Rondequoter

Guests tonight:  Mari Tucker (our RYLA student from Irondequoit High School) and her parents Lisa & Jeff

Pasta Dinner:  A list of sponsors associated with their previous seller is available to club members.  See Bob Scheidt if you need one.  Most tickets have been distributed.  A poster was created.  No major changes of plan from last year.  Carl Ceccanti will serve as a mentor for anyone needing selling assistance.

Schedule:  Next week (Sept 30) is a social gathering at Don’s Original.  No meeting at the Sicilian Sports club (this is for you Doug Decker…).  An upcoming business meeting will be an Assembly where President Steve will lead us in a review of all our activities and try to obtain volunteer management of each.

Interact Club - Lynn Wozniak has contacted Irondequoit High School advisors and is starting to make connections.  The club is already working on a project.  Lynn will attend Open house at Irondequoit HS to generate even more interest in the Interact Club.

Camp Haccamo:  70th anniversary dinner was great success and Jason Miller's table won much of the prizes.  Adam Chodak was MC.  Great evening for all who attended.  Ray Holla and everyone else found out there was a Camp Song that several attendees sang.  Ray will learn it and sing it at an upcoming meeting.

Miscellaneous:  Intervol has a sort night on Wednesday nights.  Lynn Wozniak will look into making that a working meeting for us in the near future.

Mari Tucker is a Senior at Irondequoit High School (IHS).  Our club sponsored Mari's attendance at this summer's Rotary District 7120 RYLA camp at Finger Lakes Community College.  RYLA stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and is an intensive leadership experience where sophomore and juniors in high school develop skills as a leader while having fun and making connections.  Mari was the 1st choice of the career counselors at IHS when our club reached out for student applications as she has exhibited leadership capabilites throughout high school. 

Mari thanked our club for sponsoring her in this “awesome” experience.  She felt that she grew as a person and as a leader though this week of camp last July.  She has a much stronger image of herself and realizes she can now take the lead by inserting her ideas and actions into improving whatever task is in front of her.  

The camp had many exercises that trained the students to build communications skills and strategies to become dynamic leaders.  Committees were formed to perform certain tasks during the week such as documenting the week with media and creating t-shirts.  There were many problem solving and team building activities that the students will keep with them for a long time.

The days were long but Mari thought they were so much fun.  The best part of the experience is creating many new friends that she continues to communicate with everyday since camp.  Graduation was sad because no one wanted to leave but they were glad to have met so many new friends.  Mari thought the coaches at camp were very focused and encouraged open communications.

It was an excellent presentation by Mari (See her PRESENTATION) and we were very fortunate to have someone like Mari to represent Irondequoit at RYLA.  Going forward, Mari has agreed to be a mentor at the school to encourage next year's candidates to consider applying for RYLA.  

Thanks Mari and thanks to her parents, Lisa & Jeff!

Many contributions for  - Mari's presentation, foundation, polio, Fran DiPrima's continuing recovery

Lou DiPrima - Fran gets to put contacts back in. And his daughters went to RYLA!

Kenn Van Dieren - writing a autobiography.

Lily Lynch - trunk or treat and having to go back to work.

Ray Holla - Haccamo Dinner

Tom Kosanke -  50 miles Wilmot Cancer ride and Detroit losing to Buffalo.

Jim Kozlowski - riverboat trip up the Seine River from Paris to Normandy