Rotateller Rotary Club of Owego, NY
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Gary Williams, Editor

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Martin Luther King, Jr.

GUESTS:

• Tom Echenrode, guest of Matt
• Mike Ebbers, prospective member
• Donna Townsend and Ana Bartenstein, guests of Janelle
• Jack McCreary and Daren Merrill, guests of Merl
• Welcome back to Jan Pierson
• Dan Bergeron
• Mati

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANN LAUDERMILK AND JODY ROSE

MUSIC:

Carl and Carolyn led us in “R-O-T-A-R-Y”

FINES:

Orv quizzed us on Rotary information. We could have done better!

BOARD MEETING: This Thursday at 7:30 AM

LANCASTER:

There are 10 seats left. Please call Richard at 687-4144

ROTARY FOUNDATION DINNER:

October 24, at the Heritage in Endicott

INTERACT:

Debbie Demers reports that the Newark Valley Interact Club is organizing a fund-raiser 5K walk on Sunday, at 1:00 PM to benefit the Whittimore family. Two girls, age 13 and 17 were hit by a car the day prior to the start of school. The older girl has serious head injuries.

PROGRAMS:

• October 2: Mati
• October 9: The new basketball coach at SUNYB

RAFFLE:

Carl won the raffle for Paul VanSavage’s book for $25.

Joao missed today’s meeting because he was kayaking with his host family

Mati reported that he played in a soccer game and OFA won. He was also dressed for movie day today as James Dean.

PROGRAM:

Paul VanSavage spoke about how he became interested in writing Tastes and Tales of the Southern Tier. Part of the stimulus was visiting his daughter in CA where there were only chain restaurants. He shared how he met with numerous local restaurateurs. He was surprised at how many of them started as dish washers and did not have a formal education in their craft. Many restaurants have survived for decades and have changed with the times. Oak Inn started in the 1930’s selling “hot pie” and is run by the fifth generation in the same family. The Green family started a dairy in 1845 at what is now Apple Hill.

READING:

The following anonymous poem is from Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf. It is a wonderful book about reading, the history of reading, the brain in reading, and dyslexia.

I take it you already know
Of touch and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it’s said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and theat,
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,
And dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up – and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why, man alive, 
I’d learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to read it, the more I tried, 
I hadn’t learned it at fifty-five.

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