CLUB NEWSLETTER for November 30, 2005

Attendance: President Dietrich, Bill, Beatrice, Candace, Michael, Suzanne, Jim M., Alden, Christine, Robert, Bob, Donn, Judith and Ben; Family of Rotary Carol Sladen; and guests Lew Burridge and Claire McDougal.

Reminder: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund accepts checks and cash of anybody: POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 . Earthquake victims in Pakistan are of special need as winter comes upon them. They are in dire need for help!

Project “Shoe Fly” of the Duxbury Club needs help to send boxes of children’s shoes to our Military in Afghanistan for $20 per box of 55 pairs. Give all $20 bills you have to Janet please! 

Our Meeting:  Sorry for the long delay in getting out this newsletter. Only half way through the meeting did I realize that the composition of this letter would not be business as usual to get it done, and not having appointed anybody in the beginning of the meeting’ it would fall upon me to get it done.  Bill lead the Pledge, Bob did the Invocation. Dietrich greeted everybody especially our guests Claire and Lew. We missed Bart’s announcements.

Dietrich took over that time slot to organize among those present the purchasing of Christmas gifts for next week’s Cushing Center Christmas Party at Barker Tavern. Please have all your Christmas presents wrapped with the name of the recipient on them and ready to go into Santa’s bag when you get to Barker Tavern by 6:00 PM next Tuesday. (There will be no Wednesday meeting)

Dietrich also reminded the Supervisory Board to complete the nomination of officers by our meeting on December 14, which will be our annual meeting and be held as a million $ meal at Jim’s house. Jim, to you and your wife, thank you very much! We heard very touching story from Bill as part of his words of wisdom. We should set up a slot for you Bill on our website, so that your words of wisdom linger with us!

Our speaker tonight was Nancy Testa of Scituate Animal Shelter. This shelter is a no-kill shelter and needs to relocate from its present location on Driftway and is hoping to secure the property to 3A Farm on Route 3 in Scituate . To make this move possible, a net amount of $534,000 needs to be raised before February 2006. Everybody in the club is invited to be supportive of this project. We will discuss at the next board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 6, how the Rotary Club can support this ambitious goal and any ideas from members are solicited.

I hope I did not miss reporting too much of the lively meeting tonight as only well into Nancy’s presentation I realized that it should fall on me to take notes.

Dietrich

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CLUB NEWSLETTER for November 16, 2005

Attendance: President Dietrich, Candace, Michael, Suzanne, Jim M., Alden, Christine, Robert, Janet, Donn and Ben; Family of Rotary Carol Sladen; and guests Marie Keevern and Tailor and Nancy Tibbetts.

 Reminder: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund accepts checks and cash of anybody: POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 . We sent $1,500 to 3 places so far. Project “Shoe Fly” of the Duxbury Club needs help to send boxes of children’s shoes to our Military in Afghanistan for $20 per box of 55 pairs. We helped send 7 boxes so far. Give all $20 bills you have to Janet please!

Our Meeting:

After the Salute to the Flag by Suzanne and the invocation by Robert, President Dietrich welcomed our family and guests. He reported on the unveiling last Saturday of the DARE sign in front of our Police Station in the presence of Officer Dom, President Dietrich, Donn Sladen and Interactors Austin Crumpton and Bill Grace, resp. President and Vice President of our Interact Club. They and most other Interactors will produce “Forintras”, a play in the SHS Auditorium this Friday and Saturday. He also proposed that all meals in 2005 be “Million $ Meals”. Then Candace informed the members of the “Black Tie Bingo” this Saturday in the Art Center and Janet on our Cushing X-mas party on Tuesday December 6 in the Barker Tavern. She also reminded us that a GSE team for Portugal is being formed and we can send someone. Robert collected the “von Trapp Committee” to start organizing our next fundraiser. And then Mrs. Marie Keevern spoke about “Mercy Ships”. This is a marvelous charity founded in 1978, operating from Texas , that runs 2 large hospital ships that sail to a poor country in trouble, then land teams of doctors and nurses there to help the sick and wounded. (The 3rd and oldest ship was recently laid up in New Orleans and now functions as a hotel for rescue workers there). Volunteers man the teams for periods between 2 weeks and a year and they have to pay their way for the privilege of being there. The Charity uses all of its money for the poor they serve. Sounds like Rotary, or?! It is a Christian initiative started by American Don Stevens, but British Rotary Clubs are also heavily involved in it. Since 1978 they have treated >300,000 people, performed >18,000 surgeries, given away >$21 mln. worth of medical equipment and completed <350 construction projects. Clean water is one of their priorities too. Our club could become a “Shipmate” which is he monthly giving club of “Mercy Ships”, to be financed ad hoc. But be part of next year’s budget, with the permission of our President Elect of course. I hope you like the idea and this letter: I was not there.

