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:
Guests: Iris Weaver, guest of speaker Ha Tran
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President Cathy thanked Joanne for all of her hard work on the International festival. Thanks were also extended to all who worked on Sunday. We sold out of pies and made aprofit of $1,300. President Cathy then tanked all who participated in the Golf Tournament--golfers, sponsors, advertisers, raffle donators and volunteers. This event, too, was highly successful. The final results won't be known for a while, but it looks like we may have made a $5,500 profit. Steve Smith and Peggy Pedro will be the club's representatives at the District Membership/Foundation seminar on October 1st. Any others who want to go to this terrfic event should contact President Cathy. At the time of our meeting, Martha was with the Peabody Ed Council to discuss the S.T.O.P. program which will begin in January. President Cathy read an e-mail she received that the Beverly Rotary club was to meet for lunch today and have as its speaker a marine biologist to speak on local farming.
We're putting together a care package for Grace's son who's serving in the Marines in Afghanastan. She'll give us a wish list soon.
President Cathy reminded us that there will be a Board meeting on Monday, September 21st, at GraVoc at 5:30PM. She then thanked Mel for his volunteering to greet everyone at our meetings, selling raffle tickets and welcoming visitors. Mel turned the table and thanked President Cathy for her donation of bottles and cans. Steve Smith reminded everyone to send him names of prospective members using the classification lists handed out and e-mailed a few weeks ago. If you want, he'll do the legwork. Perhaps prospective members could be invited to our October 15th meeting with the City Council and the Mayor.
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Grace introduced our speaker, Ha Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant who was one of the "boat people" forced to depart Vietnam in 1978. She owns her own consulting firm, Hope and Power. She told a very moving narrative of her well-off life in Vietnam before the fall to North Vietnam, her 1975 marriage to a stranger arranged by her father, and her hasty retreat from Vietnam with her husband and two children (ages 18 months and 28 days), all with a broken ankle and not much else. And she concluded with an emotional description of her finally expressing her love to her husband after 23 years of marriage. There were a few sets of eyes in our group that weren't completely dry. She now has 4 children and a couple of grandchildren.
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 $50.
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: Steve Padulsky picked the Ace of Diamonds and won the $320!!! A new deck will be opened next week and a new winning card will be chosen.
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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 24: General Business Meeting
October 1: Temporarily Open
October 8: Robert Dionne, Atlantic Ambulance, Salem Rotarian
October 15: Mayor Bonfanti and the City Council
October 22: Jen Andersen--For Kids Only/Y-It-Matters
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.
Mr. Wilson was the chairman of the United Way, which had never received a donation from the most successful lawyer in town. He called on the attorney in an attempt to make him mend his ways. "Our research shows that you made a profit of over $600,000 last year, and yet you have not given a dime to the community charities! What do you have to say for yourself?"
The lawyer replied, "Do you know that my mother is dying of a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income? Do you know about my brother, the disabled veteran, who is blind and in a wheelchair? Do you know about my sister, whose husband died in a traffic accident, leaving her with three children?"
The charity solicitor admitted that he had no knowledge of any of this. "Well, since I don't give any money to them, why should I give any to you?"
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?
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
