Join us Tuesday, January 14th at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center where our guest speaker will be Dr. Mark Noble, Director of the University of Rochester Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute.  

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.  Due to the extremely cold temperatures and hazardous conditions, we canceled the breakfast and luncheon meetings this week.  With the holidays, it has been almost a month since our last weekly meeting.  I miss seeing all of you, and am looking forward to our luncheon meeting next week!

Many people make New Year's resolutions.  It's good to look back on the year that just ended, and to set goals for the year ahead.  Our club had a very successful 2013.  In your own special ways, each of you contributes to the success of our club and the impact we have on families with special needs, city youth and our world neighbors.  My hope is that your New Year's resolutions for 2014 include at least one action item related to Rotary.  I also hope that you achieve all your goals this year.  Best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful New Year. 

1/14/14 - Dr. Mark Noble, Director of the University of Rochester Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute - "Taking stem cell medicine from the laboratory to the clinic for multiple diseases."

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

1/21/14 - Dr. Susan Hildenbrand, Asst. Professor at St. John Fisher - " The effects of poverty on a child's educational experience."

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

1/28/14 - New Member Class of Fall 2013 - Generations of Success: Family Business in Rochester

Locust Hill Country Club

2/4/14 - Breakfast Meeting - President-Elect Tracy Armstrong - Community Service Teams and Member Alan Vitberg - "An Overview of Inbound Marketing in 15 minutes or Less"

Memorial Art Gallery

2/4/14 - Patrick Sheller, Senior VP of Kodak and General Counsel

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

Wednesday, January 15th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. - Business to Business Event: As one of the country's leading not-for-profit, professional theatres, Geva Theatre Center is Rochester's flagship theatre company and the most attended regional theatre in New York State.  Founded in 1972, Geva serves up to 160,000 patrons annually, including more than 16,000 students.  Geva's productions are created and rehearsed in and for Rochester.  Geva draws upon the talents of the country's top actors, directors, designers and writers who are shaping the American theatre landscape.

Come tour the backstage of the theatre where you will get a chance to glimpse behind the scenes of New York's most attended regional theatre.  Visit the set of Last Gas and see where actors rehearse the productions that appear on the stages.  Meet a few of the talented artisans who work tirelessly offstage to make things happen onstage.  Hors d'oeuvres will be provided.  Geva Theatre Center is located at 75 Woodbury Blvd., Rochester, NY 14607.

RSVP to Myrna Padilla at the Rotary Office at 546-7435 x201 or myrna@rochesterrotary.org.

  Sunday, January 26, 2014

1:00 to 3:00 pm

Kings Bend Park (Located in Pittsford on Jefferson Road Between Clover Road and Main Street)

 Two Ways to Enjoy:

1. Come as a SPECTATOR.

2. Enter your favorite soup, chili, bakery or whatever item as a CONTESTANT.

Please register yourself and your prize-winning specialty (soup/chili/bakery or whatever items) with Brandi Koch at the Rotary Office at 546-7435 x210 or brandi@rochesterrotary.org.

Cost:

Spectator:        $15 (includes tastings and beverages)

Contestants:     No Admission charge

How it will work:

• You must bring with you a list of ingredients (to show in case of allergies).
• Please transport your soup and bring the necessary serving equipment (ladle, crockpot or warmer, pot, etc.).
• Tasting cups and spoons will be provided.
• All Spectators will be given 5 tickets to be used for voting.
• Prizes will be awarded to our Contestants with most votes.

Soup/Chili/Bake-off Flyer

Did you know that our Rotary Club is located in the poorest city in New York State?  Did you also know that Rochester is the 5th poorest city in the entire United States?  Is it any wonder, then, that the graduation rate in the Rochester City School District for all students who start 9th grade is about 45 %, and lower still for male students! Yes, less than half of all students who start the 9th grade graduate from high school, while in Brighton, Penfield, Webster, Fairport, and Pittsford, 80 - 90 % of all students go to college!

If that concerns you, you can help.  Give an hour or two each week tutoring a School 8 student in reading or mathematics.  We have established a number of opportunities for helping children learn.  First is the traditional tutoring that can occur during the school
day.  We will put you in contact with a teacher who has a student in need of some help. You come to  School 8 for an hour any time
that is mutually convenient with your schedule and the teacher's schedule, Mon - Fri between 8:30 and 2:30 and help a student learn.  If your schedule is not uniform and you cannot always make a certain period of time,  an alternative tutoring program may be better. The teachers themselves have an after school tutoring program on Tues. and Thurs. afternoons from 2:30 -4:30.  You are welcome to come for an hour to that program and be assigned a student that you can work with one on one. No specific commitment is needed - just show up.  A third alternative is the YMCA which runs a School 8 after school program Mon - Fri from 2:30 -5:30. Come and join that program and tutor a student or two.  Additionally, if you wish, you can start a chess club for example, or any other group activity that you are skilled in and feel the students might enjoy.  That can also be part of the Y program.  
 

Your help is needed - and greatly appreciated by the students and the faculty at School 8.  For more information, please contact Dick Bayer (586-9228  or  richardbayer01@aol.com)  or Linda O'Neil (loneil@pyramidbrokerage.com)

You will make a difference!

Did you miss the golf tournament?  Don't worry we still have these great Callaway jackets available.  You can get either the Rochester Rotary logo or Sunshine Camp logo embroidered on the jacket; sizes are limited.  Contact Brandi at 545-7435 x210 or Brandi@rochesterrotary.org to order.

Prices:

Men's Vest - $40                       Men's Full Zip - $50

Men's 1/2 Zip - $45                  Women's Full Zip - $40

Many thanks to all for the memorial contributions made.  Your generosity helps support capital projects and items that continue to make the Rochester Rotary Sunshine Campus one of the premier camping facilities for people with disabilities in our community.

   

January 2- Andre Godfrey January 2- Deborah Hughes January 3- Fabricio Morales January 6- Paul DeCarolis January 7- Jennifer Johnson January 9- Bud Rusitzky January 10- Jeff Leenhouts January 11- Fran Ostrom January 12- Chris Gamble January 16- Woody Deutsch January 19- Joe Naples January 18- Karla Damico Wilsey

January 19- Mark Kluge January 21- Nancy O'Brien January 22- Bob Stookey January 24- Gregory Miller January 24- Ray Ottman January 24- Tim Bauman January 25- Mary Worboys Turner January 26- Doug Phillips January 26- John Velekkakan January 30- Kevin Woods

Birthday gift contributions made will benefit the students at our adopted school, School #8, Roberto Clemente School #8 scholarship students and community service projects with in our community. You may mail your gift to the Rotary Office or bring it with you to a Tuesday meeting.

Please contact the Rotary Office if your birthday is not listed so that we may update your information.

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