Next Meeting
When............ February
24, 2009, at noon
Where.......... The
Franklin Hotel
Program...... TBA
Coming Events
Mar 03......... Delta Lake State Parks —
Laura Tully
Mar 07......... RFA Academy of Sciences
Science Fair
Mar 10......... Mohawk Valley Heritage
Corridor — Tracy Montoni
Mar 13-14... PETS (President Elect Training
Seminar)
Mar 17......... Technology Challenges in
Cyber Space — Dr. Kamal Jabbour (AFRL)
Mar 19......... Interact Haiti Water
Project Fundraiser Dinner, RFA, 6:15 PM
Mar 24......... Mr. Gillison — DFAS
Director
Mar 31……..American
Red Cross — Lisa Kramer-Lape
Apr 04.......... Rotary Leadership
Institute at BOCES
Apr 07.......... Syracuse Symphony — Daniel
Hege, Conductor
Apr 18.......... District Assembly
Dec 04......... Rome Rotary’s 90th
Anniversary Celebration at The Beeches (PDG Mike Occhipinti)
Attendance: Total Membership: 101. Absent
or [Excused or Exempt]: Adamo, Bauer, Bird, [Boguhn], Burch, Burns, Cantor, Casadei, Conway, Coon,
Corbett, DeMatteo, [DiPerna], [Donovan], Evans, Fariello, Geller, Glasso, Gray,
Hairston, Henry, Kaucher, [Kryczkowski], Martin, Matt, Mattacola, Mattson,
McMahon, Mercurio, Miller, Mitchell, Mooney, Moore, Neiley C, Nolan, O'Hair,
Pabon, [Pfendler], Puma, Ramineni, Ramos, Reames, Riley, Rouillier, Simons J,
Simons K, Smith, Speicher, Swinney, Taylor, Toukatly, Trela, Tuthill K,
Versace, Weber, [Zaleski].
Guests and Visiting Rotarians: Guests:
Erin Hall, Monica Nouvong, Renee Kennedy, Emily Dutt, Katey Portner, Alyssa
Acomb, and Donna Occhipinti (Neiley N / RFA Interact Club); Peter Franz
(Butters); Andrea Belmont-Gwelt, Kaitlyn Belmont, and Alexandria Belmont
(Herrmann); Frankie Till (Till); and Megan Montana (Tracy). Rotarians: None.
After-Work Meeting 2/12/09: Rome Rotarians: Bauer, Bird,
Glasso, Graves, Herrmann, Ramos, Schonewetter De, Schonewetter Do, Tuthill K, and
Tuthill W.
50/50: Dee Mammolito won the
50/50 and took the cash. You have to play to win!
Make-ups: Corbett (Twigs
2/10); Tuthill K (R Reader 2/12); Bottini (Main Street 2/8); Packer (R Reader
2/12); Kahler (Admin Meeting 2/13 & Utica RC 2/13); Winberg (R Reader
2/12); Recco (R Reader 1/31/ & 2/6, N.H. RC 2/4; Russitano benefits 1/29
& 1/31); Skogland (Rome Character Initiative 2/4); Panara (KC Bingo 2/4
& 2/11); Graves (R Reader 2/9); and Carnevale (UW 12/3, 1/21, 2/6; Am.
Heart 1/9, 1/13); Glasso (Autism Walk 2/12, 2/13, 2/17).
Happy Birthday in February to: Donna Burch (11);
Ron Cantor (20); Jackie Corbett (14); Dick Kahler (10); Dave Kobernuss (16);
Jon O’Hair (2); Herb Skogland (25); Karin Tuthill (25); and Phil Vescio (25).
Anniversaries of Rotary Membership
in February: Nathan Boguhn (2004); Jim
Donovan (2001); Joel Gray (1990); Dick Kahler (1980); Rosellen Mattson (2005);
Joe Riley (2008); Clark Speicher (2005); and Bill Wolf (2006).
