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OFFICERS
President
Richard B. Applebaum

President-elect
Cynthia Leonard

1st Vice President
Barry W. Fain

2nd Vice President
Barbara Harris

Secretary
Susan Johnson

Treasurer
Richard A. Kaplan

Asst. Treasurer
Peter M. Loescher

Sergeant-at-arms
Kevin M. Oates

Past-President
John A. Daluz

Directors to
June 30, 2010:
James Alexander
Richard P. Leone, Sr.
Jenny Miller
Arthur Norwalk
Kathleen A. Swann

Directors to
June 30, 2011:
Holly Applegate
Paul Borrelli
Patricia Germani
Steven M. Rotondo
James C. Scanlan

Jim Williams—$26 for 26 years married!

Don Saracen—happy his wife is out of the hospital after being there for 5 days

Kris David—married for 31 years!

Cy Wyche— $64 as Friday was his 64^th wedding anniversary

Jim Scanlan—thanks to Paul Borelli for the tables and chairs for his wife’s celebration on receiving her PhD!

President Richard—For a wonderful weekend in NY with food and music with his friend Hilary

Maury Ryan--$10 for the 20 pound fish that Ken Conde and Joe Lodo brought to his house yesterday

Jerry Cannon—for the cookout with his family in Connecticut on Sunday and yesterday’s ceremonies at the RI Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery

June 1st meeting

CLASSIFICATION TALK - Paula Jacobson

Paula is new to Rhode Island. She grew up in Massachusetts, one of ten children of an Italian mother and Irish father. As a child the family moved to Texas where she was a “Yankee” and grew to love animals and nature and she learned to milk a cow in three minutes! In junior high school she returned to MA where she had a wonderful mentor in her soccer coach; she played on a boys’ team! Her parents instilled the value of hard work in her and she earned her associate’s degree in conference and hotel management. She later got her bachelor’s degree at URI. As a single mother, she needed a job that provided day care for her two children, which is what brought her to her career with the YMCA, where she worked her way up to being the executive director of a Y in Boston. She later met and married Allen Jacobson, a psychologist, who worked at the Providence Center and Paula then took the job at the Mount Hope YMCA. The membership at the Y is very diverse—wealthy and not, racially ethnically diverse, etc.. They run a100 child day care center where the children come from 10 different countries. They recently added 10 infant slots. They have about 2000 memberships with 4000 members.

June 4, 2010

It is with a sense of relief, accomplishment, and wistfulness that I pen this week’s thoughts.

My year as your president is surely winding down. I am thinking about all the great things we have done and/or set in motion, and all the help and support I have received. I am also thinking about and planning the recognition that many of us deserve and will receive. And I am very much looking forward to the International Convention (my first) in Montreal, the transition in the Be Bold leadership that Cynthia and her officers and directors will provide, and our Centennial Year in 2011.

The future of Rotary is and will always be in our hands. We will continue to Build Communities And Bridge Continents ‘next year’. Hopefully, more help for Esperanza, D.R. will be delivered. And the planned airlift of medical supplies to Peru would be another great accomplishment. Other goals I would personally set for us are more foundation giving and granting, GSE team membership, an outgoing ambassadorial scholar, sponsorship of both Rotaract and Interact, more participation in District events, expansion of the dictionary and literary projects, and greater health and homelessness initiatives on the local level (we can be a leader in Lyme awareness/treatment initiatives!). I’m sure the list can be more inclusive, too. Whatever we do, we need to obtain more notice of the Rotary brand! Our centennial year will be just the time to role out strategies to accomplish this! Not for our self-aggrandizement, but to attract great, active, involved new members, and to help even better meet the needs of the community and the world. We are Service Above Self.

June portends a calendar full of exciting meetings and events. On June 5 some of us will join San Miguel students fishing. On June 7 Foundation grants will be awarded. On June 9 many of us will attend the Pops. On June 14 I will summarize my year and recognize so many of us who helped me enjoy it. On June 27, hopefully, many of us will attend the 50^th Anniversary of the Million Dollar Meal at White’s in Westport. And on June 28, I will get to pin Cynthia (please wear a blouse with a collar).

See you all Monday.

Richard.

Maury Ryan announced that the Street Painting Festival will be held on October 25 at the ice skating rink. The plan is to add “tastings” with local restaurants. Maury stressed the importance of the need of every Rotarian participating in the planning before the event and being there the day of the event.

President Richard Applebaum announced that the board of directors voted that henceforth, financial credit will only be given for a make-up made at another club or district meeting.

President Richard announced the following dates:

June 9—Boston Pops Outing—Be at the Marriott ready to leave with the bus NO LATER THAN 6PM SHARP!

June 9—The Woonsocket Club’s50th Anniversary event—Black Tie optional at the Kirkbrae Country Club, $75/ person

June 25—District 7950 Brunch Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the Million Dollar Meal, White’s on the Watuppa, $25/person

June 7—The Providence Rotary Charities Foundation presents grants to local not-for-profits.

June12—The Scituate RI Club will have a wine tasting event from 7-9 at the Edgewood Manor in Cranston

June 14—President Richard’s swan song

June 28—Installation of the new President, Officers and Board Members

July 6—Meeting will be at Aqua, at the Marriott, 4PM. There will be NO Lunch meeting that day.