Pattie Katcher

After a warm welcome from President Foster, Tom Strode led us in our patriotic song ‘America’ (My country, ‘tis of thee) . Today’s Inspirational comments were from Susan Shipman.  Susan said her husband is her inspiration for today’s message, as his common response to one’s complaining is ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get’, […]

Our meeting began today with the ringing of the bell and Tom Strode leading us in ‘America the Beautiful’.   Our inspirational  message was provided by Emily Conrady , who delighted us with a story in which a mourning son who always left flowers at his parent’s grave noticed the adjacent gravesite always looked ‘unattended’.  So, […]

Today’s meeting began with President Mark ringing the bell and Maestro Tom Strode leading us in our National Anthem.  Marelena Struder provided our words of inspiration today in the form of a beautiful poem titled ‘The Turtle’ by Mary Oliver, and reminding us that Mother Nature speaks to us without ever saying a word.   Having […]

After ringing the bell, today’s meeting started with singing our National Anthem accompanied by Tom Strode. Becky Pazkowski provided our inspirational comments today, quoting from a poem by Emerson about the true meaning of success and how that translates into what defines our club and what we do in Rotary. Rick Ingram lead the group […]

The meeting started at 12:30pm with the singing of our National Anthem with Tom Strode at the piano. Our inspirational message today came from Cyril White, who asked us ‘What is your ‘why’?  Self-help materials says we need a strong ‘why’ to achieve goals and the deeper your why, the more it affects the larger […]

After President Mark rang the bell to begin our meeting, Maestro Tom Strode played our National Anthem. Our inspirational message today came from Victor Stoeffler who spoke about an inspirational man who enjoyed a successful baseball career in major leagues including the NY Yankees.  He was the Rookie of the Year, won a Golden Glove […]

12:30 PM “Ring the Bell”  Today’s meeting started with the National Anthem as our patriotic song compliments of Tom Strode.  Our inspirational message today, about Spring, was from one of our newer members, Maggie Williams.  The name of this season was always called Spring.  Initially, the season was called Lent, with the association of the […]

Today’s meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by President Mark Ouimet, followed by Tom Strode’s playing of our patriotic song. Our inspiration message today was provided by Barb Eichmuller who read a poem about words and how impactful our words are in a number of ways, both good and bad.  She ended with a […]

Today’s meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by Mark Ouimet with the Ringing of the Bell, and Tom Strode led us in the National Anthem.   Our inspirational message of the day was from Sara Maddock who noted that February is African American History Month and with that in mind read a moving passage […]

Today’s meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by President Mark with the Ringing of the Bell.  After a long absence from the Anderson Room and it’s piano, Maestro Tom Strode led a full singing crowd with our National Anthem! Kathy Waugh shared our inspirational message today; thoughts from James Quincy, the President & CEO […]