Rotateller Rotary Club of Owego, NY
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Gary Williams, Editor

GUEST:

Hannah Barnhart (who also played in tonight’s jazz concert)

BIRTHDAYS:

Orv and Carolyn Wright’s father both have birthdays this week. Carolyn’s father turns 100. Carolyn Galatzan shared that he is the oldest WW II veteran in Tioga County.

CONCERT:

The concert at OFA was excellent. Other members of Rotary families were involved including Kyle Slevetskas, Kyle Lounsberry, Colin Lounsberry, and Evan Williams. The guest artist was Bill Carter. Bill used to come to play for Rotary when Betty was in Florida when his father was a member.

MUSIC:

Carl led us in “R-O-T-A-R-Y”

FINES:

Carl was on a roll and fined people who did not know:

• The three charges of the Youth Committee (Exchange, Interact, and RYLA)
• That District 7170 is currently involved in exchange with 21 countries.
• That we currently have two students out and they are in Belgium and Bolivia.
• That there are currently three continents with which we do not exchange (Africa, Australia, and Antarctica).

The DRYDEN CLUB is now up and running. Orv and Carolyn attended the event.

FOUNDATION SEMINAR:

Matt attended the seminar and said that PDG Bob Grantham did an excellent job. There is a RF Jeopardy Game which Matt will see if he can bring to our club.

INTERVIEWS:

Laura said that this went very well and thanked Debbie Demers for making it run so smoothly.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

There will be a meeting this Thursday at 7:30 AM.

YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENT REPORTS:

SUZANNE shared that she received a decorated cake last week. There was no school on Friday and she got to drive Go Carts for the first time. On Saturday, she helped with the interviews and got to be with some other exchange students and on Saturday night she got to attend a play.

MRINALINI is playing JV basketball.

Karla put in a happy dollar for the great lunch that Laura put on Saturday.

Bernie asked people to pick up mittens for the Christmas gifts. Please purchase gifts in the $8.00 to $16.00 range, wrap them, put the mitten on the outside, and bring them in no later than December 12.

INTERACT:

Hannah Barnhart reported that the big effort now is getting ready for the Christmas party when we host the exchange students from the district.

PROGRAM:

Susan introduced Marilyn Bok who discussed the Community Fund and passed out literature. There are four counties involved. Tioga in NY, and Sullivan, Tioga, and Bradford counties in PA. There are over 700 community foundations in the US. The purpose is to be able to pool money to grow endowment funds and reduce administration fees. It also makes it possible to endow a fund with little money which is, otherwise, not possible. They have been in existence since 1915. The local fund now has over $200,000. At times in the past, we have brought together the charitable organizations in the County including Rotary, Kiwanis, Hyde, Truman-Faulkner, Cooper, Bassett, and the Senior Citizens Foundation. The goal is to optimize the quality of life benefits for the residents through the moneys available.

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