Baseball Fever Arrives
By Gregory J. RediskeEdited By Horn, Gregory S.Sunday, May 4, 2025
Not everyone knows this, but President Carl has managed some little league teams. One day, he got into it pretty good with the umpire about the ump’s ability to see balls and strikes correctly. Finally, the umpire had had enough of Carl’s complaining. “Carl, get out of here and go some place where I can’t see you!!” So Carl walked over and stood on home plate.
Four minutes late, but Carl rang the bell. Perhaps our president was assisting with the technical crew trying to fix the Zoom. If so, he didn’t help. At least in a positive way, as there was no Zoom. Carole Wier and John Magnuson both tried I know….better luck next week. But for the live and in-person group, Eric Warn started us off with the Invocation while Bob Zawilski, former helicopter pilot in Vietnam who defied the odds and returned, led the salute to our flag. (Without reciting it to yourself from the beginning, can you remember the last two words of the flag salute? “Play ball!”. At least, according to a number of Lakewood Rotarians.) But before all of that, Steve Enquist and Scott Buser tag-teamed the Paul Harris desk, while Gary Barton sold raffle tickets. He did sell them all wrong, all faced vertically instead of horizontally, in direct opposition to nearly 70 years of Lakewood Rotary history. Nothing is sacred, apparently. Bob Zawilski did double-duty as the photographer.
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