Last Meeting: 10/14/2015
The Invocation was given by Jerry Hanifan
President Jerry led us in the Pledge
Steve Wescott led us in song with “America the Beautiful”.
Guest Speaker - Dr. Pamela Alberto, Dental Surgeon in Sparta.
She also teaches at the Rutgers School of Dentistry. Besides her practice & teaching, she volunteers to go to poor areas of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to provide much needed service to those who cannot otherwise get help. Haiti has the poorest population and having a toothbrush is considered a luxury.
The Dominican Republic has poor areas along the border in contrast to the luxury resorts in the area. Her teams go to them to treat children and adults.
Since baseball is a much loved sport there and they bring American baseballs for the children to entice them to get their teeth worked on.
Guests:
The Roxbury Rotary joined us for lunch. We gave a hearty welcome to their past President, Elizabeth Schmitt, as well as Paul Harris Fellows, Steve Alfred, Dee Dee Frank, Judy Frank (Frank’s Bookkeeper), Gary Ribe (Re/Max Realtor) Jim Simonetti (Roxbury Police Chief), George Wein, (Roxbury Museum Administrator), Scott Fullerton (Fullerton Landscaping) Don Schuld (Schuld & Associates), Sam Maddali (Valley Pharmacy), Steve Matuba (Social Worker).
Kurt welcomed our guests.
Announcements:
- The Roxbury Club spoke about the various fundraisers they do throughout the year to benefit Gift of Life and Scholarships just to mention a couple. We shared some of our fundraisers with them.
- President’s Ball is Friday October 23rd. Contact a board member if you are going to support our president.
- Rotary Day at the UN is November 7th
- Happy Social Hour is November 11th from 4 to 6 PM at Sheridan’s. Wallkill Rotary will be joining us there.
- We are in need of volunteers for our Public Relations Committee and with the weekly minutes. Bob can’t do it all alone and Alice needs relief with the minutes. Please step up and help.
- Tom Digby- Donations for Polio will be collected in a jar as you enter the Rotary meetings.
- We are collecting items for the Red Cross that can be used for gift packages for our military.
Happy Dollars$:
There were many happy dollars from the visiting group as well as from our club. Charles noted he got his start in Rotary with the Roxbury Rotary Club. In the past, he had a few really good names by which they knew him. We prefer Charles.
50/50: was won by Chris Wolverton. Pot is $64 now.
