Programs

TODAY – Milfoil Eradication, Chris Scholz

September 17 – Vernack Farms, Charlene & Chris Vernack

September 24 – Online Storefronts, Elaine Slater-Kogel

October 1 – Hedge Fund Basics, Evan Dreyfuss

Suggestions for future programs are always welcome. Please forward your ideas to Marion at amkrauter@verizon.net.

News & Notes

DG Cholet calls for commitment

to Rotary goals for coming year

District Governor Fred Cholet visited our club August 20, 2009.

Cholet is a member and past president of the DeWitt Rotary Club. Cholet discussed his club’s successful pancake breakfast efforts, which have netted as much as $60,000.00 to support the club’s charitable causes.

DG Cholet indicated that Rotary President John Kenny has retained Past President D.K Lee’s goals for the year with a notable exception. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has increased its financial commitment to the efforts to eradicate polio, committing another $255 million, DG CHOlet said. RI has raised $94 million toward the initial $100 million goal and Gates has challenged Rotary International to raise another $100 million by the year 2012, Cholet said.

District membership was up by 4% last year and DG Cholet is challenging all clubs in the district to raise 1 net new member per club again this year.

Another district goal for the year is to address issues of child mortality. Specifically, Cholet discussed efforts to prevent ‘cold deaths’, deaths that occur when babies are suffocated by sleeping in beds with their parents. Cholet said the district is looking to work with the County Health Departmnet to help purchase cribs for families in need to be distributed before the babies are released from the hospital.

RI President: Youth programs essential to Rotary International

My fellow Rotarians:

Lord Byron wrote, “The days of our youth are the days of our glory.” For me, that is the line that springs to mind whenever Rotary’s youth programs are mentioned. In Rotary, September is New Generations Month – a time to focus our attention on our programs for youth and the role they play in shaping the Rotarians of tomorrow.

Our youth programs – Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and Rotary Youth Exchange – are some of the most important programs of Rotary. I say this because of the unparalleled potential they have to influence young minds and souls toward peace, goodwill, and harmony. That potential is the greatest in youth because the experiences of our early years never leave us; they shape who we later become. In the words often attributed to St. Francis Xavier, “Give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man.” For myself, I would give it a bit longer than that – but there is no doubt that the experiences of our youth have a greater formative power, and a greater ability to shape character, than any we may have in our adulthood.

When a teenager from the United States has the chance to travel to India to participate in a National Immunization Day, or when a student from Brazil spends a year studying in Japan, that person will be forever changed. These young people will have formed connections and affections that will endure. They will never think about their own country, or the world, in the same way again. Their perspective, their priorities, and their values will have been permanently shaped by that experience in a way that no later experiences will have the power to do. Your hard work ensures that these experiences continue to be possible – that these programs continue to be available, to be well run, and to earn the trust of the participants and their families.

The impressions of youth are strong, and they are lasting. There is never a second chance at them. We may grow and change as we get older, and we are surely changed by all of our experiences. But there is never another chance to build who we are. That happens only once: in our youth.

The days of our youth truly are the days of our glory – but through Rotary’s youth programs, those days become the glory of all of Rotary.

John Kenny

President, Rotary International

Club Business &

Dates to Remember

Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation

lIntroduction of Guests/Visitarians

lHappy Dollars & Fines

District Major Events

September 13 – Eastern Cities Fellowship Dinner Rochester, NY

September 24-27 – District Conference, The Desmond, Albany

November 7 – RLI, Canandaigua

Old Business

Committee Reports

lClub Administration

President – John Rooney

Treasurer – Toni Feldmann

Secretary – John Paddock

l Service Projects

Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering

Sea Scouts – John Paddock

Programs – Krauter/Beckwith

Early Act – Tom Seeley

Fire Equipment –

Service Committee – Mark Shafer

lWinterfest & Craft Fair – Seeley/Krauter

lMembership (& Retention) – Beckwith/Feldmann

lFoundation/Community Recognition

lSocial Chair –

lSergeant at Arms – Daryle Pickering

New Business/Program

q Milfoil Eradication

Evening Club Programs

September 10 – TBD

September 17 – Pancake Breakfast Thank You, Lourdes Camp

Officers & Directors

Officers

President – John Rooney

President-Elect –

Past President – Thomas W. Seeley

Treasurer – Toni Feldman

Sergeant-at-Arms – Daryle Pickering

Secretary – John Paddock

Committee Chairs

Club Service – Mark Schafer

Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering

Membership – Beckwith/Feldmann

Program Chair – Marion Krauter

Rotary Foundation –

Social Chair –

Youth Exchange/RYLA – John Paddock

Members

Sidney Beckwith, Robert Brown, Toni Feldmann, Paul Frickey, Maggie Gilson (visitor), Marion Krauter, John Paddock, Daryle Pickering, John Rooney, Thomas Seeley, Mark Schafer, Paul Torrisi, Rhett Weiss

Exchange Students

TBA

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RYLA http://www.rotaryryla.com/

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The Sunrise

Newsletter of the Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary Club

District 7150

Bulletin #2010-7 Date: September 10, 2009

News & Notes

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