The Rotary Club of
New York
Fellow Rotarians,
Last week I told you that I initially sent my newsletter in the
evening of February 23rd. After 8 hours when I noticed that it was
not delivered, so I sent it again. This time it was delivered immediately. Four
days later, to my surprise, my first letter was delivered. How can it happen? I
asked our Internet service company for an explanation. I am still waiting.
Our next
meeting on March 4th is Police Recognition Day with Chief of
Department Joseph J. Esposito as our speaker. We
will also be honoring Police Officer Judith Hernandez for saving the life of
Police Officer Steven Oemcke during the World Trade Center disaster on 9/11. You
can read more about Police
Recognition Day in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_03-04-2003.pdf
(click on the link).
Our Board of Directors has approved a new membership proposal for
Naim “Nick” Uresin. His suggested classification is E-business software. I
spoke to Nick at length the other week about how we can enhance our Rotary Club
website. Welcome to our club and lets put you to work on our website! You can
read more about Nick in the Bulletin. Nick is sponsored by Mary Fischetti and
David Del Monte.
The Bulletin informs us about the birthdays for Rolf Heitmeyer on
March 2, William Hall, Lewis Kulik and Clarence Plummer on March 5 and Paul
Schneiderman on March 9.
We are getting closer to the March 7th deadline for
Group Study Team Member and Team Leader applications. We
are receiving applications, but we need more of them. Rotaractors are
encouraged by Rotary International to apply. You
can find out more about the Group Study Exchange Program on the Internet at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230.
It is a great opportunity and Rotary International pays for the trip.
You can read in the Bulletin about the Rotary
District 7230 Membership Development/Retention Seminar on Monday, March 31 at
6:00-10:00 PM at Concordia College, Brunn-Mailer Hall, Room 201, 171 White
Plains Road / Route 22, Bronxville, NY 10709. The seminar is open to all of us.
You can contact Matt Carlone by telephone at 914-737-0848 or via e-mail at DorseyCarloneFH@msn.com.
President Elect Greg Lynch has been traveling in
South America. I received he the following message from Greg in Argentina:
Dear Matts,
I really appreciated your Bulletin this
week. I am in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Tuesday, I made up at the
Libertador/Recoleta Club's Breakfast meeting. Yesterday, Thursday, I attended
the breakfast meeting of the Catedral Sur Club at a great old cafe from the
19th century called Tortoni. All of the Rotarians here are very concerned for
us in New York with all the news of a potential war with Iraq.
Best regards
Greg Lynch
Thank you Greg. Enjoy your trip. I will see you
in New York on Tuesday at the District Conference Meeting.
Our Rotarian Taylor Gray sent me the following
very interesting information about Walgreens:
Matts,
I was just reading the Walgreens annual
report. In 1956, Charles R. Walgreen Jr, the son of the drug store
chain's founder, adopted the Rotary Four Way Test as the firm's set of guiding
principles to guide employees to consider when making decisions about what they
think, say or do. It now hangs in the nearly 4,000 stores that
Walgreens runs.
Regards,
Taylor
Our
Executive Director Andreas Runggatscher sent me the following important message
about membership information for the new Roster:
Matts,
Please mention in this weeks Bulletin'
accompanying remarks that members have their data in the mail with the
individual roster information, so to please look at that and inform the office
of changes if necessary.
Best,
Andreas
There are Rotarians all over the world, who follow our legendary
Rotary Club on the Internet. I just received the
following message from Christodoulos Achilleoudis at the Nicosia-Lefkothea
Rotary Club in Cyprus.
Dear Matts,
Thank you very much once again for keeping me informed about the news of your
Rotary Club of NEW YORK. It is great pleasure for me. Please notice that I made
a link on the Internet between our Clubs. You may find some of our latest
correspondence on the web address: www.rotary-cyprus.org and opening
"Clubs" you click on NICOSIA-LEFKOTHEA Rotary Club (Section:
Bulletin).
The reason of writing to you now is that in
your last Bulletin of today (24 February 2003), which I have received just now,
you refer to for my friend Past District Governor Paul Caruso and his wife
Gail. I have read all you say about, and that he is now with your Rotary Club
of NEW YORK. We know each other since many years, and I was welcomed not only
to his previous Rotary Club of NORTH SHORE (2 times: 26 March 1998 and 11 June
1998) but also to his nice home in Staten Island. With great interest I
have also read about his "fire story".
Although I have his home address, I do not
have his e-mail. Please, be so kind to send me his e-mail address, in order to
be able to chat a little with him.
Best wishes from Cyprus and congratulations
again for the excellent work you do with the Rotary Club of New York BULLETIN.
Christodoulos Achilleoudis
Immediate Past President and
Internet Communication Officer of
NICOSIA-LEFKOTHEA Rotary Club,
CYPRUS
Christodoulos is a great example of
Rotary fellowship without limitations in distance or time.
I received the following message from Christian
Amoako:
Thanks for sending us your magazine. I shall
send it o all members of our club for their reading and should expect some
feedback from them directly.
Sincerely
Christian Amoako
Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next
meeting. It is important for this meeting! We expect a big crowd with standing
room only. You can reserve via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net,
or call Andreas or Ana at 212-633-1311. You can also fax in the RSVP form,
which you can download at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/rsvp_03-04-2003.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff
will serve us London broil.
Rotary is about having fun
and do good things!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
District
7230 Chairman
Group
Study Exchange Committee
Vice
Chairman
The
History of Rotary Project
This
newsletter has also been posted on our website at www.NYRotary.org.
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You can find the
following interesting websites at:
1.
New York
Rotary Club at www.NYRotary.org/.
2.
The History of Rotary at
www.rotaryhistory.org/
3.
Rotary District 7230 at www.rotarydistrict7230.org
4.
District 7230 Group
Study Exchange Project at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/
5.
Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
6. Rotary
Radio every Tuesday 5-6 PM EST or 2-3 PM PST at http://12.162.161.64/cart/ProductList.asp?SearchFor=Rotary+Radio&x=36&y=6
7. Matts
Ingemanson, Helen Reisler and Jim Thompson from the New York Rotary Club were
interviewed on Rotary Radio Tuesday July 9, 2002.
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