Rotary International

President:

Wilfrid J. Wilkinson

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Stan Smalley

Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

 

 

May 13, 2008

  

The  2008 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
 

M
a
y
        1 2 3
4 5 6
Meeting
Chuck Cabral to give us a tour at the newest huller in operation in the Durham area…..the address for the huller is 9051 Aguas Frias Rd, Chico, CA…..  Will discuss where we can eat
(Daryl Polk)		 7 8 9
(A) Bill Apger		 10
(B) Phil Price
11 12 13
Meeting
 Texas Hold’em Poker tournament
(Ged Andrusaitis)
(B) Jim Edwards		 14 15 16 17
18 19 20
Meeting
Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month
(Roy Ellis)
(A) Steve Greenwood		 21
(B) Kent Jackson		 22 23 24
25
(A) Joe Nock		 26 27
No Meeting
Day after Memorial Day
(B) Glenn Pulliam		 38 29 30 31
J
u
n
e		 1
(B) Clint Goss		 2 3
Meeting
Carnitas Feed at Durham Park
(Norm Larson)		 4 5 6 7
8 9 10
(A) Norm Larson
Meeting
Club Assembly with President Elect
(Glenn Pulliam)		 11 12 13
(A) Kent Jacson		 14
15
(B) Dan Davis
(A) Bruce Norlie		 16 17
Meeting
"Steve Bertagna Uncensored"
(Bill Apger)		 18 19
(B) Bill Apger		 20 21
22 23 24
Meeting
Demotion
(Andy Farrar)		 25 26
(A) Jim Edwards
(A) Jim Kirks		 27 28
29 30          

 

 

Same assumptions as last week.  President Daryl opened the meeting at the BCCC.  I also assume that he asked some member to lead the pledge and that that member did.  Jim Patterson probably offered the invocation, but Daryl might have surprised us by asking Dar, Andy or some other member to do it.  Anyway, I am sure it was done.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

 

May 20th:  Roy Ellis – Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month.  Spouses and significant others are invited.

 

May 27th:  Day after Memorial Day- No meeting.

 

June  3rd :  Carnitas Feed.

 

June 10th : Club Assembly with the President Elect.

 

June 17th :  Bill Apger will present “Steve Bertagna Uncensored.”

 

June 24th:  Demotion.

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Roy Ellis presented two student of the month plaques and the parents of one of the students were present for the event.

 

Rev. Jim introduced his daughter Anne Marie Montgomery, a forrmer Camp Royal attendee and Rotary Scholarship recipient.   Anne teaches Special Education at Rosemont School in Chico.   Because of budget constraints, Anne has had discretionary funding curtailed.   The club members voted to donate $250 to Anne to help pay for a class tour of Barry Kirshners Wildlife Foundation and to help purchase some yearbooks for students in her class.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Roy Ellis will put on the annual  Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park meeting.  He has arranged for the park and will arrange for the food.  The club will have as guests members of  Interact, the students chosen to attend Camp Royal  this year and Students of the Month for the year. 

 

Note that spouses and significant others are invited. 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

 

CLUB BYLAWS

 

Now that K. R. is back, it is the time to report to him your comments about the Bylaws he distributed in December, which you have, I am sure, reviewed as he asked.  We cannot find the Bylaws for the Club and need to adopt new ones.  Speaking of K.R., Jim reports that he is getting some use of his hands back.

 

 

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL

 

 

At the April 22nd meeting Steve Greenwood passed around Durham Rotary 2008 Harvest Festival Sponsorship Forms with a list of the sponsorship levels list.  Get the forms to all the sponsors you know of.  Steve wants the forms back by early July so we can get the T-Shirts ordered and the lists of sponsors printed.

 

PROGRAM

 

Ged Andrusaitus introduced Durham Rotarians to the fun and excitement of World Series Texas Hold'em Tournaments.   Chris Hatch won a bag of delicious roasted almonds for being the "First Out."   Norm Larson won a bag of almonds, and a Golden West travel mug for being "Runner Up."   And the "Winner" was that old guy Jim Kirks who won a $500 dollar World Series of Pker chip, a bag of almonds and a travel mug.   (for more info on the tournament call Ged.

 

 

ROTARY EDUCATION

 

As you could tell above, I am not here.  So this Rowel is the second of my annual Rotary education issues.  The purpose is to reeducate long time Rotarians and to educate new Rotarians.  The following are articles from the Rotary International web site.  (copyrighted by Rotary International).

