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Sue Jones
Speakers
Jul 18, 2022
TBD
Jul 18, 2022
Club Assembly
Jul 25, 2022
Chautauqua Institution
Aug 01, 2022
Chautauqua Theater Company
Aug 29, 2022
Moon Brook Country Club
Sep 05, 2022
No Noon Meeting
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Make Up Opportunities 
 
AM CLUB Hybrid meetings at Venue 31 - Meetings at 7:30 on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
 
FALCONER — Meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 AM at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History located at 311 Curtis Street in Jamestown, New York
 
WESTFIELD / MAYVILLE — Currently meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 5pm via ZOOM. Contact Janese Berkhouse at 716-397-8801 for Zoom details.
 
FREDONIA/DUNKIRK
Meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM - Zoom Teleconfrence Meetings - Effective until further notice - Fredonia, NY 14063
 
 
 
Committee meetings or social events can also be used as make-ups.
 
 
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July 11, 2022
 
Welcome: President John Healy led the first meeting of his Presidency with the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star-Spangled Banner, and the 4-Way Test.
 
Invocation: given by Amy Rohler
 
Visiting Rotarians & Guests: introduced by President-Elect Ruth Lundin were prospective member John Felton; prospective transfer member John Bowman, from Bermuda; Alex Sharpe, guest of Dan Heitzenrater and Ysmayl Bayramgeldiyer, JCC student from Turkmenistan, guest of new member Rudi Andalora
 
Announcements:         
 
July 18 – Club Assembly with last year’s reports from Committee Chairmen, followed by meetings of this year’s committees; new bylaws, etc.
                                   
July 23 – Club participation in Christmas in July on the Riverwalk under the leadership of Max Eimiller
                                   
Aug. 29 – 27th Annual Charity Golf Tournament Shot Gun Start at MBCC
                                   
Thanks to Kevin for his leadership last year. Thanks to Michell Jones for her leadership of the Social Committee.
                                   
The Club Service Committee is looking for people to serve as greeters at the door each week to welcome visitors and new members and hand out programs. Please contact Sharon Hamilton who also needs volunteers to sign up to sell 50/50 tickets.
 
Birthday Table: Sue Jones introduced “the Firecrackers”!
 
Denise Jones, July 3; Chris Anderson, July 6; Paulette Kline, July 9; Mike Moots, July 11; Norman Merrill, July 16; Tory Irgang, July 17; Christy Brecht, July 31; and Mark Olson, July 31.Paulette won the free lunch!
 
New Member Installation:       
 
President John installed new member Rudi Andalora accompanied by Membership chair Tory Irgang and sponsor Ruth Lundin.
                                   
Rudi attended undergraduate at St. Bonaventure University where he acquired his BS in Elementary Education with a minor in language. He attended Middlebury Language School and the University of Florence where he earned a master’s degree in Italian culture and linguistics. Andalora was a Rotary exchange student in 1995, having lived in Izmir, Turkey. He now works for Jamestown Community College focusing on Global Learning in Higher Education and Language Learning. Andalora is immersed in Arts in Education with expertise in Modern Ballet, Jazz and Musical Theatre and teaches modern ballet at the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet.
 
WELCOME TO ROTARY RUDI ANDALORA!
 
Left to right: Tory Irgang, Rudi Andalora, Ruth Lundin, and John Healy.
 
50/50 Drawing: $30 was won by John Felton!
 
Sergeant-at-Arms/Happy Bucks:          
 
Tory paid for hers, Becky’s and Mary Schiller’s photo in the paper for the CRCF Annual Meeting. Doug Conroe paid for his upcoming 51st wedding anniversary. Amy Rohler paid for her Juneteenth interview and several other things. Joni Blackman and Pat Kinney paid for their photo of the Vision Rehabilitation Board. Stacy Hannon paid for her high school reunion. Mike Roberts paid for the culmination of the Links Charity and for THE Ohio State University. Vince Horrigan paid to offer up two tickets to ABBA at Chautauqua and Dan Heizenrater paid for working the Rotary ballpark event where he was thanked by at  baseball fan for our books in the laundromats and for all the wonderful things Rotary does in our community including the night at the game! Mike Roberts showed the Club the bronze plaque retrieved from the pavilion at the 100 Acre Lot. The building was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Jamestown in 1949 and will hopefully be refurbished by JCC.  Mike will have the plaque restored to its original glory and rehung.
 
Stories
Andrew Borba - Chautauqua Theatre Company
The Rotary Club of Jamestown welcomed Andrew Borba, retiring Chautauqua Theatre Company artistic director for the 7th and final time. Borba is retiring at the end of this season after serving as artistic director since 2016, having previously spent eight seasons as the company’s associate artistic director. He has visited the Rotary Club of Jamestown every summer to discuss the Theater productions, so it was a bittersweet day for everyone.
 
An actor and director, Borba has worked at theaters around the country, including Detroit Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Globe Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (5 seasons), Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, The Long Wharf, and others. On film, he has appeared in small parts in big films and big parts in small films and has had recurring and guest appearances on over 30 television series. Recently, Borba directed Julius Caesar at PlayMaker’s Repertory in North Carolina and is appearing as CEO/bad guy Phillip Corwin on the Bosch: Legacy TV series on Amazon.
 
A graduate of Brown University and New York University, Borba lives in Los Angeles and is Head of Master of Fine Arts Acting at the University of California at Irvine where he is also a professor of drama.
 
Borba explained that the Theater Company at Chautauqua presents 6 shows in 8 ½ weeks! This year they will be presenting Indecent July 1-14; Animals Out of Paper July 31-August 7; and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe August 14-21 (Borba has taken over the lead role). New Play Workshops to be presented this season are Flowers of Hawaii June 22-24; Through the Eyes of Holly Germaine July 20-22; and Black Like Me July 23-24.
 
The members peppered Mr. Borba with many questions at the end of his talk and the most interesting response was to the question of what has been his favorite acting role? Borba thought for a few seconds and then responded - Richard III - which he performed in the outdoors complicating an already long and difficult dialogue. He reminded the Club that the Young Playwright’s Program at Chautauqua will start soon.
 
Andrew was accompanied by his assistant Rachel Schein who is a graduate student in acting at UC Irvine. She will soon be headed to West Virginia to start up a theater company there.
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