The Rotator - Archive  Nov 27, 2007

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District 7930 Governor - Julia Phelps

District Web site: www.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... Josh Arnold, Shirley Conway, Sheree DeLorenzo, John Dugger, Christopher Farmer, Tom Gateley, Julie Geary, Bruce Horne, David Kenney, Dean Lavoie, Jim Marr, David McKechnie, Tracey O'Neil, Jim Perry, Marc Sandler, David Slade, David Stotzer, David Sullivan, Becky Sumner, Sergey Zemlyanski.   Today's attendance is 40 present with 5 makeups out of 57 members for an average of 79%.

     Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                                           November 27 , 2007

Visiting Rotarians

    Renada Green, and Laura Evans from the Rockport Club.

Guests of Rotarians

    Dave Marsh had Joe and Helen Garland as his guests today.

Interact Club

     Interact members were not present today.

Makeups

     Rotarians can now make up on line.  Check out www.rotaryeclubone.org , allow yourself 30 minutes to complete the makeup and make sure you print off a receipt of having completed your on line makeup.  Please hand  your receipt to Carole Sharoff in order for the attendance records to be adjusted. 

 Birthdays & Anniversaries

     No birthdays were celebrated today. Tony Corrao was ballooned today by his wife Jo, in celebration of their wedding anniversary today.  Matt Langis was happy to be celebrating his 8 year anniversary with Rockport National Bank. 

Vacations

       John Rando spent a week in Key Largo, Florida.  Roger Armstrong spent 3 days in Connecticut.  Jon Morse spent a week in Richmond, Virginia, visiting his son. 

Happy Thoughts

       Brad Pierce was happy to have his wife home from the hospital.  Brad was also happy to have assisted a woman needing help in the woods.  Mike Costello was happy that on her 329th day of  her Chamber presidency, Ruth Pino  lost her voice.  Joe Parisi chimed in that he, too,  is enjoying the peace and quite today.  Tony Corrao was happy that 14 Rotarians helped out with the cleanup at Stage Fort Park Playground. 

 Fines

       Acting President Sinikka fined people who did not attend  the cleanup at Stage Fort Park.  Rotarians who were not wearing their pins were also fined today.      

    Club News

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Save the Date:    

Gloucester Rotary’s Holiday Party will be held at 6:00 PM, Wednesday December 12th at Cape Ann Lanes. Children and grandchildren are welcome – if you don’t have one or two of those, bring a niece/nephew or a neighborhood child.  Plenty of food, beverages and merriment.  Details on time and cost will follow.

And to start off 2008 - we are also planning a cocktail party for adults sometime in January. Stay tuned for details!

December 4th, Teddy Bear Tuesday.  Please bring at least one teddy bear for collection and distribution to the Police and Fire Departments who will  give them out to children who have been traumatized in accidents and other events.  Studies have shown that a child's trauma is lessened by holding a teddy bear for comfort.  We did this collection many years ago and would like to make it a yearly event.  Please remember -  only NEW teddy bears can be accepted. 

December 18:   Mayor-Elect Carolyn Kirk will speak about her future  plans for the city.  Please try to make this meeting in order to  have a good Rotary showing for our new mayor. 

April 12th is date for the Spaghetti Supper, held at the Rose Baker Senior Center to benefit  the Senior Center.  Details will follow as we get close to the event date.

 ABC of Rotary Moment

     Becky Sumner is up for next Tuesday's  ABC of Rotary Moment, Pat Thorpe is first backup, Sergey Zemlyanski is the second backup, third backup is Bill Flygare.  Please have your   ABC of Rotary Moment ready. 

Winners and Losers...   Todd Tanger  gave an ABC of Rotary Moment. Roger Corbin won the money, and Greg Bover won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers.... Dave Marsh introduced our speaker today, Joe Garland.  Joe shared his memoirs of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon he served in during  World War II.  The book will be titled "Unknown Soldiers," and will be released in the spring of 2008.