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Vol.
80, Number 26 June
26, 2008 Editor:
John Shannon jms@mlsattorneys.com
SRC’s
Officers for this 2007-2008 year: SRC’s
Directors: Active
Members: 60
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: Kokosa/Keefe
– Year End Summary:
President & Treasurer
This Week’s Meeting and Program: Rutan – Year End
Summary: Chairs
Birthdays in June: Tarnow (9th), Pavlus (25th),
Weaver (18th)
Rotary Anniversaries in June: Langley, Plank & Price (1st),
Ruhlman (2nd), Whalen (13th), Vuillemot (22nd),
Coye (46th)
June 19th Missing Faces: Adams, Bentivegna, Buterbaugh, Emmer, Gregg, Hennessy, T. May, McLennan,
Patil, Poppa, Price, Tarnow, Veverka, Whalen, Wisner,
Zabel (week’s attendance: 79%)
June 19th Guests: Will
Polachek, Robin Polachek,
KC Lorey, Lucas Grob, Sarah
Bierbaum
June 19th Visitarians: None
Roving Rotes: Skaneateles Sunrise – Vuillemot; Sauquoit
RC, Syracuse RC & Fayetteville/Manlius RC –Board of Directors Meeting
– Fellerman, Hennessy, Jowaisas,
Jurgensen, Keefe, Kokosa,
Messenger, J. May, R. Williams
Weekly Setup &Ticket Sales: 6/26 – Ralph & Roche, 7/3
– Rosbrook & Ruhlman, 7/10 – Rutan & Schwartz, 7/17 –
Shannon & Stevens, 7/24 – Vuillemot & Weaver, 7/31 – Whalen
& Whittingham. (Please find a replacement if you won’t be
available for setup & ticket sales.)
Future Meeting
Programs & District Major Events
July 3 Hennessy & Kokosa
– SRC Changing of the Guard
District and Other Programs &
Events
July 11-13 RYLA Camp, Cazenovia College, NY
Aug 1 Deadline for GSE Team
Leader applications to GSE Committee
Aug 6 YE Welcome Home dinner,
Rusty Rail, Canastota, NY
Aug. 14 District Governor Larry’s Visit
– Larry Calabrese
Sept 4 GSE Team form Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil arrive in Syracuse
Sept 12-14 District Conference, Edgewood Resort, Alexandria Bay, NY
News and Notices:
FATHERS
DAY BREAKFAST SUCCESSES - Co-chairs, Robin & Dana report that
the Fathers Day Breakfast was an outstanding year for volunteers and of
success. There were 113 attendees over last year’s
3,500; 52 of our 60 Rotarians participating, 432 volunteer hours were put in
over the 5 day cycle. We had more volunteers across the board than in
recent memory; YE students & host families, Interact, Boy Scouts, Firemen,
Rotarians from the SunRise club, family members,
neighbors and friends. A special thanks to Lee &
Lori for organizing the YE and host families, and to Karen (Kydo)
for organizing the Interactors and students.
And ... we all give a very special kudos to event co-chairs: Robin &
Dana, for their leadership, management skills and dedication. To
view pictures of the event, click on: http://homepage.mac.com/wardtv37/Wards_Rotary/PhotoAlbum84.html
FATHERS
DAY PRE-EVENT TICKETS SALES –
If you have not done so yet, please turn in your pre-event tickets proceeds to
Sue Keefe as soon as possible. We need to close the books on the event and
discover our net proceeds, which are to be used for future community projects.
Many thanks to all for their efforts and dedication in
getting the tickets and PR out there.
D7150 Changing of the Guard Awards – Skantarians,
stand proud - Monday evening, Skaneateles Rotary club walked off with
numerous awards. All of these awards were a result of Skaneateles members
working together as a team to create a better: club, community and world.
The awards are as follows:
- 2007-08 Presidential Citation – for club achievements,
with a focus on RI 2008-09 objectives.
- Membership Development – Skaneateles RC - for
most new members (award shared with four other clubs.)
- Club Service – Building membership & developing enthusiasm
for Rotary among its members.
- Newsletter/Public Relations – medium size club
– for outstanding newsletter & media campaigns that improve
Rotary’s public image.
- International Service – Most significant impact
on at least one community beyond the USA boarders.
- Rotary Foundation Service – Rotarians who service
humanity through RF programs. Ward Vuillemot – Rep of South
Africa literacy project.
District 7150 is Going West
– excerpts from RI-VP Mike McGovern’s recent memo on Zone
realignments - The Rotary International By-laws require a realignment of
the zones every 8 years so they are nearly equal in the population of
Rotarians. A number of unsuccessful attempts have been made over the last few
years to realign the zones. At the January Board meeting, it was voted with one
negative vote to realign the zones. The Americas from Argentina to the northern
tip of Canada loses two zones. Europe gains one due to growth in Eastern Europe
and Asia gains one due to growth in India and Korea.
The loss in the
Americas reflects the fact that some of our zones were less than half the size
of the largest zones in other parts of the world. The two smallest zones in the
United States were zones 31 and 32, our zones.
The decision of the Board thus impacted our area significantly. The new
alignment of our districts will be as follows: Districts 7040, 7790, 7810 will
be in a zone that includes most of Canada, Alaska and Russia east of the Urals.
These three districts have clubs in both the US and Canada. They will now be
solely in what is largely the old Zone 22 although it will be renumbered. This
zone has 35,193 Rotarians. (based on Dec 2006 semi
annual reports)
Districts 7120,
7150, 7170, 7190, 7350, and 7370 will be in a zone that
includes western PA, part of Ohio, and part of Michigan. This zone to be numbered
zone 29 has 35,115 Rotarians. (These districts have been aligned
in the past to the Eastern districts in Zone 31, which will no longer exists.
/Ward)
To review VP Mike’s full memo, visit the district
7150 website at:
http://www.rotarydistrict7150.org/brkgnws2.htm