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 Rotary magazine month. April is also World Autism 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!
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 |
Membership in Rotary International
If you asked a Rotarian if he or she belonged to Rotary International, the individual probably would look puzzled and answer, "Of course, I'm a member of Rotary International." But in this instance, the confident Rotarian would be technicall wrong. No Rotarian can be a member of Rotary International!
The explanation of this apparent contradiction is simple. The constitutional documents of RI state that membership in Rotary International is limited to Rotary clubs. Over 33,000 Rotary clubs belong to the organization we call Rotary International.
A Rotary club is composed of persons with the appropriate qualifications of good character and reputation, a business or professional classification and who serve in an executive or managerial capacity. The Rotarian belongs to a club - the club belongs to Rotary International.
This technical distinction is not obvious or even known to most Rotarians and seldom does it create any problems or complications. It does explain, however, why the Rotary International Board of Directors places expectations upon and extends privileges to Rotary clubs, rather than to the individual Rotarians.
If someone asks if you belong to Rotary International, your most accurate answer would be, "No. I belong to a Rotary club." But I doubt if anyone would understand the difference, or, in fact, would really care.
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ETHICS AND THE FOUR-WAY TEST
Last week we highlighted Rotary’s role in promoting character development literacy. This week we turn to Rotary’s opportunity to be of service in promoting ethics literacy.
Good character certainly raises a person’s ethical batting average. But ethical challenges are unrelenting in all walks of life and almost everyone experiences ethical letdowns from time to time.
John Maxwell explains how this happens in his recent book Ethics 101. From time to time basically good persons will give in to unethical behavior because of such situational factors as job pressures, greed, newly acquired positions of power, pride or misplaced priorities.
What individuals need when confronting daily ethical challenges is a simple set of guidelines that can be applied on the spot.
All of the world’s religions have developed such ethical guidelines to help individuals do better. Some version of The Golden Rule is found in all of the world’s major religions.
But The Golden Rule is quite general and most people can use additional guidelines.
Rotary’s Four-Way Test is such a guideline --- one that has proven useful in all countries where Rotary is present.
And awareness of the usefulness of the Four-Way Test poses this question to our club --- Are we doing enough to promote ethics literacy by creating awareness of The Four-Way Test? In our club? In our community? In our vocations?
If you have an idea which might help our club do a better job, share it with the club.
...District 7150
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READ A STORY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY
Rotarians Walt Schafer and Sadikiel Kimaro have learned a few things about sustainability in their five years of working together to bring clean water, sanitation, and economic development to northern Tanzania.
Click this link to read the full story.
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SUSTAINABILITY
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Rube Goldberg Machine - Toy Factory
Click this link to view the fun video. This is just a short 2-minute video, showing how college students take this project very seriously. Creating any Rube Goldberg machine is a challenge.
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WHY CHANGE IS NECESSARY
After two years of working with the Future Vision pilot, we are certainly aware that change and sustainability are important concepts to Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation.
As an organization, we are not attracting young adults in the numbers we would like.Is our organization too rigid and inflexible to attract these young professionals, who wish to make a difference in the world?
If we are to reach them, we need to demonstrate that Rotary can make a visible difference in the lives of others.
Click this link to read the full story.
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A SHORT VIDEO - WHAT ROTARY DOES THE WORLD OVER
Rotary Club of Hosur, India. A very short clip of their dental camp.
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INTERACT
Click this link to view a short Interact video.
Josh's choice - Volunteer? Travel? or Lead?
Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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AN ALL-BOYS CHOIR FROM WALES - keeping them off the streets
This is truly the "power of one" to make such an excellent achievement happen for youngsters.
Only Boys Aloud - You'll be inspired by the idea and the performance!
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL AND MELINDA GATES
Click this link to view the video. There's a 30-second commercial at the start - then the interview.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting. The video is about 13 minutes.
Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes catches up with the world's most generous philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates, and travels to some of the world's trouble spots their billions are helping.
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MAIN SPEAKER - BEN SAUNDERS
Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside!
Not
because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the
meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.”
Saunders’ next outdoor excursion? To try to be the first in the world
to walk from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.
Why you should listen to him:
He urges audiences to consider carefully how to spend the “tiny amount of time we each have on this planet.” Saunders is also a powerful advocate for the natural world. He's seen first-hand the effects of climate change, and his expeditions are raising awareness for sustainable solutions.
Being the youngest person to ski solo to the North Pole did not satiate Saunders' urge to explore and push the boundaries. In 2008, he attempted to break the speed record for a solo walk to the North Pole; however, his journey was ended abruptly both in 2008 and again in 2010 due to equipment failure. This trek is planned to resume once again in the spring of 2011, a 478-mile expedition from Ward Hunt Island, Canada to the North Pole. Also in his adventure cue is SOUTH, an unprecedented trek across Antarctica and back. At 1,800 miles, it will be the longest unsupported polar journey of all time (think 69 back-to-back marathons).
"Humbly framed as the ambitious undertakings of an ardent athlete, [Ben's treks offer] visceral first-hand accounts of just how much things are changing in the Arctic -- the 'barometer of global climate change.'"
--Worldchanging.com
Click this link to view the video. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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FRIENDS CAN BE DIFFERENT
To be a friend does not mean that you have to look the same
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AUTISM
A repeat of a video from a few weeks ago - You thought you knew Autism
UNBELIEVABLE AND INSPIRING
You thought you knew autism. April is World Autism month.
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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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Please join us!
Please join our meeting on Saturday, April 20, at 9:00 a.m. Click the link below just before the meeting time.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/688560161
Dial +1 (267) 507-0015
Access Code: 688-560-161
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 688-560-161
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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.
Past Rotary International Director, Barry Rassin, from Nassau 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 (HHH).
9:00 a.m. Eastern/Atlantic time on Saturday morning, April 20.
Click the link below just before the meeting time.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/688560161
Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
Dial +1 (267) 507-0015
Access Code: 688-560-161
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 688-560-161
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