ROTARY CLUB OF NEEDHAM

      NEWSLETTER

                                                     October 27, 2009

Ryan led us in the pledge of allegiance, Karen led us in "America" and Darrell led us in prayer.

GUESTS:  Jonathan (an Attorney with his Dad) and Michael Levin (a sports announcer with WNYT in Albany), Chuck's children.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  It appears that the club will net between $4500 and $5200 from the pancake breakfast. That's great!!.

Speakers: John Hirliman has November and Karen has December.  Bill Rosenthal volunteered to take Jan.

There will be a Holiday Party at the Sockol's in December.  Date 12-11-09.  There will be no meeting between Christmas and New Year's. (12/29).  Please let Jim know so the speakers can be added to the website.

The Annual Foundation Dinner is on 11/11 at the Dedham Hilton. You can sign up online.

The Football Dinner is in Wellesley on Tues. Nov. 24^th. There is no lunch meeting that week. Dan shaughnessy, sports writer for the Boston Globe and Rotary Scholarship winner, will be the keynote speaker.

Darrell discussed about the Thanksgiving Dinner.  Setup is on 11/25.  Wingate will be providing the pies- thank you Deb and Wingate. 

John Wood, the Founder of Room to Read will be at EliotSchool on 11/6.

BIRTHDAYS:   

HAPPY DOLLARS:    Bob Cocks gave $37 to celebrate his 37^th wedding anniversary ! 'Atta boy Bob. Hank Abbott $10 guilty for missing the Pancake Breakfast.

50/50 RAFFLE WINNER:  Gerry Goodman's number was drawn, but he could not pull the correct card. $169 in the pot.

Humor: Tom Savino had a great joke, but it never got delivered, and everyone still laughed..tune in next week.

Speaker: We were delighted to be able to welcome back Mike Reilly, announcer for NECN and WEEI sports radio. Mike is an NHS grad (and in fact classmate and friend of Mike Levin).  Mike loves to announce, and got his start on the Needham Cable Channel, where he announced all of Needham's sporting events.. He has graduated to NECN, WEEI on the weekends, and is the announcer for the Brockton Rox baseball team, who the club visited back in July.

Football is his favorite sport, but he says it requires the most preparation. He is excited for NHS who has a 7-0 record at this moment, and that is the best start NHS has had in 40 years.

Mike is a truly nice guy, and knows a lot of the club members, so it was like old home week.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS:

Nov 3-Dan Tadar, ADK Productions

Nov 10-Roy Balfour, Rotary Foundation

Nov 11-Rotary Foundation Dinner at Dedham Hilton

Nov 17-Sandy Robinson, Needham Community Council

Nov 24-Annual Joint Needham/Wellesley Rotary Dinner w/Football Teams at Wellesley

Nov 26-Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Masonic Hall

Dec 1-Suzanne Cox, PrincipalEliotSchool, Room to Read Program

Dec 8, Hans Batra, NHS Robotics Team

Dec 11-Holiday Party at the Sockol's

Dec 12-Ring them Bells for the Salvation Army at Sudbury Farms

Dec 15-

Dec 20-Habitat For Humanity Day-Needham Rotarians help build HFH home.

Dec 22-

Dec 29-No meeting. Happy Holidays!!

Jan 5-