Volume 13 No. 35
March 5, 2008

The Rotary Club of Arlington
P.O. Box 23 Arlington, MA 02474

Club Website: http://arlrotary.org/
District: http://www.rotary7930.org/
International: http://rotary.org/

Newsletter Editor: newsletter-editor@arlrotary.org

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey

• 1770: In the Boston Massacre, British troops fire on a raucous mob, killing five Americans and wounding six. Among the victims is Crispus Attucks, a seaman of African American descent.
• 1897: The American Negro Academy is formed.
• 1922: Annie Oakley shoots 98 out of 100 clay pigeons, breaking the existing women's trap-shooting record.
• 1946: Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, declares that “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the
• 1956: The motion picture King Kong is shown on television for the first time.

Present Today: Davidw, Brian, Daveg, Stacey, Carolyn, Natercia, Jessica, Betsey, Greg, Evan, Andy, Richard, Ken, Bill, Maryellen, Davidm, Mike
Missing and Missed: Evan, Tom, Marty, Steve, Sean, Laura, Kay, Fred, Paul, Mary Lou, Mark, Lynn
Senior Active Exempt (SAE): George, Frank, Leon
Visitor(s): Arnold Tarmy - Cambridge
Guest(s): None
Makeup(s): None

[ What follows is a summary of the March meetings for the record, for one reason or another your scribe seemed to be incapacitated or other wise engaged for two successive Wednesdays and the man of many parts Bill stepped up to the plate as usual. ]

Arnold Tarmy described an annual Cambridge Club Fundraiser called “Chalk on the Walk” to he held on May 3rd and 4th.

Church Street is closed and decorated by artists sponsored by Businesses and Individuals. Events are planned on both days.

$168 in spare change was our part of the $10,000 District Donation to Polio Plus.

Bill reports World Peace and Understanding Dinner a huge Success. Cultural Scholars from the Ambassadorial Scholar Program were also in attendance

Much discussion on “Pot of Gold Dinner Dance” all participated.

That's All Folks!