ANNOUNCEMENTS: (Please send announcements for the newsletter to Paul)

12/17 Bell Ringing for Interfaith Mission 14 of us 12/11-15 Festival of the Trees Hill, Hickey, Eberle, Kauffman, Davis, Zimbler, Jones, Ferguson, Christian, Mose, Geise, Brytczuk, Potalivo, DeArmitt, Aungst, Gambone, Meckstroth, Walsh, Moose, Martin, Abramson, Myrick, Domalski, Coble, King, Fetter, Eberly, Rutter, Holmes, Friedman, Johnston, Held, Kerner 12/12 Cruise sellers of all 19 tickets: Abramson, Beaver, Coble, DeArmitt, Domalski, Eberle, Edwards, Fetter, Geise, Goldstein, Hampton, Held, Hickey, Hill, Johnston, Chris Kerner, Kelly Kerner, Lederer, Martella, Moose, Mose, Potalivo, Rutter, Walsh, Whitfield

• Don Bedell was inducted in the club by PDG Carol Walsh. His sponsor is MaryAnn Eberle
• Board meeting January 7th regular place at 8:00 a.m. (Autoport on S. Atherton)
• Thanks again to Meg & Clark Moose for hosting our club's holiday get together. I think we all had a very enjoyable time.
• The International Convention is in Brisbane Australia May 29- June 1, 2003
• The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. It only works if you are a subscriber so if you aren't on it and want to know even more about the club email Paul Rutter to see about your admission. It is a private listserv not open to the public. If you are already on it and want help with it please call or email me.
• The raffle for the cruise was held. The big winner was Mark Meckstroth. We still don't know if he will pick the cruise or the cash. The second place winner of the huge television was Sue Mascola, and the third place winner of the $250 cash was Dennis Hampton. Thanks to all for selling tickets and bigger thanks to the members who sold all their tickets. Six members sold no tickets, 20 members bought one while turning back in 18 tickets and the others are somewhere in between - selling one to 18 tickets. The point here is this: our club needs support from ALL of the members not just a few. Leaving the financial trials of membership to just a few means the club is able to do less than we should and could do. This event could have been much better if we had all done our part selling tickets. We sold just 595 tickets. We now have to parse out what we will not be able to fit in our budget on the philanthropy side. What will you vote to do away with? (The Web site is free.) The members selling all their tickets are listed in the block above under “service above self.” - JPRIII (editor)
• In January we will place orders for Rotary polo shirts and long sleeve denim shirts. These will have the club logo similar to the shirts we had made about three years ago. Maryann Eberle is taking charge of this activity.

  Don Bedell December 2002 Tom Murray Oct 2002 Linda Friedman Sept 2002 Scott Rawson August 2002

• Nominations for club offices and board memberships are being accepted. Please contact anyone on the nominating committee if you are interested.
• The club earned about $1200 from the Festival of the Trees
• Two weeks ago we lost the Club Web site when our Internet provider of server space went out of business. Through the kindness of a local Internet Service Provider (Centre of the Web) and my own business (Paul Rutter Web Design) the club Web site is back on the Internet. The new address is http://www.centreweb.com/rotary/club/ or http://www.sc-rotary.org. There are a few bugs to work out with files that are missing as a result of our old ISP going out of business without notice. I hope to have them back in place soon. Many thanks to Vicon for the three years of service we did get from them at no charge.

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