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Vol.
80, Number 20 May
15, 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: Kokosa – New Member Induction - Jim Gregg; SRF Nominating
Committee Report – Ward Vuillemot; Robin Jowaisas – Pancake
Breakfast Ticket Sales Kickoff; (Board
Meeting – 5:15PM)
This Week’s Meeting and Program: Kokosa – PH Award; Ward Vuillemot – South Africa
Trip
Birthdays in May: Coye (5th), O’Neil (16th),
Priest (18th)
Rotary Anniversaries in May: Zabel (9th), T. May (16th),
Pavlus (26th)
May 8th Missing Faces: Adams, Bennett, Caldwell, D’Angelo, Emmer, Keefe,
Langley, D. Lee, T. May, McLennan, Moody, Poppa, Tarnow, Weaver, Whalen, Wisner,
Zabel (week’s
attendance: 62%)
May 8th Guests: None
May 8th Visitarians:
None
Roving Rotes: Skaneateles Sunrise – Vuillemot; Group
Study Exchange in India Meeting – Kokosa, Patil; Membership Retention
Event – Fellerman; District Literacy Committee – Vuillemot
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales:
5/15 Keefe & T. May, 5/22
– J. May & McLennan, 5/29 Messenger & O’Neil, 6/5 – Osborne
& Overstrom, 6/12 – Patil & Plank, 6/19 – Price &
Rademacher, 6/26 – Ralph & Roche. (Please find a
replacement if you won’t be available for setup & ticket sales.)
Future Meeting Programs & District Major
Events
May 17 McLennan -
American Red Cross Blood Drive
May 22 Hennessy
– Chuck O’Neil’s Classification Talk; Janice Rosbrook
& Susan Horn – Overview of Hiscock Legal Aid Society Services
May 29 Kokosa
– Bill Conole’s Classification Talk; SRF Annual
Meeting
June 5 Kokosa
– Lee Bennett & Youth Exchange Students; Simon Moody’s Classification
Talk
June
12 Kokosa/Jowaisas
– Pancake Breakfast Organizational Meeting; (Board Meeting – 5:15 PM)
June 15 Everyone – SRC’s Annual Pancake
Breakfast
June
19 Kokosa/Keefe
– Year End Summary:
President & Treasurer
June
26 Rutan
– Year End Summary: Chairs; Jack Emmer Classification Talk;
July 3 Kokosa
& Hennessy – SRC Changing of the Guard
District and Other Programs & Events
May 29 91st
Annual Rotary Foundation Dinner, The Beeches, Rome, NY
June 6 Literacy
Golf Tournament – Lake View Golf & Country Club,
Auburn, NY
June 23 District
Changing of the Guard with RI President Wilf Wilkinson; a rare opportunity to hear a presentation by an RI President.
News and Notices:
Pancake Breakfast Ticket Sales - At our May 8 meeting, Lee Overstrom our ticket sales
chair, distributed bundles of tickets for all Rotarians to sell prior to the
Pancake Breakfast on June 15. If you didn’t receive yours, please contact Lee.
The expectation as well as the club tradition is that every Rotarian will sell at
least his/her allotment of $135 worth of tickets; many venues are available
in the next month to accomplish this task, e.g. the Memorial Day parade, the
P&C, etc. Just as a reminder, there are two main reasons underlying the
importance of pre-breakfast ticket sales. First, if we have a disaster like a
weather problem and have to abort the breakfast at the last minute, pre ticket
sales will allow us to cover our many thousands of dollars in upfront costs
mainly for perishable food. Secondly, pre sales accommodate many in the
community who don’t choose to attend the breakfast but wish to support Rotary’s
worthy causes. So please hit the streets and sell those tickets. It’s really a
lot of fun!
Jim
joins our Rotary fellowship ....May 8, 2008 - James Gregg was inducted into the
membership of the Skaneateles Rotary Club by membership chair, Roberta
Williams. Jim is sponsored by Dick Kokosa, who immediately
assigned him to the Christmas Basket committee, due to his recent successes in
fund raising. Jim is in financial services and lives on E. Lake Rd with
his wife, Emily and their two children. Jim’s addition to the club brings
our active membership to 59. We are looking forward to Jim’s
contributions our club’s projects and service in the exciting world of Rotary.
Please introduce yourself to Jim and get to know him.
New Member: Good News! A prospective new member, Karen Veverka, who has attended several meetings, has applied for
membership in SRC. The Board approved the application on May 8th and
we look forward to Karen’s induction in the near future.
The Nominating Committee has submitted at the May
8th meeting the following slate of Skaneateles Foundation Board members for the
2008-09 Rotary year. The election of this slate
will occur on May 29th.
Name
Term of Office Name
Term of Office
1. Peter Anderson - 3 yrs 4.
Duane Weaver - 2 yrs
2. John Shannon - 3 yrs 5.
Bill Stevens - 1 yr
3. Gary Caldwell - 2 yrs 6.
Bill Buterbaugh - 1 yr
For further clarification, you may refer to the
Foundation’s bylaws which can be viewed on the achieves page of our website.
The quick link to that page is: http://homepage.mac.com/wardtv37/Wards_Rotary/Skantarian.html
VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED
-
We are
looking for volunteers for the 70th Anniversary Lightning Regatta. Participants
will arrive in the afternoon of Thursday 7/3. Friday 7/4 will be mostly
on-shore activities as people arrive throughout the day. Racing will be
Saturday and Sunday.
The
needs are:
Support boats, with drivers and crew; Welcoming help for check-in, registration,
parking, and traffic control; ATVs/4-wheelers for launching and parking boats; Bottled
water and snacks for the volunteers.
Thanks
for your support. Please contact Dave Penfield – phone: 685-2452
email: dcpenfield@aol.com <mailto:dcpenfield@aol.com>
Ping
Pong Fever .... Students, teachers and
administrators are filling the Commons at Skaneateles High School to play ping
pong after school. The tournament started last week and will continue
into this week with the championship rounds. It is sponsored by the
Interact Club. Kudos to our club’s Interact coordinators;
Karen, Lori & Roberta, and to a fantastic group of dedicated and caring
students. Check out the Interact page of our website for
pictures of the event.
Interact Club members met with John Dau .... Mar 19, 2008 -
During a community wide "Soup for Sudan" event at the high school.
Interact Club members presented checks totaling almost $7,000 to two
Skaneateles church groups who are helping to build and support medical clinics
in the Sudan. A majority of the money was
raised by Interact Club members through sales of the T-shirts seen in this
photo. Students designed (with the help of a designer) the t-shirts and have
been selling them ever since a school-wide assembly in January.
Zulu
Land Adult Literacy
- Ward
Vuillemot has returned from his journey to South Africa to review
adult literacy project in KwaNibela, rural
KwaZulu-Natal, with a story of life changing success for hundreds of women and
families in that region of the world. He will share his experiences,
observations and pictures with our club on the 15th of May. You won’t
want to miss this view and insights into a different world than we enjoy in our
piece of this planet.