Volume 13 No. 26
January 2, 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

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
Miguel de Cervantes

1492: The Spanish forces of King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I take the province of Granada from the Moors. 1788: Georgia is the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1959: The Soviets launch Luna I, the first spacecraft bound for the moon. 1972: Radio and television advertising of cigarettes ends as a result of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress.

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

As you all know by now, our new website is wiki, which means it can easily be added to or corrected by anyone who knows how. For those of you who may find this feature useful Andy has arranged to have a meeting at his office at The Fish Window Company 26 Dudley Street (off Grove Street opposite Public Works Dept.) on Monday January 14th at 7:00 PM. Marty will teach us how. So far Andy, Richard, Jessica will attend. You may find this a useful skill if you wish to notify the members of and upcoming event or to communicate with them for any reason.

Andy Reports and Ken confirms that we have a reservation at the Sons of Italy on Friday March 14th at 7:00 PM for our 2nd Annual “Pot 'O' Gold' Dinner Dance and its time to get going on the planning.

Ken Reports no answers yet for from the Scholarship winners.

Bill reports the District had articles printed in the Advocate on two successive weeks on the subject of the Group Study Exchange. The article mentioned the District chairperson but no one locally.

Andy mentioned receiving an email from RI President Wilfred J Wilkinson Promoting the Ambassadorial Scholar Program. Andy will endeavor to get it published in the advocate.

That's All Folks

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. However, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zookeeper grabs him and drags him into his office.

The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly. The keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.

The next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he gets bored just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zookeeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction as a gorilla. Well, this goes on for some time. The mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind.

Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, “Help, Help me!”, but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?”