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

Speaker: Major Ed Shank, Director of Public Affairs, PA National Guard

Topic: ".....And We Just Go On With Our Own Little Lives"!
The recent loss of three Pennsylvania Guardsmen from the 131st Division in Bagram, Afghanistan causes us to consider the depth of our loss and the impact it is having on their families, communities, and military colleagues. Major Ed Shank, who knew all three of these brave Pennsylvanians, will reflect for and with us this day.

Greeter:   Jeff Boswell
Invocation: Al Schmidt
Club Singing: Karen Paris
Publications:  Jacqueline Jackson-DeGarcia

Corporate Member

PROGRAM: Major Ed Shank, Director of Public Affairs, PA National Guard
Military Experience
Director of Public Affairs, PA National Guard (GS-13 Federal Technician) June 2011 – Present
Special staff officer to the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania responsible for overseeing all Air Guard wing and Army Guard brigade-level public affairs offices within the commonwealth. Responsible for all state level internal communications, external communications, and media relations for the National Guard.

56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (U.S. Army Major) Sept. 2009 – Present
Chief of public affairs for the National Guard’s only SBCT. Personal advisor to the 56 SBCT Commander and his staff. Supervisor of a team of three enlisted journalists, photographers, and video producers.

1st Battalion, 108th Field Artillery (U.S. Army Captain) Jan. 2008 – Sept. 2009
Battalion information operations officer, public affairs officer, and personal staff advisor to the 1-108 FA Commander prior to and during the 56 SBCT's 2009 deployment to a combat zone north of Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Media liaison and video producer for the U.S. State Department’s Provincial Reconstruction Team.

Special Duty Assignments
Operation Iraqi Freedom, Camp Taji, Iraq Jan. – Sept. 2009
Academy of Military Science, McGhee-Tyson ANGB Jan. 2003 – March 2005
Operation Enduring Freedom, Bahrain May – June 2002
Commander, Air National Guard Band of the Mid-Atlantic Sept. 1999 – June 2000
Operation Desert Thunder, Ali-al-Salem, Kuwait Aug. – Sept. 1997
Education
Johns Hopkins University, MA Communications currently enrolled
Shippensburg University, BA Fine Art 1996
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, AA Graphic Design 1992

NEWS AND NOTES: 
•  The Board of Directors accepts with regret the resignations of Kendall Hanna and Mark Koellner.

• New Rosters will be available.  Special thanks to our advertisers – the Foundation for Enhancing Communities, PRWorks, Goodwill, Gaudenzia, PMI and Leadership Harrisburg.  Additional Rosters are available for $3.
ROSTER CORRECTION:  Jeff Gelburd-  switch phone and fax numbers

• YOUTH EXCHANGE: On August 15 our new Rotary Youth Exchange student Anti Nool will attend our Rotary meeting at the Hilton.  Anti is from Estonia.  Please make sure to welcome him that day.  Also we are asking for donations of Hersheypark tickets, Harrisburg Senators tickets or other event tickets for Anti and his host family to use. Contact Linda, Steve or Dave. "
Steve Feinour and Dave Bedard, Youth Exchange Co-Chairs

• Homeless Initiatives Committee: It had come to the attention of the Rotary Club of Harrisburg's leadership, that one of the pervasive issues that the City of Harrisburg faces, that of homelessness, does not receive much attention from the Harrisburg business community.  Since our club is an important representation of the local business community and is dedicated serving the needs of the City of Harrisburg, a new committee, the Homelessness Initiative was created this year.  Our goal is to provide our members with ongoing opportunities to learn about Harrisburg's homelessness issues first hand and at the same time, provide regular service opportunities for our members.  On August 15, Corinne Rebinski and Chuck Wingate, will briefly introduce this concept to the membership and will have Julie Hoskins, director of the YWCA Housing and Homelessness Services, introduce our first service project in conjunction with the Capital Area Coalition on Homelessness "Project Homeless Connect," which takes place on Friday, September 16th at the Farm Show building.

• The Year in Review is on the information table and on our website. 

