Sunrise Rotary
Minutes of meeting October 17, 2018
Convene 7:15
Jim Verzino, nom de plume “Jimmy V”, president-in-waiting, stands in for Marcy for today’s meeting
Quote: “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [Editor’s note: Chardin, 1881-1955, was a Jesuit paleontologist & philosopher known for his thoughts and writings on the relation of evolution and faith. I didn’t know this, I looked it up]
Today in history:
1906 - Wilhelm Voigt, 57 year-old shoemaker, impersonates an army officer and leads a squad of soldiers to help him steal 4,000 marks – no way to make this long story short, you had to be there.
1968 – Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos are forced to return their awards because they raised their fists in a black-power salute during the medal ceremony. Smith and Carlos wore no shoes, to symbolize the poverty of so many black Americans; Carlos wore a necklace of black beads, “for those that were lynched or killed that no one said a prayer for . . . .”
1974 – Benji, film about stray dog that helps rescue kidnapped children, opens in theaters and goes on to become a family, certainly not cult, classic [Editor’s comment]
Late breaking news: noon on Wednesday: Pictures arrive from KJ with his mom in Ireland, having a great time
Birthday: Sadie
Anniversary: Debbie Cox one year
Guests:
From Hinsdale H.S. Maggie and Danny
Ava & Shoshanna at Debra’s table
Josh at Diane’s table
Student Rotarians Danny & Maggie report on National Honor Society food drive & blood drive, Farm Day (for Project Graduation)
Announcements
- Kevin: the Rotary Cares program for BCTV will be about Rotary’s polio eradication efforts; also, the program has won the nonprofits award from BCTV
- Kevin: Bylaws committee will meet November 9 at River Garden
- Sadie: Groundworks/overflow hours will commence November
- Tom: thanks to those who participated in the dry run for Rotary survey, it was successful, will be a tool for Rotary reach-out around the world
- Allie: will be treasurer
- Diane: Rotary mixer, noon club, tomorrow night somewhere
Cards: 4♦ Winner: Will S. Take: he took a loss on it
Brags:
- Cindy: Southern Vermont Career Expo tomorrow with Occupations & Libations at Hermit Thrush in the evening
- Jon S.: Adventure Race, he and Dan and Bethany and Jen Moyse been there and done that real good; Drew impressed as always; Bethany special mention for Sudoku (Sodaku? Sokadu?) solutions
- Sadie brag for Josh and John “full course” (sorry, missed the rest of the details on this)
- Sadie brag on behalf of Kathy Urffer for Dan, for his help with Connecticut River Conservancy Clean-up
- Katya: she and Richard spent his birthday in Chatham, on the Cape, and brag also for the Windham Orchestra production of Puccini’s Turandot, Hugh Keelan music director, Jenna Rae as Turandot
- Deb brag for Sadie’s help with Disc Golf and also for “tour de force” in The Father at Actor’s Theater
- Deb brag for Ava’s bat mitzvah & Shoshanna’s backup “girl group”
- Valerie brag for those who serve in the armed forces as, hopefully, the next “Great Generation”
- Jon brag for Neringa Camp in Brattleboro this Sunday, 100 years of independence for Lithuania
- Josh U. brag for Toni as finalist for Women In Service award by Reformer
- Damon: Keene boys championship (sorry, missed the rest of this)
- Erin brag for the American Circus Educator’s Conference, which was founded by her main man Kevin some 20 years ago and is going strong; also, upcoming trip to India to teach social workers and educators to start youth circus programs in orphanages
- Drew brag for his wife & son who both stayed the course, 9.4 miles, in Adventure Race
Program: Halloween, as only the Marcy Caulkins family can serve it up . . .
Adjourn 8:30