The Rotary
Club of
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March 29, 2004
Fellow Rotarians,
It is with great sadness that I am obligated to inform you that
On March 24, 2004, our
Club lost a member very dear to all who knew him. William Austin Hall was an architect of some
repute, founder of the Hall Architectural Partnership and with a family name so
uniquely suited to his chosen profession.
Bill became a member of the Club in 1981. His classification was Professional Architect. When I first joined the Club some ten years
ago, i regularly ran into Bill on the way to our, then Thursday, meetings. Bill was well educated and well informed,
particularly about the neighborhood we shared.
His practice was on
Bill Hall was a quiet,
elegant gentleman. He was also a
contributor to our Club activities and to building our
In November 2003, I
asked Bill to act as Chairman of our Club’s Sunshine Committee, which acts as
the good shepherd in reaching out to members who may not be coming to lunches
due to illness or otherwise. Sometime
later, I received a most elegant letter from Bill, saying he did not have my
heart in the assignment. Only after the
holidays, did I realize that Bill himself was one of those who, because of his
illness, required some looking after.
After that we spoke regularly on the phone. Three weeks before his passing, I had a brief
chat with Bill at our regular luncheon meeting.
I could not have imagined then that we were saying goodbye.
Greg Lynch
President
Rotary Club of
March 25, 2004
Thank you Greg for your kind words about Bill. You can also find
Greg’s message on our website at www.nyrotary.org/president_greg/william_hall.htm.
In the last 12 months of his life, Bill Hall contributed not less than three
Reporters of the Week for the Weekly Bulletin. You can find these issues on the
Internet at the following links:
http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_05-20-2003.pdf
http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_07-22-2003.pdf
http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_09-02-2003.pdf
President Greg has also
written an article to the President’s Page about when he visited the Clipper
Ship Stad Amsterdam at our
Our next meeting on
March 30th will be Fellowship Day with each of us as speakers. We
can speak to each other about ourselves, our businesses, our ideas and our
committees. We can also speak to a new member or bring a guest to experience
our fellowship. It is a perfect opportunity for chair people to meet with their
committees and to report committee progress at the microphone. You can read more about
our next Fellowship Day in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/bulletin_03-30-2004.pdf (click on the link).
This week’s Reporter of
the Week in the Bulletin is written by Matthew Salerno, who became a member of
our legendary Rotary Club in 2001. His classification is Architecture -
Management. Thank you Matt for a very good report!
Our Board of Directors
has approved Sumio Sone as a new member. Welcome to our Rotary Club! Sumio’s
Suggested Classification is TV Production. You can read more about Sumio in the
latest Bulletin.
The 1st Annual
Rotary Club of
Helen Reisler, who is
Past President of the Rotary Club of New York and District 7230 Governor Nominee,
has sent me two messages that she received. The first message is from Jon
Singer at the Tenafly Rotary Club in
My name is Jon Singer,
and I am a member of the Tenafly Rotary Club. Thank you for reviewing the
following, and for sharing this information with members of your club.
My sweet
seven-year-old daughter Rebecca and I will set out on April 2nd in a Maserati
(generously provided for the event by Maserati North America), with the goal of
visiting twenty Borders and Whole Foods Market locations throughout New Jersey
and New York City in a twenty-four hour period - "The 20 Store Twenty-Four
Hour Tour for Autism" - to raise funds, and to symbolize the need to
quickly find help for individuals and families affected by autism.
These events are a
follow-up to our August 2002 cross- country trek that kicked off The Drive for
Rebecca, an effort named for my daughter Rebecca who has a rare genetic
disorder that causes autistic tendencies. Since that time, we have raised
over $100,000 to help advance medical research, support several autism
education and advocacy programs and help establish a new school.
New York education
autism programs that will benefit from our efforts include EDEN II, Genesis and
NYCLI.
We would appreciate
your help in getting the word out to members of your club, to use the flyers in
Borders Books stores and to come out and greet us as we finish our trip in NYC
on Saturday April 3rd in the morning.
All Borders and Whole
Foods stores in
www.DriveForRebecca.org/stores.htm
We will be at the
Whole Foods store on 24th & 7th around 9am and will conclude our trip with
visits to Borders and Whole Foods stores at the new
Borders is planning
benefit days for April 2nd and 3rd, where 15% of purchases accompanied by a
special flyer will be donated to benefit
Autism.
For Rotary members in need
of books, CDs or DVDs, flyers can be downloaded from our web site, and it would
be wonderful if they could be circulated at your next Rotary on Tuesday March
30th before our drive:
http://www.DriveForRebecca.org
Thank you for anything
that you can do to let other Rotarians know about these upcoming events, for
circulating the flyers and for whatever you can do to rally Rotary members to
meet us for our local events.
Jon Singer
Drive For Rebecca
201 567 3699
Building better lives
for
children with autism
(TM)
The second message that
Helen sent me is written by Major David Sebuck, who is stationed in
Sir,
I'm Major Sebuck,
Executive Officer of Mihn Tran's former unit currently in
Semper Fidelis,
Major David Sebuck
Executive Officer,
CSSG-11 (FWD)
Thank you Helen for
sending me this message, it shows how humanitarian our soldiers in
I received the following
message from Mark Lane-Jones, who is President of
Dear Matts
Ingemanson
Carl Berentsen and
Mike Lakin have given me your name.
I am the current
president of the
I will be traveling
with my wife Mary and two other club members. In a few days time I
hope I can send you electronic details of our project which is one that will
definitely happen.
We actually arrive at
JFK on 11 April to do a couple of days sightseeing and if possible visit your
club though I'm not sure when you meet and I know its over Easter there.
We will probably travel to
Hope to be able to
contact you or your fellow members.
Regards
Mark Lane-Jones
President -
Thank you Mark for your
message, I hope that you will visit our Rotary Club on Tuesday April 13th
at 12:00 PM before you leave for
I also received the
following message from Rotarian Bertram Andrews in
Dear Matts,
It is such a pleasure
to hear such wonderful news emanating from your club. I had the good fortune of
visiting your club toward the end of May into early June last year and still
harbor pleasant memories of that treasured occasion.
I remember fondly when
your pianist who is also a Rotarian played the Canadian National Anthem in my
honor.
It is obvious that
yours is an extremely busy club and I can read through your e-mail submissions,
the joy you derive from apprising the members of the many activities going on
in and around the membership.
Continued good luck to
you and you team and your efforts and kindly accept my thanks and
appreciation for keeping me up-dated.
Yours in Rotary.
Bert.
Thank you Bert for your
greeting, please come and see us again when you are in
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_03-30-2004.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!
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2.
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3.
Rotary District 7230 at www.rotarydistrict7230.org
4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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