Newsletter 7-31-12
Rotary Club of Needham
July 31, 2012
Newsletter
Glen led us in the pledge of allegiance. Our wandering minstrel, Bob Cox, led the way with America the Beautiful and This Land is Your Land. Lois led us in prayer.
After the invocation, Bob sand 'I want to change my name to Chrysler', as a way of releiving all of our financial issues. Great job Bob!
Birthday’s: We celebrated two; Roberta and Scott
Announcements:
* Crutches for Africa- Karen reported that the collection is still going on.
* The exchange program with Rotarians from England is progressing.
* Ted announced a meeting with Olin College regarding the 90% probability of an upcoming carnival if the weekend of 6/3/13 is available. All involved seem to want it to work.
* Although not announced at the meeting, Karen Wetmore wants us all to know that the website www.ozioma.org is now up and running. This was put together by Ms. Chukuw Gozie Gi (and the Ozioma Hope For Wellness Corp.) who has spoken at our club about providing sustainable water in Nigeria by building wells which our Club has donated to. Have a look!
Happy Dollars:
Many happy dollars for Aly Reisman, the Olympic Games and our guests.
Scott was happy for another trip, this time to Booth Bay Harbor. Hey Scott, stick around!
Melisa for her trip to NYC.
Eric for his trip to New Mexico
Dan for his trip to Colorado
Roberta for her upcoming trip to California
and Ken Davis for his trip to the Stanley Tippet house.
Guests:
Mr. Raghav Rao, a past Rotarian President from Jubilee Hills, India., who has been visiting her daughter and new Grandson in Needham.
Enzo Finelli, a practicing attorney from Needham and a prospective member.
Ms. Brenda Diaz from Wingate, another prospective member.
Humor:
Bill Rosenthal enlightened us as follows:
A Godfather in the mob finds out that his bookkeeper has stolen $10,000,000.00.
This bookkeeper happens to be deaf, so the Godfather brings along his attorney, who know sign language. The Godfather asks the bookkeeper: “Where is the money you embezzled from me?” The attorney, using sign language, asks the bookkeeper the same question.
The bookkeeper signs back: “I don’t know what you are talking about.” The attorney tells the Godfather he doesn’t know.
That’s when the Godfather pulls out a 9 mm pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper’s temple, cocks it and says: “Ask him again!” The attorney signs to the underling: “He’ll kill you for sure if you don’t tell him!”
The bookkeeper signs back: “OK! You win! The money is in the brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin Enzo’s backyard in Queens!”
The Godfather asks the attorney: Well, what’d he say?”
The attorney replied: “He says you don’t have the balls to pull the trigger.
50/50: Ryan had the lucky number, 505, but picked the 7 of diamonds, not the queen of diamonds. The pot is $109.00.
Guest Speaker: Today’s speaker was Jay Wallus, an exciting marketer who explained to us how to increase our business thru unusual methods. Jay started out by selling Boston Globe’s on the street corner in Boston, and turned it into over 200 vendors on a lot of street corners in Metropolitan Boston. He then went into the copier business, and sold his dealership to Global Imaging. Jay is now a sales coach. See his website: http://jaywallus.com
He had our attention throughout his entire presentation.