The meeting was called to order by President Tim Johns in the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel at 12 noon.  Inspiration was given by Susan Robinson who spoke broadly on the value of friendship.  The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Bob Robinson.  Linda Rich led the singing of "America the Beautiful" accompanied by Craig Robinson at the piano.  Lance Kawano served as the Sergeant at Arms for the meeting, Michael Bass was the photorecorder, and visitor introductions were made by Rick Towill.

Roy Jones was introduced to the club as the newest member by his sponsor, Michael Bass.

The following announcements were made:  (1) President Tim announced that our Rotary Club is to be honored at a Salvation Army luncheon on March 19th for community service.  (2) Carol Ann Biederman called attention to the upcoming Paul Harris Day on February 23^rd, and urged members to sign up for the venue of their choice.  (3) Brandon Morita announced the Getting to Know You events coming up.  There will be an easy hike to the Makapuu light house on Saturday February 13^th.   The first of several evening sociable potluck dinners in member’s homes is on February 10th at Brandon Morita's home limited to 6 couples.  Members may contact Brandon.  Later in February, the next dinner will be in Kerry Cloward's home - date to be announced and contact Kerry for details.  (4) Al Linton awarded Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel the Paul Harris Fellowship for her support of Rotary.  (5) Members are reminded to sign up for the March 9^th meeting which will be an "away meeting" at the Honpa Hongwanji Mission hosted by Pieper Toyama.  (6) Our next Royal Hawaiian Hotel meeting will be on February 16th and the speaker will be President Hisashi Owada of the International Court of Justice.  (7) Next week's Rotary Club of Honolulu meeting will not be at the Royal Hawaiian but at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, starting with lunch at 11:30 a.m.  Arrive early.  Parking adjacent to the Medical School building in Lot C will be available for $4.  Please plan on 2 hrs.  The Medical School is at 651 Ilalo Street, corner of Cooke St. and Ilalo adjacent to Waterfront Park in Kaka'ako. Must RSVP to Mary to attend.

Linda Coble introduced our speaker Dave Berry whose title was "The Twenty Minute Rotarian" and was an entertaining, humorous and inspiration message.  His line was "If we all do the best we can, we can do it all" with twenty minutes out of our 8,760 hours per year...with any combination of time in service and money.  It’s a piece of cake, he reiterated, and a
drop in the bucket in the large view of our lives and our ability to make a difference.

President Tim adjourned the meeting promptly at 1 PM with the reminder next week's meeting will not be at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, but at the UH Medical School.

Respectfully submitted,