The Rotary Club of Ambler
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Vol. 81. Edition 35 March 1, 2005
Today’s Newsletter is being written by
the rookie-in-training; any negative comments should be directed to the
Editor-in-Chief of the Ambler Gazette…
MARCH 1 MEETING. Our
meeting was kicked off today with the Pledge, singing of “America”
and a prayer by barrister
Our Student of the Month award was presented
at the beginning of the meeting, by
Eileen
Tsui
President Tom thanked all who were
responsible for assisting in getting today’s meeting off to a rousing
start including one of our new members, Ed Howard, who did an outstanding job
as greeter.
George Carey was the butt of President
Tom’s joke about the “old man” in Home Depot, who lost his
wife. No, George did not find her.
Next were a series of announcements found in
church bulletins.
COMMUNITY IN CELEBRATION.
- Bill
Weir parted with a dollar to tell a story about
- Lamont
Satterly deposited a dollar to “defend his honor” in response
to Jim Caldwell’s “attack” on the Satterly
administration.
- Bob
King announced that it was his 51st birthday and his 16th
anniversary as an Ambler Rotarian.
Bob deposited $16. Is this “cherry
picking” or what? One would
have expected Bob to donate $51, eh?
- Bob
McDowell, in honor of his daughter’s 19th birthday
deposit $1.
- Steve
Pribis also was celebrating his 51st birthday but only blessed
us with $1. Well, Bob, I guess that
you’re not so cheap after all.
- Jim
Caldwell felt that $1 was a reasonable donation to publicize the up coming
play a
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
- The
Rotary Club of Willow Grove will presenting a “World-Class
Performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass at the Calvary
Presbyterian Church, 405 Easton Road, Willow Grove on March 9
and 10, 2006 beginning at 7:00 P.M. Call 215-784-9990 or 215-675-4000 for
tickets ($20)
- Her
Grace Landis was reminded us that our winter social will be held on March 16tth with
a la carte dinner at The Shanachie
followed by an evening of fun at Act II Playhouse to see “Syncopation” . Six tickets are still available. As Grace will not be in attendance for
the next two weeks, see
- The
Rotary Club of Allentown West will be holding their Thirteenth Annual
Charity Auction on Friday March 31,
2006 at the
- His “Royalness”, the Bob King reminded us that Walt
West will be running our annual Grand Club with Bob as his strong arm. This event raises $7,000, so let’s
each commit to selling or buying 10 tickets. Walt has been busy passing out
tickets. If you have not received
your tickets, please ask Walt to give them to you.
PROGRAM. (The following notes are provided by the Executive
Director of the Wissahickon Valley Public Library, A.K.A. David Roberts).
Today’s
speaker was Gene Klose accompanied by his colleague Maureen Gutkowski
of Compliance Training Partners, a company which specializes in sexual
harassment prevention training for small and medium-size businesses in the
greater Philadelphia area. Not
surprisingly, Mr. Klose strongly advocates that companies provide their staffs
with sexual harassment prevention training.
He explained that sexual harassment was defined as a form of work place
discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sanctions for such activities were established in the 1991 amendments to
the act. As a result, employers face the
risk of substantial judgments for activities about which they may not even be
aware. The two categories of sexual
harassment that Mr. Klose described are “quid pro quo” in which
employment benefits such as promotions or raises are offered in exchange for
sexual activity, and “hostile work environment” in which an
employee is made to feel uncomfortable as a result of sexual language,
innuendo, flirting, etc. As a result of
these situations, employers incur “vicarious liability” which
exposes them to law suits. Mr. Klose
said that a defense against such liability can be created by having a written
policy about sexual abuse, standard procedures for dealing with it, and a
process of promulgating this information to employees, and, of course, he
recommends staff training.
50-50. the
winner with the RED
tee and $420
was Jim Caldwell (no
photo is available as the newsletter photographer left early for a meeting in
Exton.
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UP-COMING PROGRAMS.
(Program Chair,
3-8
– Gerry Timlin, Irish History through its
music.
