Reporting Meeting of September 17, 2007

(for distribution September 24, 2007)

Text Box: Calendar of Events This Week: 9/24 Travel Issues for People with Special Needs, Mike Welshhans Next Week 10/1 The Elms’ Corn Maze Coming Up: 10/20 Fall 5K Apple Run 10/29 Friends Forever (10 young visitors from Ireland) 11/6, Election Day, Apple Pie Festival 12/4 Tree Lighting and Orchestra Concert 12/10 Christmas/ Holiday Party @ Longfellow’s Note: Regular meetings are held Mondays at 6:15 PM in the Sewell Memorial Room of the Ballston Town Hall. September 17 Meeting Attendance: Members 23; Visiting Rotarians 0; Spouses 2; Prospective Members 0; Other Guests 2. Invocation: George Bailey, Garry Morrow, Dan Stec or Bob Youmans Please give suggestions for future programs to Mark Gasparovic
Text Box: September 17 Announcements
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


·     Gift of Life- Our club raised a total $2375 for Gift of Life with a combination of 12 golfers, a hole sponsorship, a generous cash donation by president Ron and a $450 give back by Ken Crotty who won the 50-50 drawing.

·     Entertainment ‘08 books are now available for distribution.  The books cost $30 each and our club makes $6 (20%) profit on each book.  Last year we made $800 from this fund raiser. The books can be used immediately.  Entertainment ‘08 books are practical Christmas gifts.  Out-of Town Editions are available for towns in 42 states at $30 or less and can be ordered through the club without shipping or handling costs.

·     Michael Welshans and Linda LeTendre have been chosen to make a presentation at a community connections fair to be held from 9:00 to 11:30 AM on Thursday October 4.  The event is to be held at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet Hospitality Center in Latham.  The fair is about connecting people with disabilities to civic and social groups.  Linda asks that one or more Rotarians go with them to help illustrate how Michael became an important pat of our Rotary club.

·     Paul Lewandowski handed out posters and entry forms for the apple run on October 20.and asked for volunteers to help run the event.

·     Group Study Exchange – the district is appealing to all clubs to identify candidates for the upcoming exchange with Eastern Europe.  Candidates are young professionals between the ages of 25 and 40, not a Rotarian nor related to a Rotarian.  The exchange is from May 2 to 31, 2008.  See Garry Morrow for more information.

 

Text Box: 9/17 Program and 10/1 Preview 

 

 

 


Tom Henderson, a surveyor with the USGS gave a spectacular photographic and video presentation entitled “Frozen In Time, Antarctic Remembrances.” The material was gathered over three trips Tom took between 1979 and 1997.  Antarctica is the size of the USA and Mexico combined and has more ice than land above sea level.  The Antarctic ice cap accounts for 20% of the world’s fresh water (about the same amount as in all of our Great Lakes.)  No Country owns Antarctica although several have pressed claims.  The Antarctic is administered under a thirty nation international treaty crafted in the ‘60s to preserve it for international research.  US research operations in Antarctica are funded and supervised by our National Science Foundation.  Flight operations are conducted by our Air National Guard detachment in Glenville who fly the seven hour trip from Christ Church New Zealand to McMurdo Station from which several other bases are supported.  The air is so dry and cold that things are preserved for a very long time.  Tom showed pictures of Admiral Scott’s hut that looked as he left it nearly a hundred years ago.  We saw a picture of a mummified seal that had died about 350 years ago and looked like new.  Tom experienced the record low temperature of minus 117F during one of his trips where the thermometer touched minus 100F in all six months he was there.  The photographs of the scenery (16000 foot mountains, snow caves, sea ice and desert valleys) and wildlife (seals, penguins, fish, and killer whales) were breath taking as were the videos of the Aurora.

Next Week:  We will meet at the Elms Corn Maze on Charlton Road to enjoy the maze experience and will have dinner there, weather permitting.

Text Box: Serve with us – the world is waiting.reported by Garry Morrow