President's Dinner for Jeff

       Thursday evening's Hawaiian luau was a grand success.  Nancy and Ceil out did themselves with The Hawaiian Theme.  Everyone received a Lei upon being greeted by one of our new committee co chairs Valerie.  Nancy and Ceil had Café 29 cooks cater the event with Coconut Shrimp and an assortment of Hawaiian Hors D'oeuvres.  The Main meal was delicious and since it was a BYOB event everyone had their choice of beverage with mixers provided by the committee. 

       Mark started out the evening with a traditional Hawaiian prayer asking for virility among the Rotarians present.  Look for new faces from out Rotarian brothers in 9 months.  Thank you Mark.

       Jeff continued the evening with a short recap of his year as President going over his ambitious goals and his successes.  One of his goals was to have a Social committee to get Rotarians together at lest once a month which was not a Rotary meeting.  With Ceil's and Nancy's tutelage his goal was achieved. His goal to feed 20,000 people was also achieved along with putting $10,000 extra dollars into the scholarship account for this year.  Jeff has asked that we add $10,000 every year until we can make the scholarship fund self sustaining.   

       Many Rotarians gave remarks about Jeff's year including our new President Burt Durin.  Burt complimented Jeff for a fantastic year as he is looking forward to his year as President starting this Thursday with his induction.  Of the 20 -25 Rotarians Plus spouses that were present past President Sue Straeter, First Vice President Steve Gould, Mrs Devine and several others echoed the sentiment that Jeff did a wonderful job as President for the 16-17 Rotary year.  Jeff also received his President's Pin from Cindy, and his Paul Harris pin during the evening.  Sue had some closing remarks and after 2 1/2 hours Rotarians had some time to talk and socialize informally bringing the evening to a close.  Thank you to the committee for a wonderful event.