Next Meeting
When............ February
2, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.
Where........... The
Franklin Hotel
Program....... Denise Smith, Hospice
Upcoming Events:
February 9 Meeting: Caring
for the Aged at Home – Michael
Romano, Frank Anderson, Ron Cantor.
Attendance: Total Membership: 99. Please note that the newsletter now lists those present, not those
absent from meetings: PRESENT: Adamo, Bahr, Bird, Bottini, Butters, Cole, Evans, Fariello, Foreman, Haritatos, Herrmann, V., Herrmann, Kobernuss, Latimer, Mooney,
Normand, Occhipinti, Packer, Reames, Roubian, Simons, J., Skogland, Sperlik, Summers,
Till, Townsend, Tracy, Trela, Tuthill, W., Waters, G., Waters, S., Weed, Wieners.
Guests
and Visiting Rotarians: Harry Davis,
guest.
After work meeting 1/21/10: Bird, Carey, Corbett, Evans,
Graves, Midlam, Neiley C, Neiley N, Ramos, Townsend, Tuthill K, Tuthill W.
Guest: Rotary Exchange Student "Juanki" (Graves)
Make-ups: All Make Ups submitted at the regular
and after work meetings were recorded in the attendance records.
Quote of
the Week: “Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up
intelligence? There is one marked ‘Brightness’ but it doesn’t work.” -
Gallagher
Rotary Stuff
In
1985, Rotary launched PolioPlus, an ambitious program to immunize the world’s
children against polio. Rotary’s grassroots leadership, volunteer support and
initial funding for vaccines provided the catalyst for the World Health
Assembly’s resolution in 1988 to eradicate polio worldwide. Spearheading
partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are the World Health Organization,
Rotary International, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
UNICEF. As a result of these efforts, polio cases have dropped by 99% since
1988 and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease. Rotary
members have given more than half a billion U.S. dollars and countless hands-on
volunteer hours toward this critical effort.
Announcements
and Events
We
will be collecting food/money donations for the Resuce mission at next week’s
meeting.
Dave
Kobernuss announced that they need judges for the Rome Academy of Science Fair
on March 6th at RFA.
Please see Dave if you can help.
Carla
Till announced that if anyone wants to donate for our exchange student Juan to
go skiing on winter break, please call Carla at 336-7883.
An announcement from Jackie
Corbett about an upcoming party:
Rotarians, mark your calendar
for the Rome Rotary Mardi Gras Party Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge.
A signup sheet will follow shortly. Cost: $5 per person. The
club will be providing meat, pasta and roast potatoes along with beer, wine and
soda. Members attending are asked to bring a dish (salad, dessert,
appetizer, or side dish) or paper products. Mardi Gras recipes are
certainly encouraged. A king and queen will be crowned and reign over the
festivities. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
There is a new Club
Constitution which you can find on the web site, under documents, here: http://romerotaryny.org/documents.htm
President Bob would like to point out that you need to attend 60% of the
meeting in order for it to count – hence, no signing in and leaving.
Keith Butters heads up our mentoring program for new members and is
seeking more mentors. Please contact
Keith.
Jeanne Packer has had some Rotary Reader vacancies happen and
desperately needs some Rotary Readers.
Please contact Jeanne.
Board Meetings will be Third Monday of the Month at Savoy Restaurant at
5:15 p.m.
Program – Col. Fred Wieners, JROTC
Brand new Rotarian Col. Fred Wieners was the program and spoke of the
JROTC program at RFA. He first got
the call to start this program 10 years ago by fellow Rotarian Herb Skogland
and now, the program has been in place 6.5 years! Almost 10% of the student
body takes part in JROTC and the graduation rates for cadets involved for four
years is 95%. Cadets do many hours
of community service and spend much time learning character development and
leadership. Col. Wieners thanked
Rotary for their ongoing and continued support of the program. Thank you Col. Wieners for all you do!
