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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.
June is Rotary Fellowships month!
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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 |
Intercountry Committees
In 1931, Rotarians in France and Germany organized the "petit comite," a small group with the goal of fostering better relations between the people of these two neighboring nations. Since that time, Rotarians throughout Europe have led the way in creating Intercountry Committees to encourage contacts between Rotarians and Rotary clubs across national boundaries.
Intercountry Committees have now been established in many parts of the world to promote friendship as well as to co-operate in sponsoring World Community Service projects, student exchanges and other activities to improve understanding among nations. Frequently, the Intercountry Committees sponsor visits of Rotarians and their families across national borders and arrange intercity meetings and conferences.
In some instances, Intercountry Committees are created between countries separated by great distances in an effort to encourage goodwill and friendship with matched or partner areas of the world. The Intercountry Committees co-ordinate their efforts with the district governors of their countries and always serve in an advisory capacity to districts and clubs.
Intercountry Committees provide an additional means for Rotary clubs and Rotarians to fulfill the responsibilities of the Fourth Avenue of Service - International understanding, goodwill and peace in the world.
What are the now Five Avenues of Service?
- Club Service
- Community Service
- Vocational Service
- International Service
- Youth Service (formerly New Generations)
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FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT ROTARY MEMBERSHIP
Five Questions about Rotary Membership
1. There are five standing committees within the Club Leadership Plan. Which committee is responsible for recruitment and retention:
a. Club Administrationb. Membershipc. Public Relationshipd. Service Projectse. Foundation
2. Clubs may not elect a person to active membership from a classification in which the club already has:
a. Five or more members of the said classificationb. One memberc. Three or more members in the classificationd. 5% of the clubs active membership is already of the proposed classificatione. None of the above
3. As a method of encouraging younger members into Rotary, clubs may waive club dues and admission fees for members under the age of 35.
True___ False___4. What are the types of Membership that are recognized by Rotary International
a. Activeb. Senior Activec. Additional Actived. Honorarye. Past ServiceAnswer: (Choose all that apply)
5. The retention portion of the Membership plan is divided into four areas. Name all four areas:
a. Mentoringb. Educationc. Involvementd. Fellowship and Recognitione. None of the abovef. All of the aboveg. Both “a” and “b”
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A LITTLE HUMOUR
Three Rotary Club members, all a little hard of hearing, were standing by the bowling green in the park.
One remarked to the other - "Windy isn't it?"
"No" the second man replied, "its Thursday".
The third man nodded in agreement: "So am I. Let's have a cup of tea"
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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SPEAKER - Jay Silver
Looking at the world with wonder and through a different perspective.
Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup?
In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects.
Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum's MaKey MaKey kit lets you turn everyday objects into computer interfaces -- inspiring both fun and practical new inventions.
Jay Silver is the founder/director of JoyLabz and a Maker Research Scientist at Intel Labs. With Eric Rosenbaum, he's the co-inventor of MaKey MaKey. He also runs digital prototyping workshops for many companies such as IDEO and youth centers such as Computer Clubhouses.
Silver studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, where he was named Engineer of the Year. He was awarded a Gates Scholarship to earn a master’s in Internet Technology from Cambridge
University. He also holds a master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab where he was an NSF Fellow. At MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten, he won a Lemelson Student Prize.
"This childlike sense of play, curiosity and discovery -- one that many people lose as they move through adulthood -- has informed Silver's life and work ever since. "
--CNN.com
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A little smile -
A group of Rotarians meet to discuss where they should hold their 10th Reunion dinner & decide that they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen restaurant because all of the waitresses are very attractive.
10 years later, for their 20th Reunion, the group meets again to decide where they should celebrate & they again agree to meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen because the food there is very good & the wine selection is even better.
A decade later, for their 30th, they once again choose the Gasthof zum Lowen because they can eat there in peace and quiet & the restaurant is also smoke free.
10 years later, at the 40th, once again they discuss where they should gather, & surprise! They all agree on the Gausthof zum Lowen because the restaurant is wheel-chair accessible & they also have an elevator.
10 years later, the remaining members meet to celebrate 50 years in Rotary. They again discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally it is agreed that they should dine at the Gausthof zum Lowe because they've never been there before.
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SPEAKER - Ron Gutman
The hidden power of smiling
Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live -- and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being?
Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.
Ron Gutman is the founder and CEO of HealthTap -- free mobile and online apps for immediate access to relevant, reliable and trusted health answers and tips from a network of over 38,000 U.S.-licensed doctors. He's responsible for the company's innovation, vision and product.
Before this, he founded and led an online consumer health company that developed the world's largest community of independent health writers; it was acquired in early 2009.
As a graduate student at Stanford, Gutman organized and led a multidisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students from the schools of Engineering, Medicine, Business, Psychology and Law to conduct research in personalized health and to design ways to help people live healthier, happier lives. He is an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies such as Rock Health (the first Interactive Health Incubator) and Harvard Medical School's SMArt Initiative ("Substitutable Medical Apps, reusable technologies").