Quote of the
Week: "We see things not as they are,
but as we are." — Delbert L. Stapely.
Rotary News
The Secretariat — Many Rotarians consider the Secretariat
simply another name for the RI World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Actually it is much more. The name describes the entire operations of the
general secretary and more than 600 member staff working to make Rotary International
and the Rotary Foundation run smoothly and effectively. In addition to World
Headquarters, the Secretariat includes seven RI international offices around
the world. The Secretariat’s sole purpose is to serve the clubs, districts, and
administrative officers of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. RI
World Headquarters, in a building called One Rotary Center, is the headquarters
of the Secretariat.
(Rotary ABC’s, RI 2006, p. 2)
Announcements
·
The Rome Rotary Club winter party is a Beach Party this year, 28 Feb at 6 PM
at the Rome Elks Club. Cost is $5 plus pot-luck—the club will furnish the meat,
pasta, greens, roasted potatoes, soda, beer, and wine. You are asked to bring
appetizer, salad, dessert, plastic ware, or paper ware. Please indicate your
intention to attend and what you will bring on the sign-up sheet, which will be
circulated at each meeting until the event.
·
The Rome Academy of Sciences will hold the
annual Science Fair at RFA on 7 Mar. Rotary sponsors this event. If you are
interested in helping and missed the previous information please contact Harry
Winberg at 339-2175.
·
Rotary Leadership Institute will be offered this
spring on 4 Apr at BOCES. The content of this program is useful for life in
general and is not limited to those who aspire to leadership roles in Rotary.
Club pays the tuition. See PP Dennis or President Ron.
·
Rotary Interact Club of RFA will sponsor a
dinner at the RFA cafeteria on 19 Mar from 6:15–8:15 PM. Cost is $7 per person.
Proceeds will be used for “Clean Water Haiti,” a matching grant water project
that will provide a pipeline and water filtration to an area in Haiti where
women are currently walking five miles each day to get polluted undrinkable
water. See Bob Herrmann for dinner tickets.
Program
RFA Social Action
Corp. (Rotary Interact)
Nancy Neiley
Seven
inspiring young women visited Rotary today to share the activities of the RFA
Social Action Corps (Rotary Interact Club). The club has about 25 members. Each
committee is run by the students themselves. They develop and implement their
own ideas for service, making the needed decisions under supervision of their
advisor, Rotarian Nancy Neiley.
Every Interact club is sponsored and supervised by
a Rotary club and must plan annual projects of service with a goal of providing
opportunities for the young people involved to gain greater global
understanding.
Club President Erin Hall led today’s presentation,
as each member spoke about the work of the club and the events they sponsor.
The activities of RFA’s Interact club have included
a dinner last year for the Darfur victims. $1,200 was raised for those relief
efforts. A candy sale for the women of Uganda generated the funds to buy sewing
machines that provide occupation and income for these women. Interact became
involved in Polio Plus with an in-school fundraiser. Every student who donated
60¢ or more, was given a paper hand to sign for display and had their “pinkies
painted purple,” symbolic of the procedure used in target countries to identify
those who have received vaccine. $336 dollars was raised, enough to vaccinate
560 children. These students participated in Rome Rotary’s Halloween program
and served as guides and hosts/hostesses for the International Student Day last
fall.
Future plans include a dinner on Thursday, 19 Mar
at the RFA Cafeteria to raise money for the “Clean Water Haiti,” a matching
grant water project. It is targeted at an area in Haiti where women walk five
miles to the mountains to fill water jugs with dirty polluted undrinkable
water. The filled jugs carried on their heads weigh 80 pounds. The project will
run a pipeline from the mountains to the valley and through a filter system to
purify it for use. (For dinner details see announcements.)
There is also a fund raising concert planned for
this spring and a one day trip to NYC for the club members.
“Thank you” to each one of you for an excellent
presentation.
Cindy Roubian, Editor
PP Dennis
Schonewetter, Technical Editor
