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Rotary International District 7390

Concetta M. Spark District Governor 2009-2010

Upcoming Events � November 3—Youth Exchange Commitment to Host Forms

Due to the District Office � November 3—Youth Exchange 10-11 Outbound Applications

Due to the District Office � November 5—Rotary Foundation Dinner � November 7—Rotary UN Day � November 14—Youth Exchange Outbound Interviews � February 6—Pre-PETS � February 25-27—Multi-District PETS (MANDATORY) � March 27 – District Assembly � April 22-25—District Conference For a complete calendar listing, please visit www.rotary7390.org.

For many of us, and for much of our life, November brought thoughts of falling leaves of orange and red, Thanksgiving, fam-ily gatherings and smiles. So it is very appropriate that November is also a month of Thanksgiving to the Rotary Foundation for all the good things it provides for it's family of Rotary. Through the mon-netary gifts of you and of me, and 1.2 million Rotarians around the world, The Rotary Foundation can continue to provide the pro-grams of peace, water, health, hunger and literacy that change so many lives for the better. These dollars make it Thanksgiving Day, every day for someone in some part of "our" world. As a child, I can remember sitting with my family around the table on Thanksgiving and being thankful for so many blessings that I thought everyone possessed. Now, as a Rotarian, I realize how lucky we are to live in the United States. How fortunate we are to have the opportunities of the pursuit of happiness, freedom and Peace we desire. As Ro-tarians, we also know how many others do not. Please continue to give generously to the Rotary Foundation. The Clubs of District 7390 will celebrate our "Rotary Thanksgiv-ing" on Thursday November 5th at the annual Foundation Dinner. There we will be fellowship around our Rotary tables as we hear about the programs of the Rotary Foundation and our ef-f o r t s t o E N D P O L I O NOW. Those participating will be reminded of how contribu-tions to the Rotary Foundation have saved and changed lives around the globe. The evening will include a presentation by a Polio Survivor as well as one on Peace Scholars, Group Study ex-

change, and the Rotary Foundation. World Interact Week In addition to the Foundation Dinner, November brings many success

stories to the Clubs of District 7390. "The Fu-ture of Rotary is in your Hands" was evident in the Charter night of a new Interact Club of 25 stu-dents at the Elizabethtown High School. President, Dr. Joe Rebman, members of the sponsoring Eliza-bethtown Rotary club, Interact chair Ken Stoner, School officials, family and

friends came together to officially pre-sent the Club Charter on Monday No-vember 3rd. Interact's name is a com-b i n a t i o n o f t h e w o r d s "International" and "action". These charter members join over 11,000 In-teract Clubs in over 120 coun-tries. Interact membership is over a quarter million students world-wide. Congratulations to the Elizabeth-town Club for their efforts and support of this valuable program. On Friday, November 6th, the Har-risburg Keystone Rotary Club embarks

on its first Rotary Humanitarian mission trip to Guayaquil, Ecua-dor. This trip is the result of the Rotary Foundation approval of the

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World Understanding and Peace Through Rotary "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life…

happiness, freedom and peace...are always attained by giving them to someone else". Payton Conway March

Elizabethtown Interact Club

Harrisburg-Keystone Rotary Club

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Keystone Clubs first Matching Grant. Project Director and President of the Club, David Ritter, Project coordinator Hec-tor Ortiz, and several mem-bers from the Keystone Club will be part of the team of 48. Members from Lancaster, York-East, Elizabethtown, as w e l l a s p a r t i c i p a n t s from Denmark, Japan, and Bra-zil, will participate. Vision, dental and medical treatment will be provided for over 1000 people who cannot afford the medical treatments. President David is thankful for many things, “We

are a relatively young Club. We've only been around since 2005, and I am really grateful for being part of a Club with such a passion for ser-vice. I am thankful for encourage-ment and support from Rotarians from my Club, our District, and from around the world. It is really amazing to see how many small, ordinary tasks by many ordinary people add up to an extraordinary mission, impacting hundreds of lives!” Congratulations to David and the Keystone Rotary Club for this monumental achievement. In 2006, the Myerstown-ELCO Rotary Club decided they wanted to be involved in water projects, so they started a Water Management Committee. Their mission was to

