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Outback Steakhouse

12511 IH-10 West

San Antonio, Texas 78230

United States

Year in Review 2019-2020

Oak Hills Rotary Bulletin Sept 16 2020

Posted on Sep 16, 2020

Club Meeting

The meeting began by President John Legris and with the ringing of the bell by Bruce Richter. Bruce Richter opened the meeting with a word of prayer and led the club with the pledges.

Club members discussed the California wildfires – perhaps we can make a contribution. Will discuss at our October board meeting

Next weeks speaker will be Erica Myrick of the San Antonio North Chamber of Commerce who visited our club recently.

President John recognized our guests today: John Curran Fortune Personnel of San Antonio (a former member of our club)- John is a guest of Immediate Past President Rick Tarbell and Connie Gonzalez of Brooks (formerly known as Brooks City Base).

President carried on the tradition of announcing the National Days and This Day in History:

National Days

National Guacamole Day
National Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day
National Playdough Day
National Working Parents Day
National Stepfamily Day

This Day in History
Mayflower Day 1620 set sail from Plymouth to America
Dies y Seis, Independence Day for Mexico 1810 initiated Mex fight for independence from Spain

Fred's Funnies
Someone who is always there for you: Laundry
Do all fairy tales begin with once upon a time? Not this one: "When I get elected..."
"How come there are no circuses any more?" "All the clowns got into politics."

Club Luncheon and Business Program

Destiny Mujica introduced our guest speaker, Kathleen Gately and shared her bio:

Teacher - Humanities at Graduate School of Boerne (English, Latin, Literature, History)

Head Robotics coach and program director - Kendall Educational Alliance

11 years coaching robotics

B.A. from Texas State University in English & Political Science

Kathleen thanked the Oak Hills Rotary Club for supporting Kendall Robotics with our financial as well as volunteer support.

This is her 11^th year of coaching – last year 9 teams

Qualified 17 times for world championships

FIRST is the platform that they use and it is competitive robotics.

Here are just a few interesting facts about the robotics program:

Won 1^st place app in CodeJam 2019! What is CodeJam?

Four Way Test

President Legris closed the meeting and led the club with the Four Way Test. Bruce Richter rang the bell to end the meeting.

NOTICE

Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on social distancing all club events will either be held remotely or postponed until further notice. Please contact President Rick Tarbell or Secretary Mary Denton for more information and updates.