Rotary International President: John Kenny Rotary District 5160 Governor: Earl Kilmer Durham Rotary President: Mike Crump _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	December 7, 2009	The  2010 Harvest Festival  will be held in September 19, 2010

 

This was a Monday Night Football meeting at  Mountain Mike’s Pizza.  President Mike dispensed with most of the formalities.  He did call the meeting to order sometime during the second quarter.    The members enjoyed football and pizza.

 

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

December Program Chair: Jim Patterson   December 15th:  Christmas Party   December 22nd: No meeting             December 29th: No Meeting   January Program Chair: Daryle Polk   January 5th:  Phil Price (I do have a program)   January 12th:  Glenn Pulliam   January 18th:  No Meeting   January 23rd:  CRAB FEED   January 25th:  No Meeting.

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

There were no visiting Rotarians or Guest tonight.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Christmas Party
Dave Mulqueeney passed out invitations to the Club’s annual Christmas party.  They weren’t for you, because you can read about it here.  They were sealed in envelopes so that you could take them home to your spouses and significant others.  DO SO!  NOW! Here is the information for you to read.  The Christmas Celebration will be on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.  Note that it will begin at 5:30 p.m., not the usual 6:00 p.m. of our normal meetings.  It will conclude at 9:15 p.m.   There will be no cost to members for the dinner.  The Club will absorb the cost.    There will be no silent auction this year.  Instead there will be an optional Gift Exchange.  If you want to participate then bring one gift ($20.00 value) per individual (if you come alone) or per couple (including one for your guest couples).  Each individual (who came alone) or couple will then be able to select a gift to take home.  However, after a gift has been selected, another individual (who came alone) or couple, who liked that gift, can take it from the one(s) who originally selected it, as their gift.  That can only happen twice.  The third one(s) to get it get to keep it.   There will also be a live auction of the three centerpieces.    Larry Bradley will lead singing Christmas Carols.  The High School orchestra will play.   This is a great opportunity to bring a guest or guest couple, to interest them to Rotary.  It does work.  We invited Norm and Tanis Larson many years ago, and look at what happened.

 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Crab Feed
	The Crab Feed will be January 23, 2010.

 

 

K. R. Robertson

 

It was reported that K. R. fell and injured his leg.  He had surgery on the leg earlier this week.  We wish you a speady recover, K. R.

 

Raffle of a 2009 Kawasaki Mule

 

Dave Mulqueeney reported that a Durham resident, Cory Pierce, is in Stanford Hospital awaiting a liver transplant.  Friends are having a raffle of a 2009 Kawasaki Mule to benefit the NTAF Sowthwest Liver Transplant Fund, in honor of Cory Pierce.  It will help Cory with his uninsured medical expenses.  It will be held on December 18^th at 10:00 am at Jone Flying Service, 216 W. Hamilton Road, Biggs, CA.  Tickets are $100, each.  You need not be present to win.  Contact Dave for tickets.  Or, for more information contact  Melanie Owen and 624-8577 or 868-5331. 

 

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.

 

PROGRAM

 

The program was the football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Ravens.  Green Bay won 27 to 14.

In Dar's football pool, the winners were:

-- First Quarter:  Dar Meyer
-- Second Quarter: Glenn Pulliam
-- Third Quarter:  Dave Mulqueeney

-- Fourth Quarter: Dave Mulqueeney

From Rotary International:

What can you do to increase club membership?
Rotary International News -- 2 December 2009 

Have a supply of Start with Rotary postcards to hand out to potential members.

When it comes to recruiting club members, there are almost as many ideas as there are Rotarians, which is not surprising considering Rotary's diversity. 

There are some universal themes that come up again and again. Others capitalize on new technologies and communication methods, or are targeted at expanding Rotary’s demographic reach. Below are 10 tips from Rotarians for increasing membership: 

1. Invite friends, colleagues, or neighbors to participate in one of your club's projects.
2. Keep a supply of the Start with Rotary postcards and wallet cards, and give them to potential members.
3. Encourage prospective members who live outside your geographic area to visit the RI Web site, view membership videos, and complete a prospective member form.
4. Ask your district membership chair to contact qualified candidates who have come to the district's attention through an online referral.
5. Talk with potential members about Rotary's humanitarian work, including programs like PolioPlus. Mention the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's involvement in the polio eradication effort through Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge.
6. Invite professional women in your community to one of your club meetings. Initiate projects that focus on women's issues, and invite prominent women in the community to participate, speak, or lead.
7. Maintain contact with all local alumni of Rotary's educational and service programs, and organize events for them. Work with qualified candidates to help them join your club.
8. Advertise special programs or projects on social networking sites such as Craigslist, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Orkut, and invite visitors to your club meetings and events. Learn about RI's official social networking pages.
9. Sponsor an open house (or an open meeting with a special guest) that caters to a demographic group or classification that isn't represented in the club.
10. Maintain a Web site for your club so that interested individuals can easily find out who you are, what you do, and what inspires you.

 

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.