 | East Hartford Rotary Club High Gear Volume 79 | Issue 5 / August 2, 2023 |
The day started off beautifully with plenty of sun and temps in the 70’s with low humidity at Goodwin U.
President Bob called the meeting to order at _12 noon with 10 folks in person and 3 on zoom.
Pledge- Bob
Invocations Sue
4 way test Bob
NOTE: Your scribe had issues signing on to the zoom link so I didn’t get the preamble for today and just caught up while folks were waiting for lunch to arrive from Roma’s.
Bob proceeded with the meeting.
National Night Out was a great success. Bob thanked volunteers -- aside from himself, these were Marc Glass, Rob Rosa, Ceil Collins, Neal Cunningham, Anwar Hossain and Sue Klock. Our display was impressive, and we took the opportunity to give dictionaries to many incoming third graders.
Bob explained his plan to hold a social gathering at a local park off Oak Street, rather than a regular meeting on August 16th. Hot dogs and hamburgers will be on the menu. He suggested members invite family and friends. Please let Bob know by the morning of August 16th if you plan to attend. No charge. This is Bob's thanks to the club for keeping things together while he vacationed during July.
We hope to have this past year's scholarship recipients attend our August 23rd meeting here at Goodwin U. Treasurer Goerge mentioned a that he sent out 4 scholarship check already for this year.
Marc Glass mentioned that our club won third prize in the raffle drawing at the District Golf Tournament. That will add $500 to our coffers
Bob mentioned that there will be an in-person meeting of the Board Tuesday, August 8th at 6 PM. He'll bring pizza. If you need to join by phone or Zoom, please contact Bob to make arrangements.
Bob broke talks for lunch at 12:24
Upon commencing, Alex gave an update on the McAuliffe Park baseball scoreboard. Sean Dwyer stated they were to begin to refurbish the sign at the end of July, but he hasn’t sent a draft of what it will look like. Connor mentioned Sean was on vacation this week, so we’ll get an update next week.
Anniversaries this week - birthdays for Bill Saunders and Ceil Collins.
Bob adjourned the meeting at 12:40 am