Soundings (3/17/09)
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Flag Salute & Invocation by Sue Sharpe
Irish Jokes by Jim Johnson and President Tim McEvoy.
Visiting Rotarians: Addie Brown, Dan Wittle, Ann Jones John Moles and DC Morse.
Guests: Joel Hile, Henry Lee and Paster Bruce Becker.
Announcements
Board meeting 7:30 am THIS THURSDAY the 19th at IHOP on Samish.
McEvoy Rotario dinner this Saturday.
Buck in the Bay
- John Templeton company retreat with staff in Cabo - everyone caught a marlin;
- Bill Boyd missed meetings, bragged about the successes of his oldest son Tyler at UW - he just was offered a great job in Seattle! Also attended the Seattle Golf show last Saturday where he picked up some major gear;
- Chuck Walter for a week of skiing at Whistler - sunny every day!
- Tonja Myers Happy St. Patrick's Day, proud of daughter graduating HS in AK and her success with the debate team;
- Steve Spitzer's new granddaughter born last week!
- Curtis Dye's company will celebrate 30-year anniversary party at "Business after Business" event (Thurs March 19 5:30-7:30pm at Interconnect Systems office 1822 Franklin Street) with music by Pearl Django!
- Ron Hardesty sad the PI is gone;
- Eddie Hanson said the 5-course meal at Mt Baker Winery organized by John Templeton was AMAZING!
- Dick Stark proud that all the local college basketball teams went to payoff, plus some local high school team successes;
- Sue Sharpe missed meeting with cruise with parents in Mexico and an operation;
- Jim Johnson just returned from a cruise that went from San Diego to Hawaii and back - highly recommends it - even did Rotary lunches onboard;
Sergeant at Arms by Ken Oplinger
St. Patrick's Day fines, a car through People Bank Barkley branch, Typhoid Boyd, Sue Sharp, Stew Ellison ran a red light, Zach Jones regarding Horizon Bank, and Curtis Dye.
Program
Bill Gorman introduced Wendy Eickmeyer, the development director with the Whatcom Museum, regarding the Museum's new building. Last year there were more than 90,000 visitors (half the population of the entire county!).
The Museum focuses on three areas:
Art - 2400 pieces usually NW artists
History and ethnology: new exhibit opening soon called artifacts??? Ethnology collection wide variety of coastal tribal groups from AK to California.
Photo archives: 75,000 images, and they are cataloging more every day. It is the third largest in the state.
The new building, the "light catcher building", was designed by the architectural firm Olson Sundburg Kunig Allen in Seattle. It will be an iconic building when complete later this year. It has a state of the art climate-control system for storing and showing art. "Smithsonian affiliate" status. The light-catcher wall will be dramatic, shadow effects during the day, and lit at night. It will have "LEED silver" certification. Part of the roof will be vegetated (green), and rainwater runoff will be captured for toilet functions; a very environmentally friendly building.
Wendy showed slides of all the spaces and rooms in the new buildings and their functions. Children's museum is part of the new building: Wendy said there are plans for many different, interesting interactive exhibits for children. The family bathroom will have "talking toilets" that tells/shows how the rainwater capture system works.
Tentative opening in November with exhibits on snowboarding, and an art exhibit called "No Borders" of international artists. Thereafter in 2010 a Smithsonian exhibit called "1934 and the New Deal for Artists". Some dates to remember:
- Opening Reception April 16th, 5-7pm, free.
- Attend July 25th "Downtown Aglow" Saturday fundraiser to check out the building
- Become a tour guide
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot