BRIARCLIFF MANOR ROTARY CLUB MEETING
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On May 22nd, in the year 1913, farmers Lester Howe and Henry Westin discover
Howe Caverns, when Howe stumbles into a gaping hole in the ground.
(“Look out for the big hole, Lester!”……“Henry, what ho----?”
AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION
“I am like a lonely man on a rainy day, who doesn’t know how to read.”
--My father on a very bad day.
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OPENING OF THE MEETING: Paul Rosen stepped in for the tardy President and opened our weekly meeting precisely at 12:17, to a lusty round of cheering and endless, thunderous applause.
THE OPENING CEREMONIES: The golden-throated Sy Yuter led us in singing our national anthem. Marie Fuesy stood front and center to pledge Allegiance to Our Flag. And Paul Rosen asked the Lord to forgive all our collective sins, if we promised to try harder.
PRESIDENT’S REMARKS AND MEMBERS’ INSIGHTFUL OBSERVATIONS:
President Fulfree, who had recently arrived (he was held up by a traffic jam on the way in) announced the upcoming Board Meeting. The perky Sy Yuter rose to urge us all to march in the Memorial Day parade, holding our Rotary banner high. He also said that his son, Alan, would be in town with the grandchildren for his 35th High School Reunion. And Ernie reassured us that all was in order for our yearly Installation Dinner at Amalfi’s
NEXT WEEK: Our speaker next week will be Mark Seiden, who will speak to us, entertainingly, on the upcoming Rotary Year.
THIS WEEK’S SPEAKER: Our speaker today was Don Wilde, who had been asked to bring us up-to-date on the mating habits of the ostrich. After extensive research, Mr. Wilde concluded that ostrich-sex was very, very boring and quickly switched topics, choosing to enlighten us about a comparison between life for the Scythians and Pazytakians in 500 BC and life for most of us in Briarcliff Manor in 2009.
Mr.Wilde would have done better had he stayed with the ostrich
5/22 Attendance - Frances Chu, Etrusca Cosentino, Zachary Cosentino, Zeneth Eidel, Rodney Ertischek, Marie Fuesy, Peter Fulfree, Peter Garth, John Herzog, Rachel Leihbacher, Shelley Lotter, Ernest Pacchiana, Paul Rosen, Donald Wilde, Elinor Yuter, Sy Yuter
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