The Spokesman - Archive  Jun 1, 2009

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SPOKESMAN SPONSOR:

PAUL HARRIS AWARDS DINNER

Save the date - October 1st at Chez Josef

SPEAKERS:

June 5 - Three members of the Group Study Exchange (GSE) team that went to Thailand in February: They will give the club a first hand account of their experiences in Thailand. The three members are A. Aileen Witkowski, Rotary Team Leader, a retired attorney and a member of the Putnam CT. Rotary Club.; Natasha Clark, Asst. Managing Editor of the Reminder Publications and Brett Gearing who was sponsored by the Springfield club. Brett is employed by Babson Capital Management LLC in Springfield MA and is Director of the firms Structural Credit Products and Investments Group.

June 12 - Dr. Anthony E. Wolf, nationally known clinical psychologist: His topic will be "How To Improve Relationships" based on his book "Why Can't You Shut Up." Dr. Wolf is a nationally known clinical psychologist with offices in Longmeadow, MA. He is a graduate of Columbia University and got his PhD in Clinical Psychology from City University in New York. Married, Dr. Wolf is the father of two grown children. He has written five books on parenting and numerous articles, which have appeared in such magazines as Child Magazine, Parents, and Family Circle. He also writes a weekly column for The Globe and Mail in Canada (the equivalent of USA Today). Other books he has written are Get Out of My Life But First Could you Drive Me and Cheryl To The Mall; The Secret of Parenting: How to Be in Charge of Today's Kid's ­ From Toddlers to Preteens Without Threats or Punishment; Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me: The Solution to Sibling Bickering.

BIRTHDAYS:

June 10 - Carol Harris June 13 - Lee Schermerhorn June 19 - Ray Fontana

June 22 - Debra Boronski-Burack June 24 - Fannie Lin June 25 - William A. Collins

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 19th - John Morse, Pres G&C Merriam
June 26th - Changing of the Guard

July 3rd - No meeting

July 9th -  Anthony Cignoli, Political Consultant (Summer Months - THURSDAY MEETINGS START)

FROM THE ARCHIVES:  From the April 3, 1953 meeting, " Mr. Greville of Cardiff, Wales, a lecturer on International Affairs who also served as a war crimes investigator in the British Army on the Rhine from 1947-1948, spoke and detailed that Turkey is a steady and good friend of the West, and that Israel will survive, somehow as a nation, and that if the West can find a solution to the problem of the poverty of the Arab world, we can win lasting support from the whole Middle East."