High Gear, June 4, 2014
Attendance seemed a bit scant today—quite a few empty spaces at the tables. Lunch consisted of a nice tossed salad, chicken parmesan with penne with tomato sauce, followed by double chocolate
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| Some Guys Don't Even Wait For The Bell |
cupcakes. More important than the food was the fellowship and conversation around the tables. President George got us off to a good start, ringing the bell on time, and offering a rhymed invocation.
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| Mike Derr adds a Paul Harris to his honors |
President George announced a Foundation Moment—Mike Derr has qualified as a Paul Harris Fellow. Well done. We had one guest—Michael Kerrigan, who until recently was Interim Executive Director of the YMCA. Now he is the Executive Director! Officially!
Nick Cecere was today’s Sergeant-at-Arms. Dan Firestone paid handsomely for his 73rd birthday. Dave Amberg, Bob Wood, Mary Martin
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| Happy Birthday, Dan. You don't look more than a day over 72. |
and Bill Saunders paid for their pictures in the paper—Parade Day. Chuck Clarke paid for his anniversary—nineteen years. Ned Lynch has something to celebrate—his son has received two scholarships-one from Rotary, and one, a Congressional Scholarship, through Joe Courtney. The lad will be attending Wesleyan University. Herb Barall apparently has a new grandson. And Pat Gately’s grandson, who is seven years old, just received in “red belt”—treat him gently. Gil Wishart paid to be an early leaver, not realizing that we had no program for today. Jack Martin was just happy, as were Nate Quesnel and Mike Kerrigan. And Steve Jacoby was late.
Other announcements:
The Middle School had a Career Day on Tuesday, a nice event. Anwar Hossain and Herb Barall attended, representing their respective professions.
We have sixty signed up to attend the Rock Cats game!
June 18th is the Installation Dinner at the Gallery in Glastonbury. Bring your money to Ceil Collins next week.
We have collected $280 for the Back to School Fund, and have a few back packs as well.
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| Alex sweats the Duck Race details |
The Golf Committee will meet Wednesday, June 25th at 11:30 a.m.
Guests next week will be this year’s Scholarship Winners.
Nate Quesnel won the raffle.
Expect to have more to report next week. Dan Russell