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State College, 16805

Edition: #402
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: November 20, 2008

Program: TBA
Auction: Moose
Greeter: Kaufmann
Note taker: Hill
Thank speaker: Trudeau
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

November 20, 2008 Rotary Foundation (not local to State College)
November 22, 2008 Michigan State vs. Penn State (home) 3:30
November 27, 2008 Thanksgiving, No Meeting
December 4, 2008 TBA
December 11, 2008 TBA
December 18, 2008 TBA
December 25, 2008 Christmas, No Meeting
Janaury 1, 2009 New Years, No Meeting
January 8, 2009 TBA
February, 2009 Foundation Dinner (local to State College)

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Marty Broser from Penn State Rotaract
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $125 with 47 cards remaining. This week the winning card was not plucked. Don Bedell drew the 7 of clubs
Auction: Jim Eberly purchased a book on Penn State Football History donated by Mark Meckstroth The high bid was $17.

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

2009 Entertainment Book committee: Eberly, Moose and all of us!

Club Holiday Party, December: Brytczuk chair, all club

Festival of the Trees, December 6-8, 2008: Eberly chair, all of the club

Wine Auction , October 2008: Walsh, Brytczuk, Goldsten, and those that attended.

Philippine GSE Exchange, October 2008: Rutter, Williams, Whitfield

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: Rutter, Moose x2, Snowe x2, Meinke (RYEX) x3, Dunlap x2
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!

2008-9 Hosts for Highschool International Youth Exchange: Whitfield Chair, Rutter

Happy Bucks Paul because he had a call from a man that he and Bob met while in South Korea on the GSE. The man is here at Penn State for three years while earning his Ph.D. in Education Leadership. Other happy bucks were from Laurel Sanders, Meg Moose whose parents celebrated their 81 anniversary, yes that is right their 81st anniversary! Kat Snowe was happy too.

Jim Eberly handed out the Dining and Entertainment Coupon Books to everyone. Each of us is responsible for ten books. We are able to sell more than ten books too. Paul Rutter created two flyers for use. Each is available through the links here. A publisher document of each is available too . Email Paul for copies that can be altered as needed. For instance, Paul personalized his with phone and email address.

It is time to sign up for the Festival of the Trees event at the Ag Arena from December 4-7.

If you are not receiving club emails via the listserv, contact Paul Rutter. The problem may be an incorrect email address on the club listserv directory.

The GSE Team from the Philippines met at Paul's camp Monday night for a cookout and we all had a terrific time. Burgers, Beer, Brats, and Smores! Thanks to Chris Hickey and Hickeys for the beer!

56% attendance last month... pretty poor IMHO. We can help raise our attendance using virtual club make-ups by going to one of the e-Clubs.

The club welcomed Mary Dearmitt back to the club.

Football volunteers had another great time although very wet helping and watching the Indiana game down on the field! We have a full slate of volunteers for the final home game against Michigan State. Yee Haw!!

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.

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

The club was able to sponsor soemone fpor the GSE trip to Puerto Rico this summer. The exchange is for Spanish language teachers.

Carl said dues statements are coming out, but why wait? It's $120 per quarter and that includes your lunch each Thursday for 13 weeks!

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 (from our club) and husband Dave from the breakfast club, Bob Williams, Fabian Meinke (our RYEX student), 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 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.

11/22/08 vs. Michigan State 3:30 kick off

Check out the latest press releases

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.

Get out and sell your Dining and Entertainment Books! We each need to sell a minimum of ten. You can still sell more than ten!

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.

Previous Week's Speaker: Julie Backstron from the SCASD

Julie is a steering committee member of the State College Area School District. She informed our club of the future planning team and is making determinations of how the district will look over the next decade. The major areas being researched are: eveluation of existing buildings and properties, reviewing the needs of the community, and fiscal responsibility.

If anyone would like to review information being gathered, the email address is all-board@scasd.org

Rotary Birthdays this month:

Dennis Martella, November 5; Chris Turley, November 26;
Joe Geise, November 30

(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

DATE	AUCTION	GREETER	MEETING NOTES	THANK SPEAKER
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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-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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