The Rotator - Archive  Jan 4, 2010

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	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, Shirley Conway, Sheree DeLorenzo, Steve Dexter, Rick Doucette, Charlie Foster, Julie Geary, Ray Lamont, Jon Morse, Steve Noble, John Rando, Marc Sandler, Dave Stotzer, and Todd Tanger.  Today's attendance is 49 present with 0 makeups out of 67 members for an average of 73%.

Meeting Report:  Gloucester Rotary Club                                January 10, 2009

Visiting Rotarians

Bob and Barbara Ellis were visiting from the Rockport Club today.

Guests of Rotarians

Ed Collard had his newly engaged daughter Amy as his guest today.  Kim Spanner had a fellow bank employee as her guest today.

                             ^{2010 Rotary Float}

Interact Club

The Interact club members present today are Francesco Passalacqua, Sara Dolloff, and Eleanor Keller.   Francesco spoke about his GHS activities and his future goals.

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

No birthdays or anniversaries were reported today.

Vacations

John Dugger was happy to report on his week in Rochester, Vermont.  Steve Kaity had a week to himself in Louisville.  Pat Thorpe went to Brenton Woods.  Sinikka Nogelo was happy to spend a week in Magnolia.  Dan Ottenheimer spent 3 days in New York City.  Eric Noble went to Houston to see the Patriots lose.  Tom Dexter went to New York City and enjoyed a visit to the Guggenheim museum.

Happy Thoughts

Roger Corbin is celebrating 33 years of perfect Rotary attendance.  Congrats Roger! Matt Langs was happy to go to Fenway Park.  John Duggan was happy that his Buckeyes won.  Joe Ciolino had three happy thoughts today: one,  he was happy to be sworn in for his fourth term as a Gloucester City Councilor on New Year's Day.  Two, Joe was happy that University of Nebraska won it bowl game on New Years Day with a 33 to 0 shutout.  Third, Joe was just so sad to hear that a small college based in Chicago lost it bowl game (in overtime!) by 1 point.  Joe wished that he could magically transfer some of Nebraska's many scored points to Northwestern, but it was not be be.  Christopher Farmer was happy  the Massachusetts Inspector General smelled a rat concerning the permitting of a charter scool in Gloucester.  Christopher was also happy to to see a Red Belly Woodpecker in his yard recently.   Greg Bover was happy to have spotted a Barn Owl at the C.B. Fisk property.   Julie LaFontaine was happy to have learned about the Interact children.  David Mckechnie was happy the Cape Ann contingent never lets down the Children at the Shriner's Hospital for Christmas.  David gave a special tip of the hat to our own, in-house Santa, Rudy Macchi.  The surplus toys donated are stored at the hospital and will be rationed out as needed during the year.  Carolle Sharoff announced  she is ready to start working on the Obama Re-election Campaign. Sinikka Nogelo was happy to announce the birth of a new granddaughter.

Fines

President Ruth issued a fine for any Rotarian wearing a pin striped shirt . Rotarians sitting at the same table as last week were fined.

Club News

Here's lunch for the next several weeks:

January 12    Chicken rolled in prosciutto, rice, salad, peach cobbler for dessert

January 19    Pot roast, salad, apple pie for dessert

January 26   Turkey tetrazzini, salad and a pumpkin roll for dessert

February  2  Super Bowl Tailgating Party with chicken fingers, mozzarella salad,   chips and salsa.

 2009 / 2010 Speaker Assignments

Speaker Co-Chairs for  January are Howard Frisch and Kim Spanner.

January 12  Dave Cohen, entertainment, humor and motivation

January 19  Joan Whitney, Gloucester Board of Health

January 26  Karen Keefe, Massachusetts Relay Community Relations Manager

Save the Date

January 15   Adult Holiday Party

January 26   Food Bank

ABC of Rotary Moment

Sheree DeLorenzo is up for next Tuesday's ABC of Rotary Moment, Ray Lamont  is first backup, David Marsh is the second backup, and the third backup is Brian McCook. Please have your ABC of Rotary Moment ready.

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Winners and Losers: Matt Langis promptly donated to to the eye care fundraising project, gave the Rotary Moment today.  Jim Marr  won the $10.00 and David Babson won the flowers, and no winners in the card raffle today.

Speaker today: President Ruth conducted a business meeting today.

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