 In Rotary,

 Bart

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CLUB NEWSLETTER for 9 November 2005

Attendance: 

All members (except Jack, Jim B., Maryann, Suzanne, Art, Loic, Alden, Donna, Bob P., Robert and Dennis: we missed you); Family of Rotary Joyce Coulter, Joe Kelley, Sandi Schipul and Carol Sladen; District Governor Paul Welch and wife Bobbi; and guests Marie Keevern and Tailor Tibbetts.

 Reminder: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund accepts checks and cash of anybody: POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 . We sent $1,500 to 3 places so far. Project “Shoe Fly” of the Duxbury Club sends boxes of children’s shoes to Afghanistan for $20 per box of 55 pairs. It is a worthy cause and we helped send 7 boxes so far. Give all $20 bills you can spare to Janet please!

Our Meeting:

After the Salute to the Flag by District Governor Paul Welch and the invocation by Beatrice, President Dietrich welcomed our family and our District Governor and Bobbi as old friends of our Club. Then he welcomed guests Marie Keevern and Tailor Tibbetts. Bill gave his “Words of Wisdom” and Bart reported on the mail: an emotional thank you letter from Mrs. Betty Crowley of the Scituate Food Pantry for our 25 turkeys for Thanksgiving which according to her “would have a hearty Rotary flavor…if there is such a thing!” Jim better get to work to stamp that Rotary Wheel right into all of these birds! Bill then reported on the work done by the “Hold Post Subcommittee” for which he is the spokesperson. Other members are Donn and Carol Sladen. Together they have re-erected the Rotary sign on 3A, fixing it to a State owned pole. President Dietrich noted that the sign has shrunk. Janet reported that she has received two more signs to be put up on Route 123 and on Old Oaken Bucket. Therefore the Subcommittee is still in place. President Dietrich informed the Club that we have our slate of Officers for 2006-2007, except the Secretary. Please consider it. Then District Governor Paul Welch installed Mrs. Christine Ryan in a festive ceremony. Welcome Christine! She works as a realtor for “Success!” in Marshfield and is our 25th member. As a result we have now reached the legal minimum size of a Rotary Club which gives us the right to sponsor a new club. President Dietrich then invited District Governor Paul Welch to speak to us. But not before he handed him the book on the “Lawson” by Tom Hall as a present from our Club. DG Welch held a rousing prepared speech in which he was very complimentary to our Club and to ADG Janet, saying several times he was preaching to the choir here: He especially stressed membership growth and The Rotary Foundation.

 Finally something we forgot to announce: The Plymouth Sunrise Club does a Men’s Fashion Show this Sunday November 13 at the John Carver Hotel in Plymouth at 7pm . In this fundraiser all their male members will stroll the catwalk. Come and see the latest in male fashion for $25!?!

In Rotary,

Bart. 

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CLUB NEWSLETTER for November 2, 2005

Attendance: President Dietrich, Maryann, Bill, Walter, Michael, Karen, Jim M, Bart, Judy, Bob S., Janet and Donn; Family of Rotary Sandi Schipul and Carol Sladen; visiting Rotarian Lew Burridge from Ripton, Vermont; our former ADG Steve Silverman and wife Amy Jo; Interact Chair Kris David with Ambassadorial Scholars Yumi Tanaka from Japan and Hye Cho from Korea; Russian speakers George and Anne Bosack and Liz Stewart; and Russian guests Vitaliy Sinoda who is Rotarian of the Tver Club, Tatyana Lashchenko, Yelena Temnikova, Tatyana Soldatova, Ilya Kvyatkovskiy and their interpretor Alla Bova. We were 29 in all.

 Reminder: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund accepts checks and cash of anybody: POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 . Project “Shoe Fly” of the Duxbury Club sends boxes of children’s shoes to Afghanistan for $20 per box. See Janet.

