State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #387
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: July 31, 2008

Program: Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt, PSU professor emeritus and Mid East sage and historian
Auction: Friedman
Greeter: Domalski
Note taker: Christian
Thank speaker: Geise
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

August 7, 2008 Club assembly
August 14, 2008 Spikes night for Rotary (See Marshall for tickets $8)
August 14, 2008 Classification talks
August 21, 2008 Shavers Creek Speaker
August 28, 2008
September 1, 2008 GSE Team Leader to Denmark Applications Due
September 4, 2008 TBA
September 11, 2008 TBA
September 13, 2008 Dist. Membership/Foundation Seminar in Bedford
September 18, 2008 TBA
September 25, 2008 TBA
November 1, 2008 Dist. Foundation Dinner Rocky Gap Lodge
November 8, 2008 Rotary Leadership Institute in Bedford

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Harry Zimbler & Mary DeArmitt guests of the club, and
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $600. There are about 38 cards left plus both jokers. Last week Carol drew the 5 of clubs.
Auction: Roger Fetter provided the auction item, a gift certificate to Cat's Meow.Mary DeArmitt was the high bidder at $25.

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

PSU Football Games, Fall 2008: Rotarians? email Paul

The summer baseball outing at Spikes August 10:
Goldstein and his entertainment committee! AGAIN!

The summer picnic at Tudek Park June 28:
Goldstein and his entertainment committee

Tunisian GSE Exchange, May 6-12: Rutter, Sepich, Williams

2008 Lederer Park Clean-up: Brad was in charge coordinating this event, and all of us!

2008 Spaghetti Dinner committee: Jim Eberly, Don Bedell, and all of us!

2008 Entertainment Book committee: Jim Eberly, Meg Moose and all of us!

PSU Football Games, Fall 2007: Whitfield x7, Rutter x7, Williams x2, Trudeau x2, Mose, plus 16 non-Rotarians? email Paul

2007-8 Hosts for Highschool International Youth Exchange: Whitfield, Potalivo

Happy Bucks There were no happy bucks this week, however President Rose passed around a basket of candy that made many people happy.

Check out the latest press releases

Frank Gatto presented a banner to the club from Wyoming Co. PA where he made up.

The district needs applicants for the Rotary GSE trip.

Carl said dues statements are coming out, but why wait? It's $115 per quarter and that includes your lunch each Thursday for 13 weeks!

Rose found a new 4-Way test banner and led us in reciting it.

The first football game is on August 30 against a school called Coastal Carolina from Paul's home state of South Carolina. If you would like to attend the game (or the Michigan game) and sit in the end zone down on the field, contact Paul prutter@gmail.com. I will need ten gate watchers for each game. To help at the Michigan or other Big Ten games, you will need to help at a yccky game.

08/30/08 vs. Coastal Carolina 12:00 p.m. ET
09/06/08 vs. Oregon State 3:30 p.m. ET
09/20/08 vs. Temple 12:00 p.m. ET
09/27/08 vs. Illinois 8:00 p.m. ET
10/18/08 vs. Michigan 4:30 p.m. ET
11/15/08 vs. Indiana TBA
11/22/08 vs. Michigan State TBA

BUY SPIKES TICKETS!!! Marshall has already purchased the tickets. They are $8 each and are for the August 14th Spikes game which will be Rotary night.

Dick Held was named President's Award winner and Laurel Sanders was the Rotarian of the Year.

Polio Plus Challenge - The $1,000 Anonymous donation was sent in from outside the club, not from a club member. Currently, 9 members have donated matching funds up to $570. We need more donations from Club members to hit the $1,000.

Rotary is matching donations of up to $10,000 for polio vaccinations.

Leadership Institute seminars are also available; check the district website for the schedule

Congratulations to the new Paul Harris Fellows and continuing PHF. New this year was Sue Eberly being named by husband, Rotarian, and PHF Jim Eberly, also Anne Hoag who was named by her husband, Rotarian, and PHF Paul Rutter, also continuing multi-status PHF to Carl Hill, Dick Held, Ed Zeiders, Rainer Domalski, Frank Gatto and others to be named. Several sustaning PHFs were recognized too and can be found on the club's PHF Web page.

