Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
September Theme: New Generations
How to propose a member:
Identify an individual (would s/he pass the Four-Way Test?).
Invite that person to a meeting.
Fill out a proposal card.
Board votes on the proposed member.
Proposed member has information session with Secretary Gary.
Proposed member is asked if s/he would like to join. If yes, application is signed.
Proposed member's name is published in The Ripple.
If there are no objections sent in writing to the Membership Chair within seven days, the proposed member becomes a member.
September Birthdays:
September 6: Christine Doherty (Jeff)
September 7: Norm Burnett
September 22: Dave Gravel (Cathy)
Jody Pedro (Peggy)
September Wedding Anniversaries:
September 3: Fred deNapoli and Rachel Williams
September 21: Martha and Chuck Holden
September 28: Cathy and Dave Gravel
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.
NEXT BOARD MEETING: Monday, September 21st, 5:30PM, at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Team Assignments: STEVE MORAD (Meal Pickup), VANESSA SILVIERA (Salad and Cookies)
Arrive by at 42 Washington 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 of the change and the replacement of your assigned responsibility. Thanks. Look at NEWS and Citizens For Adequate Housing Schedule for the future schedule (not changed yet, though) and specific responsibilities.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: Donna Beck, Montachusett Area (Leominster)
Guests:
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President Cathy told the assemblage that plans for the Golf Tournament are moving along. We have 108 golfers so far. We still need sponsors, adbook and raffle donations. On Saturday, September 12th, we'll be handing out bike safety kits. Volunteers are needed. Joanne is also looking for volunteers to help at the International Festival on Sunday. She ordered 175 apple pies and 75 blueberry pies, all of which will sell for $10 each. If necessary, we'll sell slices at $2 each. Martha said that we were approved for our District Simplified Grant. Although the amount to be awarded is unknown at this time, Martha received a well deserved round of applause. The S.T.O.P. program will be implemented in January. Peggy Pedro said that North Shore Bank will put out canisters at the teller windows to collect "Pennies for Polio". Hopefully the bank's customers will donate at least $1,000. President Cathy reminded Mel and Joanne that it was their turn to serve Citizens For Adequate Housing tonight. Herb mentioned that the picture of this year's Board of Directors was in the Salem News this week.
Program Chair Grace introduced Peggy Lyons who made a glowing, love-filled, introduction of our guest speaker, her husband Don. Don has been a PGA golf pro for 24 years serving in many capacities on the National PGA Board and as New England President. He has been the golf pro at several courses in the area, currently in Lynnfield. Because the grip is the most important thing for a good golf game, Don explained in detail how to hold a club and how to swing. His tips were very helpful to those who golf (now Peabody Rotarians have no excuses for not doing well on the 14th). And even those of us who do not golf found his presentation very interesting. (Ed.'s note: I gave up golf many years ago when I started having trouble timing the windmills.)
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Ed.'s note: Another superb upcoming event is NorthEast Link where you'll get to meet and hear from Ambassadorial Scholars from all around the world. This year it will be in Boxborough and will be on Saturday, September 26th, and Sunday morning, September 27th.
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District Governor Ingrid Brown will visit the club on October 29th.
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Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Steve Padulsky collected $74. Some of that was from those who chose to not wear their Peabody Rotary badges.
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: Neither Grace nor President Cathy picked the Ace of Diamonds, so neither won the $292. 16 cards remain!
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Reminders:
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Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, asks 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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Secretary Gary Epstein reminds members of Rotary's attendance requirements. Members cannot miss more than three consecutive meetings without making up. However, there are plenty of opportunities to make up. Attend a Board meeting (All members are encouraged to attend, anyway.), attend a committee meeting, work on the website, and the most basic make-up--attend other clubs' meetings. Be sure to steal ideas our club can use!!
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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. Every nickel helps!! Mel thanks Bob Clattenburg for his generous contributions.
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NEXT MEETINGS:
September 10: Tom Gould, Treadwell's Ice Cream--Disabled Children's programs in Peabody
September 17: Ha Tran, Vietnamese Immigrant, Motivational Speaker
September 24: General Business Meeting
October 1: Jen Andersen--For Kids Only/Y-It-Matters
October 8: Robert Dionne, Atlantic Ambulance, Salem Rotarian
October 15: Mayor Bonfanti and the City Council
October 22: Temporarily Open
October 29: District Governor Ingrid Brown
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.
At Boston College, there were four sophomores taking chemistry
and all of them had an 'A' so far. These friends were so confident that, the week before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party.
They had a great time but, after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to BC until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As
a result, they missed the final.
The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved. They studied that night for the exam.
The next day the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet.
They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought!
Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy. Then they turned the page. On the second page was written....
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!!
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?
