Newsletter - Archive  May 20, 2009

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Rotary Club Business and Member News

May 20, 2009

Opening:

Pledge      Bill B

Prayer      John W

Song        Joe M

Visiting Rotarians and Guests:

Chip Noon          Rotary Club of Rochester, NH

Corey Landry     Durham Fire Chief - guest of Scott

Announcements:

We watched the outstanding video of our club's community service work!

Pres. John     DGB Awards Dinner Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:30 PM at the    

   Three Chimneys Inn in place of our Wed June 3 breakfast meeting.

   Please RSVP to Pres. John by Friday, May 29.  We hope for a great turn

   out to celebrate and honor our Citizen of the Year, Scholarship and RYLA

   recipients!

                      Quackfest was a great success!

                      Jen, who has been on leave of absence, has resigned to

                         raise Jack.

                      Lucinda's dad has passed away.

Jud                Hats off to our club for hitting donation goal for TRF; not too 

   late to still donate.  And remember, donations to TRF help fund great work

   like GSE teams.

Scott              4th of July coming close.  Please keep up important effort to

   secure donations and sponsors.  We need people to sign up for the event

   and looking for someone to run children's activities.

Dick              Traveling Vietnam Wall coming to Newmarket May 28-June 1.

Happy Bucks:

Arthur       Great weather!

Jud           13 year old grandaughter who attended meeting last week

Mark         GSE hosting experience

Joe P        Birthday and no longer youngest member of club

Sean         Go Red Sox!

Deb           For Scott's quick response about ways to help at July 4th

Madiha      To Ric for his tremendous organizational skills (re GSE)

Bill D         Honor Flight, New England: new bench at Memorial Park

John W     Sarasota Sunrise Rotary Club where he is "snowtarian"

Don           Ric, thank you for GSE team work!

Henry        For Pres John, Scott and Chuck and work on video

Warren      Happy to be here

Program:

Julie Reece, Executive Director of One World Language School

Juie is the co-founder of the One World Language School which is a non- profit dedicated to promoting language education for children. 

The program provides language and cultrual education that is affordable.  The first year of the program in 2001, 23 children enrolled.  This past year, 120 children participated in German, French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese classes.  Not only do they teach communication and speaking, reading and writing but also understanding the culture, gestures, traditions and geography.

They rely entirely on student tuition.  They do an auction fundraising event in June and 10% of the children get scholarships. 

They developed a curriculum kit that can be used by teachers with children age 3 years and up.  Each kit contains 80 games, sample lesson plans and parent correspondence.

Upcoming Programs:

May 27     Joe M classification talk

June 2      Awards Dinner (in lieu of meeting June 3)

June 10    Jamie Devlin, Exec Dir, Great Bay Chapter, American Red Cross

June 17    Katie Gillis, Dawn Solar Systems

June 24    Changeover Ceremony - John B to Richard

Your Scribe: Cellissa