The Rotary
Club of
www.NYRotary.org www.NewYorkCityRotary.org
March 1, 2004
Fellow Rotarians,
Our next meeting on March
2nd, will be Police Recognition Day. We will meet this year’s heroes,
who are Detectives Scott Strauss and Patrick McGee. After the collapse of the
Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Police Officer Strauss and his partner,
Police Officer McGee were informed that two police officers were trapped in the
center of what had been Austin J.
This week’s Reporter of
the Week in the Bulletin is written by Past Director Bernhard Fabricius, who
has been a member of our legendary Rotary Club since 1988. Thank you Bernhard for
a very informative report!
A representative of the
Peace Corps Headquarters is coming to
You can call Board
Director David Del Monte at (212) 360-2283 for information about the 1st Annual
Rotary Club of
I received the following
message from our Executive Director Andreas Runggatscher:
Dear Matts,
Would you be so kind
and make a last appeal to our members via your opening newsletter remarks, for
the chance of submitting a roster ad, $100 for half page, $200 full page.
Definite deadline - Monday, March 1st.
Thank you so much,
Best regards,
Andreas Runggatscher
Executive Director
Rotary Club of
Tel. 212 633 1311
Fax. 212 633 1954
You can contact Andreas at his phone or fax number. You can also
reach him via e-mail at ny.rotary@verizon.net.
Our Board of Directors
has approved no less than four new members. They are Nancy Tafoya, Chukky
Okafor, Voy Sobon, Thome Nicocelli, Jesus Bergantinos and Rosa Valdes-Montalva.
Welcome to our legendary Rotary Club! You can read more about them in the
latest Bulletin at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/bulletin_03-02-2004.pdf
When I returned to
My Dear Friends!
I would be happy to
see you this Sunday at my Gallery opening, it is also my birthday-once in a
four years! Russian music, Art, Birthday cake!
Greeley Square Gallery
(Btw fifth and
Broadway)
February, 29
2-6 p.m.
My best wishes,
Nadia Kovarskaya
Nadia often visits our
Rotary Club when she is in
Last week was dramatic
with the virus attack. I received the following message with advice from
Pauline Augustine at the Rotary Club of
Dear Matts,
I found an easy and
quick way for those with Windows systems with SYSTEM RESTORE to get rid of the infections
that were sent recently. If the SYSTEM
RESTORE exists all you have to do is ask the system to restore itself back to
the day before any virus was accidentally downloaded. I just did this and so far so good.
Pauline Augustine
Thank you Pauline for your advice!
I received the following
message from Ray Klinginsmith from the Rotary Club of
Matts,
Thanks for your quick
and effective response to the virus. I did receive the Re: Important
message, but it was identified and quarantined by my anti-virus program!
Ray Klinginsmith --
Ray’s message shows how important it is to have an anti-virus
program. If you don’t already use an anti-virus program, you can buy Symantec’s
Anti-Virus on the Internet at the following link:
(click on the link)
You can buy McAfee’s Virus Scan at the following link:
http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=100&cid=8454
(click on the link)
Either one of these anti-virus programs are indispensable tools
for virus protection. Also keep in mind that if you in the future receive a
message that looks suspicious and has an attachment, do not open the
attachment, but delete the message.
I received the following message from Rotary International Past
President Frank Devlyn:
Dear Amigos:
Happy Anniversary on
Rotary's 99th to you, your club & District.
Today February 23rd.
is our 99th Anniversary and Rotary has never been as strong as it is today and
has never had as much prestige at the International level as it does today. It
is up to each of us in our own way & in our sphere of Rotary Influence to
Create Awareness & Take Action as all of us "Lend a hand"
to "Celebrate Rotary" for our 99th and upcoming 100th
Anniversary.
There are so many good
things that Gloria Rita and I have received from Rotary but one that stands out
is your friendship.
Your amigos in
Frank & Gloria
Rita Devlyn
I encourage every
Rotarian to "Remember our Promise. To
Eradicate Polio" by supporting the Polio Plus Endeavors of Our Rotary
Foundation.
The message of
"Every Rotarian....Every Year" in regards to giving to Our Rotary
Foundation also has to be reminded over & over.
BY THE WAY YOU ONLY
HAVE A FEW DAYS to include any added ideas or suggestions for my new Frank Talk
2 book on Membership Retention which you can send to David Forward (my famous
ghost writer) at DCForward@aol.com
Thank you Frank, for
your message! Frank is on the go as usual Creating Awareness and Taking Action,
which can be very useful when we Lend a Hand and Celebrate Rotary while Sowing
the Seeds of Love.
It is well known among
Rotarians that the first Rotary meeting took place on February 23rd,
1905. What may be less known is that exactly 49 years later on February 23rd,
1954 Dr. Salk announced the introduction of the first polio vaccine. Isn’t it
interesting that Rotary 50 years later is playing a leading roll in the final
eradication of polio?
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 www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/rsvp_03-02-2004.pdf. Our fax number is
212-633-1954. At our next meeting, the culinary staff at the
I recommend that you visit our
Rotary is about
having fun
and do good
things!
Matts Ingemanson
Chairman
Internet Communications
Division
The Rotary Club of
Senior Vice President
Rotary's Global History
Fellowship
www.RotaryHistoryFellowship.org
Chairman 2002-2004
Group Study Exchange
Rotary District 7230
The power of the Internet
puts the brains of millions of people together. It also puts 1.2 million
Rotarians together. It does not matter where we are and when we are available.
The Internet makes it possible for Rotarians around the world to instantly
participate.
This newsletter has also been posted on our website at www.NYRotary.org
or www.NewYorkCityRotary.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 have also been working hard with the administration of
the World Trade Center
In order to read the PDF
file of the Bulletin-on-the-Web, you need Acrobat Reader Version 5.0 or later.
If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download Acrobat Reader 6.0 for free
from the web at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
You can find the
following interesting websites at:
1.
2.
Rotary’s Global History Fellowship
at www.RotaryHistoryFellowship.org
3.
Rotary District 7230 at www.rotarydistrict7230.org
4.
District
7230 Group Study Exchange Project at www.NewYorkCityRotary.org/GSE7230/
5.
Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
6.
Rotary Radio every
Tuesday
7.
Matts
Ingemanson, Helen Reisler and Jim Thompson from the
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.
Click here to download Windows Media Player