State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #390
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: August 21, 2008

Program: Shavers Creek Speaker
Auction: Geise
Greeter: Fetter
Note taker: Dayananda
Thank speaker: Hackett
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

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: Traci Sepich brought her sons Luke and Joe, Dottie Hummel from the evening club, Mary Johnson and Jerry H, a prospective new member. Additionally, there were two different visiting Rotarians from India, both of whom exchanged banners with President Rose. Mr. Mehta from Dehli and a man and wife from Secunderabad West. His name was REALLY long and I didn't catch it.
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $670. There are about 34 cards left plus both jokers. Last week Mary Johnson won the 50/50 and drew the 9 of diamonds
Auction: Frank Gatto donated a Lowe's gift certificate that was won by Lester Cutter for $35; Marshall presented a second auction item that was donated by the Spikes - two tickets in a bullpen box for August 29. Dottie Hummel bought them for $5.

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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 Laurel Sanders - she is leaving on Saturday for two weeks in Germany. Carol Walsh - encourage members to participate in the Bellefonte club's inaugural fund raiser, a golf outing Traci Sepich - two dollars - one for going on a European vacation, and one for returning home again. Kat Snowe - she is leaving on Saturday for a cruise in the Caribbean. Ed Zeiders - he spent last week at the Chataqua Institute lecturing and attending seminars.

Sam Jordan has been proposed and accepted as a new member by the board of directors. He will be coming from the Bellefonte club. Members have 10 days to comment on his proposal to join our club.

Please consider helping work the gates before Penn State Football games. For more info ask Paul.

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 one ticket remaining. 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:

Marshall introduced Shelly Miller from RSVP, Retired Senior Volunteer Program. Shelly spoke about the pen pal program that RSVP operates in the Bald Eagle Area School District. The program pairs a senior volunteer with an elementary school student, and they exchange one letter per month during the school year, culminating with a visit to the school in May. Shelly asked for both volunteers to be pen pals, like Marshall, and also for financial support, especially postage. The program provides not only reading and writing experiences for the children, but it demonstrates continuity with an adult in their lives, something many of them do not have.

respectfully submitted,
kat
from Miami
the ship leaves tomorrow
yes, I'm excited.

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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 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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“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