Meeting of May 25, 2016
5/25 Rotary Meeting:
Please send your list for the Annual Fund Drive to Ric Flood (ric.flood@comcast.net). If anyone needs an excel spreadsheet for the annual find drive please email President Trafton (traftonmc@gmavt.net).
Guests included Pam & Joel Van Vlandren (prospective members), Susan Brown, and Alan Bates brought his daughter.
Our Rotary Club's facebook page had a 7000% increase in facebook interaction compared to the previous week.
Chris Davis announced that the CVU Unified Basketball Team (co-ed varsity and special needs players) won the state tournament.
Sam Feitelberg announced there will be a Memorial Day event at the Veteran's Memorial at 11am.
Susan Grimes clarified that she is not retired. She is a dentist and had to rush off to work following the meeting.
There is no meeting on June 15th.
Our speakers this week spoke about the upcoming potential consolidation of CSSU (Act 46). Their bios are below:
Bob Mason:
Bob Mason currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer for Chittenden South Supervisory Union, a position he has held for the last 13 years. Prior to that he served as both Board Member and Board Chair for CSSU and CVU. Previously he served as a senior manager in both Goodrich Aerospace and General Electric. Bob and his wife Anne raised four wonderful children in Shelburne, all graduates of Champlain Valley Union.
Dave Connery:
Dave Connery currently serves as Board Chair for both the Chittenden South Supervisory Union and the Shelburne School District. He is a mechanical engineer and triathlon coach, and a graduate of UVM. Currently working for Burton Snowboards, living in Shelburne with his wife and two elementary age kids.
Mark McDermott:
Mark McDermott currently serves as the Board Chair for the Charlotte School District. He is a graduate of Northeastern University and Boston College Law School. Mark currently lives in Charlotte with his wife and two daughters.
Happy Fines:
Kris Engstrom: birds
Evan Webster: Colorado Columbine is blooming
Howard Seaver: is looking for a consciousness-raising advisor
Linda Gilbert: Colorado Columbine and male Scarlet Tanager.
Jane McKnight: vegetable garden
Susan Grimes: gardening
Jon Lowell: digging up garlic mustard
Alan Bates: daughter
Trafton: Blue Bird and asparagus
Chris Davis: Special Olympians
Barb Dozetos: relatives
Richard Fox: Middlebury College students who had a beer cheer on his front lawn
Charlie Kofman: Sam Feitelberg; good weather
Adam Bartsch: nice weather
Russ Blodgett: abundantly happy; scoot
Bill Root: Waldorf benefit gala last week
George Schiavone: table pool
Steve Dates: closing on house in two weeks
Denny Bowen: Pileated Woodpecker
Alan Hathaway: happy
Michael Clapp: birds around the house and Orioles
John Dupee: chicken dinner
Sam Feitelberg: birds on the feeder
Terry Kennaugh: humming bird fights; fox ate his rabbits
Susan Brown: deer eating berries; headed to Chicago for son's medical school graduation
Judy Christensen: too many bunnies
Roz Graham: back in town, newsletter, dogs caught a squirrel
Jim Donovan: back; garden; birds
Queen of hearts was drawn. Rollover.
Charlotte Shelburne Rotary President Trafton Crandall, left, with the book that will be presented to Hinesburg Library in the names of the May 25 speakers at Rotary, left to right, Shelburne School Board Chair Dave Connery, Chittenden South Supervisory Union Chief Operations Officer Bob Mason and Charlotte School Board Chair Mark McDermott.