Providence Rotary - Read Our Newsletter

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

Ralph Okelola took the Bucks today! He's happy about the debate in Congress yesterday.

John Daluz-is happy that his and Gary Kaufman's birthdays are on the same day.

Richard Kaplan was happy that his stepdaughter was confirmed yesterday.

Gary Kaufman is proud to share a birthday with John Daluz, to be among the students from the Hurley Middle School, and that Deb Ruggiero is our speaker today.

Barry Fain just returned from Arizona where he celebrated his birthday.

Kris David enjoyed the great game played by Michigan State this weekend.

Several members recognized President-elect Cynthia Leonard for receiving the Leadership Rhode Island Volunteer Award-Cynthia thanked the members for their well wishes.

Several members recognized the students of the Hurley School for their good work.

Dave Burnham thanked Southwest Airlines for landing an hour early so he could get to Rotary today and recognized his son, Paul, a Paul Harris Fellow, who crewed with him sailing in Florida.

Don Saracen thanked Stanley Sorrentino for Ed Achorn's book about the Providence Grays baseball team. He plans to send the photo of the Hurley Middle School students to his grandchildren showing them how they can make a difference.

Hurley Middle School Students Double Down for Haiti

Gary Kaufman introduced representatives of Seekonk's Hurley Middle School's Student Council. The students at the school had raised $867 for Haiti relief and were looking for a way to make their donation do the most good. They read about our Foundation's Matching Grant for Shelter Boxes and contacted us via the club web page. Ron Hoak, chair of the Providence Rotary Charities Foundation, announced that our foundation would match the students' gift, thus providing over $1,700 toward our goal of $25,000 for 25 Shelter Boxes for the Haitian refugees.

Don Saracen introduced our March 22 speaker, Deb Ruggiero. Deb is a former Providence Rotarian, now a member of the Jamestown Club. She is the Director of Community Development at Citadel Broadcasting, creator of the radio show, "Amazing Women" and a State Representative from Jamestown and Middletown.

She is a founding board member of the Women's Fund and a member of the Philanthropy Committee of the RI Foundation. The platform she ran on focused on four E's-Education, Economy, Elderly and Environment.

In her first term as a state representative, Deb said she is focusing on economic issues, particularly the need for the state to create an environment where new businesses can start and grow. She favors enhanced workforce development, strengthened education, streamlined permitting, wind power and a return of the America's Cup to Newport.

Pat Germani said we'd be conducting the peanut butter drive thru the end of April-don't forget to bring some to the next meeting!

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In the months leading up to the FIFA World Cup in June, Rotary clubs across Africa have been gearing up for the final push to kick polio out of the continent.

On 23 February, Rotary’s 105th anniversary, a Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign launched with the symbolic kicking of a soccer ball signed by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a polio survivor. Learn more here.

District Assembly, April 10, J&W Inn, Seekonk

Rotary at Barker Playhouse, May 13

District Conference, May 14-16, Cape Codder, Falmouth

Rotary at Boston Pops, June 9

More here