Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge. Rosane talked about the success of the Southampton Breakers baseball game that took place on Wednesday. We dropped off a vegetable hero that was left over to Heart of the Hamptons. James talked about the 8k race and the success and things that need to be improved upon. We will be working on getting our 2nd pole installed at Bridgehampton High School. Rosane brought Mary up to give out the charter for the Interact Club for Bridgehampton. The club agreed to donat $500 to the rescue effort in Texas. Mary was our sargeant, Ed D wins the 50/50. A group of cats is a clouder. A sentence that uses all of the letters is called a pangram. Salt was used as currency in ancient Rome. A group of pugs is called a grumble. Bubble wrap was originally meant to as wall paper. Our program did not show up.
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Rosane rings the bell for the first time in 2025, we started with the pledge and the prayer. Rosane announced the rotary theme for this year "Unite for Good" . Joan was here to have lunch with us. We talked about our upcoming sponsorship for Hamptons' Collegiate Baseball. Get in touch with Rosane or myself. We will be serving food at Southampton High School around 6pm. The game starts at 4pm. James talked about the race and passed around the sign up list again. Lynda read a thank you note sent my scholarship winner Jillian Switocha. Beau made an announcement for Fresh Air Home, scheduled for August 14th. They have clowns, and magicians. Joy was given her award for her work with the Holiday Party and Day of Service. NSFD is having their carnival this weekend. Karen Acker wins the 50/50. Joy gave happy dollars for 50 years at Sun River Health. Ed gave happy dollars for 55 years as a rotarian. Rosane also talked about getting the peace poles at the schools. Charlie McArdle, the superintendant of highways for Town of Southampton was our program. It was wonderful to listen to his trial and error method of addressing the problems with our traffic. Unfortunately there's not much that he has control over. It was great to listen to Charlie who has a lot of experience and has a practical approach to his job.
I was excited to get an email about the Southampton Breakers Game and to get it on the schedule for July 9th. This day the Breakers would take on the North Fork Ospreys. After a little bit of deliberation we decided to get food from Sean's Place. We purchased chips and snacks off of Amazon. We also bought water's from Peconic Beverage, and ice from 7-11 and Stop N Shop. We also purchased a cooler from West Marine. We drove two cars onto the field getting the ok first from Southampton High School. We used Paul's car as a refrigerator to keep the food cold. We set up a tent behind the visitors dugout , setup the tables in L formation and served the players around 7pm. I brought my speaker to play for music . Very fun day, the announcer came by to say thank you. Everyone was very appreciative. And the Breakers ended up beating the Ospreys. I watched a little of the game, but it was hard to see with the dugout in the way. The sacrifices that these college players make for our entertainment, is very inspiring.
It was a perfect day for a Southampton 4th of July Parade. The Interact Students tossed out 250 frisbees with the Rotary Wheel on them in the first 15 minutes!! Such an awesome time spent with these young and energetic “Future Rotarians”! Thank you to the Southampton and Bridgehampton Students for making this a memorable parade!! #southamptonrotary #Rotary #Interactclubs
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Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge. James made announcement for the 8k. Please sign up to help out on July 6th, we start at 7:30am. Plenty of ways to help us out. You can see James or you can use the online sign up sheet here. Link works only if your signed into Clubrunner. We had a few suggestions to make the race an easier day. Paul spoke about collecting money, Paul is the new treasurer for the upcoming Rotary year. There is a upcoming bill that he's getting ready for and we are encouraging everyone who has not paid their Rotary Dues for the upcoming year to please do so. If you have a past due, you should take care of that also. You can still mail checks to the PO box 1211, Southampton , NY 11968. You can also use the Zeffy link on our website and here. Rosane spoke about our upcoming volunteer effort for the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball which is on July 9th. If your interested in participating, we have discussed renting a BBQ grill and doing a cookout or having premade sandwiches what we decide to do will be based on participation. Please let us know if you would like to help. Mary Kelly was our seargent and Karen Acker won the 50/50. We learned that high heels is banned in Venice. It's illegal to own just one guinnea pig in Switzerland. Memory foam was invented by NASA. We also talked about failed inventions. Our program was Christine Sampson from LTV. She talked about her non-profit where they have 5 studios available . They are currently fundraising to earn money to replace their roof. They are located on the local channel 20. They not only post on their TV channel but on youtube, facebook, and instagram. They host internships for high school and college. It was interesting to learn more about what they do and their impact on the community of Southampton, and East Hampton. LTV was presented a check for $250
