Bill Gates is scheduled to speak in Spokane on Saturday, May 18, about joint work with Rotary International to eradicate polio worldwide. The talk will be before about 750 members of the service organization gathered for a conference from Seattle, Eastern Washington, Idaho and Canada.

Who:  Members and friends of University Sunrise Rotary Club

What:  Most of the clubs in District 5030 are teaming up to clean a large section of the Interurban Trail.    University Sunrise has been assigned Section 7 on this map.   The section is basically the trail along Dexter Avenue from the Fremont Bridge south to a pot shop on Hayes Ave.    The entire section is about a mile each way, so 2 miles of cleanup.

Where:   Meet at Thomas C. Wales Park.    This is a pocket park at the intersection of Dexter and 6th.    There are only about 2 parking spots at the park, but plenty of street parking within a block or two.   Recommend parking on Dexter between Halladay and Wheeler.   This is about a block away.

When:  9 AM Saturday April 13.   Rain or shine.  We will probably finish in 1 hour.

What everyone should Bring:  One garbage bag, gloves, reflective vest.

What to Wear:  Reflective vest.  Rain coat,  Rotary jacket, etc.

Group Gear:   There isn’t much group gear necessary.   Lee Raaen will bring 4 garbage picker-uppers (not sure what the technical term is for these devices).    We could also use a couple of brooms and dust pan for dealing with broken glass.

RSVP: ryan@seattletech.com 
 

Jim attended Stanford University for one year. He transferred to the University of Washington where he majored in engineering. Upon graduation in 1955, he took a job with Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge Department in St. Paul Minn. He had relatives that lived in Northfield, MN. and he was a regular weekend visitor. It was in Northfield that he purchased his first automobile and continued his relationship with the dealership throughout his lifetime.

In 1956, he entered the Air Force and was stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was trained in Cheyenne, WY to be a supply officer which he continued during his duty in the Air Force. Jim took flying lessons getting his pilot’s license for small planes and played tennis and golf in his spare time. He married Margaret (Marge) Karkow and after leaving the Air Force, he was hired on by Skilling, Helle Structural Engineers. Skilling sent him to Birmingham, Michigan as a resident engineer in the Minuro Yamasaki office. After years in Michigan, Jim was transferred to the New York City office to work as a structural engineer on the World Trade Center Project. Jim attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, getting a Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering in 1959. Over the next 25 years he traveled around the world working on buildings from the Bank of China in Hong Kong, to the Meadowlands Stadium, Oberlin School of Music, the Conservatory at Carlton College, along with many other major projects. Jim and Marge raised their two sons, John and Walter in Connecticut. He was a dedicated father who enjoyed family time outside of his long hours at the office in Manhattan, making time to coach the boy’s baseball teams and taking boating trips on Long Island Sound. After supporting her through a long illness, Marge passed away in 1995.

Jim ran the Mobile Crane Company for twenty-two years after taking over the company from his ailing father in 1993. Although Jim closed Mobile Crane in 2015, he was still involved in the crane business, maintaining connections with former clients and co-workers as he valued those relationships and was in touch with them right up to the end. Jim loved engineering, whether cranes or cars and his worldwide contacts were a conduit of information. He and Colleen were in Germany just this past November visiting clients, discussing cranes, and touring Mercedes and the AMG factories.

Jim remained active as a member of the Seattle Yacht Club, chairing the Men’s book Group and served on several other committees. He was also involved in University Sunrise Rotary Club, the Seattle Tennis Club, a long-standing University of Washington Tyee Member and a member of the United States Power Squadron.

A private family Burial will take place at Crown Hill Cemetery in Seattle and a Celebration of Life will be held at the Seattle Yacht Club on Sunday, March 31 at 1pm.

The family has requested lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Hospice of the Valley, Eckstein Center 9808 N 95th St Scottsdale, AZ 85258, the University Coop School 5601 University Way NE Seattle 98105 or a charity of your choice

Published in The Seattle Times from Feb. 24 to March 10, 2019 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=elmer-james-white-jr&pid=191648296

The holiday season is upon us and so is the annual University Sunrise Rotary poinsettias and wreath sales. Our poinsettias are red, white, and pink at $15 each and wreaths  are $25. Please download the form below and email your order to poinsettias@usrotary.org or hand your order to a University Sunrise Rotary member. All checks should be made out to “University Sunrise Rotary Club” and paid in advance.

