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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK Bob Chamberlain JUL 9 Bob Moore JUL 12 Linda Till JUL 12 Micheal Carbon JUL 13 John Judson, M.D. JUL 14 Hasu Shah JUL 14

JULY ANNIVERSARIES Chuck Fromer 40 Years Bob Chamberlain 36 Dick Stewart 30 Years Lisa Lewis 12 Years Barry Goodling 1 Year Mark Koellner 1 Year

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:

• July 2 - NO MEETING
• July 9 - Induction of New Officers and Board Hilton
• July 16 - Dr. Michael Hanes, President/CEO Whitaker Center Hilton "Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts with a brief review of the past and present work as well as our goals for the future"
• July 23 - Dennis Wolff, Secretary of Agriculture Hilton "Our Food Chain"

For complete programming go to our website: hbgrotary.org and click on calendar.
July is Literacy Month

NEWS AND NOTES:

• 2007-08 Rosters will be distributed at the July 9th Rotary meeting. Extra rosters are available for $3.
  
  
• The badge boards have been re-alphabetized ….thanks to the assistance of Watson Fisher.
  
  
• HACC will once again be hosting students and faculty from Minerva Business College (formerly Randers Business College), in Randers, Denmark, this September. Students will be accompanied by their faculty and will spend just over 2.5 weeks on campus studying, touring area businesses, and meeting with business, industry and government officials. Part of their course of study will include work with HACC faculty Marty Wise and his International Business students.
  
  The College has volunteered to assist in identifying host families for the 24 students, and I ask you to consider this opportunity. Students range in age 16 through 21 and all are fluent in English. A website with biographical information on each student is available. Several members of our local chapter participated as host families last year and found the experience rewarding and the students very engaging. I was pleased to hear that many of the Rotarians who participated in last year's program expressed interest in hosting students for this year's exchange.
  
  Students will arrive on Campus on September 5th and depart on September 23rd. While weekday transportation of the students to and from the College by the host family is preferred, it should not be a deterrent to hosting a student, as the Minerva faculty will have a van to assist with transportation needs.
  
  The Minerva weblink containing individual webpages for each inbound student is http://galleri.hsminerva.dk/mv57/HACC_2007
  
  Please consider this request and contact Linda Lefevre, Associate Dean of the BHET Division, with any questions you may have. She can be reached at 717-780-2366 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  
  
• YOUTH EXCHANGE INFO
  The Rotary Club of Harrisburg will sponsor Ange Sauvage from Lyon , France. Ange will be attending Susquehanna Township High School. The Youth Exchange Committee will be interviewing host families (they do not need to be Rotarians.) Ange will stay with 3 host families during the school year. He will stay with each family about 3 months. Host families are to treat him as you would your own child. Ange will receive an allowance from the Club. If you are interested in hosting Ange or you know of someone else in Susquehanna Township who would want to host him, please contact Linda Freedenberg or Ron Guss ASAP.
• 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: 6/25/07 59%
Rotarians 79 Active Specials 12 Guests 5 Visiting Rotarians 1 = 97

Minutes by Mitch Tillett:

President Garry called the last meeting of his Presidency to order at 12:20 p.m. We were visited by one visiting Rotarian and two Guests today. Jeff Gilbert, Vice President of Murray Insurance Services, gave a mini classification and Jeff talked about the importance of insurance and risk management. He told us a moving story about the passing of his father when he was in college and how adequate life insurance and retirement savings allowed his family to continue on financially.

Exchange Student Ricky from Venezuela was presented with a Harrisburg Rotary Flag to take back to his home club.

Good news reporting was conducted by Jeff Boswell. One note worth mentioning was by Peter Henninger. He just had his first hole in one while playing golf. Congratulations! There was lots of good news reported today. If you need good news come to Rotary.

Our Speaker today was our District President, Janice Black. Janice presented 3 awards as follows:

• Garry Brinton received a Presidential Citation for excellent leadership.
• Andy Rebuck received an award for his excellent efforts in organizing golf tournaments.
• Bob Saline received an award for the Public Relations Do's & Don't Seminars that he conducts yearly for fellow Rotarians.

Janice went over many things during her presentation. What stood out to me was the amount of effort that goes into being the District Governor. Among the many things she spoke about was what it takes to have a successful Rotary Club. Things like membership diversity. Also she mentioned the importance of keeping clubs fresh by adding new events yearly. She talked about the importance of club leaders visiting other successful clubs. She also stressed the importance of attending district events. To summarize her presentation, Janice loves Rotary and she loves our club.