Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
May Theme: Rotary History
May Birthdays:
May 4: Herb Harris
May 26: Carol Sanger (Gary Epstein)
May Wedding Anniversarys:
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.
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
June 5, 2009:
Team Assignments: MARTHA HOLDEN(Meal Pickup), HERB HARRIS(Salad), ELLEN GALE(Cookies)
THANK YOU MARTHA AND ELLEN FOR STEPPING UP!!!
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 the assignments.
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Prospective Member: VANESSA SILVEIRA, Metro Credit Union. Classification: Credit Union Manager.
If anyone has reason that VANESSA should NOT be accepted as a member, please notify Membership Chairman Steve Smith by May 28, 2009.
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Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: None
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President Steve welcomed the sparse group of Rotarians. He reminded those on the Scholarship Committee to return the papers back to Cathy by Friday. They were due earlier this week.
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Cathy has the sign-up sheet for the District Installation Dinner, which will be on Tuesday, June 30th at the Danversport Yacht Club. This super annual event is only $60 per person.
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President Steve reminded us that the club's installation dinner will be on Wednesday, June 24th at the Wardhurst Restaurant. Details are forthcoming. There will be no meeting the following morning.
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Grace mentioned that she received a letter from Brazil telling her that the clinic she helped get set up is looking for a mammogram machine--even used. If we could locate a donor, the shipping costs may be prohibitive. But give Grace any ideas.
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Here's a picture of our guest speaker. (He didn't show up.)
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BOARD MEETING DATE CHANGE, again:
The Board meeting will be on Thursday, May 28th, after our breakfast meeting.
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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
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 Dick Berg for his generous contributions.
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Happy Dollars: This month's Sergeant-at-arms, Steve Padulsky, collected $33.
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 President Steve nor Peggy Lyons (again) picked the Ace of Diamonds, so neither won the $94.
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Upcoming Programs:
NEXT MEETINGS:
May 28: General Business meeting, followed by the Board meeting.
June 4:
June 11:
June 18:
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:
June 24th: Club's Annual Dinner at the Wardhurst
June 30th: District Installation Dinner at the Danversport Yacht Club
A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.
The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, "Ah excuse me mister, but what are you doing?"
The farmer replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize."
"How?" asks the man, puzzled.
"Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field."
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?
