PRESIDENT CHARLES BEACH

PRESIDENT-ELECT THOMAS DWYER

SECRETARY JOHN BERTRAM

TREASURER DAN MORROW

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS JAMES MORROW

This Week: Syracuse Rotarian Dr. Al Falcone"A Walk in Paris": Part-time resident will share his experiences

Editor | Program Committee

The oldest traces of human occupation in Paris, discovered in 2008, are human bones and evidence of an en-campment of hunt-er-gatherers dating from about 8000 BC.

During the Mid-dle Ages, Paris was the largest city in Europe, an important religious and commercial center, and the birthplace of the Gothic style of architecture.

Between 1418 and 1436, the city was occupied by the Burgundians and En-glish soldiers. In the 16th century, Paris became the book-publishing capital of Europe, though it was shaken by the

French Wars of Religion be-tween Catholics and Protes-tants.

In the 18th century, Paris was the center of the intel-lectual ferment known as the Enlightenment, and the main stage of the French Revolution from 1789, which is remembered every year on the 14th of July with a military parade.

In the 19th century, Napoleon I em-bellished the city with monuments to military glory. It became the European capital of fashion and the scene of two more revolutions (in 1830 and 1848).

During the 20th century, Paris suf-fered bombardment in World War I and German occupation from 1940

THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE • CLUB #42 • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7150 • CHARTERED 1912 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

SEPTEMBER 2712:00 pm

RCS Club Meeting Members Lounge

Program: Syracuse Rotarian, Dr. Al Falcone

"A Walk in Paris"

OCTOBER 412:00 pm

RCS Club Meeting Members Lounge

Program: Larry Luttinger, Executive Director

of CNY Jazz Central

OCTOBER 1112:00 pm

RCS Club Meeting Members Lounge

Program: TBA

OCTOBER 18** TENTATIVE CLUB EVENT **

See details on page 19:00 am

Meet at Drumlins parking lot and carpool to Utica Station

11:30 am Board Adirondack Scenic Railroad

to Old Forge, arrive 1:45pm

2:15 pm Board Adirondack Scenic Railroad

to Utica Station, arrive 4:30pm. Return to Syracuse by car.

A Look Ahead

see PARIS page 2 >>

HAVE AN IDEA FOR A PROGRAM? Email Program Chair, Jim Yonai at:

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Speaking Friday: Dr. Alfred Falcone

A Field Trip to Old Forge (and back)?Possible Club meeting aboard Adirondack Scenic Railroad

Editor | President Beach

During the September Board of Di-rectors meeting last Friday, it was sug-gested that Syracuse Club members are in need of some fresh air. As the dis-cussion ensued, President Charlie de-scribed the Adirondack Scenic Railroad and its Utica to Old Forge day trip train through beautiful upstate New York.

Club discussion this Friday: On Oc-tober 18, in place of a regular meeting at Drumlins, Syracuse Rotarians, along with their spouses and friends, will

board an 11:30am train at Utica Sta-tion for a unique experience, traveling through forests, over rivers and streams, to spend a little time in Old Forge. While you’re on the train, you can visit the café car and try the light and hearty fare as you ride the rails.

President Charlie would like to dis-cuss this possibility with the Club.

DETAILS: The train departs Utica Sta-tion at 11:30am, arriving at 1:45pm.The return train departs at 2:15pm, arriving back in Utica at 4:30pm. Cost is $40.50 per senior or $42.50 per adult. z

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Notre Dame’s Reconstruction Has Already StalledNew York Post | Nicole Gelinas

Paris, August 12, 2019 ~ The day af-ter a preventable fire collapsed Notre Dame’s roof on April 15, Emmanuel Macron pledged to “rebuild the cathe-dral even more beautifully, and I want it to be finished within five years.” Four months into this deadline, the French president’s words appear naïve. It may take years to get the site ready for se-rious work.

Approach Notre Dame on foot from the front on a sunny August day, and the first feeling is relief: It doesn’t look that bad. Thanks to firefighters who risked their lives, the twin stone bell towers are intact, minus the spire be-hind them. The 28 kings of Judah still stare out placidly.

From the sides and back, though, the damage — and the early effort to halt further destruction — are clear. A tarp

covers the space where the roof should be. Fabric protects windows both intact and damaged. Fresh wood shores up the famous flying buttresses.

