Meets Noon Mondays at the Hilton
Rotary website: www.hbgrotary.org

Executive Director: Linda Freedenberg Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Telephone: 717-234-1208 Fax: 717-234-3234

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ROTARY ROUNDUP: for June 18, 2007

Speaker: Nancy Dering Martin
Topic: "Your Personal Legacy: A Leader's Endowment to the Future of What Matters"

Greeter: Wil Everhart
Invocation: Joe Summers
Club Singing: Joe Summers
Publications: Mark Stone
Mini-Classification Talk: Cynthia Fillman
Placing Rotary Roundup: Jim Miller

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK
Bridget Quigley JUN 18
John D. Morefield JUN 20
Joe Bedard JUN 22
Sharon Stabinski JUN 22
Jewel Cooper JUN 22
Sam Levine JUN 23
Heath Allen JUN 24
Larry Bashore JUN 24
Linda Freedenberg JUN 24

PROGRAM:
Nancy Dering Martin brings intellect, insight and savvy to her role as principal in her consulting practice, NANCY DERING MARTIN, Inc., and as a leader in her profession and community. An accomplished executive, entrepreneur and consultant, she has broad experience in private, public and independent sectors. Nancy is recognized as an incisive strategist and trusted advisor in Strategy, Leadership, Change and Human Capital Management. She is highly sought after as an articulate, inspiring and powerful communicator and master facilitator of high-profile, high-stakes deliberations.

Prior to returning to the private sector in 2007, Nancy was Deputy Secretary for Human Resources and Management in the Governor’s Executive Offices for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She was appointed as Deputy Secretary by Governor Tom Ridge in 2000 and re-appointed by Governor Edward G. Rendell in 2003 at which time she was named Chief Human Resources Officer and added to Governor’s senior staff. She led the Office of Human Resources and Management, responsible for managing Human Resources policy and programs for the Commonwealth, an employer of 80,000 employees, including those covered by 21 bargaining units. During this time, she also served as President-Elect of the National Association of State Personnel Executives and was the 2006 recipient of NASPE’s Eugene Rooney Award for Leadership in Human Resources. Prior to appointment to this position, Nancy served as Director, Bureau of Management Consulting for 14 months, during which she turned around a 15-person internal consulting unit, expanding services, upgrading skills and technology, enhancing marketing and instituting mechanisms to track and measure the impact of services.

Ms. Dering Martin was founder and president of The Dering Consulting Group from 1986 – 1999. She successfully built the firm into one of the most respected teams of organization development professionals in Pennsylvania, with a client list that included Fortune 500 companies, educational and healthcare institutions, and nonprofit organizations. She worked extensively with government organizations at the federal, state and local levels and completed international assignments with Argentina and Zimbabwe. She sold the firm in 1999.

Since 1986, Nancy has been adjunct faculty at the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, designing and presenting seminars for Executive Development programs.

Nancy received her Bachelor’s degree from Elizabethtown College and her Master’s, with highest honors, from Temple University. In July, 2001, Nancy was selected and participated in the prestigious Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

She has been actively involved in professional associations and community organizations having served on the Boards of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of the Capital Region. Her current community involvement includes serving as Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Leadership Harrisburg-Area and as a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Harrisburg Symphony. Nancy was selected as one of the YWCA’s Tribute to Women of Excellence honorees in 2004, was named one of Harrisburg Magazine’s 2006 Movers and Shapers and was the recipient of the Harrisburg Chamber’s 2006 Athena Award.

Nancy has had several articles published in national professional journals, including “Leadership in Quality Organizations,” in the January 1998 issue of The Journal for Quality and Participation. She is also the author of a series of a six books, Discovering Meaning, Discerning Direction and Deepening Faith, published by Morehouse Publishing in 2003. She is currently working on several books, each in various stages of completion.

She is the mother of three children and grandmother of four. She loves music, and enjoys travel and golf.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS

June 18 Nancy Dering Martin
Hilton "Your Personal Legacy: A Leader's Endowment to the Future of What Matters"

June 25 Distrct Govener Janice Black
Hilton “What I’ve Learned as District Governor”

July 2 NO MEETING

July 9 Induction of New Officers and Board
Hilton

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

June is Youth Exchange Month

NEWS AND NOTES:

• The Rotary office needs an electric typewriter. Do you have an extra one sitting in your office?

