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, Tom Rowen, 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)
OCTOBER Theme: Vocational Services
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
November 7th:
Team Assignments: STEVE MORAD (Meal Pickup), CATHY GRAVEL (Salad), MEL BABNER (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.
Question(s) of the week:
What is this a picture of (a) and where was it taken (b)?
If you cannot answer the question at our meeting next week, or by e-mail if you don't attend next week, be prepared to pay the consequences. Once again the question wasn't asked, so President Steve may ask this on the 16th.
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.
Because of the HolyDay, there were only 10 members in attendance. And President Steve was not among them. Perhaps he was with the Jewish members atoning for his sins. Past President Grace Martins ran the brief meeting. She reminded the scant assemblage that District Governor Tom Elliott will be addressing the club next week. And an important ceremony will take place as well. DG Tom will install our three new members: Steve Padulsky, Martha Holden and Julie Erickson. Their sponsors will also be part of the ceremony.
Fred deNapoli announced that the GSE Team Leader has been chosen for the month in South Africa. There are still spots for non-Rotarians between the ages of 20 and 45 to join the entourage.
Joanne Donovan reported that the Golf Tournament netted a total of $10,000, so the club earned around $5,000. Our October 30th meeting will be a THANK YOU meeting to all who helped--golfers, sponsors, advertisers, etc.
Answer (a): A bootleg still.
Mel Babner reminds everyone to sell the Entertainment Books. Sales are way down from last year! He thanked Fred deNapoli and Chuck Holden for taking 10 and 5 books, respectively. And he thanks Cathy Gravel for selling 10 books!!
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Reminders:
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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 Dick Berg, Ralph Raynard and Gayle Cavanaugh 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: Sergeant-at-arms Jeff Doherty collected $ ?? .
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 $113. Neither Jeff Doherty nor Jeff Doherty picked the KING OF CLUBS or the $50 Joker. (No, that's not an error--Jeff's ticket was picked twice.)
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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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OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS:
OCTOBER 8: PAUL PIECOTT
OCTOBER 21: GRACE MARTINS
OCTOBER WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
OCTOBER 18: GAYLE AND DONALD CAVANAUGH
OCTOBER 19: MIKE AND STEPHANIE TALLO
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 MEETINGS:
OCTOBER 16: DISTRICT GOVERNOR TOM ELLIOTT AND INSTALLATION OF NEW MEMBERS!!!!!!
OCTOBER 23: Tracey Stanley, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of MA Bay
OCTOBER 30: Polio Plus Program
NOVEMBER 6: General Business Meeting
NOVEMBER 13: Peabody Chief of Police, Bob Champagne: State of the Peabody Police Department
NOVEMBER 20: Carmine Nigro, FBI: Economic Espionage/Counterintelligence
NOVEMBER 27: NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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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!!
Answer (b): Blue Ridge Mountains, Virgina.
" 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?
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."
