THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE • CLUB #42 • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7150 • CHARTERED 1912 • FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017
A Look Ahead
JANUARY 20
This Week's Program: Women on the Money
Colgate's David Kellogg asks: What's the Big Deal?
Program Committee
11:00 am
Syracuse Rotary Foundation
January Trustee Meeting
In recent years there has been discussion and in some cases, controversy,
about putting the image of a woman on
our paper currency. This presentation
was developed as a gentle reminder that
both men and women appeared on Romans coins 2,000 years ago. What's the
big deal? I hope the audience will gain
an appreciation of the role women played
in what was once a great Empire. z
11:00 am
Dave Kellogg is retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb where he worked
as a microbiologist overseeing Quality
Control and Quality Assurance in Syracuse and for five years in Puerto Rico.
New York State has designated him
an Ambassador to the Erie Canal, a
glorified term synonymous with "volunteer".
For 10 years he has been helping out
the Classics Department at Colgate
University, his alma mater, where he
uses ancient Greek and Roman coins to
illustrate and understand ancient history. Remember, there were no newspapers, radio or twitter back then, and
coins were used not just as money but
also as a means of communicating the
latest news or propaganda to the populace. So we will be looking at "news
releases" exactly as Roman citizens did
in past millennia.
12:00 pm
Inauguration Day: A Peaceful Transfer
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP George DeAngelo presiding
Program
Fred Fiske's experiences and
anecdotes as a journalist
JANUARY 27
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP Harold Schumm presiding
Program
Linda Viet - Upstate Hospital
FEBRUARY 3
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP John Lewien presiding
Program
The Galimi-Visconti Show
FEBRUARY 10
RCS Board of Directors
February Meeting
RCS Club Meeting
PP John Lewien presiding
Program
Betty DeFazio Planned Parenthood
PRESIDENT
ROBERT SHERBURNE
Fulvia (c. 83 BC – 40 BC) was an aristocratic
Roman woman who lived during the Late
Roman Republic. She was the first Roman,
non-mythological woman to appear on
Roman coins.
Events surrounding the occasion have grown and changed
www.inaugural.senate.gov
At roughly the same time as PP Butch
De Angelo brings our weekly meeting
to order on Friday, the 45th President
of the United States will be sworn in
by repeating the Presidential oath of office (Article II, Section 1, United States
Constitution): "I do solemnly swear
that I will faithfully execute the office
of President of the United States, and
PRESIDENT-ELECT
MARYLIN GALIMI
SECRETARY
MICHAEL GEORGE
will to the best of my ability, preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States."
Proceedings associated with the Presidential elections and Inaugurations,
almost routine after two centuries,
were entirely new and untried following the Constitutional Convention of
1787. The first Inauguration of George
TREASURER
DAN MORROW
see VICE-PRESIDENT page 2 >>
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
HAROLD SCHUMM
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017
Vice-President is sworn in first, the outgoing President departs without ceremony
from pg. 1
Washington occurred on April 30, 1789, in front of New
Just before the President-elect takes the oath of office on
York's Federal Hall. Our nation's first President took the Inauguration Day, the Vice President-elect will step forward
oath of office on a balcony overlooking Wall Street. With the on the Inaugural platform and repeat the oath of office.
ceremony complete, the crowd below let out three big cheers
Departure of the outgoing president: Following the inand President Washington returned to the Senate chamber augural ceremony, the outgoing President and First Lady
to deliver his brief Inaugural address. He called upon "That leave the Capitol to begin their post-presidential lives. TraAlmighty Being who rules over the universe" to assist the ditionally, the President's departure takes place with little
American people in finding
"liberties and happiness" under "a government instituted
by themselves."
Four years later, on March
4, 1793, Washington's second Inauguration happened
in Philadelphia, where the
government had taken up
temporary residence while a
permanent capital was being
built along the Potomac. The
President took his oath in the
small Senate chamber on the
second floor of Congress Hall,
a Georgian-style structure just
west of Independence Hall. In
contrast to his elaborate first
Inauguration, this ceremony U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft & Theodore Roosevelt driving to The Capitol on March 4, 1909.
was a simple affair. Amidst
a room crammed with dignitaries, Washington gave the ceremony. In the early 20th century, a new tradition evolved
shortest Inaugural address on record—just 135 words—and whereby the outgoing president quietly left the Capitol imrepeated the oath of office, administered by Supreme Court mediately following the inaugural ceremony. In 1909, after
Justice William Cushing.
congratulating President Howard Taft, former President
Ronald Reagan's 1981 Inauguration was the first held on Theodore Roosevelt left the Capitol for Union Station,
the west front of the Capitol. Seeking to minimize construc- where he took a train to his home in New York. In 1921, an
tion costs and improve visibility for a larger number of spec- ailing President Wilson accompanied President-elect Hardtators, Congress shifted the ceremony from its traditional ing to the Capitol, but was too ill to remain during the cerlocation of the east front. Although Ronald Reagan's second emony. Outgoing Presidents Coolidge and Hoover also left
Inauguration, on January 21, 1985, was forced indoors to the the Capitol for Union Station where they traveled home by
Capitol Rotunda because of bitterly cold weather, Inaugura- train. Outgoing Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Johntions have since continued the west front tradition.