Our meeting began with cocktails at 5:30pm. The mood was set to classical music provided by Hamptons DJ, at Laurie's request. Laurie rang the bell, we did the prayer and the pledge. Paul introduced Laurie. Laurie presented our awards with Academy Theme music, and a red carpet. We had a few Rotary dignitaries present Tom Crowley, Lydia Wells, Pamela Greene. Laurie gave a Paul Harris Fellow to John Larkin. Tom Crowley said some nice words about Rosane. Rosane and Paul presesented the new plaques for the Past Presidents. Paul received a Paul Harris Fellow, and the Rotarian of the Year for 2025. Lydia did the oath of office to Rosane, and the officers. We presented a slide show that the Opening Act created. There was tremendous effort from Rosane, Laurie, and Paul to bring together this special day and I told Mom on Monday. We throw a great party and she agreed with me. Look below for the photo gallery
Paul is on vacation this week, so things are not as they should be……….the meeting started with the pledge and the prayer. Laurie welcomed all the Senior Students from Southampton and Bridgehampton with Mary Kelly and Nick Dyno assisting. We had 3 Students who needed to leave early to be back in time for test-taking. Karen Acker was Sergeant. The day was named Rose Day, and Karen gave each Student a rose after asking them a question. Roy Wines Sr was in attendance and gave $100 happy dollars that his granddaughter was awarded one of the Rotary College Scholarships. He stated he’s been a member of the Southampton Rotary for 50 years, and 25 years ago was President of the Club. What an honor to have him with us this day. The 50/50 was won by Alexis and the Jack of hearts is still in the deck!! We honored each of the remaining Students with their certificates, and a group photo was taken. There were many happy dollars flying to acknowledge the students and their accomplishments. We are very proud to support such amazing students with scholarships. These Scholarship Luncheons always give us a great feeling of contributing to our promising youths.
The Winners Are: Anabella Arnold, Mia Arnold, Savannah Frankenbach, Kate Johnston, Travis Kreymborg, Shaye Meaney, Cassidy Phillips, Jillian Swiatocha, Emma Vail, Avery McCleland, Evelyn Hanley, Aiyanna Spears
We had guests Suzane & Oliver visiting us from Germany. We had another guest Justin from M&T bank. Travis was our sargent. Tom Guldi wins. It was National Ketchup Day. Travis talked about Hamptons Community Outreach and how they are having a donor matching month in June. You can visit here to donate.
This is a list of our students of the month
Honoring Southampton
Opening Act- Feb- Claudia Vitiello, April Nyah King, May- Koda Crowell
Early Act- April - Lianeth Rojas Ramos, May Evan Halsey
Interact- April- Mia Arnold, May Anabella Arnold
Bridgehampton Interact - April- Indya Cherry May- Ian Brabo
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Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge. We enjoyed ham and fried potatoes for lunch. Joy had a guest, Yabel who is hosting a gallery on Jobs Lane. James G made an announcement for the 8k race. Sign up sheets are up online if you want to register, we will be passing a sign in sheet shortly. If your interested in purchasing tickets or sponsoring those links are up on our website. Tom Guldi was our sargeant and Joy won the 50/50. Happy to let everyone know that the Pope was made in America. A palindrome is a word, phrase, or number thatreads the same backwards as forward. Beau is a ham. This day in history in 1953 climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest. JFK was born. Bing Crosby wrote White Christmas, written by Irvine Berlin. Our program was Aiyanna Smith, from Blossom Sustainable Development. A former Southampton Rotary Scholarship winner, Aiyanna's focus of her organization involves attention to substance abuse. Something she came interested in through her time living on the reservation. The goal is complete rehabilitation, and recovery. They adopted an online program Path to Peace which focuses on acheiving peace holistically. Her goal was to help her people and other traveling communities and hopes to reach a national level someday. It was wonderful to have Aiyanna in for our rotary session and we wish her the best with her organization's journey. More info can be found here
Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge. Paul Henneforth won the Jack of Hearts raffle taking home $316. Seamus made an announcement for Spaghetti Dinner, THIS MONDAY. Please fill out the volunteer sheet if your interested in helping out that day. Rosane asked for additional money to help fund additional scholarships . She also informed the club about the lack of participation in the student clubs. We will now be giving away 12 @$2000, 9 for Southampton, 3 for Bridgehampton. Travis has collected 30 spaghetti dinner tickets for Hamptons Community Outreach. Anyone interested in donating more tickets let us know. Day of Service will happen this Saturday at 11am at Southampton Volunteer Ambulance. Back in Action, Sargeant Karen Acker took to the rotary stage. Vicki won the 50/50 . This day in history Madam Albright died, It was National Choclate Chip Cookie Day and they were delicious. Mickey Mouse made his first appearence in Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willy. Our program was Tajea Anderson from the Town of Southampton. She talked about light pollution and ways to minimize the effects. Lights off at 10pm. Make sure you have the correct lights installed outside. Additional info can be found on the web here