provide fresh, safe, drinkable water to residents of El Salvador. They have been cooperating with two Rotary Clubs in District 4240, in El Salvador, to bring fresh water to five villages in the State of Sonsonate', El Salvador. Edgardo Moreno from the Santa Ana Club and Roberto Mayorga from the San Miguel Club have been most helpful in getting all the details worked out. During this month of November, 2009, the well drilling contractor is installing the wells in 5 locations and they will impact the lives of 1300 residents. Our Salvadoran Rotarian friends will be checking in on the progress of the work and keeping the Club in-formed with p r o g r e s s r e -ports. They will be tak-ing health professionals to the village to educate the resi-dents on how best to protect the wells and ensure the wells will produce fresh water for many years to come. The Club in Myerstown has a team in place to go to that country on February 6-13, 2010 to visit the villages. The Club members are anxious to meet their

Rotary friends, fellowship with them during their Club meeting, greet the villagers, and see the impact the wells have made on their fami-lies. In 2007, Myerstown ELCO installed one well in Costa Azul and sponsored a water filtration system for drinking water for a school of 3,575 students in San Miguel. They sponsored a well in Metalio in 2008. The Club plans to visit all 7 communities during their visit in Feb-ruary 2010. Through these International water projects, the Myerstown ELCO Rotary Club has touched the lives of over 5000 citizens of El Salvador! Carlisle, York East and Northern Lebanon County will celebrate Thanksgiving with a well capable of pumping 5000 liters per hour with a battery system for pumping after dark, a self-sustaining solar power system and recharging unit for the batteries, and a water tower 30 feet high holding a 6000 liter tank with automatic shut-off valves when full. This area in Kenya has been going through a 2 year drought. Water and food have been in desperate need. The vil-lage of Mithini is celebrating the Gift of these Clubs, the Nairobi Club and the Rotary Foundation. On Thursday, November 26, I wish everyone a bountiful and Happy Thanksgiving Day. I hope each Rotarian in District 7390 will join me in a moment of silence before dinner as we count our many Blessings. Let us each give thanks for the Rotary Foundation, the programs it serves and the Rotarians who give

faithfully each year. Let us humbly commit to continue the Rotary legacy of "Service Above Self." And may we always remem-ber...."The Future of Rotary is in your Hands" All of this would not have been possible without the assistance of the Rotary District and Foundation support. For this we give a most gracious "THANK YOU". As the details un-fold, I shall keep you in-formed.

Sincerely, District Governor Connie

Dr. Bob McClenathan—Lancaster Rotary

Dr. Charlie Stein preparing to extract a tooth. The tables were constructed by the mission team.

Dr. Charlie Stein (York-East) examining teeth of a young girl in Peru—2007.

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HELP ERADICATE POLIO Purchase your tickets for this one-night-only benefit performance of violinist and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman with the New York Phil-harmonic. Buy tickets by calling the Philharmonic box office at 212-875-5656. Perlman will perform with the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Avery Fisher Hall, in New York City on Wednesday, 2 De-cember, at 7:30 p.m. Mention that you're a Ro-tarian so you can access the block of tickets reserved for Rotarians until 1 November. The box office is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Tickets are priced be-tween $70 and $200, de-pending on stage proximity. A premium concert seat and admission to the reception will be offered at a package price of $500. Tickets are expected to sell quickly. All proceeds go to Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge . Tickets can also be purchased online through the Philharmonic, but they are not part of the Rotary ticket block. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office or the Alice Tully Hall Box Office at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 65th Street. The box office is open from 10 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. On performance evenings, the box office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6 p.m.

NOVEMBER IS FOUNDATION MONTH It's hard to put into perspective how important our Rotary Founda-tion really is. Rarely do we come across an organization so committed to providing hope to so many, so able to mobilize resources to allevi-ate suffering and so quick to respond to calls for help. It seems easier

for me to describe what it's like to not support the Foun-dation, strange as that may seem. Some of you have heard this story, some have not. My daughter is an accomplished writer and when she was in high school she asked me to read and critique one of her