• DISTRICT NEWS:
CLEAN-UP at the Byrnes Center – 515 S. George Street  York, PA  17401
Thursday August 25 5-9:00 PM.  Please indicate if you would like a light supper.  RSVP  Anne Bahn  848-3064 x231 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text83313 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by August 18th.  Jobs include – cleaning lights, scrub bathroom floors and walks, sweeping parking lot, washing windows/walks, cleaning kitchen, power washing sidewalk.
•  The Governor’s July Newsletter is available at this link: http://www.rotary7390.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=OpfFPuc3pTI%3d&tabid=113

     BIRTHDAYS
Marion Alexander  AUG 8
Kevin Lutz  AUG 8
Nikki Stone   AUG 13
Tom Imholte  AUG 15
Gerald Kohn  AUG 18
Glenn Hafer  AUG 19
Peter Henninger  AUG 21
Dick Stewart  AUG 21
UPCOMING PROGRAMS

AUG 22           Michael Young, President/CEO PinnacleHealth
“THE PINNACLE HEALTH SYSTEM: The New President and CEO Addreses Challenges”

AUG 29           Kurt Moses, Holocaust survivor, author and lecturer

9/5  NO MEETING – Labor Day

RADISSON
9/12  Dr. Joyce Davis and a Musical performance on this special occasion regarding the meaning and outcome for us all, from her perspective, regarding 9/11

For complete programming go to our website: www.hbgrotary.org
and click on calendar.
For meeting cancelations:
Check your e-mail or call the
Rotary office at 234-1208.

LAST ROTARY MEETING:  8/1/11
Minutes by Peter Henninger:
President Bob called the meeting to order at approximately 12:15 p.m. and thanked Norma Swain for our lovely dinner music.  Howard Ross provided the invocation and Tom Peluso led us in America The Beautiful, followed up by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Tom Bream then introduced various members of our Club, including Maria Persico, Ira Packman, Tom Peluso, Jen Doyle, Karen Snider, Jeff Boswell, Bob Saline, Jayne Abrams, and David Morrison, who introduced their visitors.  Tom then recognized two visiting Rotarians, Jim Stanton from Philadelphia, and Hector Ortiz from The Harrisburg Keystone Club, one of our Assistant District Governors.

Hava Pell then gave her mini-classification speech, informing the club that she was a native of Allentown area, that she grew up in a politically active family, that her father was a Rotarian and that as a very young girl, her parents instilled in her that she needed to give time when she had time and to give money when she had money.  Hava noted that she had been a congregational Rabbi for many years and had given that up after an illness, and that she is now with the Massachusetts Mutual as a financial planner working mainly with gay and lesbian couples.

President Bob then noted that there would be three committee meetings after the conclusion of the regular meeting and then introduced Bob Hostetter, who introduced our speaker, Dr. John J. Sygielski, President of Harrisburg Area Community College, the seventh person to hold that position since the formation of HACC.

The Doctor stated that his program would be Listening, Learning, Leading: My Approach To HACC Presidency.

The President noted that he had only been on the job for three weeks and that he was in the process of meeting with business leaders throughout the area and has noted early on, the feeling that getting college more into the high school level would provide a greater possibility of transferring opportunities to four-year colleges and universities at a younger age. The President noted that the challenges for HACC are chiefly two:
1.  demographics are changing and how does the community college address  this issue; and
2.  the need for innovation in order to continue the educational entrepreneurial process that it is.

He noted that he is listening to the sponsoring school districts and that HACC facilities are spread out throughout the area and somewhat surprisingly, noted that 35% of the students of HACC are doing remedial work.  Dr. Sygielski then opened up the floor for general discussion asking for comments from the membership as to what HACC can do or needs to do to better serve the community.

All in all, an excellent program which left most, if not all members, with the feeling that HACC is in a good position to continue to serve the area for many years to come.

President Bob then repeated that there would be no meeting on August 8, but that on August 15th Major Ed Shank would be the program. The meeting then concluded on time.

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

Robert S. Saline              
Una Martone
Karen F. Snider
John P. Judson, M.D.
Carolyn Dumaresq
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