The Rotary Club of
New York
May 18, 2003
Fellow
Rotarians,
I have
included members of the Huddinge Rotary Club, near Stockholm, Sweden in our
mailing list, because I would like to thank them for remembering my father
Torsten Ingemanson (who recently passed away) at their meeting last Monday. The
President of The Huddinge Rotary Club, Conny Henricson said that Torsten
Ingemanson was an important member during their club’s formation in year 1955
and as one of its early President’s he contributed actively to the club’s early
development. The Huddinge Rotary Club has now enjoyed 48 years of successful
Rotary Fellowship. Thank you Conny and many thanks to all the members of the
club.
The speaker
at our next New York Rotary meeting on May 20th will be Clint
Bolick, Esq., who serves as Vice President and National Director of State
Chapters at the Institute of Justice, which he co-founded in 1991 to engage in
constitutional litigation protecting individual liberty and challenging the
regulatory welfare state. You can read more about Clint Bolick in the latest
Bulletin on the Internet at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_05-20-2003.pdf
(click on the link).
William Hall has written the Reporter of the Week. Bill has been a
member of our legendary Rotary Club since 1981. His classification is
Architecture Professional and he is a Senior Partner of The Hall Partnership,
Architects LLP. Thank you Bill for a great report about the speech of Professor
Giovanni Ciuffo last week! I found it very informative.
The Bulletin announces that the birthdays of Hans Hachmann on May
29th and Lou DiPaolo on May 30th are coming up. Happy
birthday to both of you!
The Board of Directors has approved Peter Gambino as a new member.
Welcome Peter to our Rotary Club! You can read more about him in the latest
Bulletin.
Last week, I informed you that Rotary International President
Nominee Glenn Estess said that the
New York Rotary Foundation with its $100,000 donation to Polio Plus has set an
example of leadership and generosity that he hoped others would follow.
In response to Glenn’s
statement, I received the following message from Past District Governor Richard
Grant:
Dear Matts,
It was indeed a pleasure meeting you last week
in Tarrytown (at the District 7230 conference) and I thank you for putting me
on your newsletter distribution list. The visit of the incoming Group Study
Exchange Team appears to have gone extremely well and I wish to congratulate
you.
Your club is a great club, and i was
particularly impressed by its donation of $100,000 to Polio Plus. How many
members do you have? I intend to use that as an inspiration in motivating my
own club to raise the ante.
Regards
PDG Richard Grant
Thank you
Richard! I am glad to see that the actions of the New York Rotary Club and its
Foundation, is inspires others to follow. The last count of membership that I
heard was 207 members, which makes our Polio Plus Donation to be approximately
$500 per member.
For those,
who did not see it last week, our website has a picture of my meeting with RI
President Nominee Glenn Estess and Jack Blane from the International Polio Eradication Fundraising Committee of
Rotary International at www.nyrotary.org/.
I received
the following message from Group Study Exchange District 9250 Team Leader
George Kalell, who is now back home in South Africa:
Hi there Rotary Friends
Well the Pride of Africa are back and we are
all busy earning a living again. I must admit we hit the tarmac running and
have not slowed down since. We are off to conference the weekend and will
entertain the beauties from District 7230 (George is
referring to our District 7230 GSE Team).
Once again a big thank you to everybody in
District 7230.
Matts would you please forward me David
Sullivan’s address in Bermuda. Would you please send him this email as well? I
will be handing Peter a disc with all the photos on that you requested.
Bermuda was great and we almost got an UNCLE
out of David.
All the Best
George and the Pride of Africa
Thank you
George! It is great to hear from you. What George meant with “we
almost got an UNCLE out of David” is that that they almost wore out our
District Governor Elect David “Sully” Sullivan, who together with Wayne Dill
was in charge of the GSE Team’s stay in Bermuda. I wonder if Sully has the same
opinion as George? On the other hand, I have not heard from Sully or Wayne yet,
so maybe the South African GSE Team managed to wear them out.
Our District
7230 Team Leader Peter Grunthal has now sent me his GSE Team Report for the
week May 12 to 18. You can read it on our GSE website at
www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/team/gse_may_18_report.htm.
Thank you Peter, you are doing a great job!
