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Vol.
80, Number 21 May
22, 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
– The Coyes’ PH Awards; Ward Vuillemot – South
Africa Trip
This Week’s Meeting and Program: Hennessy
– Simon Moody’s Classification Talk; Janice Rosbrook
& Susan Horn – Overview of Hiscock Legal
Aid Society Services
Birthdays in May: Coye (5th), O’Neil (16th),
Priest (18th)
Rotary Anniversaries in May: Zabel (9th), T. May (16th),
Pavlus (26th)
May 15th Missing Faces: Bentivegna, Caldwell, Conole, D’Angelo, Emmer, Gregg,
Jowaisas, D. Lee, T. May, McLennan, O’Neil, Price, Roche, Tarnow, Wisner (week’s attendance: 69%)
May 15th Guests: Dot Coye, Suzette Grinnals, June Vuillemot
May 15th Visitarians: Robert Williams
Roving Rotes: Syracuse RC – Vuillemot; GSE
– Vuillemot; Youth Exchange Committee – Ruhlman, Moody, Price,
Bennett; Blood Drive – McLennan; May 8th Board Meeting –
Fellerman, Hennessy, Jowaisas, Jurgensen, Keefe, Kokosa, J. May, Messenger,
Overstrom, Patil, Ruhlman, Rutan, Weaver, Williams
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales:
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 29 Kokosa – Bill Conole’s Classification Talk; R. Williams – SRF
Annual Meeting, Trustee Elections
June 5 Kokosa – Lee Bennett
& Youth Exchange Students; Chuck O’Neil’s Classification Talk
June 12 Kokosa/Jowaisas – Pancake
Breakfast Organizational Meeting; (Board
Meeting – 5:00 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’s Classification Talk;
July 3 Hennessy & Kokosa –
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!
Important: This is an important heads up on your role in the remainder
of the Club’s meeting programs for the Rotary year; please look for your name
below and in the revised 2007-2008 Program Schedule; there have been recent
changes and additions:
May 22nd - John Hennessy, you are chairing the
meeting;
Simon,
this is the new date for your classification talk;
Phil,
please follow up with the other speakers.
May 29th - Bill Canole, you have a Classification talk;
Roberta,
you are chairing the Club Foundation meeting for the trustee vote.
June 5th - Lee Bennett, you are in charge
of a Year end YE program;
Chuck
O’Neil, you have a classification talk.
June 12th - Robin,
you have the floor for the Pancake Breakfast.
June 19th - Sue and Dick
will give year end reports.
June 26th - Doug, you are chairing the meeting and
the main program is summary reports from each of the chairs; J Jack
Emmer is scheduled for a classification talk; perhaps postpone to the following
week.
July 3rd - John Hennessy, you are the meeting
chair for the new year and the Club COG is the first
order of business
Please advise any conflicts or
errors; otherwise, Dick shall assume that we all are in agreement. Dick appreciates
your help on this because he is out of town for much of the remainder of the
Rotary year.
District Meetings: There are two 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.
· The 91st Annual District 7150
Foundation Recognition Dinner: (The Andersons
will represent SRC). It will 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!
- District 7150 Changing
of the Guard – June 23, 2008 at Turning Stone Resort
with Rotary International President Wilf Wilkinson!
This is a rare opportunity to hear an RI President speak. Please consider attending. Contact Dick Kokosa if you need help. SRC attendees at this point are: the Kokosas, the Jurgensens, the Vuillemots, S Moody, R Williams, L Ruhlman, and K Price, plus several Skaneateles Interact members.