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.
December is Family of Rotary Month.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation.
Or please simply let us know who you are. Please click this link to leave your name and club name for our records.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please click 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 (Atlantic 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 joining us? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow 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)
Standard Rotary Club Constitution
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
One of the conditions to receive a charter to become a Rotary club is to accept the Standard Club Constitution, originally adopted in 1922. The Standard Club Constitution outlines administrative techniques for clubs to follow in holding weekly meetings, procedures for membership and classifications, conditions of attendance and payment of dues and other policies relating to public issues and political positions.
This constitutional document provides the framework for all Rotary clubs in the world. When the Standard Club Constitution was accepted, it was agreed that all existing clubs could continue to follow their current constitution. Although most of those early clubs have subsequently endorsed the Standard Constitution, a few pre-q1922 clubs still conduct their club affairs according to their former constitutional provisions.
The Standard Club Constitution has to be considered one of the great strengths of Rotary to enable the organization to operate in so many thousands of communities.
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ROTARY BASICS -
Membership recruitment and retention
Keeping members interested in Rotary is another responsibility. Good club fellowship and early involvement in service projects are two of the best ways to sustain the club's membership.
The ideal composition of a Rotary club reflects the community's demographics, including professional, gender, age, and ethnicity. Such diversity enriches every aspect of the club's fellowship and service.
How does this affect our E-club? Each member needs to be active with a particular activity and committee - so that each one of us feels a genuine and important part of the club. We all will support that goal!
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POLIO UPDATE
A polio-free year from Rotary International on Vimeo.
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PAUL HARRIS SAID
The spirit of tolerance which has made it possible for Rotary to form a worldwide fellowship of business and professional men will make all things possible.
-- My Road to Rotary
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT
Please join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Caribbean/Atlantic Time (5:00 p.m. Miami time) to discuss these videos and the meeting.
It's when we have FUN and FELLOWSHIP! Please email us for information.
Click this link below just before 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday to join the chat!
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SHELTERBOX - a history in words and video
Rotary has been instrumental in our growth and Rotarians are the cement that binds us together. Since we were founded, we grew from one club’s adopted project to the largest global Rotary club project in the 100-year history of the organisation.
In 2012, we became Rotary International's first project partner. This agreement enables both of us to collaborate more closely to bring relief and temporary shelter to survivors of disasters worldwide. The project partnership will build on both our strengths in responding to disasters all over the world.
(1) Click this link to view the first of several videos describing Shelterbox activities in the past decade. Remember to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
(2) The second video is shown below:
(3) Click this link for the third in the series of Shelterbox videos. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
(4) Click this link for a video from Time.com that shows Shelterbox in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The video begins after a 15-second advertisement.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
(5) The last video is shown below:
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DID YOU KNOW?
President Arch Klumph proposes establishing an endowment fund, precursor of The Rotary Foundation.
1942-43 - Rotary conference in London on education and cultural exchange sets stage for UNESCO.
1945-46 - Forty-nine Rotarians help draft the UN Charter.
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AUTISM - Don't give up!
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COMPUTER LIGHT SHOW FOR CHRISTMAS
Click this link to view the light show. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
Carol of the Bells - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.
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VIDEO PART 2 OF 2 - BACK2LIFE (Kingston, Jamaica)
Peace through Service!!
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A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM ROTARY
Request received from Felix Stubbs, District 7020
Your vote could help Rotary give airline miles for humanitarian projects -- and be first this year for United’s 10 Million Charity Miles Giveaway!
Until 25 December, vote daily for Rotary on each of your devices such as laptop, smartphone, tablet, etc. Charities receive a portion of the miles based on the percentage of the overall vote they receive.
So forward the link http://10millioncharitymiles.com/charity/39 to everyone you know.
Last year, we took second in the contest, receiving 2.5 million charity miles. We’re in fourth now and need your votes!
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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 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. Rotarian Roger White from St. Thomas leads us. Roger is the Haiti Liaison for District 7020 as well as Future Vision Co-ordinator for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Please join along with Roger to close our meeting.
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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