Rotary Club of Springfield

                                                                                Paul Harris Awards Celebration

Thursday April 26, 2012
5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
 
2012 Paul Harris Recipients
Michael Healy
Alfred Gay
Ruby Maddow-Community Gardening
Regina Packard-Friends of the Homeless
Rebuild Springfield

The Student Prince
8 Fort St, Springfield
 
$20 - Hors-d'oeuvres & hearty apps
Cash Bar available

($4 Valet Parking Will Be Available)

Tickets Must Be Purchased in Advance
Please make checks out to “The Rotary Club of Springfield”

Tickets can be purchased from Sujing Yang or Bernie Spirito

Kimberly A. Lee and Kathleen A. Zebrowski were inducted into the Rotary Club of Springfield on February 17, 2012  by Rotary Club President Edward A. Sunter. Rotarian Jennifer Schimmel sponsored both new members.

Lee, a Springfield resident, is the Branch Manager for People¹s Bank on Wilbraham Road in Springfield.

Zebrowski, a Holyoke resident, is the Branch Manager for People¹s Bank on Sumner Avenue in Springfield.

The Springfield Rotary Club meets every Friday at 12:15 p.m. in the Mass Mutual Room at The Basketball Hall of Fame, West Columbus Avenue, Springfield, and is a proud member of Rotary International.

Doron "Duke" Goldman, baseball historian, will address the Springfield Rotary Club's luncheon meeting on Friday, March 23rd.

"Duke" is a former practicing attorney and marketing professor and now does research, consulting and presentations on baseball history.  He is a published author in Harvard Business Review, Native Americans in Sports Encyclopedia, and The Northern Game- and Beyond- Baseball in New England and Eastern Canada.

A member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) since 1994, Duke has made several baseball research presentations on the Red Sox and Robert Lee "Indian Bob" Johnson. He's taught a baseball history course at UMASS and will make a presentation this summer on baseball's impact on American history to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

"Duke" has a home baseball library of over 2,000 books... and counting.

Rotary Club of Springfield President  
Edward A. Sunter, congratulatesMarie Doyle and  Sujing Yang, upon their induction into  
the Rotary Club of Springfield.

 Marie Doyle, a resident of Longmeadow, is the Superintendent of Longmeadow  
Public Schools since 2010. She is a graduate of Merrimack College,  
Andover, MA with a B.A. in American Studies and Education and has her  
Master of Education degree in Educational Research from Northeastern  
University, Boston, MA. Doyle was previously Superintendent of  
Schools for the Carlisle Public Schools from 2004 – 2010 and was  
Middle School Principal for the Newton Public Schools from 1995 – 2004.

Sujing Yang, a resident of Longmeadow, is Chief Financial Officer at  
Capuano Care of East Longmeadow. Capuano Care is a full-service,  
Medicare/Medicaid certified & private home health care service,  
serving clients throughout Hampden and Hampshire Counties. Yang is a  
graduate of National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, with a BBA  
in Banking.

$15 lunch program with a perfomance by the Boland School Carolers. Please come join us for this festive performance.

Please join the club for  induction of our newest member Marie Doyle. The meeting starts at 12:15-1:30 with lunch served. The cost is $15. Please come and join us.

For Immediate Release
November 22, 2011

Second Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Springfield Rotary
³Service Above Self² Luncheon Honorees Announced

Springfield Rotary to Honor former Mayor Charles Ryan and Rebecca Lobo

Springfield, Mass. ­ The Basketball Hall of Fame announced today its honorees for the second annual Basketball Hall of Fame Springfield Rotary ³Service Above Self² Luncheon on Friday, December 9th at 12 pm on Center Court.  This year¹s honorees for this year¹s luncheon ­ who live out the Rotary motto ³Service Above Self² ­ are the retired Mayor of Springfield, Charles Ryan and former WNBA and UConn women¹s basketball star Rebecca Lobo.

³We are honored to work in conjunction with our friends at the Springfield Rotary to honor two individuals who have had a major impact on our community, the game of basketball and the Basketball Hall of Fame,² said John L. Doleva, President & CEO of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Ryan was the Mayor of Springfield from 1962 to 1967 and again from 2004 to 2008.  Known for his civil service throughout his career, he established a tremendous legacy on Western Massachusetts that spanned over four decades, helping to redraft Springfield's City Charter to its current form of government. Mayor Ryan was also the President of the Springfield Library Foundation and a strong advocate for the reopening of the city libraries. He fought closure of the Springfield Armory and was an active fundraiser and contributor for The Elms College and Sisters of St. Joseph.

Lobo was the Massachusetts state scoring record-holder with 2,740 points in her high school basketball career for Southwick-Tolland Regional High School.  She helped lead the UConn Huskies to the 1995 National Championship with an undefeated 35-0 record. In her senior year, she won the 1995 Naismith and College Player of the Year award.  She has since gone on to a successful WNBA career, Olympic Gold Medal and ESPN broadcasting career once she retired, including her work as an advocate for breast cancer awareness.

Lobo and her mother, RuthAnn, founded ³The RuthAnn and Rebecca Lobo Scholarship in Allied Health² on October 2, 2001 at the University of Connecticut.  Scholarships are awarded annually to students studying health sciences in an effort to encourage diversity in the health professions.

Lobo is also one of the Children¹s Miracle Network (³CMN²) Champions and actively supports the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (³HSF²).  The HSF is the nation¹s oldest and premier provider of college scholarships to Hispanic Americans.

³Both Charles and Rebecca truly represent our motto of Œservice above self¹ and we are extremely honored to thank them for their work throughout their careers,² said Ed Sunter, President of the Rotary Club of Springfield.

The Basketball Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase will tip-off with Division II schools AIC and Philadelphia University at 3:00 pm. Philadelphia is coached by Herb Magee, the all-time NCAA wins leader at any level and was recently Enshrined into the Hall of Fame this past summer. A Division III matchup between Springfield College and Trinity College will follow at 5:00 pm finishing with a Division I doubleheader. The 7:00 pm game will feature UMass and Siena with the final game between Fairfield and Old Dominion University starting around 9:00 pm.

For more information on tickets to the luncheon, please contact Jason Fiddler, Director of Museum Sales at 413-231-5540 or jfiddler@hoophall.com.

About The Rotary Club:
Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self. The Springfield Rotary Club meets every Friday at 12:15 p.m. in the Mass Mutual Room at The Basketball Hall of Fame, West Columbus Avenue, Springfield.

For more information on the Rotary Club of Springfield or becoming a member, please visit their Web site at www.springfieldmarotary.org or visit them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/springfieldmassrotaryclub

About the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame:
Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Birthplace of Basketball, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame promotes and preserves the game of basketball at every level ­ professional, collegiate, men and women.

For more information:
Visit us on the web: www.hoophall.com
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Š on Twitter: @hoophall
Š or call 1-877-4-HOOPLA


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 Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt, born June 1, 1940) and son (Rick Hoyt, born January 10, 1962) team from Holland, Massachusetts, who have competed together in various athletic endeavors, including marathons and triathlons. Rick has cerebral palsy and during competition Dick pulls Rick in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat in the front of a bicycle, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run. Team Hoyt was inducted to the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2008.

A truly inspirational story not to be missed. Lunch starts at 12:15 and is $15.00. 

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