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State College, 16805

Edition: #403
Editor: Paul Rutter

TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: December 4, 2008

Program: Club Assembly
Auction: Mose
Greeter: King
Note taker: Holmes
Thank speaker: n/a
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

December 4-7, 2008 Festival of the Trees
December 11, 2008 Club Holiday Auction
December 18, 2008 SCDT's own Richard Jones
December 18, 2008 Club Holiday Party at Gary Brytczuk's home
December 25, 2008 Christmas, No Meeting
Janaury 1, 2009 New Years, No Meeting
January 8, 2009 Club Assembly
February, 2009 Foundation Dinner (local to State College)

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Fabian Meinke, our youth exchange student from Germany
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $140 with 46 cards remaining. This week the winning card was not plucked. Meg Moose drew the 2 of diamonds.
Auction: ____________ purchased a ____________ donated by Meg The high bid was $_____.

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.: Rutter x2, Dunlap, Moose, Snowe x2, Meinke (RYEX) x2

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 Pat was happy for flurries. Carl was happy to be a part of our club and not a member of some other clubs that I will not reveal here. Carol was happy to be baby sitting and for poinsettias Kat was glad to be in the club too.Joy was happy trifold for her oldest daughter beinga hunting queen, for not baby sitting, and for the success of the United Way and a letter Ellie had in the CDT. Ellie was ahppy that the Untied Way campaign was at a palce that allowed her to attend and let us know that she will be writing in a blog for the CDT called Along the Way.

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.

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!

Paul & Bob took Fabian, one of the club's exchange students, hunting on opening day of deer season. Fabian is from Germany near Bonn. Fabian said there is not much opportunity for hunting big game there, only rabbits and other small critters. A thrill was shooting one of Bob's pre-Clintonesque guns and Paul's 1932 (year) .22 rifle and checking out the heart attack inducing, blood stopping chili cheese fries at the Sunset West before heading into the woods. The deer in the photo was one of four from the camp next to Paul's.

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. You get free field seats and parking passes for helping. If you are interested in helping next year for the 2009 season let me know to reserve your spot. For more information on what we do and to be the list for next year ask Paul 863-3387 office. There are a limited number of spots for gate watching at the Rose Bowl. Cost is approximately $2,500 for air fare, hotel, and kick-off parties, but you get two tickets in the game free at kickoff down on the field. Let Paul know by November 30 if you are interested.

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! Items found to be in demand are the two coupons for three months to health clubs and the many dinner coupons.

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: Rotary Foundation

A presentation on the Rotary Foundation was offered by Kat Snowe today. T he mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

Every amount contributed to The Rotary Foundation is spent in support of humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs and their operations. Clubs and districts apply for and receive Foundation grants to carry out worthy projects worldwide.

Rotary began as an idea more than 100 years ago. Today, Rotary flourishes worldwide with 1.2 million members in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

Rotary History and Archives is the authority on Rotary's rich, evolving history. Located in Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA, the History and Archives team continues to update and provide access to its collection of tens of thousands of items from all over the world.

A fter 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Your contribution will help Rotary match a $100 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $200 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.

Rotary Birthdays this month:

Doug Holmes, December 16, 2008; Teresa Davis, January 6, 2009; Tracy Sepich , January 20, 2009

(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
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	Rutter	Moose	King	n/a
Jan 15	Sanders	Mose	Lamb	Ward
Jan 22	Sepich	Potalivo	Martella	Whitfield
Jan 29	Slocum	Pratt	Meckstroth	Williams
Feb 5	Snowe	Rutter	Moose	n/a
Feb 12	Trudeau	Sanders	Potalivo	Zeiders
Feb 19	Turley	Sepich	Potalivo	Althouse
Feb 26	Walsh	Slocum	Pratt	Beaver
Mar 5	Ward	Snowe	Rutter	n/a
Mar 12	Whitfield	Trudeau	Sanders	Bedell
Mar 19	Williams	Turley	Sepich	Boake
Mar 26	Zeiders	Walsh	Slocum	Brooks
Apr 2	tba
Apr 9		tba
Apr 16			tba
Apr 23				tba

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-Martin G Molony, District 1160 Governor, Dublin Central, Ireland
in The Rotarian, January 2006

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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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