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The Sunrise
Newsletter of the Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary Club
(Organized June 18,
2003) District 7150
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Dong Kurn Lee Larry
Calabrese James
J. Gascon Thomas
W. Seeley
RI President District
Governor Asst.
District Governor President
UPCOMING EVENTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
Programs
TODAY
Tom Dwyer: Natural Images Gallery
July 31 – Timothy Herne: Scouting in Finger Lakes
August 7 – Club Assembly
August 14 – District Governor visit
August 21 – Jonathon Beach Photography
August 28 – Philip D’Angelo: School
rankings
September 4 – Club Assembly
September 11 – State of the Housing
market
September 18 – Rotary on the Web
Suggestions for future programs are always welcome. Please forward your ideas to Toni at tonicurt27@aol.com.
Ward returns to South Africa for Literacy
More
than three years after helping to create an basic literacy program for women
there, Ward Vuillemot returned to South Africa earlier this year to experience
the results first-hand. Ward
reports being amazed at the success of the program in just three short years.
The
literacy project provides for teacher training and education materials for
adult literacy and numeracy program in KwaZulu Natal,
South Africa serving the rural regions known as KwasNibela,
about 200 miles north of Durban.
The
program focuses primarily on women because they are typically the lowest
members of society. Without
education, a typical women will have 12 to 13 children
between the age of 12 and their late 20s, when many die due to complications,
Ward said. With proper education,
women learn basic health issues and typically have six children with fewer
health problems reported, if any.
As a result of the program’s
efforts, 98 individuals have been employed, and each will teach on average 20
others basic literacy and numeracy skills. Two individuals went from being illiterate to earning
Bachelor’s degrees.
In addition to women, the
program has trained prisoners and staff to teach literacy to fellow prisoners
so that they will be productive members of society upon their eventual release.
The
total cost of the project was estimated to be $22,800, of which $8,700 was supplied by The Rotary Foundation, with remaining
amount coming from the participating districts, including our club. The 19 participating District 7150
clubs and the D7150 Literacy committee supplied $3,500 of the total costs with
the remaining amount coming from other districts and clubs in the USA, Canada
& South Africa.
In
addition to the District 7150 clubs, Literacy Committee and individual
Rotarians, the project is shared by; The Seattle-International Club (Seattle Wa.) , West-Ottawa Club (Ottawa,
Canada), Pitermaritzburg Club (South Africa) and
District 7040 (USA & Canada). The clubs in our District 7150 that
contributed to the project are: Auburn, Aurora, Baldwinsville, Camden,
Camillus, Canastota, Cato, Chittenango, DeWitt, Fayetteville-Manlius,
Fulton-Sunrise, Moravia, Oneida Shores, Oriskany
Falls, Oswego, Sauquoit, Skaneateles, Skaneateles-Sunrise, Tully & Utica.
Club
Business &
Dates
to Remember
Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of
Guests/Visitarians
lHappy Dollars & Fines
District Major Events
August –
Youth Exchange Welcome Picnic (date and time TBA)
Sept. 12-14 – District Conference, EdgeWood Resort, Alexandria Bay
November 1 – Rotary Leadership
Institute, Canandaigua
Old Business
Committee Reports
lClub Administration
President
– Tom Seeley
Treasurer
– Toni Feldmann
Secretary
– John Paddock
l
Service Projects
Food Pantry
– Daryle Pickering
Sea Scouts
– John Paddock
Programs
– Paul Frickey
Early Act
– Tom Seeley
Fire Equipment
– Chris Bruna
Service Committee
– John Rooney
lWinterfest & Craft Fair
– Seeley/Krauter
lMembership (& Retention)
– Beckwith/Feldmann
lFoundation/Community
Recognition Torrisi/Krauter
lSocial
Chair – Maggie Gilson
lSergeant
at Arms – Daryle Pickering
New Business
Guest Speaker Tom Dwyer, Natural Images Gallery
Evening
Club Programs
TODAY –
Phil Tierney, Volunteerism
July
31 –
Peter Adams, Classification Talk
August
6
– Dirk Young Twin Birch, owning and operating dairy farm in Skaneateles
Officers
& Directors
Officers
President – Thomas W. Seeley
President-Elect – John
Rooney
Past President – Marion Krauter
Treasurer – Toni Feldman
Sergeant-at-Arms –
Daryle Pickering
Secretary – John Paddock
Committee Chairs
Club Service – John Rooney
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Membership – Sidney Beckwith
Program Chair – Toni
Feldman
Rotary Foundation – Paul
Torrisi
Social Chair – Maggie
Gilson
Youth Exchange/RYLA – John Paddock
Members
Sidney
Beckwith, Christopher Bruna, Dave Cutten, Robert DeWetter, Toni Feldmann, Paul
Frickey, Maggie Gilson (visitor), Douglas Hill, Marion Krauter,
John Paddock, Daryle Pickering, John Rooney, Thomas Seeley, 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
