Next Meeting
When............ July
21, 2009 at noon
Where.......... The
Franklin Hotel
Program...... Brother's Tonight — Rock
Versace (Fundraiser for Polio)
Coming
Events
Jul 28........... Canalfest Preview — Jim Donovan
Jul 31–Aug 2.. Canalfest
Aug 04......... David Lupinski —
Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority
Aug 05......... District 7150 Youth Exchange
Dinner
Aug 11......... DG Fred Cholet’s Official Visit
Aug 18......... Sandy Jones – Herkimer
County Public Health, “It Takes a Man to Be a Dad”
Aug 22......... Arrival of Youth Exchange
Student
Aug 25......... Rome Hospital, (Topic
Pending)
Sep 01.......... Rome Bowl
Sep 08.......... Lauren Getek, Rome Art and
Community Center
Sep 22.......... Rome Memorial Hospital
(Topic Pending)
Sep 25–27.... Annual District Conference at
the Desmond Hotel in Albany
Sep 29.......... Jim Brown, “The Future of
Rome”
Oct 06.......... Denise Smith, Director of
Patient Services at Hospice
Oct 13.......... International Students on
ISD
Oct 24.......... International Student Day,
Dr. Cantor
Dec 04......... Rome Rotary’s 90th
Anniversary Celebration at The Beeches (PDG Mike Occhipinti)
Attendance: Total Membership: 100. Absent
or [Excused or Exempt]: Adamo, Bauer, Bird, Burch, Burns, Cantor, Carey, Carnevale, Casadei,
Conway, Corbett, [DiPerna], [Donovan], Evans, Faldzinski, Fariello, Fay, Fusco,
Glasso, Graves, Gray, Hairston, Haritatos, Henry, Lockwood, Martin, Mattacola,
Mattson, McMahon, [Mercurio], Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Neiley C, Neiley N,
Nolan, O'Hair, Ramineni, Ramos, Recco, Riley, Rouillier, Schonewetter Do,
Simons J, Simons K, Speicher, Taylor, Toukatly, Trela, Tuthill K, Tuthill W, Vescio,
Weber, [Weed], Wolf, [Zaleski].
Guests and Visiting Rotarians:
Guests: Rebekah Geller (Geller); Brendan Kilpatrick (Mooney); and Aaron Bahr
(Bahr). Rotarians: None.
After-Work Meeting 7/2:
Rotarians: Bird, Carey, Corbett, Donovan, Fusco, Graves, Neiley N, Schonewetter
De, Schonewetter Do.
50/50: Fred Normand won the
50/50 again, and this time drew the Jack of Hearts so the pot builds. You have
to play to win!
Make-ups: Corbett, Donovan, Fusco, Graves, Kobernuss, Latimer,
Schonewetter De (Canalfest 7/9); Panara (KC Bingo 7/8); Versace (Camden 7/13);
Occhipinti (RYLA 7/11); Latimer (TWIG); Skogland (Rome Char Init Mo Mtg 7/7).
Happy Birthday in July to: Ron Casadei (28); Vic DiPerna (31); Joe Fusco (27); Jerry
Haritatos (26); Virginia Herrmann (31); Matt Miller (26); Fred Normand (2); Subbarao
Ramineni (1); Bob Trowell (17); Bill Tuthill (9); Rock Versace (18); George
Waters (4); and Ed ["Coach"] Weed (3).
Anniversaries of Rome Rotary
Membership in July: Jim Brown (1989); Debbie Conway (2007); RoAnn Destito
(2001); Joe Fusco (2002); Virginia Herrmann (2004); Bob Herrmann (2004); Joan
Kahler (1999); Sandi Lockwood (2002); Cheryl Matt (2003); Laura Mead (2007);
Matt Miller (1998); Ryan Moore (2006); Tony Picente (2007); Frank Puma (2002);
June Sperlik (2002); Phil Trela (1989); and Karin Tuthill (2007).
Quote of the Week: "I find the great thing in this world is not so much
where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes
with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor
lie at anchor." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841-1935, Former Justice to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rotary
Information
Group Study
Exchange — One
of the most popular and rewarding programs of The Rotary Foundation is Group
Study Exchange. Since the first exchange between districts in California and
Japan in 1965, the program has provided educational experiences for more than
52,000 business people and professionals who have served on about 12,000 teams.
