We had a wonderful meeting last Friday when we honored Al Gay for 50 years in Rotary with perfect attendance! Al was surprised and it was heartwarming to hear all the tributes and well wishes given to Al. There were certainly a lot of happy dollars that day!
We also handed out the March “Calendar raffles” last Friday. If you haven’t received yours, please try and attend this week’s meeting or contact me to make arrangements for getting them. All members are encouraged to buy or sell a minimum of 10 tickets. These raffles should be easy to sell at $10 each with over $1,900 in great prizes! Members are divided into 3 teams for some friendly competition. A free raffle ticket and awards for top seller and team! See bulletin for more details!
This Friday, Leslie Fisher-Katz, Executive Director of the Children’s Study Home will be our speaker.
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(Pictured from Left to Right: Lt Governor, H. Marcel Schmidt, Honoree Al Gay and President Sue Mastroianni)
Last Week our club honored long time member Al Gay on his 50th Anniversary in the club. Al joined the Springfield Rotary on Feb. 7, 1969 and has had perfect attendance all these years. Al was the editor of the Spokesman for many years and on the attendance committee back when you could only miss 3 meetings and then you were out. He had the difficult task of calling members who had missed 2 meetings. This may be one of the reasons why he started the habit of visiting a Rotary Club other than Springfield each week, just in case he couldn’t make it to his own club. Al is very fond of Rotary International and in particular the Polio Plus Initiative, and has personally donated 12 Paul Harris Fellows. He has also traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world, mainly through Rotary International Conventions, has hosted many Rotary exchange students and enabled his children to participate in the Rotary Youth Exchange. Later encouraging them to become members of Rotary and, of course, maintain perfect attendance as well.
(Pictured from Left to Right: Lamont Clemons, Paul Lambert, MaryAnne Herron and Michael Cooley)
Our Rotary Rockin' Rotarians brought the house down and presented us with a great song of cheer!
This Friday, Leslie Fisher-Katz, Executive Director of the Children’s Study Home (CSH) will be our speaker and will talk about the 150-year-old organization. The Children’s Study Home was originally founded in April of 1865 as The Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children. This organization was one of the first social service agencies in Massachusetts and was started by a broad group of religious leaders ‘to provide a temporary home for friendless and destitute women and children; and to give them employment and instruction with the ultimate design of providing for them a more permanent situation, or of fitting them to maintain themselves.’ (Agency Constitution, 1865). The Children’s Study Home is dedicated to partnering with families by providing innovative and educational programs and services that strengthen children and families; empowering them to succeed at home, within the community, and throughout life. The Children’s Study Home serves children, adolescents, and families with special needs throughout the Pioneer Valley and Cape Cod areas. The children they serve are often struggling to cope with behavioral, psychiatric, and cognitive issues related to the experiences they have survived. Leslie was hired as the Director of Clinical Services at The Children’s Study Home in June 2015, and is now the Executive Director.
We are serving dinner at Friends of the Homeless on Thursday February 7, 2019 from 4:15-5:30 P.M. They are located at 755 Worthington Street in Springfield, MA. Those who have participated know what a rewarding experience it is. Anyone interested in helping to serve dinner that day should email President Sue at samastro@comcast.net Your help and service is greatly appreciated.
Our very own Rotarian, Michael Cooley, has put together the 2nd annual Springfield Rotary Night with the Thunderbirds for Sat February 16th at 7:05PM Tickets are $20. Contact T-Birds Rep Charles Venezia at 413-417-2311 or cvenezia@springfieldthunderbirds.com to purchase tickets. For additional information, see the flyer below.
The raffles are here and were given out to members this past Friday! If you haven’t gotten yours, please come to this Friday’s meeting or contact President Sue to arrange getting them. All members are being “encouraged” to sell or buy a minimum of 10 raffles at $10 each. We have over $1,900 in prizes and these raffles should be easy to sell with all the great prizes! Club members have been split into 3 Teams – Team Sue,Team Bertand Team John. The team that sells the most raffles will earn a FREE raffle for each participant, plus bragging rights and other assorted goodies. Total raffles sold for each team will be announced at future meetings. All monies raised will go to our Service Fund. Now go SELL!
February Birthday’s - GlennRosenberg, Feb 15; Marie Angelides, Feb 16; Alisa Garanzha, Feb 19
Rotary Anniversary’s – Alan Baldwin 25 yrs 2/1/94; Peter Pappas 37 yrs 2/5/82; Al Gay 50 yrs 2/7/69; Rick Lee 22 yrs 2/7/97; Paul Lambert, Jay Leib and Bob Russell 11 yrs 2/29/08; Congratulations to All!
Do you have some news or information that might be of interest to fellow Rotarians? Please send it to Gillian Palmer at gpalmer@baypath.edu by Monday of each week for inclusion. Our weekly Bulletin goes out to more than 70 local leaders every week and is a wonderful way to spread your message. Subject to approval.
Did you know you can easily reach the Rotarian Magazine, Rotary International, the District website and our own club website right from this bulletin? Well you can! Just check out the links under "ROTARY ONLINE" on your left.
Club Information
Rotary Club of Springfield - Meeting Fridays-12:15 PM
Service Above Self
We meet Fridays at 12:15 PM
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
1150 West Columbus Ave.,
MassMutual Room
Springfield,
MA 01105 United States
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