poems. I thought it was pretty good but I pointed out that it didn't ryhme (check this spelling Melissa; I'm without a dictionary here.) and when I was in high (old) school one of my English teachers said that a famous poet once said, "Writing verse that doesn't rhyme is like play-ing tennis with the net down." Playing tennis with the net down; imag-ine that, what kind of a game could that be? And what kinds of players could enjoy that? Well, I submit to you that being a Rotarian and not supporting our Foundation is like, "playing tennis with the net down." We're not as good, we're not fulfilled, we let those in need down. And in today's tough economy our fellow men's needs have never been greater. We need to do as much as we can, perhaps more than ever, just to stay even with last year's effort; for Annual Programs, for Stop Polio now, and for Planned Giving/Endowment. We have so much in District 7390. And as we approach the holiday and Christmas seasons, we need to reflect on how much good in the world we can do when we think of those in need and open our hearts and pocket books to help. Please, fellow Rotarians, give generously, as you always have. I know you will just as certainly as I feel that someday Rotary, through our Foundation, will be awarded the ultimate recognition for our efforts, the Noble Peace Prize. Thank you for your support, Ed Jaeger, Chairman, District 7390 Foundation Committee

The Rotary Foundation

District Grants Committee—FUNDS STILL AVAILABLE! The District has allocated $27,000 to District Simplified Grants, to date $11,000 of that has been committed, but there is still $16,000 available for matching. DSGs are for $500 to $1500 and are matched dollar for dollar. If you have not already submitted a District Simplified Grant request, please consider doing so. For more information contact District Grant Chair John Judson at [email protected] or 877-0871.

If you would like a speaker at your Club on RYLA , please contact RYLA Chair Gary Crissman at 545-6553 or [email protected].

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The Rotary Group Study Exchange Program is one of the gems of Ro-tary International; an excellent example of our Rotary Foundation dol-lars helping at a local and international level. The Group Study Exchange Program is: � A five-week program for a team of young, non-Rotarian, profes-

sionals to exchange visits with a paired country. There is an out-bound team and an inbound team.

� A unique cultural / vocational opportunity to develop professional and leadership skills.

� A once-in-a-lifetime journey involving vocational activities, cultural experiences, and fellowship opportunities.

The upcoming exchange will be with District 1460 in Denmark and Lithuania. The outbound team will arrive in Denmark on April 11th, 2010 and depart from Lithuania on May 16, 2010. District 1460, which encompasses Southern Denmark AND Lithuania, will pro-vide many unique experiences. Visits to vocational, cultural and histori-cal sites in Southern Denmark, Odense (home of Hans Christian An-dersen), Copenhagen and Lithuania whose capital, Vilnius, a picturesque city on the banks of the rivers Neris and Vilnia, will host the 2010 Dis-trict 1460 Conference.

District 7390 needs your help to make this program a success. We need: � Team Member Applicants – The team is made up of six Mem-

bers. A Team Member must be a young professional between the ages of 25-40, who lives or works in Rotary District 7390 and cannot be a Rotarian or a spouse or direct lineal descendent of a Rotarian. Deadline for submitting Team Member application – No-vember 14, 2009.

The Rotary Club(s) sponsoring a selected Team Leader or Team Mem-bers is responsible to provide that person with $250.00 to assist with expenses, such as uniforms. Team Leader and Team Members must have a Passport valid through November, 2010 (must be valid six months following return from the tour).

Contacts for additional information and application forms: Peg Sennett—Hanover Rotary (630-8281 or [email protected]) or Tom Houf—Carlisle Rotary (805-4478 or [email protected])

GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

WGAL CAPTURES EMMY FOR 2009 TEACHER IMPACT AWARDS FOR THE 2ND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter recognized Executive Producer John Mason, News 8 Anchors Kim Lemon and Ron Martin, and News 8 photographer Scott Wilson with an Emmy Award for WGAL’s “Teacher Impact Award” special. This is the second time this special program, part of WGAL’s overall “Learning Matters” project, has won an Emmy Award, winning in the “Magazine Program or Special” category. "We are honored to have been recognized by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,” said Paul Quinn, President and General Manager of WGAL. “Each day News 8 sets its sights on delivering the

best news coverage to our viewers throughout the Susquehanna Valley. It's great to be given these two awards as confirmation of the excellent efforts our station goes through to report the news on a daily basis, and WGAL and Rotary’s commitment to shine our light on out-standing teachers here in the Susquehanna Valley,” he concluded. The Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards recognize excellence in regional television news, programming, and individual achievement in a four state area from New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia,

and includes from of the major television markets. Eligible television markets for the Mid-Atlantic Emmys are: Allentown/Bethlehem, Atlantic City/Wildwood, Harrisburg/Lebanon/Lancaster/York, Johnstown/Altoona, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Steubenville, OH, Trenton and South Jersey, Wheel-ing, WV, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

