Show your support for Brooklyn’s newest Rotary Club — and for our distinguished honorees!
Participate in theBrooklyn Bridge Rotary Club’s First Annual Awards Banquet — Thursday, May 23, 2013, 6:30 to 10 pm, Dyker Beach Golf Course, 1020 86th Street, Brooklyn. RSVPs are requested by May 7.
Our guest speaker:
Brooklyn Borough President Mary Markowitz
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Reserve your tickets and order your journal ads now. Scroll down for ticket and journal options.
Online: The fastest way to pay is right here on the club’s website — by credit card or with your PayPal account.
By check, payable to Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club. Mail to: Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, c/o Vivian Hardison, 124 Atlantic Ave Ste P3D, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
By phone: call Club President Vivian Hardison, 917-804-0797, or Dinner Chair Astrudge Mclean at 347-570-7602.
Email journal copy to: vch1bmac@gmail.com (or mail with check as specified above).
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Our guest speaker this week (Thursday, Jan. 26) will be Debra Garcia of Camp Brooklyn. We’re anxious to hear Ms. Garcia describe the project, founded by Borough President Mary Markowitz, which since 2002 has sent more than 1,500 low-income Brooklyn children to summer camp.
Left to right: Camp Brooklyn Executive Director Debra Garcia; Byron Lewis, chair/CEO/founder of UniWorld Group, a pioneer in multicultural advertising; “Good Day New York" co-host Rosanna Scotto; and Boro President Marty Markowitz.
The newly-chartered Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, in its first major contribution, presented the camp with a check for $1,000.
Brooklyn Borough Hall was the “warmest and sweetest place to be” on a snowy Saturday night.
That’s how Vivian Hardison, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, put it in opening her remarks at the club’s Charter Night gala on Oct. 29.
Rotarians — many visitors to Brooklyn from other parts of Long Island District 7250 — were delighted by the appearance of Brooklyn’s feisty Borough President, Marty Markowitz, who presented one of his famous Proclamations, declaring “Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club Celebration Day.”
Heeeeeere’s Marty! … introduced by club Vice-President Ed Weintrob —
After Marty spoke, the officers and board members of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club were sworn in by NYS Supreme Court Justice Donald S. Kurtz, who was introduced by club Secretary Angelicque Moreno. Then all of the club’s Charter members were inducted — and “pinned” (with distinctive Charter Member pins) by District 7250 Governor Gabor Karsai —
Next, President Vivian Henderson recounts the origins of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, and District 7250 Governor Gabor Karasi describes Rotary’s important role, and why the world is a better place now that the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club has been born —
Leaders of the Rotary Club of Verrazano, which meets in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, toasted its new Downtown Brooklyn sibling, pointing out that the Verrazano club itself was an offspring of the old (now dormant) Brooklyn Rotary Club, which met in Downtown Brooklyn for around 80 years before moving to Bay Ridge and then fading away. Verrazano President Vincent Nativo Sr. and Verrazano Treasurer Dr. Joseph Caruana speak —
Charter Night’s special honoree was Helen Reisler, the first woman member of the Rotary Club of New York who, as president of that club in 2001, guided New York Rotarians in raising funds and providing “hands on” disaster relief following 9/11. Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club founding member Dr. Judith Winn spoke about Ms. Reisler’s outstanding contributions. The following video contains excerpts from Ms. Reisler’s talk to the Brooklyn Bridge Club at its luncheon meeting on Oct. 6. Because of Saturday’s snow storm, the honoree was unable to travel from Westchester to Brooklyn for the Charter Night gala.
Marty poses with officers of BROOKLYN BRIDGE ROTARY
Left to right: Treasurer Christopher Muy, Secretary Angelicque Moreno, Vice-President Ed Weintrob, President Vivian C. Hardison, Sergeant at Arms Alan Wheeler, Boro President Marty Markowitz. Not pictured: Vice-President Sam Ibrahim. Charter Night, Sat., Oct. 29, 2011, at Brooklyn Boro Hall. Photo by Sara Weintrob.
Board sworn in by Justice Donald S. Kurtz
NYS Supreme Court Justice Donald S. Kurtz swears in the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club's board of directors for 2011-2012. Left-to-right: Shelly McIntosh, Ed Weintrob, Angelicque Moreno, Christopher Muy, Vivian C. Hardison, Alan Wheeler. Not pictured: San Ibrahim. Photo by Sara Weintrob.
Our club’s Charter Night celebration — on Saturday, Oct 29 — has moved to Brooklyn Borough Hall.
This elegant and historic venue is at 209 Joralemon Street (between Court Street and Adams Street/Brooklyn Bridge Blvd). For Saturday night, there’s on-street parking nearby (and in several garages); the 2,3,4,5 trains are across the street; the A,C, F and R trains stop within two blocks.
Please mark your calendar and
RSVP to Clover March, 917-533-6114.
Tickets are $85, by check payable to Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club. Mail to the club at 124 Atlantic Ave, Suite P3D, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Carlo A. Scissura, chief of staff to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, told the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club on Aug. 4, that “Brooklyn’s become a great place.”
Mr. Scissura described how “a lot of kids whose parents and grandparents left Brooklyn in the ’70s and ’80s” are moving to “neighborhoods that their grandparents ran out of — like Williamsburg and Greenpoint and Sunset Park and Crown Heights.”
But problems remain, Mr. Scissura cautioned. There’s high unemployment, especially among young African-American men, and some of Brooklyn’s schools are not what they should be.
“We always say let’s talk about all the great things, but let’s focus energy on places that really need it,” he told Rotarians gathered for their weekly luncheon meeting, at Archives Restaurant in the NY Marriott Brooklyn Bridge hotel.
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