BRIARCRIER
December 28, 2012, Friday 12:15, The Briar's Restaurant, North State Road, Briarcliff Manor Rotary Club
TODAY IN HISTORY
1932 – Radio City Music Hall opened in Midtown Manhattan. On opening night there were several hours of live acts which were considered a disaster, prompting owners to shift to a movie followed by a stage show.
MEETING LEADER – President K. Chittur
PLEDGE – Sy Yuter PATRIOTIC SONG – Sy Yuter Prayer – Paul Rosen
HAPPY THOUGHTS AND BUCKS– Kris took family to visit NYC; Steven – here visiting half-brother Richard; Paul – grandchildren visited
ANNOUNCEMENTS – Eight Rotarians present. Read Rotary magazine on risk-taking. Rachel has placed tickets for Art Auction at Weldon’s Stationary and the Library as well as posters in store front windows. More need to be placed by members.
GUESTS – Steven Horowitz, half brother of Richard Zimmerman
SPEAKER AND SUBJECT – Younhee Shin and Kyung Pak
Hidden Treasures of Korea
SUMMARY OF TALK
Koreans in 1205 BC called their country Chosen which means Morning Calm. The people are similar looking to Chinese and Japanese. Seoul is the capital of South Korea and they consider their city as the sixth largest in the world. The speakers wore beautiful traditional dress. In Seoul, female servants in government offices were given thirty days of leave after the birth of a child and the husband thirty days of paternity leave. The rights of prisoners were also considered, inquiring about the temperature of cells and whether they were clean. Wildly considered the greatest legacy of King Sejong the Great, he invented the Korean alphabet called Hangulo. Created in 1443 by the King, it consists of 28 consonant and vowel letters corresponding to the principal of Ying-Yang.
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Friday – Conflict Resolution – Professor Arthur Romano
Elinor Yuter , Reporter
Rachel Leihbacher, Expediter