DGN 2012-2013 TO BE SELECTED

Clubs have been asked to suggest District Governor Nominees for 2012-2013. In this way, we will continue our three-year projection for District 7390’s leadership. Clubs should survey their membership and suggest a qualified candidate. Suggestions must be made in the form of a resolution adopted at a regular Club meeting and certified by the Club Secretary. Qualifications for a District Governor are specified in detail in the Bylaws of Rotary International as published in the Rotary Manual of Procedure. These qualifications should be studied carefully by Club members and the prospective Rotarian candidate for District Governor Nominee prior to the decision to suggest a member as a candidate. Club Presidents have information on the duties and responsibilities of the District Governor and the procedure for suggesting a candi-date. This information is also available from the District Office. Club suggestions for District Governor Nominee 2012-2013 must be received in the District Office by December 11, 2009 to be considered by the Nominating Committee. Interviews for Dis-trict Governor Nominee 2012-2013 will be held Saturday, January 16, 2010 at the Susan Byrnes Health Education Center.

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ELIZABETHTOWN CONTINUED... Welcomes Youth Exchange Student The Rotary Club of Eliza-bethtown enjoyed a family picnic to welcome Inbound exchange student Beatriz Perez in August. Bea is from Santos, San Paolo Bra-zil. District Governor Con-nie Spark and approxi-mately 100 Rotarians, Inter-actors, and family members were in attendance.

Golf Tournament Raises Funds The Elizabethtown Rotary Club held its annual Elizabethtown Rotary

Golf Major at Blue Ridge Country Club in Harrisburg on July 27th 2009. The Elizabethtown Rotary Club with support of over 100 spon-sors raised $30,000 in support of cancer research. The funds raised support the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation and the Penn State Hershey Medical Center Annual Melenoma Symposium. Over the past four years the tournament has raised over $100,000 for these causes. The major sponsor for the tournament was Engle Business Systems, a Toshiba Company. Vice President of Sales, Kevin Engle greated all golfers on Hole # 1 and provided them with a sleeve of golf balls courtesy of Engle Business Systems and Toshiba. The tournament this year had 226 golfers participate and added a new twist with having a company or individual at every hole to meet and greet the golfers. This years event also had a silent auction with various items to bid on and the night ended with a comedy show pro-vided by Earl David Reed from 105.7 the X and the People's Morning Show. All money raised from the silent auction and the comedy show also went in support of cancer research. The Elizabethtown Rotary Clubs support of the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation also enabled them to be a television sponsor on WHTM- ABC 27 for months leading up to and including the day of the Jake Gittlen Memo-rial Golf Tournament held at the Hershey Country Club August 13th thru the 16th. Next years' outing is July 26th, 2010 again at Blue Ridge Country Club in Harrisburg. Golfers interested in golfing should contact Dave Schmidt at [email protected] early. Dr. Joseph Rebman, President Elizabethtown Rotary Club John Martin II, Golf Committee Co-Chair Jong K. Yun, Ph.D., Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Institute Hob Kroesen, Golf Commitee Co-Chair Dave Schmidt, Golf Committee Co-Chair Warren Gittlen, Founder of the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation and Institute

ANNVILLE Lebanon Valley College Junior Katharine Cusick spoke to the Club on October 29th. After her senior year of high school she decided to spend a year abroad and did so under the oversight of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. She attended a college in Pune, India...the "Student Capital" of India a "small city" of only 4 million people. Rotary International provided her with a family for her stay. She stated that after flying for 24 hours on her first trip overseas, she came off the plane exhausted to the welcome of a large Rotary family...She was thrilled with her stay in India, was a superb speaker handling tough questions about what it was like to be a tall, white, freckle-faced woman in a culture where the males domi-nate. Also in attendance at this meeting were four members of the LVC Ro-taract Club....they are on their way to completing their goal of raising $500 to buy a cow from the Heifer Project...Brittany Ryan, Megan McGrady, Caitlin Murphy, and Mary O'Malley attended. The club did Happy Dollars (for the Foundation) first then passed the bucket for Heifer Dol-lars....coming into the event they had already raised $350...and should be full-cowed shortly.

