, 2007

Door Prize: Ed Fischer Dessert: Bob Straile

March 27, 2007

Door Prize: Ann Fisher Dessert: John Sorgie

Future Speakers:

March 6, 2007

Joan Sampieri - Miami Is Magic

March 13, 2007

Kenneth Bluh - Go for Broke

March 20, 2007

Jamie Furgang - Water, Water Everywhere

March 27, 2007

Ed Mattson, Hands Across the Sea"

TODAY'S SPEAKER

Program Chair Maxene Graham introduced Joan Santieri who spoke in honor of Women's History Month. Joan began with an overview of the role of women and society's view of women.

At the turn of the century - 1900 - some women taught school. By 1905, the year Rotary was founded, women who had been involved in the emancipation of African Americans began to agitate for the right to vote. During WW-I women served as nurses at home and in the battlefields and in 1920, they earned the right to vote.

In WW-II we saw the emergence of Rosie the Riveter and women served in the military as WACS and WAVES. Still, society believed that women went to college for an MRS degree as opposed to an education. After all, a woman's place is in the home!

Prior to the 1960s, society perception of women allowed them to work as either teachers, secretaries or nurses. Activism in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s again brought about the question of a woman's place. This spurred a push for the Equal Rights Amendment

An interesting aside, while the number of women teachers grew, they lost their jobs if they married; and it wasn't until 1970 that pregnant women could teach. As recent as thirty five years ago, because of society's view of women, employment ads were segregated into Jobs for Men and Jobs for Women. At that time, women earned only 69% of what men earned and 48% of women were in the workforce. In the early 70's, fewer than 50% of women who were awarded child support received it.

Here we are, some 35 years after the Woman Commission was formed and statistics reveal that Domestic Violence is the major cause of injury to women; 25% of whom are battered during pregnancy and 1400 - four per day - die as a result. A sexual assault occurs every 2.5 minute in the U.S. and about 58% of all rapes go unreported. Women head of households are three times more likely to live below the poverty level. However, with women having broken the glass ceiling, like their male counterparts, Heat Disease is the number one killer. Yet, while more men have heart attacks than women, women are four times more likely to die within a year of their attack as treatment resulting from research is male focused in spite of the different interior plumbing of the sexes.

Joan pointed out that not all is doom and gloom. Women's wages have increased from 69% in 1970 to 74% in 2005. Participation in the workforce has risen from 48.4% to 59.2%. In 2004, more than 160,000 women competed in intercollegiate sports and today, 66 women hold seats in the House of Representatives and14 hold seats in the Senate.

Locally, Joan credits the 1971 creation of Miami-Dade's Commission for Women to Roxcy Bolton which is comprised of 26 members - two appointed by each of the County Commissioners. A recent survey by the Commission revealed three areas of concern: housing, poverty and health insurance. Joan credits the Commission with Miami-Dade being the first major county in the U.S. to require insurers to provide birth control with the same ease that it provide Viagra to men; the launching of the Girls Advocacy Project for girls in the juvenile justice system; support for Casa Valentina for women who've aged out of foster care; raising money for breast cancer research; and is pushing to have a statue erected to honor Julia Tuttle - the first woman to have founded a major city in the U.S.

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