The Rotary Club of
New York
June 9, 2003
Fellow
Rotarians,
Our last
meeting on June 3 was Italy Day with 152 attendees, which was the highest
turnout in a long time. 26 Rotarians from the Milano Aqileia Rotary Club in
Italy visited us. Milano is President Silvio’s Italian hometown. You can read
more about Italy Day in our latest Bulletin at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_06-10-2003.pdf.
You can also see pictures from Italy Day on our website at www.nyrotary.org/italy_day_2003/index.html.
Our next New
York Rotary meeting on June 10th will be United Nations Day with
Under-Secretary-General Anwarul K. Chowdhury as the speaker. He is the
recipient of the U Thant Peace Award, Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace
and an Honorary Doctorate by the Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. You can read
more about Anwarul Chowdhury in the latest Bulletin on the Internet at http://ussterilizer.com/bulletin_06-10-2003.pdf
(click on
the link).
Peter Brizard has written the Reporter of the Week in the
Bulletin. Peter became a member of our legendary Rotary Club last year. His
classification is Independent CPA. Thank you Peter for a great report!
The Rotary Club of New York has been awarded a
grant of $150,000! On May 29th, 2003 from the Board of
Directors of the Rotary District 7230 NYC/WTC Disaster Relief Fund. It is for
the September 11, 2001 Children's Fund. You can click here to read the letter of approval (it is an Acrobat
PDF file). Frances Vieta from our Rotary Club was responsible for
preparing our club’s application. Congratulations Francis!
The Bulletin
informs us that our Executive Assistant Ana Rivas gave birth to a 6.5 lbs
little boy on June 2nd. His name is Aden. Congratulations Ana! You
can send your congratulations to Ana at 1133 Morrison Ave, Bronx, NY 10472.
The Bulletin
announces five birthdays. Those are for, Horst Schneider and Ann Creo on June 8th,
Embee Mahtani on June 11th, Henry Plemper on June 16th
and Helen Reisler on June 21st. Happy Birthday to all of you!
Our Group Study Exchange Team Leader Peter
Grunthal has returned home from a very successful GSE Trip to District 9250.
His final report is, as usual, very interesting to read. Here is an excerpt of his latest report:
We walked the
Pietersburg Game Reserve. It is difficult to describe the tingling feeling when
you walk within 75 yards of three rhinos, your guide testing the winds
repeatedly with handfuls of powdery sand, to ensure that we were downwind of
the huge wild beasts!
Fortunately, Peter and our team survived the experience. You can
read Peter’s full report on our GSE website at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/team/gse_final_report.htm
I have also received the following enthusiastic message from Marj
Tunmer in South Africa. Marj is going to be District 9250 GSE Chairman for the
next Rotary Year 2003-2004:
Hi
Matts,
Thank
you very much for all your newsletters from the Rotary Club of New York, it
gives a wonderful background to your Clubs activities, keep them coming. It
would be great too, with your permission to publish one or two in the District
9250 Newsletter for all our Clubs to enjoy all the good things you & your
Club have had to say about the outgoing District 9250 GSE Team ‘the Pride of
Africa’ who visited your shores recently.
Marj Tunmer
Thank you Marj! I am glad that you enjoyed our GSE Team visit. You
definitely have my permission to publish our newsletters.
Our GSE Team Leader Peter Grunthal wrote the following thank you
message to my colleague the GSE Chairman for District 9250 Andre
Brandtmüller:
Dear Andre
Three members of our team arrived home
today...tired but happy!
The other three are undoubtedly on their way
again!
We had the most glorious time with all of you.
In the personal debriefings that I held with each team member it became
abundantly clear that the trip was very worth while, with comments like "I
feel I want to come back", "got something out of all the visits, plants,
etc.", not quite as much vocational as hoped, but "still
wonderful", "really interesting - phenomenal", "really neat
experience", "like the people here."
So let me say thank you again for everything
that you did for us, you all could not have been more generous or more
gracious. I was personally touched time and again by the extent of the
generosity and the care that was lavished on us everywhere that we went.
Alles van die beste.....tot weersiens
Peter
If you did not understand the last sentence, it is understandable.
It is in the Afrikaan language, which is widely spoken in South Africa. Peter
said, All the best ….. See you again.
I received the following message from District Governor Bob Benson
with an invitation to all of us:
Please join Doris and myself as we welcome in
Sully as our District Governor for the Rotary year of 2003-2004. The
celebration will be a Barbeque Picnic on June 22nd at Saxon Woods Pavilion in
Westchester County on Mamaroneck Road between the Hutchinson Parkway and Route
95. 1:00PM-6:00PM. The cost is $39.00 for adults and $19.00 for kids. Please
send checks to Tom Minozzi, 150 Saw Mill River Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY,
10706. See you there. Lets show Sully our support for the coming year!
Bob Benson
District Governor 7230
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_06-10-2003.pdf. Our fax number is 212-633-1954. At our next meeting,
the culinary staff at the Princeton Club 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 also
recommend that you visit the History of Rotary website every week at www.HistoryOfRotary.org.
It has great information about the History of Rotary and is updated every week.
Understanding the History of Rotary helps us understand as Rotarians. We are
part of an International fellowship with 1,2 million members around the world
in 30,000 different Rotary Clubs. We Rotarians are always welcome as friends in
every Rotary Club, even if they have never met us before. That’s the power of
Rotary.
Rotary is a great
International Fellowship!
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.
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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.
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