The Rotary Club of
New York
May 5, 2003
Fellow
Rotarians,
The speaker
at our next meeting on May 6th will be David I. Greenberg, who is
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at the Altria Group, Inc,
which is the corporate parent of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris. You can read
more about David Greenberg in the latest Bulletin on the Internet at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_05-06-2003.pdf (click on the link).
The Board of Directors have approved Antoine Lufty, Fiuz Akkaya,
Gisela Keller, Semih Erbek, Daniel Fenster and Massimiljano Sammarco as new
members. Only in New York is a membership list like this possible. Welcome to
our legendary Rotary Club! You can read more about these new members in the
latest Bulletin.
The Bulletin also informs us about the birthdays of the following
members:
Serge Hadjolian - May 5th
Charles Miller - May 5th
Jim Bryan - May 11th
Jim Thompson - May 11th
Happy birthday to all of you!
At our last meeting on April 29th, the New York Rotary Foundation
donated $100,000 to the Rotary Polio Plus Program. Jack Blane from Rotary
International, District Governor Bob Benson and Two Times Past District
Governor Chuck Katze were present at the meeting. You can see two pictures from
the meeting on the home page of our website at www.NYRotary.org.
The GSE Team had a great week in New York City with visits to
Canaan Baptist Church, the Automobile Show at the Javitz Center, the Broadway
play Cabaret with back stage tour, Hunter College High School for gifted
children, team presentation at the Rotary Club of New York, base ball game at
Yankee Stadium, Public School 192 in Manhattan, team presentation at the Rotary
Club of Metro New York City, the New York Stock Exchange, team presentation at
the Rotary Club of Upper Manhattan, Showman’s Jazz Club and they participated
at the Rotary District 7230 Conference for 3 days.
The third week with the District 9250 GSE Team was very successful thanks to Greg Lynch and Neil O’Connell. Both are members of the Group Study Exchange Committee.
On Monday, the GSE team will fly to Bermuda and
spend the next four days there. District Governor Elect David “Sully” Sullivan
and Wayne Dill will be the coordinators. Fasten your seatbelts Sully and Wayne!
This team knows how to party!
The South African team from District 9250 has
been writing reports back to South Africa every week about their visit to our
district. A few days ago, I received the following message from District 9250
Governor Douglas Thistlewhite:
My Dearest Rotary friends,
Please
extend district 9250 best wishes to all at your conference and a big thank you
to everyone on the superb trip our GSE team are having.
I hope we are as successful with your folk on
their visit to South Africa. Bob (Benson) you have had a great year as District
Governor our sincere congratulations to you and Doris.
It has been a privilege to team up with your
district. Have a great two days and we are looking forward to meeting your team
on Tuesday.
Warmest Greetings
Doug
Thank you
Doug! The members of your GSE Team have been great ambassadors for your
district. They represent what the International Fellowship of Rotary is all
about. I sincerely hope that everyone in the team will become Rotarians when
they return to South Africa. I am also sure that your district will have a fast
track in mind for Team Leader George. We tried unsuccessfully to wear them out,
but our Fellow Rotarians in Bermuda still have a crack at it, so it may not be
too late.
As a result
of our Group Study Exchange Program, I received the following message from Maria
Luísa Natividade in Mozambique:
Dear Matts
I've been receiving your Bulletin and never
thanked you for it. I'm doing it now and hoping you'll keep on sending it
to me --there I learn about many interesting things and even
hear about old friends: South African Counsel Ivan Vosloo used
to be a member at our Rotary Club de Maputo (Dist. 9250,
Mozambique) until he was transferred to Pretoria where he joined Rotary
Club of Pretoria Hatfield (I believe he is a charter member) and
eventually became President.
In Maputo he did a very good job with the
first two Interact Clubs the Rotary Club of Maputo sponsored.
When he left Maputo everybody young and not so young felt very sorry to lose
him.
Ivan did let us know that he had been
transferred to New York but then we heard no more from him. Is it possible that
you contact Ivan and give him my e.mail address or just give me his e.mail
address if you happen to know it?
When I go to the Chicago conference I will not
fail to make a visit to your Club and hopefully enjoy one of the many enticing
programs you always carry out --how I wish I could be there today for the Jazz
cocktail!
I'm also looking forward to your Group Study
Exchange team any day now. Almost all GSE teams come our way and
we've met some wonderful Rotarians and non-Rotarian team members from many
places in the world.
Maria Luísa Natividade.
I forwarded
Maria’s message to Ivan, who responded quickly. A few hours later, I received
the following message from Maria:
Dear Matts
Thank you so much for contacting Ivan, he has
already written. I'll never forget your good will.
Best regards,
Maria Luísa Natividade.
As you can
see, the International Fellowship of Rotary in combination with the Internet
has brought us much closer.
The Weekly
Bulletin has sent me condolences regarding the passing of my father Torsten
Ingemanson in Sweden on the night between April 27th and April 28th.
My father was a very active Rotarian from the fifties to the early sixties. He
started out in the Rotary Club of Oskarshamn (my birthplace) and later
transferred to the Rotary Club of Huddinge in Sweden. It was not until I became
a Rotarian that I understood the impact that Rotary had on my life as a child.
I remember that as soon as we moved from Oskarshamn to Huddinge outside
Stockholm, we immediately had our house full of new friends. As an
eight-year-old child, I took that as the most natural thing in the world. Now I
understand that all those new friends were Rotarians. I will shortly leave for
Sweden and stay for 3 weeks for the funeral and associated practical matters.
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_05-06-2003.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club's culinary staff will serve us
Salmon.
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 an 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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PDF file of the Bulletin-on-the-Web, you need the latest version of the Acrobat
Reader (Version 5.0). If you don't have Acrobat Reader 5.0, you can download it
for free from the web at:
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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