April 8, 2008

We are having a pretty good year. Interact at HHS is in good hands with Phil Brown. Phil is a member that took a teaching position with the High School and started Interact to stay connected to Rotary. They have 15 members.  Luca, our youth exchange student is grabbing headlines as a student and an athlete and is hoping to go to college in the US. John Cuneo, our VP has facilitated one of his staff members as a group study exchange and Joanna is leaving for Brazil on May 10th. John has filled in admirably during my travel days. Dale Rogers, a Paul Harris Fellow and long standing, active Haverhill Rotarian has presented a check for $1000.00 to the foundation on behalf of his wife Marcia.

On a tough note, membership is holding but a few down. We had lost some momentum having to move to a new meeting place and pricing going up, however, now that we have settled in, I sense we will remain even for the year. We have inducted a fair amount of new members over the last few months.

This is our most important fund raiser of the year and everyone's support is needed. We are requesting that you deliver auction items by May 2nd. Download a PDF copy of the auction form or you may pick one up at Thursday's meeting.

Timothy Danehy and Ann Schramm join our lunch meeting last week. They are members of the Haverhill High School Interact Club sponsored by Haverhill Rotary.

The district is sponsoring a group study exchange to Minas Gerais, Brazil during the months of May and June. Joanna Rheaume-Clement, pictured above, is an early childhood teacher in Community Action, Inc.'s Head Start program at the Fox Education Center. She will be representing the district along with Grace Martins, president of the Rotary Club of Peabody, Michael Miranda, a staff intern working on two Green projects with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Deirdre MacDonough, project manager at EBSCO Publishing headquarters, and Matthew Grady, a client representative with Fidelity Investments.

Keep up with what's happening in Rotary District 7930.
You may download a copy of the February/March Newsletter or visit the web site:http://www.rotary7930.org

Rotary Club of Haverhill is part of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, whose mission is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. Each year, the Rotary Club of Haverhill raises and distributes more than $50,000.00 annually to local community charities that work to make our community a better place in which to live. Rotary Club of Haverhill places a high emphasis on serving the needs in the community of Haverhill. The application deadline is June 1st of each year. If you know somebody who would like to apply for a grant download the form and return it to one of the club's officers.

As Rotarians we try to make every event we support the best it can be. Planning is an important part of having a successful evening serving community meals. We need people to bring desserts, help serve and help clean up. Please contact Bernie Clohisy and let him know if you plan to help. Thank you

April 10 - Charlene Bauer and Juan Gallegos, Chelsea Rotary's Columbian Medical Facility Project.
April 24 - Jim Edholm, Every Rotarian Every Year District 7930
May 1 - Bob Carr, Manager of Government Affairs for Comcast's North Region
May 8 - Masaru Komura, Ambassadorial Scholar from Japan, studying at the JFK School of Govt., Harvard University Project.
We are looking for a club member willing to pick Masaru up in Cambridge the morning of May 8th and a club member to return him after the meeting.
May 15 - Brendan Neagle and Andrew Reed, Borrego Solar Systems, Inc.
June 5 - Reverend Paul H. Dionne, Atkinson Congregational Church
June 12 - Colonel Jackson "Randy" Dobbins, USAF Commander of the 66th Medical Group
June 19 - Stanley Usovicz, Verizon Regional Director of External Relations
See John Cuneo if you have an interesting speaker for our meetings.