Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
PRESIDENT: Steve Morad
PRESIDENT-ELECT: Cathy Gravel
VICE PRESIDENT: Nichole Nelsen
SECRETARY: Gary Epstein
TREASURER: Loring Merrow
SERGEANT AT ARMS: Jeff Doherty
PAST PRESIDENT: Grace Martins
BOARD MEMBERS: Scott Bronstein, Tom Rowen, Steve Smith, Peggy Pedro, Joanne Donovan
Rotary International President (2008-2009): D. K. Lee
District Governor (2008-2009): Tom Elliott
DG-Elect (2009-2010) : Ingrid Brown
DG-Nominee (2010-2011): Steve May
Assistant District Governor: Helene Andersen Michel
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Peabody Club Members at District Level:
Fred deNapoli (ADG for Ipswich, Malden, Saugus, Wakefield)
Peggy Pedro (ADG for Chelsea, Everett, TBM, Swampscott
Herb Harris (Outbound Ambassadorial Scholar Coordinator)
Cathy Gravel (Youth Exchange Student Host)
OCTOBER Theme: Vocational Services
October 3rd:
Team Assignments: HERB HARRIS (Meal Pickup), GAYLE CAVANAUGH (Salad), TOM ROWEN (Cookies)
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 new assignments.
Question(s) of the week:
What is this a picture of (a) and where was it taken (b)?
If you cannot answer the question at our meeting next week, or by e-mail if you don't attend next week, be prepared to pay the consequences.
Welcome New Member: Julie Erickson, Classification: Digital Communication Services.
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: Nelson Soares de Melo from Brazil.
Guests: Valdete Melo, Jose Marlio Ferreira Junior and Darlenia Almeida Guimaraes, all guests of Grace Martins.
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Today's Breakfast: Same as last week and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before.
President Steve reminded us that there will be a Board meeting on Monday, September 29, at 5:00PM, at Cathy Gravel's office. Mel Babner has the Entertainment Books. We don't have a final tally on the Golf Tournamnet yet, but President Steve wanted to thank Joanne Donovan and Peggy Pedro for all their hard work keeping things in order and organized. Answer (a): Moonshine Still. It was Joanne's first time driving a golf cart and she drove like a pro!! Steve also thanked Steve Smith, who was a real sparkplug for the Tournament, and Rudy Van Oeveren, Herb Harris, Cathy Gravel, Peggy Lyons and Gayle Cavanaugh for their efforts.
President Steve told us that the Taste of the North Shore tickets are in. It's not too early to start promoting our largest fundraiser every year. In the coming months we'll all be visiting family--beginning next week for Rosh Hashanah, into November and December for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Channukah. Push sales of the raffle tickets as gifts.
Fred deNapoli and Grace Martins are on the District selection committee for the Outbound GSE team to South Africa. The team will be going to Johannesburg at the end of February, returning at the end of March. If you'd like to be considered as the team leader--as Grace was a few months ago--contact Fred or Grace. And if you know any non-Rotarian between the ages of 20 and 45 who might be interested in going, lead them to Fred and Grace.
Mel Babner reminded everyone to sell the Entertainment Books. He thanked Fred deNapoli and Chuck Holden for taking 10 and 5 books, respectively. And he thanks Cathy Gravel for selling 10 books!!
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Grace Martins introduced our guest speaker, Amy-Jayne McCabe, who spoke of her Charity organization, USACares. This organization assists veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, something Amy-Jayne readily acknowledged that the government should be doing. They try to help financially and emotionally when needed. Amy-Jayne showed a brief video that featured the organization's spokeman, Dennis Miller.
Reminders:
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The Taste Of The North Shore now has three restaurants signed up. And Bob Sweeney is working on the tickets. They should be ready for the Golf Tournament. The Chamber of Commerce will be sending out e-mail reminders to "Save the Date" of March 24th, 2009.
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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 Babner. Every nickel helps!! Mel Thanks Dick Berg, Ralph Raynard and Gayle Cavanaugh for their generous contributions.
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Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, is asking 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.
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures 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: The pool was $Unknown. $12 was added this week. Neither Cathy Gravel nor Cathy Gravel (no, that's not a typo--her number was picked twice) picked the KING OF CLUBS or the $50 Joker.
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Your Contributions to Rotary at Work
The total of Donations that Peabody Rotary made during the 2007-2008 year under President Grace: $22,208.83 !!
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SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS:
SEPTEMBER 6: CHRISTINE DOHERTY (JEFF)
SEPTEMBER 7: NORM BURNETT
SEPTEMBER 15: SCOTT BRONSTEIN
SEPTEMBER 22: DAVE GRAVEL (CATHY)
. JODI PEDRO (PEGGY)
OCTOBER 8: PAUL PIECOTT
OCTOBER 21: GRACE MARTINS
SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
SEPTEMBER 3: FRED DENAPOLI & RACHEL WILLIAMS
SEPTEMBER 6: MIKE & PHYLLIS EIDELMAN
SEPTEMBER 28: CATHY & DAVE GRAVEL
OCTOBER 18: GAYLE AND DONALD CAVANAUGH
OCTOBER 19: MIKE AND STEPHANIE TALLO
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.
Upcoming Programs:
NEXT MEETINGS:
OCTOBER 2: General Business Meeting
OCTOBER 9: YOM KIPPUR
OCTOBER 16: DISTRICT GOVERNOR TOM ELLIOTT AND INSTALLATION OF NEW MEMBERS!!!!!!
OCTOBER 23: Tracey Stanley, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of MA Bay
OCTOBER 30:
NOVEMBER 6: General Business Meeting
NOVEMBER 13:
NOVEMBER 20: Carmine Nigro, FBI: Economic Espionage/Counterintelligence
NOVEMBER 27: NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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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!
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UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
MARCH 24TH: TASTE OF THE NORTH SHORE at Danversport Yacht Club.
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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!!
Answer (b): Blue Ridge Mountains, Virgina.
" Let us keep our hearts strong, enthusiasm fresh,hope high. As long as we keep imbued with this spirit, Rotary can never die."
The Rotarian, August 1926
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?
