State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: Bus Fowler and Mary Johnston of the evening club and Carol Lloyd of the Pleasant Gap club.
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: John Krumrine accompanied the speaker, Kim Steiner as guests of the club
50/50: Judy Myrick had the winning number and drew the 2 of hearts. There are 34 cards left and the pot keeps growing at c$270 now! You can buy three chances for $2 now too to make your chances better!
Auction: From Terry Edwards, a 1 hour massage from someone else. The winning bid was Bonnie Abramson at $37.50. Thanks to both.!!

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

Ron Taverno will be posting an announcement via the List Serv to tell about Football gate working. The next game is Louisiana Tech on September 21. There are 5 more games after that that will need workers. Call Ron Taverno to sign up. It counts as a make-up.
Chefs on Auction fund raising event for the March of Dimes.Tickets and more information are available by visiting the State College Magazine Web site.
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.
The fund raising committee let us know more about the cruise raffle tickets we will be selling. The cruise doesn't have a date it has be taken within. The value of the cruise is $3500. Winners can arange arround that. It should be goodenough though for airfare from Harrisburg toa caribbean cruise port, and a cruise of 7 days. The second prize is a 27" color TV; 3rd prize is a cash award of $250.
The State College Food Bank is having its 20th anniversary on 9/18 & 9/24 from 6-8 PM.
Paul Bell announced the Community Academy for Life Long Learning wil have an auction on September 24 from noon until 4 PM.
Carol Walsh announced a membership promotion. 5 member teams responsible for bringing in 1 new member. There will be ten teams. Prizes for success.
Rotary International announced the Open Road program. Russian leaders will come to America. It is sponsored by the Library of COngress. It starts in 2003. The Board voted not to participate. It required haviong Russians visitors stay with a club for 8 days and to be hosted by the club for 8 days with activities for those days
The Spaghetti Dinner fund raiser will be March 19. More data later..

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Previous Week's Speaker: Congressman Peterson with a legislative update

Our speaker this past week was Dr. Kim Steiner with PSU. He is a forester and also the is the Director of the PSU Arboretum. Kim came here from Michigan State.

Dr. Steiner illustrated the footprint for the arboretum at Penn State. It is the first piece of land visitors see upon getting off the by-pass (I-99) coming into State College. The land is along side Park Avenue and extends back toward he armory and the Interstate. Among the first plans are the parcel know as the Mitchell tract. The Mitchell tract lies between the driveway to Shreyer House and Park Avenue and extends over to the horticulture gardens.

In this area will hosue many items such as a pond, and education building, and much more. Dr. Steiner broguht with him, John Krumrine who is responsible for development of the funds to be used for the arboretum along with other funds for the Agriculture School. They are presently in the midst of a fund drive to deleop the Mitchell Tract and hope to have it complete by 2005.

This week’s note taker: Dennis Hampton

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
Sept 26	Fetter	Goldstein	Hickey	Domalski
October 3	Friedman	Hampton	Holmes	Club Assembly
October 10	Gambone	Held	Hudson	MaryAnn Eberle
October 17	Geise	Hickey	Immel	Jim Eberly
October 24	Goldstein	Hill	Johnston	Edwards
October 31	Hampton	Holmes	Jones	Ferguson
November 7	Held	Hudson	Kauffman	Club Assembly
November 14	Hickey	Immel	Chris Kerner	Fetter
November 21	Hill	Johnston	Kelly Kerner	Friedman
November 28	Thanksgiving	No Meeting	Have a safe Day	Gobble Gobble
December 5	Holmes	Jones	King	Club Assembly
December 12	Hudson	Kauffman	Lucci	Gambone
December 19	Immel	Chris Kerner	Martin	Geise
December 26	Christmas	Holiday	Have a	Safe One
January 2	to	be	announced

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