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

ROTARY ROUNDUP: for March 12, 2007

Speakers: Youth Community Development Team

Greeter: Charlie McNutt
Invocation: Jeff Boswell
Club Singing: Karen Paris
Publications: Andy Rebuck
Placing Rotary Roundup: John Smither

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK
Jim Rowland MAR 12
Ken Conner MAR 13
Edna Baehre MAR 15
Doug Pieper MAR 15
Mark Stone MAR 16
John Sutliff MAR 16
Pater Ostrowski MAR 18

PROGRAM:
The Rotary Youth Community Development Team (YCDT), is a program in perpetuity to benefit high school young adults, was developed in celebration of Rotary International's 100th Anniversary and is now in its third year.

Mission Statement: To learn the value of Rotary's Service Above Self principles through implementing the importance of philanthropy in their community.
CoreValues: Participating youth will develop leadership skills and a philanthropic ethic.

Please welcome these students as they explain the program and its impact.
Abby Milspaw - Bishop McDevitt
Nashonda Lafayette - Sci-Tech
LaConteau Williams - Harrisburg High

Students follow a curriculum process of understanding community needs, developing grant guidelines, reviewing requests for proposals, agency site visits and project selection, along with learning the skills of fund raising and leadership. Rotary mentors and volunteers from non-profit agencies assist students through this process of learning the values of philanthropy, community service, and leadership skills. Junior and senior level students from the City of Harrisburg schools are accepted into a year long program through an application and recommendation process. Administrators and parents also provide support and encouragement to students. The Rotary Club of Harrisburg and the YCDT are supported by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and Leadership Harrisburg Area. The Foundation for Enhancing is the fiscal administrator of the YCDT operating and endowment fund; while Leadership Harrisburg Area acts as the YCDT program session coordinator. The Rotary YCDT Endowment Fund has been established with a fund raising goal of $500,000.00 by the year 2010. Individuals, companies and foundations are currently being solicited to fund this perpetual endowment, which will assure future grant allocations to be made by the YCDT to community agencies in need.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS

Mar 12 Youth Community Development Team (YCDT) and
Hilton Harrisburg Rotary Club website revealed

Mar 19 Ricky Zabrano, Youth Exchange Student
Hilton

Mar 26 Ed Marsico, District Attorney
Hilton

Apr 2 John Lieghow, Director of the State Museum
Hilton

Apr 9 NO MEETING

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

March is Preserve Planet Earth Month

NEWS AND NOTES:

• The Community Service Award Committee requests that you submit the name of a fellow Rotarian that you feel deserves to be the 2007 Community Service Award recipient. This is the award made entirely for performance of volunteer service to the community (not our Rotary Club). The nominee must be a member of our club for at least 3 years and cannot be the incumbent President or President-Elect. See Linda for a form and return by April 6.

• Volunteer Opportunities here and Abroad: Contact Linda or Connie Spark 600-2020 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
1. Rotary Dental Mission - March 3-9: partnership with HACC at Foose elementary school in Harrisburg PA
2. Rotary Eye Mission - April 11-19 Foose Elementary School
3. Dominican Republican Dental Mission with Bob Hall- March 17-25
4. Peru Mission 2007 - May 27-June 10
5. Habitat for Humanity - May 19th

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• DISTRICT CONFERENCE Hershey Motor Lodge May 11-12
The District 7390 Conference will be held at the Hershey Motor Lodge on May 10 - 12. The Golf Outing will be held at Wren Dale Golf Course on Thursday, May 10. Plenary Sessions are Friday and Saturday, with evening dinners with RI Guest speakers and/or entertainment.

Brochure and registration forms are on the information table and can be downloaded at
http://www.rotary7390.org/conference.htm.

