The meeting was chaired by Bob Baker. There were 18 members present along with our guest
speaker Debra Campbell and former Club member Jeanne Beckman. Bob started the meeting with a
tribute to Rodger Morris, long time Rotarian in our Club who passed away Sept. 18 in Hospice.
Rodger was a Past President and Treasurer for our Club and presided over the induction of 16
Paul Harris Fellows including the first woman in Africa to become a PH Fellow—Christine
Kijange who is now Director of the Montessori School in Entebbe Uganda which our Club help
start and helped Ms. Kijange come to the US and receive her Montessori Teacher Training in
Deerfield, Illinois. Rodger was also President of The Winnetka Bank (now the Chase Bank).
His contribution to our Club and community will be long remembered. His memorial service is
pending and will be announced when finalized.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Liz Taylor reported on the success of the Winnetka Farmers’ Market
where she and Barb Tubekis recently attended to our Club’s table and Liz discovered how many
people in the community know Barb (Liz is pretty well known as well!)
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES: September is a big month for birthdays—those
celebrating are Heather Higgins, Wes Baumann, Terry Dason, Liz Taylor and Robert
Mardirossian (who celebrates his birthday and wedding anniversary almost on the same day).
Not only did Robert provide chocolate cake to all, but he insisted on everyone singing the HB
song, for which he gave a generous contribution to the Club. Former Club Member Jeanne Beckman
said that she hasn’t been very active in the Club recently but is having a birthday coming up and
her advice for aging is to “be kind and not cruel” and try to do a good deed every day.
DIG N GRIN: Fred pulled some old chestnuts out of his humor file that he has collected over the
years from his old friend Dan who was in Fred’s Crow Island 1940 kindergarten class. Fred’s
examples of such humor were-- the difference between “intellect and stupidity” is that intellect
has its limits; and that often “the good old days” are neither good or old.
SPEAKER DEBRA CAMPBELL, CENTER FOR ENHANCED HEALTH—"Quick tips to
improve your health”. Debra has been a licensed massage therapist for over 30 years with
offices in Winnetka. She used a 10 page power point which contained lots of useful information
on this subject such as—we should sleep 8 hours a night, should engage in daily physical
movement every waking hour for at least 5 minutes, should generate energy with joy and
gratitude, should have 60-80 grams of protein and less than 20 grams of sugar daily, should
reduce multitasking, should learn to meditate, and should choose our food for its value and add
supplements. She also explained the importance of CoQ10 to help convert food into energy, to
improve symptoms of congestive heart failure, to reduce high blood pressure and cholesterol
levels, to decrease frequency of headaches, and to help improve your overall physical
performance.
After an active Q and A session, the meeting ended around 1:30 with the reciting of Rotary’s 4-
Way Test.