The Rotator - Archive  Dec 22, 2009

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District 7930 Governor - Ingrid Brown  2009-2010

District Web site: www.Rotary7930.org

 Missed and Missing...  Roger Armstrong, Josh Arnold, Ed Collard, Shirley Conway, Roger Corbin, Sheree DeLorenzo, Rick Doucette, John Dugger, Sue Ellis, Meredith Fine, Charlie Foster, Howard Frisch, Sal Frontiero, Bruce Horne, Terri Jones, Ray Lamont, Dave McKechnie, John Morris, Steve Noble, Sinikka Nogelo, Bob Ryan, Mike Sarraf, Becky Sumner, Todd Tanger, Pat Thorpe, Tony Verga, and Issac Wilhelm.  Today's attendance is 38 present with 2 makeups out of 67 members for an average of 59%.

Meeting Report:  Gloucester Rotary Club                                December 22, 2009

Visiting Rotarians

No visiting Rotarians were reported today.

Guests of Rotarians

Eric Noble had Brian Wright as his guest.  Jim Cooke's guest was his brother and our speaker today, Marty Cooke.

Interact Club

The Interact club members were not present today.

Makeups

Julie LaFontaine made up at the Beverly and Rockport Clubs.

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

No birthdays were reported today.  Mike Costello is celebrating 39 "wonderful" years of marriage.

Vacations

Brian McCook spent one  week in the United Kingdom.

Happy Thoughts

Brad Pierce was happy to be the first responder to a small skidding accident.  Steve Kaity was happy to see State Trooper Marty Cook wearing a holster made by his company, Strong Company.  Barry Pett was happy  the annual trip for Santa (Rudy) to go to the Shriner's Hospital all went well and the weather cooperated.  Rudy was recognized by the Board of Directors of Shriner's Hospital for his dedication to the children  in coming to hospital bearing gifts every year.  Christopher Farmer was happy a newly elected City Councilor came to our Rotary Lunch at  GHS, but dutifully noted that Bob was not his guest, as was stated in the Rotator.  (President Ruth clarified that Bob was her guest.)  Chris Costello did some quick math today, if his parents have been married for 39 years, and he is 37 years old, the math works out.  (Chris, did your parents ever tell you that you were a premature baby weighing in at 10 pounds?) Don Sudbay was happy to have saved the elder Costello some money today.  Mike wanted to install a remote starter for his wife's car for Christmas.  Don remembered that the car that Mike purchased had a remote starter already factory installed.  Maggie Rosa was happy  the O'Maley School kids earned $608.00 for their special project, which also received some newspaper ink in the Globe North section of the Boston Globe.  Greg Bover was happy to receive a variance for permission to build a deck  he purchased at a Chamber of Commerce auction 2 years ago.

Fines

Tony Corrao was fined for having a red shirt on today.  President Ruth also fined all  Rotarians present for not wearing a red shirt today, go figure.  Christopher Farmer was fined for the GHS Football team being featured on a High Five segment of Channel 5 news.  TD Bank North was fined for having a female teller outside on the sidewalk shoveling snow in front of their bank building.

Club News

Here's lunch:

December 29 - Soup and sandwich, lemon meringue pie for dessert.

 2009 / 2010 Speaker Assignments

Speaker Co-Chairs for the month of December are Jim Cooke and George Roark.

12/29 -Ha Tran, a Spiritual Motivational Speaker (aka Tony Corrao)

ABC of Rotary Moment

Sheree DeLorenzo is up for next Tuesday's ABC of Rotary Moment, Julie LaFontaine is first backup, Ray LaMont  is the second backup, and the third backup is Matt Langis. Please have your ABC of Rotary Moment ready.

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Winners and Losers: Steve Kaity gave the Rotary Moment today.  Carole Sharoff won the $10.00, Julie Geary won the flowers, and no winners in the card raffle today.

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Speaker today: Jim Cooke introduced our speaker today, his brother, Marty Cooke, a Massachusetts State Trooper.  Marty spoke about his day to day experiences in being a State Trooper.

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· The Rotary International Theme for 2009-2010

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