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Rotary Club of Mechanicsburg |
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Meets each Wednesday at 7:15 AM |
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Brothers Diner |
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Current Meeting Information Programs for February 2012 “World Understanding” Month
February
2012 Rotary Bull Other Web Sites of Interest: Link to Blog of outbound GSE Team to Malaysia and
Singapore
Upcoming Events
Rotary Students of the
Month
Pictured above (left to right): Bob Brown, Club President; Jordan Miller, Northern High School; Katherine Maffey, Trinity High School; Daniel Mauger, Messiah College; and John Cope, club member. Not pictured is Bryton Barr, Mechanicsburg High School.
Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholar
Pictured above (left to right): Bob Brown, Club President, and Dr. Patricia Silveyra, former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar as she is presented a club banner and "4-Way Test" golden ruller. Patricia who is now a member of the Rotary Club of Hershey and a faculty member and researcher in the College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, spoke to the club on 1/4/2012 about her experience as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (2008-09). She told the club about her home country of Argentina, herself, and the process of becoming an Ambassadorial Scholar. She thanked Rotary and the many people who have helped her achieve one of her main goals of becoming a research scientist. She how has many research papers and a number of awards. Her research is focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate the expression of the human surfactant protein A genes and their variants. This research seeks to find better strategies in the treatment and prevention of pulmonary diseases in the preterm infant. More info can be found at her Linkedin page http://www.linkedin.com/in/silveyra.
Mechanicsburg Rotary
Water Project Team
Pictured above is the Water Project team (kneeling) during their sendoff from Harrisburg International Airport about 5:30 a.m. on August 21, 2011. They are surrounded by family and members of the Mechanicsburg Rotary Club. The team members (left to right in their Living Water T-shirts) are John Petrie, Morgan Petrie, Amanda Schneider, Katelyn Clark, Christina Ulrich, and Frank Ulrich. The team returned on Sunday morning after driving a rental car from Atlanta when their flight to Harrisburg was cancelled.
Pictured is the Water Project Team and the community as they celebrate the completion of the well on Saturday morning a few hours before their departure to return home. Click here for cell phone reports from the team. Click here to download the final well report (PDF) written by Living Water International. |
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"Welcome to Mechanicsburg" sign The sign has been completed. A dedication ceremony Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this project. Memorial funds have been given in honor of two of our dear friends and Rotarians, Richard Wevodau and Carolyn Snyder. The funds were to landscape around the sign and add the lettering to the back of the sign (completed). Click here to see pictures of the sign and its construction.
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