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.
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.
The Rotary theme for September is New Generations - Rotaract, Interact, and EarlyAct.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click here or follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation. You will be asked to send an email to our Membership Chair.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please follow this link to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
Happy Hour Hangout. Each Wednesday evening at 6:00 (USA-ET) we meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click here to send us an email request for an invitation to our HHH. (...or if you have trouble with the link, send an email directly to Kitty at ladykitt@sympatico.ca) Drinks are on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Interested in joining us? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow the link Membership Application and Information.
Finally - If you would like to see a specific topic addressed in these meetings, please let us know. We want to make the meetings educational, interesting, and very worthwhile for everyone. Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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THE ABCs OF ROTARY (by Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Definition of Rotary
How do you describe the organization called "Rotary"?
There are so many characteristics of a Rotary club as well as the activities of a million Rotarians. There are the features of service, internationality, fellowship, classifications of each vocation, development of goodwill and world understanding, the emphasis of high ethical standards, concern for other people and many more descriptive qualities.
In 1976, the Rotary International Board of Directors was interested in creating a concise definition of the fundamental aspects of Rotary. They turned to the three men who were then serving on Rotary's Public Relations Committee and requested that a one-sentence definition of Rotary be prepared. After numerous drafts, the committee presented this definition, which has been used ever since in various Rotary publications:
"Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world."Those 31 words are worth remembering when someone asks, "What is a Rotary club?"
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ROTARACT - ANNOUNCING - Rotaract District 7020 Conference 2013
Because September is Rotary New Generations month, here is a fabulous video created by our District 7020 Rotaractors.
Please view the excellent video below prepared by our Rotaractors!
If you need a little help - Preliminary Instructions for viewing a new link and returning to the meeting
- To view the video, click directly on the arrow on the large video window below - OR If you see a message to "Watch on YouTube," please click the underlined text "Watch on YouTube" - as shown in the graphic - to open the YouTube video:
This link will open a new TAB on your computer.
- To return to our meeting, click the appropriate TAB at the top of your screen after the presentation. The graphic below shows something like what you will have to do.
There is a TAB each for the new window and for the Blogger meeting window. Click the Blogger tab to return to our meeting after viewing the video.
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ENJOY THE VIDEO! (Who is that wearing the burgundy toga?) :)
It is worth remembering that the month of September celebrates New Generations - Rotaract, Interact, and EarlyAct.
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ROTARY - A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Join Rotary and make a world of difference to your community, to the lives of those less fortunate around the world, to your fellow club members- like-minded men and women of all ages - and just as important - to yourself!
The projects Rotarians get involved in are incredibly fulfilling, worthwhile, and rewarding - and there's plenty of fun involved!
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International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps.
David got his start with Engineers without Borders when he founded the organization's Calgary Chapter. He then worked for four years as the Engineers without Border's director of southern African programs, consulting with governments and NGOs on agriculture, sanitation, and development.
In 2009, he co-founded Ethical Ocean, an online retail company focused on ethical and fair-trade goods.
To view the video, click this link. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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Questions for Discussion concerning the video:
- Does this have an impact for Rotary?
- What does this tell us about what we need to consider for International Projects?
- Do we need to have a discussion on Failure? Please comment thoughtfully.
- How does Rotary think about, and share, failure?
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A SHORT AND INSPIRING VIDEO TO VIEW
What can this do for each one of us? (Nick represents our New Generations.)
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Don't forget to join our join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Miami time to discuss these videos and the meeting. Please email us for information. (Or email Kitty directly at ladykitt@sympatico.ca if that link does not work for you.)
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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Click this link to try your hand at the online crossword puzzle. The link will open. Complete the puzzle. Press your browser's BACK BUTTON to return to this page.
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Paul Harris said -
If there were within my power to live again my boyhood days, and if I could shape things to suit myself, one of the first things I would do would be to bring about a better understanding between myself and the grown-ups around me.
There would be little trouble between people if everyone understood everyone else; and every man certainly ought to get the boy viewpoint as far as he possibly can in order to be of real help to the boy.
-- Message to a boys' group in Huntington Park, California, USA
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ROTARY BASICS
- 1962-63 - The First Interact club was formed in Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A.
- 1962-63 - World Community Service program launched.
- 1965-66 - Special Grants (Matching Grants) and Group Study Exchange programs began.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK -
A woman walks into the optometry store to return a pair of glasses she had purchased the week before.
"What seems to be the problem, ma'am?" the optometrist inquired.
"Well, I bought these glasses for my husband last week, and they're just not working," the woman complained.
"Perhaps the lab made an error filling the prescription."
"I'm sure they must have," the woman confirmed. "My husband's still not seeing things my way."
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MEETING MAKE-UP
If you would like to use your stop here as a meeting make-up, please
1. Click the link at the right to Apply for a Make-up
2. Prepare your email and be sure to include all the information requested
3. Send the email to our club Membership Chair.
Our club will send both you and your club secretary a make-up certificate.
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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. Ken Guiste will lead you in the video below:
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?
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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