Meeting: Tuesdays, 12:15 PM, at Spinelli's Function Facility on Rte. 1 South, Peabody, MA
PRESIDENT: Grace Martins
PRESIDENT-ELECT: Steve Morad
VICE PRESIDENT:
SECRETARY: Gary Epstein
TREASURER: Loring Merrow
SERGEANT AT ARMS: Jeff Doherty
PAST PRESIDENT: Peggy Pedro
BOARD MEMBERS: Cathy Gravel, Scott Bronstein, Tom Rowen, Nichole Nelsen
District Governor (2007-2008): Julia Phelps
District Governor-Elect (DG 2008-2009): Tom Elliott
Our Assistant DG: Ingrid Brown (and 2009-2010 DG)
DG 2010-2011 Steve May
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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)
Grace Martins (GSE Team Leader)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
June Theme: FELLOWSHIP Let's all attend the Year-end/beginning installation dinner on June 20th and embrace the theme of Fellowship!!
Haven from Hunger
No July meal (first Friday is the holiday)
2008-9 schedule unavailable
Team Assignments: (Meal Pickup), (Salad), (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 new assignments.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: ADG Ingrid Brown, AG elect Helene Anderson Michel and District PR Alan Michel,
President Grace was not here today, nor was President -elect Steve Morad.
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Past President Peg Pedro conducted the meeting.
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Peg had all of the club Rotarians indrduce themselves and tell what they do for work. Our guest rotarians were introduced.
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Alan Michel talked a little about his role as Public Relations. He encouraged the club to have a PR person to send photos and articles for District newsletter. Jeff said he would continue to collect photos and articles from club members. Alan talked about a public service with the local cable project that he will putting together. He would like input from all the clubs.
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Peg congratulated both Grace and Tom for receiving their Paul Harris Fellow award. Peg also thanked Grace for her year as President and welcomed Steve to his upcoming year as President.
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Steve Smith gave an update on our membership drive. Gayle reported that she has handed out many of the Rotary brochures that Steve had put together.
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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 Babner. Every nickel helps!!
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Our speaker scheduler, Gayle Cavanaugh, 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 Doherty collected $38.
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures 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 $100. Neither Mel nor Joanne picked the Queen of Spades.
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Your Contributions to Rotary at Work
Here's a list of Donations that Peabody Rotary has made so far this (2007-2008) year under President Grace:
Rotoplast $4,300
Haven From Hunger$1,224.83 (for meals)
Progeria Research Foundation $710
Africa Project (through Jessica Glynn) $250
Making a Difference in Peabody $1,000
Peabody YMCA $1,000
Pure Water for the World (Mike Eidelman's raffle winnings!!) $264
Peabody High Athletic Revolving Act--drug awareness $500
Citizens for Adequate Housing $500
Citizens for Adequate Housing--meals $160
Scholarships $6,000
Peabody YMCA Y It Matters $3,000
Higgins Middle School Chocolate Program $500
Cape Ann Children's Fund $100**
Peabody Council on Aging $100**
NSCAP $100**
Pioneer House $100**
Brian Silber Memorial $250**
PVMHS--DECA $750**
Higgins Middle School breakfast $250**
RYLA Sponsorships Up to $550** (not disbursed yet)
Dearborn Fire Victims--via Red Cross $1,150
**Approved at March 31st Board Meeting
Total so far: $22,208.83
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JUNE BIRTHDAYS:
24th Lori Morad (Steve)
JUNE WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
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.
Upcoming Programs:
NEXT MEETING:
JUNE 24:
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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:
June 20th
-- Club Installation dinner/celebration at Spero's Sports Pub. 6:00PM; ~$25 per person.
June 26th -- District Installation Dinner 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?
