Pledge/Prayer: President Gerri
Brent's Card Game Winner: Charlie
Sergeant's Report:
Raffle Winners: Joan M, John D, Stan, Walter Osborne (guest)
Happy Bucks
Announcements:
Our idle Wishing Well is now at Wal-Mart thanks to Bob Antoniac - great job Bob!
Andy announced Meals on Wheels for this week
Andy announced that the OS Board of Education unanimously approved Joe Onofrio as our new school Superintendent. Congratulations Joe! Old Saybrook has been named one of the top 100 towns in the USA for children. Our wonderful school system is a big reason. This was televised on Good Morning America.
The Westbrook Project Graduation is looking for donations. They plan on having a safe grad night.
Bill Suits announced there will be a short (4 min) meeting of the Outreach Committee following the regular meeting.
Peter Manley announced the plans for the OS Rotary Meeting next Wed. night at Luigis Restaurant
Bill Burnhart introduced Sheila Brown, principal of the Goodwin School whose college education was made possible by Rotary grants. She thanked the club for that and our involvement with children in need. She also thanked the Board of Education for their support.
Program:
Peter Manley introduced our speaker Abby Marks Beale who runs a company called REV IT UP READING, Div.of The Corporate Education LLC. Abby is the author of 10 Days to Faster Reading a program that takes over where Evelyn Woods leaves off. Abby ran a series of drills to measure our rate of reading and then gave us some exercises to increase our rates. She described her 4-step program to getting the many things we get on a daily basis read.
1. Inventory the things you want to read
2. Place a personal value on every piece
3. Get rid of the things that are low in personal value
4. Using spead reading techniques. For ex. discipline your eyes to move from left to right and stay focused on what you are reading. When you read faster, you tend to concentrate better.
There are 3 kinds of readers, "talkers", average and thinkers who read groups of words at a time.
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