3-15 – Bill McAuliffe’s Irish Celebration
3-22
– Rob Croll, PA Fish Commission Update
3-29
– Steve Pribis and the Ambler Symphony
ASSIGNMENTS. (Chair,
Set-up/
Take-Down Prayer 50/50 Greeters
3-8 - Ervin Douglass Pribis Warner & Lawrence
3-15 - Faddis Geraldino Fleisher Gerhard & Regan
3-22 - Jablokov Kadel Holteen Graham & McGonagle
3-29 - Warner Jacoby Kim Kline & Blasko
A LETTER FROM MOTHER SATTERLY.
Dear President Murphy:
Imagine my surprise when I opened my latest
Rotary e-mail from E Fodder or Fallis, or whatever,
and saw my son’s name. I guess it
had something to do with a meeting you had a few weeks ago about the
presidents. Not Bush, I mean, but the
Rotary presidents. Anyway, there was his
name giving him some credit for a project that earned $65,000. As soon as I saw that I knew I had to write
to you because it was closer to $75,000 and I wanted to be sure that my son,
(he’s such a good boy) got the proper respect he deserves. After all, even though no one will say it out
loud, he was the best president ever.
It’s been a while since I wrote to
you, in fact, I think the last time I wrote anything it was to that
“Skip” fellow. And the only
reason I wrote then was because I was led to believe that your beloved
“Tie Contest” was fixed. I
happen to know that since I bought the tie my son wore. I’m sure he wore it because he said he
did. To my astonishment, he didn’t
win. But, as usual, it was that King
guy’s fault. I understand he
turned 51 years old this week….Judging by the old saying, "What you
don't know can't hurt you," he's practically invulnerable.
You probably wonder how I’ve been
doing these days. Well, thanks for
wondering. I turn 85 years old this year
– can you believe it? Just the
other day I was saying to my dear sister when we were downtown at the coffee
shop. “You know, my arms seem so
weak that I can hardly lift this cup of coffee.
I guess that’s what happens when your 85.” And she said that her eyes were so bad she
could barely see the cup to put her sugar in it. She’s 87 you know. Both of us have trouble with our legs when we
stand in line to get the damn coffee anyway.
But as I told her, “We really need to count our blessings since we
still can drive!”
I guess I got in trouble with a local
contractor recently. Last year just
before winter I had him put in some double insulated windows to help keep out
the cold. I admit they were expensive
but when the contractor called me to complain that I hadn’t paid for
them, it made my furious. I might be old
but I’m not dumb. I set him
straight real quick. “Look,”
I said, “the salesman who sold them to me said that in a year
they’ll pay for themselves.”
As I write to you today, it’s
snowing. And I have a real bone to pick
with the guy that drives the snow plow.
I think he waits up the street until the kids shovel out my driveway,
and then he come barreling down the street and pushes a huge pile of snow in my
driveway. It’s got to be on
purpose because that’s the kind of guy he is. And ugly, I see him staring out of the widow
the plow and it scares me to death. As
my dear momma used to say: he’s so
ugly that they used to put a pot roast in his lap so the dog would play with
him!”
Well, I have to close since it’s time
for The Young and the Restless. But I
heard that you have been attempting, President Murphy, to tell jokes at lunch
time. I also heard you’ve been
quite unsuccessful….so here one you can tell. I think it’s safe because it
doesn’t mention sex or politics.
A couple in their
80’s are having trouble remembering
things. They go to the doctor and he
tells them they need to write things down, but both of them resist it. One night they’re watching TV and the
husband gets up.
“Where are you going?” asks the
wife. “To the kitchen.” He says.
“Will you get me a bowl of ice
cream?” she asks him nicely.
“Sure,” he says.
“Will you remember that, “she
says, “Maybe you need to write it down.”
“No, I’ll remember it,” he
answers her.
“Well, I’d like some
strawberries on top of it.” She says, “Maybe you better write it
down so you can remember it.”
The old man says, “I can remember
that. You want a bowl of ice cream with
some strawberries on top.”
She adds, “I’d also like some
whipped cream on that. You better write
it down because I know you won’t remember that.”
He answers angrily, “I don’t
need to write it down. You want a bowl
of ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream on it.”
Grumbling, the man goes into the
kitchen. After about 20 minutes he
returns and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.
She stares at it for a minute and then looks
at him and says, “Where’s my
toast?”
Mother