The Rotator - Archive  Dec 16, 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... Josh Arnold, Leo Bergeron, Mary Black, Gaye Brown, Scott Chernov, Steve Dexter, Rick Doucette, Charlene Glynn, Catherine Henry, Donna Morris, Marc Sandler, Don Sudbay Jr., Sue Todd, Cayte Ward. Today's attendance is 39 present with 0 makeups out of 52 members for an average of 75%

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                             December 16, 2003

Visiting Rotarians

       Kathy Morris and John Thompson from the Rockport Club were visiting today.   

Guests of Rotarians

       Howard Frisch had Coral Grande as his guest today.

Interact Club

     Interact members present today are: Elyse McNiff, Jon Blair, Emily Delora, Jill Cooney, Kevin Wheeler, and Joel Favazza. The members gave quick report on the past and future activities of their group.

Makeups

      No makeups were reported today.

Happy Thoughts

      Bruce Horne was happy his daughter was accepted to the University of New England.

      Jon Morse was happy he survived the 3 1/2 hour drive in a snowstorm coming back from the last Patriot's game in Foxborough.

      George Roark was happy that our troops in Iraq finally caught up with Sadam.

      Herb Goodick was happy his daughter (who lives in Connecticut) is sending a private corporate jet (Texaco) to pick up Herb and his wife at the Beverly airport for a short family visit with his daughter and family.

      David Slade was happy to be spending Christmas with his daughter in California.

      Tony Carrao was happy that it was not snowing.  (Tony plows in the winter)

      Jim Marr was happy to be sitting in Florida and far away from the 20" of snow in Gloucester.

      Bob Ryan was happy to have received a scholarship from the New England Transportation Society.  Bob has been working at night toward his MBA at Suffix University.

Anniversaries & Birthdays

       Sinikka Nogelo celebrated her birthday today.  No anniversaries were reported today.

Fines

       Member who did not show up for the Holiday Party were fined by President Greg.

       John Dugger was fined for being late.

Vacations

       Jim Marr went to Sanibel Island, Florida for 10 days.

       Joe Ciolino spent 8 days in the great state of Nebraska. 

       Dennis Acker spent 2 weeks on Cape Ann.   

A Rotary Moment

      The next Rotary Moment will be given by Ruth Pino followed by the week after by George Roark, and Bob Ryan.

Club News

       Howard Frisch presented Coral Grande, the Director of the Gloucester Senior Center, with a check for $1000 today.  The money was part of the profit from the Pancake Breakfast held last August.

        Barry Pett ran an impromptu auction last Tuesday.  Barry had two tickets to the Christmas show at the North Shore Theater, plus tickets to the gambling ship.  David Slade and Brad Pierce battled it out with Brad coming out the winner to the tune of $80.00.  The proceeds will go the the Stage Fort Park Centennial Project.  Thank you to Barry Pett for coming up with the tickets and thanks also to Brad Pierce for adding some gift items to our regular raffle. 

Winners and Losers... No one won the beverage of choice.  Rudy Macchi won the money, and Becky Sumner won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle. Jon Morse won the poster, and Fran Mondello won the box of candy.

Speakers....  Coral Grande thanked us for our donatio and talked about the current activities at the Senior Center.  President Greg presented Coral with another check as a Christmas present from us  to the Senior Center for a T.V to be used in their low-vision room.

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on stuffed cabbage and potatoes.  The dinners at my table gave the food 5 stars.  When asked what would improve the meal the dinners suggested the meal was just fine.  (Stuffed cabbage is this writer's favorite meal!)

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