Thanks to Bruce Pacht for taking minutes during the meeting.
Upcoming Programs/Speakers
Change in Meeting Times Starting.We will be meeting at 11:55 a.m. on the First and Second Thursdays and we will be meeting at 5:25 p.m. on the Third and Forth Thursdays.
April 8, 11:55 AM: Jane Mason will let us know as soon as a speaker has confirmed
April 15, 5:25 PM: Round 2, Speech Contest begins organized by Assistant Governor (AG) John Hochreiter and our speech chair Phil Rentz. It will be between candidates from Randolph and Lebanon. Hanover will judge the 2nd round. The students will be welcome to bring their parents to the meeting.
April 22, 525 PM: TBD
April 29, Time 3 PM: No Zoom meeting today, instead we will do our RIVERSIDE PARK CLEAN-UP [THINK SPRING]
Bring park clean-up supplies e.g. gloves, rakes, tarps, leaf blowers (these always make the job easier), etc.
Dan Affeldt gave a Classification Talk at today meeting. Dan began his story from when he lived in Minnesota.
Dan did some voice-over work in grad school. His Uncle Bill created the first 24-hour WAMD radio station in St Paul. The station was a box built up in the rafters. His uncle would be up there and just hand the microphone down to pick up the orchestra.
Dan started at pre-med and pre-law which helped him so quickly to “get it” when he came across Rotary. The voice work allowed Dan to help other students.
Dan’s father was a physician and surgeon, a country doctor who would have been 122 this year. Dan’s siblings were gone from home so Dan provided the second set of hands to help his father in the doctor’s office. Dan once delivered a baby out behind the office. His father said, “Take a lot of towels and just don’t drop anything.” It was her 7th baby, so the mom was in charge.
Dan once served as deputy coroner after a large building burned and 17-18 tons of hay fell on a building (just outside of Rochester, MN). He made the phone call verifying an individual’s death. Also helped with extrication. Dan once had to ride in the back of a hearse serving as an ambulance. When they arrived, the EMTs thought Dan was the patient.
Dan’s high school class of ’65 came to visit Dartmouth, but he picked Carleton College in MN which was celebrating its centennial. William Webber, president of Union Theological at Columbia, came there to speak about a new program. In his college junior year, Dan had been accepted at a medical school, but he realized that he didn’t love the science – he loved the caring and the help. Instead of going to medical school, he called William Webber on the day of his graduation and then attended the new program.
The program was located in NY City in the same building near the UN as the Environmental Action Coalition’s offices were located. They were doing Earth Day and working with the City and the UN. Dan offered to help – they figured out he would be good in the speaker’s bureau. On the first Earth Day, he spoke in the Nassau Colosseum to telephone workers.
The Metropolitan Urban Services Training program – MUST – was housed at Union Theological. Also involved studying with National Council of Churches and New School for Social Research on ways to improve organizations that serve their communities. Dan developed 60 community-based reclamation/recycling centers.
Environmental Action Coalition chose solid waste as their major effort. Dan headed it up. Published “Eco News” for 5th grade and other levels. MUST also worked with a day care sponsored by emergency psychiatric unit with families having drug usage problems. Worked with Robert Blue, an amazing singer, who asked Dan to work with him on a musical PSA – “a checkup and a check”.
On Dan’s firsr day in NYC, he met a fellow who offered him a job in his restaurants; the guy’s father was a tailor in the neighborhood. Dan learned the restaurant business while doing his schoolwork. He and friends started a restaurant called “The Other End,” next to the nightclub “The Bitter End” in Greenwich Village.
Dan was offered at job at an institute doing research for the executive and legislative branches of NY State. Their work proved that “redlining” was real. They published their findings in the Empire State Report; in 1979, the NY Times printed an article showing that redlining did exist.
That experience started Dan down the road with people who had the technology and the sass to work with data in exciting ways. Now he sits at the intersection of information and technology.
He began working with Churchill, a firm in NY on information he was gathering with a foundation focused in Westchester. They managed membership for 5,000 service credit unions, generating mailings and communications for insurance companies. Kept meeting more people.
Dan got involved uncovering the Hunt Brothers’ manipulation of the silver market by gathering all the data for the lawsuit. All this while working in the Greenwich Village restaurant and music scene. They started the Bleeker Street Parish upstairs as a safe place for kids.
More and more contacts came into Dan’s life. Laurentian Capital Corp in Canada purchased some insurance companies in the US and hired Churchill. Churchill also managed the Tylenol recall. Law firms began calling them after the Hunt trial.
