State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #320
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: December 7, 2006 (P.H.D.)

Program: Club Assembly
Auction item: Goldstein
Note taker: Mose
Thank speaker: n/a
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

December 7-10, 2006 Festival of Trees
December 14, 2006 No Regular Lunch Meeting
December 14, Charter party & Holiday Bash at Celebration Hall 6:30 PM Celebration Hall
December 21, 2006 Holiday/Christmas stocking stuffer auction
December 28, 2006 No meeting
January 4, 2007
January 11, 2007
January 18, 2007
January 25, 2007

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians:
Make-ups turned in:
Guests:
50/50: We are down to 33 cards with a pot of about $425.
Auction: The auction item was a gift certificate from Joe Geise. The winning bid was very high, around $75.

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

Festival of the Trees, Dec 7-10. Jim Eberly is in the lead with other club members.

Fall 2006 Entertainment Book committee: Bedell, Geise, Jones

Sept 10, 2006 Support to Operation Salute: Holmes, Mose, Davis, Domalski, Rutter, Dearmitt (x2), Abramson, Eberly (x2), Fetter, Christian, Williams

Fall 2006 Semester Hosting Youth Exchange Students-

April 22, 2006 Lederer Park Clean up: Pam Ferguson and her crew of Tracey Sepich and kids, Barbie Collins, Hugh Mose, Paul Rutter & wife Anne.

Mar. 22, 2006 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser, We all are selling.

Happy Bucks came from: Lost the notes, sorry folks. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.... ad infinitum!

The Festival of Trees will be December 7-10. Jim Eberly is the chairperson for this event. One of the things we can all do to help is bake goodies for sale at our concession stand in the Ag Arena where the event is being held. Just deleiver your goodies when ever is good for you, remember the earlier the better so we have more open hours to sell them in. Try to put them in little baggies that could sell for $.50 cents.

In honor of the Rotary Foundation month, which is November, and to promote Paul Harris Fellowship participation, our club's Foundation Committee members are gathering a number of attractive items, which are added to a huge gift basket. The committee sponsored a raffle of this gift basket and the proceeds of the raffle will be donated to the Rotary International Foundation in our name. Linda Friedman was the big winner!

A wine tasting party was held on November 3 at Carol Walsh's home. Thanks to all who participated. This was a fun evening and raised over $250 for the club.

Thank you to those who helped place labels on the dictionaries last week.

Carl Hill will be setting up this years youth exchange program. If anyone is interested contact Carl.

The District Newsletter is avaialble at the District Web site,

Dick Jones and Don Bedell talked about the coupon book preparations. If you have not signed up to contact restaurants you will be have one assigned to you.

GSE (Group Study Exchange): The team from Germany visiting us in April 2007 was announced by the German district.We will need help housing them for a few nights and activities for them to participate with. Their brief bios are:

Lutheran minister (team leader); age 52, male, married
Industrial sales for a sausage factory; visit business school, retailers; age 32, male, single
Inport/export, logistics solutions, Sales manager; age 31, male, single
Jeweler, creates, journeyman goldsmith; age 28, female, single
Accountant, training instructor; age 29, female, single
Export sales for industrial company; age 39, male, married

Teresa shared information about our meals at Damon's. Each week we have an option of a house salad or the entre prepared for us that day. At no time is anyone to request to have chicken or steak added to the salad. All that we are contracted for is the garden salad. Additionally when you request special salads; the orders for everyone else get backlogged because the server is also the one that has to prepare the salad. There is additional cost that is borne by the club when you place requests for extras too.

The committee assignments were placed on the tables; it was also proposed to have a "Minute Man" list for potential speakers available on a short notice if a scheduled speaker is prevented from coming.

Teresa shared news from the Penn State Rotaract club for the new academic year. Over 50 persons showed up to an informational session. These were students that had been involved with Rotary as Interacters in high school.

Todd passed out coins from the PA National Guard to all Rotarians that helped with the event.

Point your web browser to: http://www.rotilink.org/eClubs/ click on a club's Website and follow the directions to do make-ups with the e-club. At the end, you print out your make up slip and submit it to current secretary Rainer Domalski.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Campbell Plowden on the Center For Amazon Community Ecology

Dr. Plowden was here at the invitation of Meg Moose. Dr. Plowden does research in the Amazon River basin area to help the natives have a better life with all the changes that occur through deforestation and mining of the respources that belong the the native peoples.

Here is an article I found on the Web that speaks about his activities nad concenrs for the area.

Note taker: Paul Rutter

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Rotary Birthdays this month:

President Doug Holmes, December 16
(if I missed yours please email me and let the club secretary know too)

Etc.

M A K E - U P S

Reminders on makeup's:
All makeup's are good for credit toward meetings missed 14 days before or 14 days after the makeup. Makeup's made at other Rotary Club meetings also get a dues credit. Makeup's at service projects get attendance credit only. All makeup cards should be turned into the club secretary promptly. To find out where you can makeup, check the RI Club Directory, or District Web site.

NEIGHBORING CLUBS- check out the web site listing or one of the E-clubs all over the world
MEMBERS- check out the web site listing
COMMITTEE CHAIRS- check out the web site listing

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DATE	AUCTION	MEETING NOTES	THANK SPEAKER	PROGRAM
December 14	Held	Myrick	Pratt
December 21	Hickey	Ostrich	Rutter
December 28	Holmes	Potalivo	Sanders
January 4	Johnston	Pratt	Sepich

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“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.”
-Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland
in The Rotarian, January 2006

"Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

district 7350; club 24095
State College Downtown Rotary; P.O. Box 10742; State College, PA 16805- 0742

Contact club webmaster & newsletter editor: Paul Rutter

“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.” -Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland in The Rotarian, January 2006

“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.”
-Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland
in The Rotarian, January 2006