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Vol.
80, Number 22 May
29, 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) – Polachek
Family, Lucas Grob (Switzerland)
– Lorey Family, Eddy Tasia (Belgium) – Lotkowictz
Family
Last Week’s Program: Hennessy
– Simon Moody’s Classification Talk; Janice Rosbrook
& Susan Horn – Overview of Hiscock Legal
Aid Society Services
This Week’s Meeting and Program: Kokosa
– Bill Conole’s Classification Talk; R.
Williams – SRF Annual Meeting, Trustee Elections
Birthdays in May: Coye (5th), O’Neil (16th),
Priest (18th)
Rotary Anniversaries in May: Zabel (9th), T. May (16th),
Pavlus (26th)
May 22nd Missing Faces: Bennett, Bentivegna, Caldwell, Conole, Emmer, Gregg, Jurgensen,
Keefe, Kokosa, D. Lee, T. May, McLennan, Rutan, Tarnow, Whalen, Zabel (week’s attendance: 62%)
May 22nd Guests: Susan Horn, Susan
Griffith, Janice Rosbrook
May 22nd Visitarians: None
Roving Rotes: Skaneateles Sunrise – Vuillemot;
GSE – Vuillemot; Moravia – Vuillemot; Youth Exchange Speaker
– Ruhlman; District Conference Committee –
Vuillemot
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales:
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
June 5 Kokosa – Lee Bennett
& Youth Exchange Students; Chuck O’Neil’s Classification Talk
June 12 Kokosa/Jowaisas – Pancake
Breakfast Organizational Meeting; (Board
Meeting – 5:15 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’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 Timetable- Please everyone mark your
calendars for the Pancake Breakfast as follows: 6/13 Friday 8-10AM to set up
the grills and tables/chairs, 6/14 Saturday 8-10AM to clean/test the grills and
dress the tables, 6/15 Sunday 7AM-2PM for the breakfast and cleanup, 6/16
Monday 8-10AM for breakdown and storage. This event only works if every
Rotarian makes a full commitment!
Interesting
historical tidbits of the history of the Rotary Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast
The first Skaneateles
Rotary Club (SRC) pancake breakfast was held in 1968 under the presidency of
Jim Messenger, who at that time was the manager of the Skaneateles Airport.
The breakfast, held in the hanger, featured a fly-in and in addition to
the local crowd some 80 to 100 planes from around the East would come and go.
In 1977
the breakfast was moved to the larger Austin Park Pavillion.
In these early years the Rotary Club owned virtually none of the
equipment needed to put on the breakfast so that everything from tables and
chairs to grilles, mixers and pot/pans were borrowed from almost every
organization in the town, eg.,
Churches, Grange, Masons, Firehouse, etc. There are apparently lots of
tall tales that can be told about getting this equipment to and from the
breakfast including the 300 lb cast-iron mixer from the Skaneateles Bakery that
ended up on a Rotarian’s foot.
In those
early days when penny pinching was more the norm for a fund
raiser like the breakfast, the plastic “disposable” utensils used were
recycled year to year after a thorough dishwasher scouring up at the Cedar
House Restaurant. The “gorgeous” flower arrangements came from many a
local garden including euonymus from the wall of the Methodist Church and the
walls of the bank courtesy of By Lee. Back then, there was even a tall
tale of liquid refreshment from the back room being included in the secret
Rotary formula for our pancakes, in fact, they were for a time known as beer
batter pancakes.
Today our
Father’s Day event has become something extraordinary and a highlight of the
spring in Skaneateles and the surrounding communities. Did you know that
we expect to serve between 3,600 and 4,000 hungry breakfast eaters’ that at our
peak mid-morning time period we serve about 900 people per hour which equates
to about one person served every 4 seconds, that we typically serve over 10,000
pancakes, 10,500 eggs, 600 pounds of sausage and about 225 gallons of orange
juice; that our net proceeds has been between $9,000 and $10,500 depending on
the weather which is the key determinant of total attendance. All of
these funds go back into the community to support many service and youth
projects.
PolioPlus Monthly Update - Nigeria conducted Sub-National Immunization
Plus Days in 19 states during the month of April. Thanks to R.C.Enugu Coal City for providing backpacks and exercise
books for distribution to the children.
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.