We welcome all of our Visitors:

Anthony Fleming – Rotary Club of  Farmington ( San Juan County) New Mexico

Ines Sheron, Henry Ketzel, & Mary Sarah (Assad)

Daniel Berger (Ellen)

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S  * * *

Induction of our NEWEST member…

Jennifer Dewsnap

Miami Dade Public Library System

Branch Manager,

South Miami Branch Library

6000 Sunset Drive, South Miami, FL  33143 

305-667-6121 / 305-661-6558 fax

dewsnapj@mdpls.org

Hours:  M, Th, Fr, & Sat 9:30am – 6pm

Tues & Wed 12:30pm – 9pm

Bulletining a Potential New Member

Mr. Neal A. Hirsch

Classification: Financial Services

(Neal Hirsch Life, Health and Long Term Care Insurance)

 Please contact Doreen Reitnauer, Club Secretary    with any comments (week 1 of 2).
dhiker217@aol.com

INSTALLATION BANQUET

Circuit Court Judge Israel (Izzy) Reyes will conduct the installation on July 6th.
For those that have not met Judge Reyes, I think you will find him charming and entertaining – Mike Mills

Happy Birthday MAXENE!!!

Matching Grants – Donna Gaines, Chair

 Matching funds = $200 left matching up to $100 per person.  Credit cards accepted

 "The volunteerism exemplified by Rotary International is an engine for renewal and change in every society -- and it is that same volunteer spirit, rooted in compassion and a profound sense of responsibility to our fellow human beings, that offers so much hope for the future, beginning with children." -- Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF

Interested in splitting the year hosting an exchange student? Mike Mills will be your host family partner. 

Email millsmike@aol.com for details.

Salt Lake City, Utah

98th Rotary International Annual Convention

17-20 June 2007

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$

We are accepting empty inkjet cartridges.    Bring them to the meetings or take a postage-paid plastic envelop home –      ask Mike Mills

DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

Visit www.rotary6990.org to find a club to make up an absence.

Take the opportunity to visit another club and meet new and interesting members who are business owners and community leaders.  They might be interested in the services that you provide.

Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally:

http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY DOREEN REITNAUER, SECRETARY, OF ALL MAKE-UPS:

dhiker217@aol.com

Maxene Graham, Program Chair

“It’s summertime and the living is easy, Spend some leisure hours at the beach reading a good book…”

Introducing:

Nancy Schleifer, Author

From the Books and Books website:

http://booksandbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=

abcb31bgKoCOH7dauwxlr?s=storeevents&eventId=348753

”It was an ordinary day when Mary Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, answered a knock on her door that would change her life forever.

Ten years after the assassination of her husband, six years after her friend Myra Bradwell was denied admission to the Illinois Bar, and five years since the Great Chicago Fire, Mrs. Lincoln received a warrant ordering her to appear at court that same afternoon.

In her remarkable new novel, A Warrant for Mrs. Lincoln (Xlibris, $18.95) attorney Nancy Schleifer blends history and fiction in a captivating story about the 16th first lady of the United States .

An advocate for children for over 20 years, Nancy has held a series of managerial legal positions in the child-advocacy field, including acting as the Administrative Attorney for the Guardian ad Litem Program for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit; the Chief Attorney for the Department of Children and Families; the Project Director for The Children’s Law Project at Nova Southeastern School of Law; and Consultant to the Florida Bar Commission for Children. This is her first published novel.”

The book discusses  the nineteenth century’s legal doctrine of couverture.  This meant that a wife had no legal identity separate from her husband.. A husband had the right to incarcerate his wife, take the children, take her personal and inherited property, and take away all contractual rights.  A wife was disabled due to marriage.
A woman’s destiny was to be properly timid as she was unfit for the difficulties of life.  A woman was only qualified to handle the domestic sphere which is properly the domain of women.

This novel explains how Mary Todd was treated after the assassination, her insanity trial and her rescue from an institution by a female attorney, who had applied for membership to the bar and was refused by Illinois Supreme Court and then the US Supreme Court.