The Skantarian The Skaneateles New York Rotary Club (SRC) a member of RI District 7150 - Area 11 http://www.skaneatelesrotary.org District Governor – Marlene Brown Ass't DG (Area 11) – Jim Gascon

Vol. 79, Number 47 November 29, 2007 Editor: John Shannon jms@mlsattorneys.com

SRC’s Officers for this 2007-2008 year: SRC’s Directors: Active Members: 54

President Dick Kokosa 2008 Gary Caldwell, John May

President Elect John Hennessy Jim Messenger & Lee Overstrom

Past President Ralph Jurgensen 2009 Robin Jowaisas, Umesh Patil

Vice President Doug Rutan Lori Ruhlman, Roberta Williams

Treasurer Sue Keefe

Corr. Secretary Art Fellerman

Rec. Secretary Duane Weaver Sergeant at Arms: Lee Overstrom

Committee Chairs – Administration, Chuck Williams; Fundraising, Dale Zabel; Membership, Roberta Williams; Public Relations, Lori Ruhlman; Rotary Foundation, Dick Poppa; Service Projects, Doug Rutan and Leadership, Dick Kokosa.

Exchange Students: Nico Avalle (Argentina) – van der Van Family , Sarah Bierbaum (Germany) – Swartz Family, Lucas Grob (Switzerland) – Frackenpohl Family, Eddy Tasia (Belgium) – Naro Family

Last Week’s Program: Dick Kokosa & Dick Poppa – Club Assembly: Rotary Foundation Annual Giving Program Kick Off; Nominating Committee Report (Board Meeting – 5:00 p.m.)

This Week’s Program: Stephanie Wisniewski, RYLA ; 7:45PM Meeting of Skaneateles Rotary Foundation - Membership Vote on Bylaws, John Hennessy

Birthdays in November: Caldwell (1^st), Kokosa (4^th), Poppa (5^th), Feldmann (11^th), Ralph (17^th), Langley (18^th), Overstrom (27^th)

Rotary Anniversaries in November: D’Angelo (1^st), Jurgensen (29^th), Stevens (18^th), R. Williams (3^rd)

November 8^th Missing Faces: Adams, Bentivegna, D’Angelo, Jurgensen, Keefe, Priest, Renner, Roche, Rutan, Shannon, Tarnow, Whalen, Wisner, Zabel (Week’s Attendance- 68%)

November 15^th Guests: Jan Sterling; Exchange Students: Nico, Lucas, Sarah, Eddie

November 15^th Visitarians: none

Roving Rotes: YE Outbound Interviews – Stevens (3); District YE Committee – Stevens; E-Club – Kokosa; Skaneateles Sunrise – D’Angelo, Hennessy, Vuillemot; Merairie, Louisiana Sunrise – Vuillemot; Board Meeting – C. Williams, Kokosa, Hennessy, Keefe, Fellerman, Weaver, Jowaisas, Patil, R. Williams, Ruhlman, Caldwell, J. May, Messenger, Overstrom

Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales: 11/29 – Jowaisas & Jurgensen, 12/6 – Keefe & Langley, 12/13 – Lee & T. May, 12/20 – J. May & McLennan, 12/27 – Messenger & Osborne (Please find a replacement if you won’t be available for setup & ticket sales.)

Future Meeting Programs & District Major Events

Club Programs & Events

Dec 6 Todd May – Christmas Benefit Fund Raiser – Skaneateles Country Club - 6:00 PM

Dec 13 Dick Kokosa – Annual Club Meeting; Elections and Bylaws Vote (Board Meeting – 5:00 p.m.)

Dec 20 Dick Kokosa – Club Christmas Party

Dec 27 Gina Didio – 2007 Skaneateles Rotary Scholarship Recipient & Club Activities

Jan 3 Bennett & Ruhlman – Returning Exchange Students & Club Activities

Jan 10 Clyde Ohl – Modernizing Local Government (Board Meeting – 5:00 p.m.)

Jan 17 Kokosa – Club Assembly

District and Other Programs & Events

Nov 10 RLI – Loudonville, NY

Jan 2008 D7150 Mid-Winter Meetings

Mar 14-15 Multi-District President-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) - Double Tree Htl – Carrier Circle, E.Syr.

News and Notices:

· Skaneateles Foundation Membership Vote – Immediately following our regular Thursday, November 29th meeting, our Skaneateles Rotary Foundation, Inc., recently incorporated with the State of New York, will hold a vote by the membership to approve the foundation’s application to the IRS for a "Not for Profit (501 c 3) Corporation" status. A document of bylaws has been emailed or mailed to each Skaneateles Rotary Club member. This will provide an opportunity to become familiar with them in advance of the vote. Please forward questions to John Hennessy, who will review them with the other four provisional trustees, Robin Jowaisas, Bill Stevens, Duane Weaver and Roberta Williams and then respond accordingly.

