HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tom Johnston     JUN 10 Ron Katzman      JUN 12 Carolyn Dumaresq  JUN 13 Dolores Liptak     JUN 13 Wil Everhart        JUN 15 Jeff Gelburd        JUN 16 Joe Schatt           JUN 16 Allen Westbrook  JUN 16 Dick Goldsmith    JUN 17 Bridget Casher    JUN 18 John D. Morefield JUN 20 Joe Bedard           JUN 22

PROGRAM: Peggy Grove, Chair of the Community Service Award Committee and the 2006 Recipient, along with her committee, selected our 2008 Recipient of the Community Service Award:  William M. Murray, M.D.
Today’s honoree is William Massie Murray, or “Bill” as most of us know him.  Bill grew up in Harrisburg, the older son of architect William Lynch Murray and his wife Geraldine Murray.  He graduated from William Penn High School, received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Haverford College, and a master’s in electrical engineering from Yale University. 

Although he started his professional life as an engineer designing early computers in California, he returned to Harrisburg to establish Vector Avionics at Capital City Airport and soon afterwards developed an interest in applying engineering to medicine.  Following medical school at Jefferson, he completed specialty training in orthopedic surgery and practiced for a number of years in Harrisburg before leaving direct patient care to focus on medical device development.

Bill’s family includes his wife, Jane, plus three grown children – Elizabeth, Peter, and Jonathan, two young in-laws, and two grandsons.  The extended family includes two Harrisburg Rotarians -- Wil Everhart (Jane’s brother) and Tom Conners (Jane’s brother-in-law).  Additionally, Bill’s brother Martin was previously a member and president of Harrisburg Rotary.

Community service and volunteer work have greatly enriched Bill’s life. His parents were early and constant examples to Bill and his brother Martin of community leadership and philanthropy.  In fact, some of Bill’s activities have included service on boards of local organizations also served years ago by one or both of his parents.  Membership on local and national non-profit boards, and service as a medical clinic volunteer locally and overseas in Haiti have claimed Bill’s interest and time from the moment he and Jane settled back in their hometown. 

Volunteer work has also been prominent in the life of Bill’s wife, Jane, and there are several boards on which Jane has served, to be succeeded by Bill at a later time, among them as a Market Square Church Trustee, a Wilson College Trustee, and as a Harrisburg Symphony Board member (where Bill is currently chairman).  Bill also serves as a trustee on the Market Square Concerts Board, and the HACC Board, an institution which his father and brother literally put on the map with their site planning and innovative building designs.

Additionally, for some years Bill has contributed his time, his flying expertise and the use of his airplane to transport patients to and from medical centers through the Angel Flight organization, frequently accompanied by son Jonathan, the family’s second generation pilot.
 
As a Rotarian, Bill has been a member of the Harrisburg club since 1976 and served as President during the year 1996-1997.  Bill inaugurated Harrisburg Rotary’s Youth Exchange Program, which engaged the club, Bill’s family and many friends in wonderful hosting experiences with youth from around the world.  The Group Study Exchange program has also brought many participants from overseas into the Murray household as guests. Bill continues to serve on the district’s Ambassadorial Scholarship committee, where year after year he finds it a great inspiration to interview the candidates who apply to the program for a year of Rotary-supported study abroad. 

Service Above Self has defined most of Bill’s life as a resident of the Harrisburg area and the wider world, and if you look carefully, his Rotary Past-President pin is almost always in his jacket lapel as a proud announcement of his membership in Rotary. 

A-N-G-E, that’s right, Ange Sauvage, our rotary exchange student from Lyon , France will join us today and highlight his past school year here in Harrisburg .  We will most likely catch a good glimpse into his school year, his extra curricular activities, his newly formed friendships and his desire to pursue a college graduation in the USA.  At the same time, it goes without his even saying one word that we have hosted a brilliant, warm, adventurous young man over these past months and he has represented himself and our club with true Rotary spirit.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:   
June 9                                    Community Service Award and Ange Sauvage, Youth Exchange Student

Hilton

June 16                                 NO MEETING

Hilton

June 23                                

333 Market Street

June 30                                

Hilton

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

NEWS AND NOTES:  

• HAPPY HOURS ARE BACK!
Do you like to have fun; meet new and interesting people; and do you need a Rotary make up?  If you answered yes, yes and yes, then you are definitely going to want to join us at the upcoming Rotary Club of Harrisburg Happy Hour events. These are fun, social mixers from 5 to 7 PM where fellow Rotarians and their guests meet at one of our area restaurants and nightclubs and receive an attendance make-up!
 
 As summer heats up, we will take our Happy Hour outside!  Yes, the Hilton will host this event June 26 right in front of the hotel at their patio bar.

