The Wheel, December 7, 2017

Weston & Wayland Rotary Club
Online Club Bulletin for 12/7/2017
by Deborah Rines

MEMBER ASSIGNMENTS

12/14/2017: Holiday Party
12/21/2017: Greeter: Jan Luchetti; Door Prize: Patty MacNeil
12/28/2017: No Meeting, Happy New Year!
1/4/2018: Greeter: Patty MacNeil; Door Prize: Jan Luchetti
1/11/2018: Greeter: John Marchiony; Door Prize: Bruce Lee
1/18/2018: Greeter: Mark Messina; Door Prize: Steve Karoghlanian

Door Prize - Door prize responsibility is to select a door prize of value $10 to $20 to be given to the Sergeant-at-Arms BEFORE the meeting. If you cannot attend the meeting you are schedule to bring the door prize, it is your responsibility to get the prize to the Sergeant-at-Arms before the meeting.

Greeter - The Greeter must arrive 15 minutes BEFORE the start of the meeting and greet all members and guests at the door and answer any questions they may have

MEETING OPENING:

Meeting opening: Bell was rung at 6:15 pm
Tom Wintle led us in prayer
Guests:
Speaker: Bob Anthony, Wellesley Rotary

Letter from the President

Season's Greetings,

Thank you to all who made payment at the meeting. We also had an opportunity to try out the credit card processing capabilities and it worked out well. Thanks to John, we now have the ability to take meal payments at meetings by credit card.

The holiday party is in one week.

Our count is currently 47 and we have a minimum of 50.

The caterer needs a hard number by the close of business Monday next week.

Please send a reminder to your friends with this cutoff. The more the merrier!

The members in attendance discussed and voted to begin a monthly campaign of combining all meeting happy dollars collected in a month to a cause of the month. Previously, we have been only allocating one meeting's worth of happy dollars to a cause. In September we chose disaster relief, in October it was the End Polio Now campaign $257.00, in November in honor of World AIDS Day we are sending $114.00 to AGAPE, a program for orphaned children with AIDS.

Please send me your suggestions for causes to support over the next six months. If you know how to use google sheets you can go to the shared document I will create and enter your suggestions there. If it is easier just send me an email with the cause and the month.

We need a December cause so please send me your suggestions so that we can announce it at the Holiday Party.

Our guest speaker was Bob Anthony who is current President of the Wellesley club. He discussed the global grant he is putting together to combat teen depression and the program the Wellesley Interact club is doing.

John gave us an update of the website and he made a request for content for the pages.

Lastly, remind your friends the deadline is Monday for the Holiday Party.

See you then!

Have a great week.

Mark Messina

WWRC President

Meeting Notes:

We discussed our upcoming Holiday Party on the 14th of December and who our caterer will be.

Remember to bring a wrapped gift for the swap and an unwrapped gift for Mary's House.

Many tickets have been sold for the dog house raffle, good response.

Our guest speaker, Bob Anthony, from the Wellesley Rotary discussed their clubs participation in a global grant "Peer Leadership and Depression Prevention Nigeria"

Jan Luchetti also has a list of causes she will share to those interested. We also talked about our future donations for Happy Dollars.

Secretary Eileen White

Photos from the meeting, Thank you to Bruce Lee!

REMINDERS

ATTENDANCE

Chip Bradley, Michael Cave, Richard DeVito, Jr., Edwin Gaw, Bruce Lee, Jan Luchetti, John Marchiony, Mark Messina, Tony Micciche, Rob Mosher, Eileen White, Jonathan White, Tom Wintle.

SPEAKERS

Please forward the names of people you think would be good speakers to Chip Bradley. Be creative!

WGC provides us with a set menu. Special orders must be made in advance. Please call the club on Thursday a.m. to see what is on the special order menu. If you must special order, please do it in advance. The phone number is 781-894-2503.

Meeting Detours:

EARLY WARNING BRISTOL LODGE

December 21, 2017. Food purchaser is Walter Mulcahy, Food preparer is Mac Spencer, Food servers are Cindy Appleby and John Marchiony. Deliver pots to The DeVito Building, where they are stored. It is your responsibility to find a replacement for yourself if needed.

BRISTOL LODGE SCHEDULE

Full Bristol Lodge schedule and information, including instructions are available online in ClubRunner. Log in and then click on Events, you will see Bristol Lodge as the first item.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Facebook page Click here to view the page!

Moved, New Phone, New email? Please update your contact information on our club website. It is easy. All you need to do is log in, click Admin and then click Edit My Profile..then you can change whatever information you need! Please add your birthday so we can celebrate it!

Special Notices:

If you need to post a special notice to the Rotary Club of Weston & Wayland Wheel, please email the notice to deborah_rines@pnpco.com. In addition to the notice, you should specify a title for the notice and how long you would like the notice to run in number of weeks or end date.

Sunshine Corner: If you know of a fellow Rotarian infirmed or in need, please forward the details to Patty MacNeil.

Club Runner and Rotary Wheel: Messages can be sent through the Club Runner website. The wheel is now being updated on the Club Runner site as well as a weekly email version. If you would like to have a friend or potential member receive the wheel please go to the club website and add them as a "Friend of Rotary". Please contact Deborah Rines at deborah_rines@pnpco.com with any announcements you would like in the Wheel.

Rotary Central: Located in The DeVito Building at 470 Boston Post Rd, 3rd Fl. Please feel free to come and use the computer for any Rotary business.

FINES AND HAPPY DOLLARS

Reminder – please fill out the happy dollar sheets and place into the hat so they can be recorded and printed in the Wheel!

POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS

All Rotary Club members have a responsibility to help recruit new members. Please send potential new member names and contact information to the Club Membership Chairperson – currently Bruce Lee.

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION

All Rotarians are asked to donate $100 per year per member to support the Rotary Foundation programs. These Programs create the funding source for matching donations from local clubs, and from District contributions.

2017-2018 CLUB OFFICERS

Mark Messina - President
Jan Luchetti - Vice President
Chip Bradley - Past President
Eileen White - Secretary
Tom Wintle - Sergeant at Arms
Tom Giampapa - Finance Committee Chair
Bruce Lee- Membership Committee Chair
John Marchiony - Public Relations (PR)
Richard A. DeVito, Jr - Executive Secretary, Fundraising Project Chair, Fall Car Show
Michael Cave - International Service Project Committee Chair
Director - Mark Messina
Director - Chip Bradley
Director - Jan Luchetti
Director - John Marchiony
Director - Rob Mosher
Director - Tom Giampapa
Director - Patty MacNeil
Director - Edwin Gaw
Director - Richard DeVito, Jr.