Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
PRESIDENT: Steve Morad
PRESIDENT-ELECT: Cathy Gravel
VICE PRESIDENT: Nichole Nelsen
SECRETARY: Gary Epstein
TREASURER: Loring Merrow
SERGEANT AT ARMS: Jeff Doherty
PAST PRESIDENT: Grace Martins
BOARD MEMBERS: Scott Bronstein, Steve Smith, Peggy Pedro, Joanne Donovan
Rotary International President (2008-2009): D. K. Lee
District Governor (2008-2009): Tom Elliott
DG-Elect (2009-2010) : Ingrid Brown
DG-Nominee (2010-2011): Steve May
Assistant District Governor: Helene Andersen Michel
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Peabody Club Members at District Level:
Fred deNapoli (ADG for Ipswich, Malden, Saugus, Wakefield)
Peggy Pedro (ADG for Chelsea, Everett, TBM, Swampscott
Herb Harris (Outbound Ambassadorial Scholar Coordinator)
Cathy Gravel (Youth Exchange Student Host)
DECEMBER Theme: Rotary Family
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS:
DECEMBER 11: CATHY GRAVEL
DECEMBER 13: JOANNE DONOVAN
DECEMBER 14: LORING MERROW
DECEMBER21: MEL BABNER
DECEMBER 18: DONALD CAVANAUGH (GAYLE)
DECEMBER 23 GAYLE CAVANAUGH
DECEMBER 26: MARGIE KAUFMAN (STEVE SMITH)
DECEMBER WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
DECEMBER 14: JOANNE AND ROBERT DONOVAN
TO ALL MEMBERS: IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS WITH THE BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY DATES, PLEASE NOTIFY GARY EPSTEIN. ALSO, THERE ARE NUMEROUS MISSING DATES ON OUR ROSTER. PLEASE GIVE GARY YOUR INFORMATION--JUST THE DATES--NO ONE CARES HOW OLD YOU ARE. BUT WE MAY BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED.
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
January 2nd:
Team Assignments: PEGGY PEDRO (Meal Pickup), JOANNE DONOVAN (Salad), MIKE TALLO (Cookies)
Arrive by , 4:15 P.M. would be great,
at 71 Wallis St., Peabody.
If you're unable to attend on the specified date, it's your responsibility to locate a replacement. Please inform the meal pickup person (Chief Entree Officer) of the change and the replacement of your assigned responsibility. Thanks. Look at NEWS and Haven Team Assignments for the future schedule. Please check out the assignments.
Welcome New Member!!: CATHLEEN WARDLEY, Peabody Marriott. Classification: Hospitality Industry.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: None
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Today's Breakfast: Same as last week and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before.
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President Steve began the meeting reminding us all to sell Entertainment Books. Mel announced that we've raised $600 so far. The final day for sales is next week.
Cathy and Dave Gravel will host our first annual resumed Holiday party on December 29th. They are generously providing all the food and drink!! Thank you so much, Cathy and Dave! Cathy will e-mail details and directions.
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Mel will notify Fatima's to increase the amount of pork by 50% as more people need our help at Haven From Hunger.
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Peggy Lyons will represent our club at the RYLA meeting in January. Does anyone else want to join her? Both Cathy and Peggy Pedro said that there a lot of problems last year--very poor communication with the district and no flexibility. Because of these factors, no-one from Peabody was able to attend last year even though we paid for three students.
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Mel Babner reminds everyone to sell the Entertainment Books. We've raised $600 so far. The final day for sales is next week.
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DGN Steve May presented Grace with a check for her trip to Nicaragua. Gayle followed suit.
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From Past Editions:
President Steve emphasized that every member has to sign up for at least one of the Taste Committees. All members are technically members of every committee, but you need to sign onto committees for logistics' purposes. Send an e-mail to President Steve -- you should reply to his recent e-mail.
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President Steve reminded the club that in order to have a successful Taste of the North Shore, it will take a lot of work by all members of Peabody Rotary. With 100% approval to go forward, he announced that we will go on with the Taste. The following subcommittees (and chairs) were named: Ticket Sales and records (Mike Tallo); Restaurants (Cathy Gravel)--7 have already signed up; Ad Book (Peggy Pedro); Auctions/Raffles (Scott Bronstein); Entertainment (Julie Erickson); Publicity (Steve Smith). Contact the committee chair on whose committee you want to work. But a reminder--we're all members of every committee. But choose one on which you'll work a bit harder. Mel has already sold some raffle tickets!! How many have you sold?
President Steve emphasized that our meetings begin PROMPTLY at 7:30. (Almost) Everyone voted to meet at this time, so there's no excuse to be late.
Reminders:
What do you do with your empty bottles and cans? (And we know there must be a lot of empty beer cans and bottles.) Please bring them (both beer and soda) to the meetings every week to give to Mel. Every nickel helps!! Mel Thanks Herb for his generous contributions.
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Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, is asking that you tell her of any people who may want to speak to the club or whom you think may be of interest to the club.
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Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Jeff collected $49.
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures (not Rotary related) of our members, bring them in so the member can donate $$$ to the club. We can use the money!! But more important--we'd like to recognize and applaud our members.
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50-50 Raffle: The pool was $207.50. President Steve did not picked the KING OF CLUBS. But Steve Smith picked the $50 Joker.
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Your Contributions to Rotary at Work
The total of Donations that Peabody Rotary made during the 2007-2008 year under President Grace: $22,208.83 !!
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Upcoming Programs:
NEXT MEETINGS:
DECEMBER 25: MERRY CHRISTMAS! No Meeting
JANUARY 1, 2009: HAPPY NEW YEAR! No Meeting
JANUARY 8, 2009: Business Meeting
JANUARY 15, 2009: Steve Smith's Italian Adventure
JANUARY 22, 2009: Judith Garcia-Ambassador, President of the Chelsea Interact Club
JANUARY 29, 2009: Classification Speech--either Steve Padulski or Julie Erickson.
FEBRUARY 5, 2009: Business Meeting
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Please make every effort to attend your Rotary meetings. The more members we have each week, the better we look to potential members--and to our visitors and speakers.
Thank you!
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UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
DECEMBER 29TH: HOLIDAY PARTY at Cathy Gravel's House.
MARCH 24TH: TASTE OF THE NORTH SHORE at Danversport Yacht Club.
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It's easy to become a Rotary Sustaining member. It's $100 per year, but Loring can bill you $25 per quarter. That's $8.33 a month, or 28 CENTS a day, or a little over a penny an hour.
LET'S BECOME A 100% SUSTAINING MEMBER CLUB!!
" Let us keep our hearts strong, enthusiasm fresh,hope high. As long as we keep imbued with this spirit, Rotary can never die."
The Rotarian, August 1926
THE 4-WAY TEST of the things we think, say or do:
1. IS IT THE TRUTH? 2. IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED? 3. WILL IT BUILD GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIP? 4. WILL IT BE BENEFICAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other
monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they
are copying from copies, not the original manuscripts.
So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this, pointing
out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be
continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries,but
you make a good point, my son."
So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it
against the original. Hours go by and nobody sees him. So, one of the
monks goes downstairs to look for him.
Hearing sobbing coming from the back of the cellar, he finds the old monk
leaning over one of the original books crying.
He asks the old monk what's wrong, and in a choked voice came the reply,
"The word is celebrate."
