The meeting was called to order by President, Judy Shea, Sergeant at Arms Joe Gagliardi led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Verna led us in “God Bless America”
Invocation: In memory of Milt Gilbert
- Judy gave tribute to Milt and his long and well lived life. She also gave tribute to his military service that he was so proud of.
- Peter Golden then spent some time giving the club a brief synopsis of Milt’s life. He grew up in the Bronx and was always bright and spirited. Then, as we all know , Milt served in the 104th infantry during WWII in Europe. He was constantly in harm’s way including fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. He also survived 4 months as a runner which had a very low chance of survival. He returned from the war and married Rachel and moved to Natick. He was a pillar of the community for many years, serving on the Planning Board and having a successful career as a Patent attorney. In addition, he was a Rotarian for 45 years, many of them with our Club. In Peter’s words, Milt was a Colossus of a man. We will miss you Milt.
Please watch his interview as a part of the Veterans history project accessible on line at the Morse Institute Library.
Today’s Guests: None
Announcements:
- Saturday, Feb. 7 “Stop Hunger Now” packaging of meals will take place at Nashoba Regional High School; 12 Green St., Bolton. 10-1.
- PR Awards Expo is Friday March 20th. Laura@spear.net
- 3. St. Patrick’s Day Brunch is Sunday, March 15. at the community senior center. Please mark your calendars. We will need a lot of help!
- 2 PR workshops:
- CPR: We will be scheduling CPR certification classes through the town and certified CPR instructor, Ron Downing. Stay tuned for times and dates.
- Open Door April 19th – We will be serving Beans Buckingham
Reports from Board of Directors meeting
- Membership: Joe Keefe reports that attendance for December was 72% January 70%. The board will clean up the membership roster by placing individuals in active or honorary it is also noted that when individuals go on LOA they are informed that they must pay their dues. Meals are not charged.
- The board has approved for two students to attend RYLA in March.
- Service projects: The board voted to do the poinsettia project as an ongoing project with Home Depot. The service committee will decide every year the location that the poinsettias will be delivered to. Toby has done a fantastic job setting this program.
- Membership: Vinny continues to look for prospective members.
- Foundation: Mark is investigating district grants and how the club is doing with our RI donations.
- PR: Peter submitted an article for grant recipients. A previous article was completed and published on the dictionary project.
- Embrace family: working with several clients. Embrace the family will continue to work with strivers running club for girls for the Mother’s Day run. Embrace a family has secured for marathon runners who each raise $4000.
- Youth programs: Mark is looking towards investigating an Interact club at Wilson.
- Make a difference: Greg reported that there are many requests for the program both at the high school and at the middle school. To date he is spent close to $3000 for the program.
- Scholarship committee: Beth reports that the committee is looking to reassess the evaluation and selection process for scholarship recipients. George Levoy has agreed to serve on this committee to help in this process.
Program for next week:
February 10, 2015 Martha White & Jillian Wilson Martin – Sustainability Coordinator
Raffle : Nancy had the ticket, picked the 4 of clubs – Better luck next time
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