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The Skantarian
The
Skaneateles New York Rotary Club (SRC) a member of RI District 7150 - Area 11 http://www.skaneatelesrotary.org District Governor
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Calabrese Ass't DG (Area 10) – Jim Gascon |
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Officers: Directors: Committee Chairs:
President
John Hennessy 2009 Robin Jowaisas Administration Phil D’Angelo
President Elect Doug Rutan Umesh Patil Fundraising Dale Zabel
Past
President Dick Kokosa Lori Ruhlman Local
Gov’t. Robin Jowaisas
Vice President Roberta Williams Bill Stevens Membership Roberta Williams
Treasurer Sue Keefe 2010 Lee Bennett Public Relations Lori Ruhlman
Corr. Secretary Art Fellerman Phil D’Angelo Rotary Foundation Dick
Poppa
Rec. Secretary Brad McLennan Todd
May Service
Projects Doug Rutan
Dale
Zabel Youth Exchange Lee Bennett
This Week’s Program: Larry Calabrese, AG & Jim Gascon, ADG will be our guests and speakers, presenting
Rotary’s 2008 -2009 initiative. Dick Kokosa
has extended an invitation for each Rotarian to bring their spouse to hear
Larry’s plan for our district and club. (see “Pennies
for Polio Initiative” email attached and News & Notes).
Next Week’s Program,
August 21: Rev.
Dr. Craig Lindsey
will discuss “Church and Community”. Rev. Lindsey is pastor of Skaneateles’
Presbyterian Church and well known for his international humanitarian efforts.
We are fortunate to be having him join us.
Invocation: Peter Anderson will begin
our program with an invocation fitting the occasion. We will dispense with
Fines and Happy $$$$$$, but not the 50/50; a bit of money-making
is always good.
August Birthdays: Stevens(2nd),
Rademacher(3rd), Whittingham(5th),
Corcoran(7th), Roche(22nd), Patil(26th)
August Rotary
Anniversaries: Corcoran
(57th), Hennessy (9th),
Weaver (12th),
Roving Rotes: Hennessey, Stevens, Renner,
Wisner & Vuillemot – YE Return Dinner. Vuillemot – Skan SR
Weekly Setup &
Ticket Sales: 8/14 – Wisner &
Anderson, 8/21 – Zabel & Bennett, 8/28
– Bentivegna & Buterbaugh,
9/4 – Caldwell & Conole, 9/11 –
Corcoran & Coye
(Be courteous & get a replacement if you won’t be available for
setup & ticket sales, please!)
Future Meeting Programs
& District Major Events
Aug 21 Rev. Dr. Craig Lindsey –
Church and Community: Skaneateles
and the World
Aug 28 Karen Veverka
– Classification Talk
Sept 4 David Figura
– Outdoor Editor, Syracuse Post Standard
Sept 11 Whittingham/Price
– Pancake Breakfast Thank You; Lourdes Camp Booked
District and Other Programs & Events
Sept 4 GSE Team from Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil arrives in Syracuse
Sept 12-14 District Conference, Edgewood Resort, Alexandria Bay, NY
Oct 25 D1750 Rotary Foundation Seminar
– location TBA
Nov 1 Rotary Leadership
Institute – Canandaigua, NY
Nov 8 Rotary United Nations Day
News and Notices:
MEETING PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDANCE:
Timer Whittingham, Todd May and Brad McClennan,
normally the “missing faces of summer,” often found driving off of tees, raking
sand, pulling irons from bags or just puttering around graced us with their
presence. Could it have been the weather; of course not.
Tara Renner, after a lengthy hiatus of being engaged with other
pressures is back.
Good to see you all!
SPEAKERS PROGRAM: Dirk
Young of Twin Birch Dairy gave an
informative and fascinating presentation on the workings his 3rd
generation, state of the art dairy farm here in Skaneateles. He described many
technological improvements to his business such as an energy conserving
“digester”. He outlined some new and serious issues facing the industry going forward into this century. Dirk, was gracious enough to
answer questions well after most of us had departed.
If you have an idea or know
of someone who would have an interesting story to tell or message to relay
please contact Skip Plank, our program chairman.
This week, Larry Calabrese and Jim Gascon, our DG & ADG will be visiting and
presenting Rotary’s new 2008 – 2009 initiative. Normally a “Club
Assembly” evening, we’ll dispense with some of our traditional meeting
practices to visit and hear their message.
Please look for a special email
Dick Kokosa is sending extending an invitation for
all spouses to join us for this evening. Annabelle Calabrese will be
joining Larry and we have asked Jim to bring his wife also. We’re hoping
to provide a unique look at what Rotary is, stands for and tries to accomplish.
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY: The Skantarian is our club’s “newsletter” and can gladly be used for and by all of us to convey news and messages about our club, its activities and our members. If you have anything noteworthy to mention about activities or interesting news regarding your family, other club members, anything you believe we’d be interested in learning about, please write. A fishing trip, new arrival of grandchild, great family vacation, a thank you for something, you name & write it. Send in your “goings on” to Pam Hares (phh@mlsattorneys.com) or John Shannon (jms@mlsattorneys.com) and it will be printed here.
A BANNER YEAR FOR ROTARY FOUNDATION
GIVING! Please accept my thanks and appreciation to both the members
and board of the Skaneateles Club for the tremendous support that they have
given to the Rotary Foundation and it’s many life saving and life changing
humanitarian, health and education programs around the world. In the
Rotary year 2007-08, the club and members pledged $5,300 dollars for the Annual
Fund, and exceeded that goal by giving $5,600. Added to that were $500 given
for PolioPlus and to other designated grants.
This simply could have not been accomplished without the generosity of
many. Now, that’s Service Above Self. We now turn our attention to
2008-09 to achieve an even more ambitious goal of $6,000. Way to go Skantarians!
Richard A. Poppa
BOARD MEETING, August 14, 5:30 P,M.: Agenda sent separately.