Salem Rotary - The Spoke - Archive (Jun 22, 2010)

President John traveled to Gloucester Rotary last week to join the 87th anniversary celebration. Salem Rotary Club chartered 4 clubs in 1923 after our 3rd President - Judge Robert Hill. He was elected District Governor. The clubs that he chartered were Marblehead, Danvers, Ipswich and Gloucester.

The final coin collection for the Change to Change Lives initiative will take place next Tuesday. So far we have raised over $3,100.00 for St. Joseph's Food Pantry. St. Joseph's Food Pantry is experiencing financial difficulty. Lets make the final collection a big one. Please bring in all your spare change and bills if you don't have change. They do a lot of good for the community, lets help them continue fight hunger in Salem. The kids at the Phoenix School gave President John a piggy bank full of change totalling $267.00. A special thanks goes to the kids for their tremendous support.

Do your best to attend next weeks meeting to thank President John for his dedication to the club during his term as President. He will be addressing the club for the final time and handing out awards to Rotarian's.

We had our annual Golf Tournament on Monday June 21st at Wenham Countryclub. It was a tremendous success. We would like to thank the golfers, sponsors, volunteers golf committee and especially Bob Conley for their dedication to this event. We would also like to thank Ken Rothwell for providing food for the event. The lunch and dinner were absolutely amazing.

Next week board members will be reviewing and voting on the updated by-laws that were reviewed by the board last week.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

Paul O'Toole - June 29th

Beth Bower - June 30th

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

Jeremiah "Jere" Burns - Korean War Pilot

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

June 29th - President John will hand awards and address the club for the final time as President of the club. Please make sure to attend and thank President John for his dedication to the club during his term as President.

There will be no speakers for the summer.

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

for additional important dates.

Installation dinner for President-Elect Bill Kielbasa

Thursday June 24th @ 6:30pm

House of Seven Gables

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

"You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing." Warren Buffett

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

Name the Rotarian who owns this tattoo?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster. What are the four objectives?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

FIRST- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND- High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD- The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

FOURTH- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

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