• Welcome…..to Lorna Lewis who is the newest member of our Club!   She will be installed soon along with Tearia Alao who has also recently been approved as a new member but could not make today’s meeting.
   

• The Runway to Paradise Raffle is doing well in the first week.  There have been 8 online transactions, and several members have sold tickets.     When you sell your tickets, please give the receipts (cash or checks) to Jim McComb and give the stubs to Lisa.   For online sales, Lisa will download the reports and mail tickets to those buyers.
   

• Aldo and Linda went to the RYLA Roundup. This year our Club will select the candidate that we will fund this year; Sherrick has offered to assist in the selection/interview process.  Aldo has already identified a prospective candidate!  Aldo mentioned our Club may want to volunteer for the transportation of some campers to the camp on the first day, and then back home a week later.  The transportation rule is that a Rotarian male and female would drive both one boy and one girl to the camp and back.

• Brian Reisman is interested in joining Rotary and this is his first meeting. Brian told us his first career was in acting but has since become a software engineer, from which he plans an escape to Leadership Development in Speaking and Writing.

• Kishor Oswal hails from India but is in Austin visiting his daughter and one-year old granddaughter.   He enjoys visiting Rotary wherever he travels 

The Rotary Club of South Austin invites you to Runway to Paradise on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at the Frank Fickett Scout Center—a tropical evening of fun, fellowship, and the official launch of the Club Swag Store. Buy Tickets.

Your raffle ticket is your admission to this exciting event, where you'll be among the first to see the newest Club Swag modeled by local "celebrities," learn how your club can create its own custom Club Locker, and enjoy tropical mocktails, DJ music, games, and island-inspired entertainment.

Ann Graham introduced Yetkin Yildirim, Ph.D. Engineering who holds several positions - Professor, Rice University STEM Projects and Director of Engineering UT-Austin  as well as being the CTO and President of Terra Pave Technology, a firm that has developed an alternative to cement.

Treasurer Jim McComb had the opportunity to draw for the Queen of Hearts, and he let one of our guests select a card….but, nope! she chose the 6 of Spades.   Maybe next week!    The pot is over $1,200 which will be split with the winner and Galindo Elementary School.

• Ann Graham says Radar just ‘begged her to go to Rotary today”, and they are both very glad to be here!

• Amber Scarborough’s last three weeks have been so cool….She and her wife, Robbie, spent two weeks in the Baltic Sea and last week she was a proud mom having Omar on his first business trip with her in Financial Services.

   

“Silkroad Ensemble—Ascending Bird” arranged by Yo-Yo Ma.    For those that didn’t experience it at the meeting, here’s a YouTube video link:  Bing Videos