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Fellowship News - Current Aug 26, 2010
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Rotary Club of Cambridge, Mass.

 

Editors: Mark Orent and Dan O'Neill

Photos by Jack Rummel 

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 Cambridge Rotary Club

Alice McCarter, President

www.cambridgerotary.org

  Rotary International

  Ray Klinginsmith, President

         www.rotary.org

 Rotary District 7930

Stephen May, DG

  www.rotary7930.org

     

 


This Week's Program

September 2nd 

 

HistorySmiths

 

 

 Bonnie Hurd Smith


 

Former member

Bonnie Hurd Smith

will discuss how

businesses can support

local history, achieve

business goals AND

benefit their community.

 

Upcoming Program

September 9th

 

Professional Photo Tips

 

Jack Rummel

 

Jack Rummel will

show us all how to

take better pictures.

 

 

 

 

  

                


Past President Dave Reed filled in for President Alice McCarter and opened the meeting with....

 

 

On This Day - Today's Highlights in History

August 26th    

  • In 1906 Albert Sabin, the Polish American Doctor who developed the polio vaccine, was born.
  • In 1920 the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote was declared in effect.
  • In 1939 Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
  • In 1957 the Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missle.
  • Birthdays:  Ben Bradlee, Former Washington Post Executive Director, 89; Geraldine Ferraro, Former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate, 75; Branford Marsalis, Jazz Saxophonist, 50; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French scientist, 50.

 


 

 

Last Week's Meeting 

 

After 3 days of rain, Ed VerPlanck seemed grumpy

                                 Photo by Jack Rummel

  

 

Visiting Rotarians and Guests 

 

Scott Lush President the Downtown Boston Rotary

Club.  Alfred Moeller of the Rotary Club of Iserlohn

Germany, District Governor Rick Metters, and Larry

Wegin of the Downtown Boston Club.

 

Major Steve Carroll introduced his returning guest,

Jeffrey Brunelle, now permanently assigned to the

Cambridge Salvation Army.

 

 

Larry Wegin and Scott Lush of the Downtown Boston Rotary

Club exchange flags with Vice President Randy Lindel

                                                    Photo by Jack Rummel

 

              

  

Good News from Cambridge Rotary - Downdown Boston Rotary Club's President Scott Lush was happy to say that his Club donates $50 to Rotary International for every successful new member referral......... Barry Seidman was happy for the beautiful day........ Justin Slate was happy after taking Monday off to participate in the Jimmy Fund's Golf Tournament.......Mallory Slate was happy to have Louise Olson at his table............John Butler was happy to ask for a report from Dan O'Neill regarding his recent car shopping decision selecting the Ford Fusion over the Toyota Prius.........Dan O'Neill was happy after visiting Honorary Member and PP Bob Jones............Bob Hurlbut was happy despite not having a necktie............Jack Rummel was happy after vacationing in Squirrel Island, Maine.............Justin Slate was happy about the Salavtion Army's upcoming Bridging the Gap event...........DG Rick Metters was happy for our making him work today....Mary Harris was happy to ask why the new Downtown Boston Rotary Club already had 25 members, and DBRC's President Scott Lush attributed the success mostly to their casual evening meetings being more appealing to younger professionals.......  

  

                  

 

Thanks to our prize providers......

 

Barry Seidman, University Stationery; Justin and Mallory Slate, Slate Stationery.

 

Winners included.....Bob Mansfield; Bruce Grigsby; and our guest speaker, Chile Eng.

 

 

 

PP Dave Reed thanked Ben Wright for his generous Birthday Check.  Happy Birthday Ben!

 

Barry Seidman reminds us, that to ensure Cambridge Rotary receives credit, all contributions to Rotary Foundation be submitted through him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program

 

Chile Eng, Executive Director of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middlesex County

 

Chile Eng with DG Rick Metters

                                 Photo by Jack Rummel

 

Chile Eng, Executive Director of the Middlesex Boys and Girls Club spoke to us.  The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middlesex County (BGCMC) was founded in 1967 when a group of citizens, concerned about boys who were drifting into difficulty with the law, formed the Somerville Boys Club. The Club opened its doors in September 1973, occupying the second floor of a former police station. In 1981, the organization acquired and renovated our Washington Street Clubhouse and reopened in 1982 as the "Boys & Girls Club,” becoming one of the first clubs in the country to admit both girls and boys as members!

In the last decade, the BGCMC expanded services to meet the needs of other Middlesex County communities. Opening the Medford Clubhouse in 2001, the Cambridge Clubhouse in 2002, and the Everett Teen Clubhouse in 2009, the BGCMC now operate five full-service clubhouses and one summer boathouse. We serve over 5,000 children and teens, ages 6 to 18, every year.

 

In a national study for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Harris Interactive surveyed Club alumni and found that:
 
• 57% said participating in the Club "saved my life.”
 
• 85% said Club staff helped them learn right from wrong.
 
• 90% indicated the Club was one of the best things available in their community


• 62% of alumni surveyed said they became more committed to their education because of the Club.

• 28%said they would have dropped out of high school if it wasn't for the Club.
 
Additionally, research shows the clear, positive impact of programs like the Boys & Girls Clubs. Children in quality, supervised after-school programs are 49% less likely to do drugs, 35% less likely to smoke tobacco, and 37% less likely to become teen parents than children who are home alone and unsupervised.
Chile encouraged us all to visit a Boys and Girls Club and see the difference they are making!

 

                                                   


 

 

We'll See You This Week at Rotary!