Newsletter 4-24-12
Rotary Club of Needham
April 24, 2012
Newsletter
Bill led us in the pledge of allegiance. Our newest song leader Dan Tibma led the way with God Bless America, and Darrell led us in prayer.
Announcements:
· Raffle Tickets: Each member has been given $250 worth of raffle tickets to sell to raise funds to support our local projects. It will be a 50:50, with a minimum pot of $1,000 up to $6,000. SELL, SELL, SELL to support our great initiatives and projects that serve to improve the quality of our community! Please call at 617-543-4410 or email Bill at willieshoes@hotmail.com with your total sales by Monday, for the drawing next Tuesday!
· Needham Art Association Spring Art Sale, Saturday, April 28, 1-4 PM will be held at Wingate (a percentage of the sales will benefit the NAA Art Scholarship for Needham High School students)
· Crutches for Africa- clean out your closet, basement, attic and give away your crutches, walkers, canes, wheel chairs to be loaded into a shipping container to help folks in Africa- See Karen
· Reality Fair is May 21 at Needham High School. Volunteers are needed. Contact Rich, Bill P. or Chris if you would like to participate
· The Needham Rotary Scholarship committee has selected the 3 scholarship winners! Presentations to be made in June.
· The visiting GSE Team from India will be visiting us on May 15th!
· Through the Booster Club at NHS, a container will be placed there for collection of used clothing. Needham Rotary will have it’s decal on the side.
· The District Conference is coming up in Hyannis (if you’re not receiving emails on this, let Jim Brown know). At a minimum, Karen Wetmore, and, Ted Shaughnessy will be attending. Although you can go for just a meal, it is 3 days May 18-20.
Future Events:
- May 8: joint meeting with Newton. Babson Professor talking about how to flourish in a downturn.
- May 15: Bob Day Family Celebration of Bob, and GSE Team visit
- May 21st-Reality Fair at NHS
- June 2: NBA Street Fair back at the town Common.
Guests:
Dr. Eric Roseen, a Chiropractor from Visions Medical Center in Wellesley (a prospective Rotarian!); Zelda Rosenthal, Bill’s 6 month old daughter (did you notice how ell she took to our internal babysitters ? No tears.
Birthdays: Darrell is the lucky one!
Humor: Jim Brown provided some puns….
I changed my i Pod name to Titanic . It's syncing now .
When chemists die, they barium .
Jokes about German sausage are the wurst ..
A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran .
I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid He says he can stop any time .
How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it .
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Than it dawned on me .
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down .
I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
They told me I had type A blood, but it was a Type-O.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra .
Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations .
Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz .
Energizer battery arrested. Charged with battery .
I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me .
How do you make holy water? Boil the hell out of it !
Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
Caution: there are more where those came from…..
Then, Bill Rosenthal told us the story about the ……
A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years. One night during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he would pay her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly give birth to the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would pay child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail a post card and write “Spaghetti” on the back. He would then arrange for the child support payments to begin.
One day about 8 months later, he came home to his confused wife. His wife said, “Honey, you received a very strange post card today”. “Oh, just give it to me and I’ll explain it”, he said. The wife handed him the card and watched as her husband read the card, turned white and collapsed. On the card was written: “Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one with out. Request bread…”.
Happy $$$: Lot’s of dollars for Chris Teachout at the marathon; Scott for having driven the marathon route over the weekend; Melissa for going to Charleston for her sister-in-law’s wedding; ; Greg Cronin for the Bruins; Ron-happy to be a Rotarian; Eric Roseen for a great marathon weekend with his friend, and his girl friend taking the Medical Board exam; Deb Donovan for her promotion to handle not only Mass. but now New York for her job; Jim Brown great to be able to come to Rotary this week.
50:50: Deb Donovan had the lucky number, but did not draw the right card. Pot is at $490. Now it get’s interesting!
Guest Speakers: Today’s speakers were the NHS Robotics Team. This year they broughtand demonstrated one of their robots! Hans Batra is the teacher and Peter Mesnik, a parental volunteer, came as well. The members who visited were Thomas Lively, Chris Evan and Kevin.This High School club has existed for 12 years, and they have participated in a number of competitions over that time.
They use commercial software packages to write the software that controls the robot. It must be no larger than 18” x 18” x 18””. The remote control is controlled over a wireless LAN connection.
It is such fun to see these highly motivated students whoa re so into technology! You can’t help but feel their enthusiasm and know that they will succeed in these areas after high school.
There is complete info at:
https://sites.google.com/a/g.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs-robotics-club/home