Two receive Heart-felt awards from Soroptimist International

Sandra Finestone of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

and Mary Ann O’Connell, chairwoman of the Women Build Habitat for

Humanity 2002 project, will be the honorees at the Matters of the

Heart dinner on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Pacific Club. The dinner is

sponsored by the Soroptimist International of Newport Harbor.

The evening will begin with a reception and silent auction at 5:30

p.m., with dinner to follow, club President Jacqueline Anastasio

said. Proceeds from the event will support scholarships, a shelter

for women and help promote human rights and the status of women and

children around the world.

Previous Matters of the Heart honorees are Marian Bergeson, Jo

Caines, Peggy Goldwater Clay, Jean Forbath, Dora Hill, Marian Knott,

Dawn Marie Lemonds, Judge Frances Munoz, Gloria Osbrink, Linda

Schulein and Lori Warmington, to name a few.

Tickets are $75 each and ad space is available for the program,

dinner Co-chair Sue Haddock said. To donate an auction item or

purchase tickets or an ad, call Haddock at (714) 957-5113 or (714)

434-2521.

ROTARY LEADERSHIP INVASION:

About 530 district governor-elects from 60 different countries and

their spouses will be in Orange County this week to receive the

necessary training at Rotary’s International Assembly before assuming

their one-year leadership position on July 1.

The training, which starts Tuesday and ends the next Tuesday, is

intensive, starting at 9 a.m. daily and ends in the evening, usually

around 9 p.m. Because of language differences, most of the functions

are simulcast in German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

The district governor-elects do get a break Thursday evening, when

they will be hosted by local Rotarians from 5:30 to 11 p.m.

Some of the visiting district governor-elects will have been home

hosted by local Rotarians for either three days before the start of

the assembly or three days after the conclusion of the assembly, to

get a feel for American family life.

IMRT BREAKFAST:

The Hoag Hospital 552 Club will sponsor a breakfast on Wednesday

with the featured speaker Jay G. Tassin, a specialist in radiation

oncology/radiology who will discuss Intensity Modulated Radiation

Therapy.

The breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. with the program at 8 a.m.

and adjournment by 9 a.m. Breakfast costs $20 per person. Prepaid

reservations required. Limited seating. For more information, call

(949) 574-7208.

WORTH REPEATING:

From “Thought for the Day” provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council:

“Believing in yourself is an endless destination. Believing you

have failed is the end of your journey.”

-- Sarah Meredith

UPCOMING SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS:

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will

meet at Five Crowns for a program by Dr. Raj Desai on “Project Deaf

India.”

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The 20-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet

at the Center Club (www.southcoastmetro rotary.org); and the Newport

Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: The 40-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Janet Wayne of the Burn

Center Rehab.

THURSDAY

7 a.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions

Club will meet for a program on the California Indian Center by Paula

Starr.

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the

Holiday Inn for a program by the 50-member Newport Beach-Corona del

Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear

Tom Bay of Speak Up. (www.kiwanis.org/club/ costamesa); the 80-member

Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport Harbor

Nautical Museum for a Ladies Day program and the 100-member

Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Atrium Hotel.

(www.nirotary.org).

6 p.m.: The 60-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the home of Dr. Raj Desai as they host four District Governor Elects

from India, Great Britain and Denmark.

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.

Send your service club’s meeting information by fax to (949)

660-8667; by e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to 2082 S.E.

Bristol, Suite 201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.