July 14 meeting notes

Announcements

Kory Kalahar, President of the Wenatchee Rotary Club, announced their club will have a 100th Birthday "Biggest Party Event" on January 15, 2021.  Save the date.

Board Minutes

• We had 9 applicants for the Challenge Scholar program (8 WSHS, 1 EHS), and will fund all 9.  That means we need 9 mentors to connect for the next 2 years. Contact Jim A is you'd like to mentor.
• online giving, fines, brags, etc. may be done through a new process in the near future
• Tom Utigard has been named an honorary member of our club.  He has been a faithful, contributing member for many years, and can no longer attend meetings like he used to.

Brags/Confessions

• Robin was excited that her pro hockey has resumed
• Carol was convinced to sign up for the club's virtual race because of Earl's wife, Joy
• Erik also signed up for the 10K, and challenged our past YE student (Joseph) to do the marathon

Program

Brett Stoffel, a retired Air Force Officer, talked about his experiences from ROTC through his career as a Stealth Bomber pilot.  After completing 4 years of ROTC at a university, Brett went to pilot training in Lubbock, TX in 1995.  From there, he attended B-52 bomber school in Louisiana, and survival school in Florida. He spent 4 years of active duty as a B-52 pilot out of North Dakota, and did life support school, search and rescue school, and officer's school.  Brett spent combat time in the Dessert Storm and Allied Force campaigns.  He then was selected as one of 155 pilots for the elite B-2 Stealth Bomber program in Missouri, which was still in the testing phase at that time.  He said each plane cost $2.2 million.  After he left the Air Force, he studied law and became an attorney in the Portland area.  He now runs the Survival Search and Rescue business with his dad out of Cashmere.

Brett will be our program on July 21st to talk about the search and rescue aspect.