HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK Walt Lowery     FEB 13 Terry Barnaby  FEB 14 Sally Klein        FEB 14 Joe Metz          FEB 17 Lee Fortenberry   FEB 20 Dudley Smith       FEB 22	HAPPY February Anniversaries Larry Bashore    30 years Dave Lehman    17 years Jean Beatty       16 years Nick Connolly     16 years Jack Detweiler   14 years Susan Anthony   12 years Bob Dolan         9 years Barry Ramper    7 years Joe Bedard        5 years Barbra Skelly     5 years Pegy rove          5 years Tom Pelusa        1 year Una Martone      1 year

PROGRAM: Randy Lee is a Professor of Law at the Widener University School of Law—Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Campus and is a graduate of Butler University and the Harvard Law School. Randy was selected Widener’s Outstanding Law Professor by the graduating class of 1995, and in 1999 he received Widener Law School’s inaugural Outstanding Teacher award as selected by the alumni. Randy teaches Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility, Torts, and various writing and advocacy courses. His ABA moot court teams advanced to Nationals three times in four years and were recognized for the third best brief in the nation in 1993. Randy served as the Chairperson of the Association of American Law School’s Section on Professional Responsibility in 2003 and is the Section’s current newsletter editor. He is also the chair of the law school subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Professionalism Committee.

Randy has also taught at the Villanova and University of Pittsburgh Law Schools and in the Harvard University Summer Program. Randy was a consultant to the Franciscan University of Steubenville when that school considered opening a law school.

Randy is a leading advocate for the rights of people who are deaf or hard of hearing. He worked on the first case to guarantee people who are deaf the right to serve as jurors and currently works with the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health to guarantee people who are deaf, deaf/blind, or hard of hearing equal and effective access to mental health services. He is a former coach of blind and deaf wrestlers and coached two first team Deaf All-Americans and one East Coast Blind Conference champion. He has consulted on various issues with judicial and executive agencies in five states as well as with Self Help for People who are Hard of Hearing, the National Association for the Deaf, the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, NorCal Center for Law and the Deaf, and the National Center for Law and the Deaf .

Randy has published over thirty law-related articles on a wide range of areas including constitutional law, legal writing, individual rights, tax, torts, and legal ethics and has written extensively on the role of religion in the law school, the legal profession, and the law itself. He has spoken at the law schools of Baylor, Boston College, Catholic, Duke, Fordham, New York University, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Pepperdine, Saint John’s, South Texas, and Villanova and also at Gallaudet University and the Wharton School of Business. Randy has also spoken at judicial conferences for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, Common Pleas, and Superior Courts and at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting. His programs for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute have linked American lawyers to such diverse figures as Robert Coles, Dorothy Day, Atticus Finch, Jerome Lawrence, Thomas More, William Shakespeare, and Bruce Springsteen. Randy has been active in youth ministry since 1988 and teaches the confirmation class at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Harrisburg, He has completed a Biblically based novel on the life of Martha of Bethany.

Randy and his wife Brenda have been married for twenty-two years and have six children, one of whom was adopted from China. The four youngest are taught at home.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:  

• Feb 11                   Dr. Randy Lee, Constitutional Professor Widener Law School
  Hilton                     Getting concrete with our Constitution
• Feb 18                   NO MEETING
• Feb 25                   Patirck Meehan, US Attorney
  Hilton           Public integrity…..violent crime and terriorism

For complete programming go to our website: hbgrotary.org and click on calendar.

NEWS AND NOTES:
Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee: Garry Brinton, , Chair,  Jewel Cooper, Thomas M. Johnston, Jr., Sally Klein and Janice R. Black submit the following slate of nominations to serve as officers and directors.

Officers for the year July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009

Barry Ramper II, President
Carolyn Dumaresq, President-elect (year of Presidency 2009-010)
John P. Judson, Vice President  (year of Presidency 2010-11)
Carrie N. W. Thomas,  Imm. Past President
E. Garrett Brinton, Secretary
William B. Boles, Treasurer
Deborah Abel, Sergeant-at-Arms

Directors for the term July 1, 2008-June 30, 2010:
Patricia Hindermyer    ‘09           Caryn J. Carr                 '10
Tina Nixon                   ‘09          Dolores R. Liptak          '10
Richard W. Stewart     ‘09           Andrew R. Rebuck         '10
Karen F. Snider  ‘09                    Robert S. Saline            '10

The annual meeting of this Club will be held on March 31, 2008 at which time the election of the officers and four directors to serve for the ensuing years will take place.

• The March 3rd Rotary Meeting will be held at the PA State Education Building at 333 Market Street (take escalator from street, enter building and then elevator to 1st floor).
Terry Madonna will be presenting an interesting talk on the politics of today.
We will have this meeting catered by SirD’s. RSVP is required. 
Please contact Linda.