COLONIAL PARK Honors RYLA Students The Colonial Park Rotary Club recently honored the six students from Central Dauphin High School, Central Dauphin East High School and the Dauphin County Vocational – Technical School that attended the 49th

“Rotary Youth Leaders Confer-ence” that was held on June 14th – 18th at Messiah College. Leader-ship training was provided to out-standing young men and women f r o m A d a m s , Cumberland, Dau-phin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York Coun-ties during the five day conference.

(L-R) Gregory Evans, Melissa Bruck (Rotary District #7390 Secre-tary), Holly Murray, Joshua Borland, Thad Baker (Colonial Park Rotary), Ariana Azzato, Burton Snyder, Jr., Randy Sibert (Past President, Colonial Park Rotary), Constance Grab

ELIZABETHTOWN Purple Pinkie Project The Rotary Club and Interact Club of Elizabethtown ran a Purple Pinky Project booth at the Elizabethtown Fair in August. Fair-goers were asked to donate $1 towards polio eradication. The week-long event raised $781 to End Polio Now.

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LANCASTER-SUNRISE Installs Paul Harris Fellow

DG Connie Spark attended the Rotary Club of Lancaster-Sunrise on October 22, 2009. While there, she had the pleasure of presenting a Paul Harris Fellow award to Past President Dennis Ashcroft. Also in the photo is current Lancaster Sunrise Presi-dent Doug Plank

LITITZ At the Tuesday, October 27th Lititz Rotary Club meeting, President Tom Oehme pre-sented a check for $6,100 to William Jefferson, President of Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center and Michele Dom-bach, Director of Financial Development. The funds were derived from proceeds of the Annual Lititz Rotary Club’s Golf Tournament chaired by Tom Clouse (far left). In addition to the Golf Tournament, funds are also obtained through the annual Craft Show, which is the largest on the east coast and the Travelogue series which is in its 47th year. Over the next few months additional contributions will be distributed to vari-ous organizations in Lititz and surrounding area.

MECHANICSBURG-NORTH The Rotary Club of Mechanicsburg-North is reaching out to over 1,150 local elementary school children. Using funds that the club has raised in the last year through its fundraising efforts and a matching grant from Rotary District 7390, which includes all 48 clubs in Central Pennsyl-vania, the club is making two presentations to students in the Cumber-land Valley School District. First, Rotarians are reading a book to second graders called Andy and

Elmer’s Apple Dumpling Adventure, a story that teaches positive character traits such as truthfulness and fairness to children using Rotary’s Four-Way Test. All 566 students in 28 class-rooms in the district will also receive an activity book that contains the story and other activities to reinforce the lesson. Rotarian Marcey Whiteside, a retired elementary school teacher and administrator, wrote a lesson plan for the club members to use.

Club members are also presenting copies of Webster’s Dictionary for Students: Special Encyclopedia Edition to all 592 third graders in the dis-trict’s 27 classrooms. The dictionary includes maps of the continents, important documents in American history such as the Declaration of Independence, and other extras that will aid students in their studies. The students who have already received their dictionaries have been enthusiastic in their thanks and are eager to use their new resources. The club also presented about 30 dictionaries to a fourth grade class at Harrisburg’s Steele Elementary School. Their teacher had heard about the dictionary project and asked the club to include her class as well.

LANCASTER 15th Annual Chicken BBQ

The Rotary Club of Lancaster held its 15th annual chicken barbecue pickup on Saturday, Oct. 3 at WGAL-TV8 near Lancaster City to raise money for local projects involving the School District of Lancaster. Reid Spangler, co chair of the Rotary Club’s barbe-cue committee, said it was a little more involved than a backyard cook-

out: Rotary volunteers sold and prepared almost 2,000 chicken dinners.

Install Paul Harris Fellows Rotary 7390 District Governor Con-nie Spark recently honored five members of the Rotary Club of Lan-caster for becoming first-time or multiple Paul Harris Fellows. Pic-tured from left are: Bill Neff, Andy Fletcher, Karl Boltz, Ed Hauck and Tom Gemmill. Boltz was named a Paul Harris Fellow. Neff, Fletcher, Hauck and Gemmill are Multiple Paul Harris Fellows. Donors of $1,000 or more to the Rotary Foundation's Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Humanitarian Grants Program, are recognized as Paul Harris Fellows. Each new Paul Harris Fellow re-ceives a commemorative certificate and a pin.

