Scituate Rotary - Member News

Attendance: All Members (except President Dietrich, Jack, Jim B., Karen, Art, Loic, Donna, Bob P. and Dennis: we missed you!); Family of Rotary Sandi Schipul and Carol Sladen; visiting Rotarians Lew Burridge and our former President Douglas M. Tatreau; and Bart’s guests Joost Elias and wife Carolien and Arent Jan Roest and wife Ada, all Dutch.

Reminder to the membership: We have a special bank account to collect funds for disaster relief: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund. Please send checks to the Club (POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 ) with the words Disaster Relief on it. This week the “Secret” in the newsletter is the name of the spouse of our Assistant District Governor: Bart Nuboer.

After the Salute to the Flag by Jim M. and the Prayer by Ben, Vice President Bill welcomed our family and our guests. Bart gave the “Words of Wisdom” and reported on the mail: a thank you letter from the Governor of the Mississippi / /Louisiana District that we supported with $500 from our Disaster Relief Fund. Then Candace informed the members on a trip by bus to the N.Y. Museum of Modern Art on Saturday October 22 organized by the South Shore Art Center . It should be interesting, leaving 0600 and back after a late supper. She also left a pamphlet containing the courses and workshops the Center gives this fall.

Bart reported on the fundraiser in Duxbury last Saturday for the library for women teachers in Kabul ,

Afghanistan

. Our members Janet, Michael and Bart were there. It was quite impressive to see 80% of the huge Performing Arts Hall in Duxbury filled with sponsors and there was good entertainment. But for us the printed program was even more impressive: not only is our Foundation mentioned among the major sponsors: the whole last page of the program is about our “Michael Kelley Fund”. The poem that our President Dietrich had made and used, is printed in full! We have some programs in our possession if you want to see it. Reason to thank Mrs. Jan when she comes to speak to us!

Our speaker was our member Dr. Michael Johnson who is apparently a descendant of several generations of Scituatians: his father was one of 4 doctors in town and his grandfather founded the Welch Company, one of the faithful advertisers in our Telephone book. He himself has worked in medical research and told us his experiences in the search for human proteins that are useful as medicine. About E. Coli made to produce human insulin since 1978 which is our main treatment for diabetes ever since. About other bacteria producing human growth hormone, others improving blood. Others still that dissolve blood clots and recent developments in stopping bloodvessel formation in tumors, killing the cancer. What an interesting field! Finally our fundraiser: we made $16k so far, about half of our budget. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions are Donn & Carol Sladen with 8 and Janet with 7 new ads. Follow up are Suzanne and Bart each with 4; Bill and Judy each with 2; and Candace, Walter and Jim McInnes each with 1 new ad. Keep getting new ads! Also, 36 advertisers of last year have not yet renewed. Do call them!

In Rotary,
Bart.

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Attendance: All Members (except President Dietrich, Jack, Jim B., Maryann, Candace, Beatrice, Karen, Loic, Dennis and Ben: we missed you!); Family of Rotary Francine Kern and Carol Sladen; Interactors Austin Crumpton, Kerry Sorensen and Bill Grace; and Mr. Mark Mason, Superintendent of Schools, Mrs. Donna Nuzzo-Mueller and Mr. Colin Moore, sculptor.

Reminder to the membership: We have a special bank account to collect funds for disaster relief: The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund. Please send checks to the Club (POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 ) with the words Disaster Relief on it. So far we have received $763.50 from members and $500 from our Foundation and sent $500 each to 2 Rotary disaster relief funds of Texas and of Mississippi/Louisiana.

Our Meeting:After the Salute to the Flag by Austin and the Prayer by Bob S., Vice President Bill welcomed our family and our guests. Bart gave the traditional “Words of Wisdom” and reported on the mail: a thank you letter from the “Cure for Cole” project we supported last spring. “The Secret” in the newsletter was not used this time. Our Sergeant at Arms can fine any member who does not know it. “The Secret” this week is the name of the spouse of our District Governor: Bobby Welch. Then Vice President Bill inducted ANOTHER new member into our Club: Mrs. Donna Nuzzo-Mueller. She was sponsored by Bart and she is well known in our club as Principal of our High School. Our Club has grown to 24 members and we hope soon to reach 25 as that is the minimum of a serious Rotary Club. Mr. Colin Moore presented pictures, a model and one of the heads of his statue for our Town. It will be placed between the Town Hall and the Police Station and is our Centennial Project. Then Mr. Mark Mason spoke on the State of our Schools. A quality comparison has been made of all districts in our State and we came out among the 29 best! This is important for everything in Town, even house prices! He also spoke about the new bus charge for pupils living closer than 3 miles from their school and about the expensive improvements made on our football field. New is the measure to fine any student $100 who is caught smoking near the High School. It has been found helpful elsewhere to keep children from getting addicted. But it creates much media hype at present, reason why both Mr. Mason and Mrs. Nuzzo had to leave rather earlier than wished: Statewide TV was waiting for them at the school.

