Beacon News August 28th 2002

Visiting Rotarians:

None

Guests:

Carlotta Scarpa (our club’s foreign Exchange Student) - Del Smith

Andy Chatfield - Paul Chatfield

Emily Chatfield - Paul Chatfield

Birthdays:

Kim Putman

Paul Pickering

They paid for no singing.

Anniversaries:

Rich & Anita Vogelzang

Brad & Sandy Shea

Del & Linda Smith

Joe & Judy Darweesh

Doug & Linda DeVey

Joe Darweesh toasted the members and led us in song.

Announcements:

Kim Putman is our Polio Plus Chairman.  She informed the club that there is a jug at the registration table for any loose change that a member wants to donate to Polio Plus.

Picnic to welcome Carlotta Scarpa

Date: 9-6-02

Location: Diane Berardicurti’s house, 37 Frost Meadow Trail, 723-1260

Time: 5pm till?  Dinner @ 5:30 pm.

Cost: $10.00 donation per family

Menu: Burgers, Hots, Chicken, Salads, Soda and Beer.

What to bring: A desert to pass, lawn chairs and good cheer

Please RSVP to Diane by 9/4/02 @723-1260

The picnic will be a makeup for club attendance!

October 23^rd. Margaret Hare Brown Dinner @ Marriot Airport.  See Ralph DeStephano for details

Sept 21^st- Area 9 Dinner.  So far only 10 members are going.  We have the least of the nine clubs involved.

Sept 28^th, 2002

Wine Tour - Ed D’Angelo gave the club a run down of events planned for the wine tour.

The Cost is $60.00/per person.  The cost covers transportation and lunch along with tours of 5 wineries.

The itinerary is to meet around 8:30 am getting on bus.

Arrival at Fox Run Winery @ 10:30.  This is followed by trip to Anthony Row Winery and then Glenora Winery where lunch will be served along with a tour of the winery.  The tour will then proceed to Haslet Winery and finish at Logan Ridge Estates Winery.  The tour bus will return around 7:30 - 8:00 pm

Reservations are being accepted on the basis of First pay/ first reservation.  This payment will be non-refundable.

Rotary Golf Outing.  Mid September.  More information to follow.

Camp Haccamo - Work Day scheduled for October 19^th to close up our cabin.  Members are asked to be there to help!

Membership Drive

Dave Nagel spoke to the club today about our membership drive for the upcoming year.  His committee would like the club to grow to about 110 members.  We are at 98 now but will be losing a few in the next couple of weeks.  The goal is 20 new members.

Dave suggested that members use the KISS method.  Use a one on one technique to get new members.  Call a quality business person and ask them to come to lunch as our guest.  Have them come to at least three meetings to check out the club and Rotary, to see if it interests them.  The sponsor would then go over the application for membership form with the now perspective members.

The membership committee will be issuing invitation business cards to the club’s members in the upcoming weeks.

The two top sponsors will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to a restaurant of their choice. & a Rotary Golf shirt from Bob Potter.

Fining with Paul:

• Dave Nagel was given a credit by Paul for wearing a pink shirt and not being afraid of his masculinity.  Paul then fined Dave for buying a house and then tearing it down.

• Gene Noga - trip to Baltimore and Boston for baseball games

• Greg Halstead - thanked club for cards and confessed to trip with a fellow Rotarian to see a Yankee game.

• Del Smith and Bob Potter informed the club of a singing message they both received on their answering machines from Greg in Times Square.

• Tom Lawson missed meeting because he has been touring college campuses with daughter.

• Rosa Smith-Montanaro fined for alleged attempt of stealing bell.

• Dr. Strauss - fined for trip to 4^th Lake in the Adirondacks.

• Bob Potter - Missed meeting and also missed the Board meeting.  He just forgot.

• Del Smith - hosted neighborhood block party.  Had police called to his house numerous times.

• Rosa Smith-Montanaro trip to Cleveland.

• Bill Testa - confessed to Yankee game and singing in Times Square.

• Sue Edgett - trip to Florida and trip to Las Vegas with Rich Vogelzang.

• Frank Selice - fined for being too good and trip to Seneca Falls.

• Rich Vogelzang - trip to Las Vegas and Kansas City.

• Rich announced that the Greece Chamber finished second in its’ category at the recent National Chamber conference at Las Vegas.

• Paul Pickering - fined for vacation in Boston and Cape Cod.

• John Lioi - fined for trip to Kansas City.

• Cindy Martone and Pat Dottore took trip to Martha Vineyard and Newport.

• Joe Darweesh took trip to New Jersey.  Joe was fined by Al Schneier (who is from New Jersey) for his very bad imitation of a person form NJ.

• Judy Van Bramer, Larry Waye, Ray Pschierer, Tom Lockwood fined for missed meetings.

Today’s program and Speakers:

Club Assembly - Bill Testa

Greece Rotary Board Meeting -August 19, 2002

Host: Dan Barletta

Review and Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting

It was mentioned that minutes and financial reports were to be sent out prior to meeting for Board members to review.

