Garberville Rotary Club President Dennis Abshire steals the show!
Dennis approached the podium with zeal, placed his sparse notes on the desk top, grabed the edges and sprang forth with an oratory that would fill William Jennings Bryant with envy. He waxed and waned eloquent, he stood on his tip-toes, he rocked on his heels, he punctuated his speech with perfectly timed poundings on the podium, he delicately made his more minor points by gently underlining them with the point of his finger. He smiled, grinned and frowned in all the right places. He had the crowd weeping, then he had them laughing, then he had them sitting in stunned silence as he made his salient points.
With the help of his Rotary minions, Dennis proceeded to give away five thousand five hundred dollars to the deserving scholars of South Fork High School, and one award to a Leggett Valley High School student.
We dined on fried chicken and barbecued pork ribs with all the appropriate fixings on the side, and for desert we had strawberry short cake, all prepared by the South Fork High School Culinary Arts Class. Yummmm....
Dennis approached the podium with zeal, placed his sparse notes on the desk top, grabed the edges and sprang forth with an oratory that would fill William Jennings Bryant with envy. He waxed and waned eloquent, he stood on his tip-toes, he rocked on his heels, he punctuated his speech with perfectly timed poundings on the podium, he delicately made his more minor points by gently underlining them with the point of his finger. He smiled, grinned and frowned in all the right places. He had the crowd weeping, then he had them laughing, then he had them sitting in stunned silence as he made his salient points.
With the help of his Rotary minions, Dennis proceeded to give away five thousand five hundred dollars to the deserving scholars of South Fork High School, and one award to a Leggett Valley High School student.
We dined on fried chicken and barbecued pork ribs with all the appropriate fixings on the side, and for desert we had strawberry short cake, all prepared by the South Fork High School Culinary Arts Class. Yummmm....
And the award winners are:
Laurel Phelps for the Harrold Murish award. $1,000.00
Jesse Eldridge for the second Harrold Murrish award. $1,000.00
Teresa Ristow for the Roxanne Futrell award. $1,000.00
Michela Hernandez for the David Prinz award. $1,000.00
Rebekah Horvath for the $1,000.00
Bridget Yount from Leggett for the Todd Sveien award. $500.00
3 comments:
Ha ha, gotcha Dennis
Damn good picture of the Chief. Good job Dennis, Thank you very much for your year of dedication to Rotary and our club.
Ha ha, gotcha Dennis
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