State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: Margie Navarro of Altoona R.C.
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Nevin King, son of Jana King; Barbi Collins, guest of Melissa Aungst
50/50: There are 24 cards left. The pot is about $1300. Ben Amato used his special eye tricks to try to read from the botton of the deck, but it was to no avail as he drew a black king and not the ace of spades.
Auction: Melissa Aungst donated 4 tickets to an Easter Seals fund raiser at Toftrees with entertainment and dinner prepared by the Hummingbird Room. Jana King was the lucky high bidder at $80. Thanks to Melissa and Jana.

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

June 13-14 RYEX sleep over-home stay - Mose, Eberly, Hill, King, Rutter, Taverno, Zimbler, Davis, plus more to be listed as soon as I learn who they are.

June 4-6 Community Service Special Olympics - Potalivo, Catalano, DeArmitt, Abramson, Bedell, Zimbler, Coble, Davis, Brytzcuk, Walsh, Taverno x3, Hill, Jones, Christian, Fetter, Bell, Hellyer, Carol Lloyd, Domalski

May 29-31 Volleyball Concession Stand Fundraiser -Whitfield, Bell, Zimbler x2, Christian, Friedman, Hellyer, DGE Jerry Friedman, Jones x2, Kauffman, Rutter x2, Bedell, Holmes x2, Carol Lloyd, Eberly x2, Held, Fetter, Mary Johnston, Mose x2, Coble, Debbie Fudrow, Meckstroth, Beaver, Taverno x2.

April Lederer Park Spring clean-up.

Mar 12 & 13 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser Workers-the entire club helped in some capacity, I think,

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

Previous Mystery member's experience: This member was struck by lightning. click for answer
International Conference 2005 is in Chicago, June 18-22, 2005.
Meg had her baby. She and the baby named Lauren Anne are doing great at home and husband Clark must be having fun cleaning and taking care of all four in the family this week.
Brian Christian graduated from Leadership Centre County.
Ben Amato noted that his wife will be celebrating 45 years of marriage to him on June 11th. Or maybe it is the other way around!
The home stay for all the RYEX students is this Sunday night. Thanks for signing up to take them home with you.The are headed out for a nine day trip exploring a lot of our part of America starting at Niagara Falls.
If you are trying to make sustaining Paul Harris Fellowship levels you have one week left to get the funds in. Sustaining is $100 per year. The club matches the first and last hundred to reach Paul Harris Fellow levels of $1000. Contact Carl with questions.
Remember to choose your email recipients wisely. Check whether your email will go to an individual or the lsit serv when you choose respond. You may have to cut and paste or type in the email address of the new recipient. Ask Paul if you have questions.
Thanks to all that helped at the Volleyball Fundraiser
The next board meeting is Tuesday, July 6, 2004. 8:00 a.m. It will be Roger's first presiding.
Thanks to everyone that helped with Special Olympics and Volleyball.
Ellie Beaver was recognized for the great job United Way did at the trash to treasure. The UW raised over $50,000. Ellie immediately recognized the hundreds of volunteers it took to pull it off. It was pretty awesome--folks lined up 3/4 way around Beaver Stadium to pay $5 to get in early! -ed.
Carl and Jan Hill spoke about the International Convention that they visited in Japan. Carl was still bowing to Rotarians as he came into the meeting today. They said there was 45,000 people there. The highlight for them was the youth exchange portion.
David Hellyer was inducted in the club. He runs Comfort Keepers so that folks can stay in their homes longer as an alternative to nursing care. We'll learn more at a classification talk.
This is our first year in a long time participating. RYLA is Rotary Youth Leadership.
Jim Eberly mentioned the Centennial project. We are selling bricks for $100 to raise money for the park. The subsequent bricks are $50. Funds donated are through the clubs 501(c)3 so that means tax deductible.At summer concerts in the parklet we will be doing water sales to raise money too. The dates are July 27 and August 10. Mark your calendar!
The District Newsletter is online at the district Web site.
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 other than new mom for a second time, Meg Moose. Meg will have to let us know when she returns from maternity leave in a couple of months what exactly happened when she was struck by lightening!

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Previous Week's Speaker: Al Matyasovsky (Trash to Treasure)

Our speaker today was Al Matyasovsky. Al works for PSU responsible among other things for special event recycling. PSU tries to keep our land fills from being to large and if funds can be recovered that is a great benefit. Al is a diehard Penn Stater with two kids having graduated and one a sophomore almost. He's been married 34 years to the same woman.

Pennsylvania State University (PSU), nationally acclaimed for its academics and sports, also is known for its recycling program. Al Matyasovsky, a supervisor of central support services in the Office of Physical Plant, leads the recycling efforts on campus and facilitated the university’s Trash to Treasure collection event with the United Way of Centre County.

Trash to Treasure encouraged PSU students to donate usable clothes, furniture, electronics and other items to the local United Way. Each dorm served as a collection point, and volunteers sorted clothes and organized all donations. Al and his team collected more than 70 tons of materials ranging from cameras and coats to appliances and couches.

In 2004 there were 80 tons and raised $54,673. In 2003 there were 70 tons and raised 38,000, and in 2002 there was 72 tons and $15,000 of money raised. Al let us knew that the generosity truely is of the students becasue they don't just abandon things- they have to actively place material to be donated in certain areas of dorms. Al says this is a great way for students to learn about philanthropy.

“Trash to Treasure supports the environmental stewardship mission of keeping materials from the landfill and reducing the total refuse generated by Penn State through creative recycling and reuse initiatives,” Al said. “This also is a fine example of ‘town and gown’ partnership to support our neighbors in need through the United Way and its agencies.”

Al also coordinates the campus Newspaper Readership Program, which recycles used newspapers to fund a scholarship for PSU students. To date, this program has saved 11,845 trees and 2,085 cubic yards of landfill space.

More about Al & Trash to Treasure:
http://www.greenworks.tv/gazette/fallwinter2002/page4.htm
http://www.psu.edu/oldmain/fab/dnews/almatyasovsky.htm
http://www.ccunitedway.org/trashtotreasurepics.html
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/centredaily/entertainment/8783351.htm

Please see announcements section for other news.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

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DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
June 24, 2004	Beaver	Catalano	Dayananda	Immel
July 1, 2004	Bedell	Christian	Dearmitt	Johnston
July 8, 2004	Bell	Coble	DeLong	Club Assembly
July 15, 2004	Brooks	Davis	Domalski	Jones
July 22, 2004	Brytczuk	Dayananda	Eberly	Kauffman
July 29, 2004	Catalano	Dearmitt	Edwards	King
August 5, 2004	Christian	DeLong	Ferguson	Club Assembly
Aug. 12, 2004	Coble	Domalski	Friedman	Martella
Aug. 19, 2004	Davis	Eberly	Gambone	Martin
Aug. 26, 2004	Dayananda	Edwards	Geise	Meckstroth
Sept. 2, 2004	Dearmitt	Ferguson	Goldstein	Moose
Sept 9, 2004	DeLong	Friedman	Held	Club Assembly
Sept. 16, 2004	Domalski	Gambone	Hickey	Mose
Sept. 23, 2004	Eberly	Geise	Hill	Myrick
	October 2004 to be published later

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