Point your web browser to: http://www.rotilink.org/eClubs/ click on a club's Website 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 Rainer Domalski.

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Previous Week's Speaker: 360 Corporate Solutions, LLC. Understanding workplace personalities and dynamics

Vicki Barto and Kristen Fetzer from 360 Corporate Solutions presented a mini-workshop on identifying personality profiles. They used one called the DISC. DISC is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston Ph.D. (1893 - 1947) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. DISC looks at behavioral styles and behavioral preferences.

The assessments classify four aspects of behavior by testing a person's preferences in word associations (compare with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). DISC is an acronym for:

* Dominance - relating to control, power and assertiveness
* Influence - relating to social situations and communication
* Steadiness (submission in Marston's time)- relating to patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness
* Conscientiousness (or caution, compliance in Marston's time) - relating to structure and organization

These four dimensions can be grouped in a grid with D and I sharing the top row and representing extroverted aspects of the personality, and C and S below representing introverted aspects. D and C then share the left column and represent task-focused aspects, and I and S share the right column and represent social aspects. In this matrix, the vertical dimension represents a factor of "Assertive" or "Passive", while the horizontal represents "Open" vs. "Guarded".

* Dominance: People who score high in the intensity of the 'D' styles factor are very active in dealing with problems and challenges, while low D scores are people who want to do more research before committing to a decision. High "D" people are described as demanding, forceful, egocentric, strong willed, driving, determined, ambitious, aggressive, and pioneering. Low D scores describe those who are conservative, low keyed, cooperative, calculating, undemanding, cautious, mild, agreeable, modest and peaceful.
* Influence: People with High I scores influence others through talking and activity and tend to be emotional. They are described as convincing, magnetic, political, enthusiastic, persuasive, warm, demonstrative, trusting, and optimistic. Those with Low I scores influence more by data and facts, and not with feelings. They are described as reflective, factual, calculating, skeptical, logical, suspicious, matter of fact, pessimistic, and critical.
* Steadiness:(Submission in Marston's time): People with High S styles scores want a steady pace, security, and don't like sudden change. Low S intensity scores are those who like change and variety. High S persons are calm, relaxed, patient, possessive, predictable, deliberate, stable, consistent, and tend to be unemotional and poker faced. People with Low S scores are described as restless, demonstrative, impatient, eager, or even impulsive.
* Conscientious: (Compliance in Marston's time): Persons with High C styles adhere to rules, regulations, and structure. They like to do quality work and do it right the first time. High C people are careful, cautious, exacting, neat, systematic, diplomatic, accurate, tactful. Those with Low C scores challenge the rules and want independence and are described as self-willed, stubborn, opinionated, unsystematic, arbitrary, and careless with details.

Note taker: Gary Brytczuk

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Rotary Birthdays this month:

Marshall Goldstein, August 16; Dick Jones, August 24

(if I missed yours please email me and let the club secretary know too)

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 one of the E-clubs all over the world
MEMBERS- check out the web site listing
COMMITTEE CHAIRS- check out the web site listing

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DATE	AUCTION	GREETER	MEETING NOTES	THANK SPEAKER
July 31	Friedman	Domalski	Christian	Geise
August 7	Gambone	Dunlap	Coble	Assembly
August 14	Gatto	Eberly	Davis	Goldstein
August 21	Geise	Fetter	Dayananda	Hackett
August 28	Goldstein	Friedman	Domalski	Held
Sept 4	Hackett	Gambone	Dunlap	Assembly
Sept 11	Held	Gatto	Eberly	Hickey
Sept 18	Hickey	Geise	Fetter	Hill
Sept 25	Hill	Goldstein	Friedman	Holmes

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“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.”
-Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland
in The Rotarian, January 2006

"Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

district 7350; club 24095
State College Downtown Rotary; P.O. Box 10742; State College, PA 16805- 0742

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“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.” -Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland in The Rotarian, January 2006

“If we only listen to those whom we already see eye to eye, we will never create better understanding, a concept that is at the core of Rotary.”
-Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland
in The Rotarian, January 2006