Week in Review 9/25/2014

President Ken promptly started the meeting at 12:15 p.m.

 

He asked for a moment of silence in honor of fellow Rotarian Phil Dennison’s life and service to Rotary.  Phil recently celebrated his ten year anniversary with our club.  He will be missed greatly by everyone he touched.  PP Steve Morin said that Phil was an integral part of setting up the Company B fund while he was president.  He was a member of his board at the time and will be truly missed.  PP Roland Gagne shared a story where Phil had this “secure electronic device” that could be used to access accounts in Geneva.  The problem was that it was in French so Phil enlisted the help of Roland.  We also learned that Roland Gagne was the person responsible for asking Phil to join the fellowship of Rotarians and so became Phil’s sponsor.  PE Bill Kany reminded everyone that in recent years our club chose Phil as the recipient of the Humanitarian award for  his unprecedented dedication to Rotary and people in need.  PP Paul Deschambault announced that an international water sanitation project in the Dominican Republic, which was near and dear to Phil, is being dedicated in his memory.  President Ken mentioned that he really got to know Phil and his wife Marcia when they hosted a party for the GSE Team.  Heather Gendron expressed that Phil was a huge part of the YMCA and that he will be missed dearly.  In honor of Phil, the club’s charter was draped in a black cloth as well as the chair that he usually sat in during the meetings.

 

President Ken continued the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.  After a little pep talk by PP Don Lauzier, he led the group in singing God Bless America.  He suggested that if someone could sing, they should “shout it out” but if they couldn’t sing, they should just “lip sync”.  The group actually sounded pretty good which suggests that there were many Rotarians just moving their lips.  Heather Gendron flawlessly led the 4 Way Test followed by a moving invocation from Joe Bassett.  Today’s deli buffet consisted of ham and turkey sandwiches with all the fixings, potato salad & carrot cake.

 

PE Bill Kany was first up to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests.  He is not getting very much practice with his announcement.  He stated that this was the fourth week in a row that his form was blank!  He’s beginning to get a complex.

 

The whopping $34 50/50 raffle was won by Bill Kany.

 

There was no speaker at today’s meeting.