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Ticket winners were Jim Walborn, Alan Haugner and Herb Engdahl – two theater tickets donated by someone.
WELLNESS
Nancy Carpenter gave the health report: Blaine Keith and Don Parks were with us today holding their own; Tom Ensign had hip surgery, but his wife Laura is now fully recovered; Lou Snodgrass still has the flu; Sue Fergusson had some pace maker trouble. (An insider reports “Sue Fergusson had an incident with her pacemaker/defibrillator while working at her church on Wed., 5/6. She felt an electrical jolt indicating a problem. She felt very weak and was taken to Mayo Clinic Hospital. They kept her under observation until Sunday, 5/10, and adjusted her medication. She was released on 5/10 and is now doing OK." )
SCHOLARSHIP UPDATE
Among our guests were several scholarship winners who all said thank you. Many could not attend post high school education without our scholarships. This year our scholarship budget increased dramatically with eight 4-year college scholarships at $5,000/year. Scholarships have traditionally been the largest budget item for our Foundation. We have awarded more than $400,000 over the years. Dave Bell reported that he attended the CSHS graduation ceremony this year where about $4 million was awarded in scholarships to our CCUSD students.
HUG AWARDS
Superintendent Debbie Burdick presented three HUG (Helping Us Grow) awards to Kiwanis members Jim Walborn, Elaine Adrian and Paula Scully.
Jim was honored for his wonderful creation and continuing development of the science fair which has grown from 8.5% students participating in 2006 to 52.3% in 2009. Jim constantly supports students and educators – grades K–12 - in their growth in science.
Elaine plays a key role in “Celebration of the Arts” and publishes artZbeat magazine that gives students exposure for their work. She also works on the Community Education website. Finally she has played a significant role in the science committee.
Paula is a retired CCUSD teacher who represents the district in a positive and professional way. She also has played an active role in the development of the science fair, even opening her home to CCUSD administrators and educators to foster collaboration between them and Kiwanians.
SCIENCE UPDATE
To celebrate the end of our 4th successful year for the Kiwanis Community Science Fair, Kiwanis Club of Carefree is announcing a new series of prizes aimed at recognizing repeat winners over the 4-year period. This means if a student has won a Medal in any 2 or more years from 2006 to 2009, they are receiving a certificate to honor that. If they have won a Medal in 3 or more years, they will receive a Cash Prize in addition to the certificate.
We have identified 44 students in 10 different schools who had at least 2 wins from 2006-2009, and 3 of those students won in 3 of the 4 years that the Fair has existed. Three students are Triple Winners.
It is Kiwanis intention to continue this prize series. We strongly want to continue to recognize the consistent quality in science projects that is shown by repeated wins from year to year. We are also researching the best way to provide a public honor roll within the schools to celebrate these winners in a permanent way.
PROGRAM
Jon Coates introduced Barry Goldwater Jr., our speaker today. Jon persuaded Barry to make this 3rd trip to our towns to speak about his ideas and his famous father. Barry has written a book with his good friend from high school days John Dean entitled “Pure Goldwater.” The book is based on 60 years of journals that Barry Goldwater kept about his daily life. Copies – autographed by Barry, Jr. - were available after the meeting.
Barry peppered his comments with many jokes. An early one was “life is like a roll of toilet paper – it goes faster towards the end.” He complimented our Club on its size and many accomplishments, especially helping the children in our community. He noted we should be nice to our children since they will be the ones picking our nursing homes.
Barry offered his philosophical opinions on our current politics. He remarked that his family was noted for being willing to express such opinions and was thankful to live in a country where alternative political points-of-view were tolerated. He believes we are on a downward spiral because we have stopped doing what made us great. Old-fashioned values like hard work replaced with entitlement. Free enterprise burdened with taxation and regulation. His family came from oppression in Poland a few generations ago and went broke several times building a business that served miners and other pioneers.
His father was born in the AZ Territory in 1909 (AZ became a state in 1912). At 40, he ran for Phoenix City Council. Two years later, he was elected to the national Senate while Ike was President. His mother was a very strong influence on him, teaching many things including firing a gun and building camp fires not always included in mother roles. She was a pioneer, the first woman registered as a nurse in the territory. She died at 98.
Barry Jr grew up dreaming of being in business with his father, but his father made a career in politics rather than business. Barry Jr became a stockbroker after college for about ten years. Then he ran for the Senate to represent CA. So he did get to work with his father on projects such as the Privacy Act in 1974.
His wife has recently started a business. There is hope that American citizens can still show initiative.
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Photographer Joe Devito and Reporter Michael Moore contributed to make this issue of the Sundail worthwhile. Thank you!
Below are videos of our speaker.
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