• Please make sure you have paid your $100 Harrisburg Rotary Foundation.
• YOU AND A GUEST ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE INSTALLATION OF DISTRICT GOVERNOR BENJAMIN A. HOOVER II
AND THE ASSISTANT GOVERNORS AT THE COUNTRY CLUB OF YORK on WEDNESDAY JUNE 25, 2008 – FELLOWSHIP,CASH BAR AT 6:00 PM
FIVE COURSE DINNER AT 6:45 PM and  PROGRAM AND INSTALLATION FOLLOWING DINNER  $50.00 pp- R.S.V. P.  6/20 DISTRICT OFFICE -854-7842 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  CHECKS made payable to Rotary District 7390.

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:   6/2/08       54%                       
Rotarians   80    Active Specials   14   Guests  13  Visiting Rotarians  0  =  106

Minutes by Mark Stone: 
President Carrie brought the weekly meeting of the Harrisburg Rotary Club to order at 12:11 P.M. Anne Alsedek led us in song with "God Bless America", followed by a pledge to our flag and a prayer by Joan Prescott.
 
Gib Parthemore introduced Rotarians who had brought guest. Rotarians Hindermyer, Carbon, Lane and Caryn Carr brought guest today. There were no visiting Rotarians with us today.
 
Mini Classification Talk - David Warren
David is Senior Vice President and Development Officer for your public television station, WITF. His efforts are focused on fundraising and gifting programs where he administers a staff of sixteen people. He is married and has three children. Welcome to Harrisburg Rotary, David !
 
Committee Reports
Youth Exchange Committee - Caryn Carr reports that our next exchange student will be with us in August and he is from Taiwan. Two (2) additional host families are needed and must live within the Central Dauphin High School district.  Please contact Caryn if you can assist or know of an appropriate host family.
 
Scholarship Committee - Peggy Grove introduced to the club two of the four scholarship winners who were with us today. Each of our four selected winners received a $1,000 gift to further their post high school education. Winners were selected based on their academic achievements, community service and leadership qualities.
 
Ecology Committee - Jack Detweiler shared with us some information on a conference that he and Tom Johnston attended last week entitled Penn Futures Conference.
 
Announcements
 President Carrie shined the spot light on Rotarians Christopher Markley, Karen Snider and Girsch who all have been highlighted in either the Business Journal or The Patriot News in recent weeks. More volunteers are needed for upcoming trips to Biloxi starting with trips on November 3rd, December 6th and into the new year. Please contact Linda for additional details.
 
Program - Michael Liptak, Chairman of Dauphin County General Authority
The ever colorful (you should have seen Bob's striped and colorful shirt) Bob Hostetter introduced to us our guest speaker, Mr. Michael Liptak. Michael Liptak has been a public servant since the late 1970's when he got into local government by accident and started his career as a Hampden Township Commissioner. After a short stint out of the area, he returned to the East Shore and was appointed to fill a 1 1/2 year vacancy as a township commissioner in Lower Paxton Township. After being defeated in a reelection effort, he ran again and through various reelection efforts was successful in serving the people of Lower Paxton Township for twelve consecutive years. A self described "control freak" he got involved in local politics because he wasn't happy with the direction of local politics, which he described as having more influence over our lives than the national political scene.
 
Mr. Liptak currently serves as Chairman of the Dauphin County Republican Party and since 1998 has served as Chairman of the Dauphin County General Authority. The  Authority was created by an Act of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Legislature in 1984 whose initial primary purpose was to create low cost financing for school districts throughout the Commonwealth through "financing pools". Over the years "things went awry" as Mr. Liptak indicated with the Authority purchasing assets which produced cash flows that didn't support bond debt service and assets with higher than usual and questionable valuations. Some of these assets include the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course, Forum Place, Hyatt Hotel at Pittsburgh International Airport, Riverfront Office Center, 100 Chestnut Street Office building, as well as, Bedford and Whitetail Golf Courses.  Mr. Liptak pointed out that much of the Authority's mismanagement and purchasing of these troubled assets occurred prior to his appointment as Chairman of the Authority in 1998.
 
The Authority has its hands full and can not continue to subsidize distressed properties forever. Meetings with bondholders who are ask to take a "haircut" can be very tense and challenging. He talked about the challenges of selling the Dauphin Highlands golf course with it's fifteen million dollars of debt and the challenges faced by the Authority in dealing with local governments who have the ability to change land use policy and the NIMBYISM (Not in my Back Yard syndrome) the Authority has faced with finding a proposed reuse for the golf course, as well as, other assets. A short Q & A session followed. Mr. Liptak provided us with an informative look at the Dauphin County General Authority's role and challenges going forward.    
 
Our next meeting will be on Monday, June 9th at noon at the Hilton Hotel. The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 P.M.