The Rotary
Club of New York
Fellow Rotarians,
When I started as Internet Communications Officer two years ago,
my mission was to expand our Rotary experience onto the Internet. Two years
later, our website has approximately 3,500 visitors per month with about 55,000
hits per month. That is an average of about 19 visits per month for each one of
our members, so our members have definitely expanded their Rotary experience
onto the Internet. This also includes visits by Rotarians from all over the
world, who are interested in our legendary club and care about the good things
our members do.
During the World Trade Center Disaster on 9/11, Rotarians from all
over the world came to our assistance through the Internet, helping us raise
more than $1.4 million for the victims in the biggest club fundraiser in Rotary
History. There is a complete accounting on the Internet for how the money has
been spent on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Foundation/foundation.html.
Distinguished Rotarians from other clubs have also joined the
Rotary Club of New York. The first one was Rotary Founder Paul Harris, who
joined our club during its inception in 1909 as an honorary member and remained
a member of our club for as long as he lived. You can read more about it on our
website’s history page at www.nyrotary.org/History/history.html. My friend
Past District Governor 1999-2000 Paul Caruso just joined our club. Here is a
photo of Paul (middle) together with President Silvio Amori (left) and Past
President 2000-2001 Serge Hadjolian (right):
Another distinguished member, who just joined
our club, is Ivan Vosloo, former President of the Rotary Club of Pretoria. He
came to New York as South Africa’s Consulate General. Ivan will be guest
speaker at our International Service Division Breakfast Meeting on September
18. This meeting is headed by Sylvan Barnet, Rotary International Alternative
Representative to the United Nations and Giorgio Balestrieri, Board Director
and Board Liaison to the International Service Division. You can read the
announcement in the Bulletin.
We also welcome Anders Eggen, Claudia King and
Don Everett as new members. Welcome to our club and make yourself at home. You
can read more about our new members in the latest Bulletin at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/BULLETIN,%20AUGUST%2027,%202002.pdf.
The speaker at our next meeting on August 27th
will be David Roosevelt. He is the grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt. David
Roosevelt has his own distinguished career and is currently writing a book about
his grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt. By the way, the name Roosevelt comes from
the Dutch language and means Rose Field. You can read more about David
Roosevelt in the Bulletin at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/BULLETIN,%20AUGUST%2027,%202002.pdf.
David
Zeller wrote Reporter of the Week. David has been a member since 2000 and his
classification is Computers Consulting. He has written a good description of
what happened last week. You can read David’s Reporter of the Week in the
Bulletin.
At our last meeting, our members celebrated our legendary club’s 93rd birthday by singing the New York Rotary Birthday Song to the melody “Happy Birthday”:
Happy birthday to
us!
Happy birthday to
us!
Happy birthday New
York Rotary!
Happy birthday to
us!
You can read more
about the New York Rotary Birthday Song on our website at www.NYRotary.org.
Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next meeting. You can
do so 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/RSVP82702.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s
culinary staff will serve us Baked Trout Meuniere.
Don’t
forget to pay the annual dues and luncheon payments for the first half of our
fiscal year 2002-2003.
I recommend that you visit our New York Rotary
website every week at www.NYRotary.org.
Enjoy the Great Fellowship
of Rotary!
Matts Ingemanson
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Vice
Chairman
Rotary’s
Global History
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.
Rotary’s Global History
at www.rotaryhistory.org
3.
Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
4. 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
5. 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.
Click here to download Windows Media
Player