Rotary District 9465 Membership & Social Media Presentation - May 2014
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Rotary International District 7890 HOT DATES IN THE DISTRICT 33 DAYS FOR CHANGE FOR POLIO ERADICATION Sept. 14-Oct. 16, 2009 ROTARY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE October 17, 2009 Mass Mutual Learning Center Chicopee, MA FOUNDATION DINNER November 4, 2009 Knights Castle Chicopee, MA SAVE THE DATE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION Montreal, Canada June 20-23, 2010 information: Prasad Menon, DGE [email protected] rotary.org Message from Governor Herb August is Membership Month – Membership is the most important area in Rotary. It is essential that we concentrate on membership early in the year because, without it, nothing can happen in the Rotary World. Membership is broken up into two areas: Recruitment and Retention. This year Rotary International will be making an effort to bring each club’s membership to at least 20 members. For some clubs, it will be done in annual commitments. If you have less than 10 members, try to bring your membership up to 10. If less than 15, try to get to 15 and, if less than 20, try to bring it up to 20. My goal is for all clubs to be at least plus 1 on July 1, 2010. When looking for new members remember Rotary International President John Kenny has asked us to look for quality and not quantity. The big question always is – what constitutes quality? Look for people you know who you think would become good members. Look for friends who are managers, business owners and executives. Look for people who are already involved in community service. When you recruit them and get them involved you have a much better chance of keeping them. This year brings us a new obstacle – how do we keep our members in such trying times? I know that there are clubs that are losing members due to the economy. We must make an added effort to come up with ideas to help keep our membership in place. Retaining good members helps keep continuity in the club and makes growing your club a lot easier. Members leave for a number of reasons: new job opportunities, relocation, time commitment, just plain disinterest and, unfortunately, death. Some of these causes are unavoidable but we need to make every effort to keep the members we have. The one reason for leaving which hurts us is that Rotarians have not been asked to do anything within the club. Get them involved immediately in a project, fund raiser or a fellowship event that they are interested in. We don’t want them to just sit there and do nothing! They need to feel that they are a part of your club. Re- member, when you bring in a new member, educate them and show them what Rotary Cont’d on pg. 2 August 2009 No. 2
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“...The Bitone Center for Disadvantaged Children , located in Kampala, Uganda, is home to two dozen children ages 8-18.
The center works with children traumatized by war. Many are orphans, others have lost their homes or been estranged from their families by disease, war, or economic hardship.
The center provides them with food, shelter, and education. They teach traditional dance, music and theater....”
To learn more, please see the full article at:www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/090612_news_bitone.aspx
Rotary International District 7890
HOT DATES IN THE DISTRICT
33 Days for Change for Polio eraDiCation
Sept. 14-Oct. 16, 2009
rotary
leaDershiP institute
October 17, 2009Mass Mutual Learning
CenterChicopee, MA
founDation Dinner
November 4, 2009Knights CastleChicopee, MA
saVe the Date~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rotary international ConVention
Montreal, CanadaJune 20-23, 2010
information:Prasad Menon, DGE
Message from Governor Herb
August is Membership Month – Membership is the most important area in Rotary. It is essential that we concentrate on membership early in the year because, without it, nothing can happen in the Rotary World.
Membership is broken up into two areas: Recruitment and Retention.
This year Rotary International will be making an effort to bring each club’s membership to at least 20 members. For some clubs, it will be done in annual commitments. If you have less than 10 members, try to bring your membership up to 10. If less than 15, try to get to 15 and, if less than 20, try to bring it up to 20. My goal is for all clubs to be at least plus 1 on July 1, 2010.
When looking for new members remember Rotary International President John Kenny has asked us to look for quality and not quantity. The big question always is – what constitutes quality? Look for people you know who you think would become good members. Look for friends who are managers, business owners and executives. Look for people who are already involved in community service. When you recruit them and get them involved you have a much better chance of keeping them.
This year brings us a new obstacle – how do we keep our members in such trying times? I know that there are clubs that are losing members due to the economy. We must make an added effort to come up with ideas to help keep our membership in place.
