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Governor’s September Message

By Greg Owen, District Governor, Long Beach

Valerie and I wish to fi rst extend a sincere ‘thank you’ to all the clubs we have visited so far for welcoming us with such overwhelming hospitality. Words cannot describe the joy and pride that we are experiencing as we witness all that the clubs are doing in the world. The magnitude with which you give is so inspiring and to serve as your Governor and First Lady has become the privilege of a lifetime.

Every club has taken our motto of “Reaching Within to Embrace Humanity” to its fullest extent. The New Generations Avenue of Service – the RI focus for Septem-ber – is central to this theme and depicted in our logo. The six arms of an unfolding heart represent Rotary’s six areas of humanitarian focus. The sphere at the top of this unfolded heart is the eye of a child, looking to the Rotary world for protection, guidance, and hope.

Rotarians understand that investing in youth means a brighter future for all, and the decision by Rotary to add New Generations as our Fifth Avenue of Service was a wise development. Our district is constantly expanding our involvement with the YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts of America, and other great organiza-tions that shape young people’s lives. Valerie and I are moved by your support of children with disabilities, efforts in literacy, projects for health and sanitation, and sponsoring of children to take part in leadership development programs. You move mountains and still have the desire to ask, “But what more can we do?”

The leaders on our District’s New Generations team have asked the same quest- Governor’s Message continued on Page 9

Kalyan BanerjeePresident

Rotary International

Rotary Club of Vapi, India

SEPTEMBER 2011 NEW GENERATIONS MONTH9 Noon - Business Rotarian of the Year Luncheon, Double Tree, Orange 13 4:00 - Vocational & Ethics Training 5:00 Interact Advisors/Offi cers 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner All at the Double Tree, Orange

More News Inside More News Inside Page 2 Paul Harris’ favorite poet

Page 3 Book Drive sets record!

Page 4 West Africa Project Fair

Page 5, 6, 7 Fullerton Rotaract, Laguna Beach, Los Alamitos/Seal Beach, Orange, Mission Viejo, Long Beach Rotaract

Page 8 Doing Business with Rotarians

Page 9 Club Attendance/Membership

1 Tustin/SA, It took a Village

Page 12 Attract younger members

Page 14 Win the Triple Crown!

Page 15 2013-14 RI President, Polio Facts

25 Rotarians to be honored at District 53202011 Business Leadership Awards Luncheon

Rotarians from 25 clubs will be honored at the 2011 Business Leadership Awards Luncheon being held on Friday, September 9th at 11:30 am at the DoubleTree Hotel, Orange. Reservations are $40 each and can be made at rotary5320.org. Select “Event Registration” from the drop-down menu “For Members”. Login to the District database and click on “GoToRegisterMe” tab. Select “Register Now” for the September 9th event.

Being Honored are:Harris Done, Anaheim Roy Jefferson, Anaheim Hills Bill Paige, Avalon Shailesh Shah, Buena ParkPenny Langin, Cerritos Artesia Jim Bastian, Coto De Caza Del SolTheresa Harvey, Fullerton Argus Tong, Fullerton SunriseDavid Osborn, Fountain Valley Arshid rokerya, Garden GroveChristina Curnyn, Huntington Beach Toni Thomas, IrvineJohn Gotz, Lakewood Brian Russell, Long BeachPerry Apostle, Los Alamitos Nan Eide, Monarch Beach SunriseRick Weiss, Newport-Balboa Gordon Bagne, Newport Beach SunriseBob Bartel, Newport Irvine Don Blake, OrangeDavid Silva, Orange North Kevin Padilla, PlacentiaDon Clinebell, San Clemente Sunrise Jane Crane, Surf City - Huntington BeachLeo Middleton, Tustin

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DOWN THE DECADES #64

By George Cooper, Mission Viejo

A look at Rotary from the memory of long time member, PP George Cooper, PHF. Over more than fi fty years, George has been a member of four clubs: Syracuse, NY, Rotary/One Chicago, IL. Mount Prospect, IL and currently, Mission Viejo, CA. Each month, George will focus in on Rotary’s past from his perspective. We welcome George as a monthly columnist.

FAVORITE POET

Robert Burns was Rotary founder, Paul Harris’ favorite poet. Forget for a moment the annual RI Presidential themes, Harris believed that Burns’ work – ‘A Man’s a Man For A’ That’ -gave to us all a simple yet defi nitive Rotary philosophy based around our common humanity.

In his 1935 book ‘This Rotarian Age’, he once said (in his unmistakeable prose style) of Burns’ poem, “ In the compass of these words have been found all the philosophy, all the hope, the substance of every prayer of the fi rst seer, but how vain were the aspirations and hopes of this widely separated twain. Primordial forces were to be reckoned with, as is also the case even now though generations have lived and died since the lips of the sage of Ayr were sealed in death.”

Harris would also go on to say, “When I think of Burns I see the thing we are striv-ing for in Rotary - The Brotherhood of Man”. He further explained Burns’ part in the genesis of Rotary:”Centuries later was born in Scotland another who lived in advance of his time, one who stoutly refused to do obeisance to unreasoning precedent; one whose soul overfl owed with the poetry of life. Of all the words of the Scottish bard, none will be more highly appraised nor longer remembered than...”(Harris continues by quoting the fi nal verse of ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’).

Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a’ that,) That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth, Shall bear the gree, an’ a’ that, For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’s coming yet for a’ that, That man to man, the world o’er, Shall brithers be for a’ that.”

Harris visited Ayr in Scotland, Burns’ birthplace, in 1928 and returned a few years later to see the newly formed Rotary Club of Ayr and often hypothesised over what a wonderful Rotarian Burns would have made. On this Scottish leg of his tour Paul also visited the Rotary Club of Glasgow, where he was clearly moved by a rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and remarked to the Club President that it would be a lovely gesture for the Club to sing “Should Auld Aquaintance be forgot...” to all visiting Rotarians. The President replied with a frosty disdain “We dinna sing songs like that for everyone”!

Source: Calum Thomson, Rotary Club of Longniddry and District (District 1020)

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Fullerton Sunrise tours Port of Los Angeles

By Carolyn Johnson, Fullerton Sunrise

The Fullerton Sunrise Rotary Club set sail Thursday, Aug. 18 and got a bird’s-eye view of the Los Angeles Port, one of the largest in the world.

The tour was arranged by President Tim Mullaney who is employed by Tri Modal Distribution, owned by District Governor Greg Owens.

This is the same company that has the truck that promotes Rotary’s Polio Plus campaign. The truck travels the country, carrying the Rotary logo and the cam-paign message. It also was on-site at the Angels baseball game Aug. 20.

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FOR YOUR CALENDAR....FOR YOUR CALENDAR....

OCTOBER 2011 VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH11 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner Double Tree, Orange

NOVEMBER 2011 FOUNDATION MONTH1 3:00 District Finance Com. D Offi ce15 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner, Double Tree, Orange22 3:00 District Advisory Board, D Offi ce19 6:00 Foundation Dinner Old Ranch C.C. Seal Beach

DECEMBER 2011 ROTARY FAMILY MONTH 13 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner Double Tree, Orange

JANUARY 2012 ROTARY AWARENESS MONTH10 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner Double Tree, Orange

FEBRUARY 2012 WORLD UNDERSTANDING MONTH13 5:30 Presidents Reception & Dinner Double Tree, Orange

MARCH 2012 LITERACY MONTH TBD District Assembly APRIL 2012 MAGAZINE MONTH10 5:30 Presidents Dinner, Double Tree, Orange27-29 RYLA @ Idyllwild Pines

MAY 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION MONTH5-9 RI Convention, Bangkok ThialandJUNE CONFERENCE MONTH1-3 District Conference, location to be announced12 6:00 Governor's Transition

calendar updates at Rotary5320.org

Presidents meetings, except where noted are held at: The DoubleTree Hotel, 100 The City Drive, Orange, CA 92868 Phone 714 634-4500

If your club has an event you would like listed, email the information to [email protected].

Book Drive Sets New Record

by Teri Snyder, District Vocational Services Chair

I fi nally received word on the total number of children’s books collected at the OC Fair on July 27th.

A record 62,466 new and gently used books were collected. The prior record was 42,637 books set in 2008. The last time Rotar-ians volunteered at the OC Fair book drive was in 2009 when 17,166 books (new only) were collected.

Because the fair returned to accepting both new and gently used children’s books, we staffed the volunteer gates at the 2008 level. As everyone who worked last Wednesday knows, we were still very understaffed. No one expected to take in 20,000 more books. To those of you who volunteered – what a great effort was dis-played by Rotary! People worked every minute of their shift because there were no breaks in the action – the books just kept coming and coming and coming……

The children’s books are now at the Orange County Department of Education awaiting distribution to Title 1 (low-income) elementary schools throughout Orange County. The Early Literacy Program (ELP) will handle distribution of the preschool books.

I thank all the volunteers for an extremely successful project. We helped process thousands of books that the neediest children in our county will soon receive. To-gether we have made a difference for many children.

Many of us joined Rotary for the hands on projects with the feel good impact. I know I returned home exhausted but I also felt great knowing that I had spent the day working side by side with a great group of people on a very worthwhile project. You should all feel very proud of a job extremely well done.

Gate book tally totals FYI:• Orange Gate – 2,905 books• Yellow Gate – 11,563• Green Gate – 17,395• Blue Gate – 30,603• Grand Total – 62,466

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New Meeting Time/Location

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COSTA MESAWednesdays 5:15 p.m.

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Rotary - West Africa Project Fair & Community Engagement Trip - Dakar, SenegalWe are sending this correspondence to you because you have either traveled with us before on immunization or West Africa Project Fair trips, or you have indicated interest in participating in one of these programs in the future. Although this pro-gram is not a polio immunization trip, it will provide a similar experience of getting into the villages and communities of Senegal, looking for opportunities to help the children of Africa, and to create new friendships.

Have you ever heard Rotarians speak about their personal experience participat-ing in a polio eradication exercise, or a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or a work on a matching grant? These trips have a profound effect upon the individual. For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.

The experiences you have on one of these trips stay with you forever. You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impover-ished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change. Small children come up to you to say thank you. Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life. You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes. It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfort-able; it is exquisite.

Immediate past Rotary International President Ray Klinginsmith has told us he will travel with us to Dakar, Senegal to attend the Project Fair, select a project or two for his club to support and engage the Rotarians in Senegal. We are inviting you, and your club members to join Ray and the rest of us to Dakar, to witness, fi rst hand, the possibilities of what Rotary and your club can do to help Africa.

The purpose of this e-mail is to offer to you and the Rotarians in your club, such an opportunity. From October 26 – November 2, 2011, Rotarians will travel to Dakar, Senegal, West Africa to attend the 7th Annual West Africa Project Fair, participate in community health and school program, and to engage with the local Rotarians in a community service program. The West Africa Project Fair is an offi cial program of Rotary’s Reach Out to Africa Program.

Attached to this correspondence is a detailed folder describing the trip to Senegal, summarized as follows:

Trip Dates: October 25 – November 2, 2011

Travel to: Dakar, Senegal (West Africa)

Program includes: Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, hands-on fi eld work, visits to local communities to experience and explore and to provide service to Rotarian humanitarian programs, West Africa Project Fair registration, special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.

Participants will spend time with Senegalese Rotarians to explore their communi-ties and see the service and experience fellowship that only Rotary can provide. Further, participants will attend a two-day West Africa Project Fair, where Rotarians from 15 West African nations will present possible humanitarian grant projects. It is an extraordinary event that will expose your members to new cultures, projects, friends and opportunities.

Let me know if you have any questions. Because of limited space, we expect this program will sell out in the next few weeks. I hope that you will join fellow Rotar-ians to provide service, fellowship and a wonderful highlight of your experience as a Rotarian. We hope to hear from you soon.

Bradford R. Howard, PDG, Rotary District 5170West Africa Project Fair Committee, 2007-11Phone: (510) 834-2260FAX: (510) 834-1019E-mail: [email protected]

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Fullerton Community Rotaract Club - energy is a mystery, service is apparent!By Crystal Nguonly Fullerton Community Rotaract

Our energy is a mystery, our service is apparent. Made up of both local and international young pro-fessionals, the Fullerton Community Rotaract Club is all about service above self and reaching out to the community. On July 29, 2011, members from the Fullerton Com-munity Rotaract Club, teamed up with the local Fullerton Interfaith Emergency Services (FIES) or-ganization to restore and remodel a children’s play-house. FIES, a community organization that was established in 1975, provides transitional housing and other support services for the homeless and hungry in the community. The original condition of the playhouse was unsafe for the children and needed some sprucing up, so Rotaractor’s from the Fullerton club decided to take on the three day challenge and created a brand new playhouse. With the assistance of FIES handy man Gary, the Rotaract team took out the tile fl oors and put down carpet, completely repainted the exterior of the house, and even added curtains to decorate the window and a kitchen set inside to give it a true “home sweet home” feel. Despite most of the Rotaractor’s being inexperienced using the tools to remodel the house, Gary became a mentor and guided them through each step of the lengthy process. The result: sweaty brows, hands and clothing splattered with green and yellow paint, a few scrapes and bruises, a group of satisfi ed young individuals and a beautifully restored playhouse for the children of the FIES organization.

Interested in learning more about what Fullerton Rotaract does? Contact Fullerton Community Rotaract at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!Laguna Beach Rotary is Presenting its 8th Annual Car Show, Sunday: October 16thBy Chris Kreymann, Laguna Beach

As one of the premier car shows in Orange County, the members of their Rotary Club under the leadership of Harry Bithell, Jerry Immel, and the 2011 Car Show Committee are assembling an outstanding selection of vintage cars, unique au-tomobiles and early models of motorcycles both domestic and foreign. The show highlights over 23 divisions of competition, and gives awards to winners and partici-pation plaques to all participants.

This is an opportunity to experience not only some of the rarest vintage cars in Southern California, but to be a part of charitable fundraiser that raises and distrib-utes tens of thousands of dollar to local, national and international projects including Polio Plus.

The event is held at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts grounds at 650 Laguna Can-yon Road and the adjacent lot on the eastside of that street just north of City Hall and close to the main shopping and restaurant area near Main Beach.

The show includes an opportunity drawing for a stay at the Montage Resort in-cluded in the price of admission. There will also be raffl e drawings for restaurant, boutique, and shop coupons, and silent auctions for paintings and other art work. This event is a party starting with burritos and other food and drinks at 9:30AM, then burgers, wine, beer and other beverages are served until 3:30PM when the winners are announced.

There is a Best in Show award and also a People’s Choice as determined by public vote. The admission is just $10.00, children under 12 are admitted for $2.

A Life Well Lived...

Dr. Charles A. Woodfi nFebruary 23, 1923 – August 1, 2011

Dr. Charles (“Chuck”) Woodfi n was born to John and Nora Woodfi n and was one of eleven children.

He joined the army in 1943 reach-ing the rank of staff sergeant. Charles was awarded the Philippine Liberation Ribbon, the Bronze Star, Good con-duct Medal and a WWII Victory Medal. He went on to achieve degrees from CSULB, UCLA and a doctorate of Edu-cation from USC.

Charles, Assistant Superintendent of Business and Finance was dedicated to public Education and was instrumental in the development of elementary schools in Fountain Valley. After retiring from Centralia School District, he continued working as a Consultant for LA County of Education for 17 years.

A member of several service organiza-tions, Charles who was a lifetime mem-ber of CASBO and ASBO, recently cel-ebrated 44 years of perfect attendance with Los Alamitos/Seal Beach Rotary. He was the liaison between Rossmoor Homeowners Association and Ross-moor Community Services District, hav-ing served on the board and committee for many years.

In 1978 Charles met the love of his life, Kathy; his wife of 32 years. They were members of the Old Ranch Tennis Club, avid bridge players and traveled to six continents. Charles found his greatest happiness in family and is survived by his wife Kathy, his children Perri (Karynne), Rick (Lori), his grandchildren, Ashley, Lindsey, Kolbe, Jeffery, Ben and great-grandson Mason James, brothers Lee and Duke (Nancy) and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of fl owers, donations may be sent to Los Alamitos/Seal Beach Rotary Scholarship fund, PO Box 83, Los Alam-itos CA 90720.

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MISSION VIEJO ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE 2010-2011By James W. Hansen, 2011-12 Vice President

On July 5, 2011, Caroline Moeller, the Rotary ex-change student sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mission Viejo, attended the MV Rotary meeting as guest speaker. Caroline presented highlights of her year in Spain as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. During her presentation she shared experiences, understandings, and the building of relationships she developed over the past year.

Caroline visited many cities in Spain, improved her fl uency in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish, and built life-long friendships. It was exciting to hear of her experiences and to relive experiences during her presentation.

