Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
November Theme: Foundation
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.
November Birthdays:
November 20: Melissa Clattenburg (Bob)
November 24: Mike Tallo
November Wedding Anniversaries:
November 30: Bob & Susan Wood
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, November 30th, 5:30PM at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Team Assignments: STEVE SMITH (Meal Pickup), PEGGY LYONS (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 and specific responsibilities.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests:
Ann Spak-Danjou--Eastern Bank
Steve Boudreau, Guest of Steve Padulsky
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Ann Spak-Danjou of Eastern Bank has been proposed as a member of our club by Steve Smith. Ann's classification is Bank Manager. If anyone has reason to believe that Ann should not be welcomed as a member, please notify Membership Chair,Steve Smith by November 12th.
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President Cathy reminded herself and Fred deNapoli that they are next week's volunteers at Citizens For Adequate Housing. Actually, she TOLD Fred about his obligation for what seemed to be the first time. Fred--read The Ripple!! President Cathy reminded the membership that we will NOT meet next Thursday morning. But we will have our Cash For Gold evening with the man with two first names--Stan Paul. There's a $5 cover charge and runs from 5:30 to 7:30PM. The club received an invitation from the YMCA for its name-changing event this Sunday, from 1:00 to 4:00. It will be renamed Torigian Family YMCA to honor our late mayor who was very instrumental in getting it built.
Membership Chair Steve Smith reminded everyone that we're still on our membership drive and that members should follow-up on those whom they invited to our October 15th breakfast. Bob Wood suggested that we contact Heidi Whear who will be moving her employment from Swampscott to Peabody. A potential great member! Fred said that the GSE team from England will be in the District virtually the entire month of May--and in Peabody the second week of May. The team is limited to two club visits per week, so we should sponsor a joint meeting on Thursday morning (yes, Fred, we're a breakfast club), May 13th.
Grace introduced our speaker, Dave Welbourn, of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF). Dave mentioned that twelve percent of the economy of the North Shore is the nonprofit sector. In Essex County, there are 2500 Nonprofit organizations. The idea of a community foundation is about 100 years old--it links all the nonprofits together and helps them with various operating assistance ideas. The ECCF is also producing a master calendar for the region so the nonprofits may coordinate their events so there's no overlapping. ECCF also works with school system education councils, getting them together. "What can we do together that we can't do separately?" The website for ECCF is www.eccf.org.
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Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Steve Padulsky collected $62.
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 Cathy (3rd week in a row--hmmmmm) nor Herb picked the Queen of Hearts so no-one won the $86.50!!!
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Reminders:
We'll have our Gold jewelry selling party on Thursday, November 12th, at 5:30PM. It will be open to the public and there may be a $5 cover charge with a cash bar. There will not be a meeting that morning--this will take its place.
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Mel reminds us to keep selling the Entertainment Books. He asks that you bring the sales money each week to the 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
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 President Cathy for her generous contributions.
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NEXT MEETINGS:
November 12: 5:30PM Gold Sale No morning meeting
November 19: Open
November 26: THANKSGIVING--No Meeting
December 3: Open
December 10: Open
December 17: Yankee Swap
December 24: CHRISTMAS EVE DAY--No Meeting
December 31: NEW YEAR'S EVE DAY--No Meeting
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:
February 9, 2010: World Understanding and Peace Dinner
March 23, 2010: Taste of The North Shore
April 14, 2010: District Assembly
May 13, 2010: Joint Meeting in Peabody with GSE Team (tentative)
Jimmy received a parrot for his birthday. The parrot was fully grown, with a very bad attitude and worse vocabulary.
Every other word was an expletive; those that weren't expletives were, to say the least, rude. Jimmy tried to change the bird's attitude by constantly saying polite words, playing soft music... anything he could think of. Nothing worked.
He yelled at the bird, and the bird got worse. He shook the bird, and the bird got madder and more rude.
Finally, in a moment of desperation, Jimmy put the parrot in the freezer.
For a few moments he heard the bird swearing, squawking, kicking and screaming and then, suddenly, there was absolute quiet.
Jimmy was frightened that he might have actually hurt the bird, and quickly opened the freezer door.
The parrot calmly stepped out onto Jimmy's extended arm and said, "I'm sorry that I offended you with my language and my actions, and I ask your forgiveness. I will endeavor to correct my behavior".
Jimmy was astounded at the changes in the bird's attitude and was about to ask what had changed him, when the parrot continued, "May I ask what the Chicken did?
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.
It is an exciting time for The Rotary Foundation and Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge. The Rotary Foundation is teaming up with world-renowned violinist and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman and the New York Philharmonic to present the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the PolioPlus Fund.
It is an honor that Mr. Perlman and the New York Philharmonic are supporting Rotary in our effort to achieve a polio-free world. Their participation demonstrates the importance of this unprecedented global health initiative.
The Concert to End Polio will be at 7:30 p.m., 2 December 2009, in Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City.
Concert tickets are $70-$200 and are currently on sale. A private reception with Perlman will follow the concert. A premium concert seat and admission to the reception is offered at a package price of $500. All proceeds will benefit Rotary's $200 Million Challenge.
A block of tickets have been reserved for Rotarians until 1 November. To order your tickets for the concert and post-concert reception, call the Philharmonic box office at 212-875-5656 and mention that you are a Rotarian.
I ask that you promote this benefit concert at all Rotary events you attend this fall. In addition, it would be great if you could promote this concert on your club web page. We have created a web banner ad and a concert ad that are both available at www.rotary.org/endpolioconcert for your use.
This concert will bring us one step closer to fulfilling our promise to eradicate polio and improve the future for the children of the world because The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands.
I hope you will join me at Lincoln Center where we will Celebrate Rotary and enjoy an evening of great music.
Sincerely,
Glenn E. Estess, Sr.
Chairman
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
