The Rotator - Archive  Apr 1, 2003

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		Officers & Directors		2002-2003
		President		David McKechnie
		President Elect		Greg Bover
		Treasurer		Jon Morse, CPA
		Secretary		Samuel J. Miceli
		Asst. Secretary		Bob O'Maley
		Directors	Bruce Horne	David Babson
			Joe Ciolino	Jim Marr
			Jim Perry	Donald Sudbay, Jr.
The Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.		District 7930 Governor Victor F. Saldanha
Chartered 1923	"Where Route 128 Begins"	District Website: wwww.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... David Babson, Cheryl Collins, Steve Curcuru, Alex Delis, Steve Dexter, Charlene DuBois, Catherine Henry, Bob Kershaw, Dave McArdle, Karl Muench, and Julie Sidon.Today's attendance is 41 present with 0 makeups out of 51 members for an average of 80%.

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                             April 1, 2003

Visiting Rotarians

     Oscar Padgen from the Topsfield Club, our guest speaker Phil Mellanson from Burlington, and from the Rockport Club, Dick Poore, Peter Anderson and Chase Kreis.      

Guests of Rotarians

     Ruth Pino had Katherine Ciluffo as her guest today. John Dugger had Marie Melanson as his guest, and Greg Bover had Rick Quenonis as his guest. 

Interact Club

     Interact members visiting today are as follows:  Jamie Semor, Lauren MacDonald and Justine Miller.  Our speaker today was Jamie, who spoke about his school activities and future plans.

Makeups

     No make ups were reported today.     

Happy Thoughts

     Mary Black was happy to accompany her mother to a Science and Education conference held recently in Philadelphia.  The bonus of the conference was that the mother and daughter team accepted a check from the Toyota Corporation in the amount of $10,000 to be used  for the Science Park at the West Parish School.

     Cayte Ward was happy the AGH fundraiser "Dining on the Rocks" is gearing up to be a success again.  If you have not signed up, check with Cayte for time and date.

     Ruth Pino was happy to be the 3rd top real-estate agent in her office again.  Congrats Ruth!

     Jon Morse attended the rally held last Sunday at City Hall in support of our troops.  Jon was happy to see such a display of patriotism in Gloucester.

     Jim McKenna was happy to announce that his wife had her first ultrasound and the couple will be expecting their first baby this summer.  Congrats to the McKenna's!

     Jim McKenna was also happy that Joe Ciolino took out nominations papers today for re-election  to the Ward One seat on the City Council.  Jim said he will be looking forward to working with Joe again.  (Jim, thank you for the kind words!)

     Bruce Horne was happy his Rotary contacts recently came in handy.  Bruce has been complaining about broken equipment at the YMCA for some time with no results.  The solution was to tell fellow Rotarian Rick Doucette, the Y manager, about the problem - which was solved quickly. 

     Oscar Pagen was happy to be taking up residence at Shore Cliff.  Oscar is happy with his new digs.

Anniversaries & Birthdays

     No birthdays or anniversaries were reported today.

Fines

     President David fined himself again for not remembering to bring the Rotarian  birthday list. 

     Greg Bover was fined for attending his PEPS conference this weekend.

     The Rockport Rotarians attending today were all fined $4.  Welcome to Gloucester!

     Steve Kaity was fined $2 for being Steve today.

     Don Sudbay Jr. was fined for losing his old badge and having the club order him a new one.

Vacations

     Pat Thorpe went to Disney World with his family.  Scott Chernov went to Newport with his fiancee' and spent some quality time with his parents.  Scott is so impressed that his fiancee' keeps on spending time with his family and still wants to marry him.  That is true love!    

A Rotary Moment

    The next Rotary Moment will be given by Steve Curcuru, followed by the week after by Alex Delis.

Club News

     President David announced the second reading for proposed new member attorney Sal Fronterio, and the first reading for Neil Mathews of Standard Electric.  If any member has a question or comment about the proposed new members please contact President David.

     President David had a challenge to members.  Any member who can beat selling 140 tickets in a day will receive a $5 reward from him.  President David hold the title and challenges any one to top him.

     The board decided to donate $500 to the East Gloucester Elementary Playground Fund.  The donation will be given as part of our June disbursements, but a commitment was needed in advance in order to have our Rotary Club posted on a sign listing sponsors.

Winners and Losers... No one  won the beverage of choice.  Joe Ciolino won the money, and the flowers were given by President David to Marie Melanson, the wife our guest speaker.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers....  John Dugger was happy to introduce our guest speaker today, Bill Malonson, the founder and director of the Twelve Step Education Program of New England.  Bill runs a home in several cities - Billerica, Leominster, Quincy, Salem, Saugus and Woburn. The homes welcome the homeless addict seeking recovery, and the dual diagnosed- those diagnosed with mental illness and addiction.

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on salad and baked fish.  The dinners at my table gave the food 5 +++ stars.  When asked what would improve the meal the dinners suggested the meal was excellent.

Sow The Seeds Of Love The Rotary International Theme for 2002-2003