For details of her experiences, feel free to Google “Caroline’s Adventures in Spain” - her blog. Here is one example...January: School started again. I now understand 99% of daily conversation, and have very few problems communicating. I am hesi-tant to use the word ‘fl uent’ until I completely understand a few elusive grammati-cal concepts, but I’m almost there! Almost bilingual! I’ve made some good friends, and heard a lot of interesting questions about America along the way. Some of my favorites are: “Does the most popular girl in your high school drive the most expen-sive car?” (No one really cares what car you drive). “Does everyone have a gun?” (No.) And, “Do you really have high school graduation ceremonies with robes and everything?” (Yes!).

MV Rotary Editor’s Note:The Rotary Club of Mission Viejo thanks Caroline, her parents, and Rotary District 5320 for the support provided in making this exchange a reality. Rotary 2010-2011 really did “Build Communities and Bridge Continents.”

ROTARIANS HELP TO RID POLIO WORLDWIDE

By John Burt and Joanne Coontz, Orange

Over one thousand Rotarians, rela-tives and guests attended the Angels Rotary Night to End Polio Now base-ball game on Saturday night, August 20th between the Angels and the Bal-timore Orioles, the most successful event in the three -year efforts.

This is the third year that Rotary Dis-trict 5320 participated in the Angel game and it was the most successful. Over $24,000 was raised in Rotary’s effort to answer two challenge grants of $355 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help end the scourge of polio. The Gates grants bring the goal closer to achieve worldwide. Rotary will spend the grants in direct support of immunization activities.

The festivities included a tailgate party with many clubs participating in the competi-tion for the best chili in a friendly cook- off among Rotarians before the game.

When Orange Rotarians John Burt and Bruce Johnson, Chairmen of Angels Rotary Night, realized that many youngsters had never experienced a local game, forty kids, supervisors, and big brothers from Orangewood Children’s Home and Big Brothers & Sisters of Orange County were invited and each received a Club Level Ticket, a Rally Towel, a Batting Practice Raffl e Opportunity for eight, and funds for food and beverages. Local Rotarians, among humanitarians around the world, have found these games, with gracious support from the Angels, to be their way to raise signifi cant dollars for the cause. Those who attended were also pleased to attend a winning game.

CONGRESSMAN ED ROYCE’S CONGRESSIONAL UPDATEBy John Burt, Orange

Orange Rotary recently shared their luncheon meeting with Orange North Rotary to accommodate the crowd who came to hear U.S. Congressman Ed Royce’s Congressional Update. Orange North Rotary President Doug Tipping in-troduced the congressman and his fa-ther, Ed Royce, Sr. of the Garden Grove Rotary Club.

Among many topics the Congressman discussed was the U.S. economic cri-sis and the grave concern he has with President Obama’s policies, including his hold on U.S. oil drilling and hold on energy strategies, along with lack of job creation.

He commented that policy makers are at opposite ends. He added that the country is over leveraged and legislators must stop the policy of rolling over costs to the next generation. Royce spent half of his time answering in-depth questions from the audience. The Congressman is always generous in sharing with Rotar-ians in spite of his busy schedule.

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Rotaract Long Beach digs the sand

We had the 79th Annual Great Sand Sculpture Contest this past Satur-day. It was really successful. I was wondering if you could include the following blurb in the upcoming is-sue of the District 5320 Newsletter. I’m also attaching some pictures.

Rotaract Long Beach, the newest Rotaract club in our district, orga-nized and promoted the 79th Annu-al Great Sand Sculpture Contest in Long Beach. With over ten thousand people coming to watch twenty-four teams compete, the event was a massive success! The highlights included a centerpiece sculpture showcasing the centennial anniversary of the Port of Long Beach, as well as a multitude of sculptures created by amateur teams from the community. Gover-nor Greg Owen’s End Polio Now-themed truck also made an appearance to raise awareness about Rotary and polio.

“We were chartered only eight months ago, and this was our fi rst major project,” says President Ege Ersoz. “Each member of the project team worked extremely hard to contribute their professional skills - such as marketing, sales, website de-sign, accounting and logistics - and the result was an event that exceeded every-one’s expectations, including our own.”

The event was covered by local and international press. Attendees included famous names such as City of Long Beach Council-member Gary DeLong and prominent community activist Justin Rudd, as well as Long Beach Rotary President Blake Christian. Corporate sponsors were the Port of Long Beach, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP, and Experience San Pedro. Ro-tary and Rotaractor sponsor companies and clubs included the Signal Hill Rotary Club, Julie Kreisler of The Kreisler Group, and Nate Trimmer of Omnibeat from our district, as well as the Cukurova and Guney Rotary Clubs from Turkey. Many Rotar-ians contributed their time and made in-kind donations as well.

Rotaract Long Beach is planning to use the funds they raised to power their next project, which will be related to youth health in Long Beach.”

Ambassadorial Scholar returns to CSF

By Carolyn Johnson, Fullerton Sunrise

The 2010-11 Ambassadorial Scholar, Yoko Furukawa, re-cently returned from a visit to her home in Tokyo where she pre-sented the club banner from her host, Fullerton Sunrise Rotary Club, to her sponsor, the Tokyo Rotary Club Roppongi in Minato-ku, Japan.

Yoko continues her studies this fall at California State University, Fullerton, where she is working toward a master’s degree in clinical psychology.

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Governor’s Message continued from page 1.

ion and have hit the ground running. Our District is fortunate to have Brian Rus-sell leading the New Generation team with passion, creativity, and a vision for ethical leadership development in youth. Anthony Soriano, Rotaract District Gov-ernor, and A.J. Jackson, Interact District Governor, are not only expanding the number of clubs in both Rotaract and Interact but have plans for District-wide projects that will make a signifi cant dif-ference in our communities worldwide.

In Interact news, A.J. has selected Wa-ter for Sudan as her signature project and it is now being set into motion. An-other project completed over the sum-mer was the “Goodie Box for Marines” event where the Dana Hills Interact Club assembled care packages outside the local Wal-mart.