He's the organizer of TEDxSiliconValley.
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AN INTERACTOR/ROTARACTOR'S STORY
By Cristina Dimaano, a member of the Rotaract Club of Los Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines
I had a vision for helping separate out biodegradable trash from non-biodegradable items and cleaning up around our school. As students, our classwork is a top priority, but we moved around whenever possible and responded when the community asked for help.
When I became a Rotaractor, I had gained a deeper appreciation for why communities need an organization like ours. We are all about helping.
The Rotaract Club of Los Baños is composed mostly of college students, but also some young professionals who were recent graduates but still hungry to serve. Keeping our club going has not been easy. College students have their studies and social commitments, and the recent graduates are busy establishing themselves in their fields. Sometimes, it can be very difficult to raise sufficient funds and keep everyone motivated.
But this past Rotary year, we recruited a new class of members who brought renewed energy and enthusiasm to our club. They were graduates of the Interact Club of Los Baños National High School or incoming college freshmen, and they were committed to the responsibilities of being a Rotaractor. Even though they could see our club had been pushing through some rough waters, they fully embraced the possibility of volunteering and were excited to serve.
So, I am happy to say, there still exist young people who are willing to dedicate themselves to service and bring hope to their communities, overcoming whatever challenges or barriers face them. I am confident we will continue to help shape productive young leaders who will go on to make the world a better place. If you are a young person, join us! Find a Rotaract or Interact club near you and learn more. You won’t regret it.
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CANCER LOVES SUGAR (12-minute video)
For anyone interested in maintaining good health, this is an important video to watch!
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THE SEED IS PLANTED - PolioPlus takes root
PolioPlus would not have been possible without the benefit of a sea change in Rotary's program policies.
For more than a half century, Rotary International had vigorously discouraged any form of corporate action intended to orchestrate local, national, regional, or global service activities for Rotary clubs. This policy derived from Resolution 23-34, adopted by the 1923 RI Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. It stated that each Rotary club had absolute autonomy in the selection of its activities and that Rotary International "should never prescribe nor proscribe any objective activity for any club."
Ironically, Resolution 23-34 was adopted in order to thwart a proposal to commit Rotary International to a formal program for the care and rehabilitation of crippled children. Since 1919, such a movement had gained substantial support in the United States. Rotary clubs had taken the lead in providing rehabilitation services and main-streaming disabled children. But many Rotary leaders reacted negatively to crippled-children advocates' aggressive use of RI's program and administrative network.
Although lauding the objective of the societies for crippled children, they feared that the tail was beginning to wag the dog. They also feared that Rotary might become one-dimensional in community service. when confronted with a proposal seeking to raise per capita dues specifically to fund a program for disabled children, Rotary International's leaders countered with Resolution 23-34. Its passage resolved problems about relationships between Rotary International and crippled-children societies, as well as other organizations. Acting independently, Rotarians continued their support of the disabled. Soon, the movement picked up additional supporters and became the National Society for Crippled Children (known today as Easter Seals).
Resolution 23-34's influence - some say stranglehold - on Rotary's policy proscribing activities initiated by Rotary International continued long after 1923. It began to erode 40 years later in 1963-64 when RI President Carl P. Miller, a Wall Street Journal newspaper executive, developed a program to pair arbitrarily all Rotary districts and clubs. The Matched District and Club Program was both praised and criticized, but all agreed that its purpose - to dramatically increase contact between Rotary clubs in different countries - succeeded. Meaningful Rotary contacts across national boundaries were greatly accelerated.
Clubs in affluent countries began to help clubs in developing countries with projects such as drilling village wells. A club that set out to collect counts for a new propeller for a flying doctor service in Africa delivered an entire new aircraft. The number of individual Rotarians and groups visiting overseas exploded. Joint service projects increased exponentially. Soon, Rotary International became a clearinghouse for co-operative service projects. Thus Rotary's World Community Service program was born. A sleeping giant had been wakened. Today, hundreds of clubs continue to establish partnerships in community projects that aimprove lives and meet human needs.
The growing success and popularity of World Community Service created a positive climate for RI President-elect Clem Renouf to introduce his plans for the Health, Hunger, and Humanity (3-H) program. The opportunity came in February 1978 in a meeting of the RI board of Directors. RI President Jack Davis had invited Dr. Robert Hingson, a Rotarian, to make a presentation to the Board about the benefits of immunizing children against communicable diseases. Dramatically wielding his injectable-vaccine gun, he painted a vision of how Rotary's vast network of business and professional members could help prevent the deaths of millions of children.
The next day, in response to a request that he share his plans for his year as president, Renouf expanded on this vision of Rotary's service potential by outlining a program to address human needs too large for any individual club or district to undertake and, in the process, engage Rotarians who would volunteer their vocational and professional skills in communities abroad.
