The Rotary Club of
New York
Fellow Rotarians,
The speaker
at our next meeting on March 25th will be Edwin Vieira, Esq.
He is President of the National Alliance for Constitutional Money. He is the
author of Pieces of Eight, The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United
States Constitution. Edwin
Vieira’s speech has the promise of being very interesting. Please RSVP,
reservations are a must. You can read more about Edwin Vieira in the latest Bulletin on our website
at
www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_03-25-2003a.pdf
(click
on the link).
Taylor Gray has written a very informative account of our last
meeting in Reporter of the Week in the Bulletin. Taylor has been a member since
1999. His classification is Investment Research and he is the Executive Vice
President at Analytic Asset Management, Inc.
Our Executive Director Andreas Runggatscher has written a historic
piece in the Bulletin, where he announces that our legendary club for the first
time in many years has reached the 200-member mark and is heading for even more
members. The main credit for this achievement goes to President Silvio Amori, and
the Co-Chairs of the Membership Committee Lilian Coury and David Del Monte.
Great Job by all three of you! You can read more about it in the Bulletin. It
looks like President Silvio’s great membership growth will become a major part
of his legacy in our club history.
The Board of
Directors has approved 4 more applicants for membership. They are Kayhan
Civelek, Joseph Scelsa, Paolo Vannini and Michael Faillace. Welcome to our
growing Rotary Club.
We have two
birthdays coming up. They are for Harshad Shah on March 29th and Ted
Andrews on March 30th. Happy Birthday to both of you!
The Bulletin
also has a copy of a thank you letter from Deputy Police Commissioner Fredrick
J. Patrick where he gives a heartfelt thank you to the Rotary Club of New York
for our Police Recognition Day on March 4th.
As the Chairman of
the Group Study Exchange Committee, I am very proud to announce the District
7230 Group Study Exchange Team Members that are going to visit South Africa,
Mozambique, Botswana and Swaziland. The team members are:
Viki Tola
Ellen Jara
Hadas Kushnir
Katherine Chung
Kirk Williams
The Team Member
Alternate is:
Lila Paul
The Team Leader is:
Peter Grunthal
The Team Leader
Alternate is:
Pauline Augustine
You can
read more about the team members on the GSE website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/7230_team/index.htm.
Our GSE team represents the best young professionals that New York and Bermuda
has to offer. I believe it is the best GSE team in our district history. I
would like to thank our Group Study Exchange Committee for having done such a
great job and I would like to thank the Rotary Clubs in our district for having
responded so overwhelmingly to our request for team candidates.
I recently received the following messages about a
historic event in Rotary. Gift of Life, which receives great support from our
club is going to become a program of Rotary International:
SPECIAL
NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED.
Monday
(St. Patrick's Day), March 17, 2003
Past
Rotary International Vice President, Abraham I. Gordon, announced during his
keynote speech at the District 7230 PETS conference in Atlantic City, that
Rotary International President Elect Majiyagbe has recognized GIFT OF LIFE to
be a program of Rotary International on it's Task Force for health concerns.
This is
great news for those of us who have promoted GIFT OF LIFE within Rotary for
these many years. It is especially important now, so that GIFT OF LIFE,
International may solicit Rotary Clubs & Districts throughout the world to
become active in this life-giving project.
Daniel J.
Nalven,
Chairman,
GIFT OF LIFE District 7230
Secretary,
GIFT OF LIFE, International.
Dear
Dan,
Congratulations
on the recognition provided to Gift of Life and its designation as program of
Rotary. This is, indeed, a well-deserved recognition. It reflects the tireless
efforts of Barbara and yourself. We are
also duly proud of the contributions of Bill Currie and Helen Reisler. It is anticipated that with this
recognition, the path is clear for the redoubling of the efforts of Rotary Club
of New York and District 7230 in the marvelous service to the children and
youth of our World Community. Thank you
for your faith and dedication.
Yours in
Rotary,
Greg Lynch
President
Elect, Rotary Club of New York
Many Rotarians around the world read our
Newsletter and I receive greetings from Rotarians all over the world to our
legendary Rotary Club. Here are the most recent greetings:
You may
also wish to bring Greetings from the Rotary Club of Belfast
Our Club
continues to thrive
Trevor
Hinds
District
1160 Membership Services Chairman
Thank you
for the interesting message
Best
Wishes
Pres. Lyn
Clarke, Rotary Club of Haenertsburg Dist.9250. South Africa
Dear Matts,
Thanks for
including me on the mailing list for you Rotary club. I read with interest your
weekly reports. I was wondering if you
would e-mail me those speakers whom you have felt that have been the most
interesting ones. I am looking for speakers on Rotary related issues for
District conference in September.
Thanks so
much.
Betsy
Kopstein
District
7210
District
Governor 2001-2002
Thank you
Trevor, Lyn and Betsy! In response to Betsy’s request, I would like to say that
all our speakers have been interesting. You can out find more about each one of
them in the Bulletin Library on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin.html.
From there you can select the speakers with the subjects that are most
interesting to your district.
Past
District Governor Gerard Rijntjes from the Netherlands has the following
request to Rotarians in our club and district:
Dear
Rotarian friend,
I am
looking for a man or woman between 20-30 years old and who will write a short
text about New York. His or her text will be a part of a book in which also
other young people write some pages about the town they live in. The meaning of
the book to think about the future.
It is not
an edition of Rotary but I was Governor in 1999-2000 (district 1570) so you
understand that the basic is positive.
For the
next towns there are young people busy: Nagasaki, Sao Paulo, Warsaw, Moscow,
Jakarta, Amsterdam, Athens, Skopje, London, Johannesburg and Mexico-city. I miss
till now NY and that is impossible, especially now. All those young people do
it for nothing convinced they are of the purpose. There will be a Dutch edition
and in next year there will be an English one.
If you
have found a person, give me his or her name and e-mail number and I will give
"instructions" for the contents.
Thanks for
everything you do, all the best (especially now), your Rotarian friend,
PDG Gerard
Rijntjes
Vergiliuslaan
4
3584 AM
Utrecht
The
Netherlands
E-mail:
gerard.diny@rijntjes.demon.nl
Please contact Gerard, if you are able to
help him with this very interesting project.
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/Bulletin/rsvp_03-25-2003a.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff will serve Grilled
Chicken.
Rotary is about having fun
and do good things!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
District
7230 Chairman
Group
Study Exchange Committee
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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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.
http://12.162.161.64/cart/ProductDetail.asp?PR_ProductID=329
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