The Club’s First Virtual Meeting

This morning, thanks in large part to Ira Sherman, our Club hosted its first virtual meeting … not bad for a group whose average age in the 70s and most of whom were born more than a decade before ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) … the first electronic general-purpose digital computer) was invented!

Among the fourteen members who "attended" … some who could get online via video

Ira Sherman

Alan Agree

Fred Edelman and Fran  (celebrating their second anniversary)

Art Issadore

Syd Baron

Dick Newbert, Jerry Redington annd Ed Carne not shown

and others who were video-challenged as they were using their cellphones.

Jeff Revak (Club president)

Irv Perlstein

Lou Hatfield

Augie Adrid

also attending but not shown, Mark Nath

The meeting began, as when physically together, with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance  and Four Way Test.

Among the items disucssed were a letter of "Thanks" from the Bucks Vet's Center in Bristol.  In addition to the previous monies raised and donated, another $475 was donated as a result of Irv's Facebook initiatives. 

The monies were used to purchase additional gift certificates at Shop-RIte and provided to Jeff Hoeger, Director of the Bucks Vet's Center in Bristol.

In a letter to the Club;  "Good morning.  Thanks to the generosity of the Shady Brook Rotary Club, we were able to offer $50 Shop Rite gift cards to another six veterans and their families affected by COVID-19.  Your ongoing support of our veterans is greatly apprecaited, as always.  Thanks again for all you do.  Best,  Jeff"

Another major initiative will be to try to make contact with the guidance department at Neshaminy High School to enlist its assistance in distributing applicaitons of the Club's annual scholaarship given to a graduating senior.  It is hoped that once notified, interested students wil be able to apply online.

It was agreed to hold addiitonal virtual meetings every other Wednesday morning as long as the shelter-in-place restrictions are in effect.