Next Meeting
When............ March
10, 2009, at noon
Where.......... The
Franklin Hotel
Program...... The Lost Village of Delta, Mary
Centro
Coming Events
Mar 07......... RFA Academy of Sciences
Science Fair
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
Jun 23.......... USAF Computer Technology,
Dr. Richard Linderman
Dec 04......... Rome Rotary’s 90th Anniversary
Celebration at The Beeches (PDG Mike Occhipinti)
Attendance: Total Membership: 101. Absent
or [Excused or Exempt]: Bauer, Bird, [Boguhn], Bottini, Burns, Carey, Carnevale, Casadei, Conway,
Coon, Corbett, [DiPerna], [Donovan], Faldzinski, Fariello, Glasso, Hairston,
Henry, Herrmann V, Kaucher, Kobernuss, [Kryczkowski], Lockwood, Martin,
Mattson, [Mercurio], Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Neiley C, Neiley N, Nolan,
Occhipinti, O'Hair, Pabon, [Pfendler], Puma, Ramineni, Ramos, Rapke, Reames,
Rouillier, Schonewetter Do, Simons J, Simons K, Smith, Speicher, Summers,
Swinney, Taylor, Till, Toukatly, Trela, Tuthill K, Vescio, Weber, Winberg,
[Zaleski].
Guests and Visiting Rotarians: Guests:
Simon Kristensen (RRC YE Student). Rotarians: None.
After-Work Meeting 2/19/09: Rome Rotarians: Corbett, Donovan, Graves, Gray, Herrmann WR, Neiley C,
Neiley N, Ramos, Schonewetter De, Schonewetter Do, Townsend, Trela, Tuthill K,
Tuthill W.
50/50: Joe Fusco won the 50/50
but did not draw a winning card. You have to play to win!
Make-ups: Glasso (Autism Walk
2/26); Carey, Corbett, Dailey, Packer, Ramos (RRC Party 2/28); Versace (Florida
RC 2/19); Packer, Recco, Tuthill K (R Reader 2/26); Butters, Mooney (R Reader
3/2); Foreman (RRC 2/24); Skogland (RCH Spec Meet 3/3); Panara (KC Bingo 2/18
& 2/25).
Happy Birthday in March to: Donna Cole (4);
Maria Dailey (11); Michael Geller (25); Missy Graves (6); and Clark Speicher
(30).
Anniversaries of Rotary Membership
in March: Debbie Adamo (1998); Glen Bahr (1990); Devon Coon (2006); Maria
Dailey (2000); Bob Gilchriest (1987); Jerry Haritatos (1999); Subbarao Ramineni
(1980); Kevin Simons (2008); Ron Townsend (2002); George Waters (1998); Shirley
Waters (1998); and Ed Weed (1996).
Quote of the Week: "Fix
your attention on your... goal[s] and never look back on your earlier
problems... Our energies [should be] focused not behind us but ahead of
us." — Howard W. Hunter.
With Deepest Sympathy…
Rome Rotary
extends condolences to PP Debbie Adamo on the loss of her father who passed
away on Thursday, 26 Feb and to Tiffany Martin whose grandmother passed away on
Tuesday, 3 Mar. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
We extend a thank you to PP Debbie’s family for the
donation of $100 to The Rotary Foundation in her father’s memory.
Rotary News
March is Rotary Literacy Month
— An estimated one billion
people — one fourth of the world’s adult population — are unable to read.
Illiteracy among adults and children is a global concern in highly
industrialized nations and developing countries.
The tragedy of illiteracy is that those who
cannot read are denied personal independence and become victims of unscrupulous
manipulation, poverty, and the loss of human dignity. Illiteracy is demeaning.
It is a major obstacle for economic, political, social, and personal
development and a barrier to international understanding, cooperation, and
peace.
Many Rotary clubs have surveyed the needs of
their community for literacy training and developed projects to meet those
needs. Some clubs provide basic books for teaching reading. Others establish
and support reading and language clinics, provide volunteer tutorial
assistance, and purchase reading materials. Rotarians can play a vitally
important part in their community and in developing countries by promoting
projects to open opportunities that come from the ability to read. For example,
Australian Rotarians developed Lighthouse for Literacy projects in four schools
in Thailand. The project’s innovative teaching method proved so successful that
the Thai government adopted it for all the nation’s schools. Other Rotary clubs
had used this model to develop literacy projects in Bangladesh, Brazil, South
Africa, and other countries. (Rotary ABC’s, RI 2006, p. 25-26)
[Rome Rotary currently serves
the schools with the Rotary Reader program, provides dictionaries to third
graders each year, and in the current year President Ron’s book project will
add a significant number of books to Jervis Library. Club members recently
traveled to South America as part of a team that addressed literacy needs and
has also been active in contributing books to children and adults in third-world
countries.]
