State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Program: Mike Negra, State Theatre Project
Auction Item: Coble
Invocation: Eberly
Note Taker: Fetter
Thank speaker: Turley
future assignments

August 7 Club Assembly
August 14 SPCA John Matrisciano
August 20 Ag Progress Days Dinner (See announcements for info)
August 21 DG Doug Riley
August 28 Bob Heisse- CDT
September 4 Club Assembly
September 11 Don Sherman- United Nations Association- Foxdale
September 18 Corey Miller- 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
October 23 TBA
October 30 TBA
November 6 Club Assembly
November 13 Solid Waste Plant-Site Tour & Lunch!

Visiting Rotarians: Carol Lloyd & President Deb from the Pleasant Gap club
Make-ups turned in: Linda Friedman had two make-ups; Paul Rutter- one make-up from the E-club.
Guests:Chris Kirkpatrick from Sovereign Bank a guest of Denise Immel, and Jerry Whetston accomanying the speaker Betsy Allen, both from the library. Jim _______ from the Keystone payroll was a guest of Chris and Kelly Kerner. (I should know, I see his ads in the CDT often but I didn't listen close enough-apologies to our guest for missing the last name Please come again and let me havea second try! -editor.
50/50: Carl Hill drew the queen of clubs and took no money home with him. There are blank cards left and a pot of about $600.
Auction: A fancy golf club and three boxes of chocolates were donated by Brian Christian and the high bidder was Darren Johnston with $50.

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

We learned the average age of the club is between 45 and 50. I'm still on the underside of the average!!
Ag Progress Days dinner is going to be on Wednesday, August 20, at 6:00 pm, and the cost is $12.00. Sign-up sheets were passed around. This event is co-hosted by the evening Rotary club and the State College Kiwanis club.
Ron announced that the club audit committee will be meeting soon. If you need to leave the country say your good-byes now. Don't hesitate.
HOST FAMILIES are still needed for the youth exchange program. Contact Ron Taverno if you can help out with thi important area of support.
Doug Holmes has offered to accept the role of club secretary.
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.
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: Betsy Allen, Schlow Library Project

Teresa Davis introduced our speaker Betsy Allen and her helper Jerry Wettstone, a local REALTOR.

Betsy gave us some statitstics about the library after a brief senior moment of remembering or not if she has spoken to us in the previous fall of 2002.

All 6 municipalities in Centre County provide funding for the public library, something that doesn't always happen in most communities.
The library loaned out 524,000 items a 12% increase over 2 years previous. Betsy said that this makes sense because when the economy is in the tanks, public library usage whether it is reading magazines, or checking out books will increase. Betsy said that the public computer usage has increased too.
There are 34,000 library card holders and 126,000 items are in the library.
The library is open daily. In the summer there isa childrens sumer readign program. 1400 children are involved in this which extends to 5 elemmentary schools being helped by the library.

Betsy told us that the current library building is "far too old." The library is 38% of the size of libraries for other communities the size of Centre County. But not too worry there is a new library in the works and there is a capital campaign underway to help support the building. The new building will be in the same place as the current Schlow Library and extend back to the Goodwill building. In the capital campaign the public portion that is still being raised is 3 million dollars. The library has collected or has commitments for 2.5 million of this.The government is checking in with 2.5 million.

While the library is being built the library will be housed temporariliy in the old State College borough building rent free.

Betsy took questions and Carl Hill asked abotu the name change question. Betsy didn't put this to rest but she did tell us that the campaign for the new library was just called to the new Centre County library making people think that the names was being dropped which isn't the case. The library board has made no decisions on this at all. I'm guessing sense future growth plans for the library after this new building call for branch offices through out the county, that the naming the library campaign for the new Centre County public library will remind all residents that the library is for the county not State College alone.-editor

If you can help put the Schlow library over the top, please contact either Betsy Allen or Jerry Whetstone.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
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	Fetter	Hampton	Holmes	Bacastow
	July's to be published later

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