Meeting of June 5, 2008

Next Meeting Time & Place: June 12, 2008.  Don’t forget you need to go to the Shorebirds Stadium for this meeting!  Contact Bill Potts for details.

Pledge:  President Marion Keenan

Prayer:  Allen Brown

Head Table: 

Announcements: Visiting Rotarians: Chuck Whitmore’s daughter Susan Stewart who is our speaker and is a member of the Gainesville Florida Sunrise Rotary Club.

Becky Haselnus, President of Salisbury Sunrise Rotary spoke of selling golf balls to be dropped from a helicopter for 50/50.

Last week’s Pig Pickin’ —Thanks to Ray Matheu, Rich Stover, Simpson Dunahoo,

•           Board meeting next week at 4:30 at Shorebirds Stadium

•           Next week’s Shorebirds game; please buy tickets and bring friends—Bill Potts (we have 31 of the needed 40 signed up; 17 have paid

Elvis Basket Bingo: tickets are a great gift to your staff. Matt Maciarello

.           Changing of the Guard June 26: Please sign up $25. Bring spouse, guests.

.           Our prayers are with Bob Brown and our Romania team, humanitarians all.

Rotary Information:

.           Sunrise Rotary May 13 Golf Tournament: Becky Haselnus

•           Cam Yorkston’s Installation of District Governor, Greenville, DE June 28 at 5:30. $60 a person

•           Change in the way RI allows us to transfer points; Letter from Roger Clavette.

.           Henry Vinyard spoke of the auctioning of ‘the bottle’ of aged port at the Changing of the Guard.

•           RI, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Maryland Hospice and Palliative Care Org., the Annapolis and Parole Rotary Clubs, and Rotary District 7620 (with our District hopefully us) and Russian Hospices. Russian hospice representatives from St. Petersburg area visited hospices in the Baltimore, DC area. We are sending representatives there. Momentum is building in forging a long and strong relationship. 

Main Program: Gary Mackes introduced Susan Stewart now of the American Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her talk revolved around the area of Nepal.

50/50 Winners :  Steve Capelli and Rocky Burnette

       Enjoy Rotary!