edited by
LEN DALBERG
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Volume 44, No 14 January 16, 2002
John Rasmussen is working on plans for us to have a great fifth Wednesday party on January 30th at The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville theater in Oceano. We will be attending Neil Simon's Fools. An idyllic Russian town has been under a curse for 200 years... all its people are stupid! A school teacher hired to lift the curse has 24 hours or he too falls victim. The trouble is he's fallen in love with a beautifitl, stupid girl in town. Will love triumph over stupid? This comic fable is one of Neil Simon's finest works! I would like to announce the coming of two additional GREAT grandchildren!!!!!! Ericka Horton, my first grandchild, will bless Bubba and me with a boy in May. My third grandchild, Monica Winans, will bless us with our third GREAT grandchild sometime in August. You know what it says in the Good Book, 'Fill your quiver with arrows." Help!!!! Someone get me another quiver! We haven't seen much of George Jones because he is playing chauffeur to wife Sally who has been having multiple surgeries. She needs our prayers! Rotary Float Did you see Rotary's float in the Rose Parade? As usual, it was beautiful accenting the theme, "Journey Around the World Through Education." As I reflected on the number of scholarships we give, and the programs of our Vocational Service Committee, I easily saw how our club illustrates the theme of our 2002 Rotary float! sent to Michele Hinnrichs on Sunday, October 21, 2001: Dear Michele and Rotary, September 11 certainly has changed the world trivializing all other hings. I'm now probably in one of the safest parts of the world so I can now worry about all of you. I felt so lonely when it all happened wanting to be close to my children and friends. I am probably the only American in the world who hasn't seen the pictures of all the destruction. And now fears of what will follow. The news from here is all good as the project grows and continues to be well appreciated. I now have 2 assistants and a woman Bolivian doctor who is so enthusiastic and doing the teaching in the villages. There are now health trainees in 10 of the 32 villages I go to. El Razon, the largest newspaper in Bolivia featured the project and thanked Rotary and Direct Relief. Doctors from the Bolivian American Medical Society came down to see the project and were most pleased. It would have been wonderful if you and Betty Madsen or others from Rotary had come down. I'm sure that's all changed now but I know you would feel proud and pleased. I hope the club will consider continuing to support the Beni project despite the tragedy that has beset all of us. With all the sadness I feel, it is so comforting to think of old friends and despite it all to work towards making the planet a better place. Keep up your good work. I look forward to seeing you all after the New Year when I return to California. Best Wishes, Louis Netzer, MD Note from Editor: Dr. Netzer has been diagnosed with liver cancer. Let us remember him as he faces treatment. |
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