State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #271
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS: (June 30, 2005)

Program: Club Assembly & Roger Fetter's last day in office!
Auction item: Amato
Note taker: Davis
Thank speaker: Fetter
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

July 7, 2005 TBA Club Assembly
July 14, 2005 No Meeting; We meet on 7/11 instead
July 21, 2005 Patrick Bradley our Whitewater Student

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: Jeff Bower and Charlie Wilson from the evening R.C.
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: None
50/50: This week Dick Jones drew the 5 of clubs leaving 49 cards to draw from next week with a pot of about $60 to split.
Auction: Bonnie Abramson provided the auction item today, a kabob rack and skewer ensemble and a certificate to Wegmans. The high bidder was Russ Brooks at $35

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

June 18, Parklet Childrens Space Building--Whitfield, Mose, Smith, Meckstroth, Rutter, Moose (x2), Eberly

June 10-12, Special Olympics--if you have a list of who volunteered please let me know

May 21, Parklet shrub planting and work for Children's Village---if you have a list of who volunteered please let me know

May 5-10, 15-16 Italian GSE Team escorts and Host families--Rutter, Pratt, Friedman, Held, Mose, Dayananda, Williams, Brooks

May 15-16, 2005 District Conference--
Hill, Rutter, Walsh, Fetter, Davis

May 5-9 & May 15-16, 2005 Group Study Exchange Team visit
Rutter, Dayananda, Held, Brooks, Pratt, Mose, Williams, Friedman

April 16, 2005 Spring Clean up at Lederer Park--
Ferguson-x2, Rutter-2, Sanders-x3, Walsh, Fetter, Mose, Domalski, Myrick, Meckstroth, Smith, Gambone, Hill

Happy

Bucks from: •Charlie Wilson announced that "Gypsy" opened last night and praised it (and even did a little dance). •Bob Williams gave thanks for the club's support of Mrs. Kerr's (CDT obituary) passing away (she was the wife of Tom Kerr of Nittany Office Equipment, a Rotary member).

Carol and Roger told us briefly about he International Conference. They said that Linda and Carl were there also. I believe Roger said everwhere he looked there were district governors.

Carl is still looking for a host family for a youth exchange girl from Germany for the first semester from August to Thanksgiving. Please contact him very soon if you can help.

Jeff Bower, chair of the Centre County Community Foundation, Inc. this year, asked Adrian Pratt to join him at the podium for a presentation. (Adrian just joined the Board of the foundation.) This foundation provides approximately $500,000 annually in grants for the Centre County area, and has received board authorization to award the combined State College Rotary clubs through the downtown Rotary Club Foundation a $5,000 grant; Roger mentioned that this will be of great assistance with the Parklet project, and thanked the foundation graciously.

Clearwater Conservancy is holding a fund raiser folk music concert and barbeque staring Tom Chapin.Get tickets by June 28 for a show on July 9.

Next year we have students from Poland and Brazil in addition to the girl from Germany. Carl says we have 6 chosen by the district for next year.

We sold more bricks than the evening club hence they will be serving supper to us on Monday, July 11 at the parklet.The dinner catered by Clem's Bar BQ started at 5:30 and the ceremony dedication starts at 6:30. It will be held in the Borough building on the Foster Avenue side.

Also on the Children's Village.... stayed tuned to the club list serv for information about a work party to finish it up. We are waiting on the Borough for a part or something to come in.

Denice Immel, and Ted Staats have resigned from the club. Ted moved back to Pittsburgh to manage his fathers business.

Tracy Sepich was inducted as a new Rotarian on June 16. She previously was a Rotarian in Oil City. She is a 4th generation Rotarian too, making her the second member of our club to be a 4th generation Rotarian. Do you know who the other one is? Ron Quinn was her sponsor. Tracy is an optometrist and has 4 children between ages 5 and 9.She's also a sustaining Paul Harris Fellow.

Dana Catalano announced that we are wrapping up the coupon sales. Please get your coupon books or money in. We are $2,000 down on this project from where we were last year.

For the upcoming school year, we have a Korean Ambassadorial Scholar that our club is responsible for serving as a host.The person assigned as not been named yet.

On June 22nd, there will be a second work session for the children's village.

The GSE visit to our district is over now. The Italian Rotary District's GSE team returned to Italy on May 16th.