Welcomes Youth Exchange Student The Rotary Club of Lancaster recently welcomed its latest exchange stu-dent, Adrienn Biro, who lives in the town of Kozármisleny, in southern Hungary. Adrienn, 16, is a junior at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, where

she plays on the school volleyball team. Her other sporting interests include fencing (which she's been doing for six years) and basketball. She arrived to the area Aug. 30 and will be in Lancas-ter for the remainder of the school year. Adrienn's first trip beyond Central Pennsylvania was to see Penn State play Eastern Illinois in State College.

She hopes to one day become a doctor or chemist. She is pictured with Lancaster Rotary Club President Tracy Horst, left, and Michelle Gibbons, Adrienn's youth exchange counselor and member of the club's youth exchange program.

DONEGAL AREA Mary Alice Bitner, President and Tom McGrath, Treasurer of the Donegal Rotary Club presented a check of $500.00 to Pat Vogel, Direc-tor of the East Donegal/Conoy Chris-tian Food Bank at their meeting on October 6th. The funds will be used to help stock the food bank which serves local needy families in the Ma-rietta/Maytown/Bainbridge areas.

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STUDENTS OF THE MONTH CARLISLE Emily Bessler—Carlisle High School COLONIAL PARK Maura DeLong—Central Dauphin High School Kathryn Lytle—Central Dauphin East High School Antonio Stauffer—Dauphin County Technical School COLUMBIA Julia Melbert Sarah Burke MECHANICSBURG-NORTH Katherine Meckler & Drew Keller—Cumberland Valley HS Allison Hanna & William “Carl” Purcell—Cumberland Valley High School & Cumberland Perry Technical School MYERSTOWN-ELCO Derek Gerberich Kim Wagner Autumn Sprenkle Fred Shaak

RED LION/DALLASTOWN AREA Victoria Szmajda & Kyle Richards—Dallastown High School Cloe Nagle & Will Kottcamp—Red Lion High School YORK Alex Greene & Gabriella Ravida—Central York High School Derek Butler & Chelsea Proulx—Northeastern High School

MYERSTOWN-ELCO Honors RYLA Students Myerstown Rotary club recently hosted five senior ELCO students who attended the Rotary Youth Leaders Conference held on June 14-18, 2009. The five students chosen to attend this confer-ence had demon-strated the three prerequisites re-quired so that they could to be invited to be participants in the conference (academic excellence and leadership within various school and commu-nity endeavors such as sports, clubs, and service projects, etc). Mr. Crissman, chairman of the conference, described the conference as one that honed leadership skills (not a conference to teach how to); he emphasized that complete strangers were put together as a team to solve problems that necessitated creative thinking; a working solution had to be demonstrated; this forced complete strangers to work to-gether, collectively and creatively. The students attended seminars and met individually with working professional people to ask them questions about their careers. Also, time was spent in an impromptu speech for-mat (i.e. answering questions from reporters). They did have some free time for networking; however, this was not the main purpose of the conference. The students described their various experiences; the Rotary club members were caught up in the enthusiasm demonstrated by the re-porting students. Mr. Crissman commended the Myerstown Rotary club of 45 members for repeatedly sending more students to the conference per capita than any other club within Rotary district 7390; theYork club of 200 members is the only one that sends more students (6). Myers-town Rotary club is involved in our community! Please Google us at: Myerstown-ELCO Rotary club to learn more about us.

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RED LION/DALLASTOWN AREA Kim McChalicher (left), treasurer of the Rotary Club of Red Lion/Dallastown Area, presents outgoing Club President Neil Shaffer with a past president’s plaque and lapel pin. Shaffer served as President from 2008-2009

The Rotary Club of Red Lion/Dallastown Area announces that Julie Landis (right) assumed the role of Club president in July after out-going president Neil Shaffer (left) passed the gavel to her. Landis is the manager and assistant vice president of a Red Lion

branch office of Susquehanna Bank.