RI has now lowered the age for Interact to include ages 12 and 13, which means that we can now extend Interact to those in middle school. Please seize this op-portunity and encourage the creation of Interact Clubs in middle schools. Kids in this age group can also understand the 4-Way Test and value of community ser-vice.

This year our district is hosting the In-teract Symposium coming up October 21-23 at the Outdoor Education Center

in Irvine. This is an opportunity for clubs to sponsor Interact leaders and advisors for a weekend long program of leader-ship training, club development, mem-bership, fundraising, and management skills. The program includes many out-standing speakers that will positively im-pact the lives of all attendees. Registra-tion is underway and I encourage all of our Rotary Club Presidents to fi nancial-ly support a team of 3 (Club President, Faculty Adviser and one other student club leader) for $495 to attend. Learn more and sign up online at Rotary5320.org. Our Interact Symposium Chair is Brian Russell and his team’s goal is to have 100% of our District 5320 Interact Clubs attend. Let’s help him achieve this goal!

For more about Interact, take a look at our District 5320 Interact Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/RotaryInteract5320

RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) is another life changing program for youth that started right here in District 5320. Held in the Spring each year up in Idyllwild, this camp is focused on High School Juniors. If you have never been to RYLA and have not seen a RYLA DVD, just ask our District RYLA Chair Ron Gillet. He will get you a copy and you can see what all the excitement is about. It’s a phenomenal program! The fi rst organizational meeting is being held this month.

Our Rotaract program is also off to an excellent start with our District Gover-nor Anthony Soriano. We already have growth this year with two new clubs! You can explore and “Like” the District 5320 Rotaract Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rota-ract-District-5320/173359763316

These Rotaractors are an inspiration to us all, focused on balancing their de-manding work schedules, establishing themselves professionally and making a mark in the world. Notable projects in-clude the Great Sand Sculpture Contest which was led by our Long Beach Com-munity Rotaract Club, and the remodel-ing of the FIES playhouse by Fullerton Community Rotaract that will benefi t the children of homeless families.

We also enhance our New Generation programs through the Speech Contest, Vocal Contest, Workability Program, and Scouting for Food program. Brian Rus-sell predicts our youth programs will be a busy and vibrant area of District 5320 this year.

His goal is to make our New Genera-tions program the best in the Zone and the nation! With his motto of “Fun with a Purpose”, I have no doubt we can do it. Brian has assembled a New Genera-tions Advisory Board consisting of exec-utive directors in various youth oriented organizations to develop best practices in youth leadership development. The Board welcomes any like-minded Rotar-ians with a desire to serve in youth to join.

Last, but certainly not least, I’d like thank all of those who participated in the Angels End Polio Now event. Con-gratulations on earning a record net of $24,304 for the $200 million Gates Chal-lenge to eradicate Polio. This brings our three-year total to nearly $65,000. Over 100,000 children are polio-free because of your extraordinary effort and accom-plishment!

I am so proud to be a Rotarian in this District and am inspired daily by all that we are doing and all that we are capable of. This month especially, let’s continue to Reach Within to Embrace Humanity by starting at the beginning: our youth.

Greg OwenDistrict Governor

July - Dec. 11 Attendance Members Attendance % Attendance % Attendance % Attendance % Attendance % Attendance % CurrentClub Name July July August September October November December Members

Anaheim 50 65% 50Anaheim Hills 20 85% 19Avalon 39 80% 39Brea 28 78% 21Buena Park 21 55% 21Cerritos-Artesia 22 NO REPORT 22Costa Mesa 9 NO REPORT 9Coto De Caza/RSM Del Sol 29 NO REPORT 29Cypress 22 NO REPORT 21Fountain Valley 16 65% 15Fullerton 147 55% 151Fullerton South 48 53% 47Fullerton Sunrise 22 72% 21Garden Grove 20 56% 20Huntington Beach 35 NO REPORT 35Irvine 49 80% 46La Habra 46 60% 46La Mirada 15 NO REPORT 15Laguna Beach 63 80% 64Laguna Niguel 54 57% 57Lakewood 35 71% 35Long Beach 300 NO REPORT 308Los Alamitos/Seal Beach 33 NO REPORT 37Mission Viejo 36 86% 36Monarch Beach Sunrise 52 60% 53Newport Balboa 56 51% 56Newport Beach Sunrise 56 53% 56Newport-Irvine 56 57% 56Norwalk 14 NO REPORT 13Orange 117 65% 106Orange North 25 89% 25Orange Sunrise 13 85% 15Placentia 31 68% 33San Clemente 50 NO REPORT 50San Clemente Sunrise 33 60% 32San Juan Capistrano 49 NO REPORT 49Santa Ana North 29 77% 30Santa Fe Springs 22 NO REPORT 22Signal Hill 9 NO REPORT 6Surf City - Huntington Beach 28 84% 28Tustin - Santa Ana 48 67% 49Villa Park 42 74% 42Whittier 32 54% 32Whittier Sunrise 20 85% 20Yorba Linda Sunrise 50 73% 50Total Number of Members 1,991 1987Number of Clubs 46 45ATTENDANCE REPORT FORM CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.ROTARY5320.0RG

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New GenerationsBrian Russell

New Generations Chair562 495-6070 or

[email protected]

District 5320 Interact/RotaractLane Calvert - -

District Interact Chairman714-546-4990 #181/[email protected]

Senior Advisor PDG Jim deBoomAssist. Interact Chair. John Coffman949-697-0433 or [email protected]

District Interact GovernorAlexandra Jackson

949-290-1482 [email protected]

Website: www.interact5320.org

Rotaract Chair - Carolyn Johnson 714-996-7954

[email protected]

District Rotaract Governor Anthony Soriano

714 356-1676 [email protected]

Sept. 12 5:00 Interact Advisors/Offi cersmeeting at the Double Tree, OrangeSept. 17 8 am Coastal Cleanup-Up-per Newport BaySept. 13 5:00 Quarterly Interact Advi-sors and Offi cers Meeting DoubletreeOct. 21-23 Interact Symposium-Out-door Education CenterOctober 27 6:00 Flashlight Tour of Fairhaven Mortuary October 29 Scouting for FoodNovember 8 5:00 Quarterly Interact Advisors and offi cers meeting DoubletreeNovember 19 Sat. Leadership Work-shop 8 am - 4 pmIf you have not done so already, please submit the contact information for your Club’s President, School Advisor, and Rotary Advisor to Jim deBoom at [email protected].

