Rotary Meeting – 10/6/2021
  • 7:15 am – meeting brought to order
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Thanks to this week’s Greeter, Josh Goldberg
  • Next week’s Greeter – Staci Leffel
  • No Guests
  • This week’s scribe: Josh Goldberg
  • Next week’s scribe (10/13): Damon Kindopp (has been replaced)
  • Sergeant at Arms: Will Shakespeare
  • Sergeant at Arms next week (10/13) – Dan Dietz, Jon Secrest
  • Speaker List – Jim Maxwell 10/6, Staci Leffel 10/13
  • Kevin did his ‘Hump Day’ announcement
  • Rotary Minute
    • Are you aware of the responsibility or obligation most Rotarians fail to perform?  Paying their dues?  Attending meetings?  Contributing to the club service fund?  Participating in club events and projects?  No – none of these!  Of all the obligations a person accepts when joining a Rotary club, the one in which most Rotarians fail is “sharing Rotary”.  The policies of Rotary International clearly affirm that every individual Rotarian has an “obligation to share Rotary with others and to help extend Rotary through proposing qualified persons for Rotary Club membership.”  It is estimated that less than 30 percent of the members of most Rotary clubs have never made the effort to propose a new member.  Thus in every club, there are many Rotarians who readily accept the pleasures of being a Rotarian without ever sharing that privilege with another qualified individual.
    • The Rotary policy on club membership states: “In order for a Rotary club to be fully relevant to its community and responsive to the needs  of those in the community, it is important and necessary that the club include in its membership all fully qualified prospective members located within its territory”.  One merely has to glance through the yellow pages of the local telephone directory to realize that most clubs have not invited qualified members of all businesses and professions into Rotary.  Only a Rotarian may propose a customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate, professional or other qualified person to join a Rotary club.  Have you accepted your obligation to share Rotary?  The procedures are very simple, and everyone must know at least one person who should below to Rotary.  As we way in Rotary “Each one, bring one!”.
  • Quote: “Rotary’s strength lies in the sincerity of the purpose of its members” Estes Snedecor
  • Anniversary
    • Deb Rosensweig, 5 years on October 5th
  • Birthdays – no birthdays
  • Announcements
    • Mona - Board meeting on 10/7
    • Mona - Rotary invite to dinner for the Moving Wall volunteers at the American Legion, October 12th, 5 pm, bring your spouse.
    • Mona - Overflow meal is next Thursday (10/14), stew, chowder, soup.
      • Drop off for food is 5:30 – 6:00 pm
      • Decision was made to drop off food, instead of serve it
    • Toni Ciampaglione - Six student Rotarians (2 from Hinsdale, 2 from Bratt, 2 from Career Center
      • Coming on 10/20, with teacher, as many meeting attendees as possible please!!
    • Staci Leffel - Trivia coming again, Monday October 11th
    • Rotary Scramble and Tournament went great!
      • $11k raised to split between Sunrise and Noontime clubs
      • Edward Jones accepted the 1st place award for winning their category in the Scramble (Nick Dubois and son)
      • Nick would like to do more promotions, got 7000 hits on the Tournament posts on Facebook.  Will continue to do this, and urges membership to like, and share these posts to increase Sunrise Rotary event exposure
    • Tristam Johnson
      • Elaine won the quilt to fund the Pine Ridge truck engine replacement,  $1180 raised!
    • Katja  Matthews –
      • Bulb planting at noon on Sunday 10/10 with Deb Rosenzweig
  • Brags
    • Jim Maxwell – road trip with his wife Kay, trip to DC and Jersey.  Sadly were at Arlington for a funeral, also went to the Holocaust Museum.  Then off to Philadelphia to see more friends!  Retirement is Revival!
    • Marcy Caulkins – Halloween brag for her husband Dave doing all of the Halloween building to prep for their amazing Halloween decorations
    • Jon Secrest – Brag for a time when he fired on a nuke submarine from the decks of the Pride of Baltimore (wooden sailing ship), pretend rounds with gunpowder and newspaper.  Got a call from the submarine USS Maryland, asking for the two ships to meet for a photo op.  Fired cannons as a salute, and the submarine fired flares in response which came very close to catching the wooden ship on fire! 
    • Katja Matthews and Josh Traeger -
      • Announcing the next Boston to Bar Harbor walk.  $49 per person, which includes a t-shirt and medal.  Walk, run, row, swim, whatever.  All money raised goes to Vermont Food Bank.  Friday 10/8 is the start and deadline for signups.  750 miles for each person. 
      • https://runsignup.com/Race/Register/RaceGroup-1?raceId=114470
    • Nick Dubois – brag for the Red Sox!!
  • Cards
    • Ace of clubs was drawn - $15 in winnings – the card is IN THE DECK!
  • Speaker
    • Jim Maxwell spoke of his role in teaching acting -
      • Teaching acting is a passion.  Has an MFA in acting from Penn State (72-75).  Had three teachers that learned from Sanford Meissner, of the ‘Meissner Technique’.  Definition of acting: “Truthful behavior in imaginary circumstances”  Performance is similar to a standup comedian (for example), so putting on a show is the focus.  Acting is being truthful to the character and play, leaving reactions to the audience.
      • What is truthful behavior?  Went to Russia to learn from Constantine Stanislavsky, who tried to dig into what was going on inside an actor.  This led to a new realism in acting, rather than overacting.  Strasbourg had ‘the Method’ out of the Actors Studio. 
      • When your acting is ‘truthful doing’, the emotion follows naturally.  In Jim’s workshops, actors do things, with feedback on whether they are doing it naturally or truthful.
      • Also teaching how to ‘be in the moment’ with your cast members, so you react to what behaviors are coming from the other actors, to bring out the behaviors in yourself.
      • Yin/Yang improv to learn how scenes work-
        • 1 person in ‘the room’ (Yang) doing something independently, alone, urgently
        • Next actor comes (Yin) who has a life/death need for something from Yang.  Yang also has an agenda and a pastime.  A relationship is determined in advance before Yin comes in the room. 
        • The improv results from these characters interacting.
        • Not knowing what to do is actually part of the exercise.
      • Very vulnerable for students, so the teacher helps create a safe space for that moment.
      • Thanks for sharing, Jim!!
  • 4 Way Test
    • Is it the Truth?
    • Is it fair to all concerned?
    • Will it bring goodwill and better friendships?
    • Will it be beneficial to all concerned?