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.
October is Rotary Vocational Service month. October 24 is World Polio Day.
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.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation.
Please let us know who you are. Just as at a regular Rotary club meeting, we would like to recognize our visitors. Please click this link to leave your name and club name for our records.Members. If you are a member of the club, please follow the 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 send us an email request for an invitation to our HHH. 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.
NOW - ENJOY THE MEETING -
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
The program for this week - outlined in the short video below -
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VOCATIONAL SERVICE -
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THE ABCs OF ROTARY (by Cliff Dochterman)
Object of Rotary
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
In some areas of the world, weekly Rotary club meetings begin with all members standing and reciting the Object of Rotary. This statement, which comes from the Constitution of Rotary, is frequently seen on a wall plaque in Rotarians' offices or place of business.
The Object of Rotary is "to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise."
The statement then lists four areas by which this "ideal of service" is fostered: through the development of acquaintance as the opportunity for service; the promotion of high ethical standards in business and professions; through service in one's personal, business and community life; and the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace.
By 1910, Rotary had five Objects as increased emphasis was given to expanding Rotary. By 1915, there were six Objects. In 1918, the Objects were rewritten again and reduced to four. Four years later, they had again grown to six and were revised again in 1927.
Finally, at the 1935 Mexico City Convention, the six Objects were restated and reduced to four. The last major change came in 1951, when the "Objects" were streamlined and changed to a single "Object" which is manifested in four separate ways.
The "Ideal of Service" is the key phrase in the Object of Rotary. This ideal is an attitude of being a thoughtful and helpful person in all of one's endeavours. That's what the Object truly means.
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ROTARY MOMENTS - A short video
Click this link to view a short video - RI President Sakuji Tanaka: The Power of Rotary Moments. President Tanaka wants to focus on MEMBERSHIP during his year as Rotary International President.
We must share our achievements (our Rotary moments) with those around us and with the world.
Membership is our responsibility.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to this Rotary meeting.
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ONE RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS - AOK
Winnipeg Transit bus driver who gave his own shoes to a homeless man last week says he hopes others will carry out their own "AOKs," or Acts of Kindness.
The story of Kris Doubledee's generous act went viral after stunned Winnipeg Transit passengers saw the bus driver giving the shoes off his feet to a man on September 18.
Let's "get on board" with the AOK Movement.
Here is another "take" on this story from another source. Click this link.
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ROTARY VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH - October
What does it mean?
Membership in Rotary is based on a member’s vocation, with each club striving to create a microcosm of its community’s business and professional world. This unique feature provides the source for Rotary’s historic commitment to vocational service, the second of Rotary’s four Avenues of Service.
Through vocational service, Rotarians are expected to
- adhere to and promote high ethical standards in all their business dealings
- recognize the worthiness of all useful occupations, and
- contribute their professional expertise and skills to addressing societal problems and needs.
Each club should develop projects that allow members to use their business and professional skills. Members are expected to contribute to these projects and to conduct their own business dealings in accordance with Rotary principles.
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A TRIP TO HAITI
Please view this short video about the BVI Rotarians' trip to Haiti. You should find it most enjoyable!
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OUR HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - next Wednesday, October 17.
A time to meet real time! Join us for a visit!
Join our Happy Hour on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Miami time to discuss these videos and the meeting. If you wish to attend, please click this link just before 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17.
- Or Click the link below.
- Or Copy the link below into your browser's address button.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/706217288
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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Click this link to work at the crossword that highlights the Rotary Club of Tortola's Visit to Haiti.
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INTERVIEW - FORMER CHILD SOLDIER - talks briefly about his life
Please comment thoughtfully on this topic in your meeting review.
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ROTARY - MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
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ROTARY IS HUMANITY IN MOTION
Focus on Membership
Alone, our reach is limited. No matter how great our intentions, on our own, we can only stretch so far. But at Rotary, we believe the right group of people, working together, can make our communities - our world - a better place.
Interact - Ages 12-18
Rotaract - Ages 18 - 30
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PART 4 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY - Gangs in Paradise
We can talk about this in the next few weeks...
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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 meeting make-up.
2. Click SUBMIT to send off all the information requested to our 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. Adopted by Rotary International in 1934, The Four-Way Test remains an essential standard against which Rotarians measure ETHICAL behavior.
PAG Felix Stubbs from Bahamas (Chair of Disaster Relief for District 7020) will lead 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?
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!
The videos posted had a profound impact on what every individual can and must do to improve the world by simple actions in one's own community. Keep up the good work and greetings from the Rotaract Club of the University of the West Indies.
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