State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

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 23 Prep night for Spaghetti dinner
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: Celeste Newcombe, guest of Ron Taverno; Catherine Holmes, daughter of Doug Holmes, and Valerie Leitholf, a Rotaract member
50/50: Jim Eberly drew the 3 of clubs, sadly not the card needed to take away the pot of about $215. There are 41 cards left to draw from next week.
Auction: Jana King provided the auction item, a gift certificate to Champs. It was won by Paul Rutter with a bid of $30.

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: none this week. click for answer
HughMose as congratulated 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 book sale has already reached the break even mark. Keep selling!!
Spaghetti dinner tickets were handed out to members. Each of us is responsible for selling 12. Please change the dates on your tickets to read the 24th. Some say the 19th. We each need to sell, sell, sell these tickets!!
The District Newsletter is online at the district Web site.
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: none this week

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Previous Week's Speaker: Rotaract from Penn State University

Todd Bacastow, the club advisor and member of our club and Valerie Leitholf, a member of the PSU Rotaract club spoke to us about Rotaract.
The club was formed in 2001 with 7 members. The club has grown but Todd insists the club growth has been focussed on quality active membership not resumé padders.

Valerie discussed some of the programs the Rotaract club is involved with and talked about their most recent project, dancing in THON and of course raising money for the Four Diamonds fund. The marathon raised $3.6 million last year. This money covers the treatment needed to help children stricken with cancer. The children receive services at the Hershey Medical Center.

THON this year will be held February 26th and 27th, 2004. We can donate through a pledge card or attend the event and put money in cans.

Hugh thanked Valerie for speaking.

This week’s note taker: Ron Taverno

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
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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