• New Meeting Location for February 5! Don’t go to the Holiday Inn this week only! We are meeting at the Women’s Community Building on February 5 as a temporary move in our meeting location.

• Your Ithaca Rotary Club has some exciting reading that will fulfill your brain’s desire for deep intellectual stimulation! Please review the proposed update to our Club’s Constitution and Bylaws, which are now available for your reading pleasure at our website. After you have thoroughly examined the updated document, please let the architects know what you think by submitting your comments via the online form that may be accessed directly from the Constitution and Bylaws page.

• Dr. Phil Meyer, a fellow Rotarian for 21 years and pediatrician in our community for 38 years, spoke to the Club about the new Polio campaign. Dr. Meyer was the leader for our Club’s efforts during the first Polio eradication campaign when we raised $143,000! He described his direct experiences with treating polio patients and emphasized how important this revived effort is for the world. Take note that it is not a terrible disease of the past, but it is still an active virus today. Please strongly consider how you will help contribute to ridding the world of polio.

• Dave Flinn recently received a letter describing an opportunity for a Rotary homestay program with a young Japanese student. If you are interested in providing any assistance, please contact Dave at Dave@starflinn.com.
  
  “For more than 50 years I have had a close association with a small town in Japan, where I conducted dissertation research in 1951-52. Over the years I have maintained contact with a number of families, including that of the current mayor of the town. It is one of their grandsons who is interested in a short-term homestay from late July to late August of this year.
  
  The boy is in tenth grade, which in the Japanese educational system means that he is between 16 and 17 years old. I have written to his grandparents soliciting more information about his interest, English-language ability, and finances. While waiting for their reply, I thought to make inquires concerning the prospects for a homestay arrangement, and Barbara Cotts suggested that I contact you for assistance in securing more information about possibilities and programs.
  
  Sincerely yours,
  Robert J. Smith”

• New Member Election
  Don Hinman was nominated for membership by Siu-Ling Chaloemtiarana, and was elected by the members present. Please welcome our newest member to Ithaca Rotary as we all look forward to getting to know Don better!

• Visiting Rotarian
  Susan Goksu (Seneca Falls, NY)

• Ambassador
  1/17: Jim Vorp (Utica, NY)

• Students
  Risa Takashima (Japan)
  Samuel Dricot (Belgium)
  Ariel Arandia (Bolivia)

• Joanne Florino was happy for two important people in our community: Brigid Hubberman, who never fails to make her smile and for her wonderful efforts in the Family Reading Partnership; Mayor Alan Cohen, who has made a rare appearance at our meeting today; and Pres. Jean for celebrating her birthday recently.

• Nancy Rosen was happy that her son recently turned 21 years old, and that her daughter is having success with her college applications.

• Dave Dunlop was happy about the success of Cornell’s wrestling team! Read more about the team online.

• Beverly Baker wants to thank Jeff True and the Club for sending Brian Wilbur and her to Evanston, IL to attend a very useful Rotary club meeting focusing on the function of large clubs.

Rolf Pendall, Cornell City and Regional Planning Department

Prof. Pendall showed the Club information on the state of growth in upstate New York. He expressed his concern over a serious reduction in growth in our region, although there is still evidence that sprawl is occurring in our rural areas.

We often hear about urban sprawl where new developments occur in a very uncontrolled and irregular ways. Sprawl can have negative impacts on the long term health of a local economy, and Prof. Pendall believes that this is occurring outside our regional cities. He strongly recommends that future policies on new developments should leverage on our strengths of our cities and villages, and focus less on rural and town growth.

About the Speaker: Rolf Pendall is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His research on land-use controls looks at why communities adopt them, how they vary across the United States, whether they work as intended, and whether they have desirable or undesirable consequences for affordable housing, ethnic and racial diversity, and the environment. Prof. Pendall holds a Ph.D. (1995) in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Community and Regional Planning and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (1989), and a B.A. in sociology from Kenyon College in Ohio (1984).

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Program Chair: Peggy Haine
Kettle Watch: Mary-Lynn Cummings
Greeter: Jon Minikes
Thought: Lisa Bushlow
Introductions: Fred Antil
Happy Dollars: Joann Florino
Music: Jack Burns, Siu-ling Charloemtiaran
Photography: John Ziegler
Setup: John Hays
Editor: Matthew T. Dearing

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