Salem Rotary - The Spoke - Archive (Oct 13, 2009)

Rob Lutts proudly called upon Liz Smith to come to the podium to say a few words. As you know her brother Salty Smith was a longtime Salem Rotarian and founded the Scholarship Fund back in 1993. It is largely due to Salty that the fund is worth nearly $400,000.00 today.

Bob Dionne has been chosen as Rotarian of the Month for September 2009.

Our Change to Change Lives, has raised $577.74 in our first collection. President John is proud to announce that the donation will be sent to St. Joseph's Food Pantry. Our donation to St. Joseph's Food Pantry will allow them to purchase five times the amount of the donation in food. Thank you again for your generous donation for this wonderful cause.

This year's Rotary bowling league will be at Sunnyside Lanes in Danvers on Monday evenings at 6:30pm. The first night of the bowling league will be on October 19th. This is another opportunity to connect with Rotarian's from other clubs. If any Salem Rotarian is interested in bowling this year please see President-Elect Bill Kielbasa for details.

President John would like to thank all Rotarian's who participated in the 3rd Salem Mission Dinner. Thanks to Kathie Strout who donated the cost of the food. It is really appreciated!!!

The next Board of Director's meeting will be held next Thursday morning at 10:45am at the Hawthorne Hotel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

No birthdays this upcoming week!

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

Tuesday October 13, 2009 - Stoneham Theatre

Matt Chapuran, General Manager

Jon White-Spunner, Director of Community Development

We produce 8 shows each year as part of our Mainstage series at Stoneham Theatre. As a professional not-for-profit regional theatre we work with the highest caliber of professional actors, directors and designers to create the highest quality theatre possible. Each person we welcome through our doors brings to the theatre different expectations, and each person leaves with a different experience. It's our goal that every time you visit Stoneham Theatre, you'll leave having been entertained, engaged, and a little bit surprised.

The mission of the Stoneham Theatre, a professional non-profit theatre, produces a rich mix of high quality work that appeals to the diverse tastes and interests of the region, provides year-round comprehensive arts education for young people, and offers everyone the opportunity to examine the world through the experience of live theatre. In 1917 the town of Stoneham, population 7,500, already boasted two movie houses. Many doubted the need for a third. However, The Stoneham opened on Friday, November 2, 1917 at an estimated cost of $47,000. The feature attraction of the opening performance was Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation, with all proceeds given to the Stoneham Red Cross. Movies were silent when The Stoneham was born. Though early films lacked sound effects and spoken dialogue, they were usually shown with accompaniment by a harried piano player whose tunes suited the action. A new era in the field of moving pictures, the talking and sound picture; arrived at The Stoneham on Sunday, May 12, 1929. The renovation to sound placed a new screen at the front of the stage with the speaker behind it. It also caused an increase in ticket price, but for adults only. Amazingly, some people did not want sound, and for their benefit on two days a week The Stoneham offered a double feature – one picture with sound and the other silent.

For additional information on the Stoneham Theatre, please visit their website at www.stonehamtheatre.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

for additional important dates.

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

--William Raspberry

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

As I was going to the fair, I saw a man with golden hair. He had 3 sons each with another one. How many people were going to the fair?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

Name the Salem Rotarian who graduated from Salem High School in 1983, fourth in his class, and was also captain of the Football and Wrestling teams?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

State Representative John Keenan

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

October 20, 2009

District Ambassadorial Scholars program. Amy Luckiewicz.

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 Chairman/Editor: Brenda Smith

Assistant/Acting Newsletter Editor: Bob Dionne

Photographers: John Quinn & Juli Lederhaus

Graphics and Photo Editing: Rich Eisner

Committee Members: Malia Griffin, Jim Haskell, and Sandy Heaphy

Salem Rotary Club

PO Box 608

Salem, MA 01970

(978) 744-9070