Meets Noon Mondays at the Hilton
www.hbgrotary.org
Executive Director: Linda Freedenberg
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Telephone: 717-234-1208
Fax: 717-234-3234

October 5   333 Market Street – RSVP needed

Speaker: Representative Ron Marsico
Topic:  “What is going on up there – as I see it”

Greeter: Jessica Malone
Invocation:  Wil Everhart
Rotary Minute:
Mini-Classification Talk: Anthony Worrall
Club Singing: Howard Ammons
Publications: Peter Henninger

Corporate Member

NEWS AND NOTES:
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

October 24th is the Annual Apple Harvest Pancake Breakfast.  Send in your ticket money.

• Please send or give Linda your $10 cash or check for the 2009-10 Support the Troops effort.

• HRF 100% participation goal – All Rotarians have received their $100 invoice for the Harrisburg Rotary Foundation.  We have already received 52% of our membership’s contributions.

• DISTRICT NEWS:

1.  Check out the District Newsletter: www.hbgrotary.org
click on click on About Us
click on District 7390
click on District Happenings
click on Rotar- E Reporter
or  http://www.rotary7390.org/Portals/0/August%2009%20Newsletter.pdf

Birthdays:
Tom Bream – Oct 9
Mick Love – Oct 9
Watson Fisher – Oct 9
Susan Anthony – Oct 14
Terry Masch – Oct 15

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / MEETING LOCATIONS:

• October 12         NO MEETING – Columbus Day

• October 19 – 333 Market Street
  RSVP needed
  Ellen Brown, Exec. Dir.    SusqueCentennial Commission Event

• October 26 - Ann Van Dyke, Education/Community Services Division PA Human Relations Commission           
  “Pennsylvania Hot Bed for Hate Crimes?”

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

ATTENDANCE:
LAST ROTARY MEETING:  9/21/09       50%
Rotarians  68    Active Specials  13            Guests  6       Visiting Rotarians  0   = 87

Minutes by: Steve Baloga
President Carolyn brought the meeting to order at the Hilton as customary with singing, the Pledge of Allegiance and the invocation. Al Morrison provided piano accompaniment.

Betty Hungerford introduced our guests and visiting Rotarians. She also conducted good news reporting.

Jeannette Archer-Simons gave a Rotary Minute – celebrate being part of Rotary.

Ron Guss announced that we are still looking for host families for our exchange student. The hosts must reside in Susquehanna Township School District. They don’t have to be Rotary members. We are also looking for tickets to events and activities (Penn Stste Football Game?) that can be used by the student.

Karen Paris, Jacqueline Jackson-DeGarcia, Gib Parthemore and Connie Siegel gave an update on the pancake breakfast. This year’s pancake breakfast fund raiser is scheduled for October 24, 2009 at Harrisburg High School. Sign up for volunteers will be available soon. Tickets for each member are now being distributed. If you haven’t received them yet they will be mailed. The letter included with the tickets has the wrong prices listed, please use the prices printed on the actual tickets:  $6/adult.  Silent auction items are needed, underwriters for the big screen TV raffle are needed, and placemat sponsors (4 spaces at $125 each) are needed.

Chad Barger introduced our speaker Dr. Mehdi Noorbaksh a professor at Harrisburg University. Dr. Noorbaksh is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs and spoke about the movement for democracy in Iran and its prospects for the future. The move to democratic self-rule without foreign intervention has a long history in Iran with many setbacks along the way, including the setback relating to the current regime and recent election.

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

Carolyn Dumaresq           
John P. Judson, M.D.      
Robert S. Saline              
Barry Ramper, II,             
Carrie N. Wissler Thomas
William B. Boles                
William M. Tillett

President
President-Elect
Vice President
Immediate Past President
Secretary
Treasurer
Sergeant-at-Arms

Caryn J. Carr
John R. Detweiler
Kent E. Frese
John J. McHenry
Lawrence M. Means
Maria B. Persico
Andrew R/ Rebuck
Karen F. Snider