This Week’s Rotary Chips, March 17, 2014

Guests: Shelia Palfey, guest of Catherine Nelson; Kwame Dankwa, Sara DeLance, prospective members, and Brian DeClue, guest of Bill Drummond.

Brags/Fines:  Joe Rodolfy

• Will Gormly fined Nicole Fabian for photo in paper
• Rich Carlson bragged for Tom Donahue, who is having lunch with Sen. Leahy
• Tina Keshava fined herself for not selling any tickets, bragged that she skied this weekend for the first time in four years
• Traci Moore bragged that HFCU / Sara DeLance and Carrie Allen sponsored Shamrock 5K
• Joan Watson bragged on Jim receiving top 3% of 85,000 agents, and both receiving 25^th anniversary as a Coldwell-Banker shop (turns out that includes 10 years of their predecessor’s time
• Bob Miller won 4’ tall Vermont Teddy Bear at the Business Expo
• George Ambrose bragged that Schuyler just finished Laramie Project for contest, and will be in Seusical
• Mark Price bragged on all three kids incredible skiing talent
• Bates Childress bragged that men’s baseball & women’s softball are returning to CSJ in spring 2015
• Lou Scott told us about a $25 million tear down he saw listed in Florida
• Terry Moran explained the very cool ancestry of his St.. Patrick’s bowler
• Win Thomas bragged on his $4 green bow tie
• Joe Rodolfy is elated that he has received invitation to daughter’s UVM graduation

Announcements:

• Nick Carmolli – told a great story about how he had his name “irishized” on his 1979 trip to Ireland
• Dick Rohe – has raffle tickets and free lunch cards for prospective members
• Distrit Assembly on 4/5 – Brian, Joan, Stephanie are attending
• Board of Directors meeting moved to this Thursday at Hampton Inn

Raffle:  $1,049 in the big pot.  Jeff Chabot had winning ticket, but pulled king of hearts!

New Members (50^th & 51^st) inducted:

Kwame Dankwa

Sara DeLance

-       Congratulations!!!

We missed you: Amanda Beraldi, Nancy Burzon, Jason Cable, Tom Donahue, Jack Facey, Kate Fox, Jared Galster, Barb Giancola, Elias Hajj, Joyce Hottenstein, Caprice Hover, Marianne Kennedy, Chris Keyser, Hull Maynard, Stephanie Osgood, Krista Scarborough, Dom Serino, Cale Shipman, Steve White and Wendy Wilton.