Meets Noon Mondays at the Hilton
www.hbgrotary.org
Executive Director: Linda Freedenberg
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Telephone: 717-234-1208
Fax: 717-234-3234

Speaker: Eric D. Darr, Ph.D. Provost & Executive Vice President Harrisburg University

Harrisburg University is undertaking higher education to the "next level" by integrating 8 core competencies now required for any of us who want to enrich our catalytic, dynamic capacities.  Our speaker will share these competencies and the rational and application associated with them!  His topic:  "LIFE COMPETENCIES FOR EFFECTIVE CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE"

Greeter: Nichole Baer
Invocation:  Howard Ross
Club Singing: John Hickey
Publications:  Carrie W. Thomas

Corporate Member

BIRTHDAYS
Jeb Stuart   DEC 12

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
at the Hilton

• Dec 13   Harrisburg High School Touring Choir
• Dec 20   NO MEETING
• Dec 27   NO MEETING

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.

PROGRAM:
Dr. Eric Darr is an administrator and professor whose career has bridged the corporate world and academia. He was named provost of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology as of July 1, 2007. The provost is the University's chief academic officer. Dr. Darr also serves as Executive Vice President.

Dr. Darr oversees Academic Services, Enrollment Management, Information Technology Services, Library Services and Curriculum and Faculty Affairs.

Additionally, Dr. Darr serves on the leadership team for the Pennsylvania STEM Center Initiative, which will design, develop, implement and evaluate a set of strategies for Pennsylvania’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Agenda through 2018. An initiative of the National Governors Association and the Team Pennsylvania Foundation, the STEM Center Initiative develops and deploys statewide strategies and resources designed to enhance the Commonwealth’s education and workforce development efforts targeted at the development of a globally competitive STEM workforce.

Dr. Darr earned both a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master of science degree in Industrial Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also earned an MBA and a doctor of philosophy degree in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Nobel Prize Winner and noted organizational theorist Herbert Simon.

While at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles, he conducted research and consulted in over twenty multinational corporations including Arthur Andersen, Gemini Consulting, TRW Space and Electronics, Hughes Aerospace, Bank of America, Xerox, British Airways and Qantas Airlines.

Dr. Darr developed and taught Doctoral and MBA courses in organizational learning, organizational change, organization design, process reengineering, business strategy and technology management. Further, he developed and taught executive education courses in measuring intellectual capital, corporate renewal, managing information technology resources, improving product development and creating organizational memory.

He has published numerous articles and book chapters on organizational learning, learning technologies and competitive advantage. He has been an invited speaker at universities in the United States, Austria, Great Britain, France, Australia and the Netherlands. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Center for International Business Education and Research at UCLA.

Prior to joining Harrisburg University, Dr. Darr was Chief Operating Officer from 2000 until 2004 at KnowledgePlanet, Inc., a software company located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Darr led Ernst & Young’s Knowledge Management Consulting Services.

NEWS AND NOTES:
• The Hanson Award Committee welcomes nominations in writing until December 14 for the next Robert Hanson Rotary Excellence Award.

• The Nominating Committee welcomes nominations in writing until January 4 for the Vice- President position (serves 2011-12) and the four Board vacancies. Rotarians must have served for 3 years.

Please contact Linda with your nominations

•  The West Shore Chamber of Commerce announced that the recipient of the Les Ginanni Business & Community Connection Award is our Rotarian Larry Bashore, Edwin L. Heim Company. The Annual Meeting and Luncheon is December 8, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Radisson Hotel Harrisburg Hershey, 1150 Camp Hill Bypass. Call West Shore Chamber if you would like to attend.  Congratulations Larry!

• Remember to Support the Troops and $100 Harrisburg Rotary Foundation contribution is due!  Please send in your $100 today.  68% have paid 2010-11 to date.

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

•  Our Club will match your contribution to the Rotary International Foundation.  Speed your way to your Paul Harris Fellowship.  Look for letter (serving as an invoice) in the mail.

• We are looking for tickets to sporting events, cultural events, HersheyPark, etc. for our new Exchange Student Javier from Madrid, Spain and his host families.  If you would like to donate tickets, please contact Steve Feinour at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Ron Guss at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  
Thank you for your support of Rotary Youth Exchange.
Steve Feinour & Ron Guss, Youth Exchange Committee Co-chairs
•  Graduates from John Harris High School or William Penn High School: Please contact Joan Prescott, Executive Director of the Harrisburg Schools Foundation, < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >with your name, email, and address.  This information would be used by me to initiate an Ad Hoc Committee for the Foundation in order to help the students of the Harrisburg School District.
HSF MISSION: "The mission of the Harrisburg Schools Foundation is to improve academic achievement, support programming, and promote leadership and personal development of students within the Harrisburg public schools by facilitating community participation and bringing together resources and financial support."

ATTENDANCE:

LAST ROTARY MEETING:
11/15/10       50% $58 Good News Reporting for Rotary Rose Bowl Float
Rotarians   57      Active Specials   11         Guests    1        Visiting Rotarians 1   = 70
11/22/10 InterClub Thankgiving Luncheon      48% $817 was collected for Catholic Charities
Rotarians    65      Active Specials  10          Guests   6         Visiting Rotarians  1 + Interclub members  125  =  207

Minutes by Mark Stone for 11/15/10
Vice President Bob Saline stepped in for President John, who is in the Dominican Republic, and led our club meeting at the Hilton Hotel. Joan Prescott led us in prayer, and Caryn Carr, with Norma Swain on the ivories, led us in America the Beautiful. Wil Everhart introduced our one visiting Rotarian from the West York club. Birthdays of club members were announced.

Hal Hurwitz reminded us of the Salvation Army Bell Ringing on Tuesday, December 14th and Wednesday, December 15th in the atrium of Strawberry Square. As is our annual custom, club members are needed to "man" the kettle by working a one-hour shift during these days. Please sign up at Linda's table at our weekly meeting.

Wil Everhart shook the good news reporting money tree. Money flowed for a variety of reasons from grateful members of our club.

Program- Ginny Roth introduced our fellow Rotarian, Sandy Beck. Her topic was entitled "Balancing Life: Taking a Look at Life Differently"
Sandy Beck has been with Dale Carnegie Careerist for the last twenty years and for seventeen of those twenty years has been in the top five percent in production worldwide. Currently Sandy is the Area Manager of the Central Pennsylvania region. Sandy explained to us the process of self discovery she went through twenty years ago when she found herself the sole bread winner of her family of four. She went to work full time, supporting her husband who went back to college, and raised two small children.  Her work with Dale Carnegie focuses on public speaking, leadership training, and helping people who go through the program to learn how to develop an even balance in all areas of life. She stepped off and explained the eight categories within the "Wheel of Life". Those areas according to Sandy are: Career, Finance, Community, Social Life, Family, Personal Life, Health, and finally Spirituality.  She took us through an exercise where each of us individually rated ourselves in each of these areas based on a 1 to 10 scale.  We then connected the "dots" within the wheels spoke to see where each of us stands. She used the analogy of an automobile's tire as to whether each of our "wheels" are perfectly balanced going down the road of life or are we off balance in any of these eight areas. This is a tool that we can look at from time to time to evaluate and re-evaluate where we are and where we need to shift our priorities.

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

John P. Judson, M.D
Robert S. Saline              
Una Martone
Carolyn Dumaresq
Barry Ramper, II,             
William B. Boles                
William M. Tillett

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

Sandra Beck
Caryn J. Carr
John R. Detweiler
Kent E. Frese
Lisa Lewis
John J. McHenry
Andrew R/ Rebuck
Karen F. Snider