Dan continued on doing similar work with other places – “Have Dan go in and find out what to do and we’ll tell them how to do it.”
Worked with Seaside Industries during deinstitutionalization from mental health hospital confinement. Got into transcription, printing, vending machine maintenance – lots of training. Able to get some housing going. Almost 11,000 people went through the program.
Dan thinks it’s pretty neat to be a Rotarian, especially after how he was able to help with NEPETS this Covid year.
QUESTIONS
Paul Tierney: How did you meet your wife, Rosemary?
Dan – I knew a fellow in grad school who was working in Ft. Apache area in Bronx. He had been dating Rosemary. We brought folks from other countries to see how folks lived up there. Rosemary and others would come down to the club in Greenwich Village. One night, the head of the waitstaff came in and said, “Rosemary is here alone for the third time this week, so maybe you want to go out and say, “Hi.” They were married in Brooklyn; and went to Fisher’s Island (in Southold, NY at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, 2 miles off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound.)
Graeme Strachan from Northern Ireland Zoomed joined our meeting. His brother, Stuart, lives in Lebanon. John said that Stuart lives on the Meriden Road in a building that used to house a tavern. Graeme is the current president of Rotary club of Coleraine in Northern Ireland (https://www.facebook.com/RotaryClubOfColeraine/about/?ref=page_internal).
They are having a “scattered week” this week during which they each attend a far-off Rotary club’s meeting around the world.
Graeme remembers being at Salt hill Pub. His club is the 6th oldest in Ireland, with 23 members, and in their 83rd year. Northern Ireland is still in a very strict Covid lockdown – no meetings, no fundraising except they had a spin marathon with 12 volunteers each doing 12 hours with sponsorships for the aid of their local Air Ambulance -- £5,500 a day to keep in the air!
They do a lot with New Generations: “Just One Life” – 500 students come together to get the life scared out of them. They show a movie dramatizing a crash in which there are 4 fatalities; a court scene with the driver sentenced to 7 years in jail; Q&A session with uniformed services. Also do leadership development and other things.
Internationally joining with 3 other clubs – water and sanitation with village in Nepal.
12:02 – Marilyn rang the bell to bring the meeting to order.
Hank Clarke recited the Four Way Test
Dan Affeldt gave a Classification Talk (see the details of his talk above).
Other Club Business:
We missed the annual NH Turkey Survey this year – it ended March 31, just before April Fool’s Day.
Philip Rentz – We will hold the second round of the Speech Contest on April 15th at our 5:30 PM meeting. Unsure if both Randolph clubs are participating.
Bruce Pacht will present the CHARITIES budget on May 6 or 20 for the Rotary year 2021-22 for members to discuss and vote.
Ed Friedman said the Golf Tournament is progressing for May 27. 8 weeks left to pull it all together.
Ernst: 3 people are signed up for the bridge reconstruction project; we need 4 people for each team, so we need more Lebanon Rotarians. Ernst will try to enlist Hypertherm volunteers.
Other Ernst business:
Ernst noticed a picture of Bruce Bergeron’s family on the lake in Image magazine.
Bruce Bergeron commented that the weather was horrible that day, and they should have paid him to have the picture taken
The Ever Given ship in the Suez Canal was freed by Dutchmen.
There was almost an explosion at his office on Monday. He drove by and saw 2-3 firetrucks and an ambulance. There was no heat that morning, but it smelled like propane. The week before, 400 gallons had been delivered but it seems to have gone through a leak to pool beneath the parking lot. Now there’s a new line in.
Ernst also knew Stuart, Graeme’s brother.
Dick Podolec is still looking for members to work with Dartmouth Rotaractors. Check with Ron or Marilyn.
Bruce Bergeron will reach out to Will K for an update on the City of Lebanon signing off on the Brewfest September 4th.
Dave Crandall gave an update on the planning for our 100th Anniversary. Yesterday’s meeting narrowed down to 6 ideas from the 15 received to be investigated further for feasibility. We expect to present 3-4 ideas to the club that will be both feasible and good for the club.
Happy thoughts/concerns – Does anyone have anything they want to share?
