The Rotary Club of
New York
May 12, 2003
Fellow
Rotarians,
Last week, I told you about the donation of
$100,000 to Polio Plus by the New
York Rotary Foundation. Jack Blane from the International Polio Eradication
Fundraising Committee of Rotary International came to our club on April 29th
to pick up the check. When I told Jack that I was planning to go to Chicago and
Evanston a week later, he invited me to meet him in Evanston. When I arrived to
the Rotary International Headquarters on May 7th, Jack met me in the
lobby and first took me to lunch and then took me to the office of Rotary
International President Nominee Glenn Estess.
From left Jack Blane, Glenn Estess and
Matts Ingemanson
Glenn, who will be
President of Rotary International in 2004-2005, told me that he enjoys reading
my New York Rotary Newsletter and that he was impressed with the $100,000
donation to Polio Plus by the New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of
New York, which is approximately $500 per member. RI President Nominee Glenn
said that the Rotary Club of New York with its Foundation has set an example of
leadership and generosity that he hoped others would follow. Thank you Glenn,
the New York Rotary Foundation and the members of our legendary Rotary Club
really appreciate your very kind words!
The speaker
at our next meeting on May 13th will be Giovanni B. Ciuffo, MD, who
is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Attending Surgeon at the New York
University Medical Center. Because he is a member of our legendary Rotary Club,
we call him Giovanni. I am sorry that I will miss his speech, because I am
currently in Sweden. You can read more about Giovanni in the latest Bulletin on
the Internet at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_05-13-2003.pdf (click on the link).
The Reporter of the Week is written by Frances Vieta, she has been
a member of our Rotary Club since 1997. Her classification is Food and
Agriculture Consultant. Her company is Frances Vieta Consulting. Thank you
Frances for a good report! I enjoyed reading it.
You can also read in the Bulletin about David Del Monte’s Rotary
After Hours every third Thursday 5-7 pm at Torre di Pisa Restaurant at 19 West
44th Street, New York. It is next to the Harvard Club. You can
always reach David via e-mail at delmonte@nyc.rr.com.
The Bulletin
has an interesting article about our latest New Member Orientation. Lou
DiPaolo, Saul Anton, Takako Johnson, David Del Monte, Past District Governor
Paul Caruso and President Elect Greg Lynch helped out with the orientation.
The next meeting of the International Service
Division of the Rotary Club of New York will be Wednesday, May 21st 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 "Post War Iraq: Oil, Food, Sanctions." Our guest speakers
will be Mr. Benon Sevan, UN Security Coordinator and Executive Director of the
Office of the Iraq Program. You can read more about it on our website at www.nyrotary.org/int_service_div/int_service_div.html.
Last week the District 9250 Group Study Exchange
Team was in Bermuda, where District Governor Elect David “Sully” Sullivan and
Wayne Dill were the coordinators. I received the following message from
District 9250 Governor Doug Thistlewhite in South Africa about their Bermuda
visit:
Dear Matts,
Have just arrived back from meeting our
District 9250 team at the Airport, They certainly have had a ball and all very
excited. They say the arrival in Bermuda was like being in paradise and sorry
they had to leave Paradise to return.
I will give them all your greetings
Doug
Thank you
Doug. It looks like the team had a nice rest in Bermuda after their time in New
York. It was great to have them in our district. I still miss them.
My
colleague, the District 9250 GSE Chairman Andre Brandmuller sent me the
following message about our outgoing District 7230 GSE Team:
Dear Matts
Your team has arrived safely in South Africa.
They were tired after their long flight but very excited to start the GSE
Experience.
We will keep you informed as to their
progress. Thank you for looking after our team so well.
Regards
Andre Brandmuller
GSE Chairman
District 9250
Thank you
Andre! It was our pleasure!
Our District
7230 Team Leader Peter Grunthal has sent me his first GSE Team Report for the week
May 6 to May 11. You can read it on our GSE website at
www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/team/gse_may_11_report.htm.
It is an excellent report. Thank you Peter, and keep up the good work!
I told you
earlier that RI President 2004-2005 Glenn Estess reads the New York Rotary
Newsletter and so does also RI President 2000-2001 Frank Devlyn. I recently
received the following message from Frank about our GSE program:
Hope
that the GSE Committee sees the benefit of promoting univocational GSE’s.
Frank
Devlyn
We will keep
it in mind, Frank, but I can’t make any promises about what our GSE Committee
will decide for the next program.
Frank
also sent me the following message about the $90,000 matching grant that
District Governor Bob Benson and Two Time Past District Governor Chuck Katze
had successfully applied for to The Rotary Foundation:
Congratulations
to all involved in helping education in District 9250 in Africa.
In
Rotary we work as a team when two countries come together to help as in this
case.
Another
reason to support Our Charity The Rotary Foundation.
Your
Amigo,
Frank
Devlyn
Sorry
that I could not make the April 8 meeting in NYC. I was busy getting some
big donations for The Avoidable Blindness Donor Advised Fund of The Rotary
Foundation.
Regards
to all.
Thank you
Frank, I can see that you are on the move creating awareness and taking action.
Our GSE
program has been so successful that we already have an interesting applicant
for our next program:
Dear Mr. Ingemanson,
I'm writing to inquire when the next Group
Study Exchange program will be held. It seems that the trip to District
9250 has already occurred, in April. When is the deadline for applying as
a participant for the next Exchange?
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Cheers,
Rucker Alex
The next GSE
program is scheduled for year 2004-2005. The deadline for the applications will
most likely be at the end of 2004.
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_05-13-03.pdf. Our
fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club's culinary staff will serve us Lamb.
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 an international
Fellowship!
Matts Ingemanson
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Chairman
Group
Study Exchange
Rotary
District 7230
Ambassador
of History
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.