The Rotary Club of
New York
April 14,
2003
Fellow
Rotarians,
The speaker
at our next meeting on April 15th will be Walter Eberstdt. He has been Managing
Director at Lazar Freres, LLC. He is also the author of the book Whence We
Came, Where We Went. You can read more about Walter Eberstdt in the latest
Bulletin on the Internet at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_04-15-2003.pdf
(click on the link).
Lou DiPaolo has written a very good Reporter of the Week in the
Bulletin. Lou’s classification is Document Copy-Digital Printing. He is the
Vice President of Plan A Documents, with its website at www.planadocuments.com.
In World War II he served with the U.S. Marine
Corps in the Pacific Theater and on the Battle of Iwo Jima. Lou is a
graduate of Princeton University. He presently serves on the Board of Directors
of the Manhattan Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Lou has been a member of our legendary Rotary Club
since 1979 and is a past officer. At 77 years, he is also
an avid bicycle rider, who has crossed America three times for different
charities. Keep on biking Lou!
The Bulletin informs
us about the next meeting of the International Service Division of the Rotary
Club of New York on Wednesday, April 16 from 08:30 to 09:45 AM. This month's
topic will be "The New Liquid Gold – Water." The guest speaker will
be Eirah Gorre-Dale, Communications and External Relations Manager at the Water
Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council." The registration is at 08:30
AM. You need to register before the end of Monday, April 14, if you want to
attend by sending an e-mail to the Rotary Club of New York at "ny.rotary@verizon.net"
copy to Allison Alessi at "aealessi@aol.com" or send a fax to (212)
633-1954. There is more information in the Bulletin and on our website at www.nyrotary.org/int_service_div/int_service_div.html
The Bulletin
reminds us about the upcoming Rotary Jazz Cocktail Party at the Cornell Club on
April 28th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. David Dingle and Silvio Amori are
organizing this event.
Last week, I
had included a message from District Governor Bob Benson, telling us that
Rotary International approved a grant for almost $90,000 to provide hundreds of
school children in Africa with a decent place to learn. You can read this
announcement in my last Newsletter on the Internet at www.nyrotary.org/newsletter/Newsletter_4-6-2003.htm.
After this announcement, I received the following two messages from District
9250 Governor Doug Thistlewhite and New York Rotary President Elect Greg Lynch:
Dear Matts,
I would
like to take this opportunity to thanking all the members in District 7230 for
the fantastic response in helping education in our beautiful District 9250 and
obtaining a matching grant of this enormous size every school that qualifies I
will see boasts a huge plaque of acknowledgement and gratitude to both your
District and the Rotary Foundation, for this magnificent achievement. Please
notify all the members that if ever they are in District 9250 we will only
be too proud to show them the school in the area.
A huge
thank you must go to District Governor Bob Benson and Past District Governor
Chuck Katze in your District and my liaison person PP Chris Pretorius, who have
certainly all shown
"SERVICE
ABOVE SELF'" a personal thank you from me
Douglas
Thistlewhite
District
Governor
Rotary
District 9250
Dear Mort
and Silvio,
It looks
like our club bet on a winner. This program and our Club's contribution
should be brought to the attention of our members! Congratulations.
Best
regards,
Gregory
Lynch
President
Elect
The Rotary
Club of New York
In another act of great
generosity, the New York Club’s Foundation will present a check for $100,000 at
our meeting Tuesday April 29th to the PolioPlus campaign final
phase. Jack Blane of the Rotary Foundation in Evanston, will come to our
meeting be to receive the check and answer your questions. You can read more
about it in the latest Bulletin at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_04-15-2003.pdf.
