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The meeting was moderated by President Benjamin Fisher. This was the final meeting for President Benjamin serving as club president for the 2025-2026 year. PP Mark Rogo will be club president for the next 4 months beginning in November.
The theme for this year is Unite for Good and PP Steve Day shared thought on what this means by saying, “in trouble times Rotary is good.”
PP Steve Day greeted Rotarians. The pledge was led by Jim Meyer. PPx2 Diane Good shared the thought for the day a poem encouraging leaving time alone and no longer changing the clock twice a year! It was well received.
World Polio Day occurred on October 24th, and Bob Simon shared some of the history of Rotary’s efforts to end the disease by reciting from the October Rotary Magazine article “A Polio Parable”.
PP Ed Gauld led the singing of “Zip-A-Dee-Doodah’ in a most entertaining hat.
Guests included Bruce Gale a pickle ball friend of President Benjamin and UCLA Rotaract club members Natalie (president of the club) and Misha.
On this week in history the NYC subway system open with a fare of 5 cents, Congress enacted the National Prohibition Act, Gimbles department store sold the first ballpoint pen, Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast aired, Earl Lloyd made history as the first black to play in the NBA, the US successfully conducted its first test of a hydrogen bomb, and Martin Luther King Jr day was established as a national holiday is the US.
Benjamin Fisher introduced the speaker Paul Papenek a photographer who spoke back in April. This time Paul shared how photos can be enhanced with software editing using the Apple Photo program.
He showed how to adjust color of photographs and how to level horizontal photographs. Example of cropping photos to focus on the more important parts of the photos was demonstrated along with how to deal with out of focus objects. With landscape photos, we need to adjust the phone 90 degrees to a horizontal position. Don’t take landscape photos with the phone in a vertical position. He showed how to remove pictures of individuals with cropping.
Overall, Paul shared some good ideas on how to improve your photos, so they look much better.
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