President Liz Quinn led us in the pledge and My Country Tis of Thee and John Walker gave the prayer.

Guests introduced were Susan Ives, Suburban Hospital; Ted Goldstock, guest of Dick Ruprecht;

Louise Richardson,guest of Pat Tiede; Eldad Moraru, Long & Foster, guest of Jeanne Smith, and Marlys Rixey, Suburban Hospital, and Juliet Rodman who accompanied our speaker Julia Bail.

Liz Quinn announced that staff writer, Bradford Pearson, had a front page article in the January 30 issue of the Gazette on our club's initiative to build the county's first handicap-accessible baseball field for the Miracle League.  Great publicity and though there were some errors, a correction will be sent to the Gazette. 

Happy Dollars:

Gary Boswell for Pat Tiede, secretary, who had ordered a handsome meeting plaque which is now displayed in the lobby of Tragara, Dick Ruprecht for all our guests and how much the club has meant to him over the years. Ben Schlesinger HD great to be back, HD for Pat Tiede who is posting Kee-Notes to the Website and becoming a webmaster. Shira Oler for our speaker today. Liz Quinn  glad to see Eleanor Stoler, another HD for Eleanor Stoler from Jeanne Smith and her guest Eldad Moraru.  Eleanor Stoler gave a HD because she was glad to be back.

PROGRAM FOR THE DAY: 

Shira Oler introduced our speaker Julia Bail. She shared her story of her near death experience. She had been feeling tired for several weeks and awoke one morning with chest pain and told her husband to call 911. The Bethesda-Chevy Chase rescue squad came and transported her to Suburban and as she was being wheeled into the ER her heart stopped beating. She flat lined.  She does not remember the ER team doing CPR for 20 minutes.  She does remember having a warm feeling, hearing or realizing the voice of God and having a very secure and wonderful experience. Hearing her husbands voice calling her to come back- she was kind of upset because she felt so loved and warm and comforted that she didn’t want to come back to this world. She did wake up in ICU and had stents placed in her coronary arteries. She is grateful to be alive today. She has some memory loss and has had to make multiple she trips back to the ER because of chest pain.  She is thankful to the BCC rescue squad and Suburban Hospitals cardiac doctors. Her message is that heart disease is the leading cause of death in both women and men, that women have different symptoms of heart attacks than men. She reminded everyone that February 1 is the day to recognize Heart Disease and women should wear Red!!  A very inspirational talk

Jim Aylor won the 50/50.

George Patterson, Editor for the Day