From President Juli (and others) -

Hi everyone,

We are getting closer to being able to do our Dictionary Project.  If you are new to Salem Rotary, this is where we give a dictionary to every third-grader in all the Salem schools.  The plan is to distribute those the week of May 19.  If you are interested in volunteering, contact Jane Stirgwolt, either by email or phone or in person at the next Rotary meeting.  Jane is running this service project.

Thanks so much for all that you do for Salem Rotary.

Juli

From: IHoff421@aol.com
To: dek@waysidetrailers.com, JLivingston@Marblebank.com, juli@hawthornehotel.com, heidiwhear@gmail.com, mkennard@projectcope.com
Sent: 5/7/2008 6:38:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Marblehead Harbor Star Spangled Pops

Dear Rotary Presidents,

We are very excited about our first Star Spangled Pops Concert on May 17.  I would like to ask you to share this information with your Clubs...hopefully, through an email blast.

I hope you are available to join us on the 17th.

If you have any questions, please contact me at 781-631-0161 or 781-973-1564.

Thank you.

Ina

You Are Invited! 

It’s the first-ever Star-Spangled Pops, scheduled for Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Abbot Hall, hosted by The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor.

Town Hall will be decked out in red, white and blue as The Hillyer Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Marblehead resident Maestro Dirk Hillyer, performs dazzling musical favorites including patriotic treasures by Berlin, Cohan, Souza, and Copland as well as the Big Band sounds of Miller, Bassman, and Raye and Prince, with a taste of Broadway.

Extra features include
Judge Joseph Dever (retired) narrating Copland’s stirring “Lincoln Portrait,” Julie Hahnke on the bagpipes, High School students Ariana Conte, Jessis Xiarhos and Sarah Fischer offering some surprises during a marvelous Big Band number.

This concert is an opportunity to come together to honor our veterans and those who are in service now in the spirit of great summer concerts of the past.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a stellar event!

Proceeds will benefit the philanthropic projects of The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and Rotary International. We are also working with Marblehead Veterans’ Agent Dave Rodgers to identity how we may make an appropriate philanthropic contribution that will be meaningful to Marblehead’s veterans.

Tickets for the Star-Spangled Pops Concert are on sale now. Floor tickets are $35 each; balcony tickets are $25 each and are available at Arnould Gallery & Framery, The Garden Collection, National Grand Bank, and The Reporter Office. Remaining tickets, subject to availability, will be available the night of the concert at Abbot Hall. For tickets by mail, please call 781-631-9449.

Warmest regards,
Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor

From: IHoff421@aol.com
To: dek@waysidetrailers.com, JLivingston@Marblebank.com, juli@hawthornehotel.com, heidiwhear@gmail.com, mkennard@projectcope.com
Sent: 5/7/2008 6:38:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Marblehead Harbor Star Spangled Pops

Dear Rotary Presidents,

We are very excited about our first Star Spangled Pops Concert on May 17.  I would like to ask you to share this information with your Clubs...hopefully, through an email blast.

I hope you are available to join us on the 17th.

If you have any questions, please contact me at 781-631-0161 or 781-973-1564.

Thank you.

Ina

You Are Invited! 

It’s the first-ever Star-Spangled Pops, scheduled for Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Abbot Hall, hosted by The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor.

Town Hall will be decked out in red, white and blue as The Hillyer Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Marblehead resident Maestro Dirk Hillyer, performs dazzling musical favorites including patriotic treasures by Berlin, Cohan, Souza, and Copland as well as the Big Band sounds of Miller, Bassman, and Raye and Prince, with a taste of Broadway.

Extra features include
Judge Joseph Dever (retired) narrating Copland’s stirring “Lincoln Portrait,” Julie Hahnke on the bagpipes, High School students Ariana Conte, Jessis Xiarhos and Sarah Fischer offering some surprises during a marvelous Big Band number.

This concert is an opportunity to come together to honor our veterans and those who are in service now in the spirit of great summer concerts of the past.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a stellar event!

Proceeds will benefit the philanthropic projects of The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and Rotary International. We are also working with Marblehead Veterans’ Agent Dave Rodgers to identity how we may make an appropriate philanthropic contribution that will be meaningful to Marblehead’s veterans.

Tickets for the Star-Spangled Pops Concert are on sale now. Floor tickets are $35 each; balcony tickets are $25 each and are available at Arnould Gallery & Framery, The Garden Collection, National Grand Bank, and The Reporter Office. Remaining tickets, subject to availability, will be available the night of the concert at Abbot Hall. For tickets by mail, please call 781-631-9449.

