A Bend In The Road
ROTARY CLUB OF NEW CANAAN
BULLETIN FOR MARCH 30, 2006
President Jim was in place, in charge, and “in da house.” Bill Walbert gave a most remarkable prayer, inspiring us to do some good and in our hearts, we want to. The lunch was rich and fulfilling, the energy in the inn was the same.
Guests:
Fred Baker, New Canaan’s new Fire Marshall. (When our President-Elect, Nancy Robinson offered him a lit cigarette, this reporter was aghast.) Fred has a good idea: “Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery” (in your smoke detector) this weekend as daylight savings time begins.
Nancy Belon introduced two friends who paid us a visit:
Beth Ganns owner of the Etheria Spa in New Canaan
Stacey Scruggs from the Trumbull Rotary Club
Various Announcements, some resulted in gifts to the basket:
John Engel our official blogger delivered detailed instructions for adding to the blog he created for us. Time to get blogging, it’s free, it’s an opinion venue, and it keeps hope alive!
Scott Hobbs delivered up a knee-slapper of a joke to bring joy to all of us.
Tom displayed another way to to keep hope alive, via the Tree of Hope which is a tool of giving and guilt, a patented means of collecting funds to replenish funds we will contribute to the Mead Park hot dog stand for baseball players. $7,500 has been given to the tree so far, not bad.
President Jim is working on a Rotary presence on Saturday, April 22nd, the opening of the stand and baseball season at Mead Park. Also, Jim’s mother completed her full and valuable life of 99 years, earlier in the week. Condolences and appreciation from all of us for a life well lived.
John Kerchoff gave some happy dollars to report on his family vacation in St. Martin, visuals to follow.
Nancy Robinson will be headed to the District Assembly on Thursday, 4/6, call her to hook up.
Easter Egg Hunt (which we sponsor) will be THIS SATURDAY 4/1, at Dunning Field or Waveny or at the NCHS gym, depending on weather. Please report at 8 AM.
Program:
Sandy Parker introduced Bonnie McEneaney who provided thoughts and words that we’ll never forget. Bonnie is the widow of Eamon McEneaney, a 9/11 victim, a poet and a man with a remarkable connection to life and his own vulnerabilities. Bonnie told us how Eamon began to predict his own death some years after he saved 60 people in the first WTC bombing of 1993. He saw his future with great precision and uncanny accuracy. From “knowing” the year he would die to a heightened sense of impending death on Labor Day (9/2/01) at a family gathering, to his discomfort on the morning of 9/11, Eamon seems to have been connected to some larger life force. We can be skeptical of the idea that some of us are so connected to the cosmic but Eamon’s poetry and Bonnie’s loving and careful talk combined for one of the best programs in our Club’s long line of Thursday presentations. (Also, copies of Eamon’s collected poems in a volume titled A Bend in the Road from Cornell University Press, are available at New Canaan Library.) Apologies for that plug but Bonnie left some of us wanting to know even more about a man we never met.
Respectfully submitted,
Charlie O. Finley
BULLETIN FOR MARCH 30, 2006
President Jim was in place, in charge, and “in da house.” Bill Walbert gave a most remarkable prayer, inspiring us to do some good and in our hearts, we want to. The lunch was rich and fulfilling, the energy in the inn was the same.
Guests:
Fred Baker, New Canaan’s new Fire Marshall. (When our President-Elect, Nancy Robinson offered him a lit cigarette, this reporter was aghast.) Fred has a good idea: “Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery” (in your smoke detector) this weekend as daylight savings time begins.
Nancy Belon introduced two friends who paid us a visit:
Beth Ganns owner of the Etheria Spa in New Canaan
Stacey Scruggs from the Trumbull Rotary Club
Various Announcements, some resulted in gifts to the basket:
John Engel our official blogger delivered detailed instructions for adding to the blog he created for us. Time to get blogging, it’s free, it’s an opinion venue, and it keeps hope alive!
Scott Hobbs delivered up a knee-slapper of a joke to bring joy to all of us.
Tom displayed another way to to keep hope alive, via the Tree of Hope which is a tool of giving and guilt, a patented means of collecting funds to replenish funds we will contribute to the Mead Park hot dog stand for baseball players. $7,500 has been given to the tree so far, not bad.
President Jim is working on a Rotary presence on Saturday, April 22nd, the opening of the stand and baseball season at Mead Park. Also, Jim’s mother completed her full and valuable life of 99 years, earlier in the week. Condolences and appreciation from all of us for a life well lived.
John Kerchoff gave some happy dollars to report on his family vacation in St. Martin, visuals to follow.
Nancy Robinson will be headed to the District Assembly on Thursday, 4/6, call her to hook up.
Easter Egg Hunt (which we sponsor) will be THIS SATURDAY 4/1, at Dunning Field or Waveny or at the NCHS gym, depending on weather. Please report at 8 AM.
Program:
Sandy Parker introduced Bonnie McEneaney who provided thoughts and words that we’ll never forget. Bonnie is the widow of Eamon McEneaney, a 9/11 victim, a poet and a man with a remarkable connection to life and his own vulnerabilities. Bonnie told us how Eamon began to predict his own death some years after he saved 60 people in the first WTC bombing of 1993. He saw his future with great precision and uncanny accuracy. From “knowing” the year he would die to a heightened sense of impending death on Labor Day (9/2/01) at a family gathering, to his discomfort on the morning of 9/11, Eamon seems to have been connected to some larger life force. We can be skeptical of the idea that some of us are so connected to the cosmic but Eamon’s poetry and Bonnie’s loving and careful talk combined for one of the best programs in our Club’s long line of Thursday presentations. (Also, copies of Eamon’s collected poems in a volume titled A Bend in the Road from Cornell University Press, are available at New Canaan Library.) Apologies for that plug but Bonnie left some of us wanting to know even more about a man we never met.
Respectfully submitted,
Charlie O. Finley
posted by Jengel199 at 5:03 PM
1 Comments:
Excellent biography on Charles O. Finley who was according to Senator Symington, "one of the most disreputable characters ever to enter the American sports scene."
link to Charles O. Finley
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