• DISTRICT 7390 GOVERNOR’S INSTALLATION
Please join us Thursday, June 28 at the Hanover Country Club for the 2007-2008 Governor’s Installation Ceremony.
6:00 p.m. Fellowship Hour Cash Bar & Hors d’oeuvres
7:00 p.m. Dinner- Salad, Chicken Roulade with Apple Stuffing, Garlic Mashed Redskin Potatoes, Green Beans Almandine and Lemon Poundcake

7:45-8:30 p.m. Program
Installation of District 7390 Governor Dennis Kovacevich
Installation of Assistant District 7390 Governors
Master of Ceremonies: Steve Kerr, Executive Director Hanover Red Cross
Entertainment: Karen Bureau, World Renowned Opera Singer
Cost: $40.00 per person

Registration Deadline: June 25th at 10:00 a.m.

Please make checks payable to: District 7390
Mail to: Rotary International District 7390
515 South George Street, York, PA 17401-2723
Fax to: 717-854-6938

Questions? Contact Melissa Bruck-District Office 854-7842.

The ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION makes miracles happen around the world all year long, but your donation now will help us reach our goal even sooner. Send your check to the Rotary office. THANK YOU for your support.

• YOUTH EXCHANGE INFO
1. Next School Year 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 the third week of June. 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 let Linda Freedenberg or Ron Guss know ASAP.

2. Our 2006-07 exchange student, Jose Ricardo Zambrano, from Venezuela has joined his third host family, Carolyn and Dick Dumaresq, and is attending school at Central Dauphin High School. We would like to remind you that we are always looking for activities and American cultural experiences that our exchange students will enjoy. If you have any suggestions, opportunities or tickets available, please contact Ron Guss, Jose Ricardo's counselor, or Terry Barnaby, Co-Chair of the Youth Exchange committee.

• SUPPORT OUR WOUNDED TROOPS
Donate $10 cash or check payable to the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation, in support of our 2006-07 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.

• The 2006-07 Rotary International Convention will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, June 17-20. Registration packets are available online at www.rotary.org.

• MUSIC on MONDAYS
We now have the Al Morrison CD. Contact Linda to buy a copy.
Donation: $20 to Harrisburg Rotary Foundation.

• 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: 6/11/07 54%
Rotarians 76 Active Specials 14Guests 11 Visiting Rotarians 0 = 101

Minutes by Dave Freet
President Garry opened the meeting at 12:08 PM. Marion Alexander led the singing of America the Beautiful, which was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag. The invocation was given by Dick Stewart.

Upon re-opening the meeting at 12:18 PM, President Garry called on Barry Kain to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests. We even had a fellow Rotarian with us from Brazil and Portugal, but he was originally from England.

A “mini-classification talk” was given by one of our newer members, Ed Tosti. Ed is ‘middle marketing relationship manager” at Citizens Bank. He manages customer relationships, volunteers in the community working for charitable causes and in his day job specializes in portfolio management.

Peggy Grove introduce two of the four students who will be scholarship recipients from our HRF dollars - Megan McGrady and Corey Black. Congratulations to both students.

The main program for the day was introduced by Tina Nixon, Jay Risser, Artistic Director of State Street Academy. Jay has over 25 years of experience teaching vocals to young students. He has trained and conducted numerous choirs in Central PA area as well. He received his bachelors in Music Education from Westminster Choir College and a Masters in Music in Choral Conducting from Pennsylvania State University.

Activities of the Academy, which is only about two (2) years old, in clued: Choral Ensembles-Children’s Choir 1, which is open to students in grades 3-7; Children’s Choir II, which a structured after school choral program for grades 3-7; Women’s Chorus as an ensemble for students in grades 8-12. Private vocal and piano lessons are offered as well as instrumental lessons. Depending upon enrollment, instrumental students may also participate in ensemble performances. All students are encouraged to participate in semester/yearly recitals. The goal of the Academy is to provide high quality music instruction without regard to race or creed. A summer camp is provided to teach “music, drama, song & dance.

At the Academy, over half of the instructors have their PhD’s. The program is expanding to include adults. Expanding the curriculum to teach “theory” is also in process. Generous scholarships are offered for families and individuals unable to pay. The program began last Spring with 35 students and this Spring they now have 70 enrolled. Their effort is to build relationships between people with music! The program concluded with one of Jay’s young vocal students providing a recital, which was outstanding. Too bad, if you missed this meeting.