State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Program: Classification Talk- Kelly Kerner
Auction Item: Domalski
Invocation: Edwards
Note Taker: Gambone
Thank speaker: Davis
future assignments

August 29 - Congressman John Peterson - Legislative update
September 5 - Club Assembly
September 12 - Dr. Steiner - PSU Arboretum
September 19 - Brian Knox - Forests are our Future
September 26 - Betsy Allen - Schlow Library
October 3 - Club assembly
October 10 - Brent Frank - "Aids 101" - The AIDS Project, serving Centre and Clinton counties

Visiting Rotarians: PDG Buss Fowler, and Geoff Wilson from the State College Rotary club.
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Elena and Cindy Hampton guests of Dennis; Jamie Eberly, guest of the club and Theresa Taverno guest of the club (both exchange students one out and one just returning)
50/50: Gary Brytzcuk had the winning number and drew the nine of spades. There are 38cards left and the pot keeps growing at c$200 now!
Auction: From Sharon Dixon-Brytzcuk a PSU Media guide, a gift certificate to Damon's and a certificate for a nights lodging at the Hampton Inn. The winning bid was Carl Hill at $60. Thanks to both.!!

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

We are looking for a host for our Rotary Youth Exchange student. Please contact Ron Taverno if you can help. Ron can fill you in with more details. He mentioned that it takes a three month commitment split during the school year.
The student is a girl from Chile and Brasil. Ron said her emails were great and she knew English quite well.
Pay your bills
Our two new inbound exchange students will be here at the next meeting (August 22)
There was a fund raising report from Hugh and Mary Ann.Probably dropping the coupon book- bad name and value cited as reasons.
Elena Hampton thanked the club for her scholarship. She spoke briefly and seems to be a very well rounded student we can be proud to support.She'll be matriculating at PSU-Altoona.
One of our new fund raisera will be a cruise raffle $10.
We will be asking Rotaract about helping with working the football gates
Committee Assignments are on line.
Please contact Roger Fetter with speaker ideas.
The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU. It only works if you are a subscriber so if you aren't on it and want to know even more about the club email Paul Rutter to see about your admission. It is a private listserv not open to the public. If you are already on it and want help with it please call or email me.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Attorney LeDon Young - Grange Fair

Our speaker was from the Grange Fair board, LeDon Young.LeDOn said that her topic would be the future past and present of the fair. And that is whaZt we learned about. The fair was started asa picnic in 1874 as part of the grange movement. The first picnic had about 3000 people. By 1890 the picnic was becoming so popular that people began staying at the grounds of the picnic and tenting traditions were born. The picnic board bought 20 acres to place the tents. There are now 950 tents and the fair picnic is attended by over 100,000 people. Their budgetthis year is over $1,000,000.

This week’s note taker: Roger Fetter

Eugene Lederer August 5; Leann Martin August 8; Ellie Beaver August 14; Dennis Hampton August 16; Richard Jones August 24
(if I missed yours please email me)

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, District Web site, or with your club secretary.

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
August 29	M. Eberle	Ferguson	Geise	Dayananda
Sept 5	J. Eberly	Fetter	Goldstein	n/a
Sept 12	Edwards	Gambone	Hampton	DeArmitt
Sept 19	Ferguson	Geise	Held	Dixon-Brytczuk
Sept 26	Fetter	Goldstein	Hickey	Domalski
More	To Be	Added at a	Later	Date

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter