Posted on 09/29/2005 7:58:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Wearing nothing but his 12-string guitar, 65-year-old Paul King smiled wide for the camera, knowing full well his photograph would be seen by clients, friends -- even complete strangers.
"It's no big thing," said King, one of a dozen members of Rotary Club of Concord who wear their birthday suits for an upcoming calendar.
"We're having a ball ... an absolute ball, doing this. There are going to be some people who might be slightly offended, but the majority of people think it's a great idea," he said.
It's an idea King and fellow Rotarian Memory Woodard, a Clayton resident, latched onto after reading an article in People magazine about a Rotary Club in New York whose members took it all off for a fund-raising calendar.
The payoff was big and brought the group some celebrity, King said.
"I said, 'Hey guys, this is where we need to go with this,'" said Woodard, one of two female Rotarians to pose in the calendar. "We are trying to put ourselves on the map and I think this will do it."
Many of their fellow Rotarians loved the idea, so much so that there were more members who volunteered to go to the almost-"Full Monty," than there were months in the calendar.
"We've got a bunch of hunks in our Rotary," said King, noting that those who could not make it into the 2006 calendar have been promised spots in the next one.
King, who works in sales and plays guitar in his band the Folk and Oldies, is featured in the month of September.
Woodard, an employee benefits broker is featured in April, covered only with strategically placed flowers and a shovel bearing the Rotary Club emblem.
While she did not initially plan to model, Woodard said she changed her mind to show people that the organization is not just a men's club. She used the same rationale to persuade fellow Rotarians to include women in the calendar.
Woodard said she has no regrets about posing and her husband is all for it, too.
"(He) is so excited about it. He is telling everybody ... he loves the shock value," Woodard said, adding that she has yet to tell her two grown sons.
Other Rotarians making the calendar include club president Michael Barrington; Rick Ernst, Bruce Hall, Bill Bobetsky, Lisa Gallup, Richard Kops, Alex Ozuna, Rick Vossekuil, Chris Moulis, Tony Akins, and Jeff Warrenburg, according to King.
The club expects to sell the calendar for $20, beginning in November. All of the proceeds will go to charity, though the group hasn't decided which ones yet, King said.
Oh give me a break!
The Sexual Devolution goes on and on...
I'm sure.
LOL.
This "full monty" thing has been over for several years now. Would not surprise me if the U.S. Senate decided to do this too. /shudder
This whole nudity for a cause thing is getting out of hand. Let's call public indecency by its proper name.
You beat me to it..........It's no big thing, tho......
This becomes reason #489 why I left California last year.
And won't go back.
Twenty bucks for a Nude Rotarian calendar? Heck, I'd give them $40 if they stashed the camara and stayed dressed.
Why can't the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ever protest something?...........like Jerry Jones........
The geriatric nudity trend needs to pass......quickly.
Yeah right. I'm gonna be first in line to get this on my wall...
I'm sure.
"The geriatric nudity trend needs to pass......quickly."
My dad would have pointed out that you shouldn't worry, the geriatric nudists will pass quickly enough. ;-)
Pick up the new Eagles Cheerleaders lingerie calendar. They're 99% of the way there. ;o)
How long before the nuns at St Mary's Convent do the same? I can hear it now: "God created the human body, so what's there to be ashamed of?" said 73 year-old Sr. Ann O'Leary, who is making her first appearance in the convent's nude calendar. "Last year we raised $63,000, and it all goes to the homeless and other peace and justice issues. Most people think it's great!"
Stunts like this is one of the reasons I dropped out of Rotary.
Iggles!...........P-U!........(Cowboys fan, Howdy!).........
Steelers fan. But still. :o)
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