Zone Friday and Class Dinner

Classmates Bill Woulfin of D-6900 and Tim and Barb Schuler of 6950.

Arnaldo from Puerto Rico, D-7000 singing and Mary of D-7770

Tim Mannix singing for us.

Classmates PC Wu of 6940 and Judi, Carla, Sharon and Denny Kurir and somebody standing.

Classmate Jim Pierce and wife Suki.

Gary Israel singing for change, check out his belt!!!!

Carla and I with Rotary International President Elect DK Lee.

Another great day at Zone. I did a presentation at the Foundation / Think Caribbean Session this morning. What I wanted to achieve was to provide a perspective of what it was REALLY like in Haiti and how we needed the amazing amount of Humanitarian Aid, but how it needed to be achieved within the parameters of the TRF. That means using the Task Force as it was intended. I was followed by Dr. Greene who works with the Christen Haitian American Partnership (CHAP), who followed up with a confirmation of the message. Great comments after the session.

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We had a Think Caribbean Meeting today to discuss how that is moving forward and arrange a meeting tomorrow to discuss it.

I met with our District foundation Chair to discuss the issue of Matching Grants, District Simplified Grants, and the Haiti Task Force. We have a meeting tomorrow at 2:00 PM to go over the Task Force with RI, TRF and others including Barry Rassin and if they can make it, Jose Antonio Salazar-Cruz, a Foundation trustee, and John Smarge. We are reviewing the paper that I presented on the Haiti Task Force and hoping to adopt it and to have buy in at TRF level.

We finished the evening with a class dinner. I included a few pictures which best describe the evening.

DG Dick