State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

March 2 Board Meeting at Autoport 8 A.M.
March 4 No meeting; see March 2 above
March 11 Bernie Punt, BJC
March 13 District Assembly
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: Dana Catalano from the Lewistown Rotary club (and prospective member with us)
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Diana Beckley who works with Russ Brooks at the credit union.
50/50: Riss Brooks drew the 3 of diamonds and failed to take away the pot of about $300. There are 38 cards left to draw from next week.
Auction: Mark Meckstroth provided the auction item, a poker and chips set. The high bidder was Ben Amato with $10.

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

Mar 12 & 13 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser Workers-to be listed,

Mar 2004 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser Organizers-Hill, Eberly, Bedell, Guise, ?

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

Previous Mystery member's experience: This person has an ancient relative that was the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots. click for answer
MARCH 13. On this Saturday, it's not St. Patricks Day it is the District Assembly. In Altoona... at the Casino over at Lakemont Park on Saturday, March 13. The meeting starts at 9:00 am and should be over by 4:00 pm. President Hugh says, "If I recall correctly, the Club pays the registration fee." If you are interested in learning more about Rotary and the district try to attend.
The coupon book sale continues on. Please do all you can to sell these books now early in the year. The coupons are good through 2004. Linda Friedman reported earlier that the coupon book sale has reached the break even mark so every additional book is profit for the club. Great job Rotarians...Keep selling!!
Spaghetti dinner tickets have been handed out. 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.
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: It was Ellie Beaver. She was not in attendance so we'll hear about it later.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Patricia Smith from International Hospitality Council

Patricia Smith, from the International Hospitality Council spoke to the group today. IHC is a non-profit organization that is supported by the community, PSU, and the United Way.

Its mission is to bring together people of diverse national origins to foster intercultural understanding, to promote awareness of our roles as citizens in the wider global community, and to create good will.

They have several programs: Conversation partners, International Friendship, International Speakers, Survival English classes (ESL) and a Tax Assistance Program.

Their Web site is: www.international.psu.edu/ihc.

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Special Help Needed for our International Youth Exchange program: Doug Holmes our club chair of this program let us know that we need to be thinking about including our two Youth Exchange students (Paul & Mayumi) when we are planning activities for our own families that Paul or Mayumi could participate in too. Paul Beauregard Blanc, from France, is staying with the Johnsons (number is available from Doug Holmes or Carl Hill) and Mayumi Doi from Japan is staying with Doug Holmes now and in March will be staying with Harry Zimbler.

Activities could be going to a PSU basketball or sports game, or a State College High School game, or going to workout, or if you are playing sports, for instance soccer. Or if you are going to a show, perhaps including Mayumi or Paul in your plans is possible.

Additionally, the club needs to find a host family for Paul (France) for the final third of the year. Ideally this would be with a family that is involved in sports. Paul speaks English well and easily adapts to new families and situations. He is interested in sports. Please call Doug Holmes if you can help out or have questions about what is involved. Doug's office number is: 865-2513. His home number is 238-3205.

The District Conference is May 5-7 in Maryland. You can download a registration form online.

This week’s note taker: Mark Whitfield

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
Mar. 11 , 2004	Moose	Taverno	Zimbler	Assembly
Mar. 18, 2004	Mose	Turley	Abramson	Edwards
Mar. 25, 2004	Myrick	Walsh	Amato	Ferguson
April 1 , 2004	TBA	Whitfield	Aungst	Fetter
	April 2004 to be published later

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