• BOCES Scholarships Awarded
  Tony Delucy, the Principal of Career and Technical Center at BOCES announced their recent awards, supported by the critical financial contributions from the five Tompkins County Rotary Clubs, which recognized over 90 students for Career and Technical Recognitions. Tony thanked our Club for our strong support of the BOCES program.

James L. Gibb Memorial Scholarship Awarded Millie Clarke-Maynard announced the award of this year's memorial scholarship to Gabriel Galluchi, a senior at Ithaca High School, for his high academic performance, his level of community and school service, and for his efforts in promoting interracial understanding. Gabe will be attending SUNY at Albany and majoring in Business.

The Club also heard from Mary Ann Graham, a James L. Gibb scholarship recipient in 1987, who shared with the club what she has been up to since receiving the award. Mary attended Binghamton University to earn a degree in psychology. Afterwards, she moved back to the Ithaca area, and just recently earned her Master's degree in social work to fulfill her dream to become a social worker. This award has meant a lot to Mary as she was also very close to the Gibb family.

• Ithaca Rotary BBQ Update! It was a beautiful day for the Rotary BBQ, and the famous ribs sold out in a mere 45 minutes! A special thanks to Don Hinman, Karl Kayser, and Mary Kane Trochim for stepping up to helping out with the rib cooking as Jim Johnston unfortunately had to leave town unexpectedly to be with his father.
  
  Loralyn Light, the Head Chick, reported that the chicken ran out at about 3:30 pm, and we had a great success for the event with many volunteers... almost too many at times! So far, we have a gross income of over $8,200 and a potential to have a net income of well over $5,000, which is fantastic. If you have not yet paid for your tickets please do so soon, or else Siu-ling Chaloemtiarana will be coming after you (and maybe even your house)!

• The District is currently looking for Rotarians to volunteer as a councilor for this year's Ambassadorial Scholars. If you are interested, please contact Peter Brellochs of the Ithaca Sunrise Club.

• New Rotary News Editor and Team
  Beginning with the July issue of the Rotary News, Dale Flinn will be stepping up to be your next Rotary Editor and Matthew Dearing will be focusing on developing and maintaining our Rotary web site. John Ziegler will be continuing as our club photographer. Together will be working hard to bring you more timely and efficient Rotary news information, all with lots of pictures to keep you in the action!

• Print Edition to be Discontinued
  The Ithaca Rotary News June 2003 print edition will be the final mailing of our club's bi-weekly print newsletter. The Club's Board has decided that we should focus our communications in a more efficient and cost effective method by only distributing the newsletter via e-mail and our website at http://www.ithacarotary.org. Several printed copies of the website version of the newsletter will be available each week at the meeting, but will not be mailed to the membership.
  
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New Member Introduction: Matthew Braun Sponsored by Scott Whitham Matt Braun, and his wife Nancy, hail from St. Louis, MO and moved to Ithaca in 1997 to settle down. Matt is currently the Executive Director of the Dewitt Historical Society of Tompkins County. He enjoys spending most of his time addressing the question "So, how's the State Theatre coming?", which he then has to explain that he is not Scott Whitham! Learn more about Matt's work online at http://www.tompkinscountyhistory.org.

Welcome to our newest member, Matthew Braun!

• New Member Election
  Dalene Covert was nominated for membership by sponsor Dave Cook, and was elected by the members present. Please welcome our newest member to Ithaca Rotary as we all look forward to getting to know Dalene better!

• Please keep fellow Rotarian Kelly Damm in your thoughts as she has been recovering from a recent car accident.

• Remembering a Rotarian
  Past District Governor (1976-77) Donald Burr of Norwich, NY passed away on Sunday, June 29. The Memorial Service was held on July 1 at the First Congregational Church in Norwich. Don was a caring and dedicated member of the Family of Rotary, and he will be greatly missed.

• Barbara Thuesen presented Pres. Jean with a specially framed Rotary 4-Way Test in honor of her fabulous year as our President and the President of the Chamber of Commerce!

• Ambassadors
  5/29: June Losurdo, Pat Baxter, Joanne Lamoureux, Phil Meyer, Paul Grennell, Barb Caldwell (Ithaca Sunrise)
  6/5: Phil Meyer, Dick Charsky, George Gull (Ithaca Sunrise)
  6/11: Barbara Thuesen (Lagrange, GA)
  6/11: Tom Sanford (Fort Wayne, IN)
  6/12: Phil Meyer, George Gull, Jeff True (Ithaca Sunrise)
  6/12: Russell Sprague (Apex, NC)
  6/17: Bill Hawley (Ithaca-Cayuga)
  6/19: Dave Cook Ithaca Sunrise)
  6/24: George Gull, Jean McPheeters, Barlow Ware (Ithaca Sunrise)
  

• Visiting Rotarians
  Allan Bruckner (Bend, OR)
  Peter Brellochs (Ithaca Sunrise)
  Charlie Evans (Saddlebrooke, AZ)
  Barry Downing (Endwell, NY)
  Dan Brown, George Banuvanis, Pete Wadach, Michael Longo (Ithaca Sunrise)
  John Spence (Corning, NY)
  Howard Hartnett (Moravia, NY)
  Charlie Evans (Saddlebrooke, AZ)
  Bob Grantham, DG (Cortland Breakfast)
  Elliott Blauvelt (Horseheads, NY)
  

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

Rotary Members report on origins of "86":

• From Bob Cowie: "When I worked as a soda jerk at Howard Johnson's many years ago, '86' meant we were out of something, for example, 'We're 86 on the vanilla ripple.'"

• Mike Brown provided several discussions from various resources:
  
  "American Heritage Dictionary says 'Perhaps after Chumley's bar and Restaurant at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.'
  
  Another site suggests, 'When they started just building bars and houses and apartments pretty much alike, the city code guys would figure all bars were the same, and therefore warranted the same maximum occupancy... you guessed it... 85. Therefore, Mr. 86 was, well, '86'ed.''
  
  Which is dismissed by WordDetective.com:
  'The theory you've heard about "86" is certainly entertaining, but is unsubstantiated and probably not true. Fortunately, there are lots of other theories. Unfortunately, there's not much evidence supporting them, either. What we do know is that "86" first appeared as "kitchen slang" meaning "out of that item" in the 1930's, and fairly quickly came to mean "stop serving that customer" as well. Eventually, "86" spread to general usage, where it came to mean simply "dismiss" or "quash" ("The boss 86'ed my proposal for beer in the lunchroom")."
  
  For more talk about the origins of "86" checkout the full reference provided by Mike Brown!

• This week's word is "flocculent", an adjective meaning wooly, In chemistry, a "floc" is a mass formed by the aggregation of a number of fine suspended particles. This word can also be used to describe a person, especially as a more pleasant alternative to the descriptor "bah-ah-ah", as was once used for Pres. Jean by her husband several years ago when a permanent wave turned for the worst.

"Beauty and the Beast Story Tellers"

Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton

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

Program Chair: Lisa Bushlow
Kettle Watch: Catherine Stulir
Thought: Guy Tabacchi
Introductions: Bob Langhans
Photography: John Ziegler
Setup: Mike Billing
Editor: Matthew T. Dearing

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