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Register for 2011 Rotary-UN Day

Rotary International News

The annual Rotary-UN Day will be held on Saturday, 5 November, at United Na-tions headquarters in New York City.

Organized by the RI representatives to the UN, this year’s event will feature pre-sentations from senior UN staff and Ro-tary leaders as well as panel discussions on health, water, literacy, and youth.

High school-age students, including In-teractors and Rotary Youth Exchange participants, can attend a special youth program in the morning and join the adult program in the afternoon.

Download the registration form for RI-UN Day and the youth program at www.rotary.org.

For more information contact Brad Jen-kins at Rotary International.

Tustin-Santa Ana Presents 17 Paul Harris Awards and 2 Major DonorsPast Presidents of Santa Ana Ro-tary Alice (2004/05 and 2005/06) and Larry LeDoux (2000/01 and 2003/04) achieved a milestone in their Rotary Foundation giving, becoming Major Donors with total contributions of $10,000.

Their awards were presented on July 14, 2011, at a ceremony at the Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Club’s regular luncheon meeting. A total of 17 other Paul Harris Awards of various levels were also presented at the event.

District Governor Greg Owen and District Foundation Chair Roger McGonegal pre-sented the awards to the LeDouxs, stating that this is indeed an honor achieved by only about 1% of all Rotarians. Only actual contributions count toward this award; however, husband’s and wives’ contributions are combined to make up the total and both parties receive Major Donor pins along with a beautiful crystal Major Donor Award.

Other awardees at the July 14th event were: • 1st Paul Harris Award ($1000)-o Diane Aust (wife of Past-president Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Gerald Aust), and o Ed Cottone (husband of Past-president Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Priscilla Cottone).

• PHF+2 ($3000)o Richard Bray,o Past-President Santa Ana Rotary Richard Gerlach, o President Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Garry Heath,o Past President Tustin Rotary John Jansen, o Ken La Tourette, o Troy Linaker,o Ann Quintiliani, ando Spencer Yohe.

• PHF+3 ($4000)o President Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Garry Heath, o Past-president Tustin Rotary Pat Koval, o and Past-president Tustin Rotary Jill Leach.

• PHF+4 ($5000)o Past-president Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Gerald Aust, and o Past-president Tustin Rotary Tony Mumolo.

• PHF+5 ($6000)o Past-president Hawthorne Rotary Leo Middleton.

• PHF+8 ($9000)o Past-president Santa Ana Rotary Alice LeDoux.

Read “It took a Village” in the August issue of the Rotarian Magazine

Writer Donna Polydoros writes of Costa Mesa Rotarian Alex Ureche plans for helping with his grandfather’s village in Romania and with Rotary’s help, his op-portunities began to add up!

The moving article is found on pages 36-39 of the August issue.

Not able to fi nd your copy of the Rotar-ian? Find the article at rotary.org, enter Rotarian Magazine in the search engine, click on August issue.

District 5320 News

Rotary clubs make changes to attract younger members

By Megan Ferringer, Rotary International News

Members of the Diablo View Rotary Club do-nate their time by cleaning up the Iron Horse Trail in California. Photo courtesy Diablo View Rotary Club

When Rotarians in Walnut Creek, California, USA, found it diffi cult to attract young profes-sionals to the area’s morning and afternoon clubs, they set out to establish a new club that would accommodate busy, on-the-go schedules.

The Rotary Club of Diablo View (Walnut Creek), chartered in 2009, meets in a local brewery at 5:30 p.m. every Thursday. Club president Jennifer Beeman says the club sets aside time each week for social-izing before turning to club business, and that the relaxed atmosphere appeals to younger members.

Beeman was only 24 years old when she became a charter member of the club, and she’s now one of the youngest female club presidents in Rotary. The club has 26 members, 90 percent of them between the ages of 25 and 40.

“Because we have younger members, our attitude is different. People have told us how refreshing it is to have young faces behind Rotary,” Beeman says.

She says the club carries out many projects in the community so that members have an opportunity to do hands-on service. Every month, for instance, it plans an outdoor project, such as cleaning up nature trails. Younger Rotarians usually have more time than cash at their disposal, she says, so they tend to contribute by vol-unteering.

The club recruits new members through social media like Twitter and Facebook, and it has a mentoring program to help with retention. All new members are as-signed a mentor, who spends extra time with them outside regular meetings.

“The modifi cations we’ve made have helped our club appeal to younger profession-als and retain them,” Beeman says. “They’ve created a high-energy club.”

Beeman says clubs must be willing to make a few changes to attract younger mem-bers. Here are some examples of what other clubs are doing:

•Through a student membership initiative, the Rotary Club of Hope Island, Queen-sland, Australia, invites college-age students to meetings and subsidizes the cost to bring a youthful perspective to the club.

•The Rotary Club of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, has created the 25 Club, a club-within-a-club. The members hold additional meetings, sponsor regular social gath-erings, and carry out a number of service projects. The inductees are generally younger, and after a year, they transition into the parent Rotary club.

•The Rotary Club of Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, started a mentoring pro-gram that helps new members transition into the club. The club’s average age is now in the 30s.

•The Rotary Club of Bricktown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, meets in a tavern. First-time guests are treated to two free beverages, compliments of the club.