Retaining good members helps keep continuity in the club and makes growing your club a lot easier. Members leave for a number of reasons: new job opportunities, relocation, time commitment, just plain disinterest and, unfortunately, death. Some of these causes are unavoidable but we need to make every effort to keep the members we have. The one reason for leaving which hurts us is that Rotarians have not been asked to do anything within the club. Get them involved immediately in a project, fund raiser or a fellowship event that they are interested in. We don’t want them to just sit there and do nothing! They need to feel that they are a part of your club. Re-member, when you bring in a new member, educate them and show them what Rotary
Cont’d on pg. 2
August 2009No. 2
DiD you Know?
www.rotary.org
Rotary District 78903 Sarah Anne LaneWindsor, CT575
is all about – “Service Above Self.”
Rotary kind of grew on me as I know it grows on you and as it will grow on them. It is within us to grow our clubs because we want to continue to “Make Dreams Real’ and we can because “The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands.”
Governor Herb Toback
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Cont’d from pg. 1 Rotary Friendship ExchangeDistrict 7890 is now participating in the Rotary Friendship Exchange (RFE). See this link for more details:
www.rotary.org/en/serviceandfellowship/Fellowship/rotaryFriendshipExchange
Exchanges generally last three to seven days. They are funded entirely by the individuals who participate and are carried out at no expense to Rotary International. Generally, guests are responsible for their travel expenses and personal spending (for example, souvenirs, snacks, toiletries, camera film, etc.), while hosts are expected to provide housing, meals, and sightseeing opportunities--the same courtesies that would be extended to a visiting friend.
To travel as a guest to another District, have your club president contact our District RFE chair, Samuel Brown of the eClub [[email protected]]. Please contact Sam directly if you would be willing to host visiting Rotarians. He is currently looking for a host for a visitor from District 3030 in India, as well as a member of our District to visit District 3030 in India.
Clean Water Project12 District 7890 Rotary Clubs have joined together to complete
the third and fourth major water projects in Guatemala
Twelve Rotary Clubs in northern CT and Western MA have joined together to fund projects that bring fresh drinking water to two needy communities in Guatemala. Clubs from Bloomfield, E-Club, East Hartford, Farmington, Glaston-bury, Manchester, Rockville, South Windsor, West Hartford,, Wilbraham-Hampden, MA, Willimantic and Windsor/Windsor Locks have raised $29,500 to build a complete gravity fed water system with gray water filters and vented pit latrines for the 58 families (348 people) that live in the rural community of Mocolic Xot Alto and 60 families (360 people) in Patzo-com, Guatemala. These are the third and fourth projects continuing the goals to have for every Rotary Club in the District support an international water project and for clubs to make an effort to work together, adding size and strength to their chosen projects. Rotary clubs from Wakefield, RI and Albina-Portland, OR also contributed to the project thereby exceed-ing the original goal of $28,300.
District Water Committee Chair and Manchester Rotarian Rick Lawrence again spearheaded the drive to raise the neces-sary funds by making presentations about the project to the area clubs as well as several other Rotary clubs in Greater Hartford. With the encouragement and assistance from District Governor Jim Dusza he and his wife received a Volunteer Service Grant enabling them to travel to Guatemala in October to visit the second village that was funded the previous year and oversee the completion of that project. While there, he was the featured speaker at the Rotary Club of Antigua, the international host club for the projects.
The project’s implementation will be coordinated through Behrhorst Partners for Development, a non-profit organization with ties to over 60 communities in Guatemala. Through the creative packaging of funds from two other private founda-tions, Behrhorst was able to leverage, match and expand the Rotary funds into a total of $60,819, thus allowing two vil-lages to be implemented this year. Behrhorst helps train community-chosen people as traditional birth attendants, a health promoter, a village dispensary manager and someone to oversee use of medical emergency transportation funds. Beh-rhorst also provides extensive training in hygiene, maintenance of the water system components, nutrition, including help in school and home vegetable gardens, as well as educational talks about family planning and birth spacing. In Guatemala over 50% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
This Rotary project will help address some of the basic causes of poor health in this area, and will help the villagers ad-dress basic sanitation – water systems, gray-water filters and latrines – in order to help prevent the constant illnesses that afflict the population, particularly children.
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For further information, contact Rick Lawrence at [email protected] or (860) 643-4560.
