Newsletter 3-16-13

Rotary Club of Needham
Tuesday: March 26, 2013
Location: Needham Sheraton

Pledge of Allegiance: Charles Nelson
Song: God Bless America; Led By: Ron Sockol

• Received several favorable comment regarding the daffodils delivered last week, especially about the cute little boy; delivered flowers to 477 nursing home residents
• Pancake breakfast ads will be sold for placemats; Lois will put notices in newspapers, etc; will be held May 11th in the high school
• Carnival fund raiser coming along; Ted met with General Dynamics and they seem to be receptive to our use of their parking lot for the event on Thurs, June 6th thru Sun. June 9th.Will need police detail which Ted hopes will be paid for by Cushing Amusements of Wilmington. We will get half of the rides proceeds and only have to staff the air conditioned ticket booths.
• Gift of Life was able to leverage $10,400 to $43,000 with matching grants to provide heart surgery supplies to Dominican Republic which saved the lives of 31 children. Some money still left over.
. Go Spelling Bee participants!
. Need to attend Foundation Training to keep up with matching grants requirements.
We need to identify ideas by end of June for new fiscal year beginning July 1st.
. Glen Davis solicited matching grant ideas either locally or internationally for next
year. Rick David proposed a matching grant for the new BID Needham Cancer
Center; Lois proposed Needham Schools. Get any ideas to Glen as soon as possible

Guests:
• Mary Jane MGee, Avita Nursing Home
• Libby Pero, Capron Lighting – prospective new member

Happy $$$: Gulf Coast and LaSalle pulling upset last night; many happy to be here; welcome guests; good to be back; good luck to Spelling Bee team; hearing Louise Condon on the Realty Guild radio commercial; happy Passover and Easter; I love Lois; thank you to Louise and Roche Bros. flowers delivered to nursing homes last week; Needham MG saving 31 kids in Santiago, DR medical mission; first time grandfather of boy, Cameron and for seeing Shirley Aronson;Jim Brown for becoming a Grandfather!.

50:50: Looking for Queen of hearts; Person: Bob Cocks; Pot: $720. Bob got daffodil for getting matching number but not getting card. See him receiving the consolation Daffodil in the ‘cover’ photo.

Joke of the day: Tom Savino read 3 bad jokes – Boo Hoo!

Birthdays: Louise Condon, Tom Savino and Bill Curry

Guest Speaker: Charles and Glen led us in a discussion about the Pancake Breakfast with the Little League teams of Needham scheduled on May 11, and, a possible replacement project for the usual Fall Pancake Breakfast.