Rotary Roundup

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Executive Director: Linda Freedenberg
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Telephone: 717-234-1208
Fax: 717-234-3234

November 7, 2011

Speaker: Glenn Mazis, PhD., PSU Prof.
Topic:  "HUMANS, ANIMALS AND MACHINES: "Blurring Boundaries"

Greeter:  John Griner
Invocation: Wil Everhart
Club Singing: Beth Persun
Publications: Karen Paris

Corporate Member

BIRTHDAYS
Chris Cavanaugh  NOV 10
Julie Girsch NOV 10
Bob Saline  NOV 10
David Morrison  NOV 11

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
at the Hilton
11/14   Tom Gentzel, Exec. Dir, PA School Board Association
"OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE NOT THE GOVERNORS!"

11/21 Interclub Thanksgiving Luncheon
11/28   NO MEETING

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and click on calendar.
For meeting cancelations:
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Rotary office at 234-1208.

PROGRAM:
Have you ever been intrigued with the field of phenomenology?  Dr. Mazis it a widely published philosopher of technology, literature and poetry, as well as the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities.

He will be speaking regarding his book :"HUMANS, ANIMALS AND MACHINES: "Blurring Boundaries".

This will be an opportunity for some of us to 'know what we don't know"!

Glen A. Mazis, Ph. D. is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg and former Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Masters Program. His books include Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile Ontology (Lang, 1993), The Trickster, Magician and Grieving Man: Returning Men to Earth (Inner Traditions, 1994) and Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses (SUNY, 2002) and Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries (SUNY 2008). He has also published more than 25 essays in journals or book chapters on aspects of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy as well as about the topics of interpersonal perception, time, film, emotion, imagination, dreams, poetry, artificial intelligence, technology, chaos theory, ecology, ethics, Husserl, Sartre, Levinas, Derrida, Jungian depth psychology, Buddhist emptiness, et.. al. He is currently writing The Sensual Depth of the World's Face: Merleau-Ponty and Embodying Time, Matter and Interanimality. He is also a poet who has published 75 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou'wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, The Atlanta Review and Ashville Poetry Review (best of 1994-2004).

NEWS AND NOTES: 
• We wish the team of Bob Hall, Bob Hostetter, Rich Moultrie, Bob Chamberlain and his wife Sally and Ryan Riley a wonderfully successful trip to our Dominican Dental Clinic.

• RESERVE THE DATE: Strawberry Square “red kettle Salvation Army bell ringing” for Wednesday and Thursday, December 14-15, from 10:00 AM- 2:00 PM.  Sign up sheets available on Monday.

•  It’s not too late to send in your Pancake Breakfast money.

• 62% have paid the $100 HRF contribution.  32% have paid the Support for the Troops contribution. Please send in your payments today!

• The Hanson Award Committee welcomes nominations in writing until December 9 for the next Robert Hanson Rotary Excellence Award.

• The Nominating Committee welcomes nominations in writing until January 4 for the Vice-President and the four Board vacancies. Rotarians must have served for 3 years. Please contact Linda with your nominations.
• We extend condolences to Bridget Montgomery on the loss of her mother, Malie B. McLaughlin Please keep Bridget and her family in your thoughts and prayers during this most difficult time.

• NOVEMBER is Rotary Foundation Month.

1. The Foundation is working on our primary goal to eradicate polio.
2. The Foundation changes lives in communities.
3. You make it possible through your contributions

• DISTRICT NEWS:
The November Governors Newsletter is available at:
http://www.rotary7390.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Ok1pspPQ9Sk%3d&tabid=113

•  If you wish to follow the adventures of the District Group Study Exchange Team, and team member  Faith Camp  who is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Harrisburg,  as they travel around Singapore & Malaysia,  go to http://gse7390.wordpress.com/

•  November 19– the District will hold a Rotary Foundation seminar at the Harrisburg East Holiday Inn from 8:00 – 1:00 for ALL Rotarians interested in learning more about the work of the Rotary Foundation and its programs.  Contact Linda for details.

LAST ROTARY MEETING:  10/31/11
Minutes by Andy Rebuck:
“Trick or treat.” 

This scribe might guess that you have heard these words expressed by a little cowboy, a princess, a superhero and many others when you opened your door on Halloween evening.

Just for the fun of it let’s take these words to today’s Rotary meeting.

It certainly was not a treat to be missing Norma “Piano Player” Swain.  It was a treat to have Dick Stewart offer the invocation and Tom “Stand on a chair” Pelosi belt out the club song.  Bill “Sweet Treat” Spahr announced Rotarians’ Wert, Persico and Cavanaugh had guests, and that we had a visiting Rotarian from Red Lion Club.

President “Boo” Saline was not scary at all when he noted John “Free Cars for All” Sutliff would coordinate teacher/student of month awards for Bishop McDevitt, John Harris and Sci Tech.  Now these awardees were a treat for sure!

Like a group of youngsters moving to the neighbor’s door, our meeting was definitely in high gear as Jim Nelson, President of the Keystone Club, introduced Carlos Lopez, a lifetime educator and Asst. to Superintendant at Harrisburg High School.  Speaking of moving with vim and vigor of a youngster enjoying a Halloween night, Carlos was energetic, fired up and all that as he spoke about inspiring students and adults with the four way test, ways to nurture diversity in the workplace and phrases or quotes that can drive efforts to keep the dream of service to the community alive and well.

There was no need for the next speaker to do back flips or card tricks to earn a treat, as Joseph Robinson was on the money with his personable, warm and witty presentation about the eight progressive steps to conflict resolution.  He noted that this was not rocket science stuff and that quite simply much conflict comes from a lack of education on ways our youth can deal with hostility.

The proverbial goodie bag was almost filled to the brim when our meeting took a short detour to auction off the four remaining items to support the Pancake Breakfast and Harrisburg High Students.  As easy as guessing who might be hiding behind that mask, our club members stood up and raised the total via the auction effort to over $6,800.

Meeting adjourned 1:13 (ooh, scary 13) and all members were urged to have a safe and fun trick or treat.

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

Robert S. Saline               
Una Martone
Karen F. Snider
John P. Judson, M.D.
Carolyn Dumaresq, Ed.D.
William B. Boles
Richard Utley                

President
President-Elect
Vice President
Immediate Past President
Secretary
Treasurer
Sergeant-at-Arms

Sandra Beck
Caryn J. Carr
David E. Freet
Kent E. Frese
Lisa Lewis
Thomas A. Peluso
Andrew R. Rebuck
Robin Scaer