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Vol. 80, Number 6 February
7, 2008 Editor:
John Shannon jms@mlsattorneys.com
SRCÕs Officers for
this 2007-2008 year: SRCÕs
Directors: Active Members: 56
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 WeekÕs Program: Irene Stafford – Skaneateles Extended
Learning Fund (SELF); Bill Stevens – An Overview of RIÕs and SRCÕs Youth
Exchange Program with Successes and Current Situation
This WeekÕs Meeting
and Program: Induction of New Member,
Simon Moody; Clyde Ohl - Modernizing Local Government; (Board Meeting –
5:00 p.m.)
Birthdays in February: Price (12th)
Rotary Anniversaries
in February: D. Lee (4th), Roche (15th),
Shannon (16th), Caldwell (26th), Messenger (40th)
January 31st
Missing Faces: Adams, Bennett, Kokosa, Lee, Patil,
Poppa, Rademacher, Stevens, Tarnow, Vuillemot, Weaver, Whalen (weekÕs
attendance: 68%)
January 31st
Guests: Irene Stafford, speaker
January 31st
Visitarians:
None
Roving Rotes: Rotary
eClub of the Southwest USA – Vuillemot
Weekly Setup
&Ticket Sales:
2/7 – Schwartz &
Ruhlman, 2/15 – Stevens & Shannon, 2/21 – Rutan &
Vuillemot, 2/28 – Weaver & Whalen, 3/6 – Whittingham &
Wisner, 3/13 – R. Williams & Zabel, 3/20 – Adams & Anderson
(Please find a replacement if you wonÕt
be available for setup & ticket sales.)
Future Meeting
Programs & District Major Events
Feb 15 Kokosa
– Valentines Day Party ( Bill Buterbaugh
– Chair)
Feb 21 Kokosa,
Roberta Williams & Dale Zabel – Induction of New Member, Jack Emmer;
Club Assembly;
Membership
Vote on Corresponding Secretary; Membership and Fundraising Reports; Check Presentation
to CAAR/Literacy Volunteers of Cayuga County
Feb 28 Dave
Penfield – Lightning 70th Anniversary Regatta: July 4–6, 2008
Mar 6 Ruhlman
– Club Activities: Youth Exchange Students; Classification Talk
Mar 13 Arnie
Rubenstein – Antique Boat Show (Board Meeting – 5:00 p.m.)
Mar 20 Kokosa
– Club Assembly; Classification Talk
Mar 27 Tanya
Hacker – Events Planner
Apr 3 Roberta
Williams – Membership Event
Apr 10 Jack
Luchsinger (Poppa) – Rotary Foundation (or 4/24/08); (Board Meeting
– 5:00 p.m.)
District and Other
Programs & Events
Mar 14-15 Multi-District
President-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) - Double Tree Hotel – Carrier
Circle, E.Syr.
April
15 RLI
– Verona, NY
News and Notices:
Welcome
to our New Members: Our newest member, Simon Moody, will
be inducted this week; please welcome him if you havenÕt already had the
opportunity. Also, we have one
more new member who will be inducted within the next few weeks: Jack Emmer on
Feb 21st. We look
forward to having them join us in our endeavors.
Skaneateles Rotary Valentines Day Party!!! ItÕs scheduled for Friday February
15th and Bill Buterbaugh, our chairman, has a great
evening planned. DonÕt forget to invite your spouse or significant other.
SAVE THESE DATES
FOR THE PANCAKE BREAKFAST- ItÕs that time of year when we all are
beginning to look at our long range plans so please donÕt forget to include the
following dates in your calendar for our annual FatherÕs Day Pancake Breakfast.
FatherÕs Day is Sunday 6/15 so please reserve Friday 6/13 and Saturday 6/14
from 8-10AM for set up, Sunday 7AM-2PM for the breakfast itself and Monday 6/16
from 8-10AM for tear down. Every Rotarian is expected to pitch in so please
save these dates.
February is World Understanding Month
With the help of Rotarians, peace centers
bring hope to world
Advancing
world understanding, goodwill, and peace is a part of RotaryÕs mission, but to
accomplish this in a world strewn with conflict takes commitment. Rotarians are
working toward that goal by supporting the Rotary Centers for International
Studies in peace and conflict resolution and the Rotary Peace and Conflict
Studies Program.
Nearly 400 Rotary peace program participants, alumni, faculty, and Rotarians
gathered 14 to 16 June for the first Rotary World Peace Symposium in Salt Lake
City to discuss how alumni and participants of the two programs can work to
resolve conflicts worldwide.
"Finding the path to world peace and understanding is not a spectator
sport. It is fully participatory," Past RI President Charles C. Keller
told attendees. "Mankind in the world as we know it cannot survive the
continued use of war as a means of settling our disputes."
If Rotarians don't support the Rotary Centers for International Studies in
peace and conflict resolution and the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies
Program, "the cost of failure will be borne by every man, woman, and child
on this planet in some way – either directly or indirectly," said
Keller.
Located at seven leading universities around the world, the Rotary Centers
provide fellows the chance to study in a graduate-level program in conflict
resolution, peace studies, international relations, and other related
disciplines. The Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program is a shorter program
aimed at professionals in governments and other agencies.
Throughout the symposium, speakers talked about the dire need for peaceful ways
to end violent conflicts.
"We truly live in a bloody and cruel world. The statistics numb us,"
said Edward Blender, chair of the Rotary Centers Major Gift Initiative. To
continue the peace programs into perpetuity, the Rotary Centers Major Gift
Initiative is seeking to create a $95 million endowment fund by 2015.
On any given day, said Blender, there are 20 to 30 armed conflicts in the
world. In the last 15 years, 3.6 million people – 45 percent of whom are
children – have died due to civil and ethnic wars and violence.
Disease, war, and conflict disintegrates societies, added UN Foundation senior
adviser Gillian Sorensen. In volatile regions of the world, lethal brews of
hopelessness, anger, and frustration make some people feel that combat gives
them a purpose and a place to belongÉThe work of the Peace Fellows, however, is
reason for hope. She called upon the Peace Fellows to be "the first guard
of a mighty peaceful army."
Rotarians can help the programs by securing funding as well as finding
well-qualified candidates - especially from areas facing conflict – and
encouraging them to apply for the programs.
"We need the continued financial support from Rotary clubs and districts
all over the world," said Keller. "Someday, one or more of our Rotary
Peace Fellows will be in the right place at the right time to make a really big
difference, and then Rotarians everywhere will know our search for peace is
working."
February 23rd is RotaryÕs 103rd anniversary
Rotary
Timeline – 1993: Since committing to rid the world of polio, Rotary and
its partner agencies, including the World Health Organization, the United
Nations Children's Fund, the United States Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and governments around the world, have immunized 500 million
children against the virus. At the RI Convention in Melbourne, Australia,
Rotary celebrates this milestone by giving the vaccine to a child from the
Philippines, where Rotary's first polio immunization took place. A year later,
the Americas is the first WHO region certified as polio free.