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At a recent meeting of the Manchester Rotary Club representatives from clubs contributing to the Mocolic Xot Alto and Patzocom, Guatemala water projects are as follows:
Front Row: Mike Barnett – South Windsor and Area 6 ADG; BPD President Emeritus Pat Krause; Jean Atwater-Williams – Farmington; PDG Karen Andrews – Windsor/Windsor Locks; Jim Paganetti – Rockville; Sue Klock – East Hartford; Geoffrey Naab – Manchester.
Back Row: Donald Flannery – Wilbraham/Hampden; Eric Fahnoe – Bloomfield; Michael Howard – West Hartford; Stan Gryskiewicz – Windsor/Windsor Locks; Wayne Prescott – E Club; Past District Governor Jim Dusza; George Schoen – East Hartford; John Lord – Glastonbury
GREETINGS! Montreal International convention is fast approaching and we have blocked 50 rooms in Hotel Place-d’Armes right across the Convention Center where major activities will be taking place.
Montreal Metro (Subway) is right there and it is walking distance to just about anything you need. The unofficial rate is $225 Can.
Please share this information with your club members.
Please respond to:Prasad [email protected] within the next few days and let me know your interest.
If you have questions, you may contact me at 1 203 681 0718 during the day.
Registration - It is very important that you register for the convention by going into Rotary.Org site and clicking at the bottom left on Mon-treal Convention. You save money by doing it now and also will be able to register for Host Organization Committee activities before the tickets are sold out.
Montreal International Convention
Of the thinsg we think, say or do:
Is it the Truth?Is it Fair to All Concerned?Will it Build Good Will and Better Friendships?Will it be Beneficial to All Concerned?
The Four Way Test
DistriCt attenDanCeFOR THE MONTH OF JUNE
CLUB NAME Membership JuneAGAWAM, MA 37 83%AMHERST, MA 87 56%AVON/CANTON, CT 60 64%BLOOMFIELD, CT 24BRISTOL, CT 45 68%BROADBROOK, CT 18 64%CHICOPEE, MA 35DALTON, MA 16 100%DANIELSON, CT 24 62%E-CLUB 18 73%EAST HARTFORD, CT 91 73%E. LONGMEADOW, MA 37EAST WINDSOR, CT 19 95%EASTHAMPTON, MA 23 66%ENFIELD, CT 68 69%FARMINGTON, CT 39 75%FRANKLIN COUNTY, MA 19 73%GLASTONBURY, CT 74 87%GREAT BARRINGTON, MA 48 75%HARTFORD, CT 41 54%HOLYOKE, MA 76 87%KENSINGSTN/BER, CTLITCHFIELD/MORRIS, CT 27 38%LONGMEADOW, MA 30%LUDLOW, MA 20MANCHESTER, CT 42 71%MONSON, MA 15 64%NEW BRITAIN/BERLIN, CT 66 49%NEW MILFORD, CT 71 60%NEWINGTON, CT 31 70%NORTH ADAMS, MA 15 72%NORTHAMPTON 41PALMER, MA 35 77%PITTSFIELD, MA 88 75%PLAINFIELD, CT 32 75%PLAINVILLE, CT 30 81%PUTNAM, CT 65 76%ROCKVILLE, CT 22SALISBURY, CT 69 35%SIMSBURY, CT 71 81%SOMERS, CT 32 70%SOUTH WINDSOR, CT 72SOUTHINGTON, CT 40SOUTHWICK, MA 14SPRINGFIELD, MA 85 73%STAFFORD, CT 15 62%SUFFIELD, CT 41 39%TERRYVILLE, CT 13THOMASTON, CT 32 70%TORRINGTON, CT 78 44%TRI-TOWN, MA 26WARE, MAWASHINGTON, CTWATERTOWN, CT 49 81%WEST HARTFORD, CT 68WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA 65 92%WESTFIELD, MA 49WTHRSFLD/RCKY HILL, CT 13 91%WILBRHAM/HAMPDEN, MA 42 68%WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 21 51%WILLIMANTIC, CT 37WINDSOR/WNDSRLOCKS, CT 39 61%WINSTED, CT 42 70%
Please report attendance to District SecretaryAnn Marie Ottoson’s e-mail: [email protected]
haPPy anniVersary36 Years
Avon/Canton – CharteredAugust 20, 1973
5 YearsKensington/Berlin Sunrise – Chartered
August 3, 2004~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When was the last time youbrought a guest to Rotary?When was the last time yousponsored a new Rotarian?
