Frank Lippa Induction

Posted by Barry Smith 
on Dec 03, 2015
 
Date: December 2, 2015
 
Attendance: 17
        (including 2 guests: Our speaker, and our soon-to-be-inducted member, Frank Lippa)
 
Anthem: Gord Brown
Grace: Kevin Moore
 
Announcements:
           
- David Seemungal as Foundation Chairman suggested that every member throw $50 at the Rotary Foundation. Some complied immediately by hurling photocopied Fifties at David.         Member donations will be matched by the foundation.
- Gord Brown needs final numbers for the Dec. 11th Christmas Party by this Friday.
- Gerd passed around a donation sheet for members to commit to this year’s Christmas card fund.
- Gerd also read out a response that he had received from our newly minted Minister of Defence, which was not a form letter but a detailed reply to Gerd’s inquiries. Gerd was quite impressed.
 
Marbelous Draw was won, and lost, by President Gerd.
 
Sgt-at-Arms Davis Seemungal levied some fines for those without Rotary pins or badges.
Since Kevin Moore provided Dave Hardy’s badge to him at the meeting, he ratted him out to our Sgt-at-Arms, indicating that Dave would have been badgeless without Kevin’s timely intervention.
Jack Holman donated a Happy Buck because an elf had  finally cleaned up the Rotary box.
 
The Induction of our newest member, Frank Lippa, was carried out by Dave Hardy, Mike Mushet, Dave Seemungal and President Gerd, and Frank indicated his gratitude for being welcomed into our Rotary club.
 
Program:
Kevin Moore introduced our guest speaker, Arthur Biyarslanov. Arthur is an amateur boxer who won the gold for Canada at this summer’s Pan Am Games. Arthur was a refugee from Chechnya who arrived in Canada ten years ago and became a Canadian citizen three years ago. When Arthur arrived in Canada, he settled in the St. Jamestown area and trained at the Cabbagetown Boxing Club for six years. His brother was a boxer and introduced him to the sport, and with determination he trained hard until he had mastered the sport. He soon became the Canadian national boxing champion in his division. Although his first love was soccer, when he had to make a choice two years ago as to which sport upon which to concentrate his efforts, he chose boxing. So, he turned down a budding soccer career in order to train for the Pan Am Games as a boxer. He is now training for the Olympics. Canada has not won a gold in Olympic boxing for 40 years, but Arthur plans to change that in the next Olympic Games. Arthur plans to turn pro after the Olympics.
Frank Allison thanked Arthur for a very interesting talk, and shared with the club his own boxing successes in his native Liverpool. Suffice it to say that you’d better not mess with Arthur or Frank.
 
 
Gerd then terminated this very interesting meeting.
 
 
 
 
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