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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 –Skaneateles Police
Department Facilities Update, Lloyd Perkins
April 9 – Rotary Youth Exchange Students,
Lori Ruhlman
April 16 – Club Assembly
April 23 – Western Gateway
Project, Bridget Winkelman
April 30 – Lake Architectural,
Jessica Haas
May 7 – Club Assembly
May 14 – Why Buy Local, Erika
Davis
May 21 – 1-800-GOT JUNK, Dee
Johnson
Suggestions for future programs are always welcome. Please forward your ideas to Paul at pfrickey@adelphia.net.
JB Allred carves out successful consulting,
manufacturing business
J.B.
Allred relishes living on the edge.
Allred
left his job in research and development at Welch Allyn for the life of an
entrepreneur. J.B. left
Welch Allyn in 1993 to form Allred Allred & Associates, an engineering
product development and manufacturing firm in Elbridge, NY. Allred addressed our club on February
26, 2009.
Unlike
the risky image many have for entrepreneurs, Allred describes life the edge as
a very deliberate, calculated existence.
The edge, he says, is the boundary between two dissimilar things such as
the edge between the forest and the fields or the beach and the ocean.
For
Allred & Associates, the edge is between a large and a small company. It offers all computer assisted
equipment and state-of-the-art technology more common at a big company, but has
the ability to react quickly and creatively to problems, traits more common among
small companies.
Allred
got his start as an entrepreneur almost by accident. While building a replica of a 1923 airplane, he was unable
to find anyone with a machine suitable to carve out the propeller so he
designed the machine himself.
The
rest, as they say, is history. The
machine today is used by violin, viola, cello, contra bass and guitar makers
worldwide to carve the shape for their instruments.
Soon
after achieving success with the carving machine, J.B. left his job in research
and development at Welch Allyn to form Allred Associations. Now, 15 years later, the company has 15
patents, 40 employees and has added two new companies to the mix.
Fresh
off his success with the wood carving machine, Allred and his company began
tackling carbon fiber products.
Carbon is structurallly rigid and light weight but can be very difficult
to work with.
Despite
the inherent difficulties, the company figured out a way to machine carbon and
now machines a broad range of products for various applications, including the
gondola set for a blimp, robotic arms, motorcycles, yachts and even the
interior of a small, privatley-owned submarine! Recently, the company also produced a carbon fiber
surfboard, a small bridge for military use that is 35 feet long and can carry
32 soldiers and an ultralight ladder.
Allred
& Associates is also involved with Propulsive Wing, LLC, a new company that
is working to develop a commercially successful high-lift, high payload flying
wing plantform. Instead of using
external propellers, the airplane uses fans embedded in the wings. The small unmanned plane has a 7 foot
wingspan and is ideal for flying over factories to monitor air quality, among
other things.
Club
Business &
Dates
to Remember
Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of
Guests/Visitarians
lHappy Dollars & Fines
District Major Events
April 4 – RLI, BOCES, Verona, NY
April 25 – District Assembly,
BOCES, Verona
May 22 – Rotary Foundation
Dinner, Rosamond Gifford Zoo
June 1 – Literacy Golf
Tournament, Links at Erie Village
Old Business
Committee Reports
lClub Administration
President
– Tom Seeley
Treasurer
– Toni Feldmann
Secretary
– John Paddock
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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
lChief Lloyd Perkins – State of Police
Department building
Evening
Club Programs
TODAY – Bob Green, State
of the Village
April 9 – Club Assembly
April 16 – Steve Frackenpohl, Skaneateles Festival
Officers
& Directors
Officers
·
President – Thomas W. Seeley
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President-Elect – John
Rooney
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Past President –
Marion Krauter
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Treasurer – Toni Feldman
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Sergeant-at-Arms –
Daryle Pickering
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Secretary – John Paddock
Committee Chairs
·
Club Service – John Rooney
·
Food Pantry – Daryle
Pickering
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Membership – Sidney Beckwith
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Program Chair – Paul Frickey
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Rotary Foundation – Paul
Torrisi
·
Social Chair – Maggie
Gilson
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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, Mark Shafer, Paul Torrisi, Michael Wahlrab,
Rhett Weiss
Exchange Students
Miguel Rodenas (Spain), Charlotte Linden (Germany),
Bruno Caetanno Alves de Melo (Brazil)
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