Yet most jarring is the inactivity. At midday on a weekday, nobody is work-ing. This isn’t a busy reconstruction site. Behind the tall metal fences that now secure the cathedral and its plaza and gardens, no one can be seen, save a lone security guard, playing on his phone.

This, even though the chief architect says the site isn’t yet stable. Key areas, including the vaulted ceiling, are still in danger of collapse.

This isn’t French lunch hour. On July 25, the Paris region’s prefect, the top national official in the city, abruptly halted all work at the site, saying that managers weren’t adequately enforcing rules to keep workers safe from debris. The stop-work order was to last a week.

But two weeks later, the site is still on lockdown.

Better worker protections may not be enough. The fire transformed 400 tons of solid lead into dust — four times more lead, one environmental group points out, than France emits in a year.

As the tabloid Le Parisien informs readers daily, lead levels even months after the fire are regularly testing at multiples of the threshold, 70 micro-grams per square meter, that generally requires cleanup.

As followers of New York City’s pub-lic-housing crisis know, lead poisoning is a particular danger to children, who spend a lot of time near ground surfac-es and whose developing brains are sus-ceptible to its irreversible harm.

Three school yards near the cathedral had rates north of 1,000 micrograms per square meter; the city shuttered two

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Paris is Falcone's "second home" << from pg. 1

see FINISHING page 4 >>

until 1944 in World War II. Between the two wars, Paris was the capital of modern art and a magnet for intellectuals, writers and artists from around the world. The population reached its historic high of 2.1 million in 1921 but declined for the rest of the century.

Dr. Alfred Falcone was a plastic surgeon in practice for 40 years, retiring in 1997. When Dr. Falcone began his private practice in 1957, neither of Upstate’s hospitals, Onondaga Hill (formerly Community General) or Downtown, had been built. At the time, Downtown’s predecessor, the Hos-pital of the Good Shepherd, was open and the Onondaga Tuberculosis Sanatorium closed. In 1959, the sanitorium’s grounds became the site of Community Hospital, which is now part of Upstate.

Dr. Falcone’s childhood home is in the historic Haw-ley-Green section of Syracuse. He attended the famed Cen-tral High School, which he describes as “that beautiful build-ing on the corner of South Salina and East Adams streets.”

Dr. Falcone is the oldest living member of Syracuse Rotary. He began his years of membership and service in April 1962 when Forrest Whitmeyer was president and the Club had reached its record of 485 members. Al's 57-year membership (and counting) is the longest ever in Syracuse Rotary's 107-year history.

Al and his beautiful wife of 63 years, Francoise, have eight children, including plastic surgeon Philip Falcone MD, a 1984 graduate of Upstate’s College of Medicine, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

For years, the Falcones have enjoyed endless experiences while being part time tourist-residents in Paris. On Friday, Dr. Al will share these and other events, from being married there and on one occasion, being hospitalized there. z

Dr. Falcone (left) and Dr. Bernard Sisson (center) selected the plastic surgery instruments for the new Community Hospital in 1961. Also pictured: Drs. Brewer, Poushter and Stark.

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Falcone joined in April '62 ~ Here's what else happened...• Apr 2 The first official Panda

crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.

• Apr 3 American jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)

• Apr 3 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

• Apr 5 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns" premieres in NYC

• Apr 5 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp

• Apr 5 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m

• Apr 5 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands

• Apr 7 Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes

• Apr 7 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail

• Apr 8 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France

• Apr 9 26th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins the 3rd of his 4 Masters titles in an 18 hole Monday playoff with Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald; tournament's first 3-way playoff

• Apr 9 34th Academy Awards: "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win

• Apr 9 JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium

• Apr 10 52,564 fans attend first MLB game at LA's Dodger Stadium at Chavez Ravine, a 6-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds

• Apr 10 Houston Colt .45s make their MLB debut with an 11-2 win over the Chicago Cubs at Colt Stadium; outfielder Román Mejías hits a pair of 3-run homers

• Apr 11 New York Mets make a losing debut

• Apr 12 San Mateo County withdraws from BART (San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit) district

• Apr 13 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record

• Apr 13 US steel industry forced to give up price increases

• Apr 14 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam

• Apr 14 Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré

• Apr 14 France retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-0 win over Ireland at Stade Colombes, Paris

• Apr 15 US national debt above $300,000,000,000

• Apr 16 Brazil nationalizes US businesses

• Apr 16 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

• Apr 16 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48; second straight win and 3rd title overall

