by Bruce Pacht for poor JoAnn who disabled temporarily her writing hand while walking in the woods.
MCTO by President Kevin at around 12:15 PM in the Dwinell Room of Harvest Hill.
Ernst played and we sang R-O-T-A-R-Y and then America.
Lorraine Morrison read thoughtful remarks about our being one community. She also led us in singing a version of Anchors Aweigh.
There were no visiting Rotarians. Will Koppenheffer introduced his daughter Eraminta (sp?) whom many of us knew in her youth as “Minty”.
After Secretary Will’s long song and dance about Billings, Marsh and Rockefeller, the raffle for $370 was lost; $380 next week!
Marion updated us on the acquisition of some excellent auction items, then urged us to sign up and bring other folks to the Gala on November 19 (following the District Team Training Seminar up in Lyndon State College, VT) at the Fireside in West Lebanon. We’ve received a $500 gift from Cardigan Mountain School in honor and memory of Norm Wakely, while Ernst announced that he’d collected $800 total from several local health professionals.
My Rotary Experience:
Paul Tierney spoke of his working as a Board member and volunteer with Listen Community Services which, among other things, served more than 28,000 individual meals last year, and gives out about $150,000 in heating fuel assistance to local families each year.
Rotary Minute:
Rich Wallace shared some statistics about the Rotary Club of Lebanon. Fewer than 10% of our members are younger than 49 years old. Also, only 3% of our membership has been with us less than one year; nationally, the rate is 11%.
Brags/Happy dollars:
- Rick Dyment is the 11th oldest City of Lebanon employee.
- Lorraine Morrison’s oldest daughter’s birthday is today.
- Forrest was delighted to have been able to spend a lovely afternoon in November just fishing.
Announcement:
The Mollica Committee wishes to broaden its outreach and asks the club for suggestions.
Speaker:
Our excellent speaker was Rick Kendal, a National Park Ranger who has, since 2010, been superintendent of both St. Gaudens in Plainfield, NH, and the Marsh/Billings/Rockefeller home in Woodstock, VT. Rick showed us gorgeous slides of many of our most beautiful parks while he spoke engagingly of the worth to all of us of having national parks set aside for everyone’s use. His talk was full of interesting facts and factoids. In addition to national parks, there are national heritage areas, national historic landmarks, and national wildlife refuges. And did you know that the first survey of what became Yellowstone National Park was led by a Vermonter? Neither did I.
