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Youth
Exchange Program
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third annual Rosenberg & Parker Charity Sporting Clays
outing
took place on October 8 at M&M Hunting Preserve in Pennsville,
NJ. Over 65 shooters participated in this event which raised
approximately $10,000 for the Harry C. Rosenberg Youth Exchange
Scholarship. During the three years that this exciting event
has taken place, almost $30,000 has been raised. The scholarship
is entirely need based and will pay up to 50% of the costs
associated with participation in a Rotary Youth Exchange.
If you know of a high school aged student who could benefit
from the scholarship, please email Chad Rosenberg at chad.rosenberg@yahoo.com. |
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“A
Fifth on the Fifth”
During my term as President of RC of Central Chester County
(07/08) I would auction off a bottle of alcohol whenever
we had 5 meetings in a month, hence the name. The proceeds
from those auctions went to Paul Harris/TRF.
Now,
as Chair of the Institutional Advancement/Planning Committee
for Gundaker, I encourage each club’s Gundaker Director
to do something similar at their respective meetings.
And it doesn’t have to be liquor – t-shirts
and random souvenirs that members bring back from vacation
are popular auction items with my club, too.
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I
auctioned off a bottle of Iceberg Vodka (available only
in Canada) at last week’s meeting, fetching $40
for Gundaker. I have three more opportunities for “A
Fifth on the Fifth” before the end of Rotary year
09/10. In this tough economy, it is an easy way to fundraise
for Gundaker without even asking for donations.
I’ll
drink to that! Cheers!---- Jason
Pyrah
Gundaker Director, Rotary
Club of Central Chester County
Chair, Institutional
Advancement/Planning Committee
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Thorndale
Rotary Club Reaches Out to Local Schools
With Donation of Dictionaries to Third Grade Students
(Thorndale,
PA—October 02, 2009) The Thorndale
Rotary Club – which has been serving
the communities of Thorndale, Downingtown and Coatesville
since 1995 – is in the process of donating dictionaries
to third grade students at local schools. The schools
involved include Collegium-Charter School in Downingtown,
Caln Elementary School in Thorndale, West Bradford Elementary
and Bradford Heights both in West Bradford Township. They
selected the dictionary project because of the initiative
of Rotary International making Literacy and Clean Water
priorities for the coming decade. This is one of the many
community outreach programs that the Thorndale Rotary
Club has planned for the 2009/2010 year ahead.
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from left to right at a recent visit to hand out dictionaries
at the Collegium Charter School are: Bernie Orglmeister,
member of Thorndale Rotary Club and President of eBernie,
Inc.; Mrs. Maggie Mraz, Principal of Collegium-Charter School;
Jack Hines, President of Thorndale Rotary Club and Manager
of West Bradford Township; and Troy Vogt, Past President
of Thorndale Rotary Club and Portfolio Manager at First
National Bank of Chester County – along with some
children from the school. |
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Aug
2009
Harry Rosenberg Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship
Donna Henry
(r) (long standing Rotarian with Rotary club of Eastwick
Airport) serves on the Youth Exchange committee and the
Youth Exchange Program (YEP) scholarship committee. YEP
hosts students and sends them abroad for a year long school
exchange. A short term exchange program is also available.
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Six students are here now from around the world for “summer
exchanges."
Contact Donna Henry:
dmnphilly@aol.com
YEP co-chairs are Rob
Newman and Linda Messer. The
District YEP has 9 students coming in this month from
around the world and 6 students going out.
For information contact Rob Newman (484) 574 9633 or rob@electrocoremedical.com
Chad Rosenberg
(l) (member of Rotary club of Bala Cynwyd Narberth and
YEP committee member). YEP was the reason Chad got involved
in Rotary. His father is a member of the Rotary club of
Philadelphia. Chad spent a month in Finland as a YEP student.
At the August Gundaker meeting,
Chad explains "All students have to buy an open ended
airline ticket, pay application fees, and purchase insurance
for the trip. The total cost is always thousands of dollars.
This is what the “Harry Rosenberg Rotary Youth
Exchange Scholarship” is meant to cover so that
costs would not prevent a student from participating in
the program. Two years ago we held the first ever Rosenberg
and Parker Charity Sporting Event fund raiser [trap
shoot held in NJ]. In 2007 we raised $10,000; in 2008
we raised $9,000. The next event will be October 8th 2009."
Contact Chad Rosenberg: 610 668 9100 or by e-mail at chad.rosenberg@suretybond.com
Katelyn Isaacson
(c) (singer and writer; scholarship recipient) is a senior
at Haverford High school. She will spend a year in France
and will be bloging from there. Click
here to go to Katelyn's blog:
http://katelyninfrance.wordpress.com/ |
What
Rotary Loves to do!
Maasai tribal members from Kenya, East Africa visited Paoli-Malvern-Berwyn
Rotary in April, including Francis, Susan, Christine and three
children, Mildred-16, Ezekiel-14, and Amos- 11. In their arid
home of Olosho-oibor, the Maasai walk as far as 10-20 miles
every day to fetch water. The PMB Rotary made a $500 donation
toward the creation of a well for their community. That donation
was followed by a matching $500 grant from the Gundaker
Foundation, which was used to install pipes
to bring the water supply to the local school. |
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The Gundaker Foundation is the foundation
of District 7450. It is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, established
to serve the 52+ Rotary Clubs in District 7450 by improving the
quality of life for many deserving people. Each district Rotary
club has a Gundaker Director, appointed to attend monthly meetings
and to serve on the Foundation. Funds to support the Foundation
are raised by annual contributions, sustaining memberships, golf
outing, auction, gifts and bequests, and special fundraising projects.
A person becomes a Guy Gundaker Fellow after a $1000 donation is
made to this foundation, there are currently five levels of Guy
Gundaker Fellowship, or a sustaining member after a $100 donation
that starts the account where additional donations are made in coming
years.
Contact a 2009-10 Gundaker sub-committee chair
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Funding
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Become a Guy Gundaker Fellow |
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Foundation
Programs
including National, International and Educational Grants and
the Youth Exchange Program |
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information call - Joel Chesney 610 405 3490 |
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