July 31- Deecie Denison will speak about Partners in Community Service or PICS,  

a program from Carmel Rotary Club, where she formerly belonged. The program engages Rotarians with high school aged students in community service, one of the goals our President hopes to achieve in the coming year. 

 

 

Deb Blanc announced that more volunteers are needed to help with the Auction, which Liam McCarthy reminded everyone is only 106 days away! In particular, Deb was seeking help in securing items for the silent auction. She noted that roughly 250 potential sponsors have been contacted and we have volunteers to follow-up with 100 of them but we need more volunteers to follow up with the other 150.

 

President Liam McCarthy encouraged club members to bring a guest in order to expand our membership and to increase the community’s awareness with our club. 

 

Dick Podolec offered a Happy Dollar to celebrate the completion of his Rotary Fellowship trip to Calgary, Alberta where he attended the Calgary Rodeo, visited two national parks and entered Canada by boat. He highly recommended that anyone interested should be signing up to attend the next Rotary Exchange to New Zealand.

 

Marilyn Bedell gave a Happy Dollar in appreciation for the speaker, Rachel Brooks.

 

Mort Weiss gave a Happy Dollar because he was happy to be at the meeting.

 

Don Pasini won the raffle prize: the free loan of a book from the Howe Library.

 

 

Liam McCarthy introduced Rachel Brooks, the recipient of a Rotary Peace Fellowship, made possible by our donations to the Rotary International Foundation. This Fall, Rachel will be going to the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom to pursue a master's degree in Peace and Mediation.

 

Rachel grew up in Virginia Beach, the daughter of a construction worker and a stay-at-home Mom. Her first experience mediating was between her conservative father and liberal mother. She was the first in her family to attend college, graduating in 2014 from William and Mary. After graduating, she had a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English for two years at an all-girls Catholic High School in Korea -- where she also had the opportunity to learn some history of that region and, in particular, learning about massacres that occurred in Korea and Taiwan. For the past three years, she has been at the Center for Business and Society at Dartmouth's Tuck School. It was inspiring to learn how our donations to the Rotary International Foundation changed her life. 

 

 

August 7 - Dave Allen will introduce John Vogel who will talk with us about affordable housing in the Upper Valley. 

 

August 14 – Nan Carroll will host a social at her home in lieu of our regular weekly meeting. She sent out an email earlier today indicating that drinks will be served beginning at 5:30 with a bar-b-q to follow at 6:30--- all for the same price or less than the lunch at Jesse’s. She asked that we RSVP by August 10.  

 

August 21 – A speaker we hoped to line up has deferred until a later date. We are in the process of lining up a speaker for this date and hope to have an announcement on Wednesday!