Next Meeting Time & Place: November 15, 2007 at the RSCC.   Program: State Legislative Issues

Song: Rocky Burnett led us in “America the Beautiful”.

Pledge:  President Marion Keenan

Prayer:  Fred Wierman

Head Table:  Linda Hearn; President Marion Keenan; PP George Vickers; and Gary Mackes.     

Special Guests:           Veterans and former service personnel Denny Bloodsworth (guest of Kurt Schuster); Phil Bradshaw (John Broyhill); Gary Howell (Hank Engster); Nancy Ellen Morris and Bob Morris (wife and father, respectively, of Stan Morris), Paul Trainer (also guest of Stan).   The dinners of all of our special guests, as well as dinners for our own club members who are ex-military, were provided by George Vickers.

Guests/Visiting Rotarians:    Vic Laws visiting from the Wicomico club; Linda Hearn (MAC, Inc.,/Meals on Wheels and guest of Club); Chris Southern (guest of Mark Thompson); Terri Bernstein, Mary Kay Johnston, Debbie Layton, and Penny Nicholson (guests of their spouses); and Mike Schuster and Kelly Colie (Kurt Schuster).

President Marion Keenan requested a moment of silence in honor of our friend and fellow Rotarian Dick Brooks, who passed away last week.

Sick Bay:        Norm Baker recovering from eye surgery.

Vic Laws of the Wicomico club gave a brief description of an upcoming exchange with District 1160 in Ireland in June 2008.  He has forms for those interested; contact him at viclaws@lawspa.net.

Seagull Century Fundraiser:           Tom Wieland presented a check for $1500.00 to Linda Hearn from Meals on Wheels.  Club members who sponsored our own Rotary bike team in the Seagull Century raised this money.  Also recognized were nearly twenty Rotarians who have delivered meals during the past year.

President Marion announced “Planned Giving Day 2007” featuring keynote speaker Jim Perdue, November 15, 2007 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Salisbury University.  See the flyer on the tables.

By-Laws Change:  The By-laws change, which had been previously communicated, was presented for Club approval and passed unanimously.

Dictionary Project: One of the Club’s most visible and long-standing programs, initiated by Art Goetz, the dictionary project is underway again this year under A.B. Brown’s leadership. Join him and his team as they meet to place labels in 1345 dictionaries for distribution to Wicomico County third graders, November 14, 6:00 pm, Wicomico County Schools Warehouse (900 Mt. Hermon Road).

Program:        Gary Mackes introduced our program with a tribute to George Vickers, whose time, talent, and contributions made possible the fine World War II Memorial at the Wicomico County Civic Center.  It was his vision that assured that the Memorial was finished while there were are surviving WWII veterans to appreciate it.  George followed with a moving tribute to our veterans and service personnel, noting the common theme of service to country and service to community.  He urged all of us to remember not only the “old warriors”, but also today’s heroes who return from Iraq and other dangerous places in need of jobs, healthcare, and understanding.  Finally, in a fitting capstone to this special Veterans Day observance, he read the names of no fewer than TWENTY-SEVEN club members who are either veterans of past wars or who served regular or reserve duty.  There is another whose name he did not recite: his own.

THANK YOU GEORGE – and Chris Layton, Henry Vinyard, Mike Bloxham, Rocky Burnett, John Baker, Hank Engster, Howard Agnew, Chuck Whitmore, Bill Potts, Bob Brown, Art Goetz, Bob Dickey, Paul Johnston, Dick Meeks, Ray Matheu, John Nicholson, Paul Morris, Jock McNair, Pete Cooper, James Crouse, Jerry Truitt, Ace Parker, Mike Bernstein, Tom Wieland, Don Taylor, Bob Widdowson, Bob Lawrence, and Hugh Livingston.

As a part of tonight’s special program, reprints of a wartime (1944) digest of Rotary Club of Salisbury activities from 1920 to 1944 were distributed.  Thank you to Ginny Dulany for providing these copies of the original, which belonged to her father.  Check out pp. 2-5 for the Rotary military honor roll.

 50/50 Winners: Twice $19.00 -- Bob Brown and Ray Matheu won – thanks Ray for giving it to Meals on Wheels.  

VETERANS DAY IS NOVEMBER 11, 2007.  REMEMBER OUR VETS!

       Enjoy Rotary!