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)
JANUARY Theme: Rotary Awareness
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS:
JANUARY 13: STEVE PADULSKY
JANUARY 21: RALPH PAYNARD
JANUARY 30: STEPHANIE TALLO (MIKE)
JANUARY WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
JANUARY 7: NICHOLE AND PATRICK NELSEN
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
February 6th:
Team Assignments: STEVE SMITH (Meal Pickup), PEGGY LYONS (Salad), GRACE MARTINS (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.
Prospective Member: BOB WOOD, Chilton Club. Classification: Private Club Management. Bob was a member of the now-defunct Greater Georgetown Rotary Club and is transferring that membership to Peabody. Bob edits the District e-newsletter that everyone receives.
If anyone has reason that Bob should NOT be accepted as a member, please notify Membership Chairman Steve Smith by January 22, 2009.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: None
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Today's Breakfast: Because of a strong protest from one of our members, who will remain nameless, this will no longer be a feature. Perhaps if we should ever be served anything different, it may be noted.
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President Steve mentioned that Haven From Hunger was closed when our members brought the food on January 2nd. The food had to be thrown away. He spoke with Trudy and told her that any first Friday that they're closed we have to be notified in advance.
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The World Peace and Understanding Dinner will be on February 5th. So far, six Peabody Rotarians will be going. Let President Steve know if you'll be attending.
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Peabody Rotary will be hosting the Peabody Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours on Wednesday, February 11th, from 5:00 to 7:00PM, at the Marriott. Let's have a great showing there! As a matter of fact, in anticipation of most of our members attending this event, we will have NO MEETING the next morning, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH.
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Grace mentioned that Martin, the Colombian exchange student, is still at Cathy's. To give the Gravel family a break, please consider hosting Martin for a weekend. Talk with Cathy to get details.
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President Steve said that it's time to really get going with the Taste of the North Shore--sell tickets; get restaurants (7 or 8 so far); talk it up! There was talk about putting together an ad book--sell ads!! Steve Smith is looking to get some publicity--perhaps a feature on some aspect of the Taste. It was suggested that in the past we featured the previous year's winner. Last year's winner was Outback Steakhouse.
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Cathy is looking for a Scholarship Committee--Chair and members. Word needs to be sent to the schools and applications to be reviewed with decisions to be made. Tell Cathy of your interest.
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Our feature speaker this week was our very own Steve Smith who gave us a presentation on his and Margie's September trip to Italy. We saw great pictures of Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Sorrento, Positano and Maritaya (?). For Steve, the highlight was Pompeii. He marvelled at the architecture and construction in place over two thousand years ago!
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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 Dick Berg and North Shore Bank for their 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: This month's Sergeant-at-arms Steve Smith collected $66.
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 $11.50 (WOW!!!). Neither Grace nor Jeff picked the SEVEN OF HEARTS (?) or 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:
JANUARY 22, 2009: Judith Garcia-Ambassador, President of the Chelsea Interact Club
JANUARY 29, 2009: Classification Speech--either Steve Padulski or Julie Erickson. Or NEW MEMBER INSTALLATION.
FEBRUARY 5, 2009: Business Meeting
FEBRUARY 11, 2009: Peabody Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours--this week's Rotary Meeting!
FEBRUARY 12, 2009: NO 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:
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?
Little Billy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.
When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to the President. The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send Billy a $5.00 bill. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
Billy was delighted with the $5.00 and sat down to write a thank you note to God, which read:
Dear God, Thank you very much for sending the money, however, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington D.C. and, as usual, those crooks deducted $95.00. Thanks, Billy
