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Best Club in District 5320 2011-12
Home Club for District Governor Jim Lorman 2012-13
Sakuji Tanaka Rotary International President 2012-13
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April 4, 2013
Rotary Magazine Month
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Greetings!
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Pres Ron Lacey
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It is with a good deal of pride that I announce the total response to our survey netted 79 Rotarians participating and providing input. The experts tell me that normally if they get 50% response rate they feel real lucky. So, your response has been wonderful and appreciated.
The survey company, Actionable, stopped receiving any other submissions this weekend, ( none more were expected ) and will be running the results for us in a day or so. (Obviously they have other business to do as well). Your Board of Directors will be reviewing the data at our meeting on the 10th, and a report will be given to you shortly thereafter.
We are closing in on our last quarter of this Rotary year and still have a way to go enrolling new qualified members. Thank you to those of you that have called or sent me referrals. They are being worked on and now I will start calling the rest of you for referrals that we can follow up with to determine if there is any interest in being a member of our club.
Glenn Chitjian and I, along with other Rotary Club's representatives attended a meeting at Knotts Berry Farm last week to review the layout for our District Conference "Hospitality Night". This is going to be one super fun party night. You do not want to miss out on this event. Many of them in the past have been great, however, I am sure this will be the most fun you will have had in a long while. Sign-ups are on the table when you come to the meeting Thursday, or you can register to attend by clicking the link that Glenn is providing below! Do it now, save money, have a great time!
Ron
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Today's Program: Part 2 of Broken Arrow
Presented by Jack ReVelle
 Jack is back with part 2 of the story of the Goldsboro Incident
Not too many have deactivated a pair of nuclear bombs with a combined explosive force 500 times more powerful than the atomic weapon that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Fifty-two years ago, Jack B. ReVelle commanded a U.S. Air Force bomb squad that did just that. Each Mark 39 hydrogen bomb on the B-52 that disintegrated over Goldsboro, N.C., had a yield equivalent to 3.8 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a force of "only" 16 kilotons, according to published reports. Luckily, neither Goldsboro weapon exploded during or after the incident. "If both had gone off, the eastern seaboard of North Carolina would just be gone," ReVelle recalled. "You'd have the Bay of North Carolina."
Wake-up call Around midnight on Jan. 23, 1961, a Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress was on patrol, part of a program to keep an airborne nuclear strike force ready to retaliate in case of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. During an aerial refueling operation, the crew aboard the KC-135 tanker noticed fuel leaking from the bomber's right wing. The tanker disengaged, and the B-52 headed toward Seymour Johnson Air Force Base near Goldsboro, N.C. It never made it, ReVelle said. First, the right wing broke off. Then, the stress from the vibrating plane broke off the entire tail section. As the remnants of the bomber spun around, the centrifugal force spewed the two 4,500 kg thermonuclear devices out the back. Five of the eight crewmen parachuted to safety. One, 1st Lt. Adam Mattocks, fell right past one of the bombs on the way down.
At 5 a.m. Jan. 24, a phone call woke up a sound-asleep 1st Lt. ReVelle of the 2702nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron, stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. ReVelle's squadron commander didn't use code words. "He said, 'Jack, I got a real one for you,'"
ReVelle remembered. It was ReVelle's second Broken Arrow, the military's term for an accidental event involving nuclear weapons, warheads or components. The first was a nuclear surface-to-air missile that blew up when its pressurized gas tank exploded at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
All of the Bomarc tactical missile's nuclear warhead and components melted down, and it took several days to clean up the munitions storage area and monitor for any residual radiation. 
Each Broken Arrow, and there have been dozens, has the makings of a major disaster. Near Goldsboro, two nukes were on the ground, and nobody knew their status. Of course, a nuclear explosion was possible. But if only one of a bomb's 92
detonators had gone off, the uranium/plutonium core could have shot out like a cannon ball. Besides the explosive mess
to clean up, ReVelle's team would have to deal with a nuclear core sitting in a farmer's field, spewing alpha and beta particles.
Quick success and a long slog
At 7:30 a.m., ReVelle arrived at Seymour
Johnson. He knew that the area couldn't be declared safe until he and his team found and disarmed the bombs.
Bomb No. 1 was relatively easy. These
MK39s had parachutes to lay the bombs
Former 1st Lt. Jack ReVelle, who commanded the explosive ordnance disposal unit that disarmed two nuclear weapons after a B-52 disintegrated in the air in 1961, sits at his
desk in California. Inset, ReVelle models a T-shirt sporting typical bomb squad humor. 
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39th Annual Police and Fire Awards Grand Catered Events - noon Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased from Bill Steiner Ads in the Program Book are available for $25 business card, $75 half page and $200 full page. Your Ad purchases help defray the meal costs for guests and the award repceipents.
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 District Conference Hospitality Night
With over 23 Rotary Clubs participating, ORC too!
Plenty of Appetizers, Things on a Stick, Lots of Desserts, Lots more Wine, Beer and the Good Stuff!! Wow its all at Knotts Berry Farm in the Tahitian Village area. This is a private area for us and it's a South Pacific Theme!
The cost for the Friday Night Hospitality Event is $25 or $40 at the door on May 3rd
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Volunteers Needed
The City of Orange
on Saturday April 6 between noon and 2:30 PM.
If you would help, please contact
Ashleigh Anderson Camba, Library Volunteer Coordinator/Community Room Coordinator. Orange Public Library,
Phone: (714) 744-7284, Fax: (714) 771-6126,
www.cityoforange.org/library
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Guest Speakers
April 4
Jack ReValle
Broken Arrow Project Part Two April 11 Orange Police & Fire Awards
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Greeter, Flag & Invocation
April 4, 2013
Greeter: Carolyn Cavecche
Flag Salute: Steve Smith
Invocation: Wayne Miller
Alternate: Larry Tannas
April 11, 2013
Greeter: Lloyd Chandler
Flag Salute: TBA
Invocation: TBA
Alternate: Dave Weilmuenster
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Can't Attend Meeting?
Please call me if you can not make it to our weekly meeting.
We have a minimum guarantee with Grand Events Catering
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"Welcome To Orange, Rotarians"
Words by: Orange Rotarian: Russ Patterson 1/1/1972
"Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie"
written by Harry Von Tilzer
Wel-come to Orange, Ro-tarians, Where the sun shines ev-ry day, We're glad to have you here, Enjoy your stay. Fun, fellowship, and program, The finest you will see. Welcome our guest, To Orange Ro-Ta-Ry!
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Attend these meetings
ORC Program Committee
meets
the first Thursday of the month
at 7:00 AM (breakfast served) meeting starts 7:30-8:30am
@ Chapman Hospital
on East Chapman & Yorba in the Conference Room
Dave Weilmuenster Chair.
ORC Board
and its Directors
meets 4:30pm
second Wednesday of the month @ Orange Public Library
ORC Community Trust
meets 4:30pm
third Wednesday of the month @ Orange Public Library
Community Service
Committee meeting is at 11:30am on Thursday, November 1st
@ Grand Events Catering
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Mark your Calendar
ANGELS ROTARY NIGHT SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
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Submit your Photo's, Documents, Stories, Bio's, for the Orange Rotarian to gchitjian@aol.com
Glenn Chitjian
Newsletter Publisher (714) 719-6965
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