Scituate Light Newsletter
April 30, 2003
Welcome back Jed. He was one of the 14 members and guest at last week's dinner meeting. Others attending were: President Janet, President Elect Bart, Treasurer Sue, Secretary Ben, S.A.A. Dietrich, Past Presidents Alden, Joe, Roger, Donn and Walter, Bill, Matt and Carole Sladen.
The program portion consisted of everyone cutting out ads from last year's phone book, sticking on address labels, stamping envelopes, inserting the invoices, and going home... long after 8 p.m. Comment: Every member who attended was also given a phone book and ten blank invoices and requested to obtain ten new advertisers. Good Luck. If we try hard enough, the phone book could again become our biggest fund raiser and we would need maybe just one more smaller one to achieve the money we need to make our local, national and international commitments.
Happy/Sad Bucks were contributed last week by: several of us who welcomed Jed back to Rotary. He looks and is well and we hope he continues to attend as often as he is able. Also: Bill (his mother-in-law entered Allison House in Hingham.)
Dietrich, the Finer, returned to collect some bucks from Joe (his most recent birthday), Janet (hasn't yet requested a badge for Matt), Walter (didn't sign Dietrich's membership certificate), Donn (forgot why).
Speaking of membership certificates, your editor never received one. And you probably know that Rotary International doesn't issue membership cards.
Ben Summers, Editor
FROM
THE PRESIDENT
While we await response, begin selling your new ads. You have a phonebook as a list of current advertisers so get busy!! If you were not at the meeting, I have your phonebook and 10 contracts ready for you. Also, ask me for a copy of the District News for last month.
I will bring envelopes to the meeting on Wed. evening so that you have them to mail your contracts. We are asking you to donate the postage ($3.70). If you do not understand the task, please ask for assistance, suggestions, whatever. There really are companies out there who WANT to be in the book.
Ben asked about future meetings with Scituate, RI. We will always have to travel unless we invite them here. They travel further to Mansfield than we do but it is also closer for them than Whites. We are getting more familiar with each other and we are better organized so the program is more interesting. The RI club enjoyed us so much they want to invite us to their town and show us around. I proposed that they had to be prepared to invite us to spend the night so they are considering the possibility. It is nearly a 3 hours drive and while it could be great fun, driving 6 hours of the day may be too much. (We could also rent a school bus). On the flip side, we could invite them to our town and make the same offer to them. But I think more of us need to be involved and inclined to offer such hospitality. I think it could be a blast! Lunch on arrival, sightseeing, evening bar-b-que and games, home entertainment, breakfast together and say good-bye. Maybe next year or two.
Too bad that vacation week fell on phonebook night but thank you all for your hard work in getting the contracts into the mail. I hope we did not devastate Jed!
In spite of my champagne and the fines membership remains a problem for us. I am not confident about Loic and Beatrice sent a thank you card and said "someday, I hope. Tara talked of joining us and I think that would be great. I think Karen is still interested. And I meet with the Wampatuck principal on Monday about the Walk to School Program so maybe she would join us... Please put yourselves out there and ask people to join us. Paula promised to invite her brother but we've not seen him yet (her either, for that matter!). Paula, we miss you!!!!! Come back. All is forgiven.........just kidding.
Bart and I deliver Meals on Wheels in Scituate and both used to deliver to Mrs. Bonney. We did not realize Alden's Mrs. Bonney was our Mrs. Bonney. And I drive someone to a nursing home to visit her husband and they are very good friends with the Coulter's. How very small this world is getting. Keep doing good and keep Wed. evenings free for your community.
Yours in Rotary,
Janet
PREVIOUS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
Scituate Rotary Calendar
May 5th: Board of Director's Meeting, 7:30 a.m. at the home of President Janet.
May 7th: Dinner meeting at Pier 44, 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker: Gavin Viano will discuss the Scholar Athletic Games sponsored by Rotary District 7950.
May 10th: Rotary District 7950 Assembly Training Seminar for incoming officers and committee chairpersons. Location: TBA
May 14th: Dinner meeting at Pier 44, 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker: Scott Harrington will report on the Amputee Hockey Team's tournament in Helsinki, Finland. He was a member of the U.S. Team which competed against teams from Canada, Finland and Russia.
May 21st: Guest Speaker: State Rep. Frank Hynes, an honorary member, of the Scituate Rotary, will offer his State of the State report, Pier 44, 6:30 p.m.
May 28th: Dinner Meeting at Pier 44, 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker Gunther Hausen will discuss another Rotary District 7950 project, the Children's Hospital in Angkor, Cambodia.
June 4th: Club Night, Pier 44, 6:30 p.m. We will continue our efforts to increase income from the 2003-2004 Rotary Phone Book. We are headed for an October publishing date, maybe even September.
June 11th: Harbormaster Frank Regan will discuss From the Marines to Retirement to Harbormaster at Pier 44, 6:30 p.m.
June 18th: Renee Jackson will discuss the Prison Fellowship of New England at Pier 44, 6:30 p.m.
June 25th: Installation of Club Officers and Directors for the year 2003-2004, Pier 44, 6:30 p.m. It's Spouse Night, of course.
July 2nd: Georgia Talcott, a Junior at Scituate High School, will report on her week at the University of Wisconsin's Rotary sponsored seminar on World Affairs.
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