• The NEXT Ithaca Rotary Club meeting will be on Wednesday, January 8, 2003. Happy New Year!

• The 2002 Pride of Ownership Awards are now presented on the Ithaca Rotary Website. Learn more about the recipients on this website!

• The Salvation Army has been behind in their collecting goals for 2002, so our club did an impromptu collection during the meeting. We raised $585 in one luncheon!
  
• The Rotary PT Cruiser has a new owner!
  The winner was Darlene Carpenter of Apalachin, NY . She purchased the winning ticket from the Rotarians from the Hillcrest Club in the Oakdale Mall. Darlene is a nurse and her husband is disabled. Hopefully, the car was a welcomed Christmas present. She picked up the car today. (Picture should be on the district website.)
  
  The District made about $16,000 on the raffle, and Dist. Governor Bob Grantham offers his sincere appreciation to all Rotarians for the effort put into making our first major fund raiser a great success.
  
• New Member Introduction
  

  John Minikes, sponsored by Bill Bellemy John has a long and successful history with international law and real estate transactions. He and his wife, Suzi, moved to the Ithaca area about two years ago, and now live in a house in Lansing overlooking Cayuga Lake. John received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1960, and completed his law degree in 1962. He next received his Master's in International Law from NYU in 1965. Please take a moment to welcome John into the Ithaca Rotary Club!

• New Member Proposals
  The Ithaca Rotary Club Board of Directors will be considering membership applications from the following people listed below. Any concerns about these proposed members should be made in writing to the Secretary of the Club by January 10, 2003.

  Name: H. Donald Hinman
  Classification: Consulting, Electrical Engineering
  Employer: Self employed Consulting Electrical Engineer
  Sponsor: Siu-Ling Chaloemtiarana

  Name: Stephan E. Garner
  Classification: Banking Administration
  Employer: President & CEO Tompkins Trust Company
  Sponsor: Jim Byrnes

• December Birthdays!

  4: Joanne Lamoureux
  5: John Bailey
  7: Bonnie Howell
  9: Roger Sibley
  12: Dave Barr
  14: Mary Agnew
  17: Lisa Bushlow
  18: Dave Singley
  21: John Seeley
  25: Noel Desch
  29: Bob Baker, Bob Langhans
  30: Barry Rothfeld
  31: David Cook

• Ambassadors
  12/5: Bob Young (M.S. Rotterdam)
  12/13: Jeff True (Utica, NY)
  
• Students
  Risa Takashima (Japan)
  Samuel Dricot (Belgium)
  
• Fellow Rotarian Dave Flinn recently had a significant health scare, but he is now in the clear. Below is a note from Dave about what happened:

  "On Thursday, December 12, I entered Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca to have a mass removed from my colon, which had been discovered in a routine colonoscopy a week earlier. The operation was successful, but I needed a stay in the hospital to recover.

  On Tuesday December 17, I received the pathologist's report which said that no evidence of cancer was found in the lymph nodes, and the mass had not penetrated the colon wall. All good news, and perhaps the best word we could have received for Christmas. I am still recovering, of course, and will be taking things easy for a while; but it surely was a good Christmas in the Flinn
  household.

  My thanks to all who sent email and cards, before, during and after my surgery. Someday, I may get the chance to thank you individually; but rest assured that all your contributions were greatly appreciated; and, I am sure, contributed to the success of the whole project. For now, thank you, thank you, thank you."

• Mary-Lynn Cummings was very happy for Jack Burns, because he's a heck of a guy.
  
• Dave Cook announced that the Salvation Army was way behind on their kettle drive, and that they need much more help this year (see announcement above!).
  
• David Flaccus was happy for each of our three exchange students, and special thanks to Mary Trochum for hosting a wonderful party for the students.
  
• Dale Flinn announced that his father, Dale, has successful recovered from his recent surgery to remove a large mass discovered after a routine colonoscopy.
  
• Peter McClellen thanked Dick Page for the great new collection boxes that he built for this year's Share the Warmth campaign.

• Please view the calendar posted on the main page of this website for the most up-to-date information. [View Rotary Calendar]

Program Chair: Scott Whitham
Kettle Watch: Dave Barr
Greeter: Chris Sanchirico
Thought: Mary Kane Trochim
Introductions: Charlie Schlea
Happy Dollars: Mary-Lynn Cummings
Music: Jack Burns and Bill Cowdery
Photography: John Ziegler
Editor: Matthew T. Dearing

Please address all correspondence to the club to:

Ithaca Rotary Club
P.O. Box 306
Ithaca, N.Y. 14851
Attn.: Scott Russell, Secretary

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