Linda Cargiuolo President
Jacquelin Apsler Pres.-Elect
Marc Hamilton Secretary
Joel Berenson Treasurer
Melinda Nicholson Asst. Treasurer
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It’s Winter: It is Tuesday, it is snowing, is there Rotary? How do I know? As it turns out we have a fool-proof way of knowing if our Bedford Rotary Club is meeting. Listen to the radio or watch the TV. If there is no school in Bedford, there is no Rotary meeting in Bedford. If there is school in Bedford, there is a Rotary meeting in Bedford!
Calendar:Jan 10Alison Cservenschi current chair of Bedford’s Council on Aging (COA) will talk about her goals and aspirations for the organization.
Jan 10Board of Directors meeting. 6:00 PM
Jan 17Joel Berenson will talk about major tax changes forthcoming in 2017
Jan 24Sher Vogel will be with us to discuss her work with the International Development Innovation Network.
Jan 31Our debriefing on the Breakfast with Santa held in December.
Feb 119:00-11:00 Pre Pets meeting in Waltham for President-elect’s
Mar 09March 9th to 11th is Pets training in Framingham for President-elect’s
Apr 04District Assembly training for all club officers and anyone wanting to learn more about Rotary
2017 – 2018 Officers: The Nominating Committee was hard at work this fall and has come up with a slate of officers for the 2017-2018 Rotary Year. Being duly posted the committee presented their slate of officers to the club last week and it was approved unanimously by all those present at the meeting. The slate consists of:
Rotary Club of Bedford Officers / Rotary Foundation OfficersPresident – Jacquelin Apsler / Chair – Linda Cargiuolo
President-Elect – Debi Malone / Club President – Jacquelin Apsler
Secretary – Marc Hamilton / Treasurer – Joel Berenson
Treasurer – Joel Berenson / Trustee 1st year – Rebecca Neale
Director 1st year – Wayne Newman / Trustee 1st year – Cliff Rober
Director 1st year – Bopha Malone / Trustee 2nd year – Joe Silva
Director 2nd year – Britton Wilson / Trustee 2nd year – Victor Tom
Director 2nd year – Bob Cassidy
The International flare of Rotary visits Bedford:We have been quite the international club for the past few weeks. Today we welcomed our newest member Nicole Lang to our club. Nicole is actually a transfer to our club from a Rotary Club in Azerbaijan. We also had a visiting Rotarian Rochelle Wilkinson from the Bahamas (she also won the door prize). Another visitor and guest presenter was Melissa Landman, a student at the University of Delaware, gave us a presentation on her project in UbujanInabanga Philippines (for details see “Engineers Without Borders” below). We also had our speaker Shelby Marshall talking about her club’s project in India. We rounded out our internationality with Ralph’s update on our own matching grant for children in Bamako Mali. Wow, that is quite a diverse gathering for our little club.
Engineers without Borders: Melissa Landman was one of Diana’s guests today took a few minutes to talk to us about her Engineers Without Boarders club project in Ubujan, Inabanga Philippines. The focus of the project is correcting the sanitation and polluted water problems in the country. The culprit is severe fecal coliform stemming from very poor sanitation issues which has infested the water supply. In normal engineering, the source of the fecal coliform, sanitation, would be solved first and then a treatment process installed to clean up the drinking water contamination. Unfortunately, the local inhabitants did not want to focus on the sanitation issue instead would only participate in cleaning up the water supply. To do so the group installed wells and a distribution system to about half of Ubujan. This project is now in the implementation stages including a treatment process to remove the fecal coliform from the well.
Telemedicine in Rural India: Shelby Marshall, incoming president of the Westborough Rotary Club talked to us about a matching grant her club is promoting. The project will happen in India about 40 to 50 miles from a medical facility. The grant will trainlocal health workers on basic medical procedures and will provide those trained healthcare technicians withinteractive computers/tablets that can transmit patients’ symptoms and vital statistics remotely to doctors at the medical facility. The doctors can thenprescribe the needed medications. The justification the Westborough club has put forth is that the location is quite rural with no doctors available to the residents, medical facilities are not readily available, and the population is scattered and very poor. However, during the question and answer period it was suggested that, given the proximity to a largecity in India with 300,000 residents and medical facilities, that the villagers involved might not be as impoverished and may have more resources than the average rural villager to access the city. But, if, in fact, the villagersare quite impoverished and have no access to the city or medical facilities, how will the prescriptions be filled or treatment rendered? Other questions that remained unanswered involved the sustainability of the project after the 6-year grant was completed;how the healthcare workers will be paid; and how the computer equipmentand software subscriptionswill be maintained, updated, and/or replaced once Rotary grant funding has ended.These questions need to be answered in greater detail if Westborough hopes to attract funding from other Rotary Clubs for this venture.
