Newsletter 6-24-14
NEEDHAM ROTARY NEWSLETTER
6-24-14
This special meeting of Rotary was opened by President Glen, who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance,
Karen Wetmore who led us in 'God Bless America' and Marty Linderman who delivered the Invocation.
VISITORS: we welcomed Maury Ringel, Past President of Needham Rotary and the one who initiated the Millennial Fund;
Rick Davis, friend of Tom Savino (not the President's Dad); Holly Brown, Jim Brown's sister; Susana Brown,
Jim Brown's wife and Boston Rotarian; Ed Mulhall, prospective Rotarian.
HAPPY DOLLARS: Ted Shaughnessy, $3 for 3 Gift of Life cases, and for today's guest speaker Harvey Leonard;
Libby Pero for all the guests; Roberta for Harvey Leonard; Bob Dunning in memory of Don Kent; Scotti
for the great weather; Maury Ringel $10 for his return trip to Needham Rotary to see some old as well as
new friends;Bill Paulson for Harvey; Harvey Leonard for 'this happy group' and hhis wife, 2 children
and 3 grand children; Tom Savino for his guest Rick Davis and for his son Greg was is now a member of the
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; Susana Brown for her visit to see her Grandson; Marty for meeting
the 2nd most favorite weatherman in the country after Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day'; Greg Cronin for
visiting with Rotary Supporter Holly Brown, and, wanting follks to walk in the 4th of July parade
with the Rotary float; Loiuse Condon for a large family reunion; Kathy Whitney wanting good weather
as she and her husband start there sailing trip of the summer;Rich, Andy Winig, Ed Mulhall, and Ryan all
for meeting Harvey Leonard.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: -Annual Rotary Cookout on Tuesday July 8th.
-Libby and Andy to be inducted next week.
-Gift of Life update from Ted Shaughnessy.
GUEST SPEAKER: Harvey Leonard, Chief Meteorologist of WCVB Channel 5.
Harvey has a BS in Meteorology from City College of NYU, and a Masters from NYU as well.has been in weather
since 1977, and in 1984, 1985 and 1988 he was voted New England's Favorite
Weather forecaster. We was on Channel 7 for many years, and then in 2005 came to WCVB, Needham's TV Station.
He was the first weather forecaster to predict the intensity of the 1978 blizzard. His funniest story was
about a number of viewer complaints he received for a storm prediction on Dec. 23, 1998. He received several
really horrible complaints from people about how wrong his weather forecast was. The only problem was
that he and his entire family were in Europe at the Holidays, and he was not working!
He is the first to acknowledge that 'Global Warming' is a reality, although it might have been tough
to see that this past winter. He says 97% of all meteorologists agree. Weather is day to day,
while climate is the average of weather over time. He did point out that the sea level is rising, and
growing seasons are expanding.
Harvey Claims that the 'Farmers Almanac' is usually 100 percent accurate! At least for tide times,
sunrise and sunset times.
He prefers winter weather forecasts, not spring and summer where the weather can be very localized.
Harvey was obviously enthusiastic about his profession, and did a wonderful job of speaking off the cuff
on his favorite topic.
Watch him nightly on WCVB.
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