The Spokesman - Archive  Jun 8, 2007

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 Spokesman Sponsor:   TOM BURTON - HAMPDEN BANK

June is Rotary Friendship Month

JUNE 8, 2007

KEVIN O'HARA, THE DONKEYMAN

Kevin O'Hara comes to us highly recommended by Janet Edwards of Edwards Books.  Kevin is the Pittsfield author of Last of the Donkey Pilgrims, a memoir of this Vietnam vet's unusual way of touring his ancestral home of Ireland----by the age-old method of traveling by donkey cart with Missy, his faithful donkey.  Kevin's 1,800-mile trek around the whole of Ireland introduced him to some incredible characters, allowed him to experience the Irish in all their glory, and. . . best of all, find himself.  Janet Edwards promises to have copies of Kevin's book available for purchase.  An autographed gift of storytelling and a bit of Irish fantasy---a good read and/or a perfect Father's Day gift! 

Plus new feature:  TOAST OF THE TOWN

At the June 8th meeting, Springfield Rotary Club will be toasting a club somewhere in the

world as a way of continuing the gesture by the Mudgee Australia Club who toasted Springfield

on March 2, 2007.  This new quarterly feature is being introduced by member Destiny Dudley, our own special International Outreach Coordinator!  Thanks to the efforts of Destiny, this promises to be a fun event.

JUNE 15, 2007

TIM GEARY, MASS LIVE

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SERVICE FUND PRESENTATION

A HAPPY JUNE BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING ROTARIANS

                       June 10  -  Carol Harris                                June 24  -  Fannie Lin

                       June 13  -  Lee V. D. Schermerhorn             June 25  -  Bill A. Collins

                       June 19  -  Ray Fontana                               

ADDITIONAL CLUB NEWS:

Best wishes to Steve Clay who has taken up residence on the Cape and transferred to the Falmouth Rotary Club. 

Thanks to Jane Lawrence and the Program Committee for their consistent efforts in securing excellent speakers and guests during the past club year.  Many  have commented on the extraordinary variety and quality of these programs.  Congratulations on a job well done!

Congratulations to members Doug Macmillan and Bill Low.  Complete with pictures, their expertise in commercial real estate was featured in the May 28th Business West.   

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 21 - Thursday - Tentative evening combined "old" and "new" Board Meeting. 

June 22 - Club meeting: - Program to be announced

June 23 - Springfield Rotary sends 5 sophomores to RYLA ropes course and leadership training

June 29 - Meeting - Changing of the Guard

FROM THE ARCHIVES:  The Spokesman - May 28, 1941:  For many months the Rotarians and Rotary Anns of Durban, South Africa, have carried on an unpublicized but arduous job of housing and caring for 2,000 or more evacuee women and children from the Near and Middle East, who are to be quartered there and along the Natal Coast for the duration of the war.