State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: none
Make-ups turned in: none
Guests: Don Bidell, prospective member & guest of MaryAnn Eberly and Jason Votach and Brian Grazner
50/50: Marshall Goldstein drew the 3 of spades. The pot is over $1000. There should be 23 cards left.You can buy three chances for $2 now too, to make your chances better!
Auction: The auction item came from Randy Hudson. It was a gift a basket of assorted Christmas candy and ornaments. The high bidder was MaryAnn Eberly at $20

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

12/17 Bell Ringing for
Interfaith Mission
14 of us

12/11-15 Festival of the Trees
Hill, Hickey, Eberle, Kauffman, Davis, Zimbler, Jones, Ferguson, Christian, Mose, Geise, Brytczuk, Potalivo, DeArmitt, Aungst, Gambone, Meckstroth, Walsh, Moose, Martin, Abramson, Myrick, Domalski, Coble, King, Fetter, Eberly, Rutter, Holmes, Friedman, Johnston, Held, Kerner

12/12 Cruise sellers of all 19 tickets: Rutter, Eberly, & others to be named.

We will be bell ringing on December 17 in front of the Corner Room for the benefit of the Interfaith Mission. We still have a couple of times to sign up for.

On December 19, Meg and Clark Moose will be hosting our club's holiday get together. Time is from 6 until 9 pm. Their home is in the Teaberry Ridge part of town.Directions were passed out at the past meeting.
The International RYLA Convention is in Brisbane Australia May 29- June 1, 2003
The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@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 raffle for the cruise was held. The big winner was Mark Meckstroth.

Don Bedell December 2002
Tom Murray Oct 2002
Linda Friedman Sept 2002
Scott Rawson August 2002

We still don't know if will pick the cruise or the cash. The second palce winner of the huge television was Sue Mascola, our former county commissioner, and the third palce winner of the $250 cash was none other than Dennis Hampton. Thanks to all for selling tockets and bigger thanks to the members who sold all their tickets.

In January we will place orders for Rotary polo shirts and long sleeve denim shirts. These will have the club logo similar to the shirts we had made about three years ago. Maryann Eberle is takign charge of this activity.
A prospective member has been approved by the board. His name is known to the members and after a ten day examination/waiting period to have members offer comments on the proposal membership will be extended to him.
Nominations for club offices and board memberships are being accepted. Please contact anyone on the nominating committee if you are interested.
Last week we lost the Club Web site when our Internet Provider of Server space went out of business. Through the kindness of a local Internet Service Provider (Centre of the Web) and my own business (Paul Rutter Web Design) the club Web site is back on the Internet. The new address is http://www.centreweb.com/rotary/club/index.html. There are a few bugs to work out with files that are missing as a result of our old ISP going out of business without notice. I hope to have them back in place soon. Many thanks to Vicon for the three years of service we did get from them at no charge.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Classification Talk Rainer Domalski

This past week we were fortunate to hear Rainer’s classification talk. Rainer was born in Germany in a state near France. In the 70’s he went to university that was 200 years old with only 2500 students. He studied geology and was graduated in 1979.
He met his wife in their home town and married in 1975. Their first child Michael was born in 1980 and a daughter was born in 1986. He went to work at a consulting firm for a coal mining company to look at the impact of grounddwater when starting a mine. Mines can go as far as 4500 feet in Germany.
He got involved with pollution and how to clean it up. Since Germany is smaller that the state of Texas, they must develop ways to treat contamination in site.He went to work for Reutgers in Germany, and came here in 1994 to start clean-up at Reutgerns-Nuese site. The company has spent 16 million so far. He works closely with the EPA and DEP.
Rainer’s wife works as a paraprofessional at Easterly Parkway Elementary. He enjoys the USA since the USA offers you the opportunities to do what you want as long as you have desire and drive. In Europe they force you into a job. He had aslo travelled to Turkey and Bangledesh in his work.

This week’s note taker: Paul Rutter

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
December 26	Christmas	Holiday	Have a	Safe One!
January 2	Johnston	Kelly Kerner	Martin	Hampton
January 9	R. Jones	King	Meckstroth	Assembly
January 16	Kauffman	Martella	Mose	Held
January 23	Chris Kerner	Martin	Murray	Hickey
January 30	Kelly Kerner	Meckstroth	Myrick	Hill
February 6	King	Mose	Potalivo	Assembly
February 13	Lucci	Murray	Rawson	Holmes
February 20	Martella	Myrick	Rutter	Hudson
February 27	Martin	Potalivo	Taverno	Immel
March 6	Meckstroth	Rawson	Tmanov	Assembly
March 13	Moose	Rutter	Turley	Johnston
March 20	Mose	Taverno	Walsh	Jones
March 27	Murray	Tmanov	Whitfield	Kauffman
	April's to be published later

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter