Due to an event being held on site, we will NOT be meeting at Cherry Valley Country Club this week. Instead, we will be meeting under the pavilion at Van Horne Park at 7:30AM. Please attend as club elections will be held at this meeting. There is a rumor that bagels will be provided but please bring your own drinks. We will be back at Cherry Valley the following week. There will be no Zoom access to this or future meetings unless special circumstances arise.
Per the terms of our club bylaws, elections for next year's club officers will be held during the first meeting in June which falls on 6/3. Also per the bylaws, President-Elect Andy Mozumdar has proposed a slate of officers (found below) which will be voted on by the members present at this meeting. Please note that, in addition to those appearing on the proposed slate, nominations can also be made from the floor that day. The terms of the new officers go into effect at the start of the next Rotary year which commences on 7/1.
Calling all ROTARIANS!!! Only three weeks left to sell sponsorships for Flags For Heroes. NOW is the time to call your friends, coworkers and/or family and remind them that you are in a community service organization and this is how we raise funds to do the important work that we do. Tell them it's only 50 bucks a flag to honor someone special in their lives. Thanks them for their support and then send them over to our website www.MontgomeryRotary.org - you got this.
Our club ended up selling 426 tickets and raising over $4,000 which will go towards the Giving Budget. Thanks to all who sold tickets and special thanks to Paul Blodgett for heading up this project. You can view the list of winners by clicking HERE.
Thanks go out to our Scholarship Committee (Emad Abou-Sabe, Kevin Lynch, Kip Higgins) for their hard work in sorting through and selecting the scholarship recipients for our various Rotary scholarships. The winners can be found below.
Our Speakers Chair, Cory Wingerter, works very hard to keep our pipeline of speakers full but he's having some trouble getting speakers lined up for our June and July meetings. If you have any ideas for a good speaker, please contact Cory Wingerter as soon as possible. Also, if you gave your classification talk many moons ago and would like to give the club an update (also known as a "reclassification talk"), let Cory know.
At its last meeting, the club Board voted to send $3,500 from the discretionary portion of the Giving Budget to help battle the huge upswing in deadly COVID-19 variants raging through India. Kudos to President-Elect Andy Mozumdar for researching and connecting with the Rotary Club of Calcutta Suburban North who will use this money to buy three Oxygen Concentrators.
Calling all volunteers for Habitat For Humanity. Our new opportunity to work is Friday, June 18th from 9AM - 2PM at the Willow Rd site. Please email Sharon Prosinski at slprosinski64@gmail.com if you wish to be put on the list. Hard hats will be provided and there's even a wild rumor floating about that Cory Wingerter has arranged to have Tiger's Tale provide lunch.
The concept of doing more “hands on” projects popped up a few times last week in different conversations at our weekly meeting. Given that we just wrapped up selling 50/50 tickets and are in the midst of selling flags for Flags For Heroes, it can seem like all we do is fundraise. And fundraising is indeed important as the money collected is vital to the charities we support.