Raffles and Happy Dollars: Rochelle Wilkinson (our visiting Rotarian from Nassau) won the door prize and Nicole’s husband won a shot at the 50/50 raffle. Jessica was happy just for today, Debi was happy for a great trip to Virginia and that all five dogs got along, Nicole was happy to have found a new Rotary home, Britton was happy to bring us greetings from one of our former presidents (Ginny Clerkin), Marc was happy 2016 is gone and 2017 has arrived, Victor was happy his daughters and family were here to celebrate the holidays, Bob was happy Cliff has agreed to be the photographer for the bulletin, Cliff was happy his daughter provided a new pair of sneakers for Joe Silva, Diana was happy to have gotten a turntable for Christmas and is now happily playing all her records (records? What is a record?), Joel made a $40 contribution because his office has moved to Boston and he gets to work from home in Tuesdays and can attend more Rotary meetings, Kevin is happy because his two Chinese students are back in school, Linda was happy to have been able to spend the holidays with all her family, Christine was happy to have seen 20+ pandas (wonder what that was about?),
The Four Way Test / Let’s Make Up!- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Tues / Chelmsford 12:15 p.m. Radisson Hotel; Maynard 6:15 p.m. Payton’s River’s EdgeReading 12:15 p.m. Peter Sanborn Place; Lexington 12:15 p.m. Waxy O’Connor’s
Clinton 12:15 p.m. The old Timers Restaurant; Hudson 6:00 p.m. Hudson Portuguese Club; Wellesley 6:30 p.m. Wellesley Community Center; Woburn 12:15 Holiday Inn Select Hotel; Billerica8:00 a.m. Stelio’s Family Restaurant ; Concord Sunrise 7:30 a.m. Colonial Inn / Wed
Thurs
Fri / Acton-Boxborough 12:15 p.m. Holiday Inn, Boxborough; Restaurant; N. Reading 12:15 Hillview Country Club; Waltham 12:15 p.m. The Chateau Restaurant; Wilmington 12:15 p.m.
Ayer 6:30 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant; Brookline 12:00 Holiday Inn; Burlington 7:30 a.m. Beckford’s; Concord 12:15 p.m. Colonial Inn; Marlboro 12:15 p.m. Coral Seafood; Westford 12:15 p.m. Westford Regency; Neshoba Valley 7:15 a.m. Great Brook Farm;
Burlington 12:15 p.m. Hilton Gardens; Littleton 7:30 a.m. Ken’s Cafe
PAST PRESIDENTS
1956‐57 Glenn Sims
1957‐58 E. Gottschalk
1958‐59 Ron Davis
1959‐60 John Bowen
1960‐61 George Doherty
1961‐62 Frank Hennessey
1962‐63 Robert Mead
1963‐64 Clifford Hughes
1964‐65 Fred Olson
1965‐66 J. Clive Enos
1966‐67 Nathaniel Brown
1967‐68 Donald Drew
1968‐69 Joseph Bruno
1969‐70 Ralph Collins
1970‐71 John Whalen
1971‐72 George Benson
1972‐73 Maurice Nolan
1973‐74 Pat Sciaraffa
1974‐75 Ed Moore
1975‐76 Ed Moore
1976‐77 Winston Bridge
1977‐78 “Syke” Bumann
1978‐79 Matt Tomassian
1979‐80 Peter Kilmartin
1980‐81 Lawrence Carlton
1981‐82 Paul C. Dick
1982‐83 David Valdina
1983‐84 Jack Wilson
1984‐85 Peter Corea
1985‐86 Robert A. Cassidy
1986‐87 Ottfried Weisz
1987‐88 Kenneth W. Luther
1988‐89 John B. Debaun
1989‐90 Kenneth R. Walcott
1990‐91 David J. Rossi
1991‐92 James W. Harrill
1992‐93 Peter Light
1993‐94 Norma A. Barton
1994‐95 Ralph M. Hammond
1995‐96 Holly A. Chaney
1996‐97 Milan W. Jackson
1997‐98 Gregory S. Symko
1998‐99 Florence A. Rossi
1999‐00 Robert M. Kennedy
2000‐01 Heidi A. Pusatere
2001‐02 David R. Hannum
2002‐03 Joel Berenson
2003‐04 William Waite
2004‐05 Meg Packenham
2005‐06 Susanna Natti
2006‐07 Terrence Parker
2007‐08 Lea Ann Knight
2008‐09 Virginia Clerkin
2009‐10 Victor Tom
2010‐11 Cliff Rober
2011-12 Christine Pinney
2012-13 Peter Colgan
2013-14 Robert A. Cassidy, Victor Tom, Margarita Kaliviotis
2014-15 Kevin Sullivan
2016-2017 Diana Jarvis