ELIZABETHTOWN The Elizabethtown Interact Club Charter Celebration was held on Mon-day night, Nov. 2 at the Elizabethtown Public Library with 11 new Interact members, 17 E-town Rotary members and numerous parents and friends present for the ceremonies. Beginning with some good desserts and conversation, the formal part of the program included greetings by President Joe Rebman, remarks by District Governor Connie Spark and District Interact Chair Ken Stoner, and a moving reflection on the importance of Rotary in the history of Po-lio Eradication by E-town Rotary member Dr. J. Kenneth Kreider, who spoke of his cousin's experience with polio and his involvement serving in a hospital as a volunteer to assist people living with polio. Club member and El izabethtown Area School District Superin-tendent Dr. Amy Slamp spoke of the Interact Club's choice of projects, and related her experi-ences as a missionary in Kenya and seeing the grateful recipients of the hospital toiletry boxes the club will prepare. She expressed her pride in the service orientation of these young people, and commended Club Ad-visor Frank Telenko for his "service above self" example to the stu-dents. Mr. Telenko followed up with brief remarks about his expectations for the club and his lifelong commitment to the Elizabethtown community. The new Interact Club members and officers were introduced and pre-sented an Interact Pin, a yellow carnation and a certificate bearing a quota-tion by Ralph Waldo Emerson (gifts of District Governor Connie Spark) and assembled in front of the new club's banner for photos. Lastly, they were given the opportunity to sign the back of the new club charter, which will be framed with a glass back so that future generations will see the names of the charter members. Rev. Ralph Detrick, Past President, offered a benediction to close the festivities which will be long remembered by the new Interact members as just the first step on a journey of community and international service .

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Mem. + Mem. Mem. Attend # Sept YTD

Club 1-Jul-09 - 30-Sept-09 Goal % Mtg 2009 2009-2010

Annville 19 -1 14 17 76 5 3 5

Carlisle 122 -2 121 131 60 4 2 9

Carlisle-Sunrise 33 +2 36 40 74 4 4

Colonial Park 85 92 94 54 5 5 5

Columbia 16 +1 12 17 50 5 2 2

Denver Adamstown 17 18 23 73 4 3 7

Donegal 15 -1 13 17 78 5 3

East Petersburg 14 14 17 74 4

Eastern York County 21 21 25 60 4 1

Elizabethtown 85 +2 87 100 87 4 66

Ephrata 40 40 43 50 3 1 3

Gettysburg 84 +2 86 90 73 3 3

Hanover 105 -1 104 100 53 4 1

Harrisburg 200 200 205 67 2 4

Harrisburg Keystone 29 +3 32 35 70 5 1

Hershey 141 -2 139 140 45 3

Hummelstown 37 37 40 55 5 4 8

Lancaster 255 +8 263 260 74 5 1 3

Lancaster - Hempfield 46 -3 43 45 70 5

Lancaster - Northeast 49 +3 52 55 76 3

Lancaster Penn Square 22 +3 25 30 81 4

Lancaster - South 58 58 60 74 5

Lancaster - Sunrise 36 -1 35 40 78 4 1 1

Lebanon 34 34 37 58 5

Lititz 41 -2 39 45 74 5 2 3

Littlestown 24 -3 23 26 83 5

Manheim 24 -2 22 28 81 5 1 3

Mechanicsburg 21 +2 23 30 88 4

Mechanicsburg - North 63 -2 61 65 78 4 1

Millersburg 17 -1 16 19 65 5

Mount Joy 49 -1 48 58 66 4

Myerstown - E. Lebanon County 43 43 46 75 5 5 6

New Holland 7 -1 6 9 80 5

New Oxford - Conewago Valley 13 +1 14 21 70 5

Northern Lebanon County 22 22 24 57 5 1 2

Palmyra 18 -1 17 20 97 3

Paradise 32 +1 33 37 78 4

Perry County 15 +2 17 23 80 3 1 1

Red Lion-Dallastown Area 23 -1 22 27 55 4 1 1

Shippensburg 16 16 18 62 5 1 2

Southern York County 28 -3 25 32 68 4

Susquehanna Township 24 24 30 54 4

Upper Dauphin 11 11 15 60 3

West Shore 19 -1 18 23 86 3

West York 12 -2 10 15 84 5 1 2

York 312 +5 317 315 59 5 11 17

York East 78 -2 76 80 48 5

York North 55 -3 52 60 70 3 4 13

District Totals 2530 +1 2531 2727 69 50 177

Note: Clubs in red did not turn in a September Membership Report.

Membership/Attendance Media Report

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