Regular Rotary E-club meeting - Week of October 5

Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!

A special welcome this week to our District 7020 Rotaractors!  This meeting is prepared with special emphasis on our Rotary family, ages 18 through 30.  However, we trust that all visitors will find the time spent here worthwhile and beneficial!

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.  However, this particular meeting is in celebration of the Rotaract PETS conference this week.

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.

A few note about how to proceed -

Visiting Rotarians.  If you are a visiting Rotarian, please follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation.

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.  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.

And now to the meeting - 

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)

Every Rotarian an Example to Youth

Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93

In much of the official literature of Rotary International relating to service to young people, a special slogan will be found - "Every Rotarian an Example to Youth."  These words were adopted in 1949 by the Rotary International Board of Directors as an expression of commitment to children and youth in each community in which Rotary clubs exist.  Serving young people has long been an important part of the Rotary program.

Youth service projects take many forms around the world.  Rotarians sponsor Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, athletic teams, handicapped children's centers, school safety patrols, summer camps, recreation areas, safe driving clinics, county fairs, child care centers and children's hospitals.  Many clubs provide vocational counselling, establish youth employment programs and promote use of the Four-Way Test.  Increasingly, drug and alcohol abuse prevention projects are being supported by Rotarians.

In every instance, Rotarians have an opportunity to be role models for the young men and women of their community.  One learns to serve by observing others.  As our youth grow to become adult leaders, it is hoped each will achieve that same desire and spirit to serve future generations of children and youth.

The slogan accepted over 50 years ago is just as vital today.  It is a very thoughtful challenge - "Every Rotarian an Example to Youth."

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SPEAKER ONE - Natalie Warne - Leadership One

At 18, Natalie Warne’s work with the Invisible Children movement made her a hero for young activists. She uses her inspiring story to remind us that no one is too young to change the world. (Filmed at TEDxTeen.)

Natalie Warne did not let being too young stop her from running a successful campaign for the Invisible Children project.   In this talk, she calls on young people everywhere not to let age stop them from changing the world.

When she was 17, Natalie Warne learned about the Invisible Children Project -- a campaign to rescue Ugandan children from Joseph Kony’s child armies. As an intern for Invisible Children, she led a nation-wide campaign for the project.  She successfully got the campaign featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, a victory that dramatically raised the profile of the movement.  Natalie now works as a film editor in Los Angeles.

Click this link to view the inspiring video.

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PAUL HARRIS said

May you be builders, not mere climbers.

--The Rotarian, February 1916 

Let us keep our hearts strong, enthusiasm fresh, hope high.  As long as we keep imbued with this spirit, Rotary can never die.

--The Rotarian, August 1926  

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POLIO

One of the original posters designed to publicize the plight of polio -

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DOING GOOD - 




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SPEAKER TWO - Everyday Leadership - Drew Dudley - Leadership Two

Drew Dudley’s interest in developing people’s leadership began when he was the Leadership Development coordinator at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. In 2010 he founded Nuance Leadership Development Services, a company that creates leadership curricula for communities, organizations and individuals -- a subject on which he also speaks widely.


We have all changed someone’s life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives. (Filmed at TEDxToronto.)

Drew Dudley believes leadership is not a characteristic reserved for the extraordinary. He works to help people discover the leader within themselves.

Click this link to view this entertaining video.

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WHY JOIN OUR E-CLUB?




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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT




Click the link below to join the meeting on Wednesday, October 10 at 6:00 p.m. Miami Time.

   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/651793489

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INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY

Click this link to try your hand at the very short interactive crossword about the content of this week's meeting.





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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.  This week, Haresh Ramchandani, who is Assistant District Trainer, District Foundation  Grants Chair, and a past Assistant Governor, will lead us:

Rotary's Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do:

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!