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.
Our club banner is shown at the left. Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting 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.
April is World Autism Awareness month.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please click this to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before your day gets away from you.
We meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there.
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!Click the link below just before the meeting time.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/620781144
Interested in joining us? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please click 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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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
"Honorary" is one of the types of membership a person may have in a Rotary club. This type of membership is the highest distinction a Rotary club can confer and is exercised only in exceptional cases to recognize an individual for unusual service and contributions to Rotary and society. An honorary member is elected for one year only, and continuing membership must be renewed annually.
Honorary members cannot propose new members to the club, do not hold office, and are exempt from attendance requirements and from club dues.
Many distinguished heads of state, explorers, authors, musicians, astronauts and other public personalities have been honorary members of Rotary clubs, including King Gustaf of Sweden, King George VI of England, King Badouin of Belgium, King Hassan III of Morocco, Sir Winston Churchill, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, Charles Lindbergh, composer Jean Sibelius, explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Bob Hope, Dr. Albert Sabin, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and many of the presidents of the United States. Truly, those selected for honorary membership are those who have done much to further the ideals of Rotary.
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RUBE GOLDBERG - OUTSTANDING CONTRAPTION - Photobooth
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WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?
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SUSTAINABILITY
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THINKING BIG - Future Vision
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FIVE STEPS TO MAKE YOUR PROJECT SUSTAINABLE
INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY FROM THE START
will ensure that a project's impact
lasts long after visiting Rotarians have departed.
The continent of Africa is dotted with abandoned wells with bore holes - drilled with good intentions but clear evident of a failure to take sustainability into account.
Ensuring that a project will continue to benefit the community long after a club's involvement has ended is a key concept of The Rotary Foundation's new global grants. Fortunately, building sustainability into your project design isn't hard.
Take the water project of the rotary Club of Maputo, Mozambique, funded by a Rotary Foundation by a Rotary Foundation global grant. To ensure the project's success, club members began by asking the country's Ministry of Education for a list of schools with water and sanitation problems.
The choice became obvious after club members visited Hulene A, a primary school located just outside Maputo, with a crumbling sanitation system built decades earlier for a student population one-fourth its current size.
"The smell was horrible; there was no water," recalls Rotarian Jose Rui Amaral. "The bathrooms were in complete disrepair."
After asking school officials what they needed, the club sought price estimates, with an eye toward solutions that would require the least maintenance. The sanitation system and water tank they settled on came with a one-year guarantee. Rotarians were careful to make sure that an agreement was signed with the contractor for a regular maintenance schedule, and school officials were put in charge of overseeing it.
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WHAT ROTARY IS DOING THE WORLD OVER
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
Character Development and the Object of Rotary
Society depends on families, schools and churches to get the job done.
Of the many ways in which Rotarians can assist in this effort, none is more valuable than spreading the message of the Object of Rotary.
The Object is both a mission statement for Rotarians and a description of good character that is consistent with all of the world’s religions.
The Object of Rotary contains two special components that are frequently overlooked by other statements of ideal character. The two are: (1) the emphasis on dignifying one’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society and (2) the emphasis on promoting international understanding, good will and peace as another hallmark of good character. How different our world would be if everyone’s self image contained those two ideals.
Rotary’s two mottos are directly related to the vision of the Object of Rotary.
The primary motto –SERVICE ABOVE SELF – tells us WHAT to do in all kinds of situations.
The secondary motto – THEY PROFIT MOST WHO SERVE THE BEST – tells us WHY one should adopt the Object of Rotary as the foundation of one’s character.
...Rotary D-7150
************HOW SOME CLUBS RAISE MONEY
Rotary Ski-a-thon in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, in February. A beautiful day - and about $5000 was raised for the club. Excellent!
FRIENDS CAN BE DIFFERENT
To be a friend does not mean that you have to look the same
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AUTISM
About Autism: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), autism now affects about 1 in every 88 American children, including 1 in 54 boys. Autism is a complex condition that affects a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by behavioral challenges.
What are some common signs of autism?
The hallmark feature of ASD is impaired social interaction. As early as infancy, a baby with ASD may be unresponsive to people or focus intently on one item to the exclusion of others for long periods of time. A child with ASD may appear to develop normally and then withdraw and become indifferent to social engagement.
Children with an ASD may fail to respond to their names and often avoid eye contact with other people. They have difficulty interpreting what others are thinking or feeling because they can’t understand social cues, such as tone of voice or facial expressions, and don’t watch other people’s faces for clues about appropriate behavior. They lack empathy.
Many children with an ASD engage in repetitive movements such as rocking and twirling, or in self-abusive behavior such as biting or head-banging. They also tend to start speaking later than other children and may refer to themselves by name instead of “I” or “me.” Children with an ASD don’t know how to play interactively with other children. Some speak in a sing-song voice about a narrow range of favorite topics, with little regard for the interests of the person to whom they are speaking.
Children with characteristics of an ASD may have co-occurring conditions, including Fragile X syndrome (which causes mental retardation), tuberous sclerosis, epileptic seizures, Tourette syndrome, learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorder. About 20 to 30 percent of children with an ASD develop epilepsy by the time they reach adulthood. .
<http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm >
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A Rags-to-Riches story
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YOU ARE THE MISSING PIECE
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ROTARY PEACE SCHOLAR
The following documentary has been made and produced by Justin De Leon. He is a Rotary Peace Scholar and will be addressing our Rotarians at the District Assembly during the Foundation session in the BVI in May.
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TO END OUR MEETING
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do.
An interesting group of Rotarians 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?
..and official close of meeting
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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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT
Please join our Happy Hour Hangout at 9:00 a.m. Eastern/Atlantic Time on Saturday, April 13.
Click the link below just before the meeting time.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/620781144
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Dial +1 (213) 289-0016
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