Volume 13 No. 24
December 19, 2007

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

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree – they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion

1776: Thomas Paine publishes the first installment of The American Crisis.
1777: The Continental Army under General George Washington enters its winter camp at Valley Forge, twenty miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1950: U.S. President Harry S. Truman names General Dwight D. Eisenhower to command the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces.
1975: The Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself computer kit, goes on sale for $397.
1984: Britain formally agrees to return Hong Kong to China after 99 years under British rule.

Present Today: Brian, Carolyn, Davew, Davidg, Betsey, Stacey, Maryellen, Greg, Jessica, Evan, Bill, Andy, Richard, Ken, Steve, Marty
Missing and Missed: Natercia, Davem, Laura, Tom, Kay, Sean, Mike, Fred, Paul, Mary Lou, Mark, Lynn
Senior Active Exempt (SAE): George, Frank, Leon
Makeup(s): None
Guest(s): None
Visitor(s): Dan O'Neil – Cambridge

Our visitor Dan O' Neil in his Salvation Army Mode thanked us for our efforts “ringing the bell” at Walgreen's on Saturday. He delivered a very well done CD of Christmas Music titled “Christmas in Brass” by various nation wide and the “International Staff Band” Salvation Army Bands to the Bell Ringers. Dan reports the Kettle yielded $340 Dollars on our watch.

Carolyn Reports the Goodie Bags were very well received at Thanksgiving and the Interact Christmas project was candygrams. She didn't elaborate and I still don't know what candygrams are and what they did with them. (more later)

The Speaker today was Dr. Joseph Green of the American Friends Service Committee his subject was Foreign Policy & Consequences.