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Edition: #182
Editor: Paul Rutter
TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS: (July 3, 2003)

Program: Club Assembly || Changing of the Guard too!
Auction Item:
Bedell
Invocation: Davis
Note Taker: Domalski
Thank speaker
: Assembly
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS & EVENTS



July 1 Board meeting at autoport 8:00 a.m.
Rotary Centennial & HistoryJuly 10 Pam Calkins, Master Gardner Program
July 12 District picnic at Altoona Curve and Amusement Park
July 17 Bob Finley, University Park Airport Development
July 24 Betsy Allen, Schlow Library Project
July 31 Mike Negra, State Theatre Project
August 7 Club Assembly
August 14 SPCA John Matrisciano
August 21 Elliott Abrams, Accu-weather - 50th anniversary
August 28 Bob Heisse- CDT September
September 4 Club Assembly
September 11 Don Sherman- United Nations Association- Foxdale
September 18 Corey Miller- UAJA- UAJA Beneficial Reuse Project
September 25 Dave Modricker- Public Works Director, Ferguson Township- Western Inner Loop
October 2 Club Assembly

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: Geoff Wilson from trhe evening club
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Our Rotary Youth Exchange student, Sabina was visiting

50/50: We didn't have an auction today since we were traveling. The pot has about $235 in it.
Auction: Paul Rutter was the high bidder on a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble from Ellie Beaver. The high bid was $35.

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

    6/4-8 Special Olympics
    Carol Walsh, Chris Turley, Gary Brytczuk, Roger Fetter, Rose Kauffman, Pat Coble, Ron Taverno, Richard Jones, Chris Potalivo, Chuck Gambone, Paul Bell, Hugh Mose (TWICE!), Meg Mose, Leanne & Abby Martin, Rainer Domalski, Linda Friedman, and Paul Rutter

    5/24-26 Memorial Day Volleyball tournament fundraiser
    Whitfield, Kauffman, Gambone, Christian, Martin*, Bell, Brytczak, Lucci*, Fetter, Zimbler, Eberle, Hill*, Eberly*, Goldstein*, Holmes*, Edwards, Hudson*, Beaver, Dayananda, Domalski*, Mose*, Bedell, Hickey, Moose*, Held, Taverno*, Rawson
    * brought along spouse/family/friends to help including: Ben Martin, Dolly Lucci, Jan Hill, Sue Eberly, Harriet Goldstein, Kate Holmes, Katarina Litvinovic, Jackie Sheader, Eva Domalski, Janyce Mose & Clark Moose

    **Katarina worked 20+ hours**

    5/4 Lederer Memorial Ice Cream
    Moose, Taverno, Brytczuk, Mose, Coble, King, Rutter, Eberly, Walsh, Held, Christian, Kaufman, Bell, Meckstroth, Dayananda, Goldstein

  • HOST FAMILIES are still needed for the youth exchange program. Contact Ron Taverno if you can help out with thi important area of support.
  • Teresa passed out membership rosters. These are also available on the Web. Contact Paul for the web address. (There is not a link to it to protect your privacy)
  • Linda Friedman told us we voted to do a coupon book this coming year as a fund raiser to help support Polio Plus.
  • The District Picnic is still on July 12. Maybe it will stop raining for an afternoon!
  • Foundation bylaws have been approved and all being sent up for registering.
  • Hugh has pased around signup sheets for club committee assignments. We all need to sign up for at least two committees. I'm guessign that failure will get you assigned to two anyway.
  • Thanks to all who helped with the Volleyball fund raiser, we earned about $1488.32
  • If you are keeping email addresses, Brian Christian changed his the new one is: bdc@chilitech.com
  • Rotary International approved an Internet Club. It can be used for make-ups. The URL to the club is http://www.rotaryeclubone.org.
  • Sign up for the Special Olympics. We need to fill up all the spaces by next week.
  • The club's board voted to support spending $200 to sponsor the International Week at the new Penn State Theatre by the PSU College of Arts and Architecture. More will be written about this.
  • Meg brought in a great article from Fortune.com from 4/30/03 entitled “Rotary vs. Polio.” (click link to read it!)
  • The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. It only works if you are a subscriber so if you aren't on it and want to know even more about the club 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.
Previous Week's Speaker: MiniTab

The speaker today was Todd Hershbine from Minitab, the exalted Human Resources poobah. Actually Todd is responsible for HR and many more things over there exemplifying Minitab's borderless and redefining theory of management.

We had a nice lunch catered in by Manhattan Bagel due to Leann Martin's arranging too.

Todd began by telling us a little bit about MiniTab and the statistical software that they created and market worldwide for data sciences and 6 Sigma purposes.

Minitab was founded whenBarbara Ryan, a Penn State professor was lookign for a way to bring technology to the classroom. At the time computers were rather huge and tiem was spent aranging command cards rather than lookign for anomolies in data. MiniTab evolved from her efforts back then to be an international company headquartered in State College. Minitab has 160 employees in the US and 21 overseas in England and France.

While Barbara was developing the software her brother helped to develop the corporate culture that exists to this day of a more humnistic approach to management. After a description of the mission and culture I heard a Rotarian ask is a telecommmunications engineer was needed.

The company was very kind to have us visit. We were even permitted to wander about to check out the facilities.They truly exhibit the share the wealth and share the pain philosophy.

I used the softeware when doing quantiative research and love it for its ease of use and their customer care when I have trouble!

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

Rotary Birthdays this month:

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

I'm missing dates for: Davis, and Hudson.

Etc.

 

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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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Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter
DATE
AUCTION
INVOCATION
NOTES
THANKS
July 10
Bell
Dayananda
M. Eberle
Rawson
July 17
Brytczuk
Dearmitt
J. Eberly
Rutter
July 24
Christian
Domalski
Edwards
Taverno
July 31
Coble
M. Eberle
Ferguson
Turley
August 7
Davis
J. Eberly
Fetter
Assembly
August 14
Dayananda
Edwards
Friedman
Walsh
August 21
Dearmitt
Ferguson
Gambone
Whitfield
August 28
Domalski
Fetter
Geise
Zimbler
Sept. 4
M. Eberle
Friedman
Goldstein
Assembly
Sept. 11
J. Eberly
Gambone
Hampton
Abramson
Sept. 18
Edwards
Geise
Held
Aungst
Sept. 25
Ferguson
Goldstein
Hickey
Bacastow
July's to be published later

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