home page Contact Us

Home
Special Events
Meeting Information
Meeting Makeups
About Us
Club Awards
President's Message
Officers & Directors
Club Members
Four Avenues of Service
Newsletter
Current
Archive
Photo Album
Calendar
Host a Student
 
2009 Turkey Drive
 

Fundraising Programs

All-Star Basketball Classic
Raffle
 
Local Grants Program
 

International Programs

Youth Exchange
International Projects
 

Student/Youth Programs

Scholarships
Tools of the Trade
Student Awards
Interact
 
One Book
Amber Alert
 
About Rotary
Becoming A Member
Useful Links
 
Contact Us
Site Map
 

For members...




Administration Login
 
Newsletter - Current Mar 2, 2010
click to print this pageprint this page

 

 

Middletown Rotary Club

Merry-Go-Round

  

Date March 2, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meeting was opened by Middletown Rotary Club President, Patricia Lyman, with a song, the pledge of allegiance and a very meaningful invocation by Frank Sumpter.

 

Announcements:

 

Mission of Mercy will provide free dental service to hundreds of people on a volunteer project on Sunday, March14th. Our club has agreed to take down the set-up at the conclusion.

Paul Harris Awards Dinner, Thursday, March 18, at Elizabeth's Restaurant, 825 Cromwell Ave., Rocky Hill.

District Conference, Burlington, VT, April 30th to May 2nd.

Ads and member participation are needed for the All-star Basketball Game by Tuesday, March 16.

 

Guest: 

Alan Fenrow, guest of Jeff Haines

 

Visiting Rotarian:

John Vullo - Glastonbury Rotary Club

 

King of Clubs, for the eradication of Polio: Fred Mackowitz and Pat Tucker had the winning tickets, but did not draw the card.

 

Happy Dollars: 

President Pat - Happy for guests and the snow donut hole

Art Myers - Thanking Lois Muraro for doing the Merry-Go-Round

Pat Wolf Gomola - Good time Sunday at the East Side Restaurant

Joe Marino - Missed meetings and recognition in the Hartford Courant, for Michael Frechette, as outstanding superintendent, by the UConn School of Education

Laura Falt - Hosting a dinner for United Way

Lois Muraro - Olympics and Canada

Cathy Branch Stebbins - Birthday

Kevin Wilhelm - for Michael Frechette and Laura hosting dinner for United Way

Patti Vassia -Meeting at the Deep River Congregational Church on housing for the homeless and the Chester, Deep River and Essex Rotary Clubs raising about $10,000 for Haitian relief

Robert Crawford - Congratulations to Michael Frechette and the Olympics

CarltonWinslow - Son Dillon turned three and did four laps around YMCA pool

Biff Shaw - Reported that Kay Briggs is in the Harbor Unit at the Village at South Farms. She is very weak, but would welcome guests, one at a time.

 

Guest Speaker: Frank Sumpter introduced Art Myers who then introduced our speaker, Daniella Gandolfo, who teaches anthropology at Wesleyan University. Daniella talked about the experiences she had teaching a semester in her native country, Peru, through a grant from the Rotary Foundation .

 

Paul Harris Fellowship: Wells Guilmartin, a Paul Harris Sapphire Fellow, explained the workings of the fellowship program.

 

The meeting ended with the four-way test

 

Respectfully submitted by Burleigh R.Noyes