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Published Bi-Weekly
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Rotary Club
of the Bronx, New York, Inc.
The Harbor • 565 City Island Avenue • City Island, NY 10464 • 718-885-1373
Centennial Year
Volume 89 • Number 1
July 8, 2005
President
Ms. Caroline Pitts
3526 McOwen Avenue
The Bronx, NY 10475
718-231-1139
Secretary
Hedy-Marin-Manzke
916 Hollywood Avenue
The Bronx, NY 10465-2118
718-863-1052
Introducing...
With this inaugural issue, the Rotary
Club of the Bronx proudly introduces
it’s updated newsletter format.
Among the exciting changes to the
newsletter is the addition of full color
to the production. This will mean that
not only will we be able to print all our
photographs in glorious color, but our
advertisers can now take advantage of
this improvement as well.
Another big change is that issues will
now come out bi-weekly in an eight and
one half by eleven inch, four page format. We hope to expand our coverage
of the guest speaker’s comments and to
include other meaningful clippings from
other Rotary publications on occasion.
I hope you enjoy this new format and
our production team will gladly entertain your suggestions for improvement
in its content and design.
Michael Anorue
President
By Special Appeal!!
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and need to end at 1:30pm.
As a consideration to our speakers
please come and BE ON TIME!
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Welcome to Tuesday’s Meeting
Guest Speaker Ret. Lt. Col. E. Barbara Wiggins
Cheryl Simmons-Oliver introduced Ms.
E. Barbara Wiggins, who is the Director of Diversity Programs and Employees
Relations at Harris, Rothenberg International (HRI).
Ms. Wiggins began her professional
training & development as a member of
U.S. Military, serving at posts inside and
outside of the continental U.S. During
the last 10 years, Ms. Wiggins has concentrated her work efforts on “recognizing,
valuing and managing workforce diversity
as a business objective.” She assists HRI’s
clients in strategic planning, management
skills building and employment practices,
which encourage and support individual
and group productivity and respectful,
inclusive work environments. She has used
her professional expertise and leadership
abilities to assist local and national nonprofit organizations. A dynamic speaker,
so...”If you missed it on this snowy day,
you missed it!”
Photo courtesy Jim Romeo
(Left to right) Barbara & Charlie Wiggins, Cheryl Simmons-Oliver and Prez’
Caroline Pitts.
Announcements
Next Board Meeting and March
Birthday Babies will be recognized
March 15, 2005 you won’t want to miss
this, Rev. K’s poetry is extraordinaire!
Openings...
Prez’ Caroline Pitts opened our meeting.
Mary Gembecki led the Pledge of Allegiance and we all joined in singing the
National Anthem, Rev. David Michel gave the invocation, and Igina DeMichele was
Dr. Happiness.
“We’re raisin’ the Roof”
Club of Owerri, Africa Centennial Dinner Celebration is on Thursday,
March 31st, 2005, 6pm to 10pm at Maestro’s Caterers. Join us in celebrating 100
years of Rotary!
If you are placing an ad in the journal PLEASE call Jim Romeo at 718-617-1600,
They are due THIS WEEK!
Guest of honor and keynote speaker is the Nigerian Ambassador to the UN, we
are also honoring Dr. Dolores Fernandez, President of HOSTOS CC, Ms Verona
Greenland, Pres./CEO, Morris Heights Health Center. Special honorees are Rotarian Elias Karmon, “Mr. Bronx”, PDG Dr. Glen T. Nygreen and Rotarian Monroe
Lovinger.
You won’t want to miss this gala event with African dances, live music. and a Silent
Art Auction.. If you need transportation to and from the dinner, call Caroline Pitts.
Hedy Marin-Manzke, who is providing transportation has a car full! Walk, jog,
drive or ride, but come help us “Raise the Roof!”
ROTARY FOUR-WAY TEST: 1) Is it the TRUTH? 2) Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3) Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIP? 4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Igina DeMichele collected $44, from
happy Rotarians & guests!
Chuck-A-Buck
Ms. Chuck (Maria Staniorski) sold
raffles & Ed Hicks won the prize!
Visitors & Guests
Charles Wiggins guest of speaker/
wife E. Barbara Wiggins; David Stark
guest of Rev. David Michel; Visiting
Rotarians; Nati Ahmad of Riverdale/
Yonkers, Rotary Club; Dr. Evans Imalfidon of a Rotary Club in Nigeria.
Make Ups
None Today
Looking Ahead
3/15 Rhonda Jaffe & Al Sylvia,
Bronx Guild H.S.
Dorothy A. Henderson - 10th
Jim Romeo - 12th
Valerie Kalaidjian - 13th
Geoffrey O. Ukekweh - 16th
Luis E. Rios - 25th
Coming Soon...
Elias Karmon Centennial TestimoCommittee celebration for Rotarian Elias Karmon’s 95th birthday is on
April 7, 2005 at Maestro’s Caterers. If
you’d like a page in the journal call Elias
at 718-882-4867.
nial
“Featuring
Next Week...”
Rhonda Jaffe & Al Sylvia, of Bronx
Guild High School will speak of
their work. Another Bronx collaboration, they need small businesses and employers. Please join us
& bring a friend- Rhonda & Al will
come and wow you!
Program Chair, Paula Gannon
3/22 Sr. Barbara Leninger,
Thorpe Family Residence
849 St. Ann’s Avenue
The Bronx, NY 10456
3/29 Lynn Kemp,
American Heart Association
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Announcement
er
Jim Romeo’s sister Mary Springman
is recovering wonderfully from surgery,
remember her in prayer. Rotarian
Dom Chirafisi has been slowly recovering and has been transferred to a rehab
facility. Please continue to keep Dom &
Gilda in your prayers.
JULY
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Birthday Babies
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Centennial Year
Volume 89 • Number 2
July 15, 2005
Openings...
Prez’ Caroline Pitts opened our
meeting. Rev. Charles Gorelick led the
Pledge of Allegiance and we all joined
in singing “My Country ‘tis Of Thee”,
Rev. Charles Gorelick gave the invocation, and Carmen Robinson was Dr.
Happiness.
Announcements
Next Board Meeting and April
Birthday Babies to be announced.
The items for discussion for today’s
board meeting were tabled for next board
meeting for much was discussed concerning the Club’s Centennial event of
3/31/05.
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Corner...
An “One Reason Not to
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Mess With A Child”
little girl was talking to her
teacher about whales. The
teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human
because even though it was a very large
mammal, its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was
swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the
teacher reiterated that a whale could
not swallow
a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, “When I get to
heaven I will ask Jonah,”
The teacher asked, “What if Jonah
isn’t in heaven?”
The little girl replied, “Then you ask
him.”
Welcome to Tuesday’s Meeting
Guest Speakers
Al Sylvia, Rhonda Jaffe & Shamil Cepeda
The Bronx Guild School
Paula Gannon introduced Rhonda Jaffe,
Al Sylvia and Shamil
Cepeda. Mr. Sylvia is
the Crew Leader at The
Bronx Guild, a New
York City Outward
Bound School in the
Bronx. Ms. Shamil
Cepeda, a student, gave
a wonderful presentation of her schooling at
the prestigious institute
for learning. With
Photo courtesy of Jim Romeo
(Left to right) Paula Gannon, Rhonda Jaffe, Shamil Cepeda, Al
an almost nil attrition
Sylvia and Prez’ Caroline Pitts.
rate, The Bronx Guild
prepares its youth with
These articles about the guest speakers
hands-on knowledge of
will be a little more meaty. The intention
the areas of learning for its students. Ms.
is to better inform those members who
Cepeda stated that she learned about
have missed the meeting about what has
horses, not from text books, but real
transpired in more depth.
horses!
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The Bronx Guild urges small busidunt vr accua feugiam conulla faccum
nesses to assist in their apprenticeship
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program. With a student body of
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approximately 75 students they are sure
diat, vercill amconse dolestrud
to succeed!
Monroe
College
CAROLYN R. TABACHNIK
Director
Career Services/Cooperative Education
2467 Jerome Avenue
Bronx, NY 10468
718-933-7065 • Fax 718-364-4979
Email: ctabachnik@monroecollege.edu
SMITH-CAIRNS
White Plains, NY
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Brewster, NY
3130 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: (718) 892-4830
Igina DeMichele-Bobson
Tel: (914) 961-6100
Assistant Vice President
Fax: (718) 892-4769
E-mail: idemichele@hvbank.com
sinnott management co.
Real Estate Management
Peter J. Sinnott, III’68
Steven Kalaidjian
900 Central Park Ave.
Yonkers, NY 10704
TEL: 914-377-8100 Ext. 119
FAX. 914-377-8119
www.smithcairns.com
HUDSON VALLEY BANK
Dr. Jonathan Kazdan ’91
808 Allerton Avenue • Bronx, NY 10467
(718) 655-0487
621 Tiffany Street • Bronx, NY
10474
718-542-5080
Dr. Happiness
Carmen Robinson collected $120, from
happy Rotarians (including Paula Gannon’s
Birthday $50) & guests!
Chuck-A-Buck
Ms. Chuck (Maria Staniorski) sold
raffles & Guest Al Sylvia won the prize!
“Featuring Next Week...”
Sister Barbara Leninger, a local hero of our borough and Executive
Director of the Thorpe Family Residence for Displaced People. Brought to us
by Cheryl Simmons-Oliver, Ms. Leninger is one speaker you do not want to
miss!!! Please join us and bring a friend!
Program Chair, Paula Gannon
Visitors & Guests
Visiting Rotarians; Nati Ahmad of
Riverdale/Yonkers Rotary Club and
Alfiya Koslilova of Yonkers Rotary
Club; Mary Devine guest of Nati
Ahmad; Bruce Wallace guest of Nancy
Wallace.
Make Ups
Jim Romeo, Carmen Robinson,
Maria Staniorski, Rev. David Michel,
Azad Dermesropian, & Hedy MarínMänzke, on 3/10, at Riverdale Rotary
Club.
Offering Prayers
Dom Chirafisi is in rehab at
Schervier Nursing Care Center, 2975
Independence Ave., Riverdale, Room
327A, Tel: 718-548-1700. Keep Dom
& Gilda in your prayers.
THE BRONX ROTARY
OFFICERS
President...................................... Caroline Pitts
President-Elect.....................Michael N. Anorue
ist Vice President......................... Nancy Wallace
2nd Vice President........................Edward Hicks
Secretary............................ Hedy Marin Manzke
Assistant Secretary.......................Maria Staiorski
Treasurer......................................Edward Hicks
Assistant Treasurer....................Igina DeMichele
Immediate Past President.....Dr. Arthur Wolstein
MEETING TIMES & PLACES of ROTARY CLUBS in DISTRICT 7230
SATURDAY
Central Bronx
7:30p
Office of Muhammed Mujumber
MONDAY
Bronxville
Chappaqua
St. George’s
12:15p
12:15p
6:30p
Town Tavern
Crabtree’s Kittle House
Mulligan’s, St. Georges’Golf Club
Tuesday
Bronx
12:15p
Chinatown
1:00p
Croton-on-Hudson12:15p
East Yonkers
12:15p
Hamilton
12:15p
Katonah 1st &3rd Tues6:15p
2nd &4th Tues12:30p
Mount Pleasant 12:00p
New York
12:15p
PortChester-Rye Brook12:10p
Quad Village
6:15p
Somers
6:30p
Staten Island
12:30p
White Plains
12:00p
The Harbor Restaurant
Sweet-n-Tart Restaurant
Mark’s Cafe
Treetops at the Holiday Inn
Mariners Club
Katonah Memorial House
Katonah Memorial House
Casa Rina Restaurant
Princeton Club
T&J Villaggio
Rudy's Beau Rivage
Pinnacle Restaurant
Ligreci’s Staaten Restaurant
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza
Wednesday
Armonk
6:15p
Eastchester
12:15p
Gateway
7:15p
Harrison
12:15p
Hartsdale
12:15p
Opus
JR’s
South Shore Country Club
Emilio’s Restaurant
Mitty’s Steak House
Metro NYC
Mid-Island
7:30p
8:00a
last Wed. of the month 6:30p
Mount Kisco
12:15p
Mount Vernon
12:15p
New Rochelle
6:15p
Ossining
12:30p
Pelhams
12:15p
Sandys
6:30p
Scarsdale
12:15p
Tarrytowns
12:15p
2nd Wed. of the month8:30a
Upper Manhattan 12:30p
Yorktown
12:15p
Jimmy Sungs
Hilton Garden Hotel
Staten Island Hotel
Mt. Kisco Holiday Inn
Galitos Restuarant
Davenport Club
Cambridge House
Rockwells
Henry VIII Restaurant
Central Square Café
Tarrytown Hilton
Westchester Marriott
International House
Sue & Hal Chinese Restaurant
Thursday
Elmsford
Mamaroneck
North Shore
Peekskill
Pembroke
Pleasantville
Riverdale
South Shore
Yonkers
12:15p
12:15p
7:00p
12:15p
7:15a
12:15p
6:45p
12:15p
12:00p
Tony’s La Stazione
Chef Antonio’s
LiGreci’s Staaten Restaurant
Cortlandt Colonial Restaurant
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
Riviera Restaurant
Josepina’s Restaurant
Marina Grand
Black Angus Steak House
Friday
Briarcliff
Larchmont
Rye 12:15p
12:15p
12:15p
Briarcliff Recreation Center
Larchmont Yacht Club
Whitby Castle
Discounts to Rotarians
1732 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY
10457
Eric J. Oppenheimer
Licensed Real Estate Broker
(at Cross Bronx Expressway)
Tel: 718-299-1000 • Fax: 718-299-8653
1-800-675-8473
Jay Hansel
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In Memory of Rotarian Al Hansel
530 E. 138 St. Bronx, NY 10454
(718) 585-1030 Fax (718) 665-6274
DIRECTORS
Michael Carew
Taylor Eskew
Mary Gembecki
Paula Gannon
Salvatote P. Mastrocola
730 C West Broadway
Woodmere, NY 11598
(516) 569-1560 Fax (516) 569-1562
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
Reverend Charles Gorelick
South Bronx Board of Trade, Inc.
Serving the community
for over 70 years
In Memory of PP Michael Nuñez ’73
INSURANCE
564 Southern Blvd.
(718) 292-9530
The Bronx, NY 10455
Fax: (718) 585-2114
Syed Q. Ahsan
Small Business Relationship Manager
AVP
HSBC Bank USA
National Association
1360 East Bay Avenue
Bronx, NY 10474
Tel: 718-991-6100
Fax: 718-991-6521
E-mail: syed.q.ahsan@us.hsbc.com
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