President Bob had a few announcements prior to the formal annual meeting. The amending of the scholarship trust is begin accomplished, and the donations to the Goodwin University and Manchester Community College scholarship funds have been made.
The club agreed unanimously with President Bob’s suggestion that our noon meeting on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, be replaced by the District Foundation Dinner, via Zoom, that evening from 6:45 to 8 PM. A highlight of that meeting will be remarks by both Director Valerie Wafer and the RI President-elect. In order to attend the meeting, each of us needs to go to the district website (
https://www.rotarydistrict7890.org/ )
If you have your Clubrunner id and password handy, you can use that to fill in the form, but it’s not required. After registering you will receive the Zoom meeting number and passcode for joining the meeting on the evening of January 20, 2021. DG Marc Glass assures us we will want to attend, since our club will be recognized in some way during the event.
Following the information from our president and district governor, President Bob began the annual meeting.
Secretary Wes took the roll. Of our 34 active members, 22 were present as well as two honorary members, Rev. Bill and Ruth Sheehan. Connor Martin and Ray Maselek, corporate members representing Goodwin University, were both with us.
The Secretary’s report and the Treasurer’s report were emailed to club members prior to this meeting. Secretary Wes’s report of last year’s annual meeting was accepted as corrected. Treasurer George gave some details of the account balances in our operating and charitable funds. Trustee Bill gave a report on the funds in the Scholarship Trust. All reports were accepted as presented.
The next item for consideration was the nominations for 2021-2022 officers and directors. These were unanimously approved. Officers will be: President Sue Klock, President-elect Alex Wisz, Secretary Laura Floyd, Treasurer Wes Willett, Immediate Past President Bob Buettner, and Directors Neal Cunningham, Anwar Hossain, Dan Firestone, Jack Sayre, and George Schoen. Per our club’s bylaws, this 2021-22 Board will select a Sergeant-at-Arms. Also, it’s important to note, that per our bylaws, we can have from three to five directors; so, we have a full Board. Also, per our bylaws, there may be an assistant to the secretary and an assistant to the treasurer. Director George will be assistant treasurer.