The Rotary Club of
New York
January 25, 2003
Fellow Rotarians,
Our Group Study Exchange Project is going well. We are getting
increasing interest from prospective Team Members. It is a great package that
we offer with a five-week trip to four enchanting countries in District 9250.
These are South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Swaziland. Rotarians in
District 9250 told me that the team will also be taken on two safaris. A trip
like this would cost $10,000 per person, but it is free through Rotary’s Group
Study Exchange Program. Such is the Rotary commitment to international
understanding that we send teams of young professionals between ages 25 and 40
to different parts of the world for free. Bill Moyers from the PBS TV once told
me that a Rotary Scholarship got him started on his journalist career. This
Group Study Exchange Project (GSE) could get somebody else started on a great
career. You can find out more about our Group Study
Exchange Project on the Internet at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230.
Our Past District Governor 1996-1998 Charles
Katze is a retired professor, but we don’t call him Professor Katze. We just
call him Chuck. He has managed something so unusual as being District Governor
during two terms. You can always ask Chuck how he managed to do so. Above all,
Chuck is a distinguished member of our Group Study Exchange Committee (GSE). He
will travel to District 9250 on January 30th on behalf of our GSE
Committee until February 12th. In preparation for Chuck’s trip, I
have added leading Rotarians from District 9250 to our mailing list. To them I
would like to say that Chuck is a charming, funny and friendly New Yorker. The
District 9250 Rotarians will have a great time with him. Just ask Past District
Governor Mark Doyle, who met Chuck in New York last December during one of our
GSE Committee meetings.
Chuck
is having a good time
at
the Rotary Club of New York
Chuck also represents our District Friendly
School Project in cooperation with District 9250. Chuck’s other Rotary
responsibilities are Chairman of the District 7230 United Nations Committee,
Chairman of the District 7230 World Community Service and District 7230
Representative to the Zone Directory Nominations Committee. Our district could
not manage without him.
The speaker at the next New York Rotary meeting
on January 28th is Sarah Stranahan from the Needmor Fund, who
supports people who work together to change the social, economic or political
conditions which bar their access to participation in a democratic society. You
can read more about Sarah Stranahan in the latest Weekly Bulletin on our
website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_01-28-2003.pdf
(click on the link to download it from our
website).
Larry Parks deserves a lot of credit for finding
such great speakers for our legendary club. Larry does not leave anything to
luck. Before he books the speakers to our club, he listens to them while they
speak at other venues.
Bill Hall has written the latest Reporter of the Week in the
Bulletin. It is a very informative account about our last meeting. Bill is a
Past Trustee and he has been a member since 1981. Hs classification is
Architecture Professional and he is a senior partner in The Hall Partnership,
Architects, LLP.
You can read in the Bulletin about our two new members Takasaki
Yashiro and Giovanni Ciuffo. Welcome to our club! It has a great international
mix of members, which is typical for New York.
Our International Service Division has its next
meeting on Wednesday, February 19 at the German Permanent Mission to the United
Nations, 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 "The New
Liquid Gold-Water." The guest speaker is Gourishankar Ghosh, Executive
Director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, which is the
international advocacy organization for "Wash-Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene for all. You can read more about the meeting on our website at www.nyrotary.org/int_service_div/int_service_div.html.
The Bulletin has a news flash update from the Rotary District 7230
NYC/WTC Disaster relief fund, Inc. You can find out more about this fund on the
Internet at www.rotary7230WTCfund.org.
A couple of days ago, I read on the Internet that there was a
major earthquake near Mexico City. I immediately sent an e-mail to Rotary
International Past President Frank Devlyn in Mexico City, asking him if he and
his family were safe. I received the following message in return:
Thank
you very much, we are fine... the most damaged place was in the State of
Colima, but the situation in Mexico City is normal, thank you so much for
asking.
With
an abrazo,
Frank
J. Devlyn
Thank you Frank, we are all glad that you and
your family are safe.
Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next
meeting. You can do so 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_01-28-2003.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff will serve us Veal.
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.
Experience the worldwide
fellowship of Rotary.
Matts Ingemanson
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
District
7230 Chairman
Group
Study Exchange Committee
Vice
Chairman
Rotary’s
Global History
This
newsletter has also been posted on our website at www.NYRotary.org.
I want to thank our Executive Director
Andreas Runggatscher and his Executive Assistant Ana Rivas for working so hard
every week creating and mailing the Weekly Bulletin. In addition to mailing it
out to our members, they also send me the electronic Bulletin so I can upload
it on our website. They are also working very hard with the administration of
the World Trade Center - Disaster Relief
Fund.
In order to read the
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:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
You can find the
following interesting websites at:
1.
New York
Rotary Club at www.NYRotary.org/.
2.
Rotary’s Global History
at www.rotaryhistory.org
3.
District 7230 Group
Study Exchange Project at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/
4.
Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
5. 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
6. Matts
Ingemanson, Helen Reisler and Jim Thompson from the New York Rotary Club were
interviewed on Rotary Radio Tuesday July 9, 2002.
http://12.162.161.64/cart/ProductDetail.asp?PR_ProductID=329
You need
Windows Media Player to listen to Rotary Radio. Windows Media Player is included
with Windows Millennium and Windows XP. If you use Windows 95 or Windows 98,
you can download Windows Media Player for free from Microsoft.