PRESIDENT'S CORNER
President Fred Ferrand's Welcome Message
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs, I welcome you to visit our club and experience the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs' hospitality and energy. We meet on Monday for lunch at 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Hilton Perimeter Suites, 6120 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Sandy Springs, GA 30328. You can reserve a spot by going to our website at www.sandyspringsrotary.org. Join your fellow professionals, and community and business leaders, and learn how Rotary can fit in your future. Experience Rotary Making A Difference!
Next Week at Rotary
Chief Judge Wendy L. Hagenau
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| Chief Judge Wendy L. Hagenau U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division |
Judge Hagenau assumed the bench on May 25, 2010 and became Chief Judge on October 1, 2017.
Prior to her appointment, she was a partner at Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein in Atlanta, which was a combination of Powell Goldstein (a 100-year Atlanta firm) and Bryan Cave.
Judge Hagenau graduated from Duke University Law School with honors in 1983. Judge Hagenau is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, and received her B.A. with highest honors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1980. She was named a Georgia Super Lawyer in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and to the Georgia Legal Elite from 2005 through 2008. Her practice was concentrated in the area of bankruptcy and financial restructuring, and included the representation of debtors in workouts and Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases, the representation of creditors, including indenture trustees, in Chapter 11 and 7 cases and out-of-court restructurings, and the representation of Trustees. She served as an advisory board member for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Law Journal as well as the treasurer and a director of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute.
Upcoming Program
Steve Rose - Sandy Springs Police
Please join us December 17 to meet and listen to Lt. Rose.
Steve Rose began his law-enforcement career in 1976. After a short stint with Chamblee Police, he joined the Fulton County Police where he spent the next 26 years, working mostly out of the north precinct in Sandy Springs. He retired on February 9, 2006. The following day he began his new career with the new Sandy Springs Police as a lieutenant over the community affairs and media functions.
As part of the original half-dozen or so new Sandy Springs Police officers, Steve spent the weeks between February and July 1 helping put together the new department from scratch, including purchasing and outfitting just under ninety police cars, uniforms, equipment, and budget. The group interviewed hundreds of potential applicants and a thousand other things, pieces of the puzzle, to get the new department off the ground on July 1, 2006.
Lt. Rose spent nine year as the community affairs commander before moving to the south district command and later night command positions. He retired as a captain in late May, returning as a civilian to run the department's Volunteers in Police Services (VIPS) program where he remains today.
Steve is the author of "Why Do My Mystic Journeys Always Lead to the Waffle House?" a collection of "View from a Cop" columns he wrote for the AJC's Northside Edition for several years. His new book "Spam, Scams, and Other Serious Things You Shouldn't Worry About" is due out in late December.
Steve has been married to Sandra Rose, also retired from Fulton County and Sandy Springs Police. They have been married for 21 years and have four children and seven grandchildren. They split their time between their boat on Lake Lanier and babysitting grandchildren.
You can reach him by e-mail at steverose3oo(a)gmail.com, Twitter @captainrose, and Instagram @Mofojava.
Special Visitor
Our Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Henrique Rivelli dropped in for lunch
It was a pleasure to see Henrique once again. He stopped in to give us an update on his activities.
Family of Rotary Event
Rotary's Holiday Party of the year
Saturday, December 8th
6:00 pm until President Fred says "uncle"
Hosted by:
Nancy and Rolfe Schroeder
8940 River Run Sandy Springs, Ga. 30350
Other News
The pale blue dot
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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Greeters and Invocation Leader for 12/10/2018
Rotary Club of Sandy Springs Greeters & Invocation leader for next meeting. (12/10/2018)
Invocators, as per the "Make it fun and they will come." theme, have a joke ready!
| Greeter A: |
| Nate Kongthum |
| Greeter B: |
| Tim Fore |
| Invocation Leader: |
| Phil Farias |