Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  President Elect Rosane Cassella covered meeting duties for the absent Laurie W.   Tim Corwin made an annoucement for this Saturday's hike 10am-noon Meet at the kiosk on Sebonac Road 1/3 mile east of Tuckahoe School. Enjoy streams and vernal ponds, an incredible overlook across the bays and we hike to the shore of Big Fresh Pond.  Four miles of moderately hilly terrain. Leashed dogs welcome. Led by Tim Corwin.  Sean D who has been working on an print, radio, and newsletter campaign with all the rotary districts met with East Hampton and received approval.   We talked about how Sean can get in touch with the rest of the district.  I emailed a list to him on Thursday night to keep momentum going on this project.  The campaign will be about increasing membership in rotary. Dennis Lamb (new member prospect)  stood up and told us a little about what he does for a living, family life, etc.  We look forward to Dennis Lamb joining us in membership soon.  Rosane wins best dressed.  No Sargent?  Have no fear...Tom Guldi is here.  Tom really got the rotary members going and seemed to have a very easy time fining people.  We were excited to find out that Tim Corwin was in 27east this week, page A17 for a reconstructed pedestrian bridge along Paumanok Path,  well done Tim.  Our program after a couple of reschedules was Dr. Gregory Armstrong.  Greg talked about how we can be better prepared to have energy throughout the day.  His 3 points of mention were 1.  A rotation golf drill,  stand up do a golf swing and then move the swing up and down.  He suggested 2 minutes.  2.  Exposing yourself to natural light in 60 minuts of waking up.  This starts your 16 hour internal clock that triggers sleep . 3.  Non sleep Deep rest.  Eyes close lay flat and just be mellow for 15 minutes.  He also touched on eating whole foods and mentioned the body isn't programmed to eat all of the processed stuff that's overwhelms our food choices these days.  I know when I see an engaged crowd, i know that i found the right program for today's meeting.  I will be inviting Dr Armstrong back to talk to us about some other issues as we enjoyed his time spent with us at rotary today.

Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  We had one guest, Maria who will be applying as a member.  Tim Corwin spoke about a Saturday hike starting at 9:45am start.  Mary Kelly was our sargent and won the 50/50 also picked the 5 of clubs.  I have to say the sargent seems to be winning a lot lately clearly conicidental.   Laurie thanked everyone for participating in the Holiday Party.  We have decided NOT to meet over the next two Thursdays, with plans to resume on January 9th.   Mary had a holiday theme to her questions.  There's a town called Snowflake in Arizona.   Three gifts the wise men presented are Murryh, Frankincense and Gold.   Mary reference the fictional holiday of Festivus, the airing of grievances.  1.6 Billion holiday cards go out, but how many actually get delivered and end up on the refrigerator?  It takes 7 years to grow a Christmas Tree.  There are 9 candles on a menorah.  There is actually a town in Alaska called North Pole.  The North Pole doesn't have a time zone.  The legend of Rudolph the red nosed reigndeer started in 1939.  Eddison is credited with the invention of Christmas lights.  The biggest light show is in Williamsburg Virginia.  Our program was Chris from Go Primal Lifestyle, a mental health survivor . He told us about his story overcoming losing his dad early in life, the lows, bottoming out and then using his experience in a positive way.  We thank Chris for stopping in to visit us and we wish him the best in using his experience to help men who struggle with issues of mental health.  

Good crowd of 25 proud Rotarians visited us this week.  We had one guest Ryan Nelson of Lord Lane Newsletter.  I suggest his newsletter it tells you what's going on in Southampton and local areas.  Vicki made our Holiday Party announcement 12/12.  Robert Gill made an announcement for next week's packing of  the Thanksgiving Boxes.  Next week at Hampton Road Fire Station.  Definitely looking forward to packing the boxes and heading upstairs for lunch.  The kids have been busy this week packing the boxes.  Pictures are below.  The rotary wheel was definitely turning this week with everyone who's involved with the planning of this annual event.   It's great to experience the teamwork that this club is known for.  I've reached out to 27east, and I will get everything over to district when everything is handed in.   Travis was our sargent.  Coincidently also winning the 50/50 and finding the Jack of Hearts, Congrats to Travis Corwin for winning our latest drawing.  So we reset with a new deck next week.   We learned about Martin Strel and his accomplishments on swimming entire rivers.  We were also fined for liking pickles.  Travis also shared a podcast he's been listening to about kid's curiosities and a program dedicated to earthworms.  Our program was Debbie & Bill from Gregg's Wings.  They discussed their amazing contributions to childhood cancer.  They told us about their golf outing and where some of the money is used for at the Cancer Center for kids.  I found it interesting that they painted the doctors face on the wall in all of the different rooms.  Check out the photo gallery of the kids decorating the boxes

Our meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  Tom had his son Brendon as a guest.  We are a GO! for our Holiday Party on 12/12.  Flyer is up.  Check the newsletter for more information.  Mark Hannon requested that we decided to invite our marketing specialist Angie and a guest to attend our holiday party for free, and was accepted by all members.  If you have not sent in your Septemberfest money in, please do so it is $210 for the required 10 tickets.  Karen Acker was our sargent, Michael Sullivan won the 50/50 picked the Ace of Diamonds. Reminder to everyone, to PLEASE VOTE!  In 1978 John Carpenter directed the movie Halloween.  Why did the monster go to the bar?  For the boos.  Why do girl ghosts diet?  To keep their goolish figures.  How do you know if a mummy is sick?  They can't stop caughing.  Our guest was Medhat Allam , a local doctor who started a charity, what is now Operation International  .  I was very impressed listening to Medhat tell stories of his visits to poverty stricken countries to perform surgeries.  His charity now has 24 chapters, serving about 80 million people.  They cover every medical area of expertise.  They have designated teams in different area of the world.  And they do one week missions to help people.  Very inspiring charity.  The movie clip that we saw about the surgery that they were unable to do was very emotional and gave us some interesting perspective on how difficult it can be to deliver the news good or bad.