Finally our fundraiser: we are today at $52k. Break even is at $37k, so we made $15k so far, about half of our budget. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions are Donn & Carol Sladen and Janet each with 7 new ads. Follow up are Bart with 4; Suzanne with 3, Bill and Judy each with 2; and Candace, Walter and Jim McInnes each with 1 new ad. Keep it up and get new ads! Also, 42 advertisers of last year have not yet renewed and must be reminded. Do call them!

Attendance: All Members (except Maryann, Art, Jim McInnes, Loic, Alden and Robert Schipul: we missed you!); Family of Rotary Elizabeth Blanchard and Carol Sladen; and Mrs. Candace Cramer and Dr. Dennis Snyder

Message to the membership: President Dietrich has proposed and the Board has approved a special bank account to collect funds for disaster relief. It is called The Scituate Rotary Disaster Relief Fund. Send checks to the Club (POB 831, Scituate , MA 02066 ) with the words Disaster Relief on it. So far we have received $700 from members and $500 from our Foundation and sent $500 each to the 2 Rotary disaster relief funds of Texas and of Mississippi/Louisiana.

After the Salute to the Flag by Jack and the Prayer by Beatrice, President Dietrich welcomed our family and our guests. Bill gave the traditional “Words of Wisdom” and Bart reported on the mail which was minimal. He also apologized that the newsletter had accidentally been sent late and that therefore “The Secret” in the newsletter would be repeated. Our Sergeant at Arms can fine any member who does not know it. “The Secret” remains the name of the wife of Rotary International’s President: Monica Stenhammar. Then President Dietrich welcomed no less than TWO new members into our Club: Mrs. Candace Cramer and Dr. Dennis Snyder. Both were sponsored by Bart and both are known in our club: Candace as one of our fundraisers and Dennis as a recipient for his charity in the past years. It is GREAT to have you both join us and we look forward to working with you!! Our Club has now 23 members and we hope to be at 24 next week. Then Dr. Snyder gave a presentation on his charity “Medical Missions for Children”, which our club has sponsored for several years. He showed a film of one of his many trips, this time to

Ecuador

, where his team operated on and repaired split palates, a horrible deformity children can be born with. These children are shunned by everybody and through this operation are given a life. It is wonderful to be part of this activity and now that Dennis is one of us, his charity has become ours too! Our International Committee better rethink priorities where to spend our funds earmarked for international.

Finally our fundraiser: we are today at $49k. Break even is at $37k, so we made $12k so far. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions are Donn & Carol Sladen and Janet each with 7 new ads. Follow up are Bart with 4; Suzanne and Judy each with 2; and Bill, Candace, Walter and Jim McInnes each with 1 new ad. Keep it up and get new ads! Also, 50 advertisers of last year have not yet renewed and must be reminded. Please call them! And remember this Wednesday’s lunch venue: “PJ’s” on Route 3A!

CLUB NEWSLETTER for September 7, 2005

Attendance: Members President Dietrich, Jack, Maryann, Bill, Walter, Beatrice, Michael, Suzanne, Karen, Bart, Judy, Robert S., Janet, Donn and Ben; Family of Rotary Sandi Schipul and Carol Sladen; and visiting Rotarians Lewis Burridge from Ripton, Vermont and Jim Johnson from Manchester, Tennessee with wife Elise.

