Italian Lunch and Magic Show to Support Polio Thursday October 20th 12:00 at Elks Club

AUTHENTIC

“GUIDO”

LUNCH AND MAGIC SHOW

STARRING

MICHAEL JAMES

RENOWNED FOR HIS

SLEIGHT OF HAND, HUMOR,

AND MAGIC TRICKS

MENU

SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS

ITALIAN BREAD

GARDEN SALAD WITH TOMATOES AND ONIONS

THURSDAY; OCTOBER 20, 2011

12:00 NOON

ELKS CLUB

ROTARIANS - $10.00

GUESTS - $8.00

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ROTARY POLIO FUND

“THANK YOU!”

TO CHRIS KUHN’S JOB CORPS ACADEMY

FOR SPONSORING MICHAEL JAMES

Program Notes from Meeting on 10/6 Dr. William Asbaugh

Our speaker was Dr. Willaim Asbaugh and associate professor and chair of the History Department at SUNY Oneonta. He is originally from California but has been teaching US Diplomatic and Asian History at SUNY Oneonta for the past 10 years. He has won the Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence. In February he returned to the US after teaching through the Fulbright Program at Doshisha University and Kwansei Gakuin University in the greater Kyoto area of Japan. He explained that there are things the US looks at from studying the Japanese schools and there are things the Japanese look at when studying the US schools. In Japan students do well on standardized tests but those skills do not translate, they take tests to get into high schools, and college. In Japan college is a vacation for students. Businesses look at the ranking of the college you get into and what clubs you were in and how you got along in those clubs. The Japanese are fabulous at teaching mathematics. Grading is inflated. In Japan an A is 80-100 and tracking of students is difficult. In Japan they have a difficult time using critical thinking skills. We need to go back to teaching the old values of school Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking.

Other things that were interesting there were the electronics are amazing there, all businesses that get cleaned on a regular basis have a slightly sloping floor and the water after mopping gets drained right out the front door, there is no hot water in the public restrooms, and rock and roll shows start at 7pm and end before 10pm before the subway closes.

Flood Relief by the Oneonta Rotary Club

Oneonta Rotary was charged with coordinating the collection efforts of the 8 clubs in our District plus Hartwick College and the NBT bank. Over the course of two weeks it is estimated that about two tons of clothes and supplies were collected at the Elks Club. They were sorted, boxed and labeled for delivery to Hobart Rotary Club, where they were distributed to flood victims. Prominent among the sorting and packing volunteers were Larry and Joyce Guzy, Barbara Lilly (with a cameo appearance by husband Paul) and Peg and George Brown. For the loading we called on 3 Job Corps students who volunteered to help load the truck which had been loaned by Exit Realty. To help us load the truck properly Schuman's moving company loaned us Keith Wilson, who also pitched in lugging boxes.

The loaded truck was then driven to Hobart by Dan Mattice and the collections were offloaded in Hobart by Dan, David and Connie Mattice, Joe Fodero, Alan Sessions and George Brown.

Books for the World Project Oneonta Rotary 9/24/11

A cooperative effort between St. Mary's School and Oneonta Rotary. St. Mary's had to find a home for some 8,000 books plus text books due to the school's closing. We contacted the Rotary Books for the World project, coordinated by Rotarian Ward Vuillemot of the Skaneateles club. He provided all the materials required for boxing and shipping the books to Johannesburg, South Africa, where they will be distributed to schoolchildren.

On Saturday, September 24^th we had a total of 24 volunteers show up at St. Mary's to pack, label and tape about 175 boxes of books. They did it all in under 3 hours. And then, on Wednesday, September 28^th, three volunteer Job Corps students loaded up the truck, loaned by Exit Realty. It was driven to the Medical Coaches warehouse where the books were unloaded and placed on pallets ready to be shrinkwrapped and shipped to LaPorte, Texas, for onward shipment to South Africa.

Almost 8 pallets were filled, each of which held 24 boxes. It cost Oneonta Rotary a total of $1,320 for the entire project. Funding was provided by The Oneonta Rotary Fund, a Rotary member who wished to remain anonymous, and thru a Rotarian contact made by Marie Lusins.