Poinsettia & Wreath Order Form 2017

At our August 10th breakfast meeting, Past President Jim Horrigan presented a check for $10,000 to Janine Kennedy, Teen Feed’s Director of Community Outreach. Janine told us that the money will fund Teen Feed’s Street Talk Outreach (STOP) program.

Each year, University Sunrise selects a beneficiary for the proceeds of our primary fund-raising event, Debuts and Discoveries (see fun photos here:  D&D Photos).

We selected Teen Feed because of its outstanding work with homeless and at-risk youth in our community. Teen Deed’s STOP program is aimed at high-risk youth who avoid traditional social service agencies. Armed with backpacks, warm water, granola and soups, STOP sends out teams of staff and peer outreach workers to meet youth in their own environment—the streets and alleys where they spend most of their time.  In 2015, STOP made over 3,614 positive contacts with youth on the streets, offering socks, food, referrals to resources, and a relationship with a caring adult (more info. here: Teen Feed Programs).

We congratulate Teen feed on this award and we thank them for their continuing work with homeless youth!

 

[Have a passion for community service? Want to work with a fun positive group of do-ers in our community? Visit our web page: USRotary.org or our Facebook page: USRotary Facebook or stop by for breakfast, get to meet us and hear more at 7:15 on a Thursday morning at Ivar’s Salmon House on Northlake in Seattle.]     

On August 10th, Christy Goff, faced with speaking on such a vast subject as Stress, gave an encapsulated overview supplemented by an exhaustive handout.

Stress is anything that inhibits the balance among physical, emotional, and mental power. It can be external or internal. Physiologically, stress upsets the equilibrium among serotonin, a brain hormone concerned with feeling good; cortisol, an adrenal hormone and glucose, both concerned with the Flight or Fight reaction. This disruption can result in symptoms such as poor cognition, fatigue, depression, and exhaustion. In extreme cases, to wit, burnout, the stress factor(s) must be aborted, lest permanent damage ensue. At times, we need a little bit of stress to keep us going at optimal function.

The speaker posits that stress is treatable, entailing channels in the forms of physical activity, nutrition, and relaxation/sleep. She gave a rundown of the intrinsic benefits of each, and how to go about utilizing them. It is certain that she touched upon experiences of everyone in the audience.

For certainly, stress and coping mechanisms have been with us from early evolutionary times. It has been the property of all of us.

Katie Leis, Community Development Manager, of the American Cancer Society discussed Relay for Life, annual event to benefit the American Cancer Society.

It will occur on 8/12 at Cal Anderson Park, with the purpose of raising money to fight cancer. She averred that cancer never sleeps. She provided information as to how to register on line and gave information as to the events. Also, there will be a Bark for Life in which dogs will participate. The opening ceremony at 10AM will recognize the survivors of the disease. A ceremony called Luminaria is one in which those who have succumbed will be remembered. The closing ceremony’s aim is to educate the participants and all others, with the motto, Fight Back.

In addition, President Dave presented Katie with the club’s $500 check toward the cause.

Seattle’s degree of growth and development is directly proportional to David Allen’s enthusiasm thereof. A scion of the McKinstray Family, he has done much to further the company’s fortunes.
Seattle leads the nation in growth and is at the convergence of an astounding array of top businesses, entertainment, education, shipping, aerospace, philanthropy, transportation, and a ferry system. He foresees the boom to extend into the ’20s and ’30s. It has encompassed WA, OR, and BC.

What engendered this state of things? He dates it to the era of Expo in the early ’60s. Leaders bearing the names, or affiliated with them, met with a vision. They included such as Weyerhaeuser, Nordstrom, Boeing, and the many others, all with an average age of 40.6. They laid the framework of clusters of industries, Indeed, several are spinoffs of original businesses. The work is still in progress.
68 cranes is the current count in the building sector. Each represents $10M to $15M. Overall sectors include Government, Civil, and Private.
Latter-day innovations are in Cyber Security, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence.  In every sense of the idiom, things are looking up.

Comment: Jobs abound. As has been averred, we must fill them with local manpower, else there will be dependence on outside talent. The pressing assignment is to keep the supply of local trainees current. Moreover, in this climate of prosperity, work needs to be done for benefit of the working poor,  those priced out of dwellings and—lest we forget—the homeless.

The two remaining Charter Members from 1984, John Reynolds and Jim Miller, wish Michael Gillespie well on his last scheduled Club meeting before he leaves.