State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #388
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: August 7, 2008

Program: Jeff Dietrich from Shaver's Creek or Assembly
Auction: Gambone
Greeter: Dunlap
Note taker: Rutter (for Coble)
Thank speaker: n/a
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

August 14, 2008 Spikes night for Rotary (See Marshall for tickets $8)
August 14, 2008 Program Director from RSVP retirement
August 21, 2008 Shavers Creek Speaker
August 28, 2008
September 1, 2008 GSE Team Leader to Denmark Applications Due
September 4, 2008 TBA (Dr. John Lucas on the Olympics?)
September 11, 2008 TBA
September 13, 2008 Dist. Membership/Foundation Seminar in Bedford
September 18, 2008 TBA
September 25, 2008 TBA (Volleyball Coach Russ Rose?)
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:
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $630. There are about 37 cards left plus both jokers. Last week Kat drew the King of Spades-close but not it!
Auction: Linda provided the auction items, a bottle of Pinot Noir and a box of Garners Candy. Rose 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, for a second week in a row. I don't think it'sbecause we are all on vacation, maybe we cancelled vacation due to high gas prices!

Check out the latest press releases

Rose passed around the membership list to have all of us correct for release soon.

Rotaract on Penn State's campus is soliciting help to increase membership

We need 7 more helpers for the game against Coastal Carolina.

The district needs applicants for the Rotary GSE trip to the Philippines. At the same time the club and State College area Rotary clubs are planning for the exchange. The Philippine team will be here in October.

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: Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt, PSU professor emeritus and Mid East sage and historian

Very informative talk by a man who can speak and write to the masses in that he can explain detail of Middle East life, countries, religion and conflicts in terminology that is not too academic but inspiring to read. There was quite a bit of information provided by Goldschmidt who eases the burden of religious Middle East language (foreign to many of Americans) with a glossary for various words, names of leaders, places and things. He included a historical timeline chart of the great events of the Middle East including excellent maps that kept the audience in place geographically as he covers the evolution of the Middle East by region, dynasties and individual countries. He starts with the definition of history and of the Arabs followed by the land before Muhammad and then a mini biography of Muhammad. What followed was a detailed but easy to understand bit on Islam and how it develops into a civilization. The expansiveness of Islam in the Middle East and the associated power of the Ottoman empire that threatened to dominate Europe and Asia. He coveredthe invasion of the Mongol hordes and the eventual investitures of the European powers and colonialism as the Ottoman Empire weakens to collapse after WWI. As he spoke of the dominance in controling the Middle East by England and France and the initial settling of Jews in the early 1900's the seeds of distrust of the west start to obviously emanate.

We all have a greater appreciation for the complex conflicts among the Middle East's Peoples not just Jewish and Arab but Sunni Muslims and Shi'i, Kurds, Maronite Christians, Armenians, Turks, Druze and various tribes within each country. Dr. Goldschmidt provided the audience a building platform to understand the Middle East.

Note taker: Dr. Teresa Davis

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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
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?"

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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