Salem Rotary - The Spoke - Archive (Dec 1, 2009)

Announced the House of Seven Gables will be hosting Christmas scenes from famous works of literature including, Little Women and a Christmas Carol. Please see Anita or log on to the House of Seven Gables for more information.

VIKTORIA TALEBIAN

Ran a 5k road race and finished in great time. Congrats Viktoria on yet another race.

BOB ANTHONY

Spent most of the month of November in China. He met someone from Salem while there and attended Rotary meetings. He had a problem with his ATM card and thanks to President John and Salem Five the problem was fixed almost immediately.

PRESIDENT JOHN HALL

Paid a $10.00 fine for Bob's remarks about Salem Five and the help he provided him. President John is also paying a fine becoming the Chairman-Elect of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. Congrats John on this wonderful achievement!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

President John is pleased to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Bradt has been chosen as this month's Rotarian of the Month. Liz has been a tremendous asset the club and a very active supporter of the Interact Club at Salem High School. She is the owner of All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Salem. Please join me in congratulating Liz for this wonderful achievement.

We have a Salem Mission dinner scheduled for this Thursday December 3rd at 5:00pm.

The DSS Children's Christmas Party is this Saturday from 1pm to 4pm at the North Shore Bridge Church at the Cummings Center in Beverly. Please enter through the 135A building which is near the train tracks to the far right of the building.

Please sell your calendars as quickly as possible. As the new year rapidly approaches, we need to sell a majority of the calendars. On the tables were envelopes to put your checks and calendar slips in.

As Christmas quickly approaches please bring in your spare change in next week for our 2nd collection of the Change to Change Lives initiative. Hunger remains a central problem in our community and anything you can donate will help a family in need. We collected nearly $600.00 on our first collection which went to the St. Joseph's Food Bank, so lets try to break the $600.00 mark this upcoming collection.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

John Neely - December 12th

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

SALEM HIGH SCHOOL ROTC

Major David Flores

Cadet Major Zack Broughton

Major Flores is from New Mexico and the brother of 13 other brothers and sisters. He is of Native American and Mexican descent. Both his parents had no more than an elementary school education and worked mostly on farms while raising their 14 children. The working conditions in New Mexico were very difficult with most of his family working at a very young age. Major Flores dropped out of school in the 9th grade. Fortunately, the Marines accepted young men with no high school diploma. He was forced to work in an ice house for his first job in the Marines. His first Captain noticed potential and pushed him to finish High School. After high school he got his undergraduate degree and then was chosen by the Marines to attend BC Law School.

Once he completed Law School Major Flores worked in logistics and intelligence. He then went to the Naval Justice School to learn about Court Marshall's. He worked on high profile cases for the Marines as a prosecutor. After 24 years in the Marines Major Flores retired. He then decided to take a job at Beverly High School ROTC and for 6 years worked with Beverly Cadets. He then transferred to Salem High School where he has been for the past 3 years. When he took the job the school had approximately 30 Cadets and today there are over 120 Cadets.

The Salem HS ROTC program teaches its Cadets leadership and tactics that some fortune 500 companies use. The Cadets are also instructed to do things in the community like Toys for Tots, computer literacy program, and volunteer their time at homeless shelters. They also helped restore the deteriorating basketball court behind the high school. The Salem High School ROTC Program is prepares kids for college and does not actively recruit them to the military.

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

December 8th - Semi-Annual State of the Union, President John Hall

December 15th - Classification Speeches, Bob Dionne & Joanne Scott

December 22nd - Salem High Band, Christmas Music

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

for additional important dates.

Salem Rotary Club Poker Tournament

Thursday January 7th @ 6:00pm

Ward II Social Club in Salem

$100.00 per person buy-in

ALL OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT THE SALEM BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

No success is more disastrous than that, that takes God out of their life.

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

What is the mission of the Rotary International Foundation?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

What is the 111 year record between Salem and Beverly football?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

Beverly 55, Salem 49, and 7 Ties

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: Brenda Smith

Acting Newsletter Editor: Bob Dionne

Photographer: John Quinn & Juli Lederhaus

Graphics and Photo Editing: Rich Eisner

Committee Members: Denise Flynn, Jim Haskell and Sandy Heaphy

Salem Rotary Club

PO Box 608

Salem, MA 01970

(978) 744-9070