The Alternate
Representative of Rotary International to the United Nations Barney Barnet is
making the following plea on behalf of the New York Rotary Foundation to all
our members:
Please help us by
contributing whatever any can to the New York
Club’s Foundation, (mail to our Club office) to become a part of our
$100,000 gift. All contributions must be received by mid-June. One Rotary
District (Minnesota) gave one million dollars by getting $300 from each district
members; $100 buys 1200 doses of vaccine; $500 helps deliver vaccine to all
entire village! As Dr. Bob Scott, director
of the Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign,
says: “This is a Once-in-a-lifetime Event to fulfill our promise (of 188) to eradicate Polio by 2005,
Rotary’s Centennial Year. On behalf of the children who are sand
crawlers, who are wheelchair bound or wear leg braces, please do not allow their brothers and sisters to suffer the same fate. Demand, of us to fulfill our promise.” Let’s
go, New York Rotary The Host Club of
America and world leader.
Barney
Barnett
On
behalf of RCNY Foundation Board of Trustees
The Group
Study Exchange Team from South Africa in District 9250 arrived to New Rochelle in
our District last Friday night. To meet them, our Group Study Exchange
Committee was represented by District Governor Bob Benson, District Governor
Elect David Sullivan, District Governor Nominee Don Lee, Two Times Past
District Governor Chuck Katze, Past Assistant Governor and Past GSE Chairman
Edgar Cornell, New York Rotary President Elect Greg Lynch, Printing Officer Jim
Romeo and myself as the Chairman. In addition there were many other leading
Rotarians from our international district present. We had a very good time at
the dinner that followed the arrival. Helen Bowers from the Rotary Club of
Somers sent me the following report about the event:
They are
delightful! What energy and excitement these 6 South Africans bring
us. And District 7230 turned out in droves to meet them, despite the rain.
Their
enthusiasm -- runners at the starting line waiting for the gun -- was palpable
at dinner last night. And their charm -- each and every one -- made our
first transcontinental dinner a delight.
Check out
the pictures at http://somersrotary.org/GSE_arrival.htm
Quick
summary:
George
Kalell -- team leader from the Rotary Club of Middelburg. He spent a year
in Boise, Idaho as a Rotary Exchange Student in his teen years, a Paul Harris
Fellow. He runs his family's corn (known in South Africa as maize)
milling business and trades commodities.
Neels
Botha - a Crime Scene Expert for the South African Police. Commander of
the Records Center in Pretoria.
Johan
Stonkhorst -- Headmaster of Middelburg High School, a dual curriculum academic
and agricultural school.
Johan
Erasmus -- Clinical Psychologist in private practice, working on his PhD.
Specializes in counseling adults & children who have undergone physical
trauma. He spent a year in Budingen, Germany as a Rotary Exchange
student.
Dia van
Staden -- public relations officer in the print media industry. She is
very active in community and charity work, recipient of Woman of the Year,
awarded by Limpopo Province, for her community work.
Andrew
Stead -- Headmaster of Mitchell House Preparatory School, a co-ed private
school for students of ages 4-13. He is very involved in the furthering
of education in South Africa.
This week
the group will be bouncing around lower Westchester. The following, they
will be guests of David, Rachel & me and will have northern Westchester
adventures (plus a day w/David at the Commodities Exchange in NYC). Then
they have a week in NYC and their last in Bermuda.
Tough job,
but these six seem quite up to the challenge.
Service
above self,
Helen S.
Bowers
Thank you
Helen for the great report and your high-energy pictures at http://somersrotary.org/GSE_arrival.htm.
You can see that we had a really good time. By the way, Helen will also be the
Host and Coordinator for the team during the week of April 19-25. The GSE team
will visit our legendary Rotary Club on April 29th. Are you ready
for it?
Our New York Rotary
member Ivan Vosloo, who is also the South African Counsel, visited South Africa
for 12 days in March. While there, Ivan participated at the Rotary
Club of Pretoria Hatfield PolioPlus Golf Day on March 19, 2003. You can see a
picture from the event on our website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/district_9250/Hatfield%20golf%20A.jpg.
Ivan is sitting to left on the picture.
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 http://ussterilizer.com/rsvp_04-15-2003.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club's culinary staff will serve us
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.
Rotary is about having fun
and do good things!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Chairman
Group
Study Exchange
Rotary
District 7230
Ambassador
of History
The
History of Rotary Project
This
newsletter has also been posted on our website at www.NYRotary.org.
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:
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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