April 23, 2008

            The Deposit Rotary Club is always excited to welcome a new Rotarian to our club.  At our lunch meeting on Wednesday, April 9, Dick Marko was inducted as a member.  Dick joins us as a former member of a Rotary Club in Binghamton and we are happy to have him as a member of the Deposit club.

            Also on April 9, President Harry Dilello was pleased to announce to the club that the Senior Citizen Lunch held at Wendy's and co-sponsored by our club was a huge success, with nearly 200 seniors attending.  It was also particularly rewarding to hear the positive feedback and thank-you's from those who were able to attend the lunch.

            At our meeting on April 16, we were treated to a program by Paula Mazepa, our exchange student.  Paula hails from the city of Torun in the north of Poland.  She provided us with an overview of Poland's geographic situation and history and then presented a promotional video about her city, highlighting its history, extraordinary architecture, and cultural and social highlights.  Paula also passed around beautiful books of full-color pictures of Poland and her native city.  We also enjoyed checking out the Polish money that Paula brought with her.  Thank you, Paula, for an interesting and informative program! 

            Speaking of exchange students, I'm happy to announce the student who will be visiting us in Deposit for the 2008-2009 school year.  Shelly Ward, who is responsible for organizing our youth exchange program, told me over lunch at the April 16 meeting that she has been in contact through e-mail with 17-year-old Ivan Holly of Slovakia, who will be the inbound exchange student sponsored by our club here in Deposit next year.  The club is very excited and looking forward to meeting Ivan.

            Stay tuned next week for more news from the world of Rotary!