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welCome new membersAgAwAm HArold Cote
Avon-CAnton Kevin CAse
leonArd dunstAn
eAst HArtford mArC glAss
dAvid PArry
litCHfield-morris lynne AlexAnder
mArtHA Bernstein
PlAinville PHyllis tuCKer
PutnAm sCott PemPeK
gAry rAwson
simsBury-grAnBy roBert Hensley
tHomAs HerliHy
windsor-windsor loCKs JAred CArillo
suffield susAn flynn
greg PAnJiAn
Foundation News
Did you Know that in 1917 Rotary International sixth President Arch Klumph proposed that an endowment be set up ‘for the purpose of doing good in the world?’ In 1928 when the endowment fund had grown to more than US $5,000 it was renamed The Rotary Foundation and it became a separate entity.
Two years later The Foundation made its first grant of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children which later grew into Easter Seals. After Rotary’s Founder Paul Harris died in 1947 contributions began pouring into Rotary International and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund was created to build The Foundation. Several other programs followed.
Since the first donation of $26.50 in 1917, The Foundation has received voluntary contributions totaling more than 1.5 billion dollars. Only our voluntary contributions to The Foundation pay for Rotary’s International humanitarian, educational and cultural programs. Not one penny of your Rotary dues is spent on programs to help the poor or to educate scholars or to send GSE teams worldwide to foster peace.
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.
Your investment in our Rotary Foundation brings help and hope to those who need it most around the world. The Rotary Foundation’s good works are only limited by our imagination, actions and contributions.
Your Contribution Keeps on Giving - When you make an annual contribution to The Rotary Foundation, you can be confident that 50 per cent of that gift will come right back to our district in three years to be used for educational and humanitarian programs and for projects in your local community. The other portion of your contribution benefits the World Fund in support of our commitment to international service. The three-year SHARE investment cycle ensures that 100 per cent of your contribution is spent on Rotary programs and grants.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Karen AndrewsAnnual Giving Chair
As we prepare to kickoff the Thirty-three Days of Change campaign for Polio Plus which will run from September 14, 2009 through October 16, 2009, I wanted to share with and thank all of you who have made the Polio Plus Campaign the success that is has been to date.
The campaign to meet the Gates Challenge began on December 1, 2007. From that date through June 30, 2008, you contributed individually, through your Clubs and from a donation from Past District Governor Dick Borden’s District Designated Funds, a total of $15,575.69. During the last Rotary year, your giving enabled the District to exceed Past District Governor Jim Dusza’s goal of $63,000.00 by more than thirty-four (34%) per cent. Members and their Clubs contributed donated $$84,434.60 as of July 10, 2009. These giving totals may increase slightly as the final contribution postings will not be completed and the books on 2008-2009 will not be closed until July 17, 2009. These figures are being used as of the date this Newsletter is going to the printer.
Thirty-Three Days of Change Campaign
THE GRAND TOTAL OF DISTRICT GIVING TO POLIO PLUS AS OF JUNE 30, 2009 IS $100,010.39! YOU, THE MEMBERS, MADE THIS HAPPEN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE FOUR COUNTRIES WHERE POLIO REMAINS ENDEMIC THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT.
District Governor Herb has set this year’s District goal at a minimum of $63,000.00. We are hopeful that we will be able to exceed that amount substantially as we did last year. I can report that as of mid-July, contributions of $630.00 have already been made so that we only have ninety-nine (99%) per cent to go!.
Dick Seidman, District ChairPolio Plus Committee
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” -Jonas Salk
haPPenings ‘rounD the DistriCt...
In a ceremony at the July 14 Farmington Town Council, members of the ROTARY CLUB OF FARMINGTON presented a check for $4,000 to help feed needy families during these difficult economic times. A special fundraiser was held and food cards from Stop & Shop were purchased. In cooperation with the project, Stop & Shop donated $1,000 worth of food cards, bringing the total value of the funds raised to $5, 000. The cards will be distributed to approximately 80 families through the town’s Social Services network.
