Sunrise Rotary
Minutes of meeting July 11, 2017
- We have cards for Amelia and for Sandy Ladd, circulating for signature.
- Guests Nick Shakespeare, our speaker today; Jeff Dudley and Josh from the Vernon Selectboard; Bill Stevens
- No birthdays. Anniversaries: Booie Fagelson, 14 years; Jen Moyse, 3 years
- Card was the 3 of Hearts, and we’re all losers
- Bowl of Life: Todd Murchison, 30 hours toward pilot license
- Announcements
- Jen Moyse gets a scholarship, she’s going to nursing school
- We have a thank-you from Maria, our Honduras contact for coffee scholarships
- Bill presents Damon with certificate for his service as president
- Several other thank-you’s from among others Samantha Lynch, the Haiti orphanage, BMH (for Touch A Truck), HCRS (for the golf tournament)
- Brags
- Evelyn touts the NEYT musical Drowsy Chaperone
- Sadie brags Evelyn’s summer camp
- Jim brags Mother Courage at the Next Stage in Putney
- Erin brags the Vermont Performance Lab presentation this weekend, also developments in the “tiny house” festival and a new feature, “Pebl Bike” (sp?)
- Jim V. brags Sadie’s acceptance of an exhausted but intrepid dog that made it back to Brattleboro from Grafton or something like that, and can now stay w/ Sadie’s tenant
- Damon, about the passing of the hamster and the life lesson for Torin (sp?); also an excellent time in the Jr Olympics for his other son (I just don’t get all these names in here do I?)
- Allie, 2 years since she fell and now finally back to running, those fabulous endorphins
- Toni brags Allie as new service chair; also Elana Baron’s engagement
- Josh brags the 8-person table a la clown car; also, the members that bring in new members should be mentor
- Tristam backpacked the White Mountain “Huts” trail, posh
- Lissa, Jerusalem Peacebuilders are here every year, see film at 118 Elliot, July 27, and this year a hopeful co-existence example with group of Israelis and Iraqis joining together, and the great work of the World Affairs Council
- Speaker was the very talented and personable Nick Shakespeare, talking about and illustrating w/ examples his very successful storyboard career and a fabulous comic he has laboriously, lovingly, created over the past several years. Lissa likes the shows he has drawn for. Jim