‘That which is essential is seen by the heart.’
Rotary meeting April 23rd
Announcements and reminders
Our 50th anniversary celebration will be April 30th 5:30-8:30. We are expecting over one hundred people! Get your reservations in by Monday the 27th. Call Pam Goodman to let her know how many people in your party and give her your meal preferences. Remember, club is dark next Thursday.
May 23rd Rotary University will be in Milpedes.
This is the last week for Human Race contributions; May 5th is the deadline for pledges. All checks for the Race go to Dr. Art.
The Sunrise Club Beach Party will be this Saturday, April 25th, from 2:00-4:00 at the Monterey Bay Marine Exploration Center at Cowell Beach. Donation is $30. The event benefits Ridethewave. org for kids with special needs.
Bob Fitch was our guest speaker today. He is a photographer who captured a changing nation. He has taken some of the most recognizable photographs of leaders such as Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez. He documented political campaigns and voter registration. In the next year, Stanford University Library will have his archives and they will be on web display.
Bob displayed his photographs, asked us to select the ones which interested us and shared the background of his images. Some of those discussed were:
- A photo of Pete Seeger playing the banjo.
- A photo of Dorinda Palmer in Greenwood Alabama, backed by County Sheriffs and the Klan. Bob said she was 14 years old at the time, organizing the young people of her community to let their parents register to vote.
- A photo of Alejo running for Assembly. He’s our assemblyman now. Bob feels he will be a very important political figure to watch with huge appeal to young people.
- A photo of people hugging with no visible faces. Bob explained that it was taken at the Haight Theater in San Francisco in 1968.
- A photo of baptism of a child. Bob said it was Maria Gonzales, who is cook and chef at Loaves and Fishes at her daughter’s baptism.
- A folded hands photo. Bob took it in Calexico California when he was traveling with Interplast, which focuses on burn repair and cleft palate surgery. The photo is of a father waiting with clasped hands for his daughter’s surgery results.
- A photo of a young woman’s fearful face. Bob said she was surrounded by 8 sheriff’s deputies. She was a UFW picket in LaMonte Calif.
- A photo of a woman with an American and Mexican flag and virgin of Guadalupe. Bob explained that this refers to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and pointed out that this land used to be theirs. He also reminded us we Caucasians are now a minority in California.
The club was fascinated by this presentation which took us back to the happenings which were part of our own history.