The Rotator - Archive  Feb 3, 2004

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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, Joanne Carbone, Scott Chernov, Cheryl Collins, Tony Corrao, Mike Costello, Steve Curcuru, Alex Delis, Charlene Glynn, Catherine Henry, Rudy Macchi, Dave McArdle, Jim McKenna, Donnna Morris, Bob O'Maley, Joe Parisi, John Scuccimara, Don Sudbay Jr., Sue Todd and Cayte Ward.   Today's attendance is 35 present with 4 makeups out of 54 members for an average of 74%

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                             February 3, 2004

Visiting Rotarians

     Jonathan Woodman, our guest speaker today, was visiting from the Newburyport Club.

Guests of Rotarians

     No guests of Rotarians were reported today.

Interact Club

     Interact members were not present at today's meeting.

Makeups

     Bill Mantz made up in Ipswich, and at the  Hamilton/Wenham Club.  Joe Ciolino made up at a District Meeting in Burlington, David Slade made up in Manchester.

Happy Thoughts

       Steve Kaity was happy to have his new brother-in-law-to-be, David Stotzer, shovel out his family when Steve was away on a business trip.

       Bruce Horne was happy to have been invited to participate in the Rockport Rotary career day held in the Rockport Schools. Bruce also acknowledged Sinikka Nogelo for helping out during the event.

        Jon Morse was happy the Patriots won the Super Bowl, but is also looking forward to the off season to rest.

        Ruth Pino wanted us to know that Brad Pierce is quite a gentleman. Ruth, we all know that!  Ruth was also happy that Dave Stotzer is such a good photographer, as he is doing a portrait of her grandchild.  Dave, it sounds like Ruth is a satisfied customer!

       Greg Bover was happy to have his tenant agree to terminate their lease on his house in Magnolia, now he and his family could move back to Gloucester.

        Rick Doucette was happy to have seen a play called "Flanagan's Wake" now playing at the Somerville Theater.  The author is a friend of Rick's and a Gloucester native.  The play might come to Gloucester in the near future.

Anniversaries & Birthdays

      Charlie Foster and Julie Sidon celebrated their birthdays today.  Ruth and Ralph Pino celebrated 35 "wonderful" years of marriage.

Fines

      Past Chamber Presidents were fined for a photo in the Cricket Press.

      Julie Sidon confessed (because nobody around here gets the publication) to her photo being in two farm trade magazines.

      Steve Dexter paid a late arrival and early departure fiines today.

      President Greg issued a fine to all late comers.

      Barry Pett was fined for discussing business at the President table during lunch.

      President Greg issued a pin fine.

     Members talking about Janet Jackson and "nipplegate" were fined. (Everybody in the room participated in this fine.)

Vacations

       John Dugger went skiing with daughter Sam in Vermont.

       Barry Pett spent 3 warm days in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

       David McKechnie vacationed in Lake Tahoe.

       David Slade spent a week with family in Long Beach, California (not Rockport).

A Rotary Moment

    The next Rotary Moment will be given by John Scuccimarra, followed by the week after by Julie Sidon, and Carole Sharoff.

Club News

        The Board of Directors will meet at C. B. Fisk on February 17 at 7:30 am.

        Shorecliff and Rotary are joining forces to staff the kitchen at the Open Door Pantry from 4:00 to 6:30 pm on February 25 and March 24.  The address is 38 Emerson Avenue.  Please sign up with Shirley Conway to pick a date.

       Mike Costello announced that on February 25, a "team bowling " event to benefit the Seafood Festival will take place at the Cape Ann Bowling Center.

Winners and Losers...Howard Frisch won the beverage of choice. Leo Bergeron won the money, and Marc Sandler won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers.... John Dugger introduced our guest speaker today, Jonathan Woodman, architect and head of A to Z development.  Jonathan talked about the restoration process for downtown Newburyport back in the 1970's

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on baked salmon and vegetables.  The dinners at my table gave the food 5 stars.  When asked what would improve the meal the dinners had no suggestions

Lend a Hand The Rotary International Theme for 2003-2004