Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
June Theme: Fellowship
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.
June Birthdays:
June 24: Lori Morad (Steve)
June Wedding Anniversaries:
June 1: Vanessa and David Silveira
June 4: Brian and Denise Cassidy
June 20: Megan Shea-Pereira and Nick Pereira
June 30: Bob and Melissa Clattenburg
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: To Be Determined. E-mail President-Elect Martha (holden@noblenet.org) with agenda items.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Team Assignments: MARTHA HOLDEN (Meal Pickup), CATHY GRAVEL (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 Cathy announced that she and P-E Martha will be meeting with Sandra Ring Brown of Northeast ARC. They'd like to develop an arts center, working through the Peabody Cultural Collaborative. The PCC has a 5-minute survey to help determine its direction and to learn what residents and businesspeople would like. Go to http://peabodyculturalcollaborative.org to complete the survey. On Saturday, President Cathy and P-E Martha went to a grant-writing workshop which could help with our participation with ARC and PCC.
President Cathy asked if we would give her ideas for the crafts project for the library summer rogram. She also said that she's waiting to hear back from Karen Sawyer and Dick Walker with their thoughts about what we can do for the new bike path. President Cathy is also working with Sudie Smoller on a school-year calenday with the Peabdoy Ed Council.
President Cathy reminded us that the District Installation Dinner will be on June 30th. If you haven't already signed up for this wonderful evening, do so by letting P-E Martha know.
Peggy Lyons told us that the reception for the scholarship winners was very successful, despite having to move indoors because of the off-and-on showers. Five of the six scholarship winners--and parents--were at the Y, along with several club members.
Program Chair Grace introduced today's speaker, Amy Tetreault, who went to London in the Fall as one of our District's GSE Team, and was sponsored by our club. She was joined at today's meeting with her IT assistant, Christopher Kimball, who had been on the GSE team that went to South Africa. Amy went through the slide presentation that the entire GSE team made in Gloucester. She stayed with 4 or 5 separate host families, all in different regions of London during her month there. She said that she learned an awful lot about Rotary, as she visited many clubs. Her visit was a mix of vocation and community service. As a freelance journalist and marketing manager, she was thrilled to be able to spend a day at BBC headquarters as well as some time at Virgin. She made numerous frieds in London and plans to stay in touch with them. She was very thankful for our club's sponsorship.
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Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Steve Padulsky collected $43.
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: Mel did not pick the Queen of Hearts but Gary did and he won the $241.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 and the North Shore Bank for their generous contributions.
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NEXT MEETINGS:
June 24: Iris Weaver, Spiritual Herbalist
July 1, 2010: First day of President Martha's year.
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.
This young couple invited their parson for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the minister asked their young son what they were having.
"Goat," the little boy replied.
"Goat?" replied the startled man of the cloth. "Are you sure about that?"
"Yep," said the youngster. "I heard Pa say to Ma, 'Might as well have the old goat for dinner today as any other day."
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.
