“Comfortable as an old shoe.” Here we are in the third week of his presidency and already President Bob is calling on a substitute presider out of the Club bullpen. I counted 14 Past Presidents in the room. Even two Past District Governors and a soon to be DG for good measure. And then a Past President from another Rotary Club. And who does President Bob call on to preside? The guy everybody calls on – busted wing and all – just plain Bill. Yup, two-time PP Bill Saunders was ringing the bell today and everyone had the contented look of those whose slippers fit just right.
Maybe it was the heat wave around the corner, but those gathered at the Ridge did a half-way decent job with the opening song and the pledge. And once we were able to locate our invocation.jpg)
speaker, PP Dan Firestone got our undivided attention with his childhood story of encountering the same kind of racist rhetoric sixty-five years ago that is spewing from the White House these days. He closed by thanking God that Rotary, in contrast, is such an inclusive, welcoming organization. 