John Yacavone sent $84 to the Mollica Spending fund for his April 2 birthday...guess how old he is
Marilyn: Rotary Day at the UN is coming up...See info below
Rotary Foundation Gala for all of NE and parts of NJ, PA and NY. Some celebrities will be there. An innovative way to do a TRF fundraiser. Fee of $110 - $100 donation. See info below
Bruce Bergeron – Community Service Committee meeting next Thursday for the spring schedule. Beside trail work, park cleanup on April 29. Bill Koppenheffer organized a Riverside Park Cleanup for the 5th Thursday of this month to replace our meeting. Start time is 4:00 p.m. for a couple of hours.
Hank Clark — Listen is trying to line-up a schedule for resuming community dinners.
Bruce Bergeron — free car wash winner this week is Bill Secord!
Members at the Meeting
Dan Affeldt
Marilyn Bedell
Ron Bedell
Bruce Bergeron
Dean Cashman
Hank Clarke
Dave Crandall
Ed Friedman
Joy Gobin
Cindy Jerome
JoAnn Lemieux
Sharmila Niroula
Ernst Oidtmann
Bruce Pacht
Phil Rent
Bill Secord
Marion Steiner
Paul Tierney
Rich Wallace
John Yacavone
Visiting Rotarian — Graeme Strachan from Rotary Club of Coleraine, North Ireland
Bell rang to end the meeting at 12:56 PM.
“Stay safe, stay distant, and wear masks.”
Announcements and Updates:
Rotary and the United Nations - April 6, 2021
CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF ACTION BETWEEN ROTARY & THE UNITED NATIONS
This event is an international effort, hosted by Districts in NYC, Nairobi, Rome, and Geneva, with RI & United Nations direct involvement.
Some great reasons to share with your districts and clubs:
All ages event, a great way to connect with your Interact and Rotaract Clubs
Perfect opportunity for your Districts' RI Leads and clubs' prospective members to see a "power of Rotary" event, as well as our ties to the UN and the SDGs.
Amazing speakers, from RI, UN & more, including Tea Leoni, Unicef Ambassador.
A chance for clubs to learn more about international service and get ideas on the impact Foundation grants can have.
A chance to share YOUR club's efforts - Visit www.75yearsofaction.live to nominate your ongoing or future Rotary-led service project (deadline: 3 April 2021) to be featured during the live event. The goal is to offer the global audience opportunities to take action on or after 10 April 2021.
This live-stream event will feature notable service projects and offer “behind-the-scenes" talks with leaders from the United Nations and the Rotary world, as well as personal reflections from Rotary members of all ages- including Interactors and Rotaractors- supporting the Sustainable Development Goals through acts of service.
Also, if your club or district is interested in a multi-district international project, UNHCR Partner & Rotarian Founded Amal Alliance will be having an event on April 9th, partnering with Rotary to kick off fundraising for a project in Uganda's Nakivale Refugee Camp. (There will also be information separate from event on club/district donations for project involvement. Great way for clubs that don't know a lot about international projects to be involved in one!) Details here: https://go.rotary7230gives.org/rotary-amal
Date: Saturday, 10 April 2021 Time: 10:00 - 13:00 U.S. Eastern / 16:00 – 19:00 Central European / 17:00 – 20:00 East Africa Admission Fee: Complimentary Audio Language: English (subtitles in most languages, audio translation TBC) Live-stream Locations:Event Website (no login or app download required) Suitable for ages 12-years+
Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 8:45 AM EDT – 11:15 AM EDT
Price: Free · Duration: 2 hr 30 min
We are THRILLED to announce our keynote speaker Sebastian Terry! Terry states,
“I once realised that I was unhappy in life and so drew up a list of 100 Things I wanted to try and achieve- my hope was that I would find purpose. That journey has accidentally grown into a global movement of people all over the world chasing & achieving their dreams and helping others do the same.”
Riverside Park Clean-Up April 29, 2021, 3:00 PM
Bring park clean-up supplies e.g. gloves, rakes, tarps, leaf blowers (these always make the job easier), etc.
Rotary Foundation Gala, Celebrating our Foundation! — May 12, 2021 at 8 PM
Join Rotary International Director, Valarie Wafer, and Rotary Foundation Trustee Dean Rohrs the hosts for a Rotary Foundation 2021 virtual event. The program begins with our special guest, Rotary International President Nominee, Jennifer Jones, at the "Red Carpet" pre-event:
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 8:00pm ET (5:00pm PT)
This will be a ~60 minute fast-paced virtual Gala fundraiser for The Rotary Foundation. In addition to speakers from Rotary International, entertainment has been planned and will include:
Canadian Rock LegendAlex Lifeson...