After the Salute to the Flag by Suzanne and the Prayer by Beatrice, President Dietrich welcomed our family and our

guests. Bill gave the traditional “Words of Wisdom” and Bart reported on the mail: An invitation to join the other Clean Water Project of our District on a visit to

Honduras

on October 22 – 29. Our Club supports the District’s Clean Water Project in

Cambodia

Also an invitation for a “sock hop dance” on November 5 in the River Club for Donna Green’s “Project Courage”. Our Club has sponsored this project. He also announced a new fundraiser he saw in the Duxbury Club: “The Secret” in the newsletter. Our Sergeant at Arms will fine any member who does not know it at the next meeting. “The Secret” this time is the name of the wife of Rotary International’s President: Monica Stenhammar. Then President Dietrich reported on the decisions taken on the Board meeting of yesterday. Our Board should contain some of our new members, some senior ones moving on into the Supervisory Board. Against his better judgment the results of the Pancake Breakfast will remain for the Club. The sign on 3A South will be worked on and 2 more, on 123 and Old Oaken Bucket, will be bought and placed. A new DARE sign will be unveiled at the Police Station. And a “Welcome to Historic Scituate” sign will be made for the rotary to be constructed on Kamikaze Corner in Greenbush. On Membership he noted that the lowest number of members for a proper club in Rotary International is 25. We have now 21 and expect next week to be at 22, so we are getting close. Attendance needs to be worked on and it was suggested that those absent are sent a note from the Secretary. Then he said that Bart had asked to be relieved of some of his tasks, i.e. Programs and Newsletter. Janet then volunteered our newest member Michael as Program Chair, which he accepted gracefully. As a direct result all September meetings and the first October one were filled up right away. Well done Michael! As to the newsletter, President Dietrich proposed a group of 4 sharing the task in turn, preferably new members. Maryanne was the first to promise to think about it. Finally our fundraiser: we are today at $44k and ended the last 2 years at $56k. Break even is at $37k, so we made $7k so far. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions remain Donn and Carol Sladen with 7 new ads. Follow up are Janet with 5, Bart with 4, Suzanne with 2, Judy with 2, Bill with 1 and Candace with 1. Suzanne then gave out lists of the 70 advertisers of last year who have not yet renewed and who therefore must be called. Please be diligent about this task and keep looking for new ads until we close this year’s effort in a few weeks time.

Attendance: Members President Dietrich, Jim Bl., Maryann, Walter, Beatrice, Suzanne, Alden, Bart, Judy, Donn and Ben; Family of Rotary Elisabeth Blanchard and Carol Sladen; visiting Rotarian and former member Mr. Joe Cerra, Dr. Michael Johnson and our speakers Bethany Murray, Beth Eromin, Jennifer Noonan, Jeff Keyes and Mrs. Maureen Keyes.

Our Meeting:After the Salute to the Flag by Donn and the Prayer by Beatrice, President Dietrich welcomed our family, our guests and our speakers. Bart gave the traditional “Words of Wisdom” and reported on the mail: A thank you letter from The Angkor Hospital thanking us for paying the salary of their dentist in August and an invitation for a “sock hop dance” on November 5 in the River Club for Donna Green’s “Project Courage”. He informed all that the Governor’s visit is moved to November 9 and that the District Disaster Committee Chair is Mr. Harold Lincoln of the Hingham Club. Finally our fundraiser: we are today at $42k, ended last year at $56k and still hope for $70k. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions today remain Donn and Carol Sladen with 7 new ads! Follow up are Janet with 5, Bart with 3, Judith with 2 and Candace with 1. We must now call the 80 advertisers who have not yet renewed. He gave out the individual lists for those to call.

Then President Dietrich and Immediate Past Pres. Walter installed Dr. Michael Johnson (see picture below) as our newest member, # 21! Welcome Michael!

After that Jeff Keyes reported on his project to repair houses of poor people in Tennessee this summer, a project that our Club sponsored. He apparently did learn about repair jobs, but his lasting impression was the confrontation with poverty, often caused by teenage parenthood. This shocked him. His conclusion: Rich is better. Read Jeff's report in the right column.

