PROGRAM:
Dr. John C. Cavanaugh became chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, effective July 1, 2008.  He serves as the chief executive officer of PASSHE, which operates 14 comprehensive universities with a combined enrollment of more than 112,500 students.  The chancellor works with the Board of Governors to recommend and develop overall policies for the State System.

Dr. Cavanaugh is a former Paul Harris fellow and a 7 year Rotarian!

Dr. Cavanaugh previously was president of the 10,500-student University of West Florida in Pensacola, a position he held since 2002. The university has three campuses and also operates nine other locations across Florida’s Emerald Coast, as well as 15 institutes and centers and a public radio station and educational television station. Dr. Cavanaugh provided strategic direction for the university, especially in the areas of academic excellence, community engagement, fundraising, economic development, governmental relations and information technology. He redesigned the university’s budget and financial control systems and restructured the University Planning Council to ensure more open processes and effective planning. He was also a major proponent of the Community Maritime Park on Pensacola’s waterfront, the largest public-private partnership effort in Pensacola’s history. 

He also served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for three years, during which time he led all academic aspects of the comprehensive university, including budgeting, program development and staffing. He also held various positions at the University of Delaware, including vice provost for academic programs and planning and associate provost for graduate studies. While at Delaware, Dr. Cavanaugh led a broad-based effort on teaching reform, securing a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to enhance and expand problem-based learning approaches to teaching in the social sciences and humanities. The project resulted in the enhanced use of appropriate technology in the classroom and the restructuring of support systems for teaching. The university received a Theodore Hesburgh Award Certificate for Excellence in Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching for the effort.

He began his academic career as an adjunct instructor of psychology at Indiana University at South Bend while completing work on his doctoral degree at Notre Dame. His first permanent appointment was as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University in 1980. He held various appointments at Bowling Green, including head of the developmental psychology program and director of the Institute for Psychological Research and Application. He also was director for behavioral research at the Northwest Ohio Dementia and Memory Center at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo for five years.

Dr. Cavanaugh attended St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia before earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Delaware in 1975. He also holds both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Research in Human Learning and the Institute of Child Development.

He is married to Dr. Christine Kamenjar Cavanaugh (also a Rotarian). He is an avid traveler and backpacker who enjoys cooking and photography, and is an avowed chocoholic.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:                                                 
April 6             Dr. John Cavanaugh Chancellor, PA State System of Higher Education
Hilton             “The Importance of Higher Education to the Economy”

April 13         NO MEETNG

April 14, 15 and 16       Foose Vision Project   8:30-2:30 PM

April 20          John Quigley, Chief of Staff, DCNR
Hilton

April 27          Dr. G. Terry Madonna
Hilton            “First 100 days, what did we do?”

For complete programming go to our website: hbgrotary.org and click on calendar.
For meeting cancellations due to inclement weather.... Tune to ABC27-TV
or check your e-mail or call the Rotary office at 234-1208.

NEWS AND NOTES:  
• Congratulations to Deb Abel for being honered as one of the 50 Best Women in Business.

• Roster Information sheets were placed in the badge boards.  Please review to make sure your contact information is correct, select your 2009-10 committees and return to Linda.

• The Whitaker Center offers reduced tickets to Rotariand and their guests for 3 shows.  Please contact Linda if you would like tickets held for you at will call.  Price is $23/pp and checks should be made payable to Rotary Club of Harrisburg.

Tibetan Monks  4/12/09  7 PM          The Flatlanders 4/15/09  7:30 PM           Kathy Mattea 4/17/09  8 PM 

• Sign up sheets (April 14, 15, 16) are available for the Foose School Vision Project.

• NOMINATING COMMITTEE:  Below is the recommendation from the Nominating Committee and approved by the Board.  Vote will be taken at the Annual Meeting in April.
2009-11     
President                      President-Elect                         Vice President                                       Imm. Past-President                
Carolyn Dumaresq         John P. Judson (2010-11)          Robert S. Saline (2011-12)                     Barry Ramper

Secretary                                  Treasurer                                   Sergeant-at-Arms
Carrie W. Thomas                      William B. Boles                        William M. Tillett

BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                  
Caryn J. Carr                             ‘10                                John R. Detweiler           '11
Lawrence M. Means                   ‘10                                Kent E. Frese                '11       
Andrew R. Rebuck                     ’10                                John J. McHenry           ‘11
Maria B. Persico                        ‘10                                Karen F. Snider              '11

• DISTRICT INFO: 

     2008-9 District Conference April 30-May 2

Check out the tentative schedule:

Thursday, April 30 Golf Tournament—Country Club of York                                   
Friday, May 1– Yorktowne Hotel Plenary / Breakout Sessions                   
Lunch/ Downtown/Historical Tours/ Governors Banquet
Lunch/ Factory Tours including Harley Davidson
Dinner at Sovereign Bank Stadium
Saturday, May 2—Yorktowne Hotel - Plenary Sessions
  Registration materials will be available shortly!!

ATTENDANCE:
LAST ROTARY MEETING:  3/30/09       60%                      
Rotarians  74     Active Specials 8      Guests  5    Visiting Rotarians 9   = 87

Minutes by Dave Freet: 
President Barry opened the “technology theme” meeting at12:15 PM.  The Invocation was provided by Jeff Boswell followed by singing by Bob Hostetter.

Greeter Larry Bashore introduced guests attending today’s Meeting.

Wil Everhart did a “good news reporting” collection.

Steve Samara, President of the Pennsylvania Telephone Association (PTA) did a mini-classification talk providing
insight as to the challenges facing his 35 member group. The challenges today include:  competition; regulation; inequitable, heavy taxation; and today’s down economy. Excellent classification presentation.

Bob Hostetter, doing double duty today, then introduced the main speaker for the day, none other than the President and CEO of the Technology Council of Central PA (Council) Kelly Lewis.  Kelly has been the leader of the Council since 2005.  He is a former State Representative, an attorney with an undergrad degree in finance and his law degree from Weidner School of Law.

Kelly noted that the Council is 100% member supported that works to build partnerships.  Their goal is to build accelerated deployment of broadband throughout PA, to improve pricing and availability of broadband in the Commonwealth.  With assistance from TechQuest (one of the Council’s entities) Pa.’s school districts now have the best broadband capabilities in the United States at greatly reduced cost per megabit per month.

Technology has a “leveling effect,” according to Lewis helping rural school districts to effectively compete with both urban and suburban school districts in access and implementation of technology in the educational systems. Since 2005 there has been a 1582% INCREASE in total bandwidth throughout PA.  Pricing parity now exists in PA (rural vs. urban/suburban) with in excess of $13 million spent in enhancing telecom infrastructure.

TechQuest has funded projects exceeding $7.2 million in a 100% bid to contract process.  Their goal is to: 1/ Encourage demand-driven projects; 2/ Take a regional approach to deployment of broadband; 3/ To rely on private sector to build/supply broadband in PA.

Kelly brought along and disseminated a copy of TechQuest’s “Renaissance Report from 2008 which reflects the many initiatives of TechQuest.  Some of the partnerships within TechQuest are:  Pa Infrastructure Group; PA Health Information Exchange; Military Information Exchange; TechQuest Internships; Workforce Training; and Broadband and Exaflood issues.

For those not directly involved or attentive to the uses and significance of technology (broadband specifically) for the future success of PA, you missed a “very informative” and well-presented overview by Kelly Lewis.  His story is one not well recognized in the Commonwealth, does not obtain the media coverage or political/regulatory acknowledgement.  Industry alone has accomplished these significant achievements without tax/government money to the betterment of  all citizens of PA.