Rotary International President: John Kenny Rotary District 5160 Governor: Earl Kilmer Durham Rotary President: Mike Crump _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	October 6, 2009	The  2010 Harvest Festival  will be held in September 2010 on a date to be announced

2009                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
S e p t e m b e r
			1 Meeting Bill Sure on Jesus Center (Craig Hastain)	2	3	4	5
	6	7	8 No Meeting Day after Labor Day	9 (A) Chris Hatch	10	11	12
	13	14	15 No Meeting after Harvest Festival	16 (B) Jim Kirks	17	18	19
	20	21	22 Meeting Rick King at Chico Rotary	23	24	25 (B) Stephen Plume	26
	27	28	29 Meeting Club Assembly (Mike Crump)	30
O c t o b e r					1	2 (B) Dar Meyer	3
	4	5	6 Meeting Chico Sunrise will visit with the GSE team from Mexico (Chris Hatch)	7	8	9 (A) Mike Wacker	10
	11 (A) Bruce Miller	12	13 Meeting Rian Farley on History of Durham (Dave Jessen)	14	15 (A) Roy Ellis	16	17
	18	19	20 Meeting Mike Bury the Chairperson for Youth Exchange (Norm Larson)	21	22	23	24
	25	26	27 Meeting Errol Keene will talk about making a Bomb Robot. (Chris Hatch)	28	29	30	31

President Mike called the meeting to order.  He lead the pledge of allegiance.  Jim Patterson gave the invocation.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

October Program Chairperson is Chris Hatch.     October 13th: Dave Jessen.   October 20th: Norm Larson   October 27th:  Errol Keene will talk about making a Bomb Robot.   November Program Chair: Dar Meyer   November 3rd:  District Governor Visit.   November 10th:  Dave Mulqueeney   November 17th: Jane Ziad   November 24th: Dan Driscoll   December 1st:  Bob Woods will present a slide show on Ishi.   December 8th:  Steve Plume   December 15th:  Christmas Party

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Jane Ziad was asked to introduce the visiting Rotarians and guests at her table.  She introduced Susie Sorenson and Chris Mullins of the Chico Sunrise Club.  Glenn Pulliam introduced Terry Allread, Allen Tochterman and Georgie Bellin of the Chico Club.  Tom Vanella introduced Travis Edsall a guest of Bruce Miller, and Rolando Chavez of the Monterey, Mexico Club.  Steve Plume introduced James Seegert of the Chico Sunrise Club.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Dave Jessen will be presenting a program, but I haven’t been told what it is.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Board Meeting

 

President Mike announced that the Club’s Board of Directors will meet at 5:00 pm before the October 13^th (next) meeting.

 

Camp Royal Program Needs a Chairperson

 

Roy Ellis  needs a member to take over the Camp Royal Program.  He indicates that the interviews come at the same time as he is dealing with the scholarship interviews an he can no longer do both.  If you are interested call Roy.

Rotary Club of Durham Foundation - Election of Officer

 

The Board of Trustee of the Rotary Club of Durham Foundation met following the meeting tonight and re-elected Roy Ellis as Chairman of the Board for the current fiscal year.

 

The Board of Trustees and Officers of the Rotary Club of Durham Foundation are as follows:

 

For your information the following are Trustees and Officers of the Foundation currently.

 

Trustees of the Foundation for 2009-2010:

Roy Ellis (term expires 6/30/12)

Phil Price (term expires 6/30/10)

Mike Wacker (term expires 6/30/11)

Mike Crump (Club President)

K. R. Robertson (Club Secretary)

Steve Plume (Club Treasurer)

Officers of the Foundation for 2009-2010:

Chairperson:  Roy Ellis

Secretary:  K. R. Robertson (per Bylaws as Club Secretary)

Treasurer:  Steve Plume (per Bylaws as Club Treasurer)

The Club President, Secretary and Treasurer automatically are Trustees.  And the Club Secretary and treasurer are automatically Secretary and Treasurer of the Foundation.  The other three Trustees are elected for three year terms, one each December at the annual members meeting.

Trip To Monterey, Mexico to Deliver Wheelchairs

 

NOTE:  This is one of the things that Rolando Chavez talked about during the program tonight.

 

From Bradford R. Howard, Rotary District 5170 Governor, 2002-2003:

 

Since 2004, Rotarians from District 5160 and 5170 have been traveling to Monterrey, Mexico to deliver wheelchairs, support matching grants and create lasting friendships.  Almost 200 people have made this trip, and in the process this trip created many new “Rotarians.”  The purpose of this correspondence is to invite you, your club members to join this year’s reunion trip.

 

In January, 2010, were are going back to Monterrey to delivery wheelchairs, continue our humanitarian efforts and make new friends in Rotary.  The Rotary Club of Danville/Sycamore Valley (District 5160) has organized the trip and already signed up 20 people on the trip.  They have asked us to invite other Rotarians would like to join them and be a part of one of these experiences.  The basic information of the trip is:

 

Depart:  Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Return:  Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cost of Program:  $1,539, double occupancy – which includes roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations, all meals, wheelchair delivery, sightseeing, Rotary events, etc.

