Visiting Rotarians: Stellard Beightol of
the Pleasant Gap club Make-ups turned
in: Paul Rutter at the evening club (& I saw Linda Friedman &
Leo Lucci there too) Guests: Michelle Miller, a former member 50/50:
Carl Hill drew the seven of hearts. The pot is well over $1200. There
are 20 cards left.You can buy three chances for
$2 now too, to make your chances better! Auction: The auction item, a silk floral arrangement and teapot
was donated by Dick Jones. It was won by Pat Coble with a high bid of
$20.
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, Eberly, Edwards, Fetter, Geise,
Goldstein, Hampton, Held, Hickey, Hill, Johnston, Chris Kerner,
Kelly Kerner, Lederer, Martella, Moose, Mose, Potalivo, Rutter,
Walsh, Whitfield
Carl Hill is missing a soup pot from the festival of the trees.
If you have it by accident please let Carl know so he can make these
great soups again!
Attendance for December was 71%!
We grossed $6505 for the raffle tickets. We still have to pay for
the cruise, TV before knowing the net. We do know that the gross was
much lower than hoped.
Our exchange student from Chile went home after running up a phone
bill and not really being ready to be an exchange student.
Carl Hill also let us know that given the hostilities and unstableness
of the economy and political environment in Venezuela, our 8 exchange
students to there from the district have returned home. Most recently
Ron Taverno's daughter had been there. She returned this past summer
after completing here year though.
The meeting for January 30th looks like a fun one. Roger has arranged
a tour of the creamery. We'll park cars by the stadium and take a
bus up to the creamery. Samples I hope will be available!!
On January 25, the Rotary Foundation presents the Highschool GridIron
classic with Florida highschool stars playing host to the rest of
the country! The game will be televised on ESPN at 2 PM.
The Interfaith Mission thanked us for helping to ring their bells!
They raised $10,800.
Marlene Davis, a banker with PNC, was approved by the board for
membership. Her application goes to the membership for ten days now.
Board meeting February 4th regular place at 8:00 a.m. (Autoport
on S. Atherton)
The club has had five possible candidates express nterest for the
GSE team. Three of these have applied. Their applications will go
the District level next.
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.
We are placing orders for Rotary polo shirts
($14.95) and long sleeve denim shirts ($21.95).
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.
Sign up sheets are going around.
A
slate of nominees has been promulgated for offices
and board memberships. They are Hugh Mose- President; Roger Fetter-1st
VP; Teresa Davis-2nd VP; Chris Kerner-director 2nd year; Pat Coble-director
2nd year; Leanne Martin-director 1st year; Mark Whitfield-director
1st year; Maryann Eberle-secretary; Paul Rutter-assistant secretary;
Carl Hill-treasurer; Ron Taverno-assistant treasurer; Meg Moose-past
chairman.
The club earned about $1200 from the Festival
of the Trees
Pam Ferguson was granted a leave of absense
for the quarter since she is teaching during our meeting time.
Linda Friedman is taking over the polio eradication
campaign.
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.
One of the bigger items we discussed that is not in the announcements
was the results of the raffle we just held. Some but not all points
brought to light include:
Mining our own money
Variety of capabilities of our diverse membership
regarding time and money
Ticket price too high
Raise money first before making pledges
Learning experience
Number of tickets each member had to sell was
too high
Weak decision making by the board
Increase dues
What happened to the coupon book, easy money
vs giving club bad name?
Decision to stop the coupon book not made known
to club in a significant manner
Harry
Zimbler, January 3; Teresa Davis, January 6;
Chris Kerner, January 24
(if I missed yours pleaseemail me)
Etc.
M A K E - U P S
Reminders on makeup's:
All makeup's are good for credit toward
meetings missed 14 days before or 14 days after the makeup. Makeup's made
at other Rotary Club meetings also get a dues credit. Makeup's at service
projects get attendance credit only. All makeup cards should be turned
into the club secretary promptly. To find out where you can makeup, check
the RI Club Directory, or District Web site.
Carl Hill drew the seven of hearts. The pot is well over $1200. There
are 20 cards left.You can buy three chances for
$2 now too, to make your chances better!
