Rotary Club of Buffalo

VOL. 141, NO. 3 www.buffalorotary.org July 30, 2014

THURSDAY July 31, 2014 12:15 pm THURSDAY August 7, 2014 12:15 pm

TEMPLETON LANDING TEMPLETON LANDING

SUBJECT: Erie County IDA SUBJECT: Buffalo Diocese

SPEAKER: Steve Weathers SPEAKER: Richard Malone

Steve Weathers was appointed President & CEO of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency Most Reverend was born in Salem, Mass., on March 19, 1946 and (ECIDA) in December of 2013. Prior to his ap- was raised in Hamilton and Beverly, Mass. He pointment at the ECIDA, Steve served as Presi- graduated in 1964 from St. John’s Preparatory dent & CEO of the World Trade Center San Diego. School, Danvers and began his col- Prior to his role at the World Trade Center San lege years at Cardinal O’Connell Seminary in Diego, Steve was President & CEO of the Savan- Jamaica Plain, M. He graduated from St. John nah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) in Seminary, with a B.A. in philosophy, a Georgia. While at SEDA Steve lead the effort to bachelor's degree in divinity and a master's create the World Trade Center Savannah, serving as its first President & degree in biblical studies. In 1981, Bishop Malone earned a doctorate in theology (Th.D.) CEO. He has also served as President & CEO of the Regional Growth Part- from and a licentiate in sa- nership (RGP) where he created and led the pre-seed venture capital fund cred theology (S.T.L.) at Weston Jesuit School Rocket Ventures as its President & Managing Director. During his time at of Theology, Cambridge in 1990. RGP in Toledo, Ohio, the organization assumed a leadership role that led Bishop Malone was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy to the creation of more than 7,200 new high-paying, high-skilled jobs in Cross in Boston on May 20, 1972, by then-Archbishop Humberto the region. Rocket Ventures, the region’s first ever pre-seed venture capi- Medeiros and was assigned to St. Patrick Parish, Stoneham as associ- tal fund grew to become a $22 million early-state investment fund, ate pastor. In 1974, having requested and received a voluntary leave launching and supporting more than 80 new technology start-up compa- of absence from parish ministry, he was named to the faculty of St. nies in a three-year period. Clement High School, Somerville. Two years later he joined the fac- ulty and served as chaplain at Xaverian High School, Westwood. He Steve has more than 20 years of economic development experience, with was appointed to the faculty of his alma mater, St. John Seminary 11 of those years in San Diego, California as Vice President of the San College, in 1979, where he taught religious and theological studies. Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. Through the years, He also served as registrar and academic dean during his tenure.

Steve has been involved in the attraction, retention, growth and start-up During those same years, he was a part-time chaplain at Wellesley of more than 500 companies. Some of his most significant and notable (Wellesley, Mass.) and Regis (Weston, Mass.) Colleges and taught at successes during his economic development career have been the attrac- Emmanuel College, Boston. In 1990, the bishop was assigned as tion of the Novartis Genomic Research Center, Gateway Computers Head- chaplain to the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center, Cam- quarters, the LEGO Theme Park and the SPAWAR Defense Headquarters bridge. He accepted the position of director of the Office of Religious in the San Diego region, as well as the attraction of GEICO, Citigroup and Education for the Archdiocese of Boston in 1993; two years later he Intuit Software National Service Centers to the Tucson region. was named secretary of education, the cabinet position which over- sees all the educational activities of the Boston Archdiocese. In March Steve has been awarded certifications in both community and economic of 2000, he was ordained of Aptuca and appointed of Boston, South Region. development (CEcD) from the International Economic Development Coun- cil. He has also held positions as adjunct instructor, where he taught Bishop Malone produced and hosted television programs for Boston university courses in economic development at the undergraduate and Catholic Television; was the archdiocesan liaison with the local Jewish graduate level. community; and lectures nationally on evangelization, catechesis and Catholic education. Currently, Steve serves on the following Board of Directors: American Red Cross, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE), International Economic Develop- Bishop Malone was installed as the 11th bishop of Portland, Maine, March 31, 2004. On May 29, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop ment Council (IEDC) and Workforce Investment Board (WIB). Malone 14th bishop of Buffalo. *Spencer Thompson, who was scheduled to speak “Ten On Aug. 10, 2012, he was installed as 14th bishop of Buffalo at St. Jo- years in a Mexican Prison” is unable to attend due to ill- seph Cathedral. On the same day, he became apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Portland. His tenure in Portland concluded on Feb. 14, ness. 2014, when Bishop was installed as the 14th Bishop of Portland. ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO

