ROTARY DISTRICT 5280 held
its 18th Annual Dinner Event on
The event was held at the
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on
Silent Auction items contributed by members of our club
included: Hacienda Hotel @LAX (2 nights) donated by the Adiba Shaby Scholarship
Foundation, Los Angeles Marriott (2 nights) donated by the Adiba Shaby
Scholarship Foundation, 2 First Row Seats Laker Tickets 2002-03 Season donated
by Playa Vista-Sibyl Buchanan and Casa Escobar/Peter Escobar donated 4 bottles
of Wine and Spirits, which were a 3.0 Liter Double Magnum Rosemount Estate
Chardonnay 1999, a Kahlua Especial Liqueur & Bacardi Run Limon & Orange,
1 liter Tequila Mico and 750ML Shakespeare Vodka. THANK YOU ADIBA, SIBYL AND
PETER!!!!
President Willie selected a well-situated table for our
Rotary Club. Our members and their
spouses were very near the dais, but not too close to the dance floor. Several
tables were outside the main ballroom hall due to an overflow crowd. This event was sold out two (2) months
ago. I would estimate that some 750
plus Rotarians and spouses attended this event.
Everyone enjoyed their tour of the new Cathedral. This Paul Harris Celebration Ball
is the first major event to be held inside the conference center. Cardinal
Mahoney gave the invocation. The
Cardinal, who is an honorary Member of LA 5, was the guest of District Governor
Rick Mendoza. Included in the event program were three (3) pages of facts and
history of the building of this cathedral, which was authorized by the Pope in
Rome to be built in 1904, one year before Paul Harris started ROTARY!! Our Club paid $100 for a full-page ad in
the program, but there were no ads listed in the program except for a car
deal. Dr. Vince was
mystified.
Funds from this event go to the Rotary Foundation, where
Rotary helps those less fortunate in the World. Rotary does make “Fairy Tales” come true
for people around the World. Our
individual contributions to the Foundation Funds are important for other
people. Remember the way the funds
are handled insures that 100% of our contributions go to projects, not to
overhead costs. Try to give some
money each year to this event according to what you can afford-$10, $50, $100,
etc.- these sums all count.
Dr. Vince Scott, who has been our Club Foundation Chair
for many years, does an excellent job partly due to the continuity of service,
but mainly due to his attending to details and his efforts. THANK YOU DR.
VINCE!!!! Vince told me that our club was the instigator for the first dinner
event 18 years ago. He will make a
report of this bit of history to our Club, when he makes his annual
report.
Yours in Rotary,
DAVID
MAXWELL