Warmest regards,
Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

For more information, please contact:

Mary Whitney, Salem Award Committee Member

m.whitney@essexcountyforum.org

978-621-2830

 

Eric Reeves to Receive Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice for his work on Genocide in Darfur and Sudan May 9

The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice Foundation will present the 16^th annual Salem Award to Eric Reeves for his work on Genocide in Sudan and Darfur on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 pm at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.  Dr. Reeves, a Smith College professor, has spent 10 years fighting to save thousands of lives in the Sudan Darfur genocide and to bring the plight of Darfur to world attention through his advocacy for the victims of civil war in Sudan.

Dr. Reeves will speak with Susannah Sirkin and with Rev. Gloria White-Hammond. 

 

Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director, International Policy and Advocacy, for Physicians for Human Rights, a position she has held since 1987. Ms. Sirkin has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries, including recent documentation of genocide in Darfur and Sudan.  Ms. Sirkin leads the organization's Darfur Survival Campaign and wrote in her Sudan Journal upon traveling there, "If we choose to know, we can connect to Sudan and Darfur from anywhere on the planet…and the voices there keep crying out for help."

 

Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is the Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA and recently retired as a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center, where she served for 26 years.  Since 2001 Dr. Gloria has made seven trips into war-torn southern Sudan where she has been involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women and children who were enslaved during the two decades long civil war. In 2002 she co-founded My Sister's Keeper, www.mskeeper.org, a humanitarian women's group that partners with women of Sudan in their efforts toward reconciliation and reconstruction of their communities.

A reception will follow at the Salem Visitors Center where a new exhibit linking the Salem Witch Trials Memorial to the Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice will be unveiled.

The presentation and unveiling are free of charge and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended for the presentation, since space is limited. For reservations: www.salemaward.org or call 978-745-2682.   Reservations may also be made for a paid dinner with the speakers at the Hawthorne Hotel at 5:30 p.m.  

The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice is given each year to keep alive the lessons of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and to recognize individuals whose commitment to social justice and human rights has alleviated discrimination and promoted tolerance.

About Eric Reeves

Eric Reeves, a Professor at Smith College, has written and published extensively on Sudan for the past nine years. He has served as a researcher and consultant to numerous human rights and humanitarian organizations working in Sudan, and has testified formally on Sudan in a variety of governmental forums, including several Congressional hearings. His publications have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and many major American metropolitan newspapers, as well as international newspapers and journals. Longer essays on Sudan have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, Human Rights Review and African Studies Review.  His work is also published on a weekly basis in a variety of Sudanese magazines, newspapers, and websites. The contents of his own website, www.sudanreeves.org, are archived by the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the United States Library of Congress.

Dr. Reeves serves on the Advisory Board of the US Committee for Refugees (Washington, DC); the Board of Advisors for Genocide Watch and The International Campaign to End Genocide; the Board of Advisors to the Darfur Peace and Development Association; and is a director of the "Schools for Sudan" initiative.

Reeves is regularly asked to provide expert commentary on Sudan to the BBC, Radio France International, PBS, NPR, as well as to the major international news services and the foreign correspondents for a wide range of newspaper publications. He is presently at work on a book-length study of American and international policy responses to Sudan over the last decade.

Reeves regularly donates proceeds from his speaking engagements to a Sudan relief fund and has taken unpaid leave from Smith to pursue his humanitarian work.  He traveled to Sudan in 2003 to gain firsthand understanding of the situation and the Sudanese people.  His book about his experience, A Long Day's Dying, was published in 2007.

A decade ago, a conversation with a representative of the human rights group Doctors without Borders turned his attention to the violence in Sudan.  The crisis, and its lack of a clear champion, compelled Reeves to integrate advocacy with his academic work at Smith College which focuses on Shakespeare, Milton and the literature of the English Renaissance.  His commitment has grown and continued over the past decade.

About the Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice

The Salem Award Foundation for Human Rights and Social Justice presents the Salem Award annually in collaboration with the City of Salem and Salem State College.  The Foundation is organized to recall the lessons of the Salem Witch Trials through the Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice and to  support the public monument, The Salem Witch Trial Memorial.  The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice has been given each year since the Salem Witch Trial Memorial was installed in Salem in 1992.

The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice is given each year to keep alive the lessons of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and to recognize individuals whose commitment to social justice and human rights has alleviated discrimination and promoted tolerance.

In 1692, in Salem, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft, defined by the court at the time as a crime. From June 10 to September 22, nineteen people were convicted and hanged for that crime and one was crushed by stone for refusing to follow court procedure. They were victims of fear, superstition, and a court system that failed to protect them. The Salem Witch Trials continue to intrigue and inspire historians, writers, and experts in law and medicine. Advocates of civil rights and human tolerance use the events of 1692 as a yardstick to measure the depth of civility and due process in contemporary society.