As our District Group Study Exchange Project is
drawing closer to a successful completion, I have now had time to reflect on
the good times we in the GSE Committee had this year. The power center of our
GSE Committee was our regular breakfast meetings at the Odyssey Diner in
Eastchester, NY, where we under great fellowship and camaraderie did our
planning and strategizing. You can see a picture from one of those meetings (on
February 20th, 2003) on our website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/index.htm.
Present at that meeting were District Governor 2002-2003 Bob Benson, Past GSE
Chairman Edgar Cornell, Past District Governor Chuck Katze, District Governor
2003-2004 David "Sully" Sullivan, District Governor 2004-2005 Don
Lee, GSE Applications Officer Paul Rothstein and myself.
The Group Study Exchange Program also had great
support from The Rotary Foundation. On the same web page, there is a picture of Ann
Tierney, who is our Group Study Exchange Coordinator at The Rotary
International Headquarters in Evanston, IL. Ann is responsible for the GSE
programs of no less than 216 different Rotary Districts. Given that GSE
Programs usually have some kind of unexpected crises to resolve, it is amazing
that Ann is able to handle all 216 districts and at the same time look as happy
as she did when I meet in Evanston on May 7th. You can see the picture
at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/index.htm.
A great
manifestation of our International Rotary Fellowship is the following message
from Walter Stow in Swaziland:
What a pleasure it is to receive your news on
a regular basis. Some of the items you probably take for granted, are items we
are learning from! Needless to say, if "New York does it, it must be
good"! Keep them rolling!
We are small club of 28 members, being the
Rotary Club of Mbabane, Kingdom of Swaziland in the southeastern district of
9250, Africa. We are placed in between South Africa and Mozambique, with a
population of less than 1 million and a LOT of community projects to keep us
all busy. What we have learnt is that some of the smaller things you do can be
more effective sometimes, like awards to Police Officers / Firemen etc.
Yours in Rotary
Walter Stow
International Services Director
Rotary Club of Mbabane - District 9250
Swaziland
SHORECA Consumable Supplies (pty) Ltd
P.O. Box 1728
Mbabane H100
Kingdom of Swaziland
Tel: +268 518-6710/2
Cell: +268 604-2338
Fax: +268 518-6709
Thank you
Walter! It is great to see that the New York Rotary Newsletters and our website
is helping your Rotary Club with ideas on how to help the Police Officers and
Firemen in your city.
I received
the following message from the Two Times Past District Governor Chuck Katze,
who is also the Treasurer of our Group Study Exchange Committee:
The Rotary
Club of Upper Manhattan cordially invites you all to the Scholarship Awards
Luncheon, which is a wonderful afternoon on the water at the elegant Davenport
Club at 400 Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. I will present the Outstanding
Service Award to Arlene Howard in recognition of her dedication to community
service. The event takes place on Saturday Afternoon, May 31st, 12
Noon – 3 p.m. The donation of $65 per person includes Open Bar Reception 12
Noon – 1 p.m., full 4-Course Luncheon together with Music and Dance with The
Mike Grey Trio.
PDG Chuck
Katze
You can also read in the Bulletin about David Del Monte’s Rotary
After Hours every third Thursday 5-7 pm at Torre di Pisa Restaurant at 19 West
44th Street, New York. It is next to the Harvard Club. The next
event will take place this week on Thursday May 22nd.
The Bulletin reminds us again that the next
meeting of the International Service Division of the Rotary Club of New York
will be Wednesday, May 21st at the German Permanent Mission to the UN, at the
top floor restaurant on First Avenue (between 48th and 49th Streets), from
08:30 to 09:45 AM. This month's topic will be "Post War Iraq: Oil, Food,
Sanctions." Our guest speakers will be Mr. Benon Sevan, UN Security
Coordinator and Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Program. You can
read more about it on our website at www.nyrotary.org/int_service_div/int_service_div.html.
Don't forget
to reserve your table for our next meeting. 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 http://ussterilizer.com/rsvp_05-20-2003.pdf. Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club's
culinary staff will serve us Beef Bourguignon.
I recommend
that you visit our New York Rotary website every week at www.NYRotary.org. You can also see a list of future speakers
on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Events/events.html.
Rotary is a great
International Fellowship!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Chairman
Group
Study Exchange
Rotary
District 7230
Ambassador
of History
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
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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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