· Dec 6 Christmas Benefit Fund Raiser – This year’s annual Christmas Benefit will be held on December 6 at the Skaneateles Country Club. All proceeds from the event support the Christmas efforts of the Skaneateles Outreach Program and the local food pantries. A grand event is planned by Chairman Todd May who is being capably assisted by Timer Whittingham, Dale Zabel, Steve Schwartz, Jack Hyatt and Robin Jowaisas. Cocktails and live “Big Band “ music begin at 6:00 followed by a family style turkey dinner at 7:00 and table hosts are reminded to bring their carving tools to do honors to the bird. Just a reminder that the $20 dinner fee only covers the cost of the dinner and that the fund raising results from participation in the raffle by the Rotarians and guests present. So please let’s fill those tables…no empty seats allowed…and please ask your guests to bring a monetary donation for participation in the raffle. Checks should be made out to “The Skaneateles Rotary Foundation”, the new tax deductable arm of our club. Todd May is happy to answer any questions and Jack Hyatt is the ticket-master.

· Skaneateles Rotary’s newest Paul Harris Fellow - At our Nov. 15th meeting, the Skaneateles Rotary club inducted Janice Sterling as a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow for her generous support and contributions to the many projects of the Rotary Foundation projects around the world.  Janice and her late husband, Kirk (a Rotarian for 18 years) are both Paul Harris Fellows.  Contributions to the Rotary Foundation help build world peace and understanding through it’s numerous health, humanitarian and education programs; and most importantly, these contributions change and save lives.

· Rotary Foundation and Polio Eradication - PolioPlus - As of June 30, 2007, Rotarians through out the world have mobilized by the hundreds of thousands to ensure that children are immunized against this crippling disease and the surveillance is strong, despite the poor infrastructure, extreme poverty, and civil strife of many countries. Since the PolioPlus Program's inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received oral polio vaccine. To date, 210 countries, territories and areas around the world are polio free and 134 of these have been certified. As of June 2007, Rotary has committed more than $633 million to global polio eradication. 2006-07 expenditures: $23.6.   A special thanks go out to all those Rotarians who have participated and/or contributed to these efforts.  Your continued support is still needed, since this crippling disease is not quite eradicated yet.

November is The Rotary Foundation Month

The Rotary Foundation’s Humanitarian Grants Program

· Disaster Recovery – Allows Rotarians to donate money in response to specific disasters. Funds are distributed to local committees to support recovery efforts. The program was created in 2005-06, and the Foundation currently administers four Disaster Recovery accounts: Hurricanes Stan and Wilma (Guatemala and Mexico), Hurricane Wilma (United States), the Earthquake in India and Pakistan, and Solidarity in South Asia. Total contributions to the accounts were $6.4 million.

· District Simplified Grants – Support the service activities of districts locally and abroad. Since this program began in 2003-04, more than 1,160 grants totaling over US$17 million have been awarded to districts in almost 60 countries.

· Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants – Fund large-scale, two- to four-year projects that improve health, alleviate hunger, or promote human development. Since 1978, more than 280 projects in 75 countries have been funded through The Rotary Foundation at a cost of $74 million.

· Matching Grants – Provide matching funds for the international service projects of Rotary clubs and districts. Since 1965, more than 24,000 Matching Grant projects in 167 countries have been funded at a cost of more than $257 million.

· Volunteer Service Grants – Support the international travel of qualified Rotarians and their spouses to provide a needed service or plan a necessary project in a community. This program began in 2006-07, and more than 200 projects in over 40 countries have been funded at about $1 million.

The Rotary Foundation’s History - In 1917, RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed that an endowment be set up “for the purpose of doing good in the world.” In 1928, when the endowment fund had grown to more than US$5,000, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it became a distinct entity within Rotary International.

Five Trustees, including Klumph, were appointed to “hold, invest, manage, and administer all of its property . . . as a single trust, for the furtherance of the purposes of RI.”

Two years later, the Foundation made its first grant of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children. The organization, created by Rotarian Edgar F. “Daddy” Allen, later grew into the Easter Seals.

The Great Depression and World War II both impeded the Foundation’s growth, but the need for lasting world peace generated great postwar interest in its development. After Rotary’s founder, Paul P. Harris, died in 1947, contributions began pouring into Rotary International, and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund was created to build the Foundation.

That year, the first Foundation program – the forerunner of Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships – was established. In 1965-66, three new programs were launched: Group Study Exchange, Awards for Technical Training, and Grants for Activities in Keeping with the Objective of The Rotary Foundation, which was later called Matching Grants.

The Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants program was launched in 1978, and Rotary Volunteers was created as a part of that program in 1980. PolioPlus was announced in 1984-85, and the next year brought Rotary Grants for University Teachers. The first peace forums were held in 1987-88, leading to the Foundation's peace and conflict studies programs.

Throughout this time, support of the Foundation grew tremendously. Since the first donation of $26.50 in 1917, it has received contributions totaling more than $1 billion. More than $70 million was donated in 2003-04 alone. To date, more than one million individuals have been recognized as Paul Harris Fellows – people who have given $1,000 to the Annual Programs Fund or have had that amount contributed in their name.

Such strong support, along with Rotarian involvement worldwide, ensures a secure future for The Rotary Foundation as it continues its vital work for international understanding and world peace.

Rotary Timeline – 1946: Rotary International publishes the book In the Minds of Men, which includes the UNESCO constitution and the first overview of the organization's mission. (A 1942 Rotary conference on education and cultural exchange is credited as setting the stage for the formation of UNESCO.) In the book's preface, RI President Richard C. Hedke writes that the newly formed constitution "parallels the work that Rotary has been doing through its Fourth Object" and that both UNESCO and Rotary "strive to advance international peace through the development of mutual understanding and the creation of goodwill."