Our exceedingly cramped Meeting: 

After the Salute to the Flag by Jim M. and the invocation by Rev. Robert Schipul, President Dietrich welcomed our family and our Russian guests in as I was told perfect Russian! Bill gave his “Words of Wisdom” and Bart thanked all members for their work on our most successful fundraiser ever. Janet and Donn/ Carol received a special applause for their 21 new ads! Maryann informed the Club that the Interactors have been fundraising at the Town Dump last Sunday and made $265 which goes to the Katrina survivors on the Cape . They also have said to want to sponsor a child in Kenya . They meet Wednesdays and Thursdays 2-3pm in room 123 in the High School. Janet said that we need to support the “Shoe Fly” project of the Duxbury Club which is sending boxes with children’s shoes to Afghanistan . To send 1 box of 55 pairs costs $20 and she collected $100 from members right away. 

Then Amy Silverman explained the Russian visit which is a Congress sponsored effort to help change in Russia by bringing visitors here and supplying an interpreter while Rotary looks after the guests and organizes the visits. Our group is focused on health care and this day was spent a.o. in Brockton ’s Ruth House and Marshfield ’s “Road to Responsibility” which we have sponsored in the past. Rotarian Vitaliy Sinoda of the Tver Club gave us his club’s banner (and received ours) and a booklet made by his club, saying society is changing in Russia and there is no return to the past. He mentioned his club’s projects, a.o. scholarships, orphanages and a van for an orphanage together with a Swedish club. This visit may well lead to some cooperation from us as well. For starters he would like to receive this newsletter.

 Then Kris David presented her young and upbeat Ambassadorial Scholars who made an excellent impression. Both are now studying at the Rhode island School of Design and both are literature scholars. In prepared speeches they informed us about their home clubs, their countries and spoke highly about their reception here. These 2 are an example of what the Rotary Foundation does with our donations! 

And after all of this we had our Clubnight to do as well and it was much! First President Dietrich thanked the Phonebook committee for a job well done. He asked Bart to send a check of $2,000 to the Rotary Foundation, as that is in our budget and we obviously will have the funds to cover it. He explained our need to rethink our International effort as our increased membership leads us into supporting THREE different international projects (apart of what may come to us from Bulgaria, Tver and who knows what other places) and we are therefore in danger of losing all focus. He will try to combine these efforts, for example to see if split lip deformities is a problem in Angkor as well. President Dietrich then explained our new support of the Scituate Council on Aging which will cost our foundation $2,000 for someone in our Town who needs teeth to eat and who cannot pay for them. He asked for a vote to give 25 turkeys for Thanksgiving to the Food Pantry costing us $250 which passed unanimously. They need 50 and get the other 25 from The Red Lion Inn in Cohasset. He announced million dollar meals to strengthen club finances and asked to install a “Supervisory Board” which also functions as the nominating committee. It passed with one opposed. Bill, Walter, Alden and Donn were voted in as members. Bill then informed the club of our slate of Officers for 2006-2007 who all have accepted: President: Suzanne. Vice Pres.: Michael. Secretary: still open. Treasurer: Judy and Sergeant at Arms: Jim M. Bart then asked who would organize the Cushing Xmas party on December 7 and Maryann volunteered on the spot. Thank you Maryann! Janet has the book of instructions. And our former ADG Steve Silverman informed the Club of the District Conference on May 5, 6 and 7 in Plymouth (and please see the District website) and on the Rotary Foundation Seminar this coming Saturday November 5 in Buttonwoods Zoo, New Bedford. (As it was we had an great group there: Maryann, Candace, Walter, Michael, Bart, Janet and our Russian Rotarian Vitaliy plus his interpreter Alla attended that seminar getting informed and fired up on the Rotary Foundation!) 

Finally President Dietrich made a long speech in excellent Russian in which he thanked our guests for their participation in this evening, hoped they had experienced an informative visit and wished them well on their journey home. Or so I was told.

I regret that it was not possible to limit this letter to one page. Even so I have not done justice to any of the many items that happened on this most cramped of our meetings so far this year.

And may I remind the membership to be present on our next meeting on November 7, the Annual Visit of our Governor Mr. Paul Welch. We do want to make a good impression on this special day and our Governor has important things to say to us! Be there please!

 In Rotary,

 Bart.

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CLUB NEWSLETTER for October 26, 2005

 Attendance: All members (except Jack, Beatrice, Suzanne, Art, Loic, Donna, Janet and Dennis: we missed you); Family of Rotary Joe Kelley, Connie Mitchell, Sandi Schipul and Carol Sladen; visiting Rotarian Lew Burridge from Ripton, Vermont, Mrs. Chris Ryan and Lutherans Eric Foote and Dave Isbrandt.