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STAFFORD Rotary Club is proud to announce that its mascot, a cow mannequin, finally has a name!! Betsy’s name was chosen at the STAFFORD Rotary Club’s booth at Sun Valley on July 4th. Over 100 names were submitted by children under 16 and the winner received a $50 savings bond. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Rotary Club of SUFFIELD will celebrate its 60th anniversary on September 19 at Chez Josef in Agawam, MA. A gala party is planned and all Rotarians are invited. Cost is $50 per person for dinner, dancing and singing by “Around Town Singers and Orchestra. For more information please contact Dan Kehoe at 860 668-1443 or [email protected]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WINDSOR/WINDSOR LOCKS sponsored Senior Day at the New England Air Museum where guests from Windsor, Windsor Locks and East Granby enjoyed a guided tour of the museum. Following the tour the club hosted an Ice Cream Social for the seniors in the Museum’s Education Center. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At a picnic for senior citizens from the Northern Berkshires, sponsored by Williamstown Commons, members of the WILLIAMSTOWN Club volunteered as servers for the event. They also donated a $25 gift certificate for a raffle.
pictured are President John Kenny and his wife June, Chris Vought, Kathleen Favaloro & Joanne Ross (of the YEX committee for 7890)
The SOMERS Club awarded its 7th Annual “Maurice Parker Random Acts of Kindness” award to William McGurk, ROCKVILLE Rotarian, in ceremonies held July 8 at the Somers Inn. This award is in memory of the club’s oldest member who recently passed away at the age of 96. Bill McGurk has been a pillar in the community and was thanked for his many efforts to make Somers a better community. On September 19, the SOMERS Club is sponsoring the 10th Annual Somers Great Escape 5k and 5 mile Road Race. Funds raised go to the club’s scholarship endowment fund. For more information go to SomersNow.com/race.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Thomaston Oil Company the Rotary Club of THOMASTON sent $500 worth of food plus 4 additional grocery carts of food totaling another $500 to the Thomaston Town Pantry. This will help to feed local families for the summer.
Several Members of the District Youth Exchange Committee were invited to pose with RI President John Kenny and his wife......at the 100th Year Birthday Celebration of the Bos-ton Rotary Club on July 18, 2009. The YEX Com-mittee members were attending the ESSEX Summer Conference which was being held at the same hotel as the Birthday Celebration. Several other members of District 7890 were also in attendance. RI President Kenny spoke of his vision for Rotary and about his hope for “toleration” of all people’s of the world. He inspired the room of nearly 800 Rotarians from all over the world who came together to Celebrate Rotary and to honor the Boston Rotary Club.
l to r Rotarian Mike Cheshire, Past President Jean Atwater-Williams,
Jeff Hogan, Town Council Vice-Chair, Kathy Eagen,
Town Manager, Rotary President Augusto
Russell and John Colwell, Manager of Stop & Shop
in Unionville.
l to r are Rotarians Sandy Sanford, Mike Madow, Aaron Madow, Peger Rogozinski and Roy Bouffard
Members of the NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN club honored student winners of the Stan Pisk Memo-rial Golf Tournament at a luncheon at the YMCA. Teams from New Britain High School, Berlin High School and E.C. Goodwin Technical School partici-pated in the tournament which is held every year in memory of Rotarian Stanley Pisk, former Stanley Golf Course Pro, Hurricane Golf Coach, WWII Combat Veteran, and member of the New Britain Sports Hall of Fame
Assistant Governor Gary Osbrey with PLAINFIELD RYLA participants Chelsea Merritt, Dylan Yaworski and Meagan Monteiro
...Rotary International and our local Bloomfield
Rotary
A proud supporter of ...
21 Old Windsor Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002860-242-0303 www.sirspeedy.com/bloomfield
PLACE YOUR AD
HERE
Contact PDG Karen for information at 860-683-1710 or
email at [email protected]
haPPenings ‘rounD the DistriCt...
In a ceremony at the July 14 Farmington Town Council, members of the ROTARY CLUB OF FARMINGTON presented a check for $4,000 to help feed needy families during these difficult economic times. A special fundraiser was held and food cards from Stop & Shop were purchased. In cooperation with the project, Stop & Shop donated $1,000 worth of food cards, bringing the total value of the funds raised to $5, 000. The cards will be distributed to approximately 80 families through the town’s Social Services network.