 

Rotary History

T he world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to capture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The Rotary name derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.

Rotary's popularity spread, and within a decade, clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York to Winnipeg, Canada. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents. The organization adopted the Rotary International name a year later.

As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving club members’ professional and social interests. Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization's dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its motto: Service Above Self.

By 1925, Rotary had grown to 200 clubs with more than 20,000 members. The organization's distinguished reputation attracted presidents, prime ministers, and a host of other luminaries to its ranks — among them author Thomas Mann, diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, and composer Jean Sibelius.

The Four-Way Test

In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary 11 years later. The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:

Of the things we think, say or do

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary and World War II

During World War II, many clubs were forced to disband, while others stepped up their service efforts to provide emergency relief to victims of the war. In 1942, looking ahead to the postwar era, Rotarians called for a conference to promote international educational and cultural exchanges. This event inspired the founding of UNESCO.

In 1945, 49 Rotary club members served in 29 delegations to the UN Charter Conference. Rotary still actively participates in UN conferences by sending observers to major meetings and covering the United Nations in its publications.

"Few there are who do not recognize the good work which is done by Rotary clubs throughout the free world," former Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain once declared.

Dawn of a new century

As it approached the 21st century, Rotary worked to meet society’s changing needs, expanding its service efforts to address such pressing issues as environmental degradation, illiteracy, world hunger, and children at risk.

In 1989, the organization voted to admit women into clubs worldwide and now claims more than 145,000 female members in its ranks.

After the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Rotary clubs were formed or re-established throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The first Russian Rotary club was chartered in 1990, and the organization underwent a growth spurt for the next several years.

More than a century after Paul Harris and his colleagues chartered the club that eventually led to Rotary International, Rotarians continue to take pride in their history. In honor of that first club, Rotarians have preserved its original meeting place, Room 711 in Chicago’s Unity Building, by re-creating the office as it existed in 1905. For several years, the Paul Harris 711 Club maintained the room as a shrine for visiting Rotarians. In 1989, when the building was scheduled to be demolished, the club carefully dismantled the office and salvaged the interior, including doors and radiators. In 1993, the RI Board of Directors set aside a permanent home for the restored Room 711 on the 16th floor of RI World Headquarters in nearby Evanston.

Today, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to over 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

 

About Interact

 

 

Interact is Rotary International’s service club for young people ages 14 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.

Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single gender or mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools in the same community.

Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of

  • Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
  • Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
  • Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
  • Advancing international understanding and goodwill

As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 10,700 clubs in 109 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon. Almost 200,000 young people are involved in Interact.

For more information about Interact in your area, contact your local Rotary club, or ask RI staff. Read the Interact Handbook and the Interact Brochure.

Group Study Exchange

The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

In a typical four-week tour, applicants participate in five full days of vocational visits, 15 to 20 club presentations, 10 to 15 formal visits and social events, two to three days at the district conference, three to four hours per day of cultural and site tours, and three to four hours per day of free time with host families.

For each team member, the Foundation provides the most economical round-trip airline ticket between the home and host countries. Rotarians in the host area provide for meals, lodging, and group travel within their district.

Membership Teams


Mike Wacker reported that Team One has accumulated 13 points while the remaining teams have only 1 point each.

 

 Team One - Captain Roy Ellis. Members, Dar Meyer, Dan Davis, Steve Plume, Norm Larson, Jim Patterson, Dave Mulqueeney, and Glenn Pulliam.

Team Two - Captain Tod Kimmelshue. Members Steve Greenwood, Bruce Miller, Clint Goss, Daryl Polk, Dave Jessen and Joe Nock.

Team Three - Captain Mike Wacker. Members Chris Hatch, Jen Liu, Kent , Jackson, Mike Crump, Jim Edwards, Jim Kirks and KR Robertson.

Team Four - Captain Jane Ziad. Members Bill Apger, Phil Price, Tom Knowles, Tom Vanella, Andy Farrar, and Bruce Norlie.

 

 

The Rotary International web site is: www.rotary.org

District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org

The Durham Rotary Club site is:  www.durhamrotary.org

The Rowel Editor may be contacted at pbhlaw@sunset.net
Note:  If any of you have anything to place into the Rowel fax it to Phil at 343 7251 or  E-mail it to "pbhlaw@sunset.net", before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

 

 

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