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.
- November is Rotary's focus on The Rotary Foundation (TRF).
- World Interact Week is celebrated from November 5 to 12.
- World Diabetes Day is November 14.
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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. 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 becoming a member? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow the link Membership Application and Information.
If you wish to have further information first, please click this link to email the club president who will be able to respond quickly and answer all your questions. (Or email ladykitt@gmail.com)************
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
The preceding was the message from RI President Sakuji Tanaka for November.
AND NOW THE MEETING -
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END POLIO NOW
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UPDATE ON HAITI
Included below are several links to articles gleaned from the Internet about the devastation in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Click your browser's BACK button after each to return to this meeting.
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THE ABCs OF ROTARY (by Cliff Dochterman)
100 per cent Attendance
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Regular attendance is essential to a strong and active Rotary club. The emphasis on attendance is traced back to 1922 when Rotary International announced a worldwide attendance contest which motivated thousands of Rotarians to achieve a 100 per cent attendance year after year. Many Rotarians take great pride in maintaining their 100 per cent record in their own club or by making-up at other Rotary club meetings.
Although the bylaws of Rotary require members to attend only 50 per cent of all meetings, the custom has emerged that 100 per cent is the desirable level. Rotary stresses regular attendance because each member represents his own business or professional and thus the absence of any member deprives the club of the values of its diversified membership and the personal fellowship of each member.
From time to time, proposals have been made to give attendance credit to Rotarians who are on jury duty, serving in the community, attending a trade convention, on vacation in remote areas, on shipboard or unable to attend because of ill health or other special reasons. None of these exceptions has been adopted. The policy is very clear - a Rotarian is not given attendance credit if he does not attend a meeting.
There are a few circumstances where attendance credit is awarded when a Rotarian participates in an alternate type of Rotary event. If a Rotarian is requested to attend an Interact or Rotaract meeting, attendance credit may be allowed. When a member attends a rotary district conference, district assembly, international convention, Council on Legislation, a meeting of an international committee, an inter-city meeting, and a few other specially designated events, attendance may be credited. A Rotarian actively participating in a district-sponsored service project in a remote area when it is impossible to make-up may also receive attendance credit.
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POLIO
Click this link to read about the latest successes (and an update) on polio worldwide. Click your browser's BACK button to return to this meeting.
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MAIN PRESENTATION - SPEAKER - Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx Machine
A little background
Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx, NYC, teacher/administrator who believes that students shouldn't have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one. Moving generations of students into spheres of personal and academic successes they have never imagined, while reclaiming and rebuilding the Bronx, Stephen's extended student and community family have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance.
His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 students healthy meals and trains the youngest nationally certified workforce in America. His students, travelling from Boston to Rockefeller Centre, to the Hamptons, earn a living wage enroute to graduation.
Here is a short introduction -
And the main presentation below -
Finally below - an 8-minute video on Urban Farming in New York City.
If you see the instruction "Watch on YouTube," click the underlined words. Then click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting website.
Please comment thoughtfully about this speaker in your review of our meeting.
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WORLD DIABETES DAY - November 14
This year, 2012, marks the 91st anniversary of the discovery of insulin.
-- Everyone must have access to essential information
-- The way we live is putting our life at risk
-- People with diabetes face stigma and discrimination
The warning signs* of Diabetes include:
- Frequent urination
- Excessive thirst
- Increased hunger
- Weight loss
- Fatigue/tiredness
- Lack of interest and concentration
- Vomiting and stomach pain (often mistaken for flu)
- A tingling sensation or numbness in the hands or feet
- Blurred vision
- Frequent infections
- Slow-healing wounds
*These can be mild or absent in people with Type 2 diabetes.
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INTERACT
The first Interact club was chartered 5 November 1962 at Melbourne High School, Florida, USA, a few months after the program was approved by the Rotary International Board of Directors. The club and its 39 charter members were sponsored by the Rotary Club of Melbourne.
Interact’s name is a combination of “international” and “action.” Interact clubs are sponsored by Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting. Interact is open to young men and women, ages 12-18.
Click this link to read and learn more about Interact. Click your browser's BACK button to return to this meeting.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT
Join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Miami time to discuss these videos and the meeting.
Click the link below just before 6:00 p.m. Miami Time on Wednesday, November 7 to join the chat.
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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
Our E-club is promoting random Acts of Kindness (AOK) as something that will give us the opportunity to do Rotary's Good Works in our everyday lives. No act of kindness is ever wasted, and each one can have a ripple effect.
Here's a lovely little song that we can share to inspire us all:
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ROTARY BASICS
RI Board. The 19-member RI Board of Directors, which includes the RI president and president-elect, meet quarterly to establish policies. Traditionally, the RI president, who is elected annually, develops a theme and emphases for the year.
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DID YOU KNOW?
1946-47 - Founder Paul Harris died in Chicago; outpouring of funds from Rotarians was used to establish the fellowship program.
1948-49 - The first 18 Rotary Fellows studied abroad, a precursor of the Ambassadorial Scholars program.
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INSPIRING MOMENTS
Emmanuel Kelly's performance is not the story - or it's only a part of the story. You'll see the story as you view the video. (...and get out the tissues...)
Click this link for further reading, if you so wish.
CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION
Click here for the link to Children First Foundation. Click your browser's BACK button after reading to return to this meeting.
A little background:
Children First Foundation (CFF) was established in July 1999 to support Moira Kelly, AO's humanitarian work.
In 1999, local Rotarian Noel Baker and his wife Janis donated 45 hectares of land to build a home for Moira and the Foundation's children. Rotary District 9790 was instrumental in building a 100 square home. This was opened by John Landy, AC MBE Governor of Victoria in November 2001. The Foundation records its grateful thanks to the financial and in-kind generosity of Rotarians, suppliers, individuals, and volunteers who built this special place.
At the end of 2005, the Foundation purchased an Emergency Accommodation House in North Melbourne. The House is a short walk to the Royal Children's Hospital and provides overnight accommodation for children and carers during treatment. The Foundation also conducts its administration from this location.
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PART 7 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY - Gangs in Paradise
Next week will be the final in this 8-part series.
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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. Adopted by Rotary International in 1934, The Four-Way Test remains an essential standard against which Rotarians measure ETHICAL behavior.
Assistant Governor from Jamaica, Govind Chulani, leads us:
The 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!
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