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April 26, 2019 / Volume 28, No. 40
left ear tug
first lady
king of queens
Rotary International District: 7980
District Governor: Larry Gardner
Club President: Eileen Flug
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April 26, 2019
Westport Inn
Opener: Seth Block
Program: James Lang, Rotary District 7980 Communications Officer - The Polygraph Test
Greeters: Soboslai, Watson, Violette
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LAST WEEK'S GUESTS:
PLEASE WRITE GUEST NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS REALLY CLEARLY. LEGIBILITY COUNTS. THANKS.
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Paris Looney's and Holly McCarthy's applications for WSR membership wereapproved at the April 2 Club Board of Directors meeting. They will be inducted in several weeks.
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James Lang, Rotary District 7980 Communications Officer, will speak to Westport Sunrise Rotary at our 7:30AM breakfast on April 26, 2019.
From Jim:
Did you read the lead article in the May issue of "The Rotarian" - "The Four-Way Test In a post-truth era."? It is a thought-provoking article that I recommend.
I was, however, chagrinned by the magazine cover illustration which pictured a man taking a polygraph test. Since the polygraph test is not legal in most of the world and was debunked in 1986 by its inventor, John Larson, the cover illustration was misleading. It was apparently based on a lack of information and wrong assumptions.
The lack of awareness about this false lie-detector test has caused many innocent people to agree to take it. Detectives love it because they can use it to intimidate suspects.
We all wish there was a scientific test to discern truthfulness. But it doesn't exist.
After significant research I created a humorous, but accurate, presentation for my club about the history of the polygraph in America.
His Bio:
Jim Lang has performed professionally for over thirty years. He served as President of Ring 59 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians from 2005 - 2010, and received the Wizard Award from the national organization in 2003. He is a member of the Society of American Magicians, the Fellowship of Christian Magicians. International Magicians Society, The International Platform Association, and is chairman of the International Fellowship of Rotarian Magicians. You will find him listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Education, and the prestigious Remington Registry. He has entertained in the US, Canada, and around the world. Jim creates many of his own magical routines.
Jim's light-hearted style recreates a variety of magical characters such as the Wizard of OZ, a turn of the century sideshow magician pictured above; a Renaissance Wizard, a street performer, . Other characters include the Wizard of the Rings, the Headmaster of Froghearts School, and a modern day illusionist. His magic is superb; but his warmth and humor set him apart from other performers. At the very beginning of his show, Jim is out in the audience, meeting people while he plucks coins from their ears. Throughout the show audience volunteers are involved as on-stage helpers, and there is constant banter with the audience. Perhaps the most magical aspect of his performance is the way he instantly connects with his audience. As you experience his magic, you may think that the magic is genuine; but you will KNOW that the performer is genuine.
Venues include schools, libraries, clubs, camps, theaters, conventions, grand openings, sales meetings, and, of course, home birthday parties.
Jim served a Fortune 500 company as Division Vice President and on a number of other marketing, sales, software development, and radio broadcasting positions.
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Anne Beers and Dick Eldh - 2009 Great Duck Race
Services for Anne will be held on Friday, May 3, 11am, at Greens Farms Church
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Ann Chernow spoke to Westport Sunrise Rotary at our 7:30AM breakfast on April 12, 2019.
I've Had a Wonderful Art Life
One of Westport's living treasures, Ann Chernow, darted in and out of her "Life as an Artist" story for us last Friday.
She talked about her late husband, Burt, who, as an art teacher at Green Farms Elementary School in 1964 began gathering what is now a more than 1,000 piece Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection, many of which are displayed in our schools.
The collection includes pieces by more than 150 Westport artists, as well as works by Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder, cartoons by Charles Schulz and Mort Walker, and photographs by Richard Frank and Larry Silver.
Chernow later started assembling what is now Housatonic Community College's 4,500 piece art collection.
Ms. Chernow said it was the dream of her husband and famed Westport artist Leonard Everett Fisher to have a home for a collection of works by Westport artists. This becomes a reality in the Fall, when the Westport Arts Center relocates to the "beautiful building" that was once Martha Stewart's TV studio.
