Salem Rotary - The Spoke - Archive (May 5, 2009)

Bruce Whear brought Helen Sides as a guest
Holly Fulton a guest and the speaker
Rich Eisner attended the PBR Championships in Worcester, MA. And he was thrilled that when he announced this, a fellow Rotarian, your esteemed editor, knew what the PBR was and has actually been. And I think we now have the stumper for the week!
Rich also paid a fine for enduring the pain of hiking Tuckerman's with Bill.
Juli Lederhaus played golf at Pine Hills, shot a 7 under (whatever that means!) and won lottery tickets to the Red Sox game
Liz Bradt and her family spent a week on St. Maarten, and she is now dive certified. Question is Liz, are you PADI or NAUI certified? Also announce that Animal Planet filmed at her clinic.
Mary Ann Lyons is still accepting donations for the Cancer Walk
Bruce Whear sowed his seed last weekend....he planted the garden...
John Hall was recognized as one of the 100 top business leaders
Brenda Smith cannot stay out of California and spent the weekend in Paso Robles competing in a 1/2 Ironman Triathlon. She had her best run split ever for a 1/2 marathon.
Matt Wasaki from the Early Act program at the Phoenix School is looking for donations to the club's Pennies for Peace campaign.

Program for the May 5th Meeting:

New member Christopher Casey was inducted. A bunch of Rotarians were fined for not signing the book.

Tim Clarke introduced our speaker Holly Fulton. Holly spoke about the project she and other family members undertook when they found out their family had been active in the slave trade. The film traces the journey over 10,000 slaves made into New England from Cuba and West Africa. The reason for the project was to examine the topic of the history of race, slavery and racism and to show the New England complicity in the slave trade. For more information about the book and film you may go to the website: htttp://www.tracesofthetrade.org

Events to be aware of -- Save the Dates!!

May 19 Board Meeting

June 21 NSMC Cancer Walk

May 12 Speaker MA General/NS Ctr. for Outpatient Care

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

for additional important dates.

And now a few announcements....

A moment of silence for Rotarian Bill Bursaw.

Quote of the Week:

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your pet parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers

Stumpers

This week's stumper:

Rotarian Rich Eisner went to the PBR Championships last weekend. What does PBR stand for?

Happy Birthday to: Keith Linares, James Lister, George Orfaly

Please email all announcements to be added to the Spoke and/or feedback to salem_rotary@yahoo.com by Noon on Wednesday. Also, feel free to contact any of the committee members listed below.

Committee Chair: Brenda Smith

Editors: Brenda Smith

Photos: John Quinn (Jay Cue), Trip Mason and File

Graphics and Photo Editing: Rich Eisner

Members: Denise Flynn, Jim Haskell and Sandy Heaphy