Lisa Greenleaf
Designer and Illustrator

In 1984, Lisa received her BA in Art from Keene State College and began working for an educational publishing company, Curriculum Associates, LLC, as a designer and illustrator. Lisa has illustrated, adapted, written, designed, and helped publish several books, including John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Barefoot Boy" for which she was awarded the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for 2011 Best Illustrator. Lisa works from her studio in Nashua New Hampshire and will be our guest speaker this Thursday.

President's Message

I want to thank last week's guest speaker, President and CEO of Coco & Company, Tim Coco. Tim gave a presentation on "Yesterday's Transistor Radios" which have developed into smart phones of today. He actually brought in a transistor radio from the 1990's which was triple the size that I remembered them to be. Ah, the joys of my selective memories.

Tim also discussed the history of Haverhill's local radio station, WHAV. The earliest use of WHAV was in July, 1922 in Delaware. It was one of the first 100 broadcast radio stations licensed by the US. The Haverhill Gazette conceived of a local radio station in 1944, but had to wait until the end of World War II to develop WHAV. In 1947, John "Jack" Russ, "WHAV founder, stated WHAV is going to be your station - a station for the people of Haverhill and the people in our surrounding towns." WHAV was the start for many radio personalities including Edwin Johnson, Gary LaPierre , Earl "Mr. Midnight" Gynan and our own Tim Coco. In addition, Tom Bergeron got his start on WHAV in the mid-1970s and went on to host Hollywood Squares, America¹s Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing with the Stars.

During the 1980's and 1990's, the radio call letters were sold numerous times and in 1998 the Haverhill Gazette re-purchased ownership of WHAV. In 2005, WHAV aired Spanish Language programs as "Radio Impacto". Tim was very proud to announce that Coco & Co assumed the rights to WHAV and the station returned to English programming as an Internet radio station in 2004. WHAV is now operated by Public Media of New England, a not-for-profit organization and is heard on AM radio, Internet, cell phones and public access televisions stations.

I tried, but didn't get one joke out again this week. Mike Botte and his table very generously sprung the money to stop me in my tracks. I am so impressed by the dedication shown by Rotarians to save others from the pain of my joke telling skills. Way to go!!

Please remember to keep Bill Adams in your prayers and thoughts while he is recuperating from surgery. Hopefully, with all the goodwill sent his way, he'll be back with us shortly.

Do you have your Rotary Badge? If not, please see Bonnie Michaleas or Greg DiBurro to order a new one!

Do you have your Rotary Pin? If not, please see Bonnie to receive a new pin as we may be following Cindy Ryan's guideline of fining those who are not wearing their Rotary pin.

Happy Birthday shout out to: Jefferson Davis, King Davis, Ira Korinow and Ken Smith - all celebrated in the month of February!!

Does anyone have sports tickets or know of a possible donor of sports tickets? If so, please contact Julian Rich, Co"chair of the Sports Raffle Committee.

I was thrilled to welcome back Darlene Beal from her Rotaplast mission in Lima, Peru. I hope that she'll do a presentation of her trip in the very near future. I also thought you'd be interested in Darlene's latest blog posting: "A Mission from Start to Finish"

January 25, 2012
Every Child Has a Story
"Every child has a story. Most have come from the highlands of Peru or the sierra, days away by bus. On the front cover of every story reveals a tender little face, marred by an abnormality that would, if not corrected dictate the rest of his/her life."

Darlene has made a difference by her mission; I hope we can too by supporting the remarkable work done. I've been informed that Rotary Internal General Secretary, John Hewko, has spelled out five priorities for strengthening the organization in the year to come:
1. Eradicating polio
2. Future Vision
3. Rotary Club Central - online resource for Rotary Clubs
4. Membership - making Rotary more appealing & relevant to younger members
5. Humanitarian Assistance

With those thoughts in mind, please support the Rotary Foundation during 2011-2012. I know that we CAN make the difference.

ROTARY DATES TO REMEMBER

February 6, - 2012 COMMUNITY MEALSat the Haverhill Citizens Center. Please deliver baked goods, desserts, between 4:00 to 4:30pm. Please also stay to help if you can.

February 11, 2012 - POLAR PLUNG 11:30am at the Cape Ann Motor Inn on Long Beach, 33 Rockport Road, Gloucester, MA. Please consider "plunging" and joining your fellow District Rotarians for this important regional fundraiser. Together we CAN put an end to polio!

March 2 - 4, 2012 Haverhill Rotary Fellowship Weekend The White Mountain Hotel and Resort, North Conway, NH Weekend getaway. All fun, no work!!

April 27, 2012 Haverhill Rotary Karaoke Night Details to follow.

June 1 - 3, 2012 - Rotary District 7930 Annual Conference

Community Events

February 10, 2012 The Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce will host its 22nd Annual Small Business Awards Breakfast at the Renaissance Golf Club, 377 Kenoza Street, Haverhill, MA. This event is sponsored by Haverhill Bank and many of our members will be honored. The breakfast will run from 7:30am to 9:30am. Tickets are $30 per person or $275 for a table of 10. Please contact the Chamber at 978.373.5663 for additional information.

February 10 ­ 19, 2012 Spotlight Playhouse's 2011-2012 season continues with the uproarious farce, "Drop Dead!" by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Performances will be held at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 26 White St., Haverhill, MA. Tickets are $15 per person and $13 per person for seniors. For further information, please visit SpotlightPlayhouse.org or call 978-380-8509.

Rotary Music "HINT"

R-O-T-A-R-Y that spells ROTARY!
R-O-T-A-R-Y is known on Land and Sea
From North to South
From East to West
He profits most who serves the best
R-O-T-A-R-Y that spells ROTARY!

Smile
Smile and the world smiles with you, Sing a song.
Don't be weary, Just be cheery all day long.
Whenever your trials, your troubles and your cares
Seem to be more than you can really bear
Smile and the world smiles with you, Sing a song

WINTER WEATHER POLICY
Please remember the Haverhill Rotary winter weather policy:
If the Haverhill Public Schools are cancelled due to inclement winter weather, there will be no Rotary meeting that day. Also, if there is an early dismissal, there will be no Rotary meeting that day. If there is a delayed opening of the Haverhill Public Schools, there will be a Rotary meeting at the regular time, at 12:15 PM.

Contributions to and suggestions about the NAIRATOR are welcome, so please pass on any news to me or Steve Goddu.

Yours in Rotary,

Sheryl

Community Meals
Monday February 6th at the Citizen's Center

Mark your calendars to help serve meals to those in need next Monday afternoon. Those listed below should plan to bring a dessert between 4:00-4:30PM.