2009-10 Rotary Club of Harrisburg Committees

COMMITTEE DESCRIPTIONS and Chairs

The Harrisburg Rotary Foundation is our local foundation. It is a charitable organization and therefore all contributions are tax deductible to donors. All funds received are used to support local service initiatives of the Club. The Foundation is governed by a board of trustees consisting of nine members of the Club, up to three of whom are appointed each successive year by the Chair, who is the immediate past President of the Club. No trustee may serve more than two successive terms. The trustees generally meet quarterly and make their recommendations on charitable activities to the Club Board. The Foundation's funds come largely from club members who are expected to make a minimum annual contribution of $100.00 to support its charitable initiatives each year. The Foundation receives and disburses additional gifts domestically and internationally as designated by the donors.

DEVOTIONS COMMITTEE:  Wilson C. Everhart, Jr., Chair
Offer a brief non-denominational prayer of thanks prior to each regular Rotary meeting.

GREETERS COMMITTEE:  Wilson C. Everhart, Jr., Chair
Two or three person team per meeting.  They receive money from visiting Rotarians and guests prior to each meeting.  Distribute attendance cards to each member of Harrisburg Rotary and welcome all who attend the meeting.  At the beginning of each meeting, announce to the entire club the names of visiting Rotarians and guests.  Periodically, solicit contributions from members for Good News Reporting.

HISTORIAN: David J. Morrison, Chair
Compiles, maintains and reports on the history of the Club.  He also is preparing a Club Centennial History 1911-2011, to be issued at the Club Centennial.

MUSIC COMMITTEE: Douglas W. Pieper, Chair

Arranges Club singing as part of the weekly meetings and/or provide musical programs.

NEW MEMBER INFORMATION COMMITTEE: John P. Judson, MD, Chair
New members and proposers are invited to a Rotary Orientation.  The President-elect serves as chair with input from the Executive Director, Harrisburg Rotary Foundation President, Rotary International Foundation Chair, and the Rotary President.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Robert F. Hostetter, Jr., Chair
Provide informative and entertaining programs of interest to the Club members.

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE:  Kevin Lutz, Chair
Provides factual and creative information for Rotary Roundup on the meetings, speakers, and fun information on Harrisburg Rotarians.

ROTARIANS FIRST YEAR COMMITTEE: Robin Scaer, Chair
All new members will serve on this committee. It meets once a quarter so that new Rotarians can learn more about Rotary and plan one Rotary meeting.

STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE: Robert S. Saline, Chair
Provides annual forum for club members and leaders to gather for the purpose of determining long/short term goals and objectives.  To seek committee commitment for implementation of these goals and objectives and to monitor the progress.

WEBMASTER: Kent E. Frese, Chair
Designs web site and posts information on the site concerning Rotary.

Community Projects:
CENTENNIAL: John P. Judson, MD, chairThe Committee organizes and plans the activities and event for our 100th Anniversay in 2011.

COWMOOTEE: Deborah Abel, Chair
Rotary Belle goes to the schools to help kids learn about Service Above Self.

ECOLOGY: Jack Detweiler, Chair
Committee solicits speakers to present programs to the Harrisburg Rotary Club concerning the environment, seeks volunteers for improving water quality of the Chesapeake Bay watershed through stream bank plantings and promotes projects to preserve our environment.

FOOSE SCHOOL PROJECT:

Glasses provided to students in the Harrisburg School District.

GRANTS:  Betty Hungerford, Chair
The Committee interacts with the Board and Committee Chairs to identify grant opportunity for existing or new projects or initiatives. This includes providing assistance to Committee Chairs in the creation of a grant request.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: Fred R. Hartman, Chair
The Rotary Club of Harrisburg provides hands on labor and solicits in-kind donations of materials that are used to rehabilitate a single family home in the City of Harrisburg. The Committee's leadership works closely with the Harrisburg Chapter of Habitat for Humanity to identify a house that is in need of repairs.

INTERCLUB THANKGIVING:  Virginia A. Roth, Chair

The Rotary Club of Harrisburg serves as lead club in the planning of this luncheon every 3rd year.

LOCAL PROJECTS: Janice R. Black, Chair

The Committee identifies local project opportunities. Additionally, Committee will strive to involve other Clubs within District to maximize the service outcome for which the project is focused.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST COMMITTEE: Karen M. Paris and Jacqueline Jackson-DeGarcia, Co-Chairs
An exciting morning of cooking, serving and eating with others along with raising funds. Our annual pancake breakfast is held at the John Harris Campus of Harrisburg High School.

ROTARY LEADERS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Fred R. Hartman,Chair
Recruit 2 students from Harrisburg High School and Bishop McDevitt to attend the annual Rotary Leaders Conference held annually at Messiah College in June.

ROTARACT: Tom Imholte, Chair
The Committee organizes and assists the development and on-going operations of our club sponsored Rotoract Club. The committee assists the Rotoract leadership in assuring professional development, leadership development, and service projects exist in a balanced manner for development of each Rotoract member.    

SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGING COMMITTEE: Harold S. Hurwitz, Chair
The Harrisburg Club assists the Salvation Army with raising funds through bell ringing at Strawberry Square’s Atrium during the Christmas season.

SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE:  Peggy A. Grove, Chair
Selects one student from Harrisburg High School, Harrisburg Sci-Tech, Harrisburg Career Technology Academy and Bishop McDevitt High School to be awarded a $2,000 scholarship each.  Committee members select the winners based on criteria that includes grades, class standing, a written essay and is balanced by personal need.  Scholarship winners are invited to attend a Rotary meeting where they are introduced to the Club.

