Above: Donn Irwin, a mask wearer before its time
Lakewoood Key file photo for Member Spotlight

Clang, clang went the bell at 12:30 p.m. on the first Friday in October of 2021. President Jim Rooks ran the show to perfection, noting:
Paul Harris Desk: Gary Fulton ($559)
Sgt At Arms: Jan Gee
Set up: Rob Erb, Tom George, James Osundwa, and possibly some minions like Rick Selden.
Photos: Phil Eng
Invocation: Barlow Buescher
Pledge: Chuck Hellar

No Visiting Rotarians, but guests, yes: Jacquelin Jackson, senior at PLU (Anne Enquist); Andy Phillips (Steve Enquist); Ellen Mazoff (Steve Mazoff), Sharon Selden (Zoomed in), Hallie McCurdy (Jim Sharp), Mike Botts (Jim Sharp)

Puffins in the house: James Osundwa, Wendy McGowan, and bearing Puffins were Bob Martin and Carl Bronkema.
Paul Harris Award: Steve Enquist recognized Tom George with his 4^th Paul Harris!

Sunshine Report: Donn Irwin is still getting tests re: his heart surgery, and Marilyn Zawilski had a corneal transplant. Past member Virginia Hillyer passed away in Hood River from Covid (at 61 years old). Gordy Quick reported that Janet Lordahl is finally getting to move into Tobey Jones to be with Bob, who is doing “pretty good”.

More facts from Donn Irwin: Alligators can grow up to twenty feet, but most grow four.

Announcements:
Barlow Buescher: Needing some more volunteers for the Invocation Committee.
Rob Erb: The Military Appreciation Committee voted to give $2000 to Wreaths Across America. As this is over $2000, a club vote was required. MSC
Kendra Riconosciuto: Peanut Butter Challenge: 987 jars of peanut butter were acquired at Safeway last Saturday. Through the efforts on two Saturdays of Chuck Hellar, Bill Allen, Mary Marlin, Greg Horn, Mary Horn, Kendra, Jan Gee and Barb Spriggs, over 2000 jars were collected, going to EFN (I think).
Phil Eng: Roadster Romp: September 11-13 at Sun Mountain Lodge. Interested? Call Phil! You’ll be glad you did.
Jim Rooks: Harkness Furniture/Tacoma South Putt Putt: October 22. Three groups so far: Selden/Lowney, who will be losing a bet to Rediske/Eng in a game of Best Ball, and Rooks/Bruback. Still plenty of time to sign up. Email dave@harknessfurniture.com.

Breaking News! The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

Fines and Generous Giving:
Joe Quinn: OR/CA trip to visit son Patrick (and methinks, their granddaughter mostly). The Quinn house was saved from the fire in Tahoe, $50.
Steve Saalfeld: Blue Badge acquisition, but he was on Zoom. $5.00
Phil Eng: Grandpa Phil!! Grandma Judy!! Big upgrade from a granddog. Samantha is now the owner of a $1000 Paul Harris Award.
Carl Bronkema: Double-ratted on for an article in Lakeside Living magazine, $100
Kendra Riconosciuto: Thanks to the Peanut Butter group!! $20
Dave Coleman: $77 birthday plus $23 for the family’s 18^th trip to Coeur d’Alene.
Peter Marsh: His daughter received a special invite from the Pope along with some other researchers for an audience with His Eminence in Rome. Wow! $50 (Peter also reported that the pandemic bad news is moderating somewhat, and a new oral anti-viral pill to treat Covid is coming from Merck.)
Barb Spriggs: It’s her birthday today, said Gayle! Not. Four days to go, but Barb added $14 to her fine from last week of $60.

And Jim recognized our amazing community guardians, Jim Sharp and Mike Zaro, both in the house. Chief Zaro neglected his update on some of the recent crime activity, so I’ll paraphrase his report:
To whoever stole my copy of Microsoft, I will find you.  You have my word!
A bike in town keeps running me over.  It's a vicious cycle.
(OK---it’s true, Mike didn’t report this or plan on reporting it. I forgot that we have a lawyer as an editor for just a second there.)

Program:
Annette Clark, Dean and Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
“Leading Through Crisis: Thoughts from the Trenches of Legal Education”
Anne Enquist introduced her former student who graduated #1 in her year’s law school class, no doubt thanks to the Enquist Instruction. She has received numerous awards, and specializes in Medical Liability, Bioethics, and Heath Care Policy (end of life issues, particularly). Annette was Interim Dean from 2009-10 before going to the St. Louis University School of Law as Dean. She returned to Seattle U as Dean in 2013, with the plan on retiring in 2022.


Above:  Dean Annette Clark of Seattle U. Law School
Photo by Phil Eng

Her term as Dean has been marked by multiple crises: economic and health (pandemic) to name two. With the Great Recession, student enrollment applications declined 50%, tuition revenue declined 30% along with a total drop in the Seattle U student body of 40%. One executive told her that it would be impossible to “cut” their way out of the crisis. She had her operating budget reduced by 50%, and they had two days to go live with online classes. From these crises, she developed some thoughts on leadership through it all.

1. Take everything you know and multiply it by 100 to be able to get what you need to know. Communication is critical
2. Competence. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room, but emotional intelligence is crucial. You must instill trust.
3. Good judgment. You get paid the “big bucks” for this.
4. Assume people won’t be at their best in the midst of crisis. Those that yell “the sky is falling!” are correct this time.
5. Large crises contain small crises. This is good. Solve the little ones for some success along the way.
6. Churchill said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. For instance, the school was working on expanding their online offerings, when suddenly it was thrust upon them full time. They never would have achieved the success in online learning without the crisis.
7. You may need to say the crisis is over even when it isn’t, just to survive.
8. One crisis could precipitate another crisis. Beware.
9. (This one was probably the best one of all, but the bulletin writer missed it.)
10. Acceptance.

Annette finished by pondering what she could have done in a non-crisis tenure. It is unknowable. And now the search is on for a new Dean, and the search requirement remains the same as she encountered: Find someone who is smart enough to do the job, but stupid enough to take it.

Greg Horn noted afterward that this was perhaps the best Rotary program he has heard in over 1400 Rotary programs. High praise indeed!

The Pot was $625, with 8 white and one red. Phil Eng could have almost financed his new Paul Harris but went with the smaller down payment of $5.00.

The other day, Ole the Swede was sitting on a park bench reading the newspaper (!!), when he started to weep uncontrollably. A kind and caring Norwegian was passing by, and said, “Sir, I can’t help but see you crying; is there anything I can do?” Ole said, “Vel, I vas reading dis paper, about how two Brazilian soldiers vas killed in a drug bust.” The Norwegian said, “Well, that is sad; I can see why that upset you.” Ole said, “Yah, very sad….but how many is two Brazilian, anyvay????”

Weekend Report:
Work Party at the “Game Farm” on Phillips Road: David Swindale and son, Ron Banner, Mark Blanchard and Paul Wulfestieg joined more than 30 others (mostly from Pierce College). Lakewood Rotarians outnumbered CP Rotarians (only Alan Billingsley) because their CP Golf Tourney was rescheduled for the same day. Lots of Scotch broom removal, litter pick-up, branch clearing, and two new benches installed courtesy of Blanchard’s super duper cement mixer. And at the other park, Barlow Buescher led a crew in poop pick up. Easily 30 pounds or more was rescued. Thanks to all!




Above: Bill Potter, the Game Farm worker, at the Clover Park Rotary Golf Tourney
Dave Hall Photo