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Phone: 716-854-3397 My name is Jesus and I am one of the mentored kids at Lorraine Fax: 716-854-1613 Academy and I want to thank the people from the Buffalo Rotary Club 28 Founded 1911 Club # 4725 for the good day I had at Cradle Beach. When we arrived at Cradle www.buffalorotary.org CONTACTS Beach we had lunch. My Mentor was cooking hot dogs, hamburg- Administrative: Heather Culverwell ers, and Italian sausage. They were pretty good. I had two hot [email protected] dogs. The other Rotary people gave us soda, Financial: Mary Ellen Puleri water, macaroni salad, tomatoes, cheese for the [email protected] Phone 553-3670 hamburgers and watermelon. It was a good lunch. Meets Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. After lunch we had a lot of fun at the games the Rotary people set up for Templeton Landing , 2 Templeton Terrace us. If we scored points at the games we got card that we could turn in for Publication Committee a prize. I tried all the games; basketball, bean bag toss, Tuskie toss, hula Heather Culverwell, Editor hoop, Lacrosse toss and soccer goal. I only won two cards, one for bas- Associate Editors: Fred Batson, Bryce Bixby, Jack Karet, ketball and one for the bean bag toss. David Male, Stephen Robshaw, There were other things we could do; play in the Jump House, knock Katharine Smith people down in the water at the dunk tank, ride ponies, try the hoo-la- Suzanne Taylor, Jim Tyrpak hoop, and sing at the Karaoke stand. I was so tired that I went to the

The COG (USPS 120-620) Issued bi-weekly porch to sit down and found out that they were serving; popcorn, snow by the Rotary Club of Buffalo, NY, U.S.A. as a cones, doing paint spinning, and cotton candy. My stomach was really full so I sat down source of information to its members. and rested. CLUB OFFICERS and Directors 2014-2015 The day ended with the best thing I ever saw, SKY DIVING. WOW!

Robert J. Galdys, President Was that great. Four guys jumped out of a plane so high I could Laurie Albertsson, President Elect almost see it. It scared me cause I thought they were falling, but Paul Hurley, Vice President they opened their parachutes and slowly landed on the baseball David Knauss, Secretary diamond. We all cheered for the sky divers. William Larkin, Treasurer One of the divers brought a check from the Rotary as a gift for Cra- James Tyrpak, Immediate Past President dle Beach. My mentor told me it was for $12,750.00 dollars. He also 2013-2015 Term 2014-2016 Term told me that check came from proceeds of Paul Hurley, Jr. Joyce DeLong the WOW Auction. All the kids hollered William Larkin Katharine Smith Anne Eberl Martin Suzanne Taylor “THANK YOU ROTARY” Jack Pederson Thomas Van Nortwick I was so tired and happy that I fell asleep on the way back to Lorraine. CLUB DIRECTORS with remaining terms Jesus ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Reporter, David Male Gary C.K. Huang, RI President Jack Amico, District Governor

COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES

Vocational Services Tues. August 5 @ 8:30 am Towne Restaurant

Membership Committee Wed. August 13 @ 8:00 am Ron Canestro’s office

Youth Services Committee Wed. August 13 at 8:30 am Towne Restaurant

Finance Committee Friday August 15th at 8:00am Mike Grimaldi’s Office

Board of Directors Thurs. August 19 @ 12:00 noon Saturn Club

International Service Committee Thurs. August 21 at 11:30 am Templeton Landing

Bring your friends and business associates to our meetings and introduce them to Membership Chair: Nora Eberl COG July 30, 2014 Page 2 FUTURE MEETINGS July 31 Erie County IDA– Steve Weathers

Aug 7 Buffalo Diocese—Bishop Malone

Aug 14 District Governor-Jack Amico

Aug 21 Returning Exchange Students

Aug 28 Membership Recruitment

Sept 4 Buffalo Philharmonic—Dan Hart

Sept 11 —Fr. Maher

Sept 18 Enchanted Evening—Silo City

Sept 25 Kinder Morgan—Allen Fore Mike Sendor Tom Van Nortwick August 3 August 4 Oct 2 Dining in the Dark—Olmsted Center 827-8000 809-8672

David Knauss has accepted the INDUCTION AS NEW MEMBER position of Club Secretary, Dave Male Aug 6, 2009 (5 years) replacing Stan Wyner. Dave Mittlefehldt Aug 7, 2013 (1 year) Richard Ridenour, who was Sam Radford Aug 7, 2013 (1 year) elected to this position , has Ravi Bansal Aug 10, 2011 (3 years) transferred to another club. Tarik Kawi Aug 10 1997 (17 years) Chris Fetter Aug 12, 2010 (4 years)

