The Rotator - Archive  Aug 26, 2003

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		Officers & Directors		2003-2004
		President		Greg Bover
		President Elect		Joe Ciolino
		Treasurer		Jon Morse, CPA
		Secretary		Samuel J. Miceli
		Asst.Secretary		Carole Sharoff
		Directors	Jim Marr- Club Service	Bruce Horne-Vocational Service
			DonSudbayJr.-CommunityService	Steve Dexter-At Large Mary Black -At Large
			Sinikka Nogelo -International Service	Joe Ciolino-Pres. Elect
The Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.		District 7930 Governor Paul E. Nader Sr.
Chartered 1923	"Where Route 128 Begins"	District Website: wwww.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... Denis Acker, Steve Curcuru, Alex Delis, Steve Dexter, John Dugger, Catherine Henry, Rudy Macchi, Bill Mantz, Neil Mathews, Dave McArdle, Jim McKenna, Fran Mondello, Bob O'Maley, George Roark, Julie Sidon, and Pat Thorpe.  Today's attendance is 37 present with 1 makeup out of 54 members for an average of 70%

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                             August 26, 2003

Visiting Rotarians

     No visiting Rotarians today.    

Guests of Rotarians

     Mike Gigliotti's wife Marion was his guest, Herb Goodick had his wife Ruth as his guest, and Bob Ryan had Heidi Dallin and Yoichi Udagawa, our guest speaker today, as his guests.

Interact Club

     Interact members are on summer school break.

Makeups

     One makeup was reported today.

Happy Thoughts

      Scott Chernov was happy that his wife is recovering nicely from recent knee surgery.

      Cheryl Collins was very happy that the Rockport schools are now in session.  Summer break is over at the Collins/Aparo household!

      Don Sudbay Jr. was happy the bowling alley is now open for business.  Good luck to the Sudbays!!

      David Slade was happy his youngest daughter is moving out of his house to her new job in California.

Anniversaries & Birthdays

     No birthdays were reported today.  Becky Sumner celebrated 9 "wonderful " years of marriage.

Fines

     Joe Ciolino paid a photo fine in the GDT's.

     Rick Doucette was fined for getting Mike Gigliotti's name wrong.

     Mike Costello was fined for being late for the blessing.

Vacations

     Mike Costello went to New York, David Babson went to Maine, and President Greg went to California.

A Rotary Moment

    The next Rotary Moment will be given by Neil Mathews, followed by the week after by David McArdle, followed by David McKechnie.  I am adding a third name to the Rotary Moment list.  Brad is burning out coming up with Rotary Moments every weekm so now we will have two backups!

Club News

    The Gloucester vs.. Rockport Golf Outing is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 11th at 1 pm at the the Rockport Golf Club.  The cost is yet to be determined.  Please sign up with Bruce Horne. Ringers even remotely associated with our club have been accepted in the past.  This is a must -win competition.  Loosing is not an option.

Winners and Losers... Josh Arnold won the beverage of choice.  David Babson won the money, and Steve Kaity won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers.... Bob Ryan had Yoichi Udagawa, conductor of the Cape Ann Symphony, as our guest speaker today. 

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on a chicken parmigiana sandwich..  The dinners at my table gave the food 4 stars.  When asked what would improve the meal the dinners had no suggestions.

Lend a Hand The Rotary International Theme for 2003-2004