"As an organization," Renouf said, "we need to be recognized worldwide as one which is concerned about people and their needs, and we need to express that concern in concrete, visible, and significant programs at home and abroad. This is critical, not only to our continued growth but to our very survival in many countries of the world."
That Rotarians stood ready and willing to do this had already been demonstrated in a program known as FAIM (Fourth Avenue in Motion), in which Australian Rotarians volunteered to carry out community service projects in New Guinea and other places. Further evidence had been provided in 1963 by RI's Small Business Clinic, a pilot program in which Rotarians crossed national borders to share their business know-how with small-business owners in Columbia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Pakistan , and the Philippines.
RI leaders, however, abruptly stopped the program, ostensibly because the creation of the International Executive Service Corps, a non-profit organization that worked in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), nullified the need for Rotary's leadership in thi area. In fact, Resolution 23-34 was still casting its shadow.
The 3-H program required central funding. Renouf proposed an appeal for voluntary contributions to a special fund, in honour of Rotary's 75th Anniversary in 1980. Plans for this appeal met strenuous objections from the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation of RI. They feared derailment of Rotarians' growing financial support of Foundation programs.
The controversy was resolved by negotiation leading to an agreement about the respective roles of the Board of Directors and the Trustees. They agreed to place the funding and administration of the 3-H program in The Rotary Foundation. In time, fears about a diminution of support for The Rotary Foundation proved to be unfounded. The 3-H program, in fact, spurred interest in international service in general and with it a growing awareness and appreciation of Foundation objectives. Financial support for all Foundation programs began a steady climb.
Based on Renouf's description of 3-H objectives at the 1978 International Assembly and RI Convention in Tokyo, money began to flow to the 75th Anniversary Fund, eventually reaching $7.2 million. Rotarians lined up to volunteer for service abroad. And they were soon asking: Just how will the 3-H funds be used?
The task of refining a statement of 3-H program purpose, establishing its policies and operating procedures, and communicating these to Rotary leaders at global and district levels fell to a 48-memer committee representing 18 nations. Three co-chairs - Dr. Ben Saltzman (health), Webster Pendergrass (hunger), an Cliff Dochterman (humanity) - met in July 1978 to draft the blueprint. From this meeting emerged a stated objective for health: "to prevent or reduce disability and to improve the mental and physical well-being of people."
At its next meeting, in February 1979, responding to a proposal by Past District Goernor Benny Santos, the 3-H Committee agreed to pursue the feasibility of a $760,000 project to buy and help distribute polio vaccine to 6.3 million children in the Philippines, a country that had one of the highest rates of polio cases in the WHO Western Pacific region. In March, Renoug, Santos, and others met with the Philippine minister of health, who approved Rotary's offer.
Of the meeting, Renouf was to later write: "It was an historic moment, with representatives of the Ministry of Health, Rotary, WHO, and UNICEF present, for we were not only committing ourselves to the expenditure of substantial Rotary funds on a project the like of which we had never previously undertaken - in our alliance with agencies of the United National we were putting Rotary's reputation on the line for all to see."
Renouf received further encouragement for the Philippines experiment from District Governor John Sever, who was then chief of the Infectious Diseases branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and had worked with OPV-developer Sabin. "If a single vaccine were to be selected for the 3-H program, I would recommend poliomyelitis," Dr. Sever wrote in May 1979 in response to renouf's inquiry.
The RI Board gave the green light to the Philippines 3-H project later that month. PolioPlus had taken root.
Conquering Polio
Herbert A. Pigman
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A VISIT TO HAITI - with Dr. Claude Surena
...from rotary.org
Hours after a massive earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, Claude Surena, a physician - and now a member of the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 - turned his home into a makeshift triage center, sheltering more than 100 injured people.
“It was difficult to witness so many people suffering and not have the capacity to give them the help they needed,” says Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association. “I wanted to give as many people as I could some level of comfort.”
Three days after the quake, Haitian President René Préval appointed Surena the country’s coordinator of earthquake response, in charge of overseeing the recovery and redevelopment of the public and private health sectors.
A Rotarian since 1983, Surena is also head of District 7020’s Haiti Task Force, which works with local clubs on long-term recovery projects.
“Haitian Rotarians lost family and friends,” he says. “To see them still able to serve their neighbors and communities under those circumstances made me feel proud to be a Rotarian.”
We are so very pleased and proud to welcome Dr. Claude Surena to our club!
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ROTARY ANTHEM - a bit more inspiration
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FIVE ANSWERS ABOUT MEMBERSHIP
1 b
2 a
3 True
4 a, d
5 f
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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.
A lovely trio of Bahamian 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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Rotary cheers!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday morning, June 22 at 9:00 a.m.
Please join our Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday, June 22 at 9:00 a.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday evening, June 26 at 7:00 p.m.
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