Anderson Museum Christmas concert

Rotarian Melinda Branin, with husband Wataru Niimorti, at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, where Niimori — affectionally known as "Dr. Wat" — played a free Christmas concert on Dec. 6.

Christmas entertainment

Members of the Roswell High School Cayettes and Roadrunners Show Choir sang Christmas and holiday songs at the Rotary Club's Dec. 9 meeting.

Club affirms, elects Board members

Members of the Roswell Rotary Club elected and affirmed Board members at the Dec. 9 meeting.

Affirmed as Board members were:

    • Marcos Nava, Membership chair

    • Chris Lauderman, Public Image chair

    • Matthew Chappell, Service Projects chair

New Board members elected were:

    • John Dilmore

    • Paul T. Moore

    • Nicole Weiser

Cheneys meet Exchange candidates

Roswell Rotarians J.P. and Bianca Cheney (top left) meet with potential outbound District 5520 Exchange students in Albuquerque over the weekend. Bianca is president-elect of the Roswell Rotary Club.

Roswell Rotarian John Drusedum, with wife Sharon (right), has completed final training for governor of District 5520. He is shown bring congratulated by Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta and his wife.

Salvation Army seeks holiday help

Salvation Army Capt. Niki Woollin is asking for help from fellow Roswell Rotarians during the coming holiday season.

“If anyone would like to help drive Thanksgiving meals to shut-in seniors, we would love the help,” Niki said. “Volunteers would need to show up at The Salvation Army, 612 W. College Blvd., between 10 and 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 25 to pick up meals and choose their delivery addresses.”

She said Rotarians and others “are welcome to come once and leave after their delivery or return to The Salvation Army and take another load until they are done. People interested can call, text, or email me at my contact information below.

Bellringing

“On Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Rotary will be bellringing at Farmer’s Market on Main Street. I will be coming with a clipboard to sign up at the next Rotary meeting. Shifts will be in 1-hour increments and 2 people can ring together or bring their family,” Niki said.

She said Rotarians can contact her on her cell phone at (406) 551-0866 or contact The Salvation Army at (575) 208-2371. Her email address is: niki.Woollin@usw.salvationarmy.org

Rotarians elected to UFO Museum Board

Roswell Rotary Club members Howard Perry and Marc Reischman have been elected to the Board of Directors of the International UFO Museum and Research Center. 

Howard Perry (left) and Marc Reischman

The museum/research center was born from international interest in the purported crash of a flying saucer in July 1947 near Roswell. The incident is popularly known as “The Roswell Incident.” 

The UFO Museum draws more visitors annually than any other museum in New Mexico
and is the major tourism draw for Roswell. 

Though the museum was forced to close and then limit attendance during part of 2019 and 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has made a major rebound in attendance and revenue this year.

The research center’s library has the largest collection of books, research papers, and articles about UFO sightings outside of the Vatican Library.