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.
Please let us know who you are. Please click this link to leave your name and
club name for our records.
November is Rotary's celebration of The Rotary Foundation.
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 p.m. Caribbean Time (5:00 p.m. Miami time) we meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link below to join our HHH. Drinks are on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Click the link just before 6:00 p.m. Caribbean Time on Wednesday, November 21.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/832306072
Interested in becoming a member? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow 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)
The Rotarian and Regional Magazines
The month of April is annually designated as Rotary Magazine Month, an occasion to recognize and promote the reading and use of the official RI magazine, THE ROTARIAN, and the regional magazines.
At left - Cliff Dochterman (RI President, 1993-94)
THE ROTARIAN has been around since 1911 as the medium to communicate with Rotarians and to advance the program and Object of Rotary. A primary goal of the magazine is to support the annual theme and philosophy of the RI president and to disseminate information about new and special programs, major meeting, and the emphasis of the several official "months" of Rotary.
THE ROTARIAN provides a forum in which both Rotary-related and general-interest topics may be explored. The magazine serves as an excellent source of information and ideas for programs at Rotary club meetings and district conferences. Many articles promote international fellowship, goodwill, and understanding. Regular readers usually have superior knowledge of the activities of Rotary and how each Rotarian may be more fully involved in the Five Avenues of Service around the world.
In addition to THE ROTARIAN, there are 28 regional magazines printed in 22 languages. Although each regional publication has its own unique style and content, they all provide Rotarians with up-to-date information and good reading in April - and all through the year.
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A NEW SYMBOL FOR PEACE
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DID YOU KNOW?
1905 - Chicago attorney Paul Harris organized the first Rotary meeting on 23 February, leading to formation of the Rotary Club of Chicago.
1906 - Rotary Club of Chicago provided a public toilet outside City Hall, Rotary's first community service project.
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ROTARY IS SOWING HOPE - THROUGH THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
See how The Rotary Foundation is helping farmers in Mongolia.
Click this link to view the video. Then click the arrow to start the video.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to this meeting.
Keep Mongolia Green, a partnership between Rotarians in Korea and Mongolia, is fighting dust storms from the Gobi by planting trees and creating community farms.
Please support The Rotary Foundation.
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PEACE - a message from Rotary International President - Sakuji Tanaka
The Rotary President Sends a Message of Peace from Rotary International on Vimeo.
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ROTARY BASICS
Responsibilities of Club Membership
ATTENDANCE
Attending weekly club meetings allows members to enjoy their club's fellowship, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community. Many larger communities offer clubs with different meeting times, including early morning, the lunch hour, after work, and evening.
If members miss their own club's meeting, they're encouraged to expand their Rotary horizons by attending make-up meetings at any Rotary club in the world - a practice that guarantees Rotarians a warm welcome in communities around the globe. Find meeting places and times in the Official Directory or through the Club Locator at www.rotary.org.
In some cases, Rotarians can make up meetings by participating in a club service project or attending a club board meeting or a Rotaract or Interact club meeting. Members can also make up online at one of several Rotary E-clubs (such as this one.)
SERVICE
All Rotary clubs share a key mission: to serve their community and those in need throughout the world. By participating in club service projects, members learn about their club's involvement in local and international projects and can volunteer their time and talents where they are most needed.
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SPEAKER - Amy Purdy – Living beyond our limits
Amy Purdy became a professional snowboarder despite losing both her legs to meningitis. She encourages us to take control of our lives, and our limits.
After bacterial meningitis took her legs, Amy Purdy struggled with depression, and only beat it when she learned to accept her new reality, but not any limitations. After being unable to find prosthetics that would allow her to snowboard, she built her own. Today, she is a world champion female adaptive snowboarder. In 2005, she co-founded Adaptive Action Sports, a non-profit dedicated to introducing people with physical challenges to action sports.
Click this link to view the 10-minute inspiring video! Click your browser's BACK button to return to this meeting.
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POLIO UPDATE
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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Try your hand at this online crossword. Click this link.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting when you finish. Enjoy!
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Paul Harris said
There is enough atomic energy in every Rotary club to blow it into a thousand bits were it not for the spirit of tolerance.
-- My Road to Rotary
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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. Complete the form with all the information requested.
3. Click SUBMIT.
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. Past Assistant Governor, Haresh Ramchandani, 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?
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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