Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit - even though it is a very busy time of the year!
We have a new banner! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
December is Rotary's Celebration of Family month.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please click this to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
Happy Hour Hangout (HHH). We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before your day gets away from you.
We meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link at the end of the meeting. Morning coffee is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
Interested in becoming a member? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Until 1989, the Constitution and Bylaws of Rotary International stated that Rotary club membership was for males only. In 1978, the Rotary Club of Duarte, California, invited three women to become members. The RI board withdrew the charter of that club for violation of the RI Constitution.
The club brought uit against RI claiming a violation of a state civil rights law which prevents discrimination of any form in business establishments or public accommodations. The appeals court and the California Supreme Court supported the Duarte position that Rotary could not remove the club's charter merely for inducting women into the club.
The United States Supreme Court upheld the California court indicating that Rotary clubs do have a "business purpose" and are in some ways public-type organizations. This action in 1987 allowed women to become Rotarians in any jurisdiction having similar "public accommodation" statutes.
The RI constitutional change was made at the 1989 Council on Legislation, with a vote to eliminate the "male only' provision for all of Rotary.
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SPEAKER - Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence
To answer the question of why and how non-violence works, she evokes historical heroes -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- and the personal philosophies that powered their peaceful protests. (Filmed at TEDxExeter.)
When Scilla Elworthy was 13, she sat in front of her television set watching as Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. Immediately she started packing her bags.
"What are you doing?" her mother said. "I'm going to Budapest," she said. "They're doing something awful and I have to go."
Years later, Elworthy is a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a recipient of the Niwano Peace Prize.
In 2002 Elworthy founded Peace Direct, which supports local action against conflict, and in 1982 founded Oxford Research Group, a think-tank devoted to developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers and their critics. Beginning in 2005 she helped set up The Elders initiative as an adviser to Sir Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
"Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.”
(Scilla Elworthy)
Click this link to view the video. Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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FURTHER READING ON PEACE
In light of the recent horrific incidents of violence, readings and discussion of PEACE are very appropriate.
Click this link to read the first article. Note - Click your browser's BACK button after each article to return to the meeting.
Other articles:
- Former Rotary Peace Fellow a Defender of Children
- Rotary Centers for Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Liberian Nobel Peace laureate says collective strength, selflessness needed to face global challenges
- Peace camp will help train West African youth in peace and conflict resolution
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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION
This is how the Rotary Club of Palm Beach, Florida, celebrated the joy of Christmas just a few days ago.
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ROTARY BASICS
By assigning each member a classification based on his or her business or profession, this system ensures that the club's membership reflects the business and professional composition of its community. The number of members holding a particular classification is limited according to the size of the club. The goal is professional diversity, which enlivens the club's social atmosphere and provides a rich resource of occupational expertise to carry out service projects and provide club leadership.
Avenues of Service
Based on the Object of Rotary, the Avenues of Service are Rotary's philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:
Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.
New Generations Service acknowledges the positive change implemented by youth and young adults involved in leadership development activities, community and international service, and exchange programs that enrich and foster world peace and cultural understanding. Programs include RYLA, Rotaract, Interact, and Rotary Youth Exchange.
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WHAT IS ROTARY?
Rotary clubs participate in a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural, and educational activities designed to improve the human condition.
Rotary's humanitarian grants support club projects that provide health care and medical supplies, clean water, food, job training, youth development, and education to millions of people in need, particularly in the developing world.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2013
Click this link for a New Year's wish! (Floyd Cramer at the piano.)
Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
**Bonus marks if you spot the spelling error!
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FLASH MOB
Christmas is over for another year, but have a look at this lovely "flash mob" and get into the fun of the holidays! This one should warm your heart!
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MEETING MAKE-UP
If you would like to use your stop here as a meeting make-up, please
1. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up
2. Please include all the information requested
3. Click SUBMIT.
Our club will send both you and your club secretary a make-up certificate and a copy of our banner!
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To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do. Past Assistant Governor non-pareil, Louis Wever, from Sint Maarten, leads us:
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?
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Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
The meeting has now come to an end. Please do have a safe and happy week!
If you have enjoyed our E-club meeting, please leave a comment below.
Rotary cheers!
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Happy Hour Hangout (HHH) Information for Saturday, January 5:
- 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time.
- Click the link below just before the start of the meeting.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/691805168************
Happy Hour Hangout (HHH) Information for Saturday, January 12:
- 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time.
- Click the link below just before the start of the meeting.