son left the Capitol by Car. Johnson and his family drove to
Donald J. Trump's Inauguration on Friday, with the theme Andrews Air Force Base where they boarded Air Force One
"Uniquely American", will be our country's 58th.
for the trip home to Texas. z
The "First Nail" Ceremony: Some Fast Facts About the Inaugural Platform
During the First Nail Ceremony,
the traditional beginning of preparations for the Presidential Inauguration,
members of the JCCIC hammer nails
into a plank on the site of the Inauguration platform.
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The 10,000 square-foot inaugural
platform is constructed entirely from
scratch for each inaugural ceremony
and it will hold more than 1,600 people. Bleachers built above the platform,
on the Upper West Terrace will hold
another 1,000 people including choirs
and guests.
The platform is ADA accessible and
is a stadium design, which maximizes
the sightlines for the guests on the platform. z
SYRACUSE ROTARY PRESS
JUMP START LITERACY
FRIDAY | JANUARY 20
Dan Morrow, Literacy Committee Chair
F O U N DAT I O N T R U S T E E
Syracuse Rotarian, if you would like to help plan the future of our
club’s involvement in Literacy please join our committee Thursday January 25 at the North Side Learning Center, 501 Park Street corner of
Highland.
The discussion will start at 4:30 in the Robert S. Laubach Memorial
Library on the second floor.
Lets talk about what resources we have and how best to use to use
those resources by building on our clubs long history of championing Literacy. Just in the last 20 years we have created and sponsored
Literacy billboards, provided motivational speakers, helped develop a
How to Literacy manual, created a comprehensive database of all CNY
Literacy providers, organized a week long “Literacy Camp” at Camp
Goodwill, sponsored and participated in numerous Literacy Golf Tournaments, created and ran a Literacy Spelling Bee at the Carousal Mall,
implemented the “Literacy 100” campaign, sponsored over 65 adult
new readers, organized and participated in a Literacy Round-table and
provided over $65,000 in funding to Literacy causes.
Contact Dan Morrow, Literacy Chairman should you have any questions: [email protected], 315-425-0051 z
CNYAMT Visits RCS
CNY Association of Music Teachers President, Patricia Box, receives a Syracuse
Rotary coffee mug from the always-dapper presiding-PP Butch DeAngelo at last
weeks' Club meeting z
THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE
JANUARY MEETING | 11AM | DRUMLINS
Printed 2016-17 Member Directories avaialble Friday.
See Jim Morrow when you arrive at Club meeting.
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The number of
cards left in the
Queen of Hearts
drawing as of
January 20.
PRESIDING PAST PRESIDENTS
PP George "Butch" DeAngelo (1997-98) will
preside at the January 20 meeting, followed
by PP Harold "Harry" Schumm (1983-54)
for the January 27 meeting. PP John Lewien
(1998-99) will preside at the next two
meetings on February 3 and February 10.
ROTARIAN BIRTHDAY
DENISE JOCHEMROBERTSON
Birthday: January 17
Joined: September 30, 2016
Rotary Announces $35 million to Support Polio-free World
Press Release | www.rotary.org
EVANSTON, Ill., 17 January 2017 — Rotary announced
on Tuesday $35 million in grants to support the global effort
to end polio, bringing the humanitarian service organization’s contribution to $140 million since January 2016.
Nearly half of the funds Rotary announced on Tuesday
($16.15 million) will support the emergency response campaigns in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin (Chad, northern
Cameroon, southern Niger and Central African Republic).
Four cases of polio were detected in Nigeria in 2016, which
had previously not seen a case since July 2014.
With these cases, funding is needed to support rapid response plans in Nigeria and surrounding countries to stop the
outbreak. While significant strides have been made against
the paralyzing disease, with just 35 cases reported in 2016,
polio remains a threat in hard-to-reach and underserved areas, and conflict zones. To sustain this progress, and protect
all children from polio, experts say $1.5 billion is needed.
In addition to supporting the response in the Lake Chad
Basin region, funding has been allocated to support polio
eradication efforts in Afghanistan ($7.15 million), Pakistan
($4.2 million), Somalia ($4.64 million), and South Sudan
($2.19 million). A final grant in the amount of $666,845 will
support technical assistance in UNICEF’s West and Central
Africa Regional Office.
Rotary has contributed more than $1.6 billion, including
matching funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and countless volunteer hours since launching its
polio immunization program, PolioPlus, in 1985. In 1988,
Rotary became a spearheading partner in the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative with the World Health Organization
(WHO), UNICEF, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and was later joined by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. Since the initiative launched, the incidence of
polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about
350,000 cases a year to 35 confirmed in 2016, and no cases
in 2017. z
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www.syracuserotary.org | James Morrow, editor
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017