NEWEST RED BADGE MEMBERS
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GREETERS
Rick Hervey
Jennifer Pineda

BACK TABLE DUTY
Peter Hammett
Monte Snider

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The mailing address for the
Bellevue Rotary Club is:

Laurie Larson
Club Administrator
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
bellevuerotary@seanet.com
Ph 425 451-3819
Fax 425 451-8025

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Are you receiving The Rotarian Magazine?
If not, contact Laurie Larson or email The Rotarian Magazine.

Chris Porter, 04/01
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Lisa Carroll, 04/12
Gregg Jordshaugen, 04/13
Mike Evered, 04/16
Rob Rose, 04/17
Kathy Hanson, 04/19
DickForeman, 04/20
Lee Graeve, 04/20
Kim Wold, 04/20
Cy Oskoui, 04/21
Stan Winter, 04/21

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM:

Gary Zimmerman
"GSE Presentation-Bavaria"

This is the first week in the United States for the Group Study Exchange team from Bavaria. Our Eastside Rotary Clubs are welcoming the team this week, then they'll move to other District 5030 Clubs until they depart on April 29. Bellevue Rotary Club members hosting individual member of the team are Katherine Thompson and John Baldwin and their families. Our American team will travel to Bavaria in May to have a similar experience there.

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Joachim (Jochen) Heintz: Prof. Eng. (Civil) - Team Leader

Born in 1938 in Stettin, Germany, Jochen is married since 35 years with Annette. They have 3 children, two daughters and one son, all living in Germany. He is serving Rotary International since 1996 and became legal member of the knight-hood of the Order of Saint John in 1980.

Today Jochen is president of the consulting engineering firm “Beton Plant International Ltd.”, concerned with civil engineering construction works.

During his 40 years professional career, he was employed by an international German construction company for 30 years. He became vice president in charge of north American subsidiaries in Vancouver B.C., Toronto, ON, and New York, N.Y. for eight years and retained Canadian citizenship since.

Jochen and his family is now residing in Munich, Aachen and Frankfurt, Germany, and is enjoying a farm on Manitoulin Island,

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Hella Leonie Schneider: Educanionalist

Born in 1977 in Bayreuth, Northern Bavaria, Germany, Hella moved to Augsburg in 1996 to study pedagogy.

She concentrated on extra-scholar youth education and adult education and related topics as Lifelong learning and intercultural learning.

After some work experience in Augsburg and abroad (France, Belgium) Hella graduated from University in 2002 and started a traineeship at the department of “Higher education” at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Since January 2003 Hella is working at the “Volkshochschule des Landkreises Freyung-Grafenau” in Grafenau, a small town in the Bavarian Forest.

As head of department for languages and health education, she organizes evening-classes and German classes for immigrants. In cooperation with the Rotary Club of Freyung-Grafenau, she led a project to support children from migrant families with extra German afternoon-classes. Moreover she leads and organizes projects, financially supported by the European Union, to provide trainings to firms, (vocational) trainings to unemployed persons and further qualification to employees especially in the field of tourism.

In her spare-time Hella loves swimming, to attend classes at the local fitness-center, but prefers outdoor-activities e.g. to go for extended walks in the forest. In winter she spends almost any free day on her skis. Hella likes reading and travelling and loves to meet people.

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Gunnar Graefe: Survey Engineer

Gunnar Graefe is working as head of technology development for a mobile mapping enterprise in Munich that deals with road and railway mapping projects. His main research field are mobile survey systems gathering data while traveling at highway speed. This includes positioning and navigation with multisensor systems, e.g. GPS, laser scanning and camera technology. The scientific activities have led to a number of publications.

Gunnar was raised in a small town near Hamburg in northern Germany. After school he joined the German army for 12 years and went off duty as a captain. During his term Gunnar received his M.Sc. in geodesy at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and worked as a scientific assistant at the institute of mathematics.

Gunnar has been president of the Rotaract Club of Starnberg, near Munich, and enjoyed taking part in a number of challenging club activities. He is very happy living in Munich, Bavaria, for more than a decade. He regards Munich as a beautiful town rich on cultural heritage and open to international visitors. Leisure time is filled with biking or hiking, reading and ballroom dancing. Gunnar is very much looking forward to the visit of Washington State.

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Katrin Horns: Educationalist

Katrin has a master degree in Social Work and ist currently organizing drug prevention for schools and enterprises. She develops non-smoking-courses for young people for example, advises schools in initializing tools for health promotion and helps organisations to develop a good way to deal with addicted people.
For about three years, she served as advisor in a welfare center for addicted people and managed the company of drug-addicted people with substitution therapy. These experiences help a lot in her current work.

Katrin has two brothers and grew up right near the Alps. She likes being in the mountains a lot. Katrin lives now in Landshut, is single and has no children.
She enjoys hiking or skiing. She also like arts and theatre, or going out with friends. Katrin has a master degree in Social Work and ist currently organizing drug prevention for schools and enterprises. She develops non-smoking-courses for young people for example, advises schools in initializing tools for health promotion and helps organisations to develop a good way to deal with addicted people.
For about three years, she served as advisor in a welfare center for addicted people and managed the company of drug-addicted people with substitution therapy. These experiences help a lot in her current work.

