Newsletter Date: May 30
Meeting Date: May 25
Reporter: Erica Busillo Adams
ANNOUNCEMENTS, Etc.
The New Better!: Hybrid meetings (In-person and Zoom)
The board has decided to hold hybrid meetings going forward, so members and guests can attend in-person or via Zoom, as they choose. Advance registration and payment ahead will be required to attend in-person and, with one exception on June 29, in-person meetings will be at the Marriott. Lunch cost is $26. Please let your fellow Rotarians know!
If you’re attending in-person, lunch begins at 11:30AM. Zoom attendees can socialize starting at 11:45AM. Meetings begin at 12PM and will end at 1PM.
Here’s the schedule for the next few weeks:
June 1 – No meeting next week! (Memorial Day observed)
June 8, 15, 22 – Marriott + Zoom – June 8 Speaker will be Barnaby Evans, Artistic Director of WaterFire!
June 29 – Squantum + Zoom: Installation of Pres. Holly, officers, and Board
Here’s the Zoom link for June 8, 15, 22 and 29
Club Meeting
Jun 8, 2021 11:45 AM
Jun 15, 2021 11:45 AM
Jun 22, 2021 11:45 AM
Jun 29, 2021 11:45 AM
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 826 9306 0812
Passcode: 659597
Joining by phone, call:
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 826 9306 0812
Passcode: 659597
The Auction Committee for the Gala has been meeting and they are looking for items! 8-10 items for the live auction, like travel experiences, as well as items for the raffle. Please reach out to Jim Gilcreast if you would like to donate an item!
Please reach out to Walter Cotter if you are interested in presenting an inspiration!
New Member Inductions:
Kris David presented new member, her son, Alex David (a former Youth Exchange Program and Rotaract member)!
Anthony Hollingshead presented new member, Susan Scott!
HAPPY BUCKS:
Margaret Kane: $5 happy bucks to see everyone all together again!
Holly Applegate: $10 happy bucks--congratulations to Alex and excited to be back at the Marriott!
Bill DiBiasio: $50 happy bucks--first $4 are to celebrate Shelter Box hitting two million people housed!; second $46 for his 46 years of being a Rotarian!
Wendy Marcus: $1 happy buck for Alex and Susan being new members!
Jim Gilcreast: $1 happy buck because he’s happy, for Cy Wyche, and for his granddaughter April for finishing first in her New York State gymnastics meet in floor exercises!
Alex David: $1 happy buck for his parents’ 42nd anniversary!
Pete Brock: $10 happy bucks for returning to a sense of normalcy!
Don Saracen: $1 happy buck, great to be back, welcome to Alex and Susan, and for the Chasing Silver: The Story of Gorham RI PBS documentary!
Bryan Cook: $1 happy buck to see Kevin Kernan at the airport!
SPEAKER: CLUB UPDATES!
The Board approved a balanced budget, contingent on raising $12,000 (separate and apart from the Foundation). This includes the signature event, our gala, but needs to also include additional fundraising events throughout the year.
Please get in touch with Pete to get involved with the gala! We need everyone’s help!
The cost of lunch has gone up, the vast majority of which is Rotary’s cost, including processing cashless payments. But this $26 is going toward the Rotary experience! Quarterly billing option will also return. Dues are not increasing for this year.
Benefit of Zoom is that we can attract speakers from across the Globe! Please do send speaker recommendations to Steve Hug!
Active membership is below 75 people. We need to increase our numbers, and this is something all members need to be involved in!
Kim Dumpson and Erica Busillo Adams will be new Board members, beginning in June 2021, to replace those who have transitioned off the Board.
Literacy Committee reported that students and entire families are using the MyON reader-13,000 books were read in one of our middle schools! More data from the schools will be forthcoming. Thanks to everyone for their support in making this possible!
