State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Program: Club Assembly
Auction Item: Davis
Invocation: Edwards
Note Taker: Friedman
Thank speaker: n/a
future assignments

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: Geoff Wilson (returning from Norway) and the Evening Rotary club
Make-ups turned in: none reported
Guests: Marian Haltman, the new pastor at Mt. Nittany United Methodist Church was a guest of Carl Hill
50/50: Teresa Davis drew the Qi=ueen of Diamonds and took no money home with her. There are 35 cards left and a pot of about $635.
Auction: A fancy margarita machine was donated by Pat Coble. The maker is capable of making 24 drinks at once. The high bidder was Ellie Beaver with $30.(I should have bid more-ed).

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**

Russ Brooks and Leann Martin were in the paper for being appointed to serve on the board of the Centre County Industrial Development Authority.
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.
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.
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 Mike Negra and an assistnat Lisa Colten.

Mike began by letting us know the history of the State Theatre, He let us know that their Web site had a great history page too.

In the beginining of the project, Mike spoke to the owner of the property suggesting ideas for when Carmike would go out of business as he surmized they might, and they did. Mike suggested that the theatre be renovated into what is proposed a state of the art theatre that can hold 560 persons. There is nothing in the area that can claim this kind if seating or quality level.

Fund raising is continuing in order to show support from the community for the theatre. There are naming opportunities available such as the "Paul Rutter Web Design Stage" at the State Theatre (I forgot to inquire about the money). If there is enough community support, the Friedman's will donate the property-a value of upwards of $1.5 million.

The theatre is the last of the old style in the area.

Please visit their Web site to learn more. http://www.thestatetheatre.org.

This week’s note taker: Ron Taverno & Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
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

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter