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Vol.
80, Number 14 April
3, 2008 Editor:
John Shannon jms@mlsattorneys.com
SRCÕs Officers for this 2007-2008 year: SRCÕs
Directors: Active Members: 58
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:
Sarah Bierbaum (Germany) – Scholz Family, Lucas Grob (Switzerland) – Trapani
Family, Eddy Tasia (Belgium) – Figura
Family
Last WeekÕs Program: Tanya Hacker
– Events Planner
This WeekÕs Meeting and Program: Roberta
Williams – Membership Event
Birthdays in April: Osborne (4th), Ruhlman (7th), Hennessy (13th), Jurgensen (16th)
Rotary Anniversaries in April: Buterbaugh (1st),
Bentivegna (15th), D. Ralph (15th),
L. Bennett (17th)
March 27th Missing Faces: Adams, Bentivegna, Buterbaugh, Caldwell, Conole, Emmer, Keefe, Kokosa, T. May, Patil, Rademacher, Roche, Tarnow, Zabel (weekÕs attendance: 68%)
March 27th Guests: None
March 27th Visitarians: None
Roving Rotes: Hobe Sound/Port Salarno
– Rademacher (2); SRC/SRF Planning Meeting
– Kokosa, Hennessy, Stevens; Presidential
Citation Application – Kokosa; Skaneateles
Sunrise – Vuillemot; RLI Planning (Newburgh, NY) – Vuillemot; RLI
(Oswego, NY) – Vuillemot
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales: 4/3 – Caldwell & Corcoran,
4/10 – Coye & DÕAngelo, 4/17 – Dorris & Feldmann, 4/24 –
Fellerman & Hennessy, 5/1 – Hyatt & Jowaisas,
5/8 – Langley & Lee, 5/15 – Jurgensen
& Keefe, 5/22 – T. May & J. May, 5/29 – McLennan &
Messenger (Please find a replacement
if you wonÕt be available for setup & ticket sales.)
Future Meeting
Programs & District Major Events
Apr 10 Jack
Luchsinger (Poppa) – Rotary Foundation; (Board Meeting – 5:00PM)
Apr 17 Susan
Wolstenholme (AAUW) – Lost Boys of the Sudan; Simon Moody –
Classification Talk
Apr 24 Kokosa
- Club Assembly; Classification Talks
May 1 Ruhlman
and Gorgette Hoskins – CSIET Global Award Ceremony
May 8 Kokosa
– SRF Nominating Committee Report; Robin Jowaisas – Pancake
Breakfast Ticket Sales Kickoff; (Board
Meeting – 5:00PM)
May 15 Kokosa
– Club Assembly; Ward Vuillemot – South Africa Trip
May 22 Janice Rosbrook
& Susan Horn – Overview of Hiscock Legal
Aid Society Services
May 29 Hennessy/Kokosa
– SRF Annual Meeting
District and Other Programs &
Events
Apr 5 Rotary
Leadership Institute – Verona, NY
Apr 19 D7150
Assembly, Madison Oneida BOCES
Apr 26 Membership
Celebration, Harts Hill Inn, Whitestown, NY
May 29 Rotary
Foundation Dinner, The Beeches, Rome, NY
June 6 Literacy
Golf Tournament – Lake View Golf & Country Club,
Auburn, NY
News and Notices:
DO YOU
KNOW: (updated) That 2007-08 is shaping up to
be a great year for the Skaneateles Rotary Club??? I
hesitate to list everything for fear of forgetting something but some of the
accomplishments that come to mind are:
á We met our goal of an increase in membership by a net of five
(5). That was the result of adding 6 new members and our membership Chair
Roberta Williams says that we are not done yet. Next week we have our second Membership
Event of the year so join us with your prospective new members.
á We have exceeded our Annual Giving Goal of $5,300 for this Rotary year!
Currently we are at $5,330, of which $1,500 is from the club as a matching
contribution. There have been 29 contributions to the Rotary Foundation;
thatÕs 50% of the membership – fantastic!!!
In addition to the $1,500 match, the club will transfer 1,100 points to the
individual contributorsÕ RF account.
á Youth
exchange continues to be a success story with the contributions of a huge number of people. Four
inbound and six outbound students this year together with a national award
(CSIET) to the Skaneateles Central school and our two local Clubs.
á The resurgence of INTERACT in SRC has been a real success story this year
with 15-20 students participating. The group generated $7,000 in donations to
the Sudan Clinic and had a great learning experience.
á Add our RYLA to the above and we have a youth program of which we all can
be proud!!!
á Our Service Projects committee has
an exciting local community Trail
Project effort underway with the Sunrise Club; we wait for the warm weather
to get some ÒstuffÓ done.
á All the above doesnÕt happen without
MONEY!!! Many thanks to the Fundraising
committees; the Map Sales were a
pleasant surprise and the Pancake Breakfast Committee is already in gear to do
our 40th Annual Fathers Day Event!!!
á The annual Christmas Dinner Event at the Skaneateles Country Club was again a
huge success; $7,000 donated to those in need during the holidays!
á Also letÕs not forget the glue that holds us together: those that keep the
books, the website, the news letter, the program chair, the meetings chair, etc
If
you got this far in reading the above É. Thanks to all
for your contributions and I had fun looking back. We have accomplished a lot
so far. What did I miss? Let me know and it will be in the next newsletter
(perhaps with some necessary editing).
BUTÉÉÉ.. We still have three
more months to go and the snow birds will be back to help!!
ÉÉ..Dick Kokosa
ChildrenÕs
Invocation. The following was given at last weekÕs
meeting. and number of our members ask for a copy;
When RI President-elect D. K. Lee announced the 2008-09 RI
theme, Make Dreams Real, he said he
was in disbelief when he learned that 30,000 children under the age of five die
every day from preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles, and malaria.
With that in mind, I hope you will keep the following invocation in mind as we
plan and move ahead as Rotarians.
