Meeting Highlights:
September 4, 2002
Around The Chapter
Attendance at last week's meeting: Janet, Sue Katz, Ben, Dietrich, Walter, Roger, Don, Alden, Joe Cerra, Sue Kavanagh, Joe Goodrow, Judy, Jack and Audrey. Guest: Christian (Dietrich's son) We missed Paula (poison ivy) and Pat (still ailing).
Happy and Sad Bucks from: Jack, Don, Alden, Joe Cerra, Judy, Ben, Walter (who reported that Pier 44 has contributed $200 to purchase Rotary signs to be placed in Marshfield), Joe Goodrow and Dietrich.
Sue Kavanagh won the raffle but did not pick the Queen. She read a thank you letter from scholarship winner Adelcia Ribeiro who is now a student at Quincy College and hopes to start at Worcester State College in January.
Joe Cerra reminded us that 25 years ago this month Joe Goodrow brought him into Scituate Rotary and "I haven't missed a meeting since."
The board of directors voted to spend about $4,000.00 to purchase a Heart Test machine to be given to Medical Mission for Children. The money is a portion of the proceeds raised by advertising in the new phone book.
Hope we have a good attendance at the October 2nd Club Night dinner meeting when we will welcome District Governor Ann Williams.
Ben
Summers, Editor
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From the President
This is a copy of the e-mail I read to you Wednesday night. Some of you requested it:
Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her: “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).
Anne
Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said,
“I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years
we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our
government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I
believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His
blessings and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school...the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr . Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued! (there’s a big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And we said OK.
Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won’t even have to tell their parents. And we said OK. And then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they want so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said OK. Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn’t matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn’t matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.
Then someone said let’s print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body; And we said OK. And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet. And we said OK; they’re entitled to free speech. And then the entertainment industry said: “Let’s make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let’s record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it’s just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.” Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell! Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send “jokes” through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing?
Funny
how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your
address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what THEY
will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about
what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if
you think it has merit. If not then just discard it...no one will know you
did. But if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and
complain about what bad shape the world is in! Are you thinking?
Yours
in Rotary,
President Janet
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