• Apr 18 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3

• Apr 19 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m

• Apr 20 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m

• Apr 20 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North

• Apr 20 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers

• Apr 21 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington

• Apr 21 9th National Film Awards (India): "Bhagini Nivedita" wins the Golden Lotus

• Apr 22 NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season

• Apr 22 Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season

• Apr 22 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Dick Duff scores the winner as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1 for a 4-2 series victory

• Apr 23 NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1

• Apr 23 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral

• Apr 24 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested

• Apr 24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts

• Apr 24 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game

• Apr 25 Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland

• Apr 25 Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated

• Apr 25 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon

• Apr 25 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island

• Apr 26 1st Lockheed A-12 flies

• Apr 26 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)

• Apr 26 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of ) Moon

• Apr 26 Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0

• Apr 26 US and UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload

• Apr 27 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything" premieres in London

• Apr 27 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

• Apr 29 16th Tony Awards: "A Man For All Seasons" & "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" win

• Apr 30 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Mickey Wright wins her 8th major title in a playoff with Ruth Jessen

• Apr 30 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m

• Apr 30 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs

SYRACUSE ROTARY PRESS

4242 cards left in the Queen of Hearts 50/50 for 9/27/2019

Paris... NY?Paris, NY is a town in the southeast part of Oneida County, south

of Utica. The population was 4,411 at the 2010 census. The town was named after an early benefactor, Colonel Isaac Paris.

NO ROTARIAN BIRTHDAYS

And that's the way it is, April 1962.Walter Cronkite was the anchorman for the "CBS Evening News" from 1962–81. He was well known for his departing catchphrase.

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SYRACUSE ROTARY PRESS

The Rotary Club of Syracuse, Inc. is comprised of two entities; the Club which was chartered on June 1, 1912 as Club Number 42, and the Syracuse Rotary Foundation, Inc., the not-for-profit philanthropic arm of the Club founded in 1957.

Together, the Club and the Foundation have served the Greater Syracuse community with uncommon distinction and vigor, leaving a long trail of accomplishment in the best of Rotary’s traditions, all of which has contributed to giving The Rotary Club of Syracuse an honored position in our community.

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Club of Syracuse

Friday Meeting Location:The Members Lounge Drumlins Country Club Nottingham Road Syracuse, NY 13210

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PRESIDENT CHARLES BEACH

PRESIDENT-ELECT THOMAS DWYER

SECRETARY JOHN BERTRAM

TREASURER DAN MORROW

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS JAMES MORROW

urban summer camps after high read-ings. Of 162 area children the city has tested, one had risky levels; another 16 were close to risky levels.

The city is spending the summer cleaning out schools and daycares with a special adhesive gel. Haz-mat spe-cialists are even applying the gel to still-shuttered streets and sidewalks close to the cathedral.

France’s biggest labor union and sev-eral environmental groups say it isn’t enough: They charge that restoration work will stir up now-powdered lead within the cathedral, and recontami-nate nearby sites. They want the state to seal all of Notre Dame in a dome, as is common at asbestos sites — a large-scale construction project in itself.

It isn’t insane to want to protect yourself and your children from lead poisoning, whose effects on cognition and fertility are incontrovertible. And France has hardly instilled confidence with its abrupt emergency closure of the construction site as well as the summer camp. (New York did no bet-ter with securing the health of its own workers after 9/11.)

In declaring the as-yet-unknown risk to be unacceptable, France has, for now, chosen people over reconstruct-

ing and even, possibly, saving the ca-thedral.

That’s laudable — but it also points out how little Macron grasped about the rebuilding process back in April, when his government was focused on a global competition for “a spire suited to the techniques and challenges of our time.”

Thankfully, France has backed away from the idea of reimagining Notre Dame. Just weeks before the site shut-down, the National Assembly passed a law requiring rebuilders to “preserve the historic, artistic and architectural interest of the monument.”

Indicating the project’s importance, Macron is likely to appoint a former top military official to oversee the ef-fort.

A law is one thing, though; carrying it out is another. Building anything complex in a dense global city is hard enough. In this case, unbuilding some of what was already there will be even harder. If America’s experience with Ground Zero is any guide, finishing the reconstruction on time is a tall or-der under modern conditions. All the divine intervention on offer will be needed. z

Finishing reconstruction a tall order << from pg. 2

Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal