Oneonta Rotary Club Steps up to Help Support Local Sock Hop

Thank you to all the Rotary volunteers who assisted in the serving of food at the 2010 Sock Hop sponsored by Central New York Radio Group to support the Local Catskill Area Hospice on September 18th. All profit from the food proceeds went back to our local Rotary club and the admission fees went to support Hospice.

The Rotary Volunteers Include:

Ed Forman

Larry Guzy

Les Grummons

Sarah Patterson

Kathy Schofield

Loree Allen

Steven Belk (and the Job Corps Crew)

Frank Russo

Fred Schmidt

Joe Fodero

Charlie Nocosia

Sally Miliantri

Interesting Program about the SUNY Oneonta's Music Department.

Dr. Robert Barstow gave an interesting program on their Music Industry Major. He started at SUNY in 1966 and was the chair of the department for 19 years. The program itself started in 1982, and has five specialized courses all relating to the music industry from the business side of the equation to the music itself. There is nothing like it in the whole country. To give you an insight into how popular this program has become, in 1994 there were 84 students, 1997 137 students, 1998 200 students, 200 297 students, 2001 397 students, 2003 550 students, 2004 633 students and now approximately 500 students have this as a major. They also have multiple ensembles that play on campus and have concerts. Please go and enjoy their musical talents. this is a wonderful program/major and asset to our community.

Central NY Books of the World Project (8/26/10) Program Notes

8/26/2010 Past District Governor (PDG) Ward Vuillemont was our speaker this past Thursday and he explained a program called Central NY Books for the World. This project is a collaborative effort between Rotary Clubs, affiliated youth clubs, their community and service organizations. They provide K-6th grade picture/story and K-12th grade text books to needed regions of the world to create opportunities for a better way of life.

Books are shipped to Rotary club and district distribution centers in Africa and other locations throughout the world where English is one of their primary business languages. In addition, Spanish and English books are also sent to locations in Latin America.. The Club buys, at cost, all the required packaging materials. At a central warehouse, boxed books are weighed and palletized, wrapped and shipped to the Second Wind Foundation in Houston TX. Here in Houston, books from all USA Rotary collection centers are co-mingled, containerized and sent to third world Rotarian managed distribution centers.

The project costs $65 for the materials and $100 to ship the books. The CNY Books for the World project started two years ago and they have since shipped 90 tons of books to date.

Rosalie Higgins is going to check with the school to see if they have text books they are getting rid of.

If you have any contacts with our local school district administrators and they are looking to get rid of slightly used or worn books please contact Barbara Ann Heegan and let her know. Also check out the Website at http://www.cnybooksfortheworld.org/

Two New Rotarians Inducted on August 26th

Pictured on the left is Joe Fodero, a retired professor at SUNY Oneonta in Health and Exercise, and on the right is Stephen Belk, the new director at Oneonta Job Corps. Please introduce yourself to them and make them feel welcome.

A Fresh Batch of Rotary Exchange Students Hit the Ground Running

Front row Left to Right: Naomi Seki from Japan, Adrain Dei Agnoli from Australia, Barbara Ann Heegan from Worcester :), Marco Di Bert from Italy, and Maria Carbajal from Argentina.

Back Row Left to Right Kristy Cable (Naomi's Counselor), Dick Breuninger, Paul Patterson (Marco's Counselor), and Sarah Manchester (Maria's Counselor).

Each student is here for an academic year at OHS. People interested in meeting the students should contact their counselor. If you see them please make them feel welcome to our country.

Rotary Golf Tournament POSTPONED until Spring

The golf committee has made an executive decision to postpone the September 9th golf tournament until the Spring of 2011. The reasons were due to lack of participation and the general state of the economy. At this point we only had six teams participating, very few tee signs and only a small amount of prizes.

Our hopes are that in the spring time The Rotary Tournament will be one of the first of the year and we can get more than a few Rotarians helping to organize the event. More news to follow in the coming months...