Jim Dunny
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Program for Tuesday, July 21, 2015
On Tuesday July 28, 2015, District Governor Janice Kurth will be making her official club visit. She will speak to us about her goals for the district and how the district is seeking to help clubs achieve their own goals.
Meeting Assignments
Date
Who Am I
Rotary Minute
July 28, 2015
Rob Weinberg
Wayne Hamburger
Aug 4, 2015
Matt Woempner
Sue Herndon
The assignment for the Who Am I includes providing the positive thought at the beginning of the meeting and introducing guests and visiting Rotarians during the meeting.
The member assigned to Rotary Minute/ Cheer for Rotary is the assigned Greeter for that day and also is tasked with selling opportunity drawing tickets.
July 24, 2015 marks one year since Nigeria last reported a polio case caused by the wild poliovirus.
This is the longest the country has ever gone without a case of polio, and it’s a critical step on the path toward a polio-free Africa. It was only a decade ago that polio struck 12,631 people in Africa in one year —three-quarters of all cases in the world.
August 11 will mark an even greater milestone: one year since the last case of polio in Africa. For Africa to be certified polio-free by the World Health Organization, it must go two more years without a case of polio. To do this, all children in Nigeria must continue to receive the polio vaccine, including those in hard-to-reach and underserved areas.
We are immensely thankful for our supporters, who have donated $688.5 million to fight polio throughout Africa. We also thank the volunteers and health workers from Africa and around the world who have devoted countless hours to immunizing the children there, who now have the opportunity to lead healthier, happier lives.
Rotary District Governor Janice Kurth's Official Visit
Janice Kurth, MD, PhD
On Tuesday, July 28, DG Janice Kurth will be visiting our club as her official club visit. She will tell us about the goals of the district and the ways the district seeks to help clubs grow.
In addition, she will be presenting various awards to members of our club. After the meeting, she will also preside at a short meeting with our board of directors to learn what our club is doing and how we are planning for our year.
Be sure to attend this meeting to meet our district's governor for 2015-2016
Our website and our club newsletter are both avenues for communication to members (and in the case of the website, with the outside world.) As the editor, I need your input. I need news about what is happening in the Avenues of Service. Our club has not utilized the capabilities of ClubRunner when it comes to putting up information on the Committee pages, for example. This hurts our club in several ways First of all, our club member don't have a place to look for information that will help in recruitment of new members.
Secondly, by not maintaining information on committee pages, we fail to have a written history about our club's activities. It has seemed that for most Rotary clubs, once a project or event is over, we consider it done and move on. Later we often have to scratch our heads when we need to generate a list of accomplishments during a Rotary year. Writing was invented, after all, to allow humans to record history.
Thirdly, by not having adequate information on our website, we deprive potential members of the information they are seeking to know whether our club is a "good" fit for them and their interest in serving our community.
To be perfectly frank, I need your help. I can't know everything that is happening. If I don't know it, I certainly can't publicize it. If you can supply the information, I can write and post the information. Too often, information isn't shared because the information seems rather important. Remember that just because you know something, it doesn't mean that everyone else know it. Most of the time, you are probably one of the few people that may be aware of a piece of information. Share it. I have never had too much information.
We have a great club and we do a lot. We just need to share information more.
Date Joined Rotary is the most recent occasion of joining our club or changing status from active to honorary. It does not include any time as a previous member of the club or membership in another Rotary club is our district or anywhere else in the world
