The Rotary Club of
New York
December 27, 2002
Fellow Rotarians,
Our
previous Bulletin did not announce the speaker for the Holiday Party. It turned
out to be Santa Claus. He gave Christmas presents to President Silvio,
President Elect Greg and Executive Director Andreas. Santa then led us in the
singing of Christmas carols together with the New York Rotary Quartet,
consisting of Alison Alessi, Scarlet Pildes, Lou DiPaolo and Bernie Wytko.
President Silvio & Santa
President Silvio, who
has been very effective enrolling new members, is here seen trying to enroll
Santa into our legendary Rotary Club. The proposed classification could be Toy
Distribution - Christmas. There is currently no Rotary Club at the North Pole.
How about applying to Rotary International to include the North Pole in our
District 7230?
We had a great Holiday
Party together with Fraternite Notre Dame for under-privileged children in
Harlem on December 18, 2002. It is a wonderful feeling to make kids happy with
Christmas presents. During part of the event, I also gave each child a bag of
candy. Everybody loved to receive candy and I could see it in their eyes. There
are 20 photos from the event on our New York Rotary website at www.nyrotary.org/holiday_party_for_children_2002/index.html.
The speaker at our next meeting on January 7th will be
Lionel Barber, who is the U.S. Managing Editor for the Financial Times. Lionel
Barber was invited to brief President George W. Bush on European Affairs prior
to the president’s inaugural mission to Europe in 2001. Also that year,
European Voice voted Mr. Barber as one of the 50 most influential personalities
in Europe. You can read more about Lionel Barber in the latest Weekly Bulletin
on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_01-07-2003.pdf.
There is a lot of interest about Eliot Spitzer,
who is going to speak at our legendary club on February 4th, 2003.
You can see a list of all future speakers on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Events/events.html.
I also have new information about our GSE
Program:
You can contact Past District Governor Chuck
Katze for the opportunity to house a District 9250 team member from South
Africa in your home for a week:
Charles (Chuck) Katze
66 Daisy Farms Drive
New Rochelle, NY 10804
Tel: 914-633-3790
Fax: 914-633-3290
E-Mail: chuckkatze@aol.com
You can find out more
about the incoming GSE team from District 9250 on our GSE website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/district_9250/district_9250.html.
I
received the following message from Wayne Dill in Bermuda, which is an
important part of our International District 7230:
Matts,
DGE
David Sullivan asks that I contact you regarding our participation in the GSE
Program. As you know the Sandys Rotary Club of Bermuda successfully
participated in 2002 GSE program for District #7230 and would welcome the
opportunity to do so again. To this end, I look forward to meeting with you in
New York during the week of January 15th, 2003 and will forward our team member
applications before the schedules deadline of February 28th, 2003.
Please
contact me should you have any questions.
In
the spirit of Rotary,
Wayne
A. Dill
Sandys
Rotary Club of Bermuda
Thank you Wayne for your message. Paul
Rothstein, who is our GSE Applications Officer, will be happy to receive your
team member application. You can reach Paul at the following address:
Paul Rothstein
55 Hillside Terrace
Irvington, N.Y. 10533
You can find out more about our District 7230 Group
Study Exchange Program on our GSE 7230 website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/.
I received the following message from Doug
Thistlewhite in South Africa to District Governor Bob Benson and myself:
Dear Bob and Matts,
For your interest i thought I would pass this
on to you from my pro. I and jenny attended the whole period it was absolutely
inspiring and hey do we all belong to the most miraculous organization in the
world and i saw the miracles Rotarians do for those less fortunate than us.
Jenny being a retired theatre sister worked in the theatre every day we both
returned absolutely exhausted and then spent a well deserved rest on a friend
of ours game farm, the beauty of Africa is to retire to nature and fall in with
her ways-how restful.
Regards Doug
You can read about the event that Doug
describes, on our GSE website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/district_9250/Medicare%20Swaziland%20Press%20Reception%20Release.htm.
The Group Study Exchange Program is a great
opportunity to promote international relations between Rotary Districts around
the world. It is also a lot of fun.
On a more serious
note, I am going to tell you about our traveling Rotarian, 84-year-young Bill
Delong, who recently came back from a trip to Belarus. He visited children
victims of the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986. Bill was visibly shaken by this
trip. The following photo tells the story:
Bill told me that this little boy’s hand is 3 times the normal
size. He could not digest food and is on his way to starvation as are most
children at the Vesonovo Belarus Orphanage.
I admire Bill’s courage to go to the Chernobyl area. Especially as
I have heard that many people stay away, because it is so terrible. If you
would like to find out more about Bill’s trip, you can talk to him at our
meetings.
Our club has had Chernobyl on the agenda before. Back in September
10th, 2002, Adi Roche from the Chernobyl
Children’s Project was our speaker. You can read about this event in our
September 10th Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin091002.pdf.
Our website has become an indispensable resource for our club history that is
available to everybody.
I received the following Christmas Greetings
from Christodoulos Achilleoudis in Cyprus and Gerry Kelton in Rome,
Italy:
Dear Matts,
Best wishes for Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year 2003 to you, to the President and all the members of the Rotary Club
of NEW YORK from me, the President and all the Members of my Rotary Club of
NICOSIA-LEFKOTHEA, Cyprus.
From your interesting and so rich Bulletins,
which you are so kind to send me regularly, I am informed about all the news
and activities of your historic and excellent Club, which I always visit when I
am in New York. Recalling my visits up to now, I find that they are 6 in total
during the last 6 years: 1) 10 October 1996 (President Arcadio Casillas), 2) 1
May 1997 (President Arcadio Casillas), 3) 21 January 1999 (President Lewis T.
Kulik), 4) 28 January 1999 (President Lewis T. Kulik), 5) 24 April 2001
(President Serge E. Hadjolian), 6) 18 December 2001 (President Helen Reisler).
My best wishes to all the above Presidents.
With Rotarian greetings
Christodoulos Achilleoudis
Immediate Past President and
Internet Communication Officer of
NICOSIA-LEFKOTHEA Rotary Club,
Nicosia, Cyprus
Here is the Holiday Message from Gerry"
Kelton:
In my name, in that of
Chiriaco Acampa, President of Rotary Club Roma Sud, and of all its members I
should like to greet your President Silvio Amori, you, Matts Ingemanson, and all
the members of the prestigious Club of New York.
We wish all of you health,
success and happiness and, in spite of the dark clouds that are gathering, a
peaceful 2003 and beyond.
Sowing the seeds of love and
with great friendship in Rotary,
"Gerry" Kelton, PP
Rotary Club Roma Sud
Thank you Christodoulos and Gerry. I look forward to see
you when you come to New York next time.
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_01-07-2003.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff will serve us
Sliced Grilled Chicken.
I recommend that you
visit our New York Rotary website every week at www.NYRotary.org.
Happy Holidays to all!
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.