Scituate Light Newsletter
May 28, 2003
AROUND THE CLUB
Georgia Talcott and classmate Timor Ochkhayev of Russia attended last week's meeting to thank us for sponsoring their attendance at the Rotary World Affairs Seminar at the University of Wisconsin. Timor also said goodbye as he will return home from the seminar. Georgia will return next month (see above) to give us her report and reactions.
Other guests were speaker Gunther Hausen, his wife Nicole, and Karen Kelly. Members attending: Janet, Bart, Ben, Judy, Walter, Alden, Roger, Donn, Joe Goodrow, guest Loic and Joe Cerra.
Happy/Sad Bucks were contributed by Janet (unable to attend RI conference), Judy (daughter in law's offer accepted for her new home), Donn (visited daughter in Maine), Alden (glad to attend and to see Joe Cerra), Joe Cerra ("I'm not cheap"), Ben (missed two meeting, made up once at District Assembly, had to attend another org.'s annual meeting), Bart (daughter got 2 new ads for our phone book), Walter, Loic (glad to attend), Karen, Gunther.
Gunther, a member of the Middletown, RI Rotary Club discussed his club's International project: Raising funds for the Children's Hospital in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The hospital was founded and built by a friend of Gunther's, a photographer who has published a couple of books depicting historic sites in Cambodia and other Asian countries. The patients in the hospital are all handicapped as the result of the decades long wars in that nation.
The photographer raised funds from the sales of his books and other contributions he has solicited. The hospital has been open since 1999 and also benefits from a $100,000 grant from the Rotary Foundation. The hospital staff also trans other doctors in the Far East. Several other Rotary Clubs in RI also contribute annually. Those funds paid for dismantling and shipping an unused medical center to Angkor Wat in two huge crates. When the request from hospital officials came for a Land Rover, Middletown Rotary raised the money to buy one.
Your editor will attend another org's annual meeting June 4 and will not be able to attend Club Night.
Ben Summers
PREVIOUS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
Scituate Rotary Calendar
May
28:
Mr. Gunther Hausen on the Children’s Hospital in
June
4:
Club Night. Spouses welcome.
June
11:
The new Harbormaster, on our harbor. Also: Presentation of Scholarships in
June
18:
Renee Jackson on Prison Fellowship.
June
25: Installation of new Officers. Spouses
and friends welcome.
July
2:
Club Night. Spouses welcome. New President’s Agenda
July
9:
Ms. Georgia Talcott on her
July
16:
Ms. Cass Walker on “Road to Responsibility”
July
23:
Mr. Bill Coulter on “The Civil War”.
July
30: Lauren
Payne, Lutheran Social Services
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