President Steve rang the bell to open the meeting.
Pledge
Veteran Bob Watt led us in the pledge.
Members Online
Nondas Voll, Barry Fain, PJ Fox, and Marco Marinelli
Guests
Chris Salvadore, President of the Barrington Club.
Get Well
Rev. Barlow, and Margaret Kane. There will be an honor guard for Mary Lou Ryan Sat. June 10th. Condolences to Maury and Sara. (Since the meeting, we have learned of the passing of Margaret Kane.)
Announcements
Next week June 13th Our Charities Foundation will present grant awards. President Steve announced Walter Cotter has been approved for another term and Holly Applegate as a new trustee to our Foundation.
On June 27th we are holding our annual Installation of officers and award luncheon at the Squantum Association. See Rob to sign up.
The club has put out an RFP for a short-term gala bookkeeper. This can be either a paid or volunteered position. A new data base for the gala is being instituted to be handled by Suzanne Cannon.
Birthdays
Liz told us June babies are optimistic. She wished Happy Birthday to Avram Cohen who shares his birthday with George Bush and Anne Frank. John Buffum who shares his birthday with Prince William and the great French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre. Marco Marinelli birthday coincides with the 26th amendment granting all American Citizens 18 and older the right to vote. He also shares his birthday with Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and Kanye West.
New Member Induction
President Steve swore in Troylynda Williams, and her associates Jennifer Buzzerio and Cliff Alston representing Living Innovations
Membership Chair
Anthony Hollingshead said it’s been a pretty exciting year and read off the additional new members this year: Jane Berkowitz, Emily Bernstein, Dave Hame, Lew Hassell, Ray Hull, Jonathan Kaufman, Anna Knes, Sam New, and Bob Watt. To celebrate the ten+
new members everyone gets to eat cake.
Happy Bucks
- $3 Pete for our three new members and how he’s now busier in retirement then when he had a job.
- $1 Kris for Reading week at George J. West School where she dressed as a butterfly for operation pollination.
- $5 Liz for her cruise to Bermuda which was rainy but relaxing and refreshing.
- $1 Maury remind members the book club is open to all, now celebrating twenty years.
- $1 Rob for our new luncheon server Gena
- $3 Dave Hamel just learned his son who has been traveling in Asia the past three years is coming home to visit.
- $1 Nondas was glad to be at the meeting via Zoom, (due to a sound issue we couldn’t hear her).
Speaker
President Elect Kris David introduced our speaker and new member Bob Watt.
He told us about The Golden Rule wooden peace ship, which was designed by Hugh Angelman and organized against the threat of nuclear weapons, visiting us in Providence. The Golden Rule and its crew will be docked at India Point Park from June 11 through June 13th.
The Golden Rule first gained attention in 1958 when four Quaker peace activists sailed the ship toward the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean to try to
disrupt atmospheric nuclear weapons testing planned by the U.S. For the next five decades, the boat would take to the seas in protest. After sinking in 2010 during a Northern California gale, the Golden Rule was rebuilt by a group that included members of the nonprofit organization Veterans for Peace. Since last year, it's been on a tour of the eastern United States.
