State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

P. O. Box 10742
State College, 16805

Edition: #242
Editor: Paul Rutter

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

August 10 Centennial Project Concert Bottled Water Booth - Davis, Eberly, Fetter, Rutter, Holmes, Held

July 27 Centennial Project Concert Bottled Water Booth - Walsh, Coble, Kauffman, Fetter, Rutter, Hill, Eberly, Bedell

June 13-14 RYEX sleep over-home stay - Mose, Eberly, Hill, King, Rutter, Taverno, Zimbler, Davis, plus more to be listed as soon as I learn who they are.

June 4-6 Community Service Special Olympics - Potalivo, Catalano, DeArmitt, Abramson, Bedell, Zimbler, Coble, Davis, Brytzcuk, Walsh, Taverno x3, Hill, Jones, Christian, Fetter, Bell, Hellyer, Carol Lloyd, Domalski

Previous Mystery member's experience: no info this week.click for answer
The District Newsletter is online at the district Web site.
Interested in working the gates at home football games? Contact Harry Zimbler. The club earns money from your time and you get a parking pass and ticket to the game. Your friends and family can help too. Next Game is NORTHWESTERN!
Happy Bucks from: There were many. • Teresa Davis for her sons 9th birthday.• Doug Holmes for having completed numerous interviews for RYEX• Dick Jones for his daughter getting married.• Jana King for being happy.
The back page of the Coupon Book is for sale. Contact Linda if interested in purchasing.
Chuck Gambone made a passionate plea for folks to join him on "Date night" a for the Rotary Foundation Dinner. Unaware that he said it, but this will be a chance for his fiance to be revealed! Lucky Chuck!
We need hosts for the RYEX interviews in State College, November 12-13. Contact Carl if you are able to help out.

We need to sell bricks. CNet filmed a segment at the Borough building on 10/27 at noon. The show is airing over the next two weeks.
Sunday, Nov. 7 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 7 - 8:00 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 8 - 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 9 - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 12 - 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 13 - 7:00 p.m.
Paul Rutter presented a banner from the Altoona Sunrise Rotary Club where he did a GSE presentation with GSE Team member Bob Williams
Our Exchange Students this year are Gabriela Voloschin from Argentina and Poom Charttrakarn from Thailand
The club stationery is online in MS Word format
Please do your make-ups. One can use the E-club if needed.We need to get our attendance numbers higher.
Jim Eberly reported about Rotary's Central Parklet Project sponsored by the two SC clubs. The new "Children's Play Space" will be lot of fun for kids. The total costs of the project are $50,000. 50% needs to be raised by the two SC clubs as part of Rotary's 100th anniversary in 2005. Bricks are on sale ($100 for first kid name, $50 for each subsequent). The bricks will be used for the walkway. A pamphlet was distributed. Please be selling bricks!
The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. 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.
mystery answer: none this week.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Club Assembly & Classification Talks

Pamela (PJ) Browning, President & Publisher of the Centre Daily Times
PJ grew up in Springfield, Mo. It was already during high school that she became interested in newspapers. She later received a degree in marketing and management from Southwest Missouri State University. During her college years and after graduation, PJ's career led her from classified advertising sales to the top management positions in the newspaper industry. Although publishing company Gannet Co. Inc., owned most of the newspapers that PJ worked for she was recently hired as a new publisher of our hometown newspaper, the Centre Daily Times. Knight Ridder, which owns CDT is more focused on small communities despite the fact that they also own several of the large newspapers around the country, according to PJ. She enjoys working at the CDT and getting involved in our community.
As a publisher, PJ is responsible for all aspects of publishing. She oversees all of the departments and has a final say on any editorial position that the paper takes. For example, PJ commented on a timely topic, when it comes to endorsing political candidates prior to elections, there is an internal editorial board, which decides on which candidates the paper endorses. However, if there were a tie, it would be PJ's responsibility to break it.
PJ is married to Kerry, her high school sweetheart. They have three wonderful children, ages 16, 15, and 13, who have adjusted well despite several moves to different locations in the country before ending here in Happy Valley.

Evan Smith, director of administration, McQuaide Blasko Attorneys.
Evan Smith humorously described his job as doing everything that is "not legal." His responsibilities include office administration, computers, purchasing decisions, expanding, and more. McQuide Blasko is the area's largest law firm with 80 employees, including 30 attorneys. Smith has worked for the firm for the past eight years.

Prior to his present position, Smith spent four years (1993 to 1997) as the Centre County Administrator. His position placed him in the public eye and the pressures of the job were numerous. Smith said that he has learned several things during his tenure, including that "Paranoia is simply a heighten state of awareness."

Smith considers himself a "townie," his family moved to State College when he was just six years old. Smith attended school here and graduated from Penn State. When he was younger, he even owned a small antique clocks business here that some might remember. After graduation he joined the Army where he spent nine years as an Emergency Planner. While in upstate New York, he met his wife. They have two children. His son is a student at Penn State and has just recently been accepted in the Air Force and his daughter is a high school student.

Although his job responsibilities and raising children don't leave much time for hobbies, Smith has recently resurrected a hobby, which he started a long time ago. He became a part owner of a plane and enjoys spending his free time flying.

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Carl Hill presented a third Paul Harris Fellowship to Meg Moose. Carl reminded us about the Foundation Dinner too. It will be held on November 13.

Secretaries report was a bit ambiguous. We do know that attendance stinks and we can do better. It is so easy to do make-ups with the E-club and another Rotary club in town.

Treasurers report was that we are solvent.

Two applications for membership are in the ten day period. If you have a conflict with one of these see Terry Edwards, the membership chairman or Roger Fetter.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter & Jana King

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No Meeting---Happy Thanksgiving!!

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