After careful consideration of the financial status of the general account and the attendance at meetings, the Board of the Exchange Club of San Jose has decided to modify the dues structure. Beginning September 1, 2003, all members of the Exchange Club of San Jose shall pay monthly dues in the amount of $25.00 per month. All members will pay $15.00 for each meal eaten. Payment for each meal is expected at the beginning of each meeting.
Current membership demands dictate decreasing the number of meetings each month. Beginning in October 2003, the Exchange Club of San Jose will hold its general speaker meetings on the first, third and fifth Tuesdays of the month. The Board will meet on the second Tuesday of each month. There will be no meetings on the fourth Tuesday of the month. All members are encouraged to attend the Board meetings in addition to the general speaker meetings.
The Captains on Deck have been updated to indicate when we are and are not meeting.
Welcome and Congratulations to Lynda Brown, Dan Webb and Jill Rahimi for being unanimously voted onto the Exchange Club of San Jose's Board of Directors.
The sign up sheet for the
Fall Leadership Educational Conference and Board of Directors Meeting being
held Sep 19, 20 & 21 at the Country Inn & Suites Hotel by Ayres in Costa
Mesa can be obtained online at www.sjexchangeclub.com/FallConf2003.pdf.
All of the info you need to call the hotel and to register for the conference is included with this sheet. Please don't delay as the hotel must be guaranteed well in advance of the meeting.
Additionally, we are planning to walk to May Garden Chinese Restaurant (1 block) on Saturday evening for dinner. If you want to attend please make sure you fill out the back sheet of the form so we know how many will be attending.
This will be a great opportunity to meet some fun people and prepare for the year.
One look at our Captains on Deck and you will see a startling change. We have speakers lined up for several weeks. In order to ensure our speakers program goes off without a hitch, Phil and Lynda have stepped up to the plate and have secured speakers for several weeks. They will continue to find speakers but still want the help of the Captains of the Day. Before you schedule a speaker, check the Captains on Deck and talk to Rob for the most recent updates.
Thank you to Phil and Lynda for your help.
The Committee working with the Vietnam Moving Wall Memorial will meet at Phil Griego's office on Wednesday, September 3rd, at 12:00. Bring your own lunch!
"One-A-Month" membership building program will begin this month with two members per month being responsible for securing one new member that month. Jerry and Phil will take the rest of August to start it off. The goal is to bring in one new member each month. In order to secure this goal, you and another Exchangite will combine your strength to bring in at least one new member. The assignments have changed, so be sure to know when you are scheduled to sign up a new member:
August - Phil Griego / Jerry HallSeptember - Jose Posades / Rob Nuddleman
October - Roger Brandon / Bernie Mille
November - Jill Rahimi / Jan Hahn
December - Bonita Gibson / Lynda Brown
January - Dan Webb / Rob Nuddleman
February - Max Schultz/ Phil Griego
March - Lori Formusa / Roger Brandon
April - Lynda Brown / Jose Posades
May - Rob Nuddleman / Phil Griego
June - Jerry Hall / Bernie Mille
From http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm
"Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation."
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take were outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television.
The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.
Covenant of Service
Accepting the divine privilege, of single and collective responsibility as life's noblest gift, I covenant with my fellow Exchangites:
To consecrate my best energies to the uplifting of Social, Religious, Political and Business ideals;
To discharge the debt I owe to those of high and low estate who have served and sacrificed that the heritage of American citizenship might be mine;
To honor and respect law, to serve my fellow men, and to uphold the ideals and institutions of my Country;
To implant the life-giving, society-building spirit of Service and Comradeship in my social and business relationships;
To better serve in Unity with those seeking better conditions, better understanding and greater opportunities for all.
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Captains On Deck!
Date
Captain
Invocator
Finemaster
Speaker
Topic
9/2 Brandon Nuddleman Griego Roger Brandon Evolution of Women in Exchange 9/9 Hall Griego Brown Marsha Ratajczak Estate Planning 9/16 Rahimi Hall Formusa Tom Gough City Lights Theater 9/23 Nuddleman Rahimi Brandon Margo Wilkins Wardrobe Planning for Men and Women 9/30 Griego Brandon Webb Terry Crhistensen Recall: What it means for California 10/7 Rahimi Hall Formusa Gail Begg Financial Planning 10/14 BOARD MEETING 10/21 Webb Nuddleman Posadas 10/28 NO MEETING 11/4 Brandon Griego Brown 11/11 BOARD MEETING 11/18 Brown Hall Formusa 11/25 NO MEETING 12/2 Griego Rahimi Gibson
Dates for Your Calendar
President:Jerry Hall ; Immediate Past President: Phil Griego; Secretary/Treasurer: Rob Nuddleman
Board of Directors for 2002-2004 Term: Jill Rahimi, Dan Webb
Board of Directors for 2003-2005 Term: Lynda Brown
Trampoline graphic from Animation Factory