Have you seen the new Pennsylvania license tags for Rotary? Rotary vanity license plates are available. There's a link on the District Web site to get them.

Next year's club president, Teresa Davis, is forming committees. If you are thinking about one in particular to serve on, please contact her.

The District Newsletter for May is available at the District Web site by
clicking on the link to the current newsletter. http://www.district7350.org

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.

There are two new Web pages up. One is for Rotary Foundation Program alumni.The hope or goal behind this page is to keep members aware of persons in our community that might benefit further from Rotary by membership or participation in other things we are doing. The second page is on the District Web site. It honors the Veterans in our Rotary community. Both pages are still in an initial building stage so if you know of anyone that has been left out, please let me know so I can include them.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Hemlock Council Girl Scouts, Rae Lynn Cox

Rae Lynn Cox from the Girl Scout's Hemlock Council spoke with us todya about scouting for girls.

Hemlock Girl Scout Council’s mission is simple though very important: To help girls succeed in life by providing the girls of central Pennsylvania with a unique, fun and challenging means to recognize and achieve their full potential as individuals.

The council, in partnership with adult volunteers, provides critical programming to more than 15,200 girls ages 5 to 17 in more than 1,100 registered troops and groups.

Volunteers help carry out every aspect of the Girl Scout program. To support our volunteers and help girls experience the benefits of Girl Scouting, the council provides the following services:

four program centers for year-round troop use
three service centers with Girl Scout shops, program resources and staff to assist members
a wide range of programs including summer resident camp
recruitment and education of adult volunteers for quality leadership of troops
administrative support to troops
Opportunity Fund for financial assistance with membership dues,
handbooks, uniforms and summer camp to members who need it

Girl Scouting has a rich history in central Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Milton and Philipsburg recorded troops as early as 1917, just five years after Juliette Gordon Low founded the first troop in Savannah, Georgia.

The movement grew quickly, as troops formed across the country. Girl Scouting continued to grow and prosper in central Pennsylvania. More and more girls were introduced to the ideals and values of the growing movement. In 1963, ten independent councils representing all or part of 15 central Pennsylvania counties merged to form Hemlock Girl Scout Council.

Hemlock Girl Scout Council serves all or part of the following counties: Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Sullivan, and Union.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

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Five years ago Brian Christian asked me if I would consider editing the newsletter since I was updating and attempting to code the previous editor's work for the club Website. I told Brian sure but I wasn't much of a writer and I didn't have a copier and would only by able to do it online. At the time I think we had five members that weren't online and I would fax the newsletter to them each week. That lasted for about two years and when Gene Lederer died and Marshall got an email account, I stopped faxing newsletters. We went all online and saved a tree or two. That was 271 weekly editions ago.

For me it has been a real bit of fun practicing my Web skills and getting the word out to everyone each week. I'm not a real creative writer but I have tried. I'll still be around doing the district newsletter, Web site, our club Web site and moderating the list serv until the technology gets the best of me or my comprehensive exams get the best of me. (I'm getting close on the Ph.D. work). Right now, between market research for Penn State Outreach--what I've been getting paid to do for nearly five years, (& what my doctoral studies are in); freelancing building Web sites, and the doctoral studies again; free time is in real short supply. It is time we had a real writer for our club newsletter anyway to move it up another notch.

Harry Zimbler is taking over next week and I'm looking forward to his newsletters for a real professional instead of an amateur's feeble attempts at prose. I'll see you all July 11 at the Children's Village dedication. I'm headed to Colorado for two weeks of hiking some of those big mountains they have out there with my brother, cousins, and uncle! ~~ Paul (ed.)

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Rotary Birthdays this month:

Meg Moose, July 4; Chuck Gambone, July 7; Pat Coble, July 14; Judy Myrick, July 24;
Ben Amato, July 30
(if I missed yours please email me)

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 the E-club
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
July 7	Bacastow	TBA	Ford	Assembly
July 14	We Meet on	July 11 at	Borough	Building 5:30 PM
July 21	Beaver	DeArmitt	Gambone
July 28	Bedell	Domalski	Held
August 4	Bell	Eberly	Hickey
August 11	Biddle	Edwards	Hill
August 18	Brooks	Ferguson	Holmes
August 25	Brytczuk	Fetter	Johnston

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