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STAFFORD Rotary Club is proud to announce that its mascot, a cow mannequin, finally has a name!! Betsy’s name was chosen at the STAFFORD Rotary Club’s booth at Sun Valley on July 4th. Over 100 names were submitted by children under 16 and the winner received a $50 savings bond. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Rotary Club of SUFFIELD will celebrate its 60th anniversary on September 19 at Chez Josef in Agawam, MA. A gala party is planned and all Rotarians are invited. Cost is $50 per person for dinner, dancing and singing by “Around Town Singers and Orchestra. For more information please contact Dan Kehoe at 860 668-1443 or [email protected]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WINDSOR/WINDSOR LOCKS sponsored Senior Day at the New England Air Museum where guests from Windsor, Windsor Locks and East Granby enjoyed a guided tour of the museum. Following the tour the club hosted an Ice Cream Social for the seniors in the Museum’s Education Center. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At a picnic for senior citizens from the Northern Berkshires, sponsored by Williamstown Commons, members of the WILLIAMSTOWN Club volunteered as servers for the event. They also donated a $25 gift certificate for a raffle.
pictured are President John Kenny and his wife June, Chris Vought, Kathleen Favaloro & Joanne Ross (of the YEX committee for 7890)
The SOMERS Club awarded its 7th Annual “Maurice Parker Random Acts of Kindness” award to William McGurk, ROCKVILLE Rotarian, in ceremonies held July 8 at the Somers Inn. This award is in memory of the club’s oldest member who recently passed away at the age of 96. Bill McGurk has been a pillar in the community and was thanked for his many efforts to make Somers a better community. On September 19, the SOMERS Club is sponsoring the 10th Annual Somers Great Escape 5k and 5 mile Road Race. Funds raised go to the club’s scholarship endowment fund. For more information go to SomersNow.com/race.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Thomaston Oil Company the Rotary Club of THOMASTON sent $500 worth of food plus 4 additional grocery carts of food totaling another $500 to the Thomaston Town Pantry. This will help to feed local families for the summer.
Several Members of the District Youth Exchange Committee were invited to pose with RI President John Kenny and his wife......at the 100th Year Birthday Celebration of the Bos-ton Rotary Club on July 18, 2009. The YEX Com-mittee members were attending the ESSEX Summer Conference which was being held at the same hotel as the Birthday Celebration. Several other members of District 7890 were also in attendance. RI President Kenny spoke of his vision for Rotary and about his hope for “toleration” of all people’s of the world. He inspired the room of nearly 800 Rotarians from all over the world who came together to Celebrate Rotary and to honor the Boston Rotary Club.
l to r Rotarian Mike Cheshire, Past President Jean Atwater-Williams,
Jeff Hogan, Town Council Vice-Chair, Kathy Eagen,
Town Manager, Rotary President Augusto
Russell and John Colwell, Manager of Stop & Shop
in Unionville.
l to r are Rotarians Sandy Sanford, Mike Madow, Aaron Madow, Peger Rogozinski and Roy Bouffard
Members of the NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN club honored student winners of the Stan Pisk Memo-rial Golf Tournament at a luncheon at the YMCA. Teams from New Britain High School, Berlin High School and E.C. Goodwin Technical School partici-pated in the tournament which is held every year in memory of Rotarian Stanley Pisk, former Stanley Golf Course Pro, Hurricane Golf Coach, WWII Combat Veteran, and member of the New Britain Sports Hall of Fame
Assistant Governor Gary Osbrey with PLAINFIELD RYLA participants Chelsea Merritt, Dylan Yaworski and Meagan Monteiro
...Rotary International and our local Bloomfield
Rotary
A proud supporter of ...
