State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Program: Pam Calkins, Master Gardener Program on 10th; Bob Finley, University Park Airport Development on 17th
Auction Item: Bell; Brytczuk
Invocation: Dayananda; Dearmitt
Note Taker: J.Eberly; Edwards
Thank speaker: Rawson; TBA
future assignments

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 DG Doug Riley
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
October 9 David Jordan, CBICC Incubator
October 16 Scott Conklin, Centre County Jail

Visiting Rotarians: Chuck Neidermeyer & Geoff Wilson from the evening club
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Our Rotary Youth Exchange student, J.R. was visiting; Maggie Patt Biddle, GM of the Atherton Hotel a guest of Paul Rutter, and Ben Amato, a guest of Chuck Gambone.
50/50: Pat Coble drew the King of Hearts. The pot has about $450 in it.
Auction: Teresa Davis was the high bidder on a set of tickets to HErshey Park and some t-shirts from Don Bedell. The high bid was $75.

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.
This is in the notes so I'm including it: Meg is turning 40 July 4th.
Marshall was married.
The club accepted two requests for leaves of absence. One from Mark Meckstroth who will be traveling after his recent retirement, and the second from Maryann Eberle who will be moving to Las Vegas and wants to retain her membership in Rotary while she moves.
The club board accepted the budget presented by President Hugh.
Doug Holmes has offered to accept the role of club secretary since Maryann is moving.
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 are being sent up for registering.
Hugh has passed around club committee assignments.
Thanks to all who helped with the Volleyball fund raiser, we earned about $1488.32
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.
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.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Club Assembly

Today, President Meg Moose presided over her last meeting as our President. We were fortunate to have her leadership for the past year. Meg in her last actions as president, went through the years accomplishments and presented Rotary aprons to all her board members.

President Meg then announced who the President's Award was going to. She cited "for his willingness and offering to take on additional roles in the club and his willingness to learn more about the club in order to achieve higher levels of performance for the club." The recipient was Hugh Mose for a second time. Congratulations to Hugh!

The next award given out by President Meg was the Rotarian of the Year award as voted on by the members of the club. This went to the retiring (but never shy) famous cook of our club, and our treasurer Carl Hill. He is involved heavily as the coordinator of Rotary Youth Exchange too, an all around expert on Rotary, and our district. Carl was a Rotary president back in 1980 and was the district governor some years later.

At our luncheon meeting this week I heard a comment that some of Carl's parishioners thought that Carl works for Rotary but is paid by the church he ministered to. Nonetheeless it has been quite a great terrific deal for our club and Rotary in the district and he IS a very valuable member.

Hugh Mose was installed as the new Rotary president by PDG Carol Walsh and Hugh's first act of duty as president was awarding to Meg the past presidents pin.

Finally toward the end of our meeting, J.R. Orengo, our exchange student from Brazil, said a few words of thanks. The thanks was very short but it was among the most moving words I (Paul) have heard in 15 years of Rotary membership. JR told us that the year here has been the most rewarding experience he could imagine and he pleaded for us to continue the program while he fought back tears. There is no doubt in my mind that anyone in attendance will work even harder to continue the program and others to further the effect that Rotary is able to have on continuing generations throughout the world. Even one of our guests for lunch and a prospective member emailed me to tell me how inspiring JR's thanks and farewell was. There is no doubt that she will make a great member too, if invited to join us! (By the way our Rotarian of the Year, aptly picked by the members is responsible for the youth exchange program on the district level.)

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter & Teresa Davis
Photos: Paul Rutter

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

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter