**ROTARY NEWSLETTER **
Rotary of Needham
Tuesday: May 23, 2017
Pledge of Allegiance: Ted Shaughnessy
Song: God Bless America; Led By: Marty Lindemann
Prayer: Led by Karen Wetmore
Guests: - Eileen Thompson, Libby’s Mother; Aline Kaplan, or guest speaker.
Announcements:
- Ted’s final Board of Directors meeting will be Wednesday, June 7. The meeting will focus on next year-all members welcome.
- Schooner Adventure cruise on June 18th has 1 ticket left-if interested, contact Hank Abbott to reimburse him the $50 fee. Jim is contact person and will coordinate food and drinks.
- Karen is still working with Gloria Greis of the Needham Historical Society on a history of Needham Rotary. Get any materials to Karen to be included in the display.
- Rich Forte hosting annual cook out on June 27 at his home in Dover at 5:30. We will have a booth at the NBA Street Fair on Saturday, June 3 from 10:00-3:00.
- We will sell raffle tickets at the booth. We have the basket of $1,000 worth of scratch tickets. We hope to start selling raffle tickets at the Street Fair on June 3rd or Labor Day weekend Soccer Tournament. Family Federal and Condon Realty volunteered to sell tickets.
- Needham Rotary will be sponsoring a CARNIVAL in the Needham High School upper parking lot the weekend of July 7-9. There will be a new ride at our carnival. Charles is working on filling out the schedule for ticket sellers.
HAPPY DOLLARS: Ken Davis is happy as he is going to Dallas for his son Ethan’s wedding!! Bill Paulson gave $10 for being away for 8 weeks at a Keller Williams training class; Scott for a nice week I n Florida; Ryan for golfing with Marty and Charles; Jim for guests and the Celtics; Charles and Paula for our guests; Libby $5 for having her mother visit us at rotary-Welcome! Kathy Whitney for a great tour of the MFA with her entire family! Chuck HTBH. Louise for a busy week coming up.
50/50 drawing: Ryan had the right ticket 488, but did not draw the lucky card. Better luck next week! $609 in the pot this week. Stay tuned!
Reality Fair: The Reality Fair was held at Needham High School on Thursday the 25th. There were four sessions, with lots of students. 'Reality' got pretty real for the student who spun the wheel and 'won' a DUI conviction. She does not look like a 'Happy Camper' as the cuffs are placed on her:
More pictures to follow next week.
Humor: Louise had 2 quick jokes from her book.
Guest Speaker: Aline Kaplan, a Docent with ‘Boston By Foot, told us about the history and current activities of this walking tour service of Boston. Founded in 1976 by Polly Flansburgh of Boston. They had 2 tours in 1976 serving 316 visitors and have grown to where in 2016 they had 100 different tours, served 15,000 visitors with 200 volunteer tour leaders. Tours are designed to run 90 minutes, rain or shine, and are held from April through November (with an occasional snow storm mixed in).
Titles of this year’s tours range from ‘The History of Beacon Hill’ to ‘The Dark Side of Boston’, and includes a series of ‘Architectural Cruises’.
Aline detailed that a tour leader must pass a series of tests, and be able to deliver their presentation without notes! To prepare for the ‘final’ exam, they must be able to deliver a presentation on one of 10 buildings, which they learn which one on the day of the final.
Wanting to play ‘stump the stars’ Aline fielded several specific questions about the architecture in Boston, and she had all the answers!
Aline gave us a tip that tickets are $13.00 on line and $15.00 by phone. Thanks Aline!
Below are several web site reference she provided us:
www.bostonbyfoot.com The web site of ‘Boston By Foot’
wwww.aknextphase.com Aline’s personal web site
www.backbayhomes.com Web site which details all the details of all the buildings in the Back Bay. Most detailed, she says it is worth a look.
Word has it that the Social committee is going to organize a ‘field trip’ on one of the tours for the club this summer.
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 30, 2016 at 12:00 at Needham Sheraton
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