Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon will share his thoughts about the current state of affairs and future at Dartmouth College. As noted on his webpage, in addition to leading the college, President Hanlon serves as a member of the faculty and teaches first-year calculus and other mathematics courses at Dartmouth. 

 

 

Tom Csatari reminded members to sign up for the forthcoming Occum Pond party scheduled for February 8. 

 

Dick Podolecannounced a Membership Committee meeting and encouraged us to invite prospective members to future meetings.

 

Jeremy Lambeth shared a banner from the Norman, Oklahoma club that meets at 7 in the morning and was full of enthusiasm and energy despite that early time. 

 

Rubi Simon announced that the club will be sending three outbound students for 2020, noting that this will require us to commit to hosting a like number. 

 

David Allenoffered TEN Happy Dollars as part of the launch effort for his new book Dappled Psychiatric, which opened the week listed somewhere on the Amazon best seller list. As noted below, David will be sharing his insights on the writing process on February 12. 

 

Rob Adams offered a Happy Dollar in honor of both the boys and girls basketball teams at Hanover High who are currently undefeated. He encouraged us to attend as many home games as possible to cheer them on. 

 

General happiness reigned when pictures were snapped of our trusty band of auction figures presenting a large check with LOTS of Happy Dollars to the Positive Tracks leaders. A few minutes later, the AUCTION figures reappeared as ACTION figures! 

 

 

 

Somewhere, the Marvel team and the Incredible Hulk are quaking! 

 

Julia Griffin won the raffle. 

 

 

Rubi Simon and ACTS Honduras’ team leader Ethan LaRochelle, providing us with a report on the ACTS Honduras Trip our club supported. Ethan led the trip accompanied by a travel team of six other individuals with a range of areas of expertise. The acronym ACTS stands for AmericansCaring Teaching Sharing, and the ACTS group in Hanover has been working with a mountain village in Honduras mountain located at least three hours from a grocery store over hilly dirt roads. Their projects include: upgrading the library, offering teacher training in mathematics, installing and operating a weather station, offering ESL instruction, providing soil improvement consultation, and working with their fire department. Hanover’s team was augmented by doctors from Honduras. Rubi and Ethan showed slides that illustrated the trip’s logistics and lodging, the scenery en route and at the site, and the various programs. The work by this group is clearly worthy of our club’s support. 

 

 

 

January 29 – Jenn Packard will tell us about the newly merged Lebanon-Hanover Chamber of Commerce

 

February 5 – Jarvis Green, the Artistic Director of JAG productions, an African American theater group operating out of White River Junction. 

 

February 12 – Noted local author David Allen will discuss his first novel, Dappled Psychiatric, and may even provide some signed copies! 

 

February 26 – Perry Allison, the Artistic Director of We The People Theater, will tell us about that group’s latest production: The Man of LaMancha

 

Wayne Gersen