• Feel Good! Be included in the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation Community Grants and Scholarships. Send in your $100 contribution today. We thank those Rotarians who have already paid. It's not too late…please contribute today…we need your participation!
ABEL, Deborah
ALEXANDER, Marion C.
ALSEDEK, Donald L.
ANTHONY, Susan L.
ARNOLDI, Thomas V.
BAEHRE, PH. D., Edna V.
BAKER, Alfred W.
BALOGA, Stephen A.
BASHORE, Larry D.
BEATTY, Jean
BEDARD, Jacqueline
BEDARD, Joseph A.
BELL, Sandra Loy
BITNER, Nathan A.
BLACK, Janice R.
BOLES, William B.
BOSWELL, Jeffrey R.
BOWRA, Richard Alan
BREAM, Thomas A.
BRINTON, E. Garrett
BROWNE, Rosemary
CAMERON, Duryea
CAREY, Tama M.
CHRISTIE, Robert G.
CLARK, Donna M. J.
CLEVENGER, Charles
CONNER, Charles R.
CONNERS, Tom
CONNER, M.D., Kenneth B.
CONNOLLY, Nicholas
CRAUMER, Robert C.
COOPER, Jewel
CURL, Richard A.
DEANGELIS, Thomas
DETWEILER, John R.
DERRICK, Harry
DOLAN, Robert J.
DUMARESQ, Carolyn
DUNAWAY, Geoff
FEINOUR, J. Stephen
FISHER, Watson D.
FREET, David E.
FRESE, Kent E.
FRIEDMAN, Charles E.
FRIEDMAN, Helen
GIBBONS, Miles J. Jr.
GLENN, CMPE, Albert L.
GOLDSMITH, Richard S.
GOODLING, Barry
GRAMMES, Louis F.
GROVE, Peggy A.
GRINER, John N.
GUSS, Ron
HALL, Robert J.
HARTMAN, Fred R.
HANNA, Kendall
HENNINGER, Peter R. Jr.
HOOKER, Thomas
HOSTETTER, Robert F.
HURWITZ, Harold S.
JUDSON, M.D., John P.
JOHNSTON, Thomas M. Jr.
KELLEY, PH. D., Janet K.
KATZMAN, Ronald M.
KLEIN, Sally S.
KOHN, ED.D., Gerald W.
KREMPASKY, Stephen
KRUFT, David K.
LEHMAN, David E.
LEVINE, Samuel
LOVE, J. Michael
LICK, Marie LeVan
LOWERY, Walter L.
MCCARTHY, Bonnie
MCNUTT, Charlie F. Jr.
METZ, Joseph U.
MILSPAW, Luther E. Jr.
MOORE, Robert
MOREFIELD , John A.
MOULTRIE, Richard P.
MYERS, PH.D., Shelly S.
NIXON, Tina L.
PARTHEMORE, Gilbert J.
PENROD, Catherine F.
PEPE, Raymond P.
POOLE, Donald R.
PRESCOTT, Joan
RAMPER, II, Barry
REITZEL, Robert K
REBUCK, Andrew R.
RHOADS, Henry W.
ROBINSON, William A.
ROTH, Virginia A.
SALINE, Robert S.
ROWLAND , James H. Jr.
SCHATT, Joseph F.
SCHMIDT, Albert S. Jr.
SHAH, Hasu P.
SIEGEL, Conrad M.
SKELLY, Barbara O.
SMELTZER, James A.
SMITH, M. Dudley Jr.
SNIDER, Karen F.
SMITHER, A. John
SNAVELY, Jack E.
STABINSKI, Sharon
STEWART, Richard W.
SPAHR, William T. Jr.
STONE, Mark A.
SUTLIFF, Gregory L.
SUMMERS, Joseph G.
THOMAS, Carrie N. Wissler
TILL, Linda
TROGNER, Blair S. Sr.
UTLEY, Richard
WESTBROOK, Allen R.
WHITLEY, Bridget M.
WISMAN, Craig B.
YAVERBAUM, Harry I.
WINGATE, Charles
WISEHAUPT, Douglas E.

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
Our 2006-07 exchange student, Jose Ricardo Zambrano, from Venezuela has joined his second host family, Dominic and Kristie Cavallaro, and is attending school at Central Dauphin High School. We hope that you meet him soon. 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: 3/5/07 55%
Rotarians 52 Active Specials 8 Guests 3 Visiting Rotarians 0 = 63

Minutes by Tom Parker
Those who bent against the blustery winds and trekked to the Department of Education Building for Harrisburg Rotary’s March 5 off-site meeting experienced an atypical Rotary gathering, devoid of the gavel and bell, microphone, badges, attendance cards and dinner music. Instead, we filed into a sterile conference room at 333 Market Street , the speaker’s home turf, selected a box lunch and a seat at one of several long rows of wall-to-wall tables. The unusually brief meeting started at 11:45 and was inverted, with our speaker addressing the club at noon, followed by some brief announcements and dismissal.

Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, Secretary of Education, generally touted Governor Rendell’s commitment to education by reciting the myriad “investments” that the administration has made and proposes to make over the next four years, predominantly in the areas of basic education (K-12) and early childhood programs. Dr. Zahorchak’s premise that most jobs today and in the future will require a higher degree of literacy was followed by a summary of the administration’s solution – an 8-year increase in expenditures on basic education to the tune of nearly $3 billion on a base of $7 billion in 2003 – and by a recap of improvement in math and reading proficiency as documented by the state’s PSSA exam, proof, ostensibly, that mega-increases in spending may, after all, be the solution to improving public education. Similarly, the case for expansion of Pre-K programs through some $340 million in additional spending was framed by Dr. Zahorchak in economic terms; he cited studies by the Rand Corporation and the US Department of Education concluding that early childhood education is a “good economic development program”. Finally, Dr. Zahorchak capsulized the administration’s approach to secondary education (increasing “rigor, relevance, and personalization”) and the money-solution, construction of “smart classrooms” boasting 21st century technology across 600 high schools in Pennsylvania at a cost of $90 million. Unfortunately, no time for Q&A was allocated following Dr. Zahorchak’s address although one bold member, Dudley Smith, voiced his concern that the Governor’s budget included only a 0.25% increase in funding for public libraries – another domain of DOE.