State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

November 20 Rotary Exchange Student Presentations
November 25 Happy Thanksgiving-no meeting
December 3 Interfaith Mission Bell Ringing
December 4 Club Assembly
December 10-14 Festival of the Trees
December 11 Rotaract Presentation
December 18 TBA
December 18 Club Christmas/Holiday Party
December 25 Happy Holidays-no meeting
March 24 Spaghetti Fund Raiser
May 6-8 District Conference

Visiting Rotarians: Dana Catalano from the Lewistown club, Mary Johnston, Debbie Fudrow, from the evening club
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests:
50/50: Russ Brooks drew the queen of spades. There is about $40 in the pot and there are 50 cards left.
Auction: Dick Held provided he auction item: a gift certificate to Wegmans. The high bidder was Carol Walsh.

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

11/15 PSU/Indiana football game-Contact Ron to help. Get your friends to help us too!

11/1 PSU/Ohio State football game-Paul Rutter and 5 friends!

10/4 PSU/Wisconsin football game-Melissa Aungst, Ron Taverno & Paul Rutter

10/2 Day of Caring at the Foodbank- coming soon

9/20 PSU-Kent State football game gates
Will you be listed here? Call Ron Taverno to find out how and help RYEX!!

Previous Mystery member's experience: she/he was president of Toastmasters.click for answer
The GSE team was selected. Four of the team members/alternates are from State College. One is from McConnelsurg, and one from Huntingdon. The team leader is from our club.
Christmas/Holiday party is December 18.
There were 6 Rotarian workers at the Ohio State game. We were done working in time for the opening kickoff and had seats on the field. If you want to help raise funds for RYEX consider helping out.
The evening Rotary club now has a list serv like us. Their address is RotaryEvening-L@lists.psu.edu. Contact Mary Johnston if you want to be added to their list.
We will be helping Interfaith Mission by bell-ringing on December 3rd
Our prayer book is missing! Who stole it? Thou shalt not steal.
Remember the Rotary Foundation pot and the Rotary Foundation.
Help work football gates. You will receive a free parking pass, and a ticket with on field seats to the game. The commitment is to work 1-1/2 hours before the game taking tickets and sometimes working the first quarter or a portion of the first quarter. Our Rotary Club receives the hourly payment for the time served and these funds are deposited into our Youth Exchange Funds account. Please call Ron Taverno to get more information on helping. 814-231-3021 or rtaverno@collegetownship.org.
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: We think it was Linda Friedman but she wasn't there this past week.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Club Assembly

We had a club assembly. One of the big items we talked about was the Rotary Foundation of our club, the new 501(c)3 organization from our club.The board of the foundation will be the president-elect, the president, and the immediate past president along with two elected person. The first two will be Judy Myrick and Rose Kauffman. We are still waiting state approval for the tax exempt authority.

Attendance last month was 64% so we can do better.

Jim D._____ was proposed for membership by Judy Myrick, Kelly and Chris Kerner. There ten days to blackball him or not.

The is a new member orientation scheduled for Friday the 14th at Perkins restaurant at 7:30 a.m. Past District Governor Carol Walsh will be your hostest. This is one of the things you need to fulfill to turn your badge from red to blue.

Ben Amato did a classification talk. It was more of a this is who I am talk and Ben is interesting. I wish he had brought his banjo.
Ben was born back in 1937 in Scranton, PA. When he was 16 he moved from the city to Pennsville. He said this along with his grandfather for a role model helped save him from being a part of the "deadend gang." He took up hunting and fishing.
Ben married his highschool sweetheart, Diane.
Ben played football at Scranton but when he transferred to Penn State he found out he wasn't so big. He earned a degree in health and a masters in rehab counseling. Ben taught for several years and coached wrestling and football before getting in to the sales business which he adores. Ben is a CFP.
Ben has 5 children, 8 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
Nov. 13	Hickey	Jones	King	Brooks
Nov. 20	Hill	Kauffman	Martella	Brytczuk
Nov. 27	Happy	Thanksgiving	Holiday	!!!!!
Dec. 4	Holmes	C. Kerner	Martin	Assembly
Dec. 11	Immel	K. Kerner	Meckstroth	Christian
Dec. 18	Johnston	King	Moose	Coble
Dec. 25	Happy	Holidays	Happy	Holidays
Jan. 1, 2004		New Years	Holiday
	January 2004 to be published later

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