The Spoke - Archive  Dec 22, 2009

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 Rotary International Theme

2009-2010

"AND THE WINNER IS" - 50-50 RAFFLE

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

Marion Hodge - Ray Hodge

Charlie Walsh - Mailia Griffin

Julie Ripol - John Neely

Gary Stirgwolt - John Neely

Maureen Lynch - Denise Flynn

Kelsey Flynn - Denise Flynn

FINES & RECOGNITIONS

TRIP MASON

Elected President of the Greater Salem Boys & Girls Club next year.

JOHN NEELY

He has been lucky lately with raffles but did not win the lottery. His two children made it home for the holidays despite the bad weather.

TIM CLARKE

On May 2nd, will travel to San Francisco for another Iron-Man Triathlon.

MALIA GRIFFIN

Her picture was in the paper.

JULI LEDERHAUS

The Hawthorne is installing a new carpet in the main area of the hotel. They are also installing flat screen televisions in all of the guest rooms.

DENISE FLYNN

Friday March 5th is the 2010 Rotary Auction. The price is $50.00 per person which is less than last year.

BILL KIELBASA

Is collecting envelopes for the calendars. He also would like to plug Ken Rothwell's chicken pot pies. He had one last week and absolutely loved it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Denise Flynn's daughter Kelsey is our sponsored student for the upcoming year. She is not sure where she attend, but she is very grateful and thankful for the opportunity. Congratulations Denise and Kelsey.

President John would like to recognize the calendar committee, co-chairs Dave Gendall and Bill Kielbasa, Ray Hodge, Dick Lutts, Anita Blackaby, Rinus Oosthoek, Viktoria Talebian and Jane Stirgwolt. The Salem News article from last week tripled the sales since the story broke. Keep selling your calendars.

If anyone is interested in hosting a foreign student from Salem State College for Christmas, please contact John Neely.

PRESIDENT JOHN WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A VERY SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAY. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

Robert Barnard - January 1st

President John Hall - January 3rd

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

Salem High School Bank and Chorus performed for us today. They did a wonderful job, and we were extremely glad to have them at our meeting. President John provided Cynthia Napierkowski with a check for $1,000.00 after they performed.

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

December 29th - Jeff Kingman, Social Networking

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

  for additional important dates.

Salem Rotary Club Poker Tournament

To Benefit the Salem Boys & Girls Club

Thursday January 7th @ 6:00pm

Ward II Social Club, 1 East Collins Street, Salem

$100.00 Buy-In

2010 Rotary Auction

Friday March 5th

$50.00 per person

Stay tuned for time and location

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

Many obstacles to the expansion of goods will have presented themselves.

Paul Harris, Founder Rotary International

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

How many staff members are employed by Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

Since 1947 how much money has Rotary International contributed to do good in the world. 

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

2.4 Billion U.S. dollars

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