•The Rotary Club of South Metro Minneapolis Evenings, Minnesota, USA, meets in the evenings and lowers costs by not having meals. The third meeting of the month is a happy hour/networking event at different locations in the city. The fourth meet-ing is a volunteering opportunity.

Win 1,000 extra recogni-tion points by registering on Member Access

From 14 September to 14 October, Ro-tary club members are eligible to win 1,000 extra Rotary Foundation recog-nition points simply by registering on Member Access. Registrants will be en-tered into a drawing, and the winner will be announced after mid-October.

Start the registration process by using a valid e-mail address to create an ac-count. You may be asked to provide ad-ditional information to help us determine your relationship with Rotary Interna-tional and match you with your record in our database.

Within 24 hours, you will receive a veri-fi cation e-mail with a hyperlink that will connect you to a Member Access screen to complete your registration. If you do not see the e-mail in your inbox, check your spam/bulk/junk folder.

Facebook page provides resources for World Polio Day, 24 October

With World Polio Day fast approaching, now is an ideal time for your club or dis-trict to plan media outreach to increase awareness of and support for Rotary’s polio eradication efforts.

Check out a new Facebook page, Po-lio Wake-Up Across the Continent, de-veloped by Rotarians from District 7040 (parts of Ontario, Nunavut, and Quebec, Canada, and part of New York, USA).

The page, which explains that polio still exists and shows how Rotarians are leading the charge to eradicate it, in-cludes resources such as sample news releases and declarations and a sample op-ed letter, as well as a place for Rotar-ians to share ideas.

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R2R Business Directory

By Rae Shirer, District Governor Nominee, Orange SunriseRotary District 5320 Communications Team

The Rotary District 5320 team is happy to introduce a free service to all Rotarians in our District - the “R2R Business Index”, developed by DaCdb! It’s our goal to help promote Rotarians and their vocations. We all understand just how important it is to advertise on a directory that can bring genuine clients to our businesses. And these aren’t just ordinary, run of the mill clients. These clients are high quality Rotarians!

Who Can View The Listing?DaCdb’s clients include thousands of Rotarians across the country. These are the members of the R2R Business Index. By default, our search engine will limit a search to our own District. As a result, most of your customers will be located in the same general area as your business. But don’t worry, we also have a powerful global search feature that will brings customers from all across the country right to your front door.

What’s Included?This is the best package available in the industry. We’re talking top of the line, state of the art features to help your business get the exposure and clients it needs to make it everything you want it to be - and more. Check out the comprehensive list below to see the amazing features included in this package.

DaCdb Directory Listing - The directory listing includes your business in R2R-Business Index search results. The listing contains several key components to help drive clients to your business. These components include the business name, logo, address, phone number, and fax number.

DaCdb Mobile Listing - The R2R-Business Index Mobile Listing makes your busi-ness available to any Rotarian, anywhere, at anytime by using the power of mobile devices such as iPhone and BlackBerry.

Business Profi le - This powerful feature contains the more detailed information about your business and makes it available in the form of a state of the art, jQuery popup.The popup contains your company name, address, logo, contact informa-tion, keywords, summary, and a static google map a marker that pinpoints the exact location of your business.

Google Maps Visibility - This feature pinpoints the exact location of your business on a interactive google map. The interactive google map is displayed to the poten-tial client when a search is made with critera matching that of your business. Exclusive Client Base - Rotarians love helping others. The R2R-Business Index helps Rotarians help other Rotarians. DaCdb helps do this by making access to the entire R2R-Business Index exclusive to Rotarians. This means that leads provided to your business through this service will be genuine Rotarians.

Claim your FREE listing today and check out the features of R2R. To get started, login into to DaCdb and click the “R2R” tab and sign up for your FREE listing. It’s that simple!

Become a Silver subscriber for $52 a year that includes Company Name, Business Catagory, Google Maps, DaCdb Mobile, address, Contact Info, logo, and Website link.

Become a Gold Subscriber for $79 a year that includes Company Name, Business Catagory, Google Maps, DaCdb Mobile, address, Contact Info, logo, Website link and Search Preference in the Gold listings at the start of the Business Index.

If you have any questions about the R2R program, call District Administrator Jim de Boom, PDG at 714-921-1881 or email [email protected].

Rotary and Politics

Taken from the 2010 Rotary Interna-tional Manual of Procedure:

Pages 24-25: RI and its member clubs must refrain from issuing partisan politi-cal statements.

Rotarians are prohibited from adopting statements with a view to exerting anycorporate pressure on governments or political authorities. However, it is theduty of Rotarians

1) In their clubs, to keep under review political developments in their owncommunities and throughout the world insofar as they affect service totheir vocations and communities as well as the pursuit of the Rotary objectiveof world understanding and peace. They are expected to seek reliableinformation through balanced programs and discussions so that memberscan reach their own conclusions after a fair, collective examination of theissues.

2) Outside their clubs, to be active as individuals in as many legally con-stituted groups and organizations as possible to promote, not only in words but through exemplary dedication, the awareness of the dignity of all peopleand the respect of the consequent hu-man rights of the individual.

Page 67: RI and PoliticsBecause its worldwide membership includes persons of many facets of political opinion, no corporate action or corporate expression of opinion shall be taken or given by Rotary Internation-al on political subjects. (RCP 26.040.)As the association of Rotary clubs worldwide, RI maintains a neutral posi-tion and does not issue formal state-ments for or against any specifi c is-sues. It is through service initiatives of individual Rotary clubs, rather than declarations by the corporate body, that Rotary best demonstrates its commit-ment to peace and humanitarian en-deavors.

Editors thoughts: If your club has an elected offi cial in for an update, that probably is OK so long as it doesn’t get into a campaign speech.

