Announcements:

• PRESIDENT JACKIE presided. She thanked Julie Wang Morris and Sum Cheung for a wonderful evening celebrating Chinese New Year on February 6th and expressed a wish that it become an annual event.

• LARS HENRIKSSON volunteered to look after Rotary Baseball Day at the Rogers Centre.

• PRESIDENT JACKIE announced the Board of Directors at their February meeting has agreed to:

  • sponsor up to six members for leadership training at the Bank of Montreal training centre for either new member training or club leadership training.
  • revive the Smile Trophy. A description of the Smile Trophy was distributed to members.
  • award two Paul Harris Fellowships each year based on merit . Nomination forms were circulated to members. Nominations will be solicited from club members.
  • form a committee to recommend how to properly recognize Tibor and the amazing contribution he made to Rotary and our club . JOHN BONNICK, KATHRYN HOPE and DOUG ROBERTSON volunteered to be on the committee.

• WALTER PSOTKA asked for volunteers to help set up and run the meeting, and for clean-up at the end.
  
• The Nominating Committee for the 2009-10 president of TERC will meet after lunch today.
  
• LARS HENRIKSSON spoke on membership and asked us to think about it day and night. To help us focus, he will be organizing a reception for new members in May and we are to figure out who in the community to invite. He urged us to think about owners of local business.

• KATHRYN HOPE announced a thank-you night for Kettle workers on Tuesday, February 19 at 6:30 at North Toronto Citadel at 7 Eglinton Ave East.

• WALTER WELLS announced a program by the “Adopt A Minefield” committee to be held Thursday, March 8th at the Textile Museum. Cost: $50 with a receipt for what is left after expenses. The museum will be showing a display of materials from war zones.

• Next week's speaker is Peter Russell comparing how we select Supreme Court judges to how it is done in other countries. This promises to be very interesting.

Speaker of the Week

SHIRLEY FARLINGER introduced our speaker, Dr. Margrit Eichler who has several degrees including a PhD. in Sociology from Duke University. Margrit talked about the struggle for women to get equal rights and for Women’s Studies program to be recognized with the university community. She began with a story of having to leave the US when her visa ran out. She had a job with the University of Toronto but what griped her was that her husband, as head of the family, had to accompany her across the border. At that time discrimination of lower pay for women was legal. A normal question asked of women seeking employment was, “Can you type?” Sexual harassment, rape within marriage, and violence against women were tolerated. When a student held a female professor at gunpoint for refusing the sexual advances of a student, the authorities refused to call the police. When Margrit started Women's Studies there were no text books. Students were sent out to observe certain situations and then use the papers they wrote for the course the following year. One professor was ridiculed for implying that women's work in the house was real work and contributed to society.

Eventually universities tolerated “Women's Studies” because students flocked to the courses - which meant money for the university. Margrit had 200 students in her first course. Scholarship need a community. There was intellectual exclusion, intellectual harassment. They had to start their own journals, newspapers, and conferences and had to write their own text books. The battle for the recognition of excellence and the war on prejudice has been exciting, exhilarating, stimulating and rewarding.

MIKE HAZELL offered the following comments on the above talk without attribution: The battle of the sexes will never be won because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy. The weaker sex is really the stronger because the weakness of the stronger sex is the weaker sex.

Draw GEORGE JATCZAK was the winner of the 50/50 draw and graciously donated it back to the club to support a project of his choice.

* Many of our projects depend on Bingo money
Note: All Bingos for at least the first half of the year are on Tuesdays at 4 pmm.

(Volunteers: please be there at least two hours before the start)


February 26
March 4

The Four Way Test
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

Editor: George Heintzman

Reflection: Joseph Marquez

Sgt-at-Arms: Mic Jory

Members: 23

Guests: Stephen Bianco (Pres Jackie), George Jatczak (new member), Tammy Ghajar (new member)
Ruri Suga, exchange student

Visiting Rotarians: Doug Clarke, piano

Long distance visitor: 0

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