Newsletter - Current  Mar 2, 2010

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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, March14^th. 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 30^th to May 2^nd.

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

Guest: 

Visiting Rotarian:

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