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)
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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, May 13, 2008
MayTheme: No theme was listed for May, so I'll take the liberty of suggesting that this month we think about increasing our membership, as we always should be thinking. Who might be good potential members? Let's invite them to lunch!
Haven from Hunger
June 6, 2008
Team Assignments: Peggy Lyons (Meal Pickup), Cathy Gravel (Salad), Peggy Pedro (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.
As President Grace is leading the District's GSE Team in Brazil, President-Elect Steve Morad ran today's meeting. He announced that June 19th will be the date of our club's year-end celebration and his installation as 2008-9 President. Be sure to save that date. He'll give us more details as we get closer. He then read the e-mail that we all received from President Grace about her visit to Brazil. She's really enjoying herself!!
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Fred deNapoli told us that the GSE Team from Brazil is having a great time in our District. On Sunday, they went to the Portland SeaDogs baseball game. When someone scored, they waved the Brazilian flag and yelled "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!!" hmmmm. Fred then introduced the GSE team from Brazil: Team Leader and Rotarian, Ana Luiza deCastro Coelho, Rita de Cassia Souza Goulart, Marcelo de Oliveira Goncalves, Michelle Carvalho Rodrigues and Roberto Lopes Mendonca. They presented a terrific slide show--about their country, their District #4560 and themselves personally. Very informative!! After our meeting, they were off to tour Analogic (Thanks to Paul Roberts and Analogic for your hospitality), visit Cable TV and top off the day with dinner at Fire Bull, a Brazilian restaurant in Peabody.
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PE Steve then drew from the four participants in the Circle of Gold-- Cathy Gravel, President Grace, Gary Epstein and Fred deNapoli. Each of the four has pledged to contribute $250 a year for four years for the foundation. (By the way, among many other projects, the Foundation pays for the GSE Teams.) Because each will be donating $1,000, one will be chosen each year to receive a Paul Harris Fellowship. This year's Paul Harris Fellow is President Grace!!
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Steve Smith wants to know if anyone took pictures at the Taste of the North Shore. If you did, please forward some to him so he can use one in an upcoming recruiting flyer.
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President Grace asked that you send her your information and photo to be used at the June Installation Dinner. She had e-mailed everyone a questionnaire.
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Would you like to help Mel Babner deliver food for the Citizens For Adequate Housing families, temporarily housed in Salem? Future delivery dates will be May 15th, June 19th and July 17th. Anyone who would like to help Mel, please contact him.
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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!! Mel thanks himself, Mike Tallo and Herb Harris for their donations.
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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: Today Sergeant-at-arms Jeff Doherty collected $66.
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 $26 (Wow!!!). Neither Mike Tallo nor Mike Eidelman picked the Queen of Spades or the $50.
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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)
**Approved at March 31st Board Meeting
Total so far: $21,058.83
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MAY BIRTHDAYS:
4th Herb Harris
10th Nichole Nelsen
26th Carol Sanger (Gary Epstein)
MAY 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: May 20th--President-Elect Steve Morad will address the club (Pre-inauguration speech?). Come prepared with your suggestions for the 2008-9 year of his Presidency.
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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:
May 30-June 1st are the dates of the Annual District Meeting. Often held in faraway, exotic, locations, this year's District meeting will be at the Boston Park Plaza. So it should be easy to attend.
June 19th -- Club Installation dinner/celebration. Details to follow.
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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 senior citizen named Barney was driving down Rt. 128, when his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice . She sounded urgent as she said to him to be careful. She just heard on the radio that somebody was driving down Rt. 128 the wrong way so please be careful!”
“Heck,” replied Barney , “It’s not just one car. It’s hundreds of them!”
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