If you are going to have one candidate in to speak to your club, the 4 Way Test would suggest that you should have all the candidates for the offi ce speak to your club. Jim de Boom, PDG

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CAN YOUR CLUB WIN “THE TRIPLE CROWN” ?By Roger McGonegal, PDG District Foundation Director

Governor Greg is introducing a new program in our District that has proven very successful in building appreciation and support for our Rotary Foundation in other Districts.

“The Triple Crown” is a special recognition for Clubs that have achieved three goals in one Rotary Year:

The fi rst, being recognized as a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. As every Club in our District has achieved this recognition, that’s a given.

Next, being recognized as a 100% Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member Club.This has been presented previously; every active member of the Club must person-ally contribute at least $100 to the Annual Programs Fund during the year.Typically eight to ten Clubs in our District achieve this annually, so it is possible. Finally, every Club Member becomes a Benefactor of The Rotary Foundation’sPermanent Fund. That is, each Rotarian informs the Foundation in writing that he or she has made a provision in his or her estate plan naming the Foundation’s Per-manent Fund as a benefi ciary, or has made an outright gift of at least $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation Permanent Fund.

It is this last qualifi er that will pose the largest challenge to our Clubs, because we typically focus on the Annual Programs Fund and PolioPlus, as these contributions yield “Points”, which result in Paul Harris Recognition.

The Permanent Fund rarely gets the attention it deserves, but it truly is the future of our Foundation. Contributions to The Permanent Fund are not distributed, they are permanently invested. Proceeds from these investments are made available to support our humanitarian and educational programs, in amounts of approximately $8 million per year. But, contributions to The Permanent Fund are not recognized by “Points”

A recent report listed net assets of The Permanent Fund at $238.6 million, with estimated expectancies of an additional $461 million, with the goal of reaching $1 billion by 2025.

Only 7% of Rotarians are Benefactors, fewer than 90,000 worldwide, but if we be-lieve in Rotary’s work, why do we not make a provision in our estates to continue the good works after we are gone? After we have provided for our loved ones, we endow our selected religious organizations and schools and other charities, why not make Rotary our Charity of Choice?

It is based on those questions that we hope to build awareness and support for The Permanent Fund. A simple Rotary Form, #149-EN, is all that is needed to get started.

A higher level of commitment is the Bequest Society. Quite simply, if the bequest commitment is larger than $10,000, the individuals qualify for membership in that group, which numbers just over 8,000 members worldwide.

Rotarians with professional experience in these matters are available to meet with individuals in order to answer the personal and confi dential questions that result from these types of discussions. Feel free to contact District Foundation Chair Rog-er McGonegal, [email protected] , to arrange for the appropriate follow-up.

So, who is going to be fi rst to win “The Triple Crown”?

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Burton is choice for 2013-14 RI president

By Ryan Hyland, Rotary International News -

Ron D. Burton, a member of the Rotary Club of Norman, Oklahoma, USA, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International in 2013-14.

Ron D. Burton, a member of the Rotary Club of Norman, Oklahoma, USA, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International in 2013-14. Burton will become the president-nominee on 1 October if there are no challenging candidates.

Burton retired as president of the University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc. in 2007. He is a member of the American Bar Association, as well as the bar associations of Cleveland County and the state of Oklahoma. He is admitted to practice in Okla-homa and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“This is an exciting time to be a Rotarian,” Burton says. “I believe we are well poised to capitalize on our strengths as we embrace the [RI] Strategic Plan and the Future Vision Plan. My vision is to have every Rotarian appreciate what it means to be a Rotarian. With these two tools, we can make that happen.”

Active in his community, Burton is a founder and past president of the Norman Public School Foundation, and founder and past board member of the Norman Community Foundation. A recipient of the Silver Beaver Award, he is a past vice president of the Last Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Burton believes that Rotary’s promotion of high ethical standards is one of the quali-ties that sets it apart from other organizations.

“It assures those dealing with us that we can be trusted,” he says. “Most of us are in a business or profession that already has a code of ethics. Vocational service in Rotary just adds to that responsibility. We have an obligation to go above and be-yond to make sure that all our actions are above reproach.”

A Rotarian since 1979, Burton is vice chair of the Future Vision Committee and a member of the Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Force for the United States. He has served RI as director; Rotary Foundation trustee and trustee vice chair; Inter-national Assembly moderator, assistant moderator, and group discussion leader; and district governor.

His other service to Rotary includes chair of the 2011 New Orleans Convention Com-mittee, vice chair of the Investment Advisory Committee, liaison trustee of the Vo-cational Service Committee, Permanent Fund national adviser, and regional Rotary Foundation coordinator. He was aide to 2006-07 RI President William B. Boyd.

Burton has received the RI Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Founda-tion Citation for Meritorious Service, Distinguished Service Award, and International Service Award for a Polio-Free World.

Burton and his wife, Jetta, have two children and three grandchildren.

The 2011 nominating committee members are John M. Pinson, USA (chair); Eric E.L. Adamson, USA; Lars-Olof Fredriksson, Finland; Serge Gouteyron, France; Jerry L. Hall, USA; Rafael G. Hechanova, Philippines; Toshio Itabashi, Japan; Mi-chael J. Johns, USA; Kwang Tae Kim, Korea; David D. Morgan, Wales; Hans J. Müller-Rech, Germany; M.K. Panduranga Setty, India; Julio Sorjús, Spain; Carlos E. Speroni, Argentina; Robert A. Stuart Jr., USA; Yoshimasa Watanabe, Japan; and C. Grant Wilkins, USA.

Polio Facts & Figures

Area - Number of cases in 2011 Afghanistan 12 India 1 Nigeria 23 Pakistan 69 Non-endemic countries 220 Total worldwide 325 (Data as of 17 August/World Health Organization)

For the latest on the number of polio cas-es, progress reports on polio-endemic countries, and other information, go to www.polioeradication.org.

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