Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
May Theme: None
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.
May Birthdays:
May 4: Herb Harris
May 26: Carol Sanger (Gary Epstein)
May 31: Tanis Meakin (John)
May Wedding Anniversaries:
None
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: Immediately following the May 27th Club meeting. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
*
Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Team Assignments: PEGGY PEDRO (Meal Pickup), HERB HARRIS (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
****************************************
President Cathy reported that the GSE Team really enjoyed their day in Peabody. (Who wouldn't?) After visiting our club for breakfast, the Mayor hosted them, with a tour City Hall following. Then to the Library to see the Queen. As aptly pointed out at the meeting, not PE Martha, although she will have her coronation on June 10th (see below), but the Queen of England. Following the hello to Her Royal Highness, the ensemble visited the George Peabody and Leather museums. Then the four GSE members did their vocational visits--one to the police station, one to Citizens for Adequate Housing, one to Fred's office and one to Harbor Sweets in Salem (what's her vocation?). The group was so enthralled by Peabody that they mentioned their visit here when they went to Gloucester Rotary.
President Cathy reminded us that the Annual Installation Dinner will be on June 10th at Carrabba's. Members are encouraged to bring their mates to this evening of fellowship (June's Rotary theme). Members attending will be charged $10, their guests, $30. A separate e-mail will be sent with a registration form.
The District Conference will be this weekend. President Cathy will make a presentation obout our S.T.O.P. program. PE Martha said that the costs ran a bit higher for the S.T.O.P. program. The deficit was $336, which the Board approved to have the club cover.
******************************
Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Steve Padulsky collected $55.
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.
******************************
50-50 Raffle: Neither Herb nor Loring picked the Queen of Hearts so no-one won the $208.00.
*******************************
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.
*************************
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!!
*************************
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!!
*************************
NEXT MEETINGS:
May 27: Board meeting following the regular meeting.
June 3: Kathy Ahearn Tavares, Aviv/Woodbridge
June 10: NO BREAKFAST MEETING--Annual Installation Dinner tonight at Carrabba's.
June 17: Amy Tetrault, GSE Update from London
June 24: Iris Weaver, Spiritual Herbalist
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.
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL
5.0, NBA 3.0. and Golf Clubs 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.5 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate
Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter the command: “http: I Thought You Loved Me.htm” and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.
But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5 Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background, that will eventually seize control of all your system resources). Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7
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.