The GSE program pairs Rotary districts to send and receive study teams. Since
1965, more than US $88 million has been allocated by The Rotary Foundation for
Group Study Exchange grants.
GSE provides an opportunity for
the visiting team members to meet, talk, and live with Rotarians and their
families in a warm spirit of friendship and hospitality. In addition to
learning about another country through visits to farms, schools, industrial
plants, professional offices, and governmental establishments, GSE team members
serve as ambassadors of goodwill. They interpret their home nation for host Rotarians
and others in the communities they visit. In recent years, teams of a single
vocation or cultural group have been exchanged. Some GSE teams have helped to
create humanitarian projects between their countries. Many of the personal
contacts blossom into lasting friendships.
The Group Study Exchange
program has provided Rotarians with a most enjoyable, practical, and meaningful
way to promote world understanding. [Rotary ABC’s, RI 2006, P. 37-38]
Rome
Rotary will have the opportunity to participate in this unique cultural and
vocational exchange when District 7150 “pairs” with District 2640 from Japan
this year in exchanges, which will begin in September. Bob Bird will be our Club’s
GSE coordinator.
Canalfest
·
Canalfest is our club’s biggest fund raiser,
and the Duck Race is a major part of the event. Success depends on the participation
of each member of the club. Let’s sell those tickets and help Rome Rotary to
provide the quality programs that we have brought to the community in past
years. Contact Dave Kobernuss with questions
·
PP Greg Mattacola is asking for help selling advertising
to local businesses as a Canalfest
fundraiser. These signs are posted on the Canalfest
grounds for the weekend and are $50 each. The advertising is an “easy sell”
since exposure is significant and the price much less than the cost of other
media. Pick up forms at the meetings or see PP Greg to give your assistance.
·
Last
week PP Dennis emailed a sign up sheet for Canalfest.
A sign-up sheet is also circulating at the meetings. There are plenty of opportunities
to give “Service Above Self.” Let’s fill up those spaces! Contact PP Dennis to
let him know your preference.
·
The
Honor America Day Parade is fast approaching on 25 July, the weekend before Canalfest.
About twenty-five Rotarians are needed to carry the large American Flag &
our banner and to hand out Canalfest brochures.
This is a chance to share Rotary with family. Bring them along. Watch for the
sign-up sheet and see Dan Faldzinski with your questions.
·
The Syracuse Symphony Concert and fireworks
display at Fort Stanwix, part of the Honor America Days celebrations, will take
place on the evening of 25 July. We have permission to hand out Canalfest flyers at the concert, and
Rotarians are needed to make this happen. See PP Dennis.
·
Canalfest posters are available for display
in the community. Put them up in your own businesses or ask business owners in
Rome and surrounding communities to display them. Posters are available at the
meetings or contact Kay DeSimone or PP Dennis.
·
Canalfest
now has a place on the web. Check it out! It is part of www.RomeRotaryNY.org or go directly to
the site at www.RomeRotaryNY.org/canal.
Announcements
and Events
·
Juan
Carlos Rincon Moreno, our newest RI Youth Exchange student, will arrive in Rome
in August from Venezuela. Host parents
are needed to provide a home and family for Juan for several three to four
months periods. Please contact Chris or Nancy Neiley, nneiley@aol.com, or 827-4303.
Welcome
to New Member Rev. Sam Pendergrast
Rome Rotary extended a warm
welcome today to newest member Rev. Sam Pendergrast. Sam describes himself as a
true southerner, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He met his wife Cynthia,
who is from Iowa, in Texas, and later they were married in Knoxville, TN. He attended
Furman College in Greenville, NC for his undergraduate work, and later the Presbyterian
Seminary in Knoxville, TN. His first church was in Storm Lake, Iowa. He spent a
number of years serving a church in Lexington, KY, has done hospital ministry,
and has served as an interim pastor. He became the pastor at Rome’s First
Presbyterian Church about eight months ago. He and Cynthia have two sons, Allan
who is in graduate school at RPI, and James who is studying at the University
of Rochester.
TO SAM: “Please
believe that ‘It is the truth’ that our winters are not usually as snowy as
this last one, and our Julys are usually a lot warmer. We are glad to have you
here, and we welcome you to Rome Rotary!”
Cindy
Roubian, Editor
PP Dennis
Schonewetter, Technical Editor
