State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians:
Make-ups turned in:
Guests:
50/50: There are 31 cards if no one drew the ace of spades while I was in Korea. The pot is probably about $500.
Auction:

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, ?

Previous Mystery member's experience: This section will return shortly. click for answer
While I'm in Korea on GSE, Harry Zimbler will be doing the newsletter in a printed version.-Paul
Dana Catalano has been accepted for membership, making him the second active member of our club to emigrate from Lewistown.(I'm the other one-Paul)
The membership committee is underway under new chairpersonship, Terry Edwards.
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: to return

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

Since I have no clue what we did last week, I'll just let you know briefly that the trip to Korea was a huge success. I loved every minute of it. It was a challenge and I think we all met it. From the live baby octopus being chopped up in front of us to eat (& we did with relish), the boiled silk worm larvae & the roasted locusts and grasshoppers, and not to forget the 15 varieties of kim chi-- yum! We were feted by mayors and city council members, university presidents, living national treasures, corporation directors, and every Rotarian we had the priviledge to meet.
Former GSE team members Pam and Russ and GSE leader Dick didn't tell me how we would be treated like royalty--I'm not used to that treatment!
The Korean Rotarians and families are to be commended for their extreme generosity, friendliness, and complete ability to keep us occupied 100% of our time. We would visit ginseng open markets in the morning and climb mountains in the afternoon. We visited temples, cultural sites and museums. We never had a day off, there was so much to do and see.
That might be the only complaint. We never had time to wander on our own and wonder at Korea.
It was a blast! Thanks to Rotary and my wife for encouraging me to go.

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: Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
May 13, 2004	Whitfield	Beaver	Brooks	Goldstein
May 20, 2004	Zimbler	Bedell	Brytzcuk	Hampton
May 27, 2004	Abramson	Bell	Catalano	Held
June 3, 2004	Amato	Patt-Biddle	Christian	Club Assembly
June 10, 2004	Aungst	Brooks	Coble	Hickey
June 17, 2004	Bacastow	Brytzcuk	Davis	Hill
June 24, 2004	Beaver	Catalano	Dayananda	Holmes
	July 2004 to be published later

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