Called to order by: President Don
Opening Song: R-0-T-A-R-Y
Patriotic Song: My Country Tis of Thee
Invocation: Jane
Song Leader: Jon Song: There’s a Tavern in the Town
Visiting Rotarians:
None
Guests:
Chris Collins, guest of Dan Nash; Emmaline Thompson, speech contestant from Mascoma High School
Raffle: Bruce got to draw but not the Queen
Announcements:
President Don reminded members of the Business After Hours to be held tonight from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Dwinell Room with members of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce.
The second round of the speech contest will be held in the Dwinell Room on Feb.25th with contestants from 4 clubs participating.
Brags:
Immediate Past President Garlan….(IPP Garlan!) noted that several members have been prominently featured in the Valley News lately and immediately fined Steve Christy $100 to be given to the Mollica Fund. Steve was so shocked he fainted and fell flat on the floor. (I guess Bankers just want to keep the dough in their vaults?) After being revived by mouth to mouth resuscitation, he got up and got even with IPP and fined him $100 as well. Not to be outdone, IPP then proceeded to fine Suellen $25 and Paul Boucher $50 because the latter is in the paper all the time. End result was $275 given to the Mollica Fund for make grants.
It should be noted that anyone can make a contribution to the Mollica Fund recognizing birthdays or wedding anniversaries, etc., but you should designate if you want it to go to the “corpus” (for investment to increase the fund) or to ”expense” which makes it available right a way for grant making. Just note it on the “for” section of your check.
Bruce bragged for the second week in a row that the Barbershop singing group made him the Barber of the Year. This quickly brought a fine from Steve C for bragging about the same thing two weeks in a row. Bruce also bragged that he had been selected as the Rotarian to accompany the Geisel School of Medicine team going to Tanzania to do an evaluation study of medical needs assessment. (Congratulations Bruce, but don’t forget you Malaria shots!)
Jane told of someone seeing Rotary Shelter Boxes…but I couldn’t hear the details. Sorry.Jennifer announced an open house event for Windsor Sponsors to be held on Jan 29 from 5-7 in Windsor.
Rotary Minute: Linda pointed out an article in the current Rotarian magazine stating that on Tuesday Feb 23rd, it will be the 111th anniversary of Rotary International. The social committee then announced that there would be a celebration of the event on that evening at Salt Hill for dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. All Rotarians should attend and tell why you joined Rotary.
Speaker: Emmaline Thompson was the only speech contestant and spoke on the theme: “Be a gift to the world in your everyday interactions.” The rest of the meeting was for a club forum.
Several reports from committees were given: Dan N mentioned the possibility of building a bus shelter for Valley Transit. Jamie announced the strong possibility of starting an Interact Club at Mascoma Hi School where the staff were in strong favor of it. Jennifer mentioned the G&FO committee is setting aside $5000 for grant making this year. $1700 has been given to the Northfield Rotaract Club to buy windows for the school in Tanzania. The focus will continue to be on Clean Water, Sanitation and Literacy.
Kevin announced that the recipient of this year’s auction would be Helping Hands in Canaan which is a food depot. He also announced that Marion has agreed to be this year’s chair of the auction….having come from a family of auctioneers!
