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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
Lois
Cole, Toastmasters International; Dave Penfield, Lightning Regatta
May 15 – John Paddock ESGR
May 22 – Tom Seeley, Membership
& Retention
May 29 – Christopher Wiles, NYS
Attorney General’s Office
June 5 – Club Assembly
June 12
– Maggie & John Gilson, Business Move
June 19
– Budget Review 2008-2009
June 26
– Seitz Building, Jeremy Gorelick
Suggestions for future programs are always
welcome. Please forward your ideas
to Toni at tonicurt27@aol.com.
Rhett
Weiss: How Google has shaped our first president’s life
We
finally know what Rhett Weiss has been up to these past three years.
We
all knew that Rhett, our club’s first president and one of its most loyal
supporters, had a really important job and that that job was with Google, but
until May 1, all of the other details were hazy.
Rhett has been working for Google since 2005. For the first few years, due to the
sensitive nature of his job, he could say very little due to confidentiality
issues. Today, he revealed
that for the past three years he has been leading the team that acquires and
develops data centers for Google throughout the world.
Google
was founded as a graduate student research project out of Stanford University
in 1998. The first data center was
a hodge-podge of computers pieced together. One of the disk cases broke and the folks used Legos to hold
it together. This is the reason
for the colors in the name Google.
Google
is such a new company that Rhett has been with it longer than 85 percent of the
employees.
The
corporate culture is to work had but also encourages employees to be creative
and play hard. The company’s
headquarters features in addition to the traditional rows of cubicles, a
massage chair, pool tables and a climbing wall.
The datacenters Rhett is responsible for developing are
the heart of the company, he explained.
They store all of the data sent over the Internet. Their effectiveness has a direct effect
on the products and services Google offers, which includes much, much more than
just the search engine. More data centers are always needed within close
proximity to population centers to maintain speed. Speed on the Internet is measured by milliseconds or
less. It only takes a few blinks
of an eye to lose a customer, he said.
Each center represents about a $600 million investment by
Google, creating hundreds of construction jobs and effecting about $1 billion
of gross state product. They
employ about 100 to 200 people and become a magnet for other companies. One such center was developed in
Lenoir, North Carolina on the site of a former furniture factory.
As
the negotiator for the data center acquisition and development, Rhett is
responsible for all of the component transactions, including purchasing the
land, electricity, water and workforce.
Utility issues are a huge issue because each of these centers uses more
power than the Town and Village of Skaneateles combined! The company does its best to follow
green building practices, using water to manage the heat the massive rows of
computers produces each day.
Rhett
closed his talk with a humorous look at a YouTube video “How Google Saved My
Marriage.” Check it out at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi2O4Kvlscs. It should be noted that YouTube is now
owned by Google!
Club Business &
Dates to Remember
Call to Order;
Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of Guests/Visitarians
lHappy Dollars &
Fines
District Major
Events
May 10 – District Membership
Retention, Harts Hill Inn, Whitesboro
May 29 – District Foundation
Celebration
June 6 – Literacy Golf Tournament,
Auburn
June 23 – Changing of the Guard
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 –Ruhlman and Gorgette Hoskins – CSIET Global
Award Ceremony
May 1 – Kokosa – SRF Nominating Committee Report; Robin Jowaisas
– Pancake Breakfast Ticket Sales
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 – Daryle Pickering
Program Chair – Toni Feldman
Rotary Foundation – John Paddock
Social Chair – Paul Torrisi
Youth Exchange/RYLA – John Paddock
Members
Sidney Beckwith,
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
