Newsletter 7-30-13

Needham Rotary Club

Minutes of Meeting  Tuesday July 30,2013

Sheraton Hotel

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by our president, Glen Davis; Karen led us in “America the Beautiful” and  Daryl led us in the Invocation.

Guests:  Bill Brisk, our speaker for today.

George led us in the welcome song. 

Announcements:

Please pick up your shirts from Rich.

Music Fund Raiser is on 10/19.  We also reserved the 18th.  Greg will have a meeting of all interested helpers after our 8/8 luncheon meeting

Pres. Glen reported a net of $5041.50 from the pancake breakfast this spring. . but the baseball group might not want to join us next year so we might be back to the fall schedule.

Bill Paulson made a pitch for a home for the exchange student.   He needs 1 more person to host him for the three winter months.

Matt McKeown has updated the list of scholarship winners and will attempt to contact them via facebook or a letter.

Lois announced a several week program for us to donate for for the Needham Community Council’s food pantry. If you have canned or packeaged food, or, pre-made non-perishable meals, please bring them to rotary. We will accumulate them and bring them to the NCC Food Pantry!

Glen announced a keys for hope.  We will collect old keys, get them smelted and give the $ proceeds to charity. 

Another Glen announcement was to remind us about the RLI meeting at the Boxborough Holiday Inn on 10/26.

Finally a sad bit of news.  Tom Polito lost his father suddenly and a note to him would be appreciated.

Birthdays:

None anyone would own up to!

Happy Dollars: 

Ryan for his first visit to Yankee Stadium (any NY Rotarians say the same for Fenway?).Greg for his welcome of Bill Rosenthal; Deb because “It’s a Boy”; Lois for Ron’s Paul Harris Award; Melissa for her new job; Daryl for having his son back from SE Asia; Tom Savino for his community service to West VA;

Many happy $ for vacations and htbh.

50/50:

Chuck Buyer (#462) picked out the Four of Diamonds (close), not the King.  He missed the $153.00 pot.

Humor:

Louise told the best joke and got a lot of laughs.  Doug bombed (I’ll be back)

Guest Speaker:

Bill Brisk, Esq. spoke to us about the TOP TEN REASONS NOT TO CREAT A TRUST.

He didn’t say that all trusts were evil (much to Melissa’s delight) but that trusts can to certain things and cannot do certain things.  It was a very thorough explanation and he concluded that we should have a trust created only when we know what we want and how the trust will work.  Thank you Bill. See www.briskelderlaw.com for more details.