2-11-15 Minutes

Posted 
on Feb 11, 2015
 
Quote of the Day: President Murchison chose the following words of wisdom (& humor) :
 
 “Snow & adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.” – Earl Wilson
 
Introductions: Cindy Ferrante – Nooner (Classification – Artistic Director)
 
Junior Rotarian(s): Evelyn, Lucy & Talia
 
Greeter:
  • Mark Loevy-Reyes – thanks Mark! J
  • Next week – Amelia Farnum volunteered to greet
     
     
     
     
    Student Rotarian report:
    • Casey Manning & Rebecca Freeman from BUHS
      • Raffle to for FBLA to go to States (10% for March of Dimes)
        • Many prizes!
      • Blood Drive 3/17/15
         
    • Anthony Gringeri from Hinsdale
      • Winter Semi-Formal this week
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        Selling carnations
      • ACS Fundraiser being planned – selling duct tape by the yard to tape a teacher to a wall;
      • Blood Drive upcoming
         
        Committee Reports:
  • None today
     
    Announcements:      
  • Jennifer reminded everyone about the Overflow Shelter Dinner this Friday night @ 5:15 PM
    • All the shifts & food donations are covered.
  • Marcy announced about attendance – if you participated in a club activity you can count it as a makeup meeting
    • She’ll send an email to encourage people to report to her that activities that they helped with to get attendance credit
  • Tristam announced that he received a $850 donation, $600 to Moore Court & Ledgewood Heights & $250 to Westgate – these funds help with the vacation week
    • Tina Dunham-Hill has done a great job managing the project & is very good at accounting what’s left over, etc.
    • Tristam is seeking help to solicit food donations as the cost of the program has gone up – contact him if you’d like to help
  • Next Club Assembly will be 3/4/15 (it will be the 1st Wednesday of every month)
  • Speakers – please let Sadie know who you have scheduled & she’ll put it on the website
  • Graham Cracker Breakfast plan still being formulated
 
Bowl of Life: 
 
  • Today’s Clue: This person won $500 in a Coloring Contest as a 7 year old….
    • Ali guessed Toni, who guessed Sadie – which was correct!
      • She also won another contest later that year in which she won a giant Easter Bunny as well!
  • Jon Secrest was asked to explain last week’s BOL Clue about the legislation that he helped get passed by President Clinton.
    • He got an anonymous call that showed that 1M kids will be put into poverty if the proposed legislation passed so he worked to orchestrate a leak to get the word out! It was THEE topic on the talk shows & Clinton wound up vetoing the proposed legislation!
 
Cards:
  • The 10 of Spades was drawn with no one winning – try your luck next week!
 
Birthdays:
 
  • None today
 
Brags
  • Sadie bragged $5 for Lucy & Evelyn for NEYT – they’re participating in the production of Sherlock Holmes & the Speckled Band!
  • Jon Secrest bragged for ski trip to Montana & British Columbia – the irony of his struggles to get there due to the massive amounts of snow in the East to just get to Montana to ski in the worst skiing conditions he’s ever experienced.
    • He has a $350 voucher for a future trip to Montana……..
    • Flight home was messed up by the NEXT massive snow storm
  • Dan Dietz told Jon he has an Okemo ticket to trade Jon! He had a safe trip to northern NH for snow mobiling!
    Mark Loevy-Reyes – Talia played in her first basketball game!
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    Josh was at Five Guys Burgers in Keene & he saw a Student Rotarian – Connor who came over & introduced his friend who wasMarine Recruiter
  • Will Shakespeare bragged that his daughter was sent to Hong Kong & Manila for work – they were worried as they hadn’t heard from her until this AM, she sent a picture of herself on the beach with a cabana…..
  • Todd bragged that he’s on the DRB & Time Trade Board as well as going to a music festival this weekend
  • Kevin bragged for the FBLA “bookies” as they did very well today with their fundraising efforts!
     
    Guest Speaker:
  • Alisa Barry is her own guest speaker this AM!
    • Ali’s topic today about our Trivia Night Fundraising Effort
    • Volunteering counts as a make up
    • Ali had us play a mock round of the game with questions from the last TN
      • Fact checking needs to be done for the questions
    • Ali provided us with a guide to the TN from pre-event preparations to post-event wrap up!
    • Amelia volunteered to work on promoting the event & taking over doing the flyer/poster for each event.
    • Sadie & Sandy S. will do the fact checking/choosing of the questions
    • Jill pointed out it’s a great way to possibly recruit new members as well!
    • Jon pointed out that the charity is chosen should be encouraged to market the event aggressively as well
    • Club Members who haven’t participated significantly in club activities will be called upon to help!
    • Battle of the Boards? Faith Leaders?
    • Monthly or Bi-monthly?
    • Sandy S. will be the contact number for registration.
    • We’ll email past participants – FBLA will take that on!
      • If they provided us with their email addresses they can win a door prize
      • Mail Chimp is free & can be used.
 
Adjourn!
 
Respectfully Submitted,
Damon Kindopp