Rotary Rag 10-2-13
Quote of the day: To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all. Oscar Wilde
Guests: Pat McMann-classification Dairy, Bob & Becky Anderson (today’s speakers), Evie, and Bill Stevens ( our Assistant Governor)
Student Rotarians – Abigail, Katelyn, Marissa, and Conner
Greeter: Jim Maxwell, Todd will greet us next week
Those who didn’t make it today: Carmen Derby, Mark Ethier, Ross Gibson, Erich Hoyer, Tristam Johnson, Ralph Meima, Jason Posternak, Sandy Shriver, Ellen Smith, Valerie Stuart, Jill Terrell-Ouazzani, Josh Traeger.
Announcements:
· Board meeting tomorrow at WKVT
· Annual buddy walk is Saturday, Oct 5th. Proceeds for this year's event will go toward the development of an Inclusive Community Center.
· Habitat volunteers needed in Dummerston- See Scott
· Next week we will be at the Brattleboro Fire Dept (same time)-Todd already went there today.
· Polio Day Oct 24th! Almost everyone has made their $10.50 donation to meet our goal.
· Raffle tickets – sell, sell, sell. Next week Linda will have posters. Raffle Benefits Feed the Thousands. $5 each or 6/$25. Drawing on 12/4. If you want more, see Toni.
Speaker Next week: Kevin Yager
Newsletter Scribe next week: Josh Traeger
Cards: Somehow I didn’t write down the cards, but I think it was one of the student Rotarians.
Student Rotarians Introduction: We have all seniors this year. Marissa from Brattleboro plays field hockey and lacrosse. She is the FBA historian. Kayla from Brattleboro plays soccer and lacrosse. She is the FBA secretary. She would like to major in Business at the University of North Carolina. Connor from Brattleboro has returned from last year. He is the Captain of the soccer team. Abby from Hinsdale is the President of the National Honor Society. She will be on the track team in the spring. She plans to be an Electrical Engineer.
Bowl of life: This person was with a group of fraternity brothers and they stole horns from a stock yard in Chicago. The guessing went around and finally Turner was identified as the person. It was on a pledge trip. He drove the car and they staged a fight and they took the horns which he tried to stick under his coat and they kept it for many years in their room.
Birthdays: A wonderful serenade for Bob Fagelson. Happy Birthday!!
Brags:
· Jon – Away for a week up north then drove to the airport and flew to DC. He then went to Annapolis for a post wedding party. Next he got on the on the subway, there were only 4 people on the platform. He said HI to a woman with a suit and hair in bun—it was Justine – Wills daughter. Then he went to Ohio to a funeral and then got back last night. He had to make sure that he would be here today because he couldn’t face the wrath of all of us if he didn’t come today.
· Bob F – Although he is a Cubs fan, now his youngest son is in Pittsburgh he found himself enjoying the Bucks
· Bill – Sold 2 bundles of tickets and he also wanted to congratulate us. With all the reports that are run it was discovered that our club is in the top 3% of the entire rotary club in the globe for having the youngest members. Congratulations to all thoses who are under 30 (in Club Runner). Peter Carvell, Marcy Caulkins, Ed Dews, The Fagelsons, Amelia Farnum, Jerry Goldberg, Scott Gordon-Macey, Tristam Johnson, Ed Lewis, Jim Maxwell, Tom- MaRae, Jon Seacrest, Ellen Smith, Valerie Start, Jill Terrell-Ouazzani, Tristan Toleno, and Kevin Yager.--This is also one of the few clubs that have undeclared gender members. Michelle said the members know how to update their information, and it’s up to them to put in their age. J
· Tom earned a performance bases achievement award from the firm and he got a trip with his wife to Hawaii.
· Marcy C reported that the open house went really well. She also noted that her Dad had heart attack and the care he received at Dartmouth was very good.
· Kevin Y shared that last Thursday the KVT food drive called “Overflow the Opera House” was a success and they collected over 600 bags of groceries.
· Also Kevin is on fantasy football with son and last week the wife did so well that she is queen of the house!!! She only missed one game and that was Buffalos & Ravens.
· Damian and Katherine were in the Rugged Maniac with a group of 11 others. The Elm City Rotary is prime sponsor of and Damian was 150th. He ran it in 3:56 & 44, which allowed him to make his goal!!
· Ali just got back from seeing her Aunt in NJ who celebrated her 75th birthday. He 14 year old daughter is in an exchange program and they have a Chinese exchange student. Allie was very impressed on how well she spoke English.
Speaker: Bob Anderson is on the board of the Brattleboro Country Clud and he deals with its publication. He has a background in book publishing and is the author of four e-book mysteries. He was the master and huntsman of the Guilford Hounds.
Bob shared the history of the Brattleboro Country Club and how it came to be. It was founded in 1914. The initial layout was designed by Tom MacNamara and 3 time runner up in the US Open. The land and the buildings were leased from the Brattleboro Retreat. When the course first opened there were 350,000 people playing golf, ten years later there were 2 million people who play golf.
In 1930 the club hired architect, Wayne Styles to revise the course. The farmland was purchased from the Retreat and the course hired a French chef and was open year round.
Today the club has revived the Bridge club and in the winter the land is used for cross Country skiing. They also have a program call SNAG (Starting New at Golf) where they teach children the game of golf. The have lawn bowling.
Come join us!!