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 as Rotary's Foundation Month is ending. We shortly begin December, The Family of Rotary month. What can we do to include our families?
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please click the link to Club Member Attendance to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
Happy Hour Hangout. Each Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. Atlantic Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern/Miami Time) 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 click the link Membership Application and Information.
As a clarification, we encourage our E-club members not only to participate online with the E-club and the E-club activities, but also to participate with Rotary clubs at service projects in their local communities at the level they feel comfortable. It is the best of all possible worlds!
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)
As an international organization, Rotary offers each member unique opportunities and responsibilities. Although each Rotarian has first responsibility to uphold the obligations of citizenship of his or her own country, membership in rotary enables Rotarians to take a somewhat different view of international affairs.
In the early 1950s, a Rotary philosophy was adopted to describe how a Rotarian may think on a global basis. Here is what it said:
A world-minded Rotarian:
- looks beyond national patriotism and considers himself as sharing responsibility for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace
- resists any tendency to act in terms of national or racial superiority
- seeks and develops common grounds for agreement with peoples of other lands
- defends the rule of law and order to preserve the liberty of the individual so that he may enjoy freedom of thought, speech and assembly, and freedom from persecution, aggression, want and fear
- supports action directed toward improving standards of living for all peoples, realizing that poverty anywhere endangers prosperity everywhere
- upholds the principles of justice for mankind
- strives always to promote peace between nations and prepares to make personal sacrifices for that ideal
- urges and practices a spirit of understanding of every other man's beliefs as a step toward international goodwill, recognizing that there are certain basic moral and spiritual standards which will ensure a richer, fuller life
That is quite an assignment for any Rotarian to practice in thoughts and actions!
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION - The Heart of Rotary
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FIVE REASONS TO GIVE TO THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
Click this link to read all about it. Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE - One exciting program through The Rotary Foundation
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DAVID SUZUKI - first a brief introduction
David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he earned a B.A. at Amherst College (Mass.) in 1958, followed by a PhD in genetics at the University of Chicago in 1961. He was a professor of genetics at the University of British Columbia from 1969 until 1993, when he became an Associate in the University of British Columbia's Sustainable Development Research Institute, while continuing to pursue his international environmental and media work.
He has written 32 books, including 15 children's books. He resides in Vancouver, Canada
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View his message below about our environment
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SPEAKER - ENGINEERING IN HAITI
Peter Haas has a message:
"Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering."
As the country rebuilds after the deadly quake in January of 2010, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn modern building and engineering practices, to assemble a strong country brick by brick.
Click this link to view the video. Remember to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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Paul Harris said -
-- The Rotarian, February 1915What Rotary will be one hundred years hence, none living can imagine. There is nothing impossible to Rotary now.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday, December 5
Don't forget to join our join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Atlantic time to discuss these videos and the meeting.
Click the link below just before 6:00 p.m. Atlantic Time on Wednesday, December 5, to join the Happy Hour Hangout. We welcome you!
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PART 1 OF 2 - BACK2LIFE (Kingston, Jamaica)
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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. Please include 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. Assistant Governor, Jim Ferris, from St. Maarten 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.
Let's all try to become Ichiban. (Reference from RI President in our first meeting!)
Rotary cheers!
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