She discovered as a three and three-quarter year old child that art was her destiny. One night she was brought on stage to sing with her father's band. She took one look at the packed house and bolted.
Her mother sat her in the green room with pencils and paper, "Be quiet until we get you."
That started her going with something she's still doing 80 years later. She paints, she draws with pencil, and she is a printmaker. She called printmaking, lithography on stone, her favorite medium, and has done about 300 lithographs.
She said each print takes a long time to complete. Each color must be drawn sequentially on the stone, then printed - if the artist is doing a four color piece she must draw a color, print it it, clean the stone, draw the next color, print...
She, too, taught, at Norwalk Community College, for 26 years.
When she was graduating college her father advised her to get married and gain a bit of financial security - unlike some of her friends, who chose art over family. Even that, she commented, "Hasn't been easy."
She has five children, whom she taught to perform household chores so she could do her art. As a consequence, her three sons are all great cooks.
One of her sources of inspiration has been film noir. "I have circles under my eyes from staying up to watch these movies on TCM." She watches each movie five or six times,
interprets the film, draws an image to capture its essence, then reproduces the image in another medium - as a finished drawing, a watercolor, or a lithograph.
Her latest work, which now hangs in a Brooklyn gallery, presents her interpretation of a scene from Hitchcock's 1943 Shadow of a Doubt.
"The biggest party in the world" was working with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, creating art by wrapping large objects. She and Burt met them in 1971, when they were installing the Valley Curtain, a 400 meter long work (with 14,00 square meters of cloth) across Rifle Gap in Colorado. They worked on all his projects until her husband died in 1997.
She offered anyone interested in visiting her studio to give her a call - "I'm the only Chernow in the book."
Ann Chernow calls herself "Lucky to live in Westport, where the arts thrive." And Westport is lucky to have a couple who have added so much to our community.
(Roy Fuchs)
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Nick's Notes:
Not sure if I missed an N's N. Ask Jeff. Nothing too exiting happening in downtown Norwalk. Lovely strong wind blowing today so I walked up and down the pier. Ha! Westport hasn't even got a pier.
Anyway, where was I ? Friends and foe's alike have been telling me that I'm getting a bit hard of hearing. 'Nonsense', say I. 'I'm just not listening to the rubbish you chaps spout'. I didn't hear their replies very well when I asked them to buy a couple of duck race tickets, so I went to the hearing lady at Costco, and before I could utter 'I'm not as deaf as you drink I am', I had these tiny, invisible buds inserted in my ears. Rather had to get used to them, don't you know - they don't seem to work very well and I seem to be able to tell Happy Dollars from Sad Dollars. I think. Or the winning ticket number of the raffle. But I'm driving along in my little motor car and I feel said hearing aid drop from my ear. So when I got home I rolled the seat back and forth on it's rollers, raised it and lowered it and spent a frustrating two hours coming through dog's hair, that had grown thick in the inner workings of the seat. Alas. Still can't find it. Then I noticed the small print that said if I lost one or both devices they'd replace 'em a few times per year. Don't know how other folks keep them in their ears - crazy glue I suppose. They did explain to me how I should try and keep them in all the time but I couldn't hear what they said. American's do mumble a lot.
The new mall in Norwalk will be ready in October - just in time for the new state tolls. And the new rise in my long term health insurance premium. And I'm not even sick (knock on wood) Do you all pay that much or is it because I'm a Rotarian?
I had planned a few days in Santa Fe this week or over Easter but my plans got kinda messed up so I'm still hear. Here, I mean. Can't be anything to do with my hearing, can it? Or my eyesight? Or my teeth? Growing old is not for sissies. Look at Tom, and I don't even play Pickle Ball.
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April Birthdays
Sridhar Subramanian - April 13
Gene Cederbaum - April 16
Maury Hill - April 17
Gail Lavielle - April 19
Karen Kleine - April 26
Mario Sacouto - April 28
Michael Davis - April 30
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JOIN ROTARY AND CHANGE THE WORLD
(VIDEO)
(sourced by Dennis Wong)
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IDENTIFYING PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS FOR OUR CLUB
Think of your contacts, acquaintances, friends and family members who might qualify for membership in the Club. It's not necessary to know whether they are ready to join Rotary.
