State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #251
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS: (Jan. 20, 2005)

Program: TBA
Auction item: King
Note taker: Sanders
Thank speaker: Bedell
Luncheon menu: (monthly menu)
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

January 27, 2005 (D. Johnston), Dave Lindstrom, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
February 3, 2005 Club Assembly
February 10, 2005 (R. Brooks) Tom Murray Mt. Nittany Medical Center
February 17, 2005 (D. Martella)
February 22, 2005 Jt. meeting with Pleasant Gap & State College RC
February 24, 2005 (P. Coble) Ernest Boyd, State College Food Bank
March 3, 2005 TBA
March 10, 2005 TBA
March 17, 2005 TBA
March 24, 2005 TBA

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: Geoff Wilson of the State College Rotary club
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Ray Papale, a prospective member and guest of Dana Catalano; DG Kelli Wike (briefly); Mr. Sherwani from the RC of Islamabad, Pakistan
50/50: There are 35 cards left. The 7 of diamonds was picked by Bonnie Abramson.
Auction: Three local cookbooks were auctioned off. The donor was Rose Kauffman. The winning bid was Roger Fetter at $38. Thanks!

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

12/8-12/2004 Festival of the Trees-Zimbler, Hill, & 38 of the rest of the club (names to be posted shortley)

12/1/ 2004 Coupon Books (Catallano, Friedman, DeArmitt, Coble, the rest of the club as sellers-names to be psoted shortley)

11/13/ 2004 Foundation Dinner-Hill, Walsh, Held, Rutter, Fetter, Davis, Domalski, Gambone, Friedman

11/14/2004 Rotary Youth Exchange Interviews-Hill, Zimbler, Taverno, Eberly, ?

Nov & Dec 2004- Coupon Books Committee- Friedman, Catalano, ?

Happy

Bucks from: •Hugh Mose was happy because he sat by Bernadette Kashanni and learned she had arrived at the meeting via the CATA bus.•Roger was happy to be experiencing bachelorhood while his wife is out of town•Doug was happy because so far this winter there have been no complaints regarding snow removal on campus.•Dr. D was happy because he is back in America, returning from India.

In coupon sales team 4 is leading the way. Team 4 isEllie Beaver, Pat Coble, Roger Fetter, Carl Hill, Mark Meckstroth, and Ron Tavernio. Team 5 is next in second right now. Team 5 is Don Bedell, Teresa Davis, Linda Friedman, Doug Holmes, Meg Moose, and George Trudeau. Not far behind is Team 4. Please keep selling the coupons. They really are a great value! Coupon Books. Highlights or changes to the coupon book this year include three Indian restaurants, Red's cheeseburgers and others. Team 2 is gonna come through and do well.

Linda Friedman sent out updated club rosters via the club listserv.

The District Newsletter for December is available at the District Web site by clicking on the link to the current newsletter. http://www.district7350.org

We need to sell bricks. Sign your Brick Pledge today! Maybe it would be a good idea to take care of this for tax year 2004. All contributions go through the new Club foundation-a 501(c)3 organization that was established last year.Only 15 members have purchased bricks so far. We can meet our goal if everyone buys one and sells one.

Please do your make-ups. One can use the E-club if needed.We need to get our attendance numbers higher.we were at 65% in December.

RYLA. The RYLA event will be held at Juniata College this ummer. Nominations for attendees are being taken now. LeAnne Martin is the contact person in our club. Students that are juniors in highschool now are eligible.

The Clare Fund will be having a fund raiser on February 4 at Toftrees withan art show and auction. Tickets are $20 each and are available from Jana King/King Printing

There will be an event for the Clearwater Conservancy on January 21 called For the Love of Chocolate. Tickets are $25 each and are available from Ellie Beaver.

The ten day period is still out on proposed member Barbara C.If you have any adverse thoughts regarding this proposed member, please contact Terry or Roger soon.

Jim Eberly reported about Rotary's Central Parklet Project sponsored by the two SC clubs. The new "Children's Play Space" will be lot of fun for kids. The total costs of the project are $50,000. 50% needs to be raised by the two SC clubs as part of Rotary's 100th anniversary in 2005. Bricks are on sale ($100 for first kid name, $50 for each subsequent). The bricks will be used for the walkway. A pamphlet was distributed. Please be selling bricks!

The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. 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.

There are two new Web pages up. One is for Rotary Foundation Program alumni.The hope or goal behind this page is to keep members aware of persons in our community that might benefit further from Rotary by membership or participation in other things we are doing. The second page is on the District Web site. It honors the Veterans in our Rotary community. Both pages are still in an initial building stage so if you know of anyone that has been left out, please let me know so I can include them.

mystery answer: none this week.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Gary Langsdale, Risk Manager for Penn State

Our speaker was Gary Langsdale. Gary is a manager of risk for the University. Gary let us know he was happy for the free lunch and that in a former life he was a risk manager for International Paper. He opened his talk by citing humorously, the differences between working in academia and a for-profit company. He said in academics a number of committees are established to determine if a directive from the President is to be considered. In the for profit sector, if the President says to jump, everyone does it.

The management of risk is learning how to deal with a problem before it becomes a problem. In other words, it is solving a problem before it becomes a problem. A main goal is identifying what can go wrong, quantifying, and determining the probability of an event occurring.

Penn State does a lot of risk reduction by transferrign risk, mainly via hold harmless agreements. The enterprise risk management system is used. Risk Management works with all groups.

Gary closed the talk by asking as a risk determiner, would you let your family member do yada yada yada?

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

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Rotary Birthdays this month:

Harry Zimbler, January 3; Teresa Davis, January 6; (if I missed yours please email 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.

NEIGHBORING CLUBS- check out the web site listing or the E-club
MEMBERS- check out the web site listing
COMMITTEE CHAIRS- check out the web site listing

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DATE	AUCTION	MEETING NOTES	THANK SPEAKER	PROGRAM
Jan. 20, 2005	King	Sanders	Bedell	Zimbler
Jan. 27, 2005	Martella	Staats	Bell	Johnston
Feb. 3, 2005	Martin	Taverno	n/a	Club Assembly
Feb. 10, 2005	Meckstroth	Trudeau	Brooks	Brooks
Feb. 17, 2005	Moose	Turley	Brytzcuk	Martella
Feb. 24, 2005	Mose	Walsh	Catalano	Coble
March 3, 2005	Myrick	Whitfield	n/a	Club Assembly
March 10 , 2005	Potalivo	Zimbler	Christian	tba
March 17, 2005	Quinn	Abramson	Coble	tba
March 24, 2005	Rutter	Amato	Davis	tba
March 31 , 2005	Sanders	Bacastow	Dayananda	tba

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