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The Sunrise
Newsletter of the
Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary Club
(Organized June 18, 2003) District 7150
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Wilfred
J. Wilkinson Marlene
Brown James
J. Gascon Marion
Krauter
RI President District
Governor Asst.
District Governor President
UPCOMING
EVENTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
Programs
TODAY
WINTERFEST
PREPARATION
January
31 –
Membership with AG Jim Gascon
February
7 – Club
Assembly
February
14 – Briel
Computer, Cary & Chris Briel
February
21 –
Orthopedic Massage, Jim Carranti
February
28 –
Mustang Construction, Kevin Connors
Suggestions for future programs are always
welcome. Please forward your ideas
to Toni at tonicurt27@aol.com.
Hennessy
and Vega: good friends for life
When Justin Vega learned that
[incoming Evening Club President] John Hennessy was going to be his Big
Brother, he thought the two would never have anything in common. Ten years later, Justin, 18, of
Camillus, and John remain good friends.
Justin
was raised by a single mother and had been looking for many months for a match
for her son through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. At the same time, John had been waiting
almost a year and had started to think that he would never be paired up with
anyone.
The
two are living examples of how good things come to those who wait. They hit it off early on and have
remained close through Justin’s high school years, although they drifted away
from the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.
Justin is now a freshman at St. Lawrence where he plays
on the football team and plans to major in economics with a minor in
government.
District
Notes: Building Rotary Awareness, Membership matters
Focus
on Awareness. January is the month that we put
an extra focus on putting Rotary in the public eye with a additional press
releases, maintaining contract with the local media, AND a time
when WE ALL should focus on telling our friends and colleagues about the
good works of Rotary and of our club.
Fitting then that we
are holding our biggest annual event this month! We have much to be proud of and to share, and most
importantly, much to offer potential Rotarians.
RI Challenge: One
new Member Each. With Rotary’s
membership decreasing in North America, Rotary International President has
called for a change in the way we think about membership.
Wilkinson has
challenged every Rotarian to bring in one qualified new member every year.
Statistics show that just 18 percent of Rotarians ever bring in a new member,
which obviously would not be sufficient to sustain long term success for any
organization.
“Each of us must take
it upon ourselves to individually share the gift of membership in Rotary with
one new person this year,” Wilkinson said.
To address this focus
on membership, the District will hold a special District Membership Celebration
from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 26 at the Harts Hill Inn in
Whitesboro. For more information
see the District 7150 Web site @ www.rotarydistrict7150.org.
Timeline
– 1993: Rotary marks 500 million polio immunizations
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.
Club Business &
Dates to Remember
Call
to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of Guests/Visitarians
lHappy
Dollars & Fines
District
Major Events
January
26 – Winterfest
2008!
January
27 – GSE
Team departs for India
February
16 –
District Leadership Training, TBA
March
14-15 –
Multi-District President-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) - Double Tree Hotel
April
5 – RLI,
BOCES Verona
April
26 –
District Membership Celebration, Harts Hill Inn, Whitesboro
Committee
Reports
lClub Administration
President – Marion Krauter
Treasurer – Toni Feldmann
Secretary – John Rooney
l Service Projects
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Sea Scouts – John Paddock
Programs – Toni Feldmann
Early Act – Tom Seeley
Fire Equipment – Chris Bruna
Service Committee – John Rooney
lWinterfest & Craft Fair
– Paddock/Krauter
lMembership (& Retention) – All
lSocial Chair – Paul Torrisi
lSergeant at Arms – Daryle Pickering
Evening Club Programs
TODAY – Tom Watson, Photography Technology
January
31 – Irene
Stafford – Skaneateles Extended Learning Fund
February
7 – Clyde
Ohl, Modernizing Local Gov’t
Officers & Directors
Officers
President – Marion Krauter
President-Elect – Tom Seeley
Past President – Daryle Pickering
Treasurer – Toni Feldman
Sergeant-at-Arms – Daryle Pickering
Secretary – John Rooney
Committee
Chairs
Club Service – John Rooney
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Membership – All
Program Chair – Toni Feldman
Rotary Foundation – John Paddock
Social Chair – Paul Torrisi
Youth Exchange – Doug Hill/John Paddock
Members
Christopher Bruna, Dave
Cutten, Robert DeWetter, Toni Feldmann, Paul Frickey, Douglas Hill, Marion
Krauter, Michael Krebs, John Paddock, Daryle Pickering, John Rooney, Thomas
Seeley, Patrick Taylor, Paul Torrisi, Michael Wahlrab, Rhett Weiss
Exchange
Students
Sarah
Bierbaum (Germany), Lucas Grob (Switzerland), Eddy Tasia (Belgium), Nico Avalle
(Argentina)
Our District Website: http://www.rotary7150.org/
Rotary International: http://www.rotary.org/
RYLA http://www.rotaryryla.com/
Skaneateles Rotary: http://www.skaneatelesrotary.org/
e-club http://www.rotaryeclubny1.com
Thomas W. Seeley 685-2311 Fax: 685-2460 tws@mlsattorneys.com
