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State College, 16805

Edition: #414
Editor: Paul Rutter
TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS for: March 26 , 2009

Program: Carol Motta, Dir. of the Junior Baraque Music Festival
Auction: Zeiders
Greeter: Walsh
Note taker
: Slocum
Thank speaker
: Brytczuk
future assignments

FUTURE PROGRAMS and EVENTS

April 2, 2009 Assembly
April 9, 2009
April 16, 2009

April 16, 2009 Foundation Dinner ( State College)
April 23, 2009
April 30, 2009
May 8, 2009
May 15, 2009
May 22, 2009
May 29, 2009
June 5, 2009
June 9-12, 2009 Puerto Rican GSE Team
June 10, 2009 Cookout for GSE team at Paul's camp
June 12, 2009

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians:
Make-ups turned in:
Guests:
50/50: Currently, the total pot stands at nearly $720 with 34 cards remaining.
Auction: The auction item was a Spring package of a blueberry plant, a whiffle ball and bat and a kite from Bob Williams. Paul Rutter woin it all with a bid of $15.

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

2009 Lederer Park Clean-up: Brad is in charge coordinating this event, with all of us helping! Many Hands makes short work.

2009 Spaghetti Dinner committee: Eberly, Bedell, Geise and all of us!

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

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

Happy Happy Bucks are funds paid to the club to speak up and tell all why you are happy!Bucks


  • Jim Eberly reminded everyone that we need to sell our spaghetti dinner tickets. Please encourage people to come to the dinner, and if you choose to buy your tickets instead of selling them, give them to people who will attend so we have strong participation in the auction.
  • The signup list for the 3/25 event and the 3/24 setup was circulated.
  • We all need to come with an auction item for the Spaghetti Dinner.
  • Foundation dinner is April 16
  • GSE team from Puerto Rico will be here June 9-12
  • Attendance was 63% with 47 members.
  • Jim Eberly will be the assistant governor next year. We need a new fund raising chairman or to split the duties up
  • Jim has given Carl $7,565 for the Dining & Entertainment Books. Paul Rutter is still ahead. He has turned in the money for 53 books. Keep selling them!
  • The GSE team for Denmark interviews are set.
  • Thank you letters from 3rd graders were passed around. (Dictionary Project).
  • And speaking of dictionaries, Mark M, let us know that a total of 367 dictionaries were delivered to area 3rd graders.
  • Scott Lamb was inducted as a new member. Yahoo!
  • 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.
  • We didn't get attendance figures for the past month but in the event it is low again, please help raise our attendance using virtual club make-ups by going to one of the e-Clubs.
  • Sam J. 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 someone for 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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:

     

    Respectfully submitted by Paul Rutter

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    Rotary Birthdays this month:



    (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
    Mar 19
    Williams
    Turley
    Sepich
    Brown
    Mar 26
    Zeiders
    Walsh
    Slocum
    Brytzcuk
    Apr 2
    Zimbler
    Ward
    Snowe
    n/a
    Apr 9
    Althouse
    Whitfield
    Trudeau
    Christian
    Apr 16
    Beaver
    Williams
    Turley
    Davis
    Apr 23
    Bedell
    Yeckley
    Walsh
    Dr. D
    April 30
    Brown
    Zeiders
    Ward
    Domalski
    May 7
    Brytczuk
    Zimbler
    Whitfield
    n/a
    May 14
    Christian
    Althouse
    Williams
    Dunlap
    May 21
    Davis
    Beaver
    Yeckley
    Eberly
    May 28
    Dr. D
    Bedell
    Zeiders
    Fetter
    June 4
    Domalski
    Brown
    Zimbler
    n/a
    June 11
    Dunlap
    Brytczuk
    Althouse
    Friedman
    June 18
    Eberly
    Christian
    Beaver
    Gambone
    June 25
    Fetter
    Davis
    Bedell
    Gatto


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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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