The Rotary Club of
New York
Fellow Rotarians,
The speaker
at our next meeting will be Author Warren Adler. His novels are translated into
more than two-dozen languages and two of the novels have become major motion
pictures starring Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford. Prior
to becoming a novelist, Warren Adler had a successful business where he owned
four radio stations and a TV station. He also managed his own advertising and
public relations agency in Washington, D.C. and he founded the Washington
Dossier magazine along with his wife Sonia and son David. You can read more about Warren Adler
in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_12-10-2002.pdf.
Our last
meeting, which was Turkey Day and arranged by our members from Turkey, was very
successful with delicious Turkish food and Turkish vine.
You can read about it in the Reporter of the Week in the Bulletin, which is
written by Zehra Basaran. Zehra has been a member since 2000 and is the
Counselor/Deputy Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Her
classification is UN Liaison.
A very interesting guest at Turkey Day was Ahmet Ertegun,
born in Turkey and the Chairman of the American Turkish Society. He is also the
Co-Fonder and Co-Chairman of Atlantic Records. He discovered Ray Charles, Bobby
Darin, Aretha Franklin, John Coltrane and many other legendary artists on the
Atlantic Record Label. Ahmet Ertegun is also a
principal founder and the current Chairman of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After the meeting I asked Mr. Ertegun how he, who is from Turkey, became
interested in Rock n’ Roll and Rhythm & Blues. Turkish music is very
different. Ahmet Ertegun told me that when he grew up in Europe, he started in
the music business at the age of 10. There was no Rock n’ Roll in Europe at the
time, but his father a Turkish diplomat was transferred to Washington D.C. It
was in the Georgetown’s jazz clubs that Ahmet Ertegun became interested in jazz
and rhythm & blues. After that he started Atlantic Records, as a side
business to make extra money during his university studies. The rest has become
legendary American music history.
The bulletin wishes happy birthday to a record number of our members this week with Bill DeLong-December 7, Mozart Ishizuka-December 8, Bernard Fabricius-December 12, Davis Zeller-December 19, Charles Smithers-December 20, Art Auslander-December 21, Tadashi Hattori-December 23, Guenter Greiner-December 23, Jim Morita-December 24, David Wankoff-December 25, Tsuguo Endo-December 26 and Greg Lynch-December 29. Happy Birthday to all of you!
The Bulletin reminds us again about the Sisters at Fraternite
Notre Dame requests for a gift to the under-privileged children for our
Holliday Party on December 17th.
The Bulletin also reminds about Foundation Chairman Mort
Eydenberg’s tennis outing followed by an Italian buffet dinner.
I would like to welcome leading Rotarians in our District 7230 to
the New York Rotary mailing list. The reason that they have been included is
that our club plays an important roll in this year’s Group Study Exchange
Committee. I am the District 7230 GSE Chairman, President Elect Greg Lynch and
South African Consul Ivan Vosloo, from our club, are distinguished committee
members. We also have many
distinguished committee members from the rest of our district, including
District Governor Bob Benson, PDG Chuck Katze, Past GSE Chairman Edgar Cornell,
Jim Romeo, Matt Carlone, Neil O’Connell, Paul Rothstein and Diane Monett. We
expect to have a great GSE year. Our destination is District 9250, which
includes South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique. It is also Ivan Vosloo’s home
district in South Africa. We are currently in the planning phase until the end
of the year. I will keep you informed, because we need the support from as many
as possible to make the GSE Project successful. It will be a fun project that
promotes better international understanding. South Africa is a very important
country.
Our legendary
club has just received the following seasons greetings from Trevor Hinds in
Northern Ireland:
Seasons Greetings
With Prayers for Peace
and an end to Terrorism
From the Rotary Club of Belfast
Thank you Trevor.
I hope that you and your fellow Irishmen will live in peace forever.
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_12-10-2002.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff will serve us
Beef Bourguignon.
Please remember that there will be no meetings on December 24th
and December 31st.
Rotarians are a force for peace!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Vice
Chairman
Rotary’s
Global History
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Rotary Club at www.NYRotary.org/.
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3.
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5. Matts
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interviewed on Rotary Radio Tuesday July 9, 2002.
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