 

Attached is a PDF file that will give you all of the information about the trip (dates, time, cost, etc.)  If you, or members of your club would like to join us, simply complete the enclosed application and return it to my office with a deposit and we will help you the rest of the way.

 

This is an extraordinary experience, filed with emotion, purpose and tremendous international fellowship.  As a club president, you can change the lives of people in your community and throughout the world.  But the greatest effect you can have is to change the lives of your members.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do unless they were in Rotary, and it will get them more deeply involved in your club. 

 

In addition to the delivery of wheelchairs, we will spend time, one on one, with the Monterrey Rotarians in their homes and in their communities to see the service and experience fellowship that only Rotary can bring.  Since we began making these trips, more than 30 matching grant projects have been completed.  A wonderful part of this process is that the Rotarians can put someone into a chair and see how they respond as their life is changed. We invite you and the members of your club to join us. 

 

Although the majority of funds have been raised for this container of wheelchairs, if your club would like to partially sponsor a container, you could have YOUR members deliver the chairs YOUR club funded.  Please announce this program in your club, and encourage two or three of your members to take a trip of a lifetime, and represent your club.  Ideally, you should make the trip and ask some of your members to join you!

 

For further information contact:

 

Bradford R. Howard

Rotary District 5170

Governor, 2002-2003

516 Grand Avenue

Oakland, CA  94610

Phone:  (510) 834-2260

FAX:  (510) 834-1019

E-mail:  Bhoward@HowardTours.net 

 

New Member Posting   On September 29, 2009 the Board of Directors voted to approve Eric Horn as a new member of Durham Rotary.  He is proposed by Daryl Polk.  His classification will be Business Insurance Sales.   On October 6, 2009 the Board of Directors voted to approve Travis Edsall as a new member of Durham Rotary.  He is proposed by Bruce Miller.  His classification will be Painting Contractor.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Mike recognized Jane Ziad for her birthday in the amount of $10 and for missing the Harvest Festival in the amount of $100.  She was involved in a Lassen Park Foundation fundraiser (which I attended and then drove back to Chico that night to get to the Harvest Festival).

 

Mike Wacker contributed $21 for his 21^st anniversary.  Mike also missed the Harvest Festival, while attending a 50^th College reunion, but he had the Grinder.

 

Bruce Miller contributed $29 for his 29^th anniversary.

 

Mike Wacker then auctioned the Grinder for October.  Steve Plume got it for $55.

 

PROGRAM

 

The program was the visit of a Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Monterey, Mexico.  Team Leader was Rolando Chavez.  The Team consisted of Rene Alejandro Calderas, a fire chief; Maria Fernanda Hinojosa, a paramedic from Monterey, Alejandro Reyna Limon, a fire chief from Montemoilus; and Gilberto Alonso Almaguer a firefighter and paramedic from Monterey.

 

Rolando talked about Rotary projects in Mexico, including a water project, as well as projects done with Rotary Clubs from the U.S. (including the wheelchair project above mentioned and a hearing aid project).  Fernanda talked about tourism in Mexico.  Alejandro talked about Mexican History.  All the presentations included pictures of the areas they were talking about.  It was a very interesting program.

 

Speaking of Group Study Exchange the following is from the District 5160 web site:

 

Group Study Exchange

 

We are currently seeking applications for a Group Study Exchange Team Leader who will lead and represent District 5160 traveling to Monterrey, Mexico April 5, to May 2, 2010. A GSE Team from District 4130 in Monterrey, Mexico will be visiting our Rotary District September 20 to October 18, 2009.

We need your help in finding an excellent Rotarian in your club, who will represent the governor of our District. Someone who has leadership experience, possess outstanding personal and communication skills. Be a team leader and counselor to team members, and act as a liaison between the host clubs/district and the team.

We will select a team leader from the most qualified candidates for this expense-paid study exchange. Applicants are to be Rotarian’s who have had some involvement in International Rotary Programs. Please ask your club Rotarian’s to consider becoming candidates.

The application requires sponsoring club endorsement and signature of the club president and secretary. Candidates are to submit their application to their local club president by August 10, 2009 and to me by August 17, 2009. The application is attached. The application may also be downloaded by going into the Rotary International.orgwebsite.

Please send signed applications to:

Amelia D. Ward, 11475 Rugby Hill Drive, Redding, CA 96003

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) program of The Rotary Foundation is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women between the ages of 25 and 40 and in the early years of their professional lives. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country’s institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas. For each team member, The Rotary Foundation provides the most economical round-trip air ticket between the home and host countries. Local Rotarians in the host area provide for meals, lodging, and group travel within their District.

 

“Must be Present to Win” Drawing

 

President Mike was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

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.