Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 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:
September 6: Christine Doherty (Jeff)
September 7: Norm Burnett
September 22: Dave Gravel (Cathy)
Jody Pedro (Peggy)
September Wedding Anniversaries:
September 3: Fred deNapoli and Rachel Williams
September 21: Martha and Chuck Holden
September 28: Cathy and 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: Monday, September 21st, 5:30PM, at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Team Assignments: STEVE MORAD (Meal Pickup), VANESSA SILVIERA (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 (not changed yet, though) and specific responsibilities.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: Fred deNapoli (Oh, never mind--he's a member of our club)
Guests:
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President Cathy reminded everyone about the District Membership/Foundation Forum that will be at the Sheraton Ferncroft in Danvers on Thursday, October 1st. Registration is at 3:00PM and the program ends with dinner. So it won't take up a lot of your work day. Please let President Cathy know if you'll attend this very informative session. President Cathy mentioned that we received a thank you note from Friends Forever. Joanne still needs volunteers to help at the International Festival on Sunday. She ordered 175 apple pies and 75 blueberry pies, which will sell for $10 each or slices at $2 each. Volunteers for set-up should be at GraVoc by 9:30AM. President Cathy told the assemblage that the Golf Tournament is in great shape. We have 128 golfers so far and we have plenty of sponsors, adbook and raffle donations. Additions are welcome!! On Saturday, September 12th, we'll be handing out bike safety kits. Volunteers are needed.
PRAY FOR GREAT WEATHER FOR SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY!!!!!!
Mel reported that he and Joanne served Citizens For Adequate Housing last Thursday. There were a few kids and 3 families who were served. After waiting a half hour, they left the food there for self-service. Mel thanked Fred and Gary for buying 10 and 12 Entertainment Books respectively. He also thanked Vanessa for her donation of bottles and cans.
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Today's scheduled speaker, pictured above, did not make our meeting. He'll be rescheduled.
Ed.'s note: Another superb upcoming event is NorthEast Link where you'll get to meet and hear from Ambassadorial Scholars from all around the world. This year it will be in Boxborough and will be on Saturday, September 26th, and Sunday morning, September 27th.
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District Governor Ingrid Brown will visit the club on October 29th.
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Happy Dollars: Sergeant-at-arms Steve Padulsky collected $77.
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 Peggy Pedro nor Jeff picked the Ace of Diamonds, so neither won the $307. 14 cards remain!
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Reminders:
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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 Vanessa for her generous contributions.
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NEXT MEETINGS:
September 17: Ha Tran, Vietnamese Immigrant, Motivational Speaker
September 24: General Business Meeting
October 1: Jen Andersen--For Kids Only/Y-It-Matters
October 8: Robert Dionne, Atlantic Ambulance, Salem Rotarian
October 15: Mayor Bonfanti and the City Council
October 22: Temporarily Open
October 29: District Governor Ingrid Brown
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.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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?