Liz mentioned that District has speakers available to come to club to speak on Rotary’s monthly theme.  Bill had passed this information on to Carla.

RYLA – Bill will talk to Elaine Gorman after school begins in Sept.

President Comments

Lots to go over!

Treasurer Report

Del reviewed report with members. He opened a savings account at Canandaigua National Bank and put $15,000.00 in it.  He will call to see why he did not get a toaster.

The club has $8135.21 in checking account. He has begun keeping track of member’s dues as an accounts receivable item under assets. Total assets for the club are $60279.82

Del will be transferring $1000.00 from Liotta account to general funds account to pay scholarship.

Liotta fund = $23,337.58

Moraes fund = $3993.58

World fund = $1343.45

About $3800.00 still to collect in dues from members

Motion made to accept Treasurer’s Report made by Mike Taylor and seconded by Tracy Wooden. Motion approved

Committee Reports

Club Service

Wine Tour – Sept 28th More to information come.

Clambake – Bill to talk with Linda Deutsch, Pam Leathersich & Rosa Smith-Montanaro about date.

Community service

Tracy had no report, but Bill discussed conversation with DG Don Alhart and Bud Gearhart about getting Rotary into earlier school year K-12. All 3rd graders in the District will receive a Dictionary with the Rotary emblem on it this year.  Costs are being determined.  Bill would like to see if anything can be done to involve Holmes Rd and Brookside Elementary in a project for the Spring and next Fall for one day for a couple of hours.  Dan Barletta let Bill know that Northwood Elementary is interested in doing something also.

International Service

Mike Taylor – Carlota arrives this Friday.  It was mentioned that it would be good for the Rotary Board members to be at the airport to greet our exchange student.  It will be mentioned at the next meeting that this is open to all club members and it is a makeup for missed meetings.

Friday Sept 6th.  There will be a welcoming picnic for Carlota.  The location may be at Diane Berardicurti’s house.

Vocational Service –

This Wednesday is New Teachers Luncheon - the count has gone from 145 to 180.

New/Old Business

Polio Plus – Liz Richardson

Liz showed a 6 minute tape from RI regarding the Polio Plus Effort.  RI expects each club to pledge $175/member.  The Greece Club would be pledging a minimum of $17,500.00.  After some discussion, the board acted to pledge $18,000 over a three year time period to The Rotary Foundation's Polio Eradication Campaign (PEC).  The first payment of $6,000 will be sent to the Foundation immediately and another $4,000 at the end of this Rotary year.  The remaining $8,000 will be paid to the Foundation before the end of the Rotary year in 2005.
 

This pledge represents our commitment and support of the most ambitious health campaign undertaken by a private entity.  In 1986, Rotary Int'l began it's Polio Plus campaign to support a global effort to immunize children
against polio.  Rotary Int'l set a goal of $140 million for this initial effort.  Rotarians raised $247 million.
 

Eradication of polio by 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary, became Rotary's top priority.  Polio Eradication Committee Chair Kim Putnam will be sending each club member an informational brochure on the campaign along with individual pledge information.  Rotarians are encouraged to make their own contributions to this effort, if they so choose.  The Interact club, under the direction of Colleen Meger, is also planning a PEC fundraiser to help add to our initial goal.

Area 9 Dinner – Sept 21st Greece Rotary in charge of program.  ARC for Monroe County will be performing.

Interact club - May have Interact members attend a meeting to be introduced and meet members.

June 9, 2003 – Golf Tournament

October 17, 2002 Rich Vogelzang mentioned the Greece Chamber of Commerce would be having a luncheon with Congressman Tom Reynolds @ Lakeshore Country Club.  The emphasis will be introducing the Congressman to the Service Organizations in the Town of Greece.  It was highly suggested that members of Greece Rotary attend.  More information will be made available through the mail from the Chamber and at an upcoming meeting.

Club Etiquette – Bill and Tom Nolan will be working on controlling meetings better.  It no change is noted, the club may institute fines for leaving early unless the person leaving apologizes to the speaker prior to his time at the podium.

It was also mentioned that keeping to a defined schedule would help, i.e., the guest speaker for the day begins at 1:10 pm.  If other matters are not resolved, for example fining session, these matters are then postponed.

Membership –Bill, Dave and Tom Shay will be new membership campaign beginning this Sept.  Weekly reminders to the club will be performed.

Fundraising – Dan reviewed for the Board the Mission of the Fundraising committee and discussed possible fundraising activities for the club.  It was determined that the club does not need any new intensive fundraising activities at this time.  A proposal to set up a mechanism with Mike Sofia for donations of cars would have to be tabled until the club establishes a Greece Rotary Foundation.

Next meeting Monday, Sept 16, 2002 at Del Smith’s House.

50/50 – Keith Rockcastle

Upcoming Meetings

Sept. 11^{th -} Our guest speakers will be Greece Police Chief and Fire Chief

Meeting Make-Up schedule:

http://home.rochester.rr.com/greecerotary/makeup.htm