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SCUTTLEBUTT Tuesday Feb 4 Greeter: Rob Deiana
PRESIDENT’S CORNER MARCH 24th – NEW MEMBER DAY March 24th will be New Member Day. Club President Kathleen Murphy asks that we all plan on inviting one relative, friend, co-worker, or neighbor to join the club. Kathleen will hand out invitation cards the club printed especially for this occasion. Best wishes for Pam Peterson and John Williams, as they convalesce from hip replacement surgery. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery… How lucky is this club that when the secretary and the assistant secretary are out on sick leave at the same time, we are able to count on Don Doliber’s generosity and willingness to step right in. LARRY PROCTER The Board of Directors approved a donation to the Rotary Foundation in memory of Larry Procter, a dear Rotarian who passed away in mid-December.
NEPAL IS GETTING ITS REHAB (Courtesy photo) The Rotary Club of Dhulikhel announced that it has officially handed over physiotherapy equipment to the Physiotherapy Unit of Manekharke Outreach Center and to the Krinetar Outreach Center of Dhulikhel Hospital – Kathmandu University Hospital. The delivery is part of a wider project designed to provide quality physical therapy services in rural community centers, and provide financial support for low income patients in rural areas made possible by a Rotary grant, support from our club, and the hard, competent, and persistent work of Patricia Sullivan. Thank you, Patricia.
FOOD PANTRY CONTRIBUTION FOR FEBRUARY PB & Jelly TO DONATE CAREER CLOTHING If you would like to help, please do it by COB tomorrow, February 4. Salem State University's "Student Closet Project" is welcoming donations of dry-cleaned/laundered, new or gently used men's and women's career-appropriate clothing that needs no repairs in all sizes to provide students with professional apparel for internships, interviews and new jobs. If you'd like to contribute, please bring the items to our regular meeting tomorrow, or leave them on Jessica Barnett's front porch at 217 Humphrey Street in Marblehead (between Brookhouse Drive and Ruby Avenue). Click here for more details. COLLEGE BOUND We will host the annual scholarship fundraising dinner at The Landing in the last week of February. John Lindahl reminds us of what our club’s scholarship trust is, and what it does in an ongoing blurb series. “Both of the college scholarships, the Enhanced Scholarship and the Fraffie Welch Scholarship, are repeating awards to the recipients, but ONLY if the students meet certain course load, grade point and community service requirements. We also ask recipients to tell us in person or in writing how the scholarship has helped them.” What: Marblehead Scholarship Fundraising Dinner When: February 25th, 2020 Time: TBA Where: The Landing Restaurant 81 Front Street, Marblehead MA
STONE AND COMPASS REACHES OUT TO THE WORLD Stone and Compass interns Hana Feingold and Carter Murray (Photo by Luis Ribas) MHD High Stone and Compass interns Carter Murray and Hana Feingold visited with our club last week. They are organizing, and raising funds for, a service learning trip to the Azores Islands, to help a small dairy farm adopt sustainable farming, in line with the UN Sustainable Goals.
HELPING CHILDREN LIVING IN DEEP POVERTY Pathways for Children’s Sue Todd with Club President Kathleen Murphy (Photo by Luis Ribas) Former Rotarian Sue Todd, President and CEO of Pathways for Children visited with our club recently to talk about the organization she had led for 40 years. Pathways provides education and care programs in the North Shore serving 500 children (ages 0 to 13) and their families in 14 communities struggling with deep poverty. Please visit Pathways for Children of reach out to Sue Todd to learn about ways to help and make a difference in the lives of the neediest families in our community. (Courtesy photo) With a little help from RCOMH Marblehead High School Interact raised $1,500 in two days of bagel and cream cheese sales. Than you to Jim Nye for leading the kids and to all club members who helped out.
ROTARY FELLOWSHIP EVENING Debra Goldberg, Swampscott Rotary club president, stopped by our last club meeting and invited all members to an evening of fellowship at The Landing, on Thursday, February 13th at 6:30 PM. All the regions’ clubs are invited and we hope to see you there.
POLAR PLUNGE Are we going to let Rob Deiana do the Polar Plunge all by himself? Of course not. So here’re the options: 3) Participants MUST have a signed waiver and be in high school or older. High school students must bring their waivers SIGNED by their legal guardian. Rotarian advisers may not sign waivers for students. Visit our site to download a waiver today. Remember: All donations will be matched 2:1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. What: Polar Plunge to End Polio When: Saturday, February 29, 2020 (snow day March 14th) Where: Cape Anne Motor Inn, Long Beach, Gloucester MA Time: TBA, based on tides
Thank you Kathleen Murphy and Jim Nye for your contributions to this edition of Scuttlebutt. |
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