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Edition: #279
Editor: Paul Rutter
TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: February 16, 2006
Program: (Trudeau) baritone Keith Phares at the Foxdale Village
Auction item
: Kauffman
Note taker: Pratt
Thank speaker
: Williams

future assignments
FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

February 16, 2006 Trudeau, A recital by a visiting artist in residence at Foxdale Village
February 23, 2006
Beaver "Smart Start" Update
March 2, 2006
March 9, 2006 Assembly
March 16, 2006
Mose Joe Walter, Rte 322 Lewistown Narrows Project
March 23, 2006
March 30, 2006
April 6, 2006 Assembly
April 13, 2006
May 5-7, 2006 District Conference, Altoona

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Ginger (Paul & Anne's basset) says the next meeting on February 16 is at Foxdale Village!Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Lester Cutter from Boyer & Ritter, a guest of PDG Carol Walsh
50/50: The 50/50 drawing was the 3 of diamonds drawn by Roger Fetter, leaving 19 cards to draw from next week with a pot of about $1400 to split.
Auction: Auctioneer extraordinaire Chuck Gambone auctioned off two items - a trio of Penn State paraphanalia, a finger a ham and a basketball that were won by __________for $15. Our speaker Lou Prato brought a book he wrote, the Enclopaedia of Penn State Fooball as an auction item and it went to the high bidder Mary Dearmitt for $63!

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

Dec. 21, 2005 Holiday Party, Brytczuk-Great party, Gary! Thanks!

Dec 10, 2005 Festival of the Trees-a lot of us, names coming. Ray Papale head volunteer

Fall Semester Hosting Youth Exchange Students-

Value Coupon Books- Collins, Sepich, (all of us selling)

 

  • Happy Happy Bucks are funds paid to the club to speak up and tell all why you are happy!Bucks from: • Dr./Colonel Todd Bacastow who was happy to have his son Todd joining us at Rotary today. Todd was the first Rotaract president and helped get the club started here about 5 years ago.




  • Amy Vashaw, Audience and Program Development Director at the Center for the Performing Arts has confirmed the details with Foxdale for the Rotary meeting at noon followed by a program in their auditorium starting at about 12:30 pm by baritone Keith Phares and his accompanist. Residents of Foxdale will be attending the program as well. The club will be ordering in box lunches from Irvings.
  • Two prospective members (LC and JG) had their names go into the ten day period. If there is any reason you see why either should not become members of the club please contact president Teresa.
  • Paul Bell has consented to conduct new member orientation, for new members, Wednesday, February 22nd, at Damon's, at 11:45-1:15.(Same room as our regular luncheon meeting). Lunch will be provided.
  • Our club's next monthly board meeting will be held at the Autoport, at 8AM, Tuesday the 7th of March.
  • Don Bedell, Ray Papale, and Jim Eberly made announcements regarding the upcoming spaghetti dinner: Jim says to sell tickets, Ray says he is pounding the streets speaking with local merchants for silent auction items, and Don mentioned that he is assumptively closing all those past contributors for ad placements on our placemat for the event.
  • It is not too early to register for the District Assembly and the District Conference.
  • Spaghetti dinner, (March 22) tickets were passed out by Jim Eberly.
  • Auction items for the event are being sought by Ray Papale.
  • Coupon sales are going well. Some have been sold by mail. Extras can be picked up from Tracy Sepich.
  • Quarterly bills were distributed by Carl Hill. The Club needs the money.
  • The Bowl Games Football Pool is over now. The lucky winner was Jim Eberly! The club earned $25 and so did Jim.
  • Sell Sell Sell your coupon books. Paul made a flier that might help sell these things which actually sell themselves: 49 coupons for various values in town! Contact Rotarian Dr. Tracy Sepich to get your coupon books. Her office is over by Lowes and the old Philatelic building.
  • Point your web browser to: http://www.rotaryeclubone.org/index.html click on programs 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 Linda Friedman.
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    Previous Week's Speaker: Lou Prato, author Penn State Football Encyclopedia

    Lou Prato, retired Penn State journalism professor and recently retired from director of the Penn State All-Sports museum spoke to the club on Penn State football before Joe Paterno. A great talk. Here are highlights of the museum and his book.

    The All-Sports museum honors the student-athletes and coaches down through history who have helped make Penn State's intercollegiate athletic program one of the best in the nation. Inside the museum, the inspirational story of men's and women's sports at Penn State is shown in dramatic visuals that cover the walls from floor to ceiling. You'll see larger-than-life action photographs, many of them rare archival images. You'll see the equipment the athletes use and the uniforms they wear. You'll see a collection of Penn State men's and women's trophies including college football's fabled Heisman trophy (won by John Cappelletti in 1973), the Lombardi Award, the Maxwell Award, and two of women's collegiate athletics' highest honors, the Broderick Award and the Wade trophy. Olympic memorabilia from many of the university’s more than 125 Olympians are also on display, including the only Gold Medal won by a Penn State athlete in an individual event--Horace Ashenfelter in the Steeplechase in 1952.

    Book Description
    In 1993, the Penn State football team played its inaugural season as the eleventh member of the Big Ten Conference, ending more than 100 years as a football independent. In The Penn State Football Encyclopedia, author Louis Prato chronicles 110 years of Nittany Lion football. The encyclopedia includes season-by-season reviews and player profiles of over 350 football lettermen. Read about the team's several undefeated seasons and the exhilaration of their first National Championship in 1982, as well as the accomplishments of players like Rosey Grier, Lenny Moore, Jack Ham, John Cappelletti, Ki-Jana Carter and Kerry Collins. And no one symbolizes Penn State football more than Joe Paterno, who spent 16 years as an assistant before replacing Rip Engle and beginning his "Grand Experiment" of producing true scholar-athletes in 1966. Add The Penn State Football Encyclopedia to your library and take a walk through the history of "Linebacker U."



    Note taker: Paul Rutter

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    Rotary Birthdays this month:

    Jim Eberly, February 10; Judy Myrick, February 24;
    (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
    SGT at ARMS
    February 16
    Kauffman
    Pratt
    Williams
    Trudeau
    Sepich
    February 23
    King
    Rutter
    Abramson
    Beaver
    Sepich
    March 2
    Martella
    Sanders
    Goldstein
    March 9
    Meckstroth
    Sepich
    Assembly
    Assembly
    Goldstein
    March 16
    Moose
    Smith
    Bacastow
    Mose
    Goldstein
    March 23
    Mose
    Taverno
    Beaver
    Goldstein
    March 30
    Myrick
    Trudeau
    Goldstein


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