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Tomorrow’s meeting:
Kelsey Fiori, Community Solar Manager for Nexamp: “Learning About Community Solar” November 7, 2018 This past Sunday was Armistice Day, known in the U.S. as Veterans Day, and to commemorate the day, now the 100th anniversary of the end of The Great War, President Mary Berens asked all the Veterans in the house to stand so we could honor their service. She then asked everyone to rise to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
 The Thought for The Day was given by Jeff True. Also paying tribute to our Veterans, Jeff recited the entire Gettysburg Address, 272 words spoken by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863. “... a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Click here to read the transcript of the copy that Cornell University has in its rare books and manuscripts collection.
Our members introduced their guests — President Mary introduced a few, too — and as it was the first meeting of the month, members with a birthday or Club anniversary were recognized.
The red ticket prize was a double prize-prize last week. Mary first held up a beautiful hand woven pashmina wool shawl that Ivy Stevens-Gupta had brought home from her recent trip with her husband to India, and donated to the Club. Second, was a box of chocolate-dipped fruit from, and a $50 gift certificate for Edible Arrangements, donated by shop owner, Mike Katz. The first winning numbers drawn belonged to Joanne Lamoureux. Joanne selected the shawl, and in one motion offered it to our speaker and honorary Rotarian, Martha Pollack, who accepted the gift with grace and gratitude. Bob Sprole had the second winning ticket, and at least for the time being, kept his prize.
 November is Rotary Foundation Month, and in recognition at each meeting we will hear a “Rotary Foundation Minute.” Ivy Stevens-Gupta gave the first. Touting the Foundation’s decades of good work, Ivy cited Rotary’s contribution to the 99.9% eradication of polio across the globe, for support of cleaner worldwide drinking water, and for the promotion of local economies the world-over. Learn more about the Rotary Foundation here, and give what you can.
Do you know someone who would host an exchange student? The Youth Exchange Committee is always looking for good host families. Please let Marshall McCormick (marshall@fingerlakeswm.com) or Linda Brisson (ithacarotaryYEO@gmail.com) know if you have any suggestions.
Name: Carol Stannard
Classification: Retired
Employer: UCLA Hospital
Position/Title: Retired
Sponsor: Gail & Nathan Lyman
Please send your comments regarding applicant(s) to New Member Flow Coordinator Joanne Lamoureux, within 10 days of receiving this bulletin.
Our President Mary Berens introduced Cornell University’s President Martha Pollack, the 14th in the institution’s 150 year history. President Pollack is also a professor of computer science, information science, and linguistics, and as is is our tradition, an honorary member of Ithaca Rotary.
 In office since April 2017, and officially inaugurated on August 24 of that year, Martha said that one of her favorite perks of the new job was to have her own ice cream flavor developed by Cornell Dairy. Taking a hint from her research in artificial intelligence, the flavor is called Martha’s Bits & Bytes!
Martha noted the similarity between Rotary’s mission, and four goals of Cornell:  Combining open mindedness and academic rigor, Cornell students are prepared with the mission for active partnership with the surrounding community especially on issues of diversity and inclusion, as was central to the mission of its founder, Ezra Cornell. Diversity, she said, is not just an add-on for the times, but is at the core of his promise of “Any Person.”- Cornell community reflects our larger global community. A synergy of its urban and rural campuses works to create a learning climate where everyone is valued.
- Cornell just doesn’t exist for Cornell alone, just as Rotary does not exist for itself alone
- Cornell honors campus-community partnerships
  Cornell doesn’t choose an annual theme, as Rotary does, yet the latter’s “Be the Inspiration” also describes what Cornell strives to accomplish.
Martha kept her prepared remarks brief, so that she could take questions, an interactive format that she prefers.
Ambassadors: None
Visiting Rotarians: Justinas Stenlius (sic), a visiting scholar at Cornell in Anthropology from the Rotary Club of Vilnius Vienybe, Lithuania
Students: Exchange student Giulia from Sardinia, Italy
Workers:
• Greeter, David Harker
• Kettle, Bob Sprole
• Thought for the Day, Jeff True
• Introductions, Rotary hosts introduced their guests
Set-Up:
Bulletin Reporter:
Photographer: Mike Brown
Bulletin Editor: Ted Schiele
Club Service Facilitators, Beverly Baker & Jeff True
Sunshine Chair, Kellyann O’Mara
Exchange student Madeline Turner’s blog, Ithaca to India, documenting her 2018-2019 experience with host Vapi Riverside Rotary Club in District 3060, India.
November 14, 2018
Coltivare, S. Cayuga at Clinton St., Downtown Ithaca
Kelsey Fiori, Community Solar Manager for Nexamp: “Learning About Community Solar”
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