The Rotator - Archive  May 6, 2003

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		Officers & Directors		2002-2003
		President		David McKechnie
		President Elect		Greg Bover
		Treasurer		Jon Morse, CPA
		Secretary		Samuel J. Miceli
		Asst. Secretary		Bob O'Maley
		Directors	Bruce Horne	David Babson
			Joe Ciolino	Jim Marr
			Jim Perry	Donald Sudbay, Jr.
The Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.		District 7930 Governor Victor F. Saldanha
Chartered 1923	"Where Route 128 Begins"	District Website: wwww.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... Gaye Brown, Shirley Conway, Alex Delis, Steve Dexter, John Dugger, Howard Frisch, Bob Kershaw, Rudy Macchi, William Mantz, Jim Mar, Dave McArdle, Jim McKenna, Karl Muench, Sinikka Nogelo, Marc Sandler, John Scuccimarra, and Julie Sidon.Today's attendance is 40 present with 1 makeups out of 53 members for an average of 77%

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                      May 6, 2003

Visiting Rotarians

     Jim Mathews and Bob Ellis from the Rockport Club, and Oscar Padgen from the Topsfield Club.  For your information, Oscar has had perfect attendance at Rotary for 40 years.  Congrats Oscar for such loyalty to Rotary.  

Guests of Rotarians

    Steve Kaity had our guest speaker, Kathy Bliss, as his guest today.  Dave Stotzer had James Pope, Vice President of the Interact Club, as his guest today.

Interact Club

     Interact member visiting today was James Pope, Vice President of the Interact Club. James did a recap of all the activities and fundraising events they have accomplished year to date.  Interact's latest donation is $500 to District's Rotoplast program. 

Makeups

     Tony Carrao made up in Mesa, Arizona.

Happy Thoughts

     Herb Goodick was happy to be driving his truck again.

     George Roark was happy that the  Rotary sponsored Sophomore Track Meet was a success again this year.  George wanted to thank Barry Pett for helping out.

     Brad Pierce was happy that David Mitchell was progressing well at Salem Hospital.

     Dennis Acker was happy to have Maya's adoption process finally completed this week.    

Anniversaries & Birthdays

     The "blonde" Mary Black, and Tony Carro celebrated their birthdays today.  Charlene and Dennis Acker are celebrating 12 "wonderful" years of marriage.  The Acker's are also celebrating the one year anniversary of Maya being placed into their loving arms for the first time.  Congrats to all!

Fines

     David McKechnie fined the patriotic Joe Ciolino for giving the winning coach of last year's Little League World Series a US flag during a recent parade.  David questioned the patriotic Joe Ciolino why he did not get a flag. (The answer was that, traditionally, looser teams do not receive any rewards.

     Joe Parisi and Steve Kaity both paid cell phone fines today.

     A table in the rear of the room was fined for not filling up the front tables first, as is our group's custom..       

Vacations

     Bob Ellis spent 5 weeks in Ireland.  Tony Corrao spent 21 days in Mesa, Arizona.

A Rotary Moment

    The next Rotary Moment will be given, for a world-record 6th try, by Alex Delis, followed the week after by John Dugger. (John, you're on deck for Tuesday!)

Club News

ATTENTION - busy weekend ahead!  Saturday (MAY 10) is the day of the Super Market Sweep at Shaw's on Eastern Ave.  The time to assemble is 6:15 am and the run will 6:30 am.  John, I hope you have some coffee ready for us, it will certainly be appreciated!

     After that, from 7 am  to  12pm be there for the bandstand cleanup (weather permitting). Since we're up and out at Shaws, we'lll just convoy to Stage Fort Park!

     The board has decided to have all new members sign up for a two month tour of duty at the front table before our meetings at Cameron's. New members can sell tickets, register guests, and man the table in general  The board feels that working the table will help get new members fully involved.

Winners and Losers... Herb Goodick won the beverage of choice.  Joe Parisi  won the money, and David McKechnie  won the flowers and presented them to our guest speaker, Katherine Bliss.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers....  Steve Kaity introduced our guest speaker today, Kathrine Bliss, President of Addison Gilbert Hospital.  Katherine spoke about the reasons for closing  the 2nd floor of Steel 2 at Addison Gilbert Hospital.

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on rib eye steak sandwich with a ice cream pie dessert. The dinners at my table gave the food 5 stars.  When asked what would improve the meal, the dinners noted it was just fine.

Sow The Seeds Of Love The Rotary International Theme for 2002-2003