State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: Bus Fowler, PDG Evening Rotary club
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Clark Moose, spouse of our president Meg; Frank Pope a guest of Teresa Davis.
50/50: Dennis Martella drew a card but had the fortune (for the rest of us) to not get the Ace thereby preserving the $650+ pot until at least next week. You can buy three chances for $2 now too, to make your chances better!
Auction: We didn't have an auction item this week.

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

11/2 Beaver Stadium Gates
Illinois-PSU game
Won't you please help?

10/19 Beaver Stadium Gates
Northwestern-PSU game
Ron Taverno & six members of the Taiwan Student Association

10/3 PNC-United Way
Day of Caring
Marshall Goldstein, Jim Eberly, Meg Moose, Leanne Martin

9/28 Beaver Stadium Gates
Iowa-PSU game
Ron Taverno,

9/21 Beaver Stadium Gates
La Tech-PSU Game
Betsy & Dick Held, Paul Rutter, Ron Taverno

9/14 Beaver Stadium Gates
Nebraska-PSU Game
Anne Hoag & Paul Rutter, Patty & Ron Taverno

We need volunteers to work the gates for the Illinois-PSU game on November 2. Ron Taverno will be posting an announcement via the List Serv to tell about Football gate working. The next game is against Illinois on November 2. There are 2 more opportunities to serve after the Illinois game that will need workers. Call Ron Taverno to sign up. It counts as a make-up and the club earns cash!
Hugh Mose congratulated those members who have been successful in selling their raffle tickets and announced that all club members have received their allotted 19 to sell.
Dr. D is the chair of the Group Study Exchange. A press release should appear soon in the CDT. The study teams consist of four (4) members plus a group leader. There has been a change made on this program in that instead of sending and receiving a team every year we will alternate each year between sending a team. We will host a team from South Korea 19 April 2003 to 18 May 2003. In 2004, we will send a team to South Korea.
Welcome to newest member Tom Murray!
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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Tom Murray Oct 2002
Linda Friedman Sept 2002
Scott Rawson August 2002
Ranier Domalski July 2002
Doug Holmes June 2002

fund raising committee passed out tickets for use to sell for the cruise raffle. The cruise doesn't have a date it has be taken within. The value of the cruise is $3500. Winners can arrange a round that. It should be good enough though, for airfare from Harrisburg to a carribbean cruise port, and a cruise of 7 days. The second prize is a 27" color TV; 3rd prize is a cash award of $250.

On November 12, there will be a Paul Harris Presentation at the evening club by PDG Bus Fowler and Don Tressler. All Paul Harris Fellows are asked to attend.
Nominations for District Governor Nominee are being accepted. The year of service as Governor would be 2005-2006. Contact Carol if interested.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Mike Majewski-US Navy submarines

Our speaker this week was Lt. Mike Majewski, USN.

Mike is on shore duty as an instructor at the NROTC unit azt PSU but he also is a qualified submariner. Mike spoke to us giving an overview of the submarine service of today. He identified the three different types of boats in use today: boomers, fast attacks, and specially fitted boats like the Sea Wolf class.

In his presentation Mike showed slides that covered how a crew member lives on the boat, and what type of lovely accommodations there are. He went over the food storage situation, the usage of weaponry, creation of fresh air or not, and what the chicken switches on a submarine do to allow an emergency surface like the image below.

Mike covered what the missions of todays submarines are. fast attack boats are used to seek and destroy the enemy. He noted that the fast attacks have the ability to stay out at sea as long as the food lasts. Mike told us that boomers or fleet balistic missile sunbmarines are the ones seen as a deterrent to war. The newer class of boat the Sea Wolf is extremely fast, quiet and capable of going deep. These boats also are very very cvery expensive. Only three are being built.

Mike showed a picture of my old submarine the USS awkbill at the northpole when his roommate was on the boat.

To say the least, this was by far the best speaker a weekly Rotary meeting as had in the 14 years I have been in Rotary.(~Paul)

This week’s note taker: Darren Johnston

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
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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