The Rotary Club of
New York
March 9, 2003
Fellow Rotarians,
The speaker
at out next meeting on March 11th will be Richard Alderslate, who is
Senior External Relations Officer at the Health Policy World Health
Organization Office (WHO) at the United Nations in New York. You
can read more about Richard
Alderslate in the latest Bulletin on our website at
www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin_03-11-2003.pdf
(click
on the link). The original speaker New York City Councilman Charles Baron
cancelled at the last moment, because he had to go to Albany. Our Programs
Director Larry Parks quickly handled the crisis and found another interesting
speaker on short notice. Well-done Larry!
Peter Brizard composed the Reporter of the Week in the Bulletin.
Peter joined our legendary club last year. His classification is Independent
CPA Accountant – Trusts and Estates. Peter wrote a very interesting account, so
I decided to use it for our new web page about the Police Recognition Day at www.nyrotary.org/police_2003/index.html.
We had a great Police
Recognition Day at our last meeting. We honored Police
Officer Judith Hernandez, one of New York’s Finest. Police Officer Hernandez
who is only 5 feet 1.5 inches tall carried her 6 feet fellow officer Steven
Oemcke alone, step-by-step, up nearly two stories of inoperable escalator stairs
to safety.
Police Officer Hernandez is a great example of
the bravery that has made the NYPD the finest. After the meeting, I found out
that PO Hernandez did not even tell her husband about the event. He found out
when his wife was awarded the Medal of Honor. You can read more about our
Police Recognition Day on our website at www.nyrotary.org/police_2003/index.html.
There are 19 pictures from the event.
The team application drive for our District Group Study Exchange
Program has been very successful. The deadline has passed and we have 12 Team
Member applications and 4 Team Leader applications from very qualified
applicants. Our GSE committee will have the opportunity to select a great GSE
team to represent our district when they travel to District 9250, which
includes South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Swaziland. I want to thank the
Rotarians in our district for their great support and I also thank my fellow
members in the Group Study Exchange Committee for working so hard and
diligently. You can find out more about the Group
Study Exchange Program on the Internet at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230.
You can read in the Bulletin about the birthdays for Wilfried
Freudenberger on March 22, Harshad Shah on March 29 and Ted Andrews on March
30. Happy Birthday to all of you!
The next meeting of the International Service
Division of the Rotary Club of New York will be on Wednesday, March 19 at the
German Permanent Mission to the UN, at the top floor restaurant on First Avenue
(between 48th and 49th Streets), from 08:30 to 09:45 AM. This month's topic
will be: "The Issues of Iraq." Our guest speaker will be the Deputy
Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations Ambassador Hanns
Heinrich Schumaker. You can read more about it on our website at www.nyrotary.org/int_service_div/int_service_div.html.
I received the following message from John Alfano, who is district chair for the Rotary Leadership Institute:
Read with interest your bulletin. District
Governor Bob Benson has appointed me district chair for the Rotary Leadership
Institute (RLI). The next session (Parts I & II) in District 7230 will be
on Saturday, April 12, 2003 at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York at a
cost of $60. There is a write-up on the district web site. The registration
form is on the RLI web site although it does not show the date and place
because it is new to the schedule. The form is also available from your
Assistant Governor. Would appreciate it if you would this at your next
meeting(s) and also mention this in your next bulletin(s). Also suggest
that at the end of your bulletin you show a link to the RLI web site, which has
a lot of information on the RLI - "www.rotaryleadershipinstitute.org."
Yours in Rotary,
John L. Alfano
Thank you John, it looks like a great opportunity.
If you have any questions about the next session, you can contact John Alfano
via e-mail at alfano.law.office@juno.com.
Last week, Taylor Gray informed us that
Walgreens had adopted the Rotary Four Way Test as the firm's set of guiding
principles to guide employees to consider when making decisions about what they
think, say or do. The Chairman of History of Rotary found this so
interesting that the History of Rotary website has posted Taylor’s statement on
its website at www.rotarypresidents.org/1954taylor/taylor/examples.htm,
which means that Taylor is now part of Rotary History. You can find it on the
Internet at www.HistoryofRotary.org.
By the way the History of Rotary’s Chairman Jack
Selway is scheduled to speak at our legendary Rotary Club on July 15th.
Welcome to New York, Jack!
The Bulletin reminds us again about providing our office with the
correct individual roster information. They want you to
submit your birthday information, if it is still missing.
Don’t
forget to reserve your table for our next meeting. It is important for this
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_03-11-2003.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s culinary staff will serve
Salmon.
I recommend that you
visit our New York Rotary website every week at www.NYRotary.org.
You can also see a list of future speakers on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Events/events.html.
I have a Group Study Exchange speaking engagement on Tuesday at
the Rotary Club of Katonah together with Past District Governor Chuck Katze, so
I won’t come to our next meeting, but I will be back on March 18th.
I look forward to see you then.
Rotary is about having fun
and do good things!
Matts Ingemanson
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
District
7230 Chairman
Group
Study Exchange Committee
Vice
Chairman
The
History of Rotary Project
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.
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.
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
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.