SERVICE ABOVE SELF COMMITTEE: Ellen M. Kyzer, Chair
Has the opportunity to recognize outstanding community volunteers.  The committee solicits nominations from non-profit organizations of their special volunteers and evaluates the top candidate.  The top three candidates are recognized at a Rotary meeting each year.  The organization which nominates the volunteers receives a contribution from the club and the nominee receives a plaque.

SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE: Andrew R. Rebuck, Chair

Committee sponsors the 2nd Thursday of the Month, Happy Hour, Fire Side Chats, and Semi-annual golf tournaments during the course of the Rotary year.

STUDENTS/TEACHERS OF THE QUARTER COMMITTEE:John H. Sutliff, Chair
Quarterly during the school year, our Club celebrates and recognizes the scholastic achievements of one student and one teacher from Harrisburg High School, Harrisburg Sci-Tech, Harrisburg Career Technology Academy and Bishop McDevitt High School.

YOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TEAM (YCDT):  Jeannette Archer-Simons, Chair

All chairs and sub committee chairs are responsible for convening their committees to do the work of the team, seeking input from the Chair on items having major impact and reporting on the progress of their projects to the Chair.  The overall Chair is responsible to report to the Rotary Board and Club.

Operations Committee-
The Operations Committee is responsible for the management and administrative process for the sessions. Committee Chairs serve on the Operations Committee.
Duties include:
- Serve as liaison to Leadership Harrisburg Area
- Evaluate the monthly session activities and recommend changes where appropriate.
- Finalize Annual YCDT Grant Guidelines
- Grantwriting for YCDT Program/Operations

Resource Development Committee
The Fund Development Committee guides the students in the fundraising activities of the program.
Duties include:
- Fundraising training and development
- Accompanying students in development efforts
- Identify prospective donors or programs
- Grant writing with the possible assistance of TFEC
- Input into marketing materials

Public Relations Committee
The PR Committee is responsible for the internal and external promotion of the YCDT program.
Duties Include:
- PR Policy & Overview
- Development of collateral materials / samples
- Brochure(s) samples (recruitment and endowment)
- Power Point sample
- Articles
- Media Liaison
- Website
- Photo Ops

Schools Committee
The Schools Committee is responsible for the recruitment and the ongoing maintenance of a consistent relationship with the schools
Duties Include:
- Recruiting Students
- Student selection
- Welcome reception and orientation
- Student issue resolution
- Student involvement in projects
- Site visits, Field trips, Rotary events

Finance Committee
The Finance Committee manages the overall finances of the project to include endowment and operations.
Duties Include:
- Analyze Foundation reports
- Develop monitor, and report on budget
- Provide for annual outside audit
- Authorize payment of expenses
- Ensure the record keeping of all donations
- Serve as liaison with TFEC

Student Advisory Committee
The Student Advisory Committee acts as YCDT student representation to the Operations Committee, consisting of a few current YCDT students and Rotarian advisor as chair.

Membership:
MEMBERSHIP INDIVIDUAL: Micheal Carbon and Julie Girsch, Co-Chairs
The purposes of the Membership Committee are:  (1) identifying appropriate classifications for membership; (2) formulating strategies for attracting new members; and (3) communicating membership development efforts to the club at large.
The Membership committee will strive to meet two objectives: Know the expectations of our membership and seek strategies and initiatives to allow membership to secure these expectations. These noble objectives are the bed rock of our club's commitment to growth by our individual members and by the club as a whole.

MEMBERSHIP CORPORATE: Marion Alexander and Sally Klein, Co-Chairs
The purpose of the Corporate Membership Committee is as follows:  (1) Identify potential Corporate prospects. (2) Facilitate meeting with prospect. (3) Monitor and assess satisfaction of Corporate members. (4) Communicate Corporate membership development outcome to Board and club at large.

NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION:  John P. Judson, MD

New members attend this orientation , prior to  attending Rotary.

Public Relations:
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE: Robert S. Saline, Chair

The public relations committee works with Club leadership and each committee chair to determine what activities warrant coverage from local, regional and national media.  This is accomplished through news releases, media alerts or direct media contact as appropriate.  We have written and designed the Club’s informational brochure.  We also supply photo updates to the Club’s webmaster.

Rotary International:

DISTRICT INITIATIVES COMMITTEE: Barry Ramper, II, Chair
Provides service to district wide initiatives such as Americas Promise, Byrnes Health Center and helping to fulfill financial commitment to the PolioPlus Campaign by recruiting new members to participate in fund raising efforts.

GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE COMMITTEE: David J. Morrison and Robert K. Reitzel, Co-Chairs
Works with Rotary District Committee to organize and support District sponsored Group Study Exchange teams to and from various countries. These teams of four or five persons spend a month in intensive introduction to the business, social and cultural life of another country (or of our region, in the case of visiting teams.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION COMMITTEE:  Maria B. Persico, ChairInterprets the work of the Rotary International Foundation to the Harrisburg Rotary Club. This committee highlights important projects funded by the RI Foundation, and assists in members' continued strong support of giving to that important work.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: A. John Smither, ChairRotarians are asked to give a $10 contribution towards the purchase of personal items needed by our troops overseas and the transportation costs associated with shipping these to U.S. military installations.

WORLD FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE: Robert J. Hall and Richard P. Moultrie, Co-Chairs
Reviews, considers, and pursues international service projects, in coordination with the District and International Rotary offices. Sponsors and organizes international service projects in which local club members can provide direct service to those in need.

YOUTH EXCHANGE COMMITTEE: Ron Guss and Caryn C. Carr, Co-Chairs

Each year this committee provides the necessary support to enable one or more area high school students to participate in a school-year long Rotary Student Exchange program in another country. The committee also makes arrangements for and supports one or more "inbound" exchange students from another country who participate as exchange students under the sponsorship of our club. The Rotary youth exchange program, like the Group Study Exchange, serves the important cause of promoting international understanding.