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Edition: #399 Editor: Paul Rutter

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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Visiting Rotarians: Chuck Carroll, and Jeanne Singer from the evening club, Tammy Miller from the breakfast club
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: The Philippine GSE Team, Amadeo Rischini our RYEX from Italy, and Fabian Meinke our RYEX from Germany
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $10 with 51 cards remaining. Two weeks ago Tracy won the big Kahuna's worth. She drew the ace from a deck of about 29 cards and two jokers and split about $1,000 with the club!
Auction: A relaxing weekend with two tickets to a matinee music at the Citizen's Bank Theatre from Dick Jones. Purchased by Bob for $25.

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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: Rutter, Moose, Snowe x2 Illinois: Rutter, Moose, Snowe x2, Michigan: Rutter x2, Moose, Dunlop x2, Indiana: Full Michigan St.: Full 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: Eberly, Bedell, and all of us! 2008 Entertainment Book committee: Eberly, Moose and all of us! 2007-8 Hosts for Highschool International Youth Exchange: Whitfield, Potalivo

Happy Bucks PDG Carol was happy three times, 1 for NPR and the Global Fund for Children. A former Ambassadorial Scholar to Africa began the GFC and has raised over 12 million dollars for needy children. Also her daughter in law is in Iraq safely now and her son is in Kirkuk, Iraq and is settling in.Laurel was happy for her oldest daughter and knowledge masters and for being the editor of a national magazineLinda was happy about speaking to a group of architects in Boston.

Thanks to everyone who has helped work the gates before the PSU home football games. There are no more openings for helping this year. Thanks to Roger Dunlop, Kat Snowe and husband Dave from the breakfast club, Bob Williams, Hugh Mose and wife Janyce, Nicole Webster from the breakfast club, Tineke Cuning and husband Jack from Breakfast club, my wife Anne, Meg Moose for having one of her colleagues and many other helpers for helping us fill the slate for all games. For more information on what we do and to be on a waiting list for Indiana or Michigan State ask Paul 863-3387 office. Your get free field seats and parking passes for helping. Also if you are interested in helping next year for the 2009 season let me know to reserve your spot.

11/15/08 vs. Indiana TBA
11/22/08 vs. Michigan State TBA

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John Lucas is deeply committed to Olympism and the Olympic Movement. He directs his words to “those inside the vast international Olympic family” and others who “love” the Olympics and wish to
share the “Olympic ideal of universal brotherhood and sisterhood through sport."

The story of John Lucas, who is visiting the Olympic Museum in Lausanne this week, is a far from ordinary one. In 1952, aged 26, he crossed the United States, travelling from his native Boston to Los Angeles to take part in the US Olympic Trials for the Games of the XV Olympiad in Helsinki. By finishing 11th, he just missed a place in the 10,000m. How frustrating!

Frustration
It took him a long time to get over this, and was in tears for weeks, he admits. But eight years later, he was in Rome, determined to gain revenge of a sort. Dawn on the day before the Games began saw him alone on the track of the Eternal City, setting out to run his own 10,000m!

From Rome to Athens, more than 100 Olympic kilometres…
He would continue to do this for 50 years, at every edition of the Olympic Games, with the same fire in his heart. Except in Moscow, in 1980, as one press story reports. “Not true!”, he exclaims. “Of course I was there. But when it came to entering the stadium, I was given a categoric ‘nyet’ by the government.” As America boycotted those Games, the refusal is understandable. Undaunted, the keen runner still covered his 10 km – around the outside of the stadium! Today, after Sydney and more recently Athens, he is proud to have covered more than 100 Olympic kilometres, without counting the more than 160,000 others he has clocked up during his life.

Each to his own!
When you ask him why he does it, John Lucas replies, imperturbably: “Some people smoke, others take drugs, and others climb mountains or God knows what else. This is my thing! Of course, I am slightly slower each time, but at least I never lose!”

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

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DATE	AUCTION	GREETER	MEETING NOTES	THANK SPEAKER
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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