Called to order by: Vice President Suellen Griffin
Opening Song: “Rotary” with Ernst Oidtmann on the piano.
Patriotic Song: “America” with Ernst on the piano
Invocation: Paul Boucher
Song Leader: Paul Tierney Song: “Night and Day”
Visiting Rotarians:
None
Guests:
None
Raffle: Steve Christy answered the National Parks question and drew Linda Copp’s ticket number. Linda, however, pulled the wrong card and lost the draw.
Announcements:
- The club members voted to accept Evan Leary into the club.
- Dick Wierwille, a former member our club lost is daughter Jennifer to cancer recently. For those wishing to send a card, Dick and Lin’s address is: 520 Woodland Ave., Wooster, OH, 44691
- Ernst Oidtmann announced the date of June 25 for our Mascoma River Clean-up Project.
Brags:
- Paul Tierney paid for several brags, too numerous for me to record.
- Catherine Schneider bragged about the current status of the fundraising effort for her medical missionary trip to Central America.
Rotary Minute: John Yacavone gave a brief presentation on the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker: Debbie Watrous, Executive Director of New Hampshire Humanities (NHH), and Steve Taylor, founding member of New Hampshire Humanities and speaker for Humanities to Go program of NHH, made a presentation about NHH and its many programs.
NHH offers a variety of programs across New Hampshire to connect people with ideas. In 2015 NHH offered 512 free programs, to 79,000 participants, with 320 local partners in 162 New Hampshire cities and towns. The work of the NHH falls into three different programs:
Humanities to Go is a program of NHH which features over 200 different programs by many different presenters on various ideas and subjects of relevance to New Hampshire and our broader world.
Connections is a book discussion program for adult new readers which opens doors to the world of books and ideas.
Community Grants Program of NHH supports local cultural and educational institutions by awarding grants for innovative humanities programs.
Steve Taylor gave a brief and humorous description of his activities as a presenter of several programs as part of Humanities to Go.
Spoke writers: please send typed Spoke to Ron Carr rcarr38@comcast.net
