State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

December 10-14 Festival of the Trees
December 18 Club Christmas Auctions
December 18 Club Christmas/Holiday Party
December 25 Happy Holidays-no meeting
January 1 Holiday-no meeting
January 8 TBA
January 15 TBA
January 22 TBA
January 29 TBA
February 5 TBA
March 24 Spaghetti Fund Raiser
April 1-30 Group Study Exchange to South Korea
May 6-8 District Conference

Visiting Rotarians: Mary Johnston, Debbie Fudrow from the Evening Club.
Make-ups turned in: Paul Rutter and Hugh Mose
Guests: Melissa Aungst had a guest. Apologies for not having her name.
50/50: Bonnie Abramson drew the 4 of diamonds. There is about $80 in the pot and there are 48 cards left.
Auction: Teresa Davis donated a pair of Christmas/Holiday bears/animals. The high bid was $55 from Brian Christian..

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

Dec. 10-14 Festival of the Trees- Geise, Meckstroth, Kauffman, K.Kerner, Hickey, Ferguson, Friedman, DeArmitt, Brytczuk, Aungst, Biddle, Bedell, Taverno, Walsh, Coble, Turley, Gambone, Amato, Eberly, Bell, Martin, Moose, King,Zimbler, Christian, Fetter, G.Wilson, Johnston, Eberly(2), Davis, Bacastow, Held, Rutter

Dec. 3 Bell Ringing- Hill, Eberly, Aungst, Rutter & more to come.

Nov. '03 Coupon Book committee- Linda Friedman, Pam Ferguson, Teresa Davis and the club.

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: We didn't have one this week.click for answer
A few shifts are left to work for the FESTIVAL OF THE TREES. Remember to bake cookies etc. to sell even if you can't work a shift.
Russ Brooks badge turned from Red to Blue in recognition of 1his completing new members functions.
The Polio Plus coupon book committee handed out the books to everyone. There is a prize for the top coupon book seller.
The GSE team was selected. Four of the team members/alternates are from State College. One is from Mercersburg, and one from Huntingdon. The team leader is from our club.
Our Christmas/Holiday party is December 18 at Gary and Sharon's house.7:30-10:30.
Our club has been approached by the Evening Club to start an Interact Club. A meeting is being coordinated to get something happening at the High School.
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.
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: Paul Harris Foundation

PDG Jack Corderman drive up from Hagerstown to tell us about the Paul Harris Fellowships and the Rotary Foundation.We watched a video called Under a Blue Sky. The video told a By selling lots of these books we can do much good work toward eradication of Polio through the Rotary Foundation and the Polio Plus efforts. story about a family affected by dismal conditions in sub saharan Africa. The story tied how we live in a small world where conditions in one part of the world affect other parts. In this case the family was an educator from the UK on a teaching sabbatical in Malawi.The professors wife and daughter accompanied him. The daughter was made ill by water borne matter and air-evaciuated to the USA where the mother was from.The daughter gets better and the little girls grandfather, more than likely a Rotarian, in the USA in recognition of his daughters recovery and his recognition of the need to make conditions all over the worlld leaves a sum of money behind to start a fund to do good things.

Like the grandfather in this story, we can all do the same thing now by contributing to the Rotary Foundation where programs are established to accomplish these things, like Polio Plus or our own districts aids education project in Malawi, Africa.

If we all were to become sustaining members of the Rotary Foundation, a mere $100 per year, we could help Rotary do great things. This can easily be done by adding $25 to your quarterly club statement, after making an initial donation of $100 which will be matched by our club. In a couple of years, you'll be a Paul Harris Fellow too!

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
Dec. 11	Immel	K. Kerner	Meckstroth	Christian
Dec. 18	Johnston	King	Moose	Coble
Dec. 25/ Jan. 1	Happy	Holidays	Happy	Holidays
Jan. 8, 2004	Jones	Martella	Myrick	Assembly
Jan. 15	Kauffman	Martin	Potalivo	Davis
Jan. 22	C Kerner	Meckstroth	Rawson	Dayananda
Jan. 29	K Kerner	Moose	Rutter	DeArmitt
Feb. 5	King	Myrick	Taverno	Assembly
Feb. 12	Martella	Potalivo	Turley	Delong
Feb. 19	Martin	Rawson	Walsh	Domalski
Feb. 26	Meckstroth	Rutter	Whitfield	Eberly
Mar. 4	Moose	Taverno	Zimbler	Assembly
Mar. 11	Mose	Turley	Abramson	Edwards
Mar. 18	Myrick	Walsh	Amato	Ferguson
Mar. 25	Potalivo	Whitfield	Aungst	Fetter
	April 2004 to be published later

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