Many guests were present at the July 24th lunch meeting of Rotary at Templeton Landing. The meeting opened with a mo- ment of silence to pray for Anne Martin’s recovery from her stroke, and cards were available for Rotarians to sign. Ginny Parsons led with a wonderful invocation about silence, and raised the bar for the staging of future invocations by including actual sound effects from one Rotarian taking a phone call, another who failed to silence their ringer, a conversation among the wait-staff and the hum of the ice machine just inside the kitchen door. New member Tim Sobolewski was introduced by Bill Larkin — Tim received his Rotary pin and Bill received a special Mark Kostrzewski new pin for recruiting. Apparently hip to our fining process, Tim said, “I’m happy every day my picture’s not on the front page of the paper.” Paul Marzello reminded us to buy our tickets for a Rotary-sponsored event, Party in the Park on August 19th. Additional help is needed to put on the event, as Anne Martin had been a key volunteer in the process. Mike Ryan introduced our speaker, Mark Kostrzewski of Buffalo Scholastic Rowing. Mark had already won over the crowd by bringing spiffy hats to be given away in a role reversal by the Finemaster (I got one for having already purchased my Party at the Park ticket). Mark rowed at Can- isius High School and Cornell University, and then for another 20 years until his wife made him stop. He then changed wives and got back into it. Mark provided a brief history of rowing in the USA and in Buffalo. Rowing took hold in Buffalo in the 1880s along the Buffalo River, at a time when it was a professional sport and one of the three biggest in the country (the others being horse racing and boxing). When the West Side Rowing Club was brand new in 1912, it was one of 14 rowing clubs in the area. Clubs were sponsored by grain elevator com- panies who wanted to keep their employees from spending too much time in bars, and by bars who were at exact cross purposes. The City of Buf- falo actually sponsored all of the races and gave prizes, until there was a huge fight on the water and the city decided to wait for winter and sponsor hockey instead. Oh, no, that wasn’t it — there was a big fight on the water that resulted in injuries and damaged boats, and led to the dissipation of many of the rowing clubs. Six years ago, Mark was asked to spearhead a community rowing organization, modeled after the 20-year-old Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association which brings rowing out of colleges and private clubs and into the community. The Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association now has 5 high school programs, over 70 shells, and has 82% of the funding they need to finish their permanent boathouse. The Ohio Street location was donated in Your Reporter Photographer Suzanne Taylor Paul Maze great part by Carl Paladino, who has been a huge benefactor to the project, which will be named after his late son. They are working with other users of the river to form a Buffalo WELCOME NEW MEMBER River Association to start managing the traffic on the Buffalo Timothy (Tim) Sobolewski is a Certified Finan- River. cial Planner and the owner of The Financial Plan- With many success stories of college recruiting and commu- ning Center in Amherst. nity projects, perhaps most A graduate of Columbia University he currently importantly the BSRA is serves on the Amherst Senior Citizen Foundation bringing 200-300 people Board, is permanent Chair of Polish Culture at down to the river every , and a former board member of day, many of whom have Literacy Volunteers. He is studying the Polish language, and enjoys playing tennis and bridge. lived here their whole Tim resides in Getzville and has a grown son, Richard (24). lives and had never before visited the First Ward or Bill Larkin receives the new Rotary pin for Sponsor- the Buffalo River. They are still looking for more ing new members from Bob Galdys. Bill recently funding, and I expect there Left to right: John Bradley, Rene’ sponsored Tim Sobolewski could be hats involved. Benoit (going to Austria), and An- dree Hoolihan (going to Taiwan) COG July 30, 2014 Page 3 Your Reporter, Anne Martin Please support these Rotarians who make this newsletter possible. On August 14th, 2014 new District Governor, The Alcott Group The Bonadio Group Jack Amico, will be visit- John Bradley Kenneth C. Gaines, CPA ing our club. 626-9500 www.alcottgroup.com 250-7808 Fax 250-9130 Adema Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. [email protected] George Adema C. 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We’re asking Tickets for Party in the Park 716-847-1773 ext: 15 you to “Light Up Rotary” this Pre-Sale: $50 per person year in your indi- vidual clubs and $85 per couple. as a district. As At the Door: you go about $65 per person your public activities, community service pro- $100 per couple. jects, fundraisers, etc. you are encouraged to designate the day of your activities as a Co sponsored by the Naval & Military “ROTARY DAY”. Park and Rotary Club of Buffalo The first Rotary Day will be on August 23rd, when Coca-Cola Field, home of the Buffalo Bison’s, will welcome Rotarians from Southern Ontario and Western New York. The Bison’s are the farm club of the Toronto Blue Jays, so the upcoming talent of the Jays and the rehab players for that team will be spending time in Buffalo.

Since so many Southern Ontario Rotarians are Blue Jay fans, this is a chance to have a Members will now be responsible for entering their great evening watching some of your upcom- own make-ups and meal credits in DaCdb. ing stars at a low price. For Western New Yorkers, this is a chance to join fellow Rotari- ans to see your hometown team. Thanks to Under your photo on your profile page, just click on "Enter West Seneca Rotarian Frank Calieri, the origi- Makeup". You will enter date of makeup, then MEAL CODE - nal Buster Bison, for setting this up.

(IF YOU PAID FOR A MEAL AT ANOTHER CLUB, from the More information and a Flyer for this event drop down menu choose "meal credit"), and lastly enter where can be seen in the District Newsletter you made up the meeting. Click SUBMIT. You can also access http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/7090// this feature from your IPhone. HTML/228245// JULYNewsletter2014REVISED2.pdf Everyone has been sent their log in information.

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