Newsletter - Archive  Apr 15, 2009

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Rotary Club Business and Member News

April 15, 2009

Opening:

Pledge            George

Prayer             Jud

Song               Joe M

Visiting Rotarians and Guests:

Brad Jett         District Governor

Duke Wear      Son and guest of Bob W

Announcements:

Scott               Going to do the filming for club video after the meeting.

Sandy             Bobcat Bolt will need volunteers.  See bobcatbolt.com

                       for more information about the race/walk.

Pres John       Womenade people were thrilled with the check and want us at

                       at Quackfest.  See orwomenade.org for more information.

Sean               We need a couple of more volunteers for the Roadside

                       Cleanup on May 2nd.

Ric                  Thanked Richard and Mark for hosting GSE team members

                        and provided more details on the team's activities.

Steve               Awards Night will be at The Three Chimneys Inn on Tues,

                        June 16th.

Scott                July 4th forms and flyers are at the sign-in table.

DG Brad          Discussed the District Conference being held at the Samoset

                        Resort in Rockport, ME.  The hotel has offered great room

                        rates.  Sean and Jessica stayed there and thought it was great

Happy Bucks:

Pete                Great outcome for the Maersk Alabama piracy.

Pres John        DG's visit to our club.

Bob W             Having son in from Oregon.

Sandy              Her daughter, Lesley's, birthday.

DG Brad          Several: commending Joe P's leadership of RYLA at Camp

                        Hines all these years, and The Great Greens Fees Raffle.

Joe P               (Didn't catch this one, but bet it had to do with Sarah.)

Chuck              Betsy has recovered from her back surgery (and ran a race?)

Don                  Heard a great talk at the Madbury Historical Society last night

                        about the role of Portsmouth Rotary in the making of Straw-

                        bery Banke.

Dave VA          Last day of snow in the driveway.

Dick                 Two: first for his 83rd birthday next week, and second for not

                        singing.

Bill D               Thank God for EasyPass - it got him through the seven-mile

                        jamup on the Mass Pike Sunday.

Henry              Sorry I missed yours - sure it was inspiring.

Program:

Deb DeColfmacker, Classification Talk

Deb is a financial planner for Edward Jones, and expects to open an office in Durham very soon.  She has had a lot of business experience in the sea-

coast. 

She was born in Brooklyn, NY, but grew up mostly out on Long Island.  Her father was a NYC homicide detective and worked for the NY Attorney General after retirement.

Deb met her husband, Gary, while they were in high school.  He got a job with the Dover Police Department.  Their intent was not to stay long in New Hampshire away from the bright lights of a big city...Gary retired as a captain in 2006, and now works for the Strafford County sheriff.

Their son lives in Dover; their daughter, Megan, sadly, passed away in 1999 after a long battle with leukemia.  This changed their lives forever, and they continue to make Megan the focus of their lives through working with charities, scholarship funds, blood drives and other activities established in her name.

Megabucks:

Anon. had the ticket but couldn't find the King of Hearts.  $100+ pot rolls over.

Upcoming Programs:

Apr 22              LtJG Elizabeth Sarigianis, Ens. Heather Skowron & Ens.

                         David Couture, USCG.

Apr 29              Pres. John on his presentation to District.

May 6               Robert Bestani, Collaboratory for Research on Global Pro-

                         ects, Stanford U.

May 13             GSE Team from Poland

May 20             Julie Reece, One World Language School

May 29             Joe Murdoch, Classification Talk

               Your Scribe:Jud