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is an excerpt from the Club's latest newsletter. For a
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Our permanent goal is to help
underprivileged children improve the quality of their lives.
Officers:
Gary Finlayson, President
Celeste Begley, Immediate Past President
Deedee O'Brien, President Elect
Charles Breen, Vice-President
Glenn Rogers, Secretary
Al DeLuca, Treasurer
Maria Consoli, Assistant Treasurer
The Kiwanis Club of
Greater
Lawrence
Internationally Recognized Distinguished
Club 2003-2004
Serving Greater Lawrence for Eighty-Six Years www.greaterlawrencekiwanis.org
P.O. Box 3068 Andover 01810
The Kiwanis
Weekly Newsletter
February
9, 2012
Kiwanis
is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world
one child and one community at a time.
Directors:
Michael DeLuca
Jeffrey Ferrante
Nick Forgione
Jef Kalil
Ed Kelley
Tony Sakowich
Jeffrey Shank
Thursday, February 23 Special meeting
to honor officers of the Methuen High School Key Club and students from
Lawrence High School, potential Key Clubbers there.
Tuesday, February 28 Board Meeting
Wednesday, March 14 Youth Summit at the Eagle
Tribune. Change
of date is in negotiation
Thursday, March 15 No Meeting; instead the annual joint meeting
with the Andover Rotary, breakfast, Friday March 16.
Wednesday, March 21 Fabulous Feast
Al DeLuca
reinforced the need for additional raffle items . We have about
eighty pledged but another forty are needed to have a successful
event. Opportunities do exist to buy and donate from a group of
sports memorabilia, always a hit. Contact Al for details and options.
Gift certificates and similar donations are also one of your options if
you have not found something already. Each member should be donating
something through these means. Al is the collector.
Dr. Roy_Bornstein drew the eight of spades, inadvertantly,
but graciously saving the raffle pot for a more fortunate drawer later.
Dr. Carolyn
Roy-Bornstein spoke about the effect of a traumatic brain injury
upon her son, with general conclusions about the ramifications for
similar injuries in general.
Her son was struck by a drunken driver's car while walking with his girl friend. She was killed.
Dr. Roy-Bornstein was devasted and suffered too during the long
recovery period of her son. She went throuhg a period of grief and
then gratitude for recovery. There was intense struggle for both her
son and her.
She challenged the members to think of one thing you can do today to avoid brain injury.
She is chari of the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts. Their objectives are to educate and network.
Andriolo,
Joseph
Arenella, Brian
Begley, Celeste, * Bennett, Dan
Benson, B. Clark
Bride, William T.,Jr.,*
Breen, Charles
Carroll, John H., Jr.,*
Clark, Robert, ***
Consoli, Maria
Daly, Camille, **
DeLuca, Al, * (Lifetime Membership)
DeLuca, Michael R.
DeLuca, William P., Jr.
DeLuca, William P., III
Doherty, James D., Jr. (Jay), *
Members:
Fahey, Mary Beth
Farese, Susan K.
Fater, Neil
Felter, Timothy L. * Feltz, Michael
Ferrante, Jeffrey
Finlayson, Gary, President
Firth, Linda
Forgione, Nicholas
Gammon, Norma, * Guenard, Terri
Hart, Ed, *
Helman, Michael, * Kalil, Jef
Kelley, Ed
Kenneally, Frank
Louis, David
Major, Brian
* Past President
** Past Distinguished President
*** Past Distinguished Secretary
**** Past Lieutenant Governor
***** Past Distinguished Lieutenant Governor; Hixson Fellow
McClellan, Steve
McLay, John J., * O’Brien, Mary-Elizabeth “DeeDee”
O’Donoghue, Mary T., *
Pierce, Michael R., *
Ritchie, Jane M., * *
Rogers, Glenn, * *****
Roy, Brother Rene D.
Sakowich, Anthony, *
Seeley, Earle B. “Buzz”
Shank, Jeffrey, *
Shattuck, Charles A., *
Stapinski, Stephen E., *
Sullivan, Timothy, *
Tucker, Michael
Viehmann, Norman
Wilson, David, *
“The Objects of Kiwanis International”
1.To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather
than the material values of life.
2.To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in
all human relationships
3.To promote the adoption and the application of
higher social, business, and professional standards.
4.To develop, by precept and example, a more
intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
5.To provide, though Kiwanis clubs, a practical means
to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to
build better communities.
6.To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound
public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of
righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
