Chelsea Rotary - Rotagram - Archive (Jan 26, 2010)

Tuesday meeting was called to order by President Brian H at precisely 12:15. The opening prayer was led by Bruce and Tom K led us in “God Bless America”. Our thank go out to the Wyndam staff for a fine meal of Chicken Parmesan with rice and vegetables.

Secretary’s Report:

No member guest

One guest of the club that being Dave Boudreau (dumpster Dave) of the Amesbury Rotary and an old member of our own Chelsea club.

Anniversaries: Mitch M. and Jackie M both celebrated their 2^nd anniversary.

President Report:

On February 9, 2010 at the Danversport Yacht Club the World Peace and Understanding Dinner will take place with the keynote speaker being Ainash Alpeissova. Ainash is a native of Kazakhstan. She came to the US in 2002 as a Rotary Ambassodorial Scholar. Ainash is a current member of the Boston Rotary Club and is employed by Ernst & Young.

Haiti Relief Aid: On Tuesday the club ratified to donate a life giving shelter box. A shelter box is a full field tent which can house a family of eight. It comes complete with food and water and some medical supplies. 24 of the districts clubs have reported donating 53 shelter boxes to date. Leading the list are Gloucester, Hamilton/Wenham, Haverhill and Marblehead donating 6, 6, 5, and 4 respectively.

Members Corner:

Some key notes from various members:

Poor Bruce was extremely sad that his beloved Bret Favre was eliminated from the NFL playoffs but says that the world has not heard the last of Bret.

Sue and Barbara were happy to report that the Diva’s had a most enjoyable dinner the other night. By the way what has happened to Diane tell her that we all miss her.

Paula announced that she had a most entertaining evening over the weekend when she attended a Country & Western concert at a Boston night club. We hope that she did not destroy too many champagne glass like she did on Thursday.

Mike F announced that March eleventh will be the pot of gold dinner at the Kowloon restaurant on route one.

Our guest speaker for the day was Dave Boudreau and his speech was on how he came to be a bone marrow donor. If you weren’t there it was a fascinating rendition on the whole process of how he came to be called as a bone marrow donator. The process involved several medical procedures and pints of blood and marrow mixture. He is happy to report that the recipient is alive and well at the present time and in a couple of months he will have the opportunity to see him. All he knows at the present time is that he is from Canada. Dave gave out a letter that he received from the recipient over the holidays and it was very moving, he also had several pictures of his stay in the hospital that were most informative. Congratulations to Dave for he truly embodies the theme of “Service above Self and I believe that Dave has taken this one step beyond as in ‘Service above the Rest”.