Rotary Announcements
·
Approximately fifty-four dollars and four bags
of groceries were collected today for the Rome rescue Mission. “Thank you” Rome
Rotary.
·
Bill Tuthill announced that Rome Rotary is
continuing the matching program for new sustaining members contributing $100
annually to The Rotary Foundation. The club will match the first $100 donation,
giving that member a credit of $200 toward Paul Harris Fellow recognition for
the first year.
·
The 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.
The Club pays the tuition. See PP Dennis.
·
The 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 PE Bob Herrmann for dinner tickets.
·
At the 20 Jan
Rotary Meeting, Gary Paricio from Oswego talked about a simple fundraising
opportunity that has become available from competition among Internet search
sites. We are about to try this method, called the BenefitBar, to contribute to
our Club’s effort on polio eradication. The system makes the Yahoo search engine
coupled with the BenefitBar's accounting give 10 cents credit to the Rome
Rotary Club every time a sponsored link is visited during a web search. You can
still do a search using any search engine you prefer by using the drop-down
menu at the search input window but of course there won't be any credit. For
further detail and setup instructions visit the Rome Rotary web site
"Support Rotary" page: http://romerotaryny.org/support.htm.
This only requires an armchair level of support
on your part but may generate a significant contribution to the polio
eradication effort. Our Treasurer will report monthly results.
·
The RFA Science
Fair is this Saturday, 7 Mar. Rotarians who volunteered to be judges should be
at RFA at 8:00 AM and plan to be there until about 1:00 PM. Any interested
Rotarians who have not yet signed up should contact PP Keith Butters ASAP.
·
PDG Ward Vuillemot reminds us about the
“District 7150 Books for the World,” a “collaborative effort between Rotary
Clubs, their affiliated youth clubs, and other community and service organizations
to provide surplus children’s books, K–6th grade picture/story and
textbooks, to regions in the world that are in need of these materials to
create a opportunities for a better way of life.” Our district will provide
participating clubs with appropriate information and materials at cost, and
instructions. Books will be handled by Rotary Books for the World located in
Houston. Initially books will be shipped be a Rotary District in South Africa
to be distributed. English is one of the primary business languages there. By
sharing our used books we can make a significant difference in the lives of the
children of the world. For more information go to www.d7150booksfortheworld.org/Home.html.
Community Announcements
·
Rome Community Theater will present a two act performance,
“A Day in Hollywood” and “A Night in the Ukraine.” Performances will be 5–7 Mar
and on 13–14 Mar at 8 PM, and on 8 & 15 Mar at 2:30 PM. Tickets are $15.
See Peter Costianes or Fred Normand.
·
Oneida Civic Chorale will perform at St.
Patrick’s Church in Oneida at 4 PM on 15 Mar. The program will be a selection
of hymns. Tickets are $10. See PP Glen Bahr, chorale member.
·
The Rome VFW will hold a dinner on Saturday 15
Mar at the VFW Hall from 4–7 PM. The menu includes corn beef or ham with
cabbage.
Program
Delta Lake State
Parks — Laura Tully
Laura
Tully gave us an excellent summary today of all the activities available at
Delta Lake State Park.
Most of us are familiar with the summer activities
that include swimming, boating, hiking, fishing, and observation of nature in
all its varieties, birds like wild swans and eagles, animals, and plants. Camping
is available from May to October, and overnight fees start at $15 per day for
the 101 campsites, 30 of them right on the water. A playground was recently
added.
In addition there are a variety of winter activity.
Ice fishing is very popular for the very stout hearted and questionably sane.
There are trails for cross-country skiing and plenty of possibilities for snow
snowing. Last fall the park hosted 935 students for Conservation Education
Days, which featured education on everything from trees to turkeys. The Delta
Lake half marathon is thirteen miles long and is run around the lake.
Pavilions can serve from a few to 2,000 guests and
are often booked for company picnics and more formal events such as weddings.
Or you can just come and visit the park to leave your cell phone behind, take a
walk, and get away right in our own backyard.
With recent funding cuts there will be some
cutbacks in services, but by being creative with finances, Laura hopes these
will likely go unnoticed by 95% of park patrons. Fees will remain the same, $7
per car when the beach is open and $6 per car when it is not, from 8 AM to 7
PM. There are different special passes that can reduce these fees
significantly, like season passes or senior discounts. The Park is accessible
365 days a year, twenty-four hours a day. “Thank you” Laura!
Cindy Roubian, Editor
PP Dennis
Schonewetter, Technical Editor
