Newsletter - Archive  Dec 8, 2009

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Volume #2	Date December 8, 2009	Issue #23

Our Next Program:  Club Assembly

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Wil Backus from Germany  joined us once again after hunting us

               down in our new location. Will spent Thanksgiving with his children in New Hampshire

               but is returning this week to Germany with his wife

         ~ Guests:  Karol Gooch

         ~ News:  A great turnout to support the refreshments at the Christmas parade.

                     Thank you all. We had several family members join us as well and it was

                     great to have them there. The weather cooperated by adding a touch of

                    snow and enough of a chill to make Jeff Furbish's great cocoa very much

                    appreciated. We also got Peter Robinson his (first?) newspaper interview

                    and mention in the Portsmouth Herald. A great hand off, if your editor does

                     say so! I did get him a cup of cocoa so he would not freeze up while being

                     interviewed. Both the reporter and my relatives who were with me commented

                     on how everyone seemed to know each other in the crowd and as they came

                     to the refreshment table ~ a great community gathering.

 P-E Russ went right from leading the parade in to   Tom Rines joined  his wife Pauli, with Joyce,

       serving hot cocoa                                           Bill & Russ, handing out cookies and manning

                                                                           the pitchers

   Jeff Furbish once again brewed gallons of                  Ellen's family also joined right in!

                       great Cocoa

             The Christmas Cabaret at Kittery Estates on Sunday was a wonderful time

             and a great success. The event was near to sold out  and everyone had a delightful

              time. Our great thanks to the staff of Kittery Estates who did a tremendous job serving

              and making everyone comfortable. The Bodacious Babes were great fun and the food

              was excellant.

A great gathering, a lot of the club and their families turned out

The Bodacious Babes were dynamic and fun

 Meeting Program:  .

             Your newsletter editor took the Club on a journey up the Nile from Alexandria on

          the Mediteranean to Abul Simbel near the Sudanese border. The appearance of "Sheik

          Rattle & Roll " (so dubbed by a fellow travelor at the time) at the Recreation Center

          Halloween party had prompted interest in seeing a little of Egypt. So we went from

          catacombs to pyramids, camels to feluccas. Down into the crypts of the Valley of the

          Kings and south to the Aswan High Dam and the 500 mile Lake Nassar and the temple

          reclamation projects that were needed to save some of the 5000 year old temples

                                                  Step Pyramid of Sakkara, predecessor of the Great

                                                           Pyramids of Giza

Approaching Abu Simbel from the air

Internet photos:the moving of the temples of        Model showing where the temple was before

Abu Simbel                                                   Lake Nassar was created, the project was one of the

                                                                   great engineering feats of the 1960's

"Getting on a camel is free, getting off a camel      Dave, Karol & Wil

   costs $$"

     50-50 Raffle

            (50% of the pot goes for club administration and 50% goes to the lucky individual if their       

          raffle ticket is chosen and they select the one joker hidden in the ever-decreasing deck of

          cards. If the joker is not drawn then the pot rolls over to the next week).

                    Karol Gooch won the raffle but drew the Ace of Clubs and lost $52.50.

         Joyce was rooting for a quick finish to the new Yankees deck, Obie is hoping it goes

         for another 50 weeks!

Upcoming Programs: 

                  December 15 ~ Club Assembly, Bring in gifts and food for Kittery

                                           Holiday Baskets

                  December 17 ~ The Club sponsored Red Cross Blood Drive. We need

                                           volunteers and donors. 12 noon to 6 pm

                  December 22 ~ Christmas program

                  December 29 ~ No meeting

Birthdays:  December 24 - Bill, December 27 ~ Russ, December 30 ~ Dee and Jeff

Upcoming Greeters. Making sure no one feels like a stranger here:

             December 8 and 15 ~  Allen & Ellen

Club Reminders:

                Happy/Sad Dollars on Student of the Month meetings goes to fund

                  our Third Grade Dictionary Project

                Happy/Sad dollars for the other meetings this quarter go to Kittery Holiday Baskets

Do not forget to regularly check the calendar of our Web Site for long term schedules and the photo Album for updates on our Program pictures and Activity pictures.