•  Please make sure you have paid your $100 Harrisburg Rotary Foundation.

•  JOINING HANDS   Rebuilding after Katrina
The Club is joining hands with the District to rebuilt homes and lives after Katrina devastation. Five members of the Club are planning to fly to Biloxi, MS to join with others to rebuild homes. Another member has contributed toward the cost of construction materials.

The program calls for those volunteering to fly to Biloxi on a Sunday where local volunteers meet them. Meals and housing will be “dormitory style” in the fellowship hall of a local Lutheran Church. Volunteers are asked to provide their own airfare (about $265 from Baltimore) and $20/day for food and housing expenses. Some members are considering flying down privately. The local arrangements committee provides tools and transportation to the work site.

The construction work varies from week to week. January will involved general construction. February will involve drywall, taping, spackling, orange peel spray coating, and insulation. March will need interior finishing: painting, installing cabinets and fixtures, trim, doors and flooring. Also needed are people to prepare meals and provide clerical and administrative support. People with all levels of skill are needed.

The World Fellowship Committee and President Carrie hope that a large number from our Club can participate in this humanitarian service. You will hear more at our Club meeting Monday. Please pick up a registration form at the meeting Monday and indicate all possible weeks of service, What a plus for our club to have members working  together!  Applications will be on the tables and on our website:   www.hbgrotary.org
Tom Johnston or John Judson
 
•   SUPPORT OUR TROOPS PROJECT
Donate $10 cash or check payable to the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation, in support of our 2007-08 goal to raise another $2,000 to assist the non-profit “Wounded Warrior Project” minister to the personal needs of our severely wounded troops who face long-term rehab in military hospitals. Your contribution is 100% tax deductible.

For meeting cancellations due to inclement weather.... Tune to ABC27-TV
or check your e-mail or call the Rotary office at 234-1208.

ATTENDANCE:

LAST ROTARY MEETING: 2/4/08       62%
Rotarians  98   Active Specials  13    Guests  11    Visiting Rotarians 3  =  125

Minutes by Tom Parker: 
Derek Hathaway was welcomed to Harrisburg Rotary on February 4th by a full house, including eight guests and three visiting Rotarians.  The CEO and Chairman of HARSCO Corporation, who recently announced his retirement, spoke on the topic “Educating our Youth in our Expanding World”.  When he assumed the reins of HARSCO’s leadership fifteen years ago, the company’s market capitalization was less than $500 million and its business was predominantly domestic.  Hathaway’s vision was to take HARSCO worldwide, and today the company operates in 46 countries with a market capitalization of $5 billion.  “We live in a shrinking world because of technology and communications, but we live in an expanding world because of global opportunities”, he said, and HARSCO has grown under Hathaway’s leadership by becoming a truly international company.  

“The public education system in the U.S. is insular”,  reflecting the ethnocentricity of American culture.  The rest of the world perceives that we are an arrogant nation that does not attempt to understand other cultures and societies and whether this perception is accurate or not, “perception is reality”.  Hathaway fears that America ’s competitive position in the worldwide economy will diminish unless our educational system more actively promotes global thinking, appreciation for other cultures, and international communication skills.  He particularly emphasized the necessity for our public education system to promote the study of foreign languages, noting that current requirements are only introductory in nature.  He related a personal experience when he was able to communicate directly with a high-ranking Chinese official because of their mutual fluency in French, even though neither of them spoke the other one’s language.  Fundamental to Hathaway’s internationalization of HARSCO is the company’s practice of hiring young people who understand international business, sales and finance people who are multi-lingual, and attorneys who specialize in international law. 

A very engaging Q&A session followed Mr. Hathaway’s presentation and there were few departures before the closing gong despite the length of the meeting. 

Earlier in the meeting, John Judson presented “The Rotary Minute”, relating his recent experiences in Haiti , where he spent most of January.  “Everywhere I looked I saw Rotary”, he said – buildings and infrastructure improvements, emergency vehicles, water wells – a virtual symphony of humanitarian assistance sponsored by Rotary International. 

Betty Hungerford gave her mini-classification speech, talking about her dream position as Homeland Center’s first Director of Development, a position that Homeland created in its 133rd year of existence, her dream boss – President-Elect Barry Ramper, her dream family, husband Paul, 7 children and 22 grandchildren, and her philosophy of life, “All we have is today and each day is a gift”. 

Garry Brinton presented the Nominating Committee’s slate of officers for the next fiscal year, including President Barry Ramper, President-Elect Carolyn Dumaresq, and Vice President John Judson.

Please support our Officers and Board by serving our club and our community as we begin our new Rotary year!