State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

April 1-30 Group Study Exchange to South Korea
April 1 Club assembly
April 8 Dean Thomas, IST Building
April 15
April 22
April 29
May 6
May 6-8 District Conference

Visiting Rotarians:
Make-ups turned in: Pretty much all of us from workign the spaghetti dinner
Guests: Randy Phillips, a guest of Dick Jones
50/50: There are 35 cards left to draw from for a pot of about $400. Marshall drew the 4 of hearts.
Auction: Chris Potalivo donated a flight over New York City and back with dinner that was won by Dick Held for $200. Chris was pretty cool about the bidding that went really high and offered to provide the same flight and dinner for Roger Fetter, the second of two really high bidders for the same $200 bid. A second auction fora flight instruction book was won by Chris for $20.

No... just joking a second auction item- a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble- went for $22 to Marshall Goldstein. I'm not sure who the contributor was.

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 was involved with horses growing up in several areas as an equestrian master rider. click for answer
While I'm in Korea on GSE, Harry Zimbler will be doing the newsletter in a printed version.-Paul
Congratulations to Rose Kauffman for her involvement with the Mediation Project in Penns Valley.
A new member, Dana Catalano has been accepted for membership and will be inducted as soon as possible.
The membership committee is underway under new chairpersonship, Terry Edwards.
The preliminary results of the spaghetti dinner fund raiser are in... the auction committee under Joe Geise able leadership did awesome. Their unofficial, unaudited results show a yield of over $2185.00!!
The promotions were great. There were ads on the cable TV barker channel, and on the radio.
Another area was the ads sold on the placemats under Don Bedell's expert salesman eye. Don was able to get food products too. Great work there too!
Another are a not to be over looked was a non member of the fund raising committee, Linda Friedman who came to every meeting and provided great input and support.
Dick Held was in charge of sign-ups and everyone showed up!!
Jim Eberly's eldest daughter, a PSU alumna in HRT helped optimize our labor.
And Carl Hill provided oversight and prep work details with Jim Eberly being the king pin of the whole show!!
Our acting president next week will be Doug Holmes filling in for Teresa who is filling in for Roger who is filling in for Hugh.
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!!
The District Newsletter is online at the district Web site.
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 Carol Walsh. She was in junior high school at the time she would like us to remember.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Paul Rutter with a preview of the GSE presentation

Our speaker was me, Paul Rutter.

We learned a little bit about the presentation the team of Bob Williams, Joy Bridy, Pam Brennan and myself will be giving four or five times a week next month in South Korea as guests of District 3630. Without blabbing too much, the presentation is online at the district Web site and right here in power point.

The goal of the presentation was to be high in graphics since there is a language barrier. We are also trying to make the slides interactive at times, instead of a boring lecture style format. We do this by including objects that reflect on Korean culture as part of America's melting pot too.

Here's the link to the GSE show in power point.

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

This week’s note taker: Terry Edwards

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
April 8, 2004	Rawson	Zimbler	Bacastow	Club Assembly
April 15, 2004	Rutter (In Korea)	Abramson	Beaver	Friedman
April 22, 2004	Taverno	Amato	Bedell	Gambone
April 29, 2004	Turley	Aungst	Bell	Geise
May 6, 2004	Walsh	Bacastow	Patt-Biddle	Club Assembly
May 13, 2004	Whitfield	Beaver	Brooks	Goldstein
May 20, 2004	Zimbler	Bedell	Brytzcuk	Hampton
May 27, 2004	Abramson	Bell	Christian	Held
June 3, 2004	Amato	Patt-Biddle	Coble	Club Assembly
June 10, 2004	Aungst	Brooks	Davis	Hickey
June 17, 2004	Bacastow	Brytzcuk	Dayananda	Hill
June 24, 2004	Beaver	Christian	DeArmitt	Holmes
	July 2004 to be published later

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter