Colchester Milton Rotary Club

Colchester – Milton Rotary Club

Club # 27675 District # 7850

April 15, 2010

DESK DUTY: 04/22/10 Ed Sanders & Erica Marks

04/29/10 Bill Thompson & Erica marks

05/06/10 Jim Hedbor & Don Turner

Guests Visiting Rotarians: Skylar Jackson from So Burl Club

Looking for folks willing to assist in driving/hosting the GSE Russian team they will be in the area June 7 – June 17. Looking for additional hosts for June 13 thru June 17 as well as drivers

http://www.lcatv.org/QTROTARY.htm click on the date you missed & see the speaker video

http://www.lcatv.org/Channel%2016/index.html (for the Channel 16 schedule of Rotary meetings on TV)

Announcements/Upcoming Events 06/07 GSE – Russia will be in our area this week

Looking for drivers to get people around

50/50: Kent won $5 but only pulled the 10 of clubs

Fines:

John – Missing next week, happy tax season has ended & off to Fla

Leora – Son just got driver’s license

Paul – Welcome Tammy, leaving early, hard time from Colin

Suzanne - Missed last week, has tickets to Lady Ga Ga in Montreal

Dawn - Paid last week IOU on fines

Bob – Had a nice winter in Texas

Ray - Worried about “martini” luncheon, thanks Kiki for B-day cake

Dan – Who has the best tan?

Betty - Has done family history thru 1599

Erica - Late to meeting

Russ – On time, no pin, leaving early

Chris – late, leaving early and will pay next week

Marc – Shoot for literacy has started

Tom – Wanted BBQ place ‘Famous Dave’s” but ended up talking to

undertaker

Kirk – Happy Corey is here

Skip – Saw grandson & got to play golf together

Michael – Daughter returning to VT for the summer

Earl - Erica saved marc who’s was supposed to cover for me

Corey – Daughter just made it past 1st trimester of pregnancy successfully

Rotary Minute

John Kenny – Pres of Rotary International asks the question.

“What is Rotary?” It is a network of people that are both realists & optimists For the full message go to the Feb 2010 RI President’s message

Minutes: Ray gave the invocation; Ron led us in “R- O-T-A-R-Y”

Sat 4/17 district Assembly in Lebanon. 3rd Tues of the month is the leadership team meeting

at the Tarrant Center at St Michael’s.

So Burl Rotary is hosting a golf tournament as a fund raiser on Mon May 24th, also selling

raffle tickets for $5 each or 3 for $10 drawing is May 6th

Tammy Esberg officially received her pin by Marilyn.

Speaker: Corey Gotfried is an entertainer, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. Corey discussed “Connections & Relationships”. Specifically he spoke about appreciation and how to keep customer loyalty. Just ask yourself “what keeps you loyal to a business?”

Make sure to say a sincere thank –you, as NOT doing so may cause more damage to your business that saying it does good.

7 Deadly Creatures – don’t be one of these

The Sucker The Puker The Whiner

The Topper The Vulture Narcissus

Halitosis

Exhibit these traits: Appreciative, Giver, Sincere, Authentic

A Channel 16 website and view the April 15th meeting at:

http://www.lcatv.org/QTROTARY.htm

2009-2010 OFFICERS: President - Maureen Garofano

President Elect - Daniel Johnson

Vice President - Michael Swaidner

Secretary - George Bradbee

Treasurer - James Mount

Past President - Timothy Brisson

Sergeant at Arms - Marc Pratico

Historian - Bill Thompson

2009-2010 COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Publicity - Earl Wertheim & Suzanne Brown

Club Admin - Kent Booraem & Erica Marks

Foundation Chair - James Mount & Dick Kruger

Fundraising - Suzanne Brown

Comm. Service - Leora Black & Erica Marks

Membership - Michael Swaidner

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: John Abry Suzanne Brown

Dawn Bugbee Betty Koshinsky

Malcolm “Skip” Smith Earl Wertheim

Rotary International President: John Kenny (Scotland)

District 7850 Governor: Guy Babb

Area 6 Asst. District Governor: Ed Saulnier