Professional Contacts:
Consider your supervisor, current and former colleagues, acquaintances from professional associations and people you have done business with recently.
Service Contacts:
Consider neighbors, community leaders and acquaintances who have volunteered with you on Rotary or non-Rotary events or service projects.
Community Contacts:
For example:
Medical Professionals, Real Estate Agents, Financial Managers/Planners, Religious Leaders, Lawyers, Business Consultants, Accountants, Veterinarians, Non-Profit Professionals, School Administrators, Social Workers
Have a name?
Send it in with some contact info.
jbcohen27@gmail.com
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On the
first Saturday of each month, two Rotarian's are assigned to deliver and serve meals to the homeless at the Gillespie Center. Please contact
Bruce Paul
bruce.a.paul@gmail.com
April 6, 2019: Micki McCabe, TBD
May 4, 2019: not known, TBD
June 1, 2019: unknown, TBD
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The Crier includes the
"Club Calendar", where the upcoming Club events are listed. Please submit event information to: jbcohen27@gmail.com
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Sunrise Rotary Club members serve as greeters and deliver the openers at the Club meetings on a rotating basis. If a member is unavailable on the assigned date, it is essential that he or she find a replacement and submit the name to:
jbcohen27@gmail.com
Greeters
2019
April Soboslai; Watson; Violette
May Hawley; Nathanson; Harmer
June Freedman; Galan; Augustyn (pending induction)
July Hauck; Palmer; Lavielle
Aug Fuchs; Nair; Bruce
Sept Cohen; Block; Garten
Oct Zielinski; Jaffe; Flug
Meeting Openers
April 5 Ellison
12 Harmer
19 Nair
26 Block
May 3 Ross
10 Berger
17 Krubski
24 Zielinski
31 Hawley
Programs:
March 29th - Mike Hibbard "Teaching For Problem Solving"
April 5th - Howard Berman "29 Natural Laws of Sales"
April 12th - Ann Chernow "An Artist's Career"
Westport Sunrise Rotary Club Board Meetings
Usually the first Monday of the month 5:30-7PM in
Town Hall Room 201. All are welcome.
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Rotary's commitment to Service Above Self has been channeled through the Avenues of Service, which form the foundation of club activity. Club Service (Fun, Fellowship and Fundraising)
Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the smooth functioning of Rotary clubs.
Vocational Service (Four-WayTest)
Vocational Service involves club members serving others through their professions and aspiring to high ethical standards. Rotarians, as business leaders, share skills and expertise through their vocations, and they inspire others in the process.
Community Service (Charitable Giving and Hands-On)
Community Service is the opportunity Rotary clubs have to implement club projects and activities that improve life in the local community.
International Service (International Projects and PolioEradication)
International Service encompasses efforts to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the world and to promote world understanding and peace. It includes everything from contributing to Polio Plus to helping Rotary Youth Exchange students adjust to their host countries.
New Generations Service ( Rising Young Voices)
New Generations Service recognizes the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities such as RYLA Rotaract and Interact club service projects, and creating international understanding with Rotary Youth Exchange.
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President:
Eileen Lavigne Flug
Past President: Ron Holtz
President Elect: Karen Kleine
Secretary: Yvonne Senturia
Treasurer and Sunrise Rotary Foundation President: Jeff Cohen
Membership Chair: June Getraer
Program Chair: Ralph Krueger
Hands On Co-Chair: Bruce Paul
Hands On Co-Chair: Rob Hauck
Charitable Giving Chair:
Helen Garten
Youth Services: Justin Phillips
Youth Services
: Pat Riemersma
International Chair
: Rick Jaffe
Rotary International Foundation Chair: Joe Renzulli
Member at Large: Mark Soboslai
Member at Large: Liz Wong
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| Editor/ Photographer |
Jeff Cohen |
| Reporter/Photographer |
Roy Fuchs |
| Columnist |
Nick Clarke |
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The Westport Sunrise Rotary Club meets 7:30 AM every Friday Morning at
The Westport Inn
1595 Post Road East.
Meetings are open to all Rotarians and their guests.
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