State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

February 12 Andrea Schokker, Fallingwater
February 19 Club Assembly
February 26 Patricia Smith, International Speakers Program
March 2 Meeting with Evening club at their digs 5:30 PM
at the Nittany Lion Inn
March 4 No meeting; see March 2
March 11 Bernie Punt, BJC
March 18 Barbara Farmer, Principal of Houserville/Lemont School-diversity
March 24 Spaghetti Fund Raiser
March 25 TBA
April 1-30 Group Study Exchange to South Korea
April 1 Club assembly
April 8 Dean Thomas, IST Building
May 6-8 District Conference

Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: none
50/50: Jim DeLong drew the Ace of Diamonds, sadly not the card needed to take away the pot of about $185. There are 42 cards left to draw from next week.
Auction: Kelly Kerner provided the auction item from Bath Works--Body wash and flowers. The high bidder was Chris Turley at $40.

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

Dec. 18 Christmas/Holiday Party-Gary Brytczuk with help from Chris Hickey

Dec. 16 PSA's - Rutter on CNET & Don Bedell on radio

Dec. 10-14 Festival of the Trees-
Carl Hill and Jim Eberly organized this effort. Helpers included Geise, Meckstroth, Kauffman, K.Kerner, Hickey, Ferguson, Friedman, DeArmitt, Brytczuk, Aungst, Biddle, Bedell, Taverno, Walsh, Coble, Turley, Gambone, Amato, Eberly, Bell, Martin, Moose, King,Zimbler, Christian, Fetter, G.Wilson, Johnston, Eberly(2), Davis, Bacastow, Held, Rutter

Dec. 3 Bell Ringing-Kauffman, Brytczuk, Biddle, Johnston, Meckstroth, Bedell, Myrick, Zimbler, Mose, Moose, Davis, Eberly, Hill, Aungst, Rutter

Nov. '03 Coupon Book committee- Linda Friedman, Pam Ferguson, Teresa Davis and the club.

Previous Mystery member's experience: This person has 4 grandchildren including two new ones from two daughters just this year. click for answer
In the foundation minute, Judy Myrick told us about a foundation program called the center for International Study. More can be found at the RI Web site.
We passed the hat for Chembe again.
Jana King mentioned that tickets were available from her for the Clair fund art show.
The next board meeting is this Tuesday at 8:00 at the Autoport. All Rotarians are welcome. Board members are specifically requested to be there or let Hugh know if you are not able to attend..
HughMose as congratualted for his bus that is well articulated? I think I got this right I did hear someone say the bus was well spoken??
Linda Friedman reported that the coupon books sale has already reached the break even mark. Keep selling!!
Spaghetti dinenr tickets are gettign ready to be handed out. We each need to sell, sell, sell these tickets!!
The District Newsletter was handed out. It is online at the district Web site too.
Three Rotarians were presented with Paul Harris Fellowships at the December 11 meeting-Brian Christian, Jan Hill, and Meg Moose.
Keep selling your coupon books. There is a prize for the top coupon book seller. Bring in the GREEN!
Our club has been approached by the Evening Club to start an Interact Club. A meeting is being coordinated to get something happening at the High School.
The evening Rotary club now has a list serv like us. Their address is RotaryEvening-L@lists.psu.edu. Contact Mary Johnston if you want to be added to their list.
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.
mystery answer: Mark Meckstroth.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Classification talk about Jim DeLong

Jim DeLong one of our newer members spoke today telling us about himself.

Jim is in business for himself in he Payroll business. He said several years ago he was living in Charlottesville and he school board raised taxes too much or too many times and he decided to leave. (Does he know about our SCASD tax plans???!!)

Any way, Jim said he bought soem payroll software from three programmers from New Jersey and has been selling the software himself to firms all over the place. He said he is a smaller version of ADP the big industry leader that isn't capable of the nuances a small company can take care of.

He has been married fifteen years. He has three kids, 2 dogs, is an Alpha life member. and outside passions include hunting and fishing.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
Feb. 12, 2004	Martella	Potalivo	Turley	Delong
Feb. 19, 2004	Martin	Rawson	Walsh	Domalski
Feb. 26, 2004	Meckstroth	Rutter	Whitfield	Eberly
Mar. 4, 2004	Moose	Taverno	Zimbler	Assembly
Mar. 11, 2004	Mose	Turley	Abramson	Edwards
Mar. 18, 2004	Myrick	Walsh	Amato	Ferguson
Mar. 25, 2004	TBA	Whitfield	Aungst	Fetter
	April 2004 to be published later

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