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High Gear
Volume 78 | Issue 12 / Sept 28, 2022
Todays meeting was a zoom meeting and the club started signing in around 11:45 for their usual weekly preamble. Talk was of the weather and the storm hitting Florida and how our friends and family were doing with storm “Ian” ready to make land. Well wishing were passed to those with family down there.
The meeting started at 12:00 noon sharp as some members had to attend another meeting following our club meeting. Pres Alex hit the record button on Zoom [ HIT RECORD [12:00]
The pledge was started Pledge by Alex and proceeded by the 4 way test again by Alex
Bill Saunders spoke todays Invocation and gave us reason to reflect on our good fortunes while focusing on the less fortunate through our rotary work.
Anwar secured another great speaker for today’s meeting and announced Caroline Gear - Executive Director, International Language Institute of Massachusetts. She spoke of her involvement with Rotary Youth Exchange and her experience with it when she was a high school student in the 80’s. She took part in the program and lived in Peru while studying abroad. She mentioned how she didn’t know the language but learned from her teachers and the host family and she realized that experience ignited her passion for language and lead her to her career today. She was able to pull out a fact that another person in our meeting was a Rotary exchange student and that person was Wes Willett! She ended by asking us to consider getting involved with the program which she believes is a valuable opportunity to our students and fulfills a rotary mission to make the world a better place to live!
Announcements
District
- Foundation Brunch will be held on Sunday 11/06 at the Delmar Hotel in West Hartford and our club will be getting recognized for its support of the foundation. Sue Klock ask if we can secure a full table as it would be great for the club to attend the event. She will send a message out to see who would like to attend.
Club
- We will skip next weeks in-person meeting 10/5 as we have our golf event Monday 10/3 and the club supported this idea. Next meeting will be a zoom meeting to stay consistent with our current schedule.
- Also, the final Golf meeting today at 2PM at Evergreen Crossing in South Windsor following this meeting.
Project updates
- Dan F – Rotary in Motion - 10/1 meeting at Cabela’s for 10am. He has a few members to help. Event stars at 8am in Manchester and makes its way to Cabela’s in East Hartford for around 10am.
- Bob- Golf event update - 10/3 things are looking strong but final preparations are ongoing. They will look to finalize at today’s meeting.
- Neal – Hartford Marathon 10/08 - If you have given Neal your sign up info your confirmations should have been sent via e-mail. Some members did get that info but others did not so Neal will follow up. Contact him if you didn’t get a confirmation. George stated he and Peggy will be there again so Neal mentioned he’d get them set.
Last bit of business
Alex gave his weekly Trivia. Questions was a true or false questions that ties into our focus on golf right now.
- The origin of the word “golf” comes from the acronym “Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden.” True/ False? Correct answer is false.
- Scott/dutch derived form the word Kalf = “club or bat”
With nothing brought up for the good of the order, the meeting was adjourned at 1:05 PM
Highgear editor Alex W