 Reminder to the membership: We have a bank account collecting funds for disaster relief: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund. Send checks to the Club (POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 ) with the words Disaster Relief on it.

 Our Meeting:

 After the Salute to the Flag by Walter and the invocation by Rev. Robert Schipul, President Dietrich welcomed our family and our 4 guests. Bill presented Mrs. Chris Ryan and gave his “Words of Wisdom” and Bart reported on the mail: a request from “Road to Responsibility” for financial help and 2 letters from the Angkor Charity: thanks for the salary of their dentist and informing us they want to expand and need money for that. President Dietrich then informed the club that our accountant has ruled that the “Pancake Breakfast” (of 2004 and 2005) can NOT be used for club expenses. This costs the club $4,463 and we need to beef up club finances. He also asked the club to vote on allocation of funds towards new projects in support of the Council on Aging assisting elders in need in Scituate . It passed unanimously. The first case is an uninsured elder needing dental work next week. He asked board members to study the proposals on the Supervisory Board and communicate comments before the board meeting so that they not delay the vote on November 1. Donn reported on the Rotary road sign on 3A near Marshfield that he will set upright. Maryann said that the Interactors will be fundraising at the Town Dump this weekend and need the Rotary aprons. The DARE sign unveiling will take place November 5 or 12. Then Bob Schipul presented his Kenya trip. He had travelled with the top of his church: Mr. Eric Foote is President and Mr. Dave Isbrandt Head Elder. Eric explained the background of the trip (70 Lutheran churches in New England supporting a district in Kenya), Bob the trip itself using a slide show to illustrate it and saying the purpose is to get the people help themselves.  Dave showed the project that came out of all of this: building a small hotel on the plot where a church and an orphanage already function. As he is an architect he showed the drawings he had made for the new building. Bob reported that he met the Rotary Club in Kisumu. We may well get involved in this project as well.

 Finally and for the last time our Telephone Book fundraiser that we have now closed: we made a record gross $ 63,400 which gives us some$26,400 in profit, financing our budget! It is the third year in a row we made more than $20,000! We have 230 ads in the book. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions of 2005 are Janet (again) with 11 and Donn & Carol Sladen with 10. Runners up are Bart with 6; Suzanne with 3; Dietrich, Bill, Judy and Ed Fox each with 2; and Candace, Walter, Jim McInnes and Robert Schipul each with 1 new ad for a total of 42. They are half the profit and compensate for the loss of some 35 ads or 15%, which is normal. Thank you all for your work, this is the best result of any fundraiser of our Club ever!   

 In Rotary, Bart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Marie Keevern speaking about 
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District Governor Paul Welch installs new member Christine Ryan

...and presents a banner from his home club, Weymouth, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ambassadorial Scholar Yumi Tanaka

 

President Dietrich exchanging flags with visiting Rotarian Vitaliy Sinoda from Russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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President Dietrich's Closing Words after the Inauguration of the Interact Club at Scituate High School

 Now we have an Interact Club!

 I would like to congratulate all of you to membership of the Interact Club at Scituate High School

 We are looking forward to working with you, to have a partnership between the Rotary Club of Scituate and the Interact Club of Scituate

 When I was your age, it was roughly in the late 60s

 You will have heard that this was a time of rearrangement of relations between an established and an emerging generation.

 Today one speaks of the 60s revolution

 It was a time when under the beginning stress of the information revolution old ways were questioned by a new generation. It was a time when a butterfly had flipped its wing and an emerging windstorm changed the climate, the way young and old interacted. It brought changes in values.

 Positively, it also brought a dialogue between the generations.

 We are looking forward to working with you, as you take on responsibilities in this town and in this world. We are looking forward to have and to continue a dialogue with you, as you define your programs and purpose.

 For us here in Scituate we can invoke the insight from people that are part of the town’s history, the men that came from Kent . Let us follow the example of a schoolmaster of the village of Sandwich in Kent , who lived around the time the men of Kent came here. From him we might find guidance of how generations should work together. The plaque on his grave reads:

 HE TAUGHT AS A LEARNER

HE LEAD AS A FOLLOWER

AND SET THE FEET OF MANY

UPON THE PATH OF LIFE

We are looking forward to a rewarding journey together.

 

 

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