Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 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:
2: Donald Spak-Danjou (Ann)
Brian Cassidy
6: Christine Doherty (Jeff)
7: Norm Burnett
22: Dave Gravel (Cathy)
Jody Pedro (Peggy)
September Wedding Anniversaries:
3: Fred deNapoli & Rachel Williams
4: Ann & Donald Spak-Danjou
21: Martha & Chuck Holden
28: Cathy & 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: THURSDAY, September 16, 2010, with DG Steve following our breakfast meeting.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Team Assignments: HERB HARRIS (Meal Pickup), JOHN MEAKIN (Salad and Cookies)
Arrive at 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 and specific responsibilities.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: None
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President Martha started this week's meeting reminding everyone about the District Foundation/Membership Conference on September 30th. The deadline for registration is Thursday September 23. Members will have the chance to learn about the Foundation, Foundation grants, and how clubs can best utilize this resource.
Golf Tournament: Bob C reported that there are about 92 golfers registered. We can always use more golfers! A lot of raffle items have already been collected... thank you to everyone who brought in items for the raffle. If you are interested in volunteering during the event, contact Deanne at the Chamber - she is coordinating the volunteers.
International Festival: Peggy L passed around the sign up sheet for volunteers. We have a handful of people who signed up already, but we still have some empty slots. Please do your best to find an hour or 2 to help out on Sunday. Peggy will send out an email with the most updated list...
Literacy: Cathy has Rotary/PEC calendars for sale! Loring will be happy to bill you the $20.
Reminder - District Governor Steve May will be visiting our club next week. We will have a board meeting after our normal breakfast meeting.
DG Steve May has sent out a memo regarding the floods in Pakistan. "The Rotary Foundation has established the Rotary Pakistan Flooding Recovery Fund for the purpose of collecting funds in the form of cash and District Designated Funds... The funds will be collected until December 31, 2010 and used as the Foundation's match for Matching Grant applications received for disaster recovery efforts...." For more infomation, visit the District's website.
We also received an update from Citizen's for Adequate Housing. They have a new volunteer coordinator that will be working with the shelter. We are going to continue exploring alternatives to letting the residents know what days we will be coming to serve dinner. Betsy (from CAH) wanted to make sure we know how much the food we bring is really appreciated. Even though we do not always see the families eating, they are grateful to us for coming. More updates to come after we meet with the new coordinator...
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Jesse Philbrick gave his classification speech today...
Jesse grew up in Vermont. He played sports and started working early. Jesse was the youngest newscarrier to win Carrier of the Year! Jesse learned at an early age the importance of a strong work ethic. He worked hard to support his family and then later to give back to his community.
Jesse learned to love cooking and the restaurant industry. He went to school at Johnson and Wales in Providence. After beginning to work at Carrabbas in 2001, Jesse has had the opportunity to work at a handful of different locations around the state. Currently Jesse is the Manager of Carrabbas here in Peabody on Route 1. (They did an excellent job hosting our annual Peabody Rotary club dinner in June!)
Jesse is a music lover and spends what seems like ALL of his free time going to concerts! He loves blues and bluegrass music, especially Phish and the Grateful Dead.
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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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Reminders:
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!! He thanks former member and President Dick Berg,Bob C and Herb for their generous contributions.
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NEXT MEETINGS:
September 16, 2010: District Governor Steve May. Board Meeting to follow.
September 23, 2010: Special Membership meeting--invite a guest!
September 30, 2010: Sergei Novikov, Speaking Music
October 7, 2010: Don Preston--Habitat For Humanity
October 14, 2010: Cathy Gravel--Literacy Program in Guatemal
October 21, 2010: Phil Sheridan--Peabody High School Safe Driver Program
October 28, 2010: Grace Martins--Report on her India Mission
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!
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
September 12, 2010: International Festival
September 20, 2010: Golf Tournament
September 30, 2010: District Foundation/Membership Conference
A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17." The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17. Every hand went up. The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only sixteen chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."
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.
