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Vol.
80, Number 17 April
24, 2008 Editor:
John Shannon jms@mlsattorneys.com
SRC’s Officers for this 2007-2008 year: SRC’s
Directors: Active Members: 59
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 Week’s Program: Susan Wolstenholme (AAUW) – Lost Boys of the Sudan
This Week’s Meeting and Program: Kokosa
- Club Assembly; Service and Financial Updates – Rutan & Co, Keefe
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)
April 17th Missing Faces: Adams, Bennett, Caldwell, D’Angelo, Emmer, Jurgensen, Keefe,
Kokosa, D. Lee, Moody, Plank, Poppa, Price, Rademacher,
Rutan, Tarnow, Whalen, Wisner (week’s attendance: 61%)
April 17th Guests: Susan Wolstenholme, Suzette Grinnals
April 17th Visitarians: None
Roving Rotes: District Literacy Committee – Vuillemot;
Skaneateles Sunrise – Vuillemot
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales: 4/24
– Hennessy & Hyatt, 5/1 – Jowaisas & Langley, 5/8 Lee &
Jurgensen, 5/15 Keefe & T. May, 5/22 – J. May & McLennan, 5/29 Messenger
& O’Neil. (Please find a replacement if you won’t be
available for setup & ticket sales.)
Future Meeting
Programs & District Major Events
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
June 5 Kokosa – Club
Activities/Classifications Talks
June 12 Jowaisas – Pancake Breakfast
Organizational Meeting; (Board Meeting
– 5:00 PM)
June 19 Kokosa/Keefe/Chairs – Year End
Summary: President, Treasurer
& Chairs
June 26 Rutan – Jack Emmer
Classification Talk
July 3 Kokosa & Hennessy
– SRC Changing of the Guard
District and Other Programs &
Events
April 26 District
GSE Team Presentation on Visit to District 3200 in India, Mohegan Manor,
Baldwinsville;
see below for alternative dates in the district
May 10 Membership
Retention Event, Harts Hill Inn, Whitestown, NY
May 29 91st
Annual Rotary Foundation Dinner, The Beeches, Rome, NY
June 6 Literacy
Golf Tournament – Lake View Golf & Country Club,
Auburn, NY
News and Notices:
Help Needed Before the May 1st Rotary Meeting!!!
In preparation for
our Pancake Breakfast Ticket Sales Kick Off meeting on May 8, we need to bundle
the thousands of adult and child tickets into the packets we will be selling. So as in years past, we need a work
session to put together the ticket bundles and this will take place at 5:30 PM
at the Sherwood before the May 1st meeting. Lee Overstrom, our ticket sales maestro,
will be in charge and will have good words of instruction and encouragement so
please join in if you can.
New Member - Jim Gregg!!!
Effective April 24th,
Jim is the newest member of the Skaneateles RC; his formal induction will be
scheduled in May. Jim is a welcome addition to our Club! When you see him,
please welcome him and thank him for joining us in our efforts.
District Meetings: There are three great meetings coming up in the next few
weeks. See the District web site to register and for details (http://www.rotarydistrict7150.org/calendar.html)
and let Dick Kokosa know that you are going.
Group Study Exchange 2007-2008 with
District 3200 in India:
Hear the
presentations from our GSE team's successful exchange to India. Here's the
dates / times / places!
*For our Area the meeting is this Sunday April 27th: Mohegan Manor, 58 Oswego
St, Baldwinsville, 3pm, Light hors d’ouvres, Coffee,
Tea, Soft Drink, Cash bar available; $10 per person.
* If
you can’t make that date then there are meetings on Thursday May 1st
in Baldwinsville, Wednesday May 7th in Utica, Monday May 12th
in Cazenovia and Wednesday May 14th in Herkimer.
2008
Special Membership Retention Event:
To be held on May 10th at Harts Hill Inn, Whitesboro - 8:30am to
1:00pm. Dan Mooers [Maine] has agreed to be a
presenter and the luncheon keynote speaker. Go hear Dan's speech on his
grandparents, and how that pertains to Rotary, you're in for a learning treat.
Speech Contest finalists will also compete at this event!
The
91st annual District 7150 Foundation Recognition Dinner:
To be held on Thursday May 29th at The Beeches,
Rome, NY. For the first time, we have the Chairman of the Rotary
Foundation Board of Trustees, Dr. Robert Scott, as our Keynote Speaker! We will
be honoring, that evening, Paul Harris Fellows, Major Donors, Paul Harris
Society members, and other donors contributing to the 2007-08 successes of our
District's Foundation efforts. Bring your spouses/partners,
children/grandchildren, YE students & host families, Rotaract
& Interact students, to an evening they'll long remember!
What
Rotary clubs should know about clean water projects: Carolyn Crowley Meub,
executive committee member for the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group,
past governor of District 7870 (Vermont and New Hampshire, USA), and executive
director for Pure Water for the World, responds:
· First,
know the importance of this work. The basis of good health is access to clean,
safe drinking water. Experts say that unsanitary water is responsible for about
80 percent of all diseases in developing countries. For most of the world,
clean water is medicine.
· Rotary
clubs of all sizes can get involved in a water project, but developing a
project takes planning, and these projects can be expensive. Most clubs aren’t
equipped to run a project on their own and often don’t know how to get started.
By uniting several clubs together and/or partnering with a reputable
organization, a single Rotary club can make a bigger impact. Pick your partners
well.
· When
getting involved, look for projects that are sustainable. Poorly planned and
built shallow wells won’t work two years after construction.
· The
most important thing to remember is that the project doesn’t belong to the
Rotary club or district — it belongs to the people it serves. Water
projects must begin and end with the local community. To ensure that the
project provides the intended benefits long after the donor has left, make sure
the local community has ownership from the beginning. As Rotarians dedicated to
the communities we serve, we wouldn’t want to do it any other way.
By Joseph Derr, Rotary
International News - 21 March 2008
Reprinted from http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/080321_news_watermeub.aspx