State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #397
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: October 9, 2008

Program: Rotary Youth Exchange Student Visit
Auction: Johnston
Greeter: Held
Note taker: Gatto
Thank speaker: Rutter
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

October 13, 2008 GSE Cookout at Paul's Hunting Camp (near Hublersburg)
October 16, 2008 GSE Team from the Philippines
October 17, 2008 Wine Tasting Fund Raiser at PDG Carol's home
October 23, 2008 Rockview State Correctional Superintendent Frank Tennis
October 30, 2008 Tom Murray from the Mt. Nittany Medical Center
November 1, 2008 Dist. Foundation Dinner Rocky Gap Lodge
November 6, 2008 Club Assembly
November 8, 2008 Rotary Leadership Institute in Bedford
November 13, 2008 SCASD Master Plan
November 20, 2008 Rotary Foundation

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: Denny Nau from Bellefonte
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Scott Lamb, guest of Linda Friedman
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $790. There are about 29 cards left plus both jokers. The card was the 8 of hearts. Drawn by Bob Williams.
Auction: A bottle of wine, donated by Doug Holmes. Purchased by Rainer for $26.50

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

Farmers Market, Food delivery to Food Bank, Each Friday 2008
Rotarians? Email Roger Fetter

PSU Football Games, Fall 2008: Rotarians? email Paul
C.Carolina: Rutter x2, Dunlap x2, Moose x2,
Oregon St.: Rutter x2, Mose x2, Dunlap x2, Moose x2,
Temple: Need 7
Illinois: Need 8
Michigan: Need 5
Indiana: Need 8
Michigan St.: Need 8

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!

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

Happy Bucks Jason was happy to be back homeRainer was happy to be back home.Roger F. was happy with how the Farmers Market Food Bank collection is going. Chris T. was happy have his grandchildren in town. Rose was happy to be back in town, and happy to be a grandmother of a granddaugher who came home from the hospital.

Board of direcotrs will meet Thursday morning at Perkins.

Wine (Whine?) and Cheese party will be at Carol Walsh’s house on Fri Oct 17, 7pm. Sign up sheet soon

Roger Fetter reports that the Food Bank project is continuing every Friday. We have delivered more than 1000 lbs so far

Football volunteers had another great time helping and watching the Illinois game down on the field! We have a full slate of volunteers for the next game against Michigan. Yee Haw!!

Get out and see the folks you signed up to visit and get them into the D&E book! Get info to Jim Eberly.

The Big Apple Express is up and running again. This is the bus from SC to NYC and back over a weekend.

Sam Jordan was proposed 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 at the gates before Penn State Football games. For more info ask Paul 863-3387 office. Free field seats and parking passes for helpers.

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

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.

We have a full team of volunteers for the game against Michigan,
and Michigan State. Looking for help for the Indiana game too!
10/18/08 vs. Michigan 4:30 p.m. ET
11/15/08 vs. Indiana TBA
11/22/08 vs. Michigan State TBA

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: Club Assembly

Football Gates fundraiser is going great. All available tickets to help are being used, so we will maximize our return!

The secretary will report next week.

The treasurer said our operating account was in the red by $2,400

In Youth Exchange, Fabian from Germany switched host family to be closer to the high school

Rotaract is doing well. There are many clubs and organizations on campus to compete with.

International Service: We will try to do something with the Huntingdon club in Haiti in the short term and continue looking at the Dominican Republic for a longer term project.

The dictionary project is under way labeling the dictionaries.

Laurel takes care of press releases that can be found through the club Web site.

Where Rotarians help when not helping Rotary:

Hugh: The United Way Day of Caring
Frank: Driving Veterans
Doug's Daughter Rebecca: ran the Lymphoma Half Marathon Fund Raiser
Cathy: Development for Strawberry Fields
Lefty (Evening Club): CDT $2,000

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Rotary Birthdays this month:

Paul Bell & Jim Dayananda, October 27; Roger Fetter, October 29

(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
Oct 2	Holmes	Hackett	Gambone	Rutter
Oct 9	JOhnston	Held	Gatto	n/a
Oct 16	JOnes	Hickey	Geise	Sanders
Oct 23	Kauffman	Hill	Goldstein	Sepich
Oct 30	King	Holmes	Hackett	Slocum
Nov. 6	Martella	Johnston	Held	n/a
Nov 13	Meckstroth	Jones	Hickey	Snowe
Nov 20	Moose	Kauffman	PDG Hill	Trudeau
Nov 27	Happy	Thanksgiving!	No	Meeting
Dec 4	Mose	King	Holmes	n/a
Dec 11	Potalivo	Martella	Johnston	Turley
Dec 18	Pratt	Meckstroth	Jones	PDG Walsh
Dec 25	Happy	Holidays	No	Meeting
Jan 1	Happy	New Year	No	Meeting
Jan 8

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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