President Jon welcomed everyone gathered at the Motif Hotel for his final meeting as club president (his “last time ringing the bell”).

Jon remembered our longtime member Anne Farrell who passed away over the weekend. He reminded us that in addition to serving as the CEO of the Seattle Foundation, Anne was our club’s first female president.

The Rotary Rogues (Linda Rough, Michael Harris, Vicky Oxley, Don Murphy, Trish Bostrom, Jevon Powell, Eric Laschever, Sten Crissey, Jimmy Collins) put together a clever musical tribute for this last meeting with their versions of “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” and “Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)” with lyrics changed to reference Jon and our club, provided by Rogues’ member Linda Rough.

Jon mentioned how great it is to be adding new club members over the last year which include two at today’s meeting: Mariola Lisewska (introduced by Faith Ireland) and Rebecca Sayre (introduced by Jenn Gladish).

Jon introduced today’s special guest speaker, his brother, Rabbi Dan Bridge, who became a rabbi in Cincinnati and then moved back to Seattle where he was the rabbi at the University of Washington. “Service is the rent we pay for living,” Dan mentioned as he began that this saying was in the Bridge home and that Jon’s mission has always been to “fix the world.”