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WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at 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.
We are now officially a fully-fledged chartered Rotary Club in District 7020. Our charter date is August 12, 2013. We hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
September is Rotary's Celebration of Youth!
Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click for Attendance Record.
Happy Hour Hangout. Our Hour Hangout on Saturday mornings is 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!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our 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 |
The Rotary Foundation's Beginning
Some magnificent projects grow from very small seeds. The Rotary Foundation had that sort of modest beginning.
In 1917, RI President Arch Klumph told the delegates to the Atlanta Convention that "it seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world." The response was polite and favorable, but the fund was slow to materialize. A year later, the "Rotary Endowment Fund," as it was first labeled, received its first contribution of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, which was the balance of the Kansas City Convention account following the 1918 annual meeting.
Additional small amounts were annually contributed, but after six years, it is reported that the endowment fund had only reached $700. A decade later, The Rotary Foundation was formally established at the 1928 Minneapolis Convention. In the next four years, the Foundation fund grew to $50,000. In 1937, a $2 million goal was announced for The Rotary Foundation, but these plans were cut short and abandoned with the outbreak of World War II.
In 1947, upon the death of Paul Harris, a new era opened for The Rotary Foundation as memorial gifts poured in to honor the founder of Rotary. From that time, The Rotary Foundation has been achieving hits noble objective of furthering "understanding and friendly relations between peoples of different nations." By 1954, the Foundation received for the first time a half million dollars in contributions in a single year, and in 1965 a million dollars was received.
It is staggering to imagine that from those humble beginnings, The Rotary Foundation is now receiving more than $45 million each year for educational and humanitarian work around the world.
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
POLIOPLUS
After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.
Reaching the ultimate goal of a polio-free world presents ongoing challenges, not the least of which is a hundreds of million dollar funding gap. Of course, Rotary alone can't fill this gap, but continued Rotarian advocacy for government support can help enormously.
As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.
"If we all have the fortitude to see this effort through to the end, then we will eradicate polio."
- Bill Gates
View the short video below about PolioPlus and Rotary...
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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DOING GOOD IN THE WORLD
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PROMOTING WORLD PEACE
Millions of people around the world have been displaced by armed conflict or persecution; others struggle in lawless states that resulted from political or natural disaster. The Rotary Peace Centers are at the heart of Rotary’s peace and conflict resolution/prevention efforts, equipping graduates with the tools to make an immediate impact in conflict and post-conflict areas.
A firm foundation for a new Haiti
Louisa Dow is using her expertise gained as a Rotary Peace Fellow to help Haiti rebuild and recover from the devastating earthquake that struck in 2010.
“I feel so privileged to be in Haiti, helping families rebuild their lives by supporting them to find pathways to permanent housing,” Dow says. “Providing access to shelter, education, and health care services has a direct impact on people living in conflict-affected countries.”
Dow is the Habitat for Humanity partnership coordinator for Haiti disaster response, and manages the USAID Emergency Community Assistance and Planning program. Designed by Habitat for Humanity, ECAP provides community-focused, on-the-ground technical support to government agencies that oversee Haiti’s post-earthquake shelter and settlement initiatives.
Dow, who is from Australia, says her 2008-10 studies at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, helped prepare her for the work. Her student fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean opened her eyes to the role of permanent housing in developing a peaceful and just society.
Dow says that no program could have given her a better education in development and peace. “Being in an environment that nurtured all of us to find new and innovative areas to research was an experience like no other.”
The following short video is not what was originally included; but the former link had been removed.
Here is a short video about Haiti and what Habitat for Humanity is doing, and has done, in Haiti.
Rotary also continues its good works in Haiti. Haiti is part of Rotary District 7020.
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AN INSPIRING VIDEO -
Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius
Click this link to view a most inspiring video. (About 20 minutes)
Left - Adam Ockelford
Below - Derek Paravicini
Bio - Derek Paravicini
Born three and a half months prematurely, Derek Paravicini is blind and has severe autism. But with perfect pitch, innate talent and a lot of practice, he became an acclaimed concert pianist by the age of 10. Here, his longtime piano teacher, Adam Ockelford, explains his student’s unique relationship to music, while Paravicini shows how he has ripped up the "Chopsticks" rule book. (Filmed at TEDxWarwick.)
Pianist Derek Paravicini understands music systematically. Once a child prodigy, he’s matured into a creative musician, able to reimagine songs in ways few can.
Derek Paravicini weighed half a kilogram when he was born, prematurely at just 25 weeks. Growing up blind and with severe autism, Paravicini had trouble communicating, but was fascinated by sound.
He began teaching himself how to play the piano and, by 4-years-old, had taught himself an incredible catalogue of songs that he played with unusual technique. Soon, Paravicini began studying with Adam Ockelford, a teacher at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London, who saw in him the marks of a highly inventive musician. Paravicini gave his first concert at age 7 and, two years later, played the Barbican Hall.
Now in his thirties, Paravicini has continued to grow as a performer, with the ability to reimagine complex pieces of music even after only hearing them once. He was featured in the series Extraordinary People in the United Kingdom and, in the United States, on Stan Lee's Superhumans, which verified his musical ability and confirmed his savantism. Paravicini has also worked with composer Matthew King. The two have played improvised pieces on BBC Radio and collaborated on Blue, the first concerto ever composed for someone with learning impairment.
Bio - Adam Ockelford
A composer and music teacher who has long worked with children with special needs, Adam Ockelford is interested in the psychology of music.
In the 1970s, Adam Ockelford began teaching music at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London. He was excited to find that many of his students showed tremendous talent for music. The experience drove a deep interest in how people intuitively understand music, and how this understanding is different for people with disabilities.
Ockelford is now a Professor of Music at the University of Roehampton, the Chair of Soundabout -- a charity which supports music education for children -- and founder of the AMBER Trust, which supports visually impaired children in their pursuit of music. He is also Secretary of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE).
Ockelford has one student who he has taught since the 1980s—pianist Derek Paravicini, who gave his first concert at age 7. Now in his 30s, Paravicini stll regularly thrills audiences with his piano talents, with his mentor Ockelford at his side.
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A SHORT MINUTE-AND-A-HALF
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IF YOU LIKE MAGIC, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS...
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A FINAL WORD ABOUT MEMBERSHIP
- Strong members need to be informed about Rotary BEFORE they join - need to be informed about the expectations and the responsibilities, in addition to the benefits
- Schedule Rotary Information Sessions
- Ask potential members what they expect from Rotary
- Ask what are the interests of your potential members
- Explain our club's activities and how they can become involved
- Explain funding and time commitments
Attendance is important. Members can attend our E-Club at any time convenient for them. But also there are other ways to "make-up" the time and attendance.
- Join another traditional Rotary Club meeting
- Participate in a Board meeting
- Ask for further clarification
MOST IMPORTANT - Let the Secretary know about your attendance and your make-ups so that we achieve our goal of 100 per cent for all members!
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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, or do.
Keturah deWeever, from St. Maarten, - our newest member - 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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Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday, September 4
8:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/730410128
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 730 410 128
- Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
- For Global dial-in numbers: https://zoom.us/teleconference
- Meeting ID: 730 410 128
- Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
