The Rotator - Archive  Apr 13, 2010

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Club Number 6613	Officers
	Ruth Pino Josh Arnold Jon Morse, CPA Howard Frisch, CPA Leo Bergeron Isaac Wilhelm Carole Sharoff Joe Ciolino	--  --  --  --  --  --  --    --  --	President President Elect Treasurer Auditor Sergeant At Arms Alternate Secretary     Rotator Editor &  Internet Officer

District 7930 Governor - Ingrid Brown  2009-2010

District Web site: www.Rotary7930.org

 Missed and Missing...  Roger Armstrong, Jim Cooke, Sue Ellis, Meredith Fine, Charlie Foster, Howard Frisch, Sal Frontiero, Bruce Horne, Ray Lamont, Mike Linquata, Jim Marr, Brian McCook, Dave McKechnie, Sam Miceli, Jon Morse, Steve Noble, Barry Pett, Geroge Roark, Bob Ryan, Marc Sandler, Kim Spaner, Dave Stotzer, Todd Tanger, and Tony Verga.  Today's attendance is 44 present with 0 makeups out of 59 members for an average of 75%.

Meeting Report:  Gloucester Rotary Club                                 April 13, 2010

Visiting Rotarians

No visiting Rotarians were in attendance today.

Guests of Rotarians

Maggi Rosa had Sharon DeBoes as her guest today.

Interact Club

The Interact club members present are: Juniors, Louisa Brown, Kayla Burke, and Vice President Emily Doucette.  Emily spoke today about her future plans after high school.

Makeups

No makeups were reported today.

Rotarians can now make up online. Check out www.rotaryeclubone.org and allow yourself 30 minutes to complete the makeup. Make sure you print off a receipt of having completed your online makeup, and give your receipt to Carole Sharoff in order for the attendance records to be adjusted.

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Maggi Rosa celebrated her birthday today.  No anniversaries were reported today.

Vacations

Rick Doucette spent 3 days in Coco Beach, Florida. Mike Costello spent 5 days in Pennsylvania.

Happy Thoughts

Brad Pierce was happy our newly planted trees in the Rotary traffic island are starting to bloom.  Steve Dexter was happy 124 people became newly minted US citizens during a swearing in ceremony at Gloucester City Hall. Julie Geary had an Interact happy thought.  Rick Doucette was happy that the long planned YMCA trip to New Orlean's Saint Bernard Parish is finally here.  John Dugger gave a courtesy warning that his daughter Sam is now licensed to drive a car.  Julie LaFontaine is happy  her daughter is celebrating her 21st birthday.  Tom Dexter was happy  his child has been nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, and has the honor of being the youngest nominee.  Christopher Farmer is happy he is finally going to have his knee surgery.  Greg Bover is happy to have sold his boat.

Fines

President Ruth fined Rotarians who did not see the large Massachusetts State Highway Rotary sign that was lifted (borrowed) by Brad Pierce for our first lunch meeting at Cruiseport.  (Just a point of information -  Brad did return it to its fallen position under some trees at Grant Circle.)  Members who did not attend the Spaghetti Supper were fined.  Rotarians who did not car pool today were fined.  Rudy Macchi was fined for being Rudy.  Mike Costello was fined for answering Rudy's question.  President Ruth fined Rotarians who have not had a guest to a Rotary meeting the past year.  Sheree DeLorenzo was fined for not having her birthday listed on the club website.  (Sheree has listed her birthday now!)  Sheree also paid several photo fines.

Club News

_{The Marrs and the Corbins enjoying their pizza at the Interact Pizza Off.}

_{Terri Jones, Sue Ellis and Becky Sumner taking a break at the Spaghetti Supper.} 

_{Our Interact Club members: the future of Rotary International!} 

_{President Ruth and Julie Geary at the Spaghetti Supper}

Here's lunch:

May  20    Pot luck

 2009 / 2010 Speaker Assignments

Speaker Co-Chairs for  April are:

Bruce Horne and Steve Noble.

April   20    Gloucester Police Chief Mike Lane

April   27    Open

Save the Date

April    25    Pride Stride 2010

April    27    Paul Harris Luncheon

May       1    Rotary Track Meet at the Peabody High School

May      1    Paint and scrape the band stand at Stage Fort Park - Saturday starting at 6:30 am till12:00 Noon

May      6    Thursday evening starting at 5:30 pm, the 30th Anniversary of Cape Ann Television event will be honoring Sinikka Nogello

May      8   First Parish Cemetery cleanup - 8AM to noonish.     

May   11  Today is "Significant Other" day at Rotary.  Take the opportunity  to share your Rotary experience with your spouse, partner or "Significant Other" by bringing them to Rotary with you.

ABC of Rotary Moment

Tom Alves is up for next Tuesday's ABC of Rotary Moment, David Slade is first backup, Scott Smith is the second backup, and the third backup is Kim Spaner. Please have your ABC of Rotary Moment ready.

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Winners and Losers: Mike Sarraf gave the Rotary Moment today.  Brad Pierce won the $10.00, Don Sudbay Jr.  won the flowers, and no winners in the card raffle.

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Speaker today: Josh Arnold introduced our speaker,  Mary Halpin from the Arthritis Walk to be  scheduled in  May.

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The Rotary International Theme for 2009-2010