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The 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.

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

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.

Pictured 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.

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/