Newton Rotary 3.4.14

Mary Kern:  invocation

Marie Presti:  My Country Tis of Thee

 

Announcements:

Marie Presti:  Discussed having someone be in charge of birthdays.  She is asking on behalf of Rotary to have someone lead the charge of getting birthday cards for each member and then asking them to make a special donation on their birthday.

Paul Kerrissey:  Ed Casavant is retiring.  Paul Sullivan is the new committee chair of the grant committee.  Deadline is end of March.  Make sure you get your grant request in to Paul Sullivan.

 

Sue Peghiny:  Announced that the speaker was given an award indicating that a book was donated to the Newton library in their name.  The book is "Controversy and Hope".

 

Happy Dollars:

Scott - welcome ; daughter college application Curry College honors program.  Gets it from her mother's side.  :)

Mark - $2 for guests

Paul - $5 boat show (he owns one) and new set of icons

Paul Kerrissey - $5 boat show and escaped well.  We know Paul K. owns a large sail boat

Bill - $2 Nelson from long ago, CT weekend (oldest Emily 16 was a star in Into the Woods where she played the witch)

Maureen - $2 Kerry and Nelson 

Mary $5 Kerry, Nelson, Marie for doing bdays, Maureen, new member

Jim - not happy with weather; going to Quebec where it is minus 6 degrees!

Jeff - Nelson; BC basketball with daughter

Sue - $3 Nelson, weekend in Sugarhill NH, 3rd judge for NHT (Rebecca Rice)

Susanne - $5 sister is hopefully getting out of hospital, son has investor meeting on his website, speaker 

Chris - Happy to be here

 

Raffle:  Jeff Tucker wins the right ticket!    Tom almost bought the ticket from Jeff for $40 but said he's never won a bet from a banker.