PROGRAM: Maestro Stuart Malina is one of America’s most versatile and accomplished conductors. In a wide variety of concerts, from masterworks and grand opera to orchestral pops, Malina’s ease on the podium, engaging personality, and insightful interpretations have thrilled audiences and helped to break down the barriers between performer and listener wherever he has worked.

Malina has been Music Director and Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra since June 2000. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in February 2007 conducting a sold-out performance with the New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute including “Rhapsody in Blue,” which he conducted from the keyboard. He will return to conduct the New York Pops on Oct. 26, 2007 in a musical salute to the movies, featuring violinist Pip Clarke and song stylist extraordinaire Michael Feinstein.

Malina won a Tony Award for orchestration with Billy Joel for the musical “Movin’ Out,” which Malina helped create with director and choreographer Twyla Tharp. He is the music supervisor for both the National Tour and the London/European Tour of the show.

An accomplished concert pianist, Maestro Malina has impressive credits as a soloist, having performed throughout the United States, the Netherlands, and with the acclaimed Piccolo Spoleto Contemporary Music Festival.

Maestro Malina holds degrees from Harvard University, the Yale School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller.

More details about Malina are available on his website at StuartMalina.com.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:  

• Oct 15              Stuart Malina, Conductor- Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra
  Hilton
• Oct 22           Kim Patten, Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s PA Deputy Director and Outreach
  Hilton                Coordinator and Erin Pittman, Ecology Teacher
• Oct 29           Jack Wagner, Auditor General
  Hilton                Coordinator
• Nov 5               Service Above Self Award
  Hilton

For complete programming go to our website: hbgrotary.org and click on calendar.
September is New Generations Month

NEWS AND NOTES:

• The Board welcomes Karen Snider to fill the vacancy of Joe Summers.
• Edna V. Baehre, Ph.D., president of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, will be honored Oct. 1 for her efforts to ensure opportunity, diversity and equality in education and leadership for all in the HACC community.
• Baehre will receive the prestigious “Ghandi, King, Ikeda Award” created to celebrate the lives and work of three men from different cultures and countries whose common path of dedication to peace has been recognized internationally. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., Ph.D., Morehouse College curator and founder of the Gandhi Institute for Reconciliation, will travel from Atlanta to present the award during the opening ceremony of the international Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace exhibition at HACC through Oct. 2-12.
• Rotary International United Nations Day will be held Saturday, Nov. 3 for $35.  A bus will leave from Queensgate (York) at 5:00AM for presentations and panel discussions addressing key humanitarian issues. An optional tour of the UN is available for $13. Contact Linda for forms.
• Pancake Breakfast AUCTION ITEM PREVIEW at today's meeting.
  SAVE THE DATE: 11th Annual Apple Harvest Pancake Breakfast When:  October 27th
  Where:  John Harris High School
  TIME:  8 Am- Noon
  Please sign up to volunteer, bring an auction item, take a placemat ad and/or sell tickets.  TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SEPTEMBER 24th !
  SEE YOU THERE!
  Karen Paris and Jacqueline Bedard, Co-Chairs
• Rotary Foundation Dinner - DGE Ben Hoover is inviting all Rotarians & guests to attend the District Rotary Foundation Dinner on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at the Country Club of York from 6-9 PM. Reservation & Sponsorship forms are available from Linda or on the club website (www.hbgrotary.org) Show your support of the Foundation and DGE Ben Hoover by attending.
• YOUTH EXCHANGE INFO
  The Rotary Club of Harrisburg is sponsoring Ange Sauvage from Lyon , France. Ange is attending Susquehanna Township High School. The Youth Exchange Committee will be interviewing host families (they do not need to be Rotarians) in Susquehanna Township. 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. 
• 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: 10/1/07 63%
Rotarians 90    Active Specials  12     Guests   7     Visiting Rotarians 1  =  100

Minutes by Dave Freet:
President Carrie opened our meeting at 12:17 PM. John Hickey led us in song
and Al Schmidt provided today’s invocation, which was followed by the “Pledge of Allegiance.”

The meeting was re-convened at 12:27 PM with Howard Ammons doing the
honors of introducing visiting Rotarians and guests for the day.

There were numerous announcements:
• First, Bonnie McCarthy did a “Rotary Minute” on the Rotary International Foundation, its many activities and encouraged all of us to support Rotary International with our dollars for all the good it does!
• Next, Gary Brinton spoke and clarified the difference between the Rotary International Foundation and the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation, the latter of who’s money goes in support of worth while projects and issues here in the greater Harrisburg region. Please support the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation for all the excellent work it does.
• Connie Siegel was up next to sell the few remaining spaces left on the
Pancake Breakfast placemats. They will be in color this year – a first!
• Fred Hartman promoted the Habitat for Humanity project here in
Harrisburg, October 13th and the need for four (4) more volunteers.

Sam Levine introduced today’s speaker, Ted J. Kleisner – President and CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company (Kleisner formerly of Greenbrier fame). It turns out; this is NOT Ted’s first tour in the Harrisburg area from his 40-plus years in the hotel industry. His first assignment, upon returning from military duty in 1968, was to a lesser motor hotel in Greensboro, NC. Subsequently, he was assigned to manage what was then the Nationwide Inn located in Shipoke area of Harrisburg in 1970. It needs to be noted as well that Ted is a ‘third generation hotelier who graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver School of Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management. In addition, Ted is personally an avid golfer (a perfect job for him at the Greenbrier).

      Ted had been planning early retirement from his long-standing position of President/General Manager/CEO of the Greenbrier. He had served on the Board of Directors of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company for a number of years when this opportunity arose of becoming CEO of the entity and returning to Harrisburg. He loves being in a job that serves the students of Milton Hershey School and carrying out the dream of Milton Hershey and his wife!

      One of the benefits of being CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is carrying on the legacy and restoring to original intent many of the facets of business and of structures around Hershey the town. Kleisner noted that in the USA, as opposed to Europe where pubs are 800-plus years old, we always look forward rather than backwards. Hershey Entertainment Resorts is committed to preservation. To executing the ongoing, caring vision of philanthropy by Milton Hershey. The Company is finishing its best year ever in 2007! They are finishing restoration of the Hershey Press Building in downtown Hershey (where his office is located by the way). They seek to bring Chocolate Avenue back to its former glory as the heart of Mr. Hershey’s downtown. The direction from the Board is to “do it right!” The Hershey Entertainment Resorts relationship with the community desires to be a high performance company without too much focus on just the almighty dollar and is paramount to the Hershey philosophy and the “Hershey Idea.” It was termed by Mr. Hershey as, jointly connected as one institution serving the community, employees and surrounding areas as well as providing quality family entertainment.

      One of the future activities of Hershey Entertainment Resorts is to open up a new museum dedicated to the history of chocolate making, along with the history of Milton S. Hershey. Additional development of properties along Chocolate Avenue would include appropriate parking, tasteful structural design, planning for transportation all consistent with the community atmosphere Mr. Hershey planned. This was an excellent presentation of the past, present and future as the new CEO Mr. Kleisner sees it evolving. A discussion of the glory days, under Milton S. Hershey’s leadership, the new construction during the depression to keep people in Hershey fully employed. You missed an excellent presentation, if not present to hear the Q & A that followed, too!

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