Aleksandar Živojinović (born August 27, 1953) better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush.
From London UK, World Champion "Flair" Bartender Tom Dyer...
Tom Dyer is well known in the world of bartending, as one of the most, if not the most decorated flair bartender of all time. Tom, like many other bartenders, has worked in the bar and hospitality industry for over 18 years ranging from bar back to bar owner, bartender, supervisor, manager, and now school owner
From Colombia South America, Camilo the Magician...
Camilo has been a full-time professional for the last fifteen years. He has showcased his magic all across South America and North America. His world-class magic, unique personality, charming style, and amazing illusions have made him one of the most in-demand magicians in Canada
Pop/Rock performer Barney Bentall...
Barnard Franklin "Barney" Bentall is a Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter who is most well known for his 1990s-era band, "Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts". Their most successful singles included "Something to Live For", "Life Could Be Worse", "Crime Against Love" and "Come Back to Me".
Purchase tickets starting at US$110 by clicking here
Bedell Golf Classic 2021 at Eastman Golf Links — May 27, 2021
Save the Date & Plan to Volunteer Before or at the Event.
The golf committee up and running. Team leaders have been identified and will be reaching out to you with more detailed information and provide a brochure to be used for recruit golfers, sponsors and raffle prizes. If you want to help, let Ed Friedman, Golf Chair know. Everyone needs to begin recruiting golfers, reach out to find sponsors and raffle prizes. Raffle prizes don't need to be big ticket items, often we can group some smaller items and make it one prize. Once again, tee times will be used instead of a shot gun start. More details will be shared as the committee get rolling.
Boston Lot Service Project — Building Foot Bridges
Save the Date: SATURDAY MORNING MAY 29; START at 9 AM
Outdoor project for May 29, the last Saturday of the month.
No snow! No mud (maybe)!
We need volunteers to built nine log bridges crossing several water runoffs on the Boston Lot trail that circles the pond on the north-west side. Each bridge consists of two or three sleepers supporting two twelve-foot-long boards held down by steel pegs for which holes need to be drilled so the boards won’t split. (Two bridges will be only six feet long.)
The work will start at 9 a.m. and may take about two hours to complete depending on how many teams of two-to-four people we have. The two gates will be unlocked so we can drive all the way to the pond. I’ll assign you to a team, if needed, and to the particular bridge(s) you are going to build.
Equipment needed per team: shovel, pry bar, drill, saw, pounding hammer, gloves, protective goggles and insect spray.
It would be nice if our Rotary Club can sign up eight-to-ten people.
Rotary Invitation From Northern NH Rotary Clubs to Clean Up the Kancamagus, June 4th & Pinkham Notch, July 24th
Will be formally announced at our March 11th Meeting
To: Service Organization Partners
From: Northern New Hampshire Rotary Clubs
Date: February, 2021 Re: Rotary Community Clean-Up New Hampshire Projects
The Rotary Clubs of Bristol, Lincoln-Woodstock, North Conway, Ossipee, Plymouth, and White Mountains invite you to join with us to brighten up our area’s most scenic highways, byways, and trailheads.
The more volunteers we attract, the more impact we will have. We are looking for support from individuals, other service clubs and organizations, chambers of commerce, school groups, churches, municipalities, area businesses, and anyone who would like to join us as we Clean Up New Hampshire.
If you are unable to commit your body to a day of labor, we are happy to discuss other ways you can support our efforts such as in-kind or monetary donations. Our goal is to make these projects sustainable and far reaching for the benefit of residents and visitors alike, thanks to the support of everyone who cares about our communities! Also, working outdoors, COVID-19 safety protocols will be more easily enforced.
Our first undertaking is the Kancamagus Clean-Up Project. The date is Saturday, June 5th, from 9am to 3pm. We will have teams starting at the Kancamagus Highway height of land working their way downhill toward the towns of Lincoln and Conway, picking up trash along the highway in the rest areas, pull offs, and trailheads. We will be organized by teams and given zones within which to work. We will supply all that you need as well as a continental breakfast to get you started and lunch to keep you going. Our goal is to engage up to 150 Kancamagus Clean-Up participants!
Anticipating that our Kancamagus Clean-Up efforts will be successful, we are already planning for a Pinkham Notch Clean-Up Project on July 24, 2021, and at least two more before the snow flies! Please join our Rotary Community Clean-Up project. To participate, contact our Volunteer Coordination Committee Chair: BOB YOUNG YOUNGLAWFIRM@YAHOO.COM Thank you very much for your consideration in joining our efforts. We look forward to working with you as we Clean Up New Hampshire!
