|
Greetings
From 56 Members Strong
The Rotary Club of Asbury Park
Meets for Lunch every Wednesday at 12:15 p.m.
We've
Moved! ---->
The Renaissance. 1110 Valley Road,
Ocean. <--- We've Moved!
Call 732-922-4222 for Club
information.
Map to The Renaissance
Links to
Rotary International,
District 7500,
Club Locator, Meeting
Archives,
|
Our Next
Meeting
Wed Jul 2 -
Robert Taylor, Executive Director of the Boys
and Girls Club of Asbury Park, will be our
speaker. Robert is well known to all of us and
might be the only Kiwanian in history to have perfect
attendance at a Rotary Club! Seriously, Robert
will share with us the wonderful happening at the Boys
and Girls Club. |
|
|
|
ARCHIVES: 2008
2007 |
|
Programs Coming Up
Sun Jul 12
- Installation Dinner for our new District Governor
Dan Cortese at the Captain's Inn, Forked River. |
|
More Calendar
Items...
Wed Jul 9 -
Club Assembly - Our new president Sandy Brown will be
laying our plans for his year.
Wed Jul 16 - TBA
Wed Jul 23 - TBA
Wed Jul 30 - TBA |
|
Catch up on Past Speakers
View past speakers, stories, and news for
the past year and this year.
2007
2008 |
History of Rotary
and Our Club
Rotary
International was founded in Chicago in 1905 by Paul Harris.
On January 21, 1919, J Lyle Kinmouth, owner of the Asbury Park
Press, invited several businessmen to discuss forming a Rotary Club
in Asbury Park. On April 9,
1919... our Club had 25 charter members and the rest is
history. Read more about our club's rich
history.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome our New
Members As of
July 1st our club has 56 members. Please
welcome our newest members, Maha Boutrous of
Oakhurst and Brenda Skinner, also of Oakhurst.
Both Maha and Brenda joined in June. That brings
us to 6 additions since the start of
2008.

The other 4 members are:
Carol DiCola, pictured on the right, is the Manager
for the West Park Avenue branch of
Commerce Bank in Ocean. Carol has been in
banking for 5 years and worked for the Essex County
Meals on Wheels for 15 years, serving as their director
the last of her years with them. She is quite
involved with many local charities and she serves as VP
of the Ocean Township Chamber of Commerce. She was
invited to Rotary by Joan Desmarais. Carol
and her husband Tom live in New Egypt.
Susan
Pellegrini, shown on the left, is a movie
producer and director. She owns
Synergy Productions located right in Asbury Park
where she also lives. Susan spoke to our club a
few weeks back sharing her feature work about the
life of Stephen Crane who lived on Fourth Avenue.
Penny McDaniel is Susan's sponsor.

Bob Cohen , pictured on the right, was invited to
attend our club by another Rotarian from north New
Jersey. Bob is the Director of Development
for
Easter Seals New Jersey, located in East
Brunswick. Bob and his wife Paula call Ocean
Township home. A little known fact about Easter
Seals is that Edgar Allen and his fellow Rotarians from
Ohio founded the Easter Seals organization in 1919.
Read about the
History of Easter Seals, it is quite moving.
And more about its
Rotary Connection.
Kathy
King was invited to attend Rotary by Hunt Parry.
Kathy is the daughter of a former club member
Bob Deeves. Kathy is Vice President of
Business Development for
Central
Jersey Bank in Sea Girt. Kathy and her
husband reside in Interlaken.
Congratulations for joining the best Rotary Club in
Monmouth County. Let's all welcome our new members
and make them feel at home. |
|
Rotary Gives the
Gift of Sight Asbury
Park Rotary Club has pledged support to the Rotary
Eye Rescue Project championed by our own Traudy
Grande officially launching Rotary Eye Rescue East.
Rotary Eye Rescue is a collaboration between Rotary
Clubs,
Tissue Banks International (TBI) and surgeons,
who team up to provide cornea transplants to indigent
patients in medically underserved countries with no cost
to the recipient. Traudy joined our club because she
was impressed by the generosity of California
Rotarians
in funding the Rotary Eye Rescue West.
Traudy's husband John is on the
board of the Tissue Banks Inter-national and
donates much time to the cause. Our club is proud
to be part of this effort. Pictured
are Tom Price and Sandy Brown officially presenting a
$2,000 donation to John And Traudy Grande thus starting
Rotary Eye Rescue East. |
|
Superior Court
Judge Speaks At Lunch
The
Honorable Larry Lawson, born and raised in Neptune, was
our speaker on February 13. Judge Lawson shared
with us the many improvements to the State court
system. Renee and Larry have been friends since
high school. |
|
Lombardi Dinner
Honors Senior Linemen


Photos by Lori Anne Oliwa |
|
|
|
Mrs. New Jersey
Shares Her Vision
Claire Pavlinec,
the reigning Mrs.
New
Jersey for 2007-2008, spoke about the
Mrs. New Jersey America pageant and her charity
called
Maternal Wings. Through the connections made at the
meeting on January 16th, several families in Asbury Park
have received much needed aid from the Maternal Wings.
The Mrs. NJ
organization is also making an inquiry to hold this
year's pageant in the Paramount Theatre. |
|
|
|
We Have Moved! Rotarians and friends, we have
moved our lunch meeting to a new location in Ocean
Township. Our weekly meetings are now at
The Renaissance catering hall, located at
the Ocean Township Italian-American Club on
Valley Road
in Ocean just off Route 35.
We have our own private meeting room.
Lunch is served buffet style with entrees changed
weekly. There is plenty of parking and the location is
easy to get to. The Renaissance
is located just behind the old Hinck's Turkey Store and
just North of Wegman's. Here's a
map. See you there Wednesday! Visit
Falco Brother's Catering. |
|
|
|
Investor's Savings
Bank Underwrites our Dictionary Project
Tom
Price, club president, and Joan Desmarais, our
Dictionary Project coordinator, accept Investors Saving
Bank generous gift to completely fund this year's
Dictionary Project. Penny McDaniel, Branch
Manager, and Rose Haydu made the presentation on January
2nd. Every third grader attending
any of the public and private schools in our service
area will receive a free dictionary to help them with
their school work.
Thank You ISB! Visit
Investors' website. |
|
2007 Scholarship
Winners Recognized
The
last meeting of the year is set aside to honor our
Scholarship winners. We were fortunate to have all
four awardees, along with family members, join us for
lunch on the 26th. Starting from the left is Carly
Lyster of Ocean who is attending Wagner College; Darren
Cunningham from Asbury Park attending Montclair State;
Natalie Ulysses of Asbury Park attending Georgian Court;
and Jasmine Jackson from Neptune who is attending
Hampden University.
Congratulations to our winners! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|