There is NO MEETING this Friday, June 21st due to our Paul Harris event this past Tuesday. Please plan on attending next Friday, June 28th when we induct Bert Carter as our new Rotary Club President.
I hope all our dads, grand dads, surrogate dads and pet dads had a wonderful Father’s Day last Sunday! The work they do, day in and day out sometimes goes unnoticed and unappreciated so thank you to all the “dads” out there.
We had a great meeting last Friday with Hypnotherapist, Dr. Thomas D. Pirnie D.C.H. It was a very interesting meeting where we all learned a little bit more about hypnosis and it’s many uses - from helping veterans to the sports world.
I am writing this before our Paul Harris/Community Grants Awards Dinner; however, I know it was a wonderful event which I hope many of you were able to attend. Our club awarded a Paul Harris Award to Rotarian Mike Tarby and his partner Bob Pelzek at PIP Printing for their contribution to our club throughout the years. Congratulations Mike and Bob! We also awarded $10,000 in grants to eight area non-profits that evening. Thank you to Marie Angelides, Alicia Garcia, Rick Lee and Jack Toner for all their hard work on making this event a success.
I hope to see you on the 28th for the “Changing of the Guard” when we induct Bert as our new Club President and the 2019-2020 Board of Directors!
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Our Paul Harris/Service Grants Awards Dinner was this past Tuesday, June 18th at LaQuinta Inn in Springfield. We celebrated “Service Above Self” by recognizing individuals and charities in a manner Paul Harris himself would have enjoyed. In the camaraderie of like-mind friends, our club awarded a Paul Harris Award to Rotarian Mike Tarby and his partner Bob Pelzek at PIP Printing for their contribution to our club throughout the years. In addition, we awarded $10,000 in service grants (thanks to the efforts of our Club members) to Springfield Boys and Girls Club, The Gray House, Inc., Gardening the Community, Friends of the Homeless, Springfield Neighborhood Housing Services, Boys and Girls Club Family Center, Holy Cross Church/ Sandwiches for the homeless and Make-It-Springfield. Please see next weeks bulletin for photo’s from the event.
We had a great meeting last Friday with Hypnotherapist, Dr. Thomas D. Pirnie D.C.H. It was a very interesting meeting where we all learned a little bit more about hypnosis. Hypnosis is an expanding field being used to help people in many areas. Including, but not limited to stop smoking, weight loss, anxiety and sleep issues.It has also been used to help veterans dealing with PTSD, children with ADHD and many athletes in the sports world.
Thank you to Michael Cooley, Bernie Spirito, Paul Lambert, Jack Toner, Tracy Woods, Mike Healy & his son and MaryAnne Herronfor serving Dinner at the Friends of the Homeless Shelter on June 6th.
Our next night for serving dinner will be Thursday July 4th. Hunger doesn’t take a holiday, so please let Mike Rzepka know if you can help out that day at mrzepka@dowd.com or by text at 413-531-4104. Thank you!
June Birthdays:Michael Cooley 6/1; Samalid Hogan 6/11
June Membership Anniversaries: Sr. Mary Caritas, 31 yrs 6/1/88; Roy Norman, 33 yrs 6/1/86; Stan Strzempek, 40 yrs 6/1/79; Jennifer Kirby, 8 yrs 6/1/11; Lucie Lewis, 8 yrs 6/10/11; Maurice Powe, 2 yrs 6/30/17 Congratulations to all!
The winner of the April/May/June Birthday Raffle was Seth Tenenbaum (4/12)! Seth won a $25 gift card to Samuel’s at The Basketball Hall of Fame. Congratulations Seth!
Dene Kimball could use a little help with displaying our Rotary flags at meetings (as Richard Fulkerson is doing in the attached photo). Dene is planning some extended vacation time soon and would like a few Rotarians to volunteer and put up the flags while he’s away (or give him a break now and then). The flags are stored at Max’s and only take a few minutes to put up or take down. Please talk to Dene about helping out. And thank you for your participation in helping to display our flags!
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
