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.
We have a new banner, and if you request a make-up, we will send along our virtual banner. We would be grateful if you would send us a virtual copy of your banner to us in exchange! We'll post it on our website.
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.
December is Rotary's Celebration of Family month.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click this link to Apply for a Make-up and 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 (HHH). This week's Happy Hour Hangout is scheduled for Saturday morning, December 22, at 10:00 Atlantic Time or 9:00 a.m. Eastern 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!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!!
Interested in joining us? 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 sponsor of a new member
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
The bylaws of Rotary clearly outline the procedure for a prospective member to be proposed for Rotary club membership. The "proposer" is the key person in the growth and advancement of Rotary. Without a sponsor, an individual will never have the opportunity to become a Rotarian.
The task of the proposer should not end merely by submitting a name to the club secretary or membership committee. Rotary has not established formal responsibilities for proposers or sponsors; however, by custom and tradition these procedures are recommended in many clubs. The sponsor should:
- Invite a prospective member to several meetings prior to proposing the individual for membership.
- Accompany the prospective new member to one or more orientation/informational meetings.
- Introduce the new member to other club members each week for the first month.
- Invite the new member to accompany the sponsor to neighbouring clubs for the first make-up meeting to learn the process and observe the spirit of fellowship.
- Ask the new member and spouse to accompany the sponsor to the club's social activities, dinners, or other special occasions.
- Urge the new member and spouse to attend the district conference with the sponsor.
- Serve as a special friend to assure that the new member becomes an active Rotarian.
When the proposer follows these guidelines, Rotary becomes stronger with each new member.
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FIRST SPEAKER - Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012)
7 Habits of Successful People
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A FESTIVE PRESENTATION
Music - the International Language!
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ROTARY'S POLIOPLUS - A little history
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FIRST SPEAKER - Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012)
7 Habits of Successful People
"All of us believe we see the world the way it is; in fact, we see the world the way we are."
--Stephen R. CoveyBackground - Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and motivational speaker. His most popular book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the time of his death.
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A FESTIVE PRESENTATION
Music - the International Language!
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ROTARY'S POLIOPLUS - A little history
Here is another video that gives much more information on Polio's history.
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THANK YOU from The Rotary Foundation
Click this link to view a Thank You video for The Rotary Foundation.
Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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ROTARY BASICS
Rotary's Guiding Principles
Throughout Rotary's history, several basic principles have been developed to guide Rotarians in achieving the ideal of service and high ethical standards.
Object of Rotary - First formulated in 1910, and adapted through the years as Rotary's mission expanded, the Object of Rotary provides a succinct definition of the organization's purpose as well as the club member's responsibilities.
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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WHAT IS ROTARY?
Over 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas initiate service projects to address today's challenges, including illiteracy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns.
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SECOND SPEAKER - from Kingston, Jamaica - Dr. Ernest Madu on World Class Health Care
Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.
Dr. Ernest Chijioke Madu believes that people in the developing world have a right to world-class health care. At his three Heart Institute of the Caribbean clinics --in Kingston and Mandeville, Jamaica, and in the Cayman Islands -- he delivers more than $1 million a year in free or reduced-care treatment, a significant contribution in an area where 56% of hospital deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease.
Now Dr. Madu is hoping to transfer HIC's mission and achievements into other low-resource nations. His next target is Nigeria, his home country, where the Heart Institute of West Africa is scheduled to open in 2009. Though AIDS and malaria are huge factors for Africa, Dr. Madu emphasizes the importance of treating cardiovascular disease, which is the second leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, after HIV/AIDS, and the leading cause of death for people over 30.
Dr. Madu's work on noninvasive evaluation of coronary artery disease in obese individuals has become a standard evaluating tool.
"Dr. Madu has shown that in an interconnected world, technology, expertise and the human (I’d say Nigerian spirit) spirit can support make the seemingly impossible, possible." --
Chikwe Ihekweazu, at Nigeria Health Watch
Click this link to view the video. Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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MUSICAL INTERLUDE - Jackie Evancho
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A FESTIVE INTERLUDE FOR HOLIDAY TRAVELLERS
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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. 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. Our District Governor-elect, Jeremy Hurst, 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!
From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another -
May the Blessings of the Season be upon you.
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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