Katrin has two brothers and grew up right near the Alps. She likes being in the mountains a lot. Katrin lives now in Landshut, is single and has no children.
She enjoys hiking or skiing. She also like arts and theatre, or going out with friends.

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Dr. Stephan Kolmann: Lawyer

Stephan was born and raised in Münster in Westphalia. In 1983, he moved to Regensburg in Bavaria. From 1992 to 1997, he studied law at the Universities of Regensburg, Münster and Munich and finished his academic education with a doctoral thesis regarding International Insolvency Law. Since 2000, Stephan works as a lawyer specialized in insolvency administration, bankrupt and corporate law.

Stephan is married since August 1997. He lives with his wife near Munich. In his spare time Stephan enjoys playing violin (both chamber music as well as light music), hiking and golf.

Professionally, his interests especially refer to reorganisation of a company and management consultancy.

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Thomas G. Wenninger: Lawyer

Thomas is single and a lawyer.

His professional interests while visiting the U.S. would be to see the court system, minicipal offices, law offices and a company's legal department.

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Be a Rotary Mentor!
Katherine Thompson

Four openings remain for spring quarter mentors. Team up with BCC students taking the capstone entrepreneurship class, as they provide consulting services to a local business. This is a terrific hands-on program for our Club that has lasting impact with the students and area businesses.

If you would like an opportunity to create a unique learning experience for business students and support a growing Eastside business please contact Katherine Thompson (Ph 425-455-2555).

Time is short — classes begin April 2nd!

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Businesses for Student consulting Teams

Following is an email from Professor Frank Hatsta, Bellevue Community College, regarding Winter Quarter Rotary Mentors Chuck Doland, TJ Woosley, Jason Courter, and Conrad Lee.

I am delighted to pass on to extraordinarily positive feedback concerning our student team's experience with your volunteer Rotary Mentors.

Throughout the consulting engagement and the Multicultural Consulting Course the students continually offered that they found working with the Rotary Mentors extraordinarily helpful, useful, and enlightening. The student's comments regularly reflected that they valued the mentors guidance and experience and that the mentors were most accommodating with their time and efforts.

My own experience reflects the students. The mentors definitely added a real business world and professional dimension to the projects and these efforts reflected in the student's work. I regularly witnessed the Rotary Mentor's commitment to the students and their projects and their high level of expertise. Some took the initiative to keep my apprised of their activities without my even inquiring. Many mentors went above and beyond the call of duty as to availability.

I will be sending each mentor a personal thank you from BCC, the students and myself. However, please acknowledge them for us at your next Rotary meeting, passing on publicly our thanks and appreciation of their efforts.

Sincerely,
Frank Hatstat, MBA, JD.
Business Faculty

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Camp Goodtimes, June 29

Bellevue Rotary will again bring the best day of the whole summer to Camp Goodtimes on Vashon Island. Save Thursday, June 29th, for this fun event. We are expecting 140 kids with cancer, on or off treatment, and have arranged to rent carnival games for this day.

At least 40 Rotarians are needed to be at camp as carnie workers. Look for sign-up sheets in May or early June. Contact Charlotte Ellis if you have questions.

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World Wide Student Art Contest
Rotarian Barry Marx, District 9930, New Zealand

Greetings From the Rotary Club of Otorohanga!

The Rotary Club of Otorohanga New Zealand, D9930 is running an International High School Student Art Contest, entries can be submitted by digital image. See web site www.oto-rotary.org for information. Prizes include a three-week, fully-funded return trip to New Zealand. Entries are open now and close 1 May 2006

I have taken 15 months away from paid occupation as a volunteer organisor because I feel so passionate about this contest.

It's the biggest Student Art Contest of its type and will be the first that uses the internet to such a large extent. The 300 semi-finalist works of art, from the several thousand entries, will be on show here in New Zealand for two weeks, and all will be on sale, with a colour catalogue being on the internet with international purchasing arrangements.

All the information you need is on our web site. You can download leaflets, posters, newsletters and press releases.

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2007-2008 Ambassadorial & Cultural Scholarship Applications Are Available

Rick Taylor

This Rotary year District 5030 has available at least two one-year Ambassadorial Scholarships and one six month Cultural Scholarship that will pay up to $26,000 for education in another country.  Rotary International has requested that we consider scholars whose study fields will have a strong humanitarian impact.

For information and applications please contact me (Ph 425-454-4858).

Thank you for your help.

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Rotary District 5030 Leadership Assembly

Presidents, Presidents-Elect, Club Secretaries, Treasurers, all incoming Officers and Board Members, All Committee Chairs, Newsletter Editors, Webmasters, New Members, and all interested Rotarians are invited to join District Governor-Elect Mike Montgomery at the District's Annual Kick-Off Event!

The Assembly is scheduled for Saturday, May 20, at the Bellevue Community College, from 7:30AM-12:00 noon.

If you are interested in volunteering or contributing to the 2006 District 5030 Leadership Assembly, please contact District Leadership Assembly Chairperson Son Michael Pham (Ph 206-484-4830).

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