Please join our Rotary Community Clean-Up project. To participate, contact our Volunteer Coordination Committee Chair:
BOB YOUNG YOUNGLAWFIRM@YAHOO.COM
Thank you very much for your consideration in joining our efforts. We look forward to working with you as we Clean Up New Hampshire.
Mascoma River Clean-up
Ernst Oidtmann announce that Mascoma River Clean-up will be on September 25 is the date of the biennial Mascoma River Clean-up which will take place in concert with the Connecticut River Clean-up.
Rotaract at Dartmouth
If you want to be partnered with a Dartmouth Rotaract Student, Let Ron Bedell know and he will ask Dick Podolec to work with you to make the connection. Again the objectives for this partnership:
Help students learn more about Rotary; and you will learn more about Rotaract
Provide career advise and potentially mentor the student as they progress through their education at Dartmouth;
Be a resource to them as the learn about the Upper Valley and what our region has to offer; and you may learn more about what is offered at Dartmouth.
Provide an opportunity for your to learn more about youth perspectives.
Permit Rotarians and Rotaractors to work on each others club projects.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP'T IS A BIG BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP
Achieve your professional development goals in the new year! Become a more effective presenter, communicator, and leader by taking a series of courses developed exclusively for Rotary by the experts at Toastmasters International. These courses in Rotary’s Learning Center will help you grow professionally and personally. They include:
Develop a Speech, on developing content based on your topic, audience, and goals
Deliver a Speech, on the basics of giving a speech
Inspirational Speech, on how to engage, persuade, or inspire an audience
Interpersonal Communication and Networking, on building and maintaining professional relationships and networks
Leadership Basics, on topics like motivating others, integrity, and team inclusiveness
Leading a Team, on creating a positive environment, setting goals, and delegating
Collaboration, on understanding and developing leadership and collaboration skills
Building Consensus, on developing the skills needed for effective and inclusive leadership
Register on My Rotary to get access to the learning center.
This year’s event will connect you, virtually, with members around the world. It will open new opportunities to learn and to engage with the family of Rotary, near and far. Together, we’ll inspire action, strengthen our commitments, work on our challenges, and celebrate our successes.
Visit the convention event page on Facebook to connect with other participants and share what you’re looking forward to experiencing with #Rotary21. The Virtual Convention is open to all Rotary members and participants, so invite a friend to join you or share the event with your community.
Rotary awards its highest recognition to the United Nations
To celebrate 75 years of cooperation and a shared history of working together toward a healthier and more peaceful world, Rotary presented the United Nations (UN) and its agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, with its highest recognition: The Rotary Award of Honor.
Accepting the award presented by Past Rotary International President Mark Daniel Maloney, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 23 November, "My profound gratitude to Rotary. Through me, you are also recognizing the United Nations and our efforts to build a healthier, safer, and more peaceful world."
Receiving the award on behalf of the WHO on 25 February, Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "Rotary is a vital partner for WHO, and our partnership has brought us to the threshold of an historic achievement over polio."
Rotary, WHO, and UNICEF, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988. Since then, nearly 3 billion children have been immunized against polio in 122 countries, and polio cases have been reduced 99.9 percent worldwide –including the recent certification of the African region as free of the wild poliovirus. This public-private partnership also includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. "Our progress toward ending polio demonstrates the positive impact we can have when we work together," said Maloney.
After receiving the award on 23 November 2020 on behalf of UNICEF -- Executive Director Henrietta Fore said, "UNICEF's partnership with Rotary is one of our most cherished relationships. Our work together to end polio has been lifesaving and historic."
As the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, the global health infrastructure that has brought polio to the brink of eradication is now being used to help protect communities from COVID-19. "The world is benefiting from the infrastructure that the polio eradication initiative has built over the last three decades," said Rotary International President Holger Knaack.
Rotary has awarded more than $32 million to club projects that support communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Rotary Award of Honor was established in 1990 to be given to heads of state and other dignitaries who have made a significant contribution to international understanding and goodwill. Past recipients include His Holiness Pope Francis, Pranab Mukherjee, then president of India, Queen Elizabeth II, and Bill Gates.
Rotary holds the highest consultative status offered to a non-governmental organization by the UN's Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. Each year, Rotary celebrates the organizations' shared vision for peace and highlights the critical humanitarian activities around the world.