Finally our 3 High School Juniors reported on their week in the International Seminar in Whitewater , Wisconsin where we sent them last June. There some 800 students from all over the world were taught about Globalisation and discussed this between them. Both Bethany and Jennifer read us a paper they had prepared and Beth improvised. All three will send us a statement about their impressions that will be posted on our website www.scituaterotary.org. I urge all readers to visit this site, which is up to date and interesting all in itself. For the speeches of these students were well worth listening to and promise interesting reading. This listener was especially impressed by Beth’s presentation when she confessed to have become real proud to be an American when confronted with all of these foreigners. For even when American policies have gone wrong in the real world, the intentions behind them have always been honorable and had they succeeded, would have lead to a better world even for those peoples who opposed them. The present situation in

Iraq

is no different. The writer hopes that all 4 students will find their way to our start up Interact Club, so that we will see more of them in the coming year. It was great to meet with these Juniors who are now becoming Seniors, handpicked by Principal Mrs. Nuzzo as representatives of our High School in the Wisconsin Seminar.

Dear Friends,

I wanted to let you know that Rotary is responding to the Katrina Disaster.

The Scituate Rotary Club will set up

Scituate, MA Rotary Disaster Relief, a separate account at the Rotary Club of Scituate into which you can place your contribution to help with the disaster relief in the hurricane affected areas. You will be able to make your contributions during our meetings or by sending a check made out to Scituate Rotary Disater Relief to Scituate Rotary Club, P.O. Box 831, Scituate, MA 02066

Out of this fund the Rotary Club of Scituate will make payments to Rotary sponsored initiatives in the area. The relief payments at this stage would be going to:

Rotary 5890 Charities, 121 E. 16th St., Houston, TX 77008.

This is an account set up under the control of Rotary district 5890 (Texas) which will allocate the funds within the region to sites and programs where it is needed. As you know, Texas is taking in many of the people displaced by the hurricane and its destruction.

You are obviously free to contribute directly to Rotary 5890 Charities or any other relief organization of your choice.

I wanted, however, to let you know that the Rotary Club of Scituate has set up its relief account into which you can make your tax deductible contribution.

Regards,

Dietrich

Attendance: Members President Dietrich, Bill, Walter, Beatrice, Loic, Jim Mc.Innes, Alden, Bart, Judy, Bob Schipul, Janet, Donn and Ben; Family of Rotary Connie Mitchell, Sandy Schipul and Carol Sladen; visiting Rotarian Mr. Lewis Burridge from Ripton, Vermont and our speaker Mr. Dave Ball.

Our Meeting:After the Salute to the Flag by Jim and the Prayer by Ben, President Dietrich welcomed our family, our guest and our speaker, Mr. Dave Ball, President of the Scituate Historical Society. Bill gave his “Words of Wisdom” and Secretary Bart reported on the mail: An invitation from a Rotary Club in New Delhi ,

India

to visit the Taj Mahal in connection with the polio inoculation effort on September 25. He also reported on the Charter Night of the new Plymouth Sunrise Club and gave its Clubbanner to President Dietrich. Finally our fundraiser: we are today at $37k and breaking even. We ended last year at $56k and we hope to get to $70k. As THE key to success is getting new ads our champions today remain Donn and Carol Sladen with 7 new ads! Follow up are Janet with 4, Bart with 3 and Judith with 1. As the official closing date was last Saturday we must now call the 90 advertisers who have not yet renewed. Janet gave out the individual lists for those to call.

Then President Dietrich and Vice Pres. Bill installed Jim McInnes as our newest Paul Harris Fellow. Jim was thanked for what he had done for The Rotary Foundation and all the programs it supports.

After that our member Pastor Bob Schipul, just back from Kenya, reported on his trip. Its purpose was to find out how the Lutheran churches in New England can best support the Lutheran church in Kenya which is growing fast and is in need of everything except members.

He was also able to visit the Rotary Club in Kisumu, Kenya. That club functions as a sort of clearing house for projects of clubs abroad who want to do something in Kenya. There are apparently very many of such projects and it is interesting to see Rotary at work from a different angle.

Finally Mr. David Ball gave a slide presentation about Scituate as it was in the past. We are one of the oldest towns in the

USA

and his pictures were absolutely fascinating. The different storms that have devastated parts of our town were mentioned and how the coastline has changed over time. There were pictures of ships stranded, the most spectacular of which was of course the liberty ship “Etrusco”. Questions were raised about the farm and gristmill of Mr. Mordechai Lincoln, great grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln in North Scituate . Its building is still there, but nothing is done with it and many in Scituate do not even know of its existence. While it could be a national treasure? It was long after our official closing time that President Dietrich closed the meeting and some of us went home. Others kept asking questions long after.