State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: Bus Fowler, PDG Evening Rotary club, Alan Hay from Parole, MD near Annapolis; Mary Johnston, from the evening club
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Debbie Murray, spouse of our newest member Tom Murray.
50/50: Paul Rutter drew the queen of diamonds dammit and left a pot of over $825 for another day with 27 cards left.You can buy three chances for $2 now too, to make your chances better!
Auction: We had two auction items this week. The first, from Dennis Hampton, was a gift certificate to the corner room won by Paul Rutter with a bid of $35. The second was a bag/box of foreign coins donated by Marshall Goldstein that Dick Held won for a high bid of $25.

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

11/9 Beaver Stadium Gates
Virginia-PSU game
Paul Rutter & who else will help?

11/2 Beaver Stadium Gates
Illinois-PSU game
Two members of the Taiwan Student Association

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

We need volunteers to work the gates for the Virginia-PSU game on November 9. Ron Taverno will be posting an announcement via the List Serv to tell about Football gate working. There is 1 more opportunity to serve after the Virginia 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 Hugh was offering a scratch ticket to the next person to sell all 19 tickets.
Tom Murray was officially inducted in the club today! On hand for the preseting of the pin was his wife Debbie. Pat Coble, the memberrship chair and Carol Walsh who sponsored Tom's membership assisted with the pinning.
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 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.

Tom Murray Oct 2002
Linda Friedman Sept 2002
Scott Rawson August 2002
Ranier Domalski July 2002
Doug Holmes June 2002

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.

Melissa Aungst told everyone about the million pennies drive at he mall that Easter Seals is holding to raise money. The Easter Seals are in need of volunteers to man the booth at the mall in three hour shifts. The times to volunteer include most days from Thanksgiving through December 21. Email Melissa for more information or check out their Web site.
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: Classification talk-Mark Whitfield

Our speaker this week was our own Mark Whitfield. Mark took time out from his busy tree limb cleaning up duties to have lunch and do his official classification talk.He was born in Lebanon, PA and grew up in Myersdale and Saxton, PA. He was graduated from Tussey Mountain highschool in a class of 157 their largest during an era of economic struggles for the appalachia parts of Pennsylvania. He has two sisters. His father was a chemistry and physics teacher. In high school Mark was football team and track team member. He sand with the agape signers and also found time for scouting hwere he attained the Eagle Scout honor.
he went to school at PSU Mont Alto to study surveying and keep outside. Upon finishing htere he took a job as a surveyor for a consulting firm. He did that unitl his future mother-in-law saw an ad for an opening with the boro for a surveyor. Mark got the job, continued his studies at PSU, and moved up the chain o the level he is now that of the director of public works.
Mark lives in the boro on S. Allen after having lived in Nittany Orchard for many years. He is interested in his church, Mt. Nittany Methodist, and is an avid PSU Icer fan. He has two kids, and his wife works at the hospital.

This week’s note taker: Richard Jones

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
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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