21 Old Windsor Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002860-242-0303 www.sirspeedy.com/bloomfield
PLACE YOUR AD
HERE
Contact PDG Karen for information at 860-683-1710 or
email at [email protected]
DistriCt attenDanCeFOR THE MONTH OF JUNE
CLUB NAME Membership JuneAGAWAM, MA 37 83%AMHERST, MA 87 56%AVON/CANTON, CT 60 64%BLOOMFIELD, CT 24BRISTOL, CT 45 68%BROADBROOK, CT 18 64%CHICOPEE, MA 35DALTON, MA 16 100%DANIELSON, CT 24 62%E-CLUB 18 73%EAST HARTFORD, CT 91 73%E. LONGMEADOW, MA 37EAST WINDSOR, CT 19 95%EASTHAMPTON, MA 23 66%ENFIELD, CT 68 69%FARMINGTON, CT 39 75%FRANKLIN COUNTY, MA 19 73%GLASTONBURY, CT 74 87%GREAT BARRINGTON, MA 48 75%HARTFORD, CT 41 54%HOLYOKE, MA 76 87%KENSINGSTN/BER, CTLITCHFIELD/MORRIS, CT 27 38%LONGMEADOW, MA 30%LUDLOW, MA 20MANCHESTER, CT 42 71%MONSON, MA 15 64%NEW BRITAIN/BERLIN, CT 66 49%NEW MILFORD, CT 71 60%NEWINGTON, CT 31 70%NORTH ADAMS, MA 15 72%NORTHAMPTON 41PALMER, MA 35 77%PITTSFIELD, MA 88 75%PLAINFIELD, CT 32 75%PLAINVILLE, CT 30 81%PUTNAM, CT 65 76%ROCKVILLE, CT 22SALISBURY, CT 69 35%SIMSBURY, CT 71 81%SOMERS, CT 32 70%SOUTH WINDSOR, CT 72SOUTHINGTON, CT 40SOUTHWICK, MA 14SPRINGFIELD, MA 85 73%STAFFORD, CT 15 62%SUFFIELD, CT 41 39%TERRYVILLE, CT 13THOMASTON, CT 32 70%TORRINGTON, CT 78 44%TRI-TOWN, MA 26WARE, MAWASHINGTON, CTWATERTOWN, CT 49 81%WEST HARTFORD, CT 68WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA 65 92%WESTFIELD, MA 49WTHRSFLD/RCKY HILL, CT 13 91%WILBRHAM/HAMPDEN, MA 42 68%WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 21 51%WILLIMANTIC, CT 37WINDSOR/WNDSRLOCKS, CT 39 61%WINSTED, CT 42 70%
Please report attendance to District SecretaryAnn Marie Ottoson’s e-mail: [email protected]
haPPy anniVersary36 Years
Avon/Canton – CharteredAugust 20, 1973
5 YearsKensington/Berlin Sunrise – Chartered
August 3, 2004~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When was the last time youbrought a guest to Rotary?When was the last time yousponsored a new Rotarian?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
welCome new membersAgAwAm HArold Cote
Avon-CAnton Kevin CAse
leonArd dunstAn
eAst HArtford mArC glAss
dAvid PArry
litCHfield-morris lynne AlexAnder
mArtHA Bernstein
PlAinville PHyllis tuCKer
PutnAm sCott PemPeK
gAry rAwson
simsBury-grAnBy roBert Hensley
tHomAs HerliHy
windsor-windsor loCKs JAred CArillo
suffield susAn flynn
greg PAnJiAn
Foundation News
Did you Know that in 1917 Rotary International sixth President Arch Klumph proposed that an endowment be set up ‘for the purpose of doing good in the world?’ In 1928 when the endowment fund had grown to more than US $5,000 it was renamed The Rotary Foundation and it became a separate entity.
Two years later The Foundation made its first grant of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children which later grew into Easter Seals. After Rotary’s Founder Paul Harris died in 1947 contributions began pouring into Rotary International and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund was created to build The Foundation. Several other programs followed.
Since the first donation of $26.50 in 1917, The Foundation has received voluntary contributions totaling more than 1.5 billion dollars. Only our voluntary contributions to The Foundation pay for Rotary’s International humanitarian, educational and cultural programs. Not one penny of your Rotary dues is spent on programs to help the poor or to educate scholars or to send GSE teams worldwide to foster peace.
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.
Your investment in our Rotary Foundation brings help and hope to those who need it most around the world. The Rotary Foundation’s good works are only limited by our imagination, actions and contributions.
Your Contribution Keeps on Giving - When you make an annual contribution to The Rotary Foundation, you can be confident that 50 per cent of that gift will come right back to our district in three years to be used for educational and humanitarian programs and for projects in your local community. The other portion of your contribution benefits the World Fund in support of our commitment to international service. The three-year SHARE investment cycle ensures that 100 per cent of your contribution is spent on Rotary programs and grants.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Karen AndrewsAnnual Giving Chair
As we prepare to kickoff the Thirty-three Days of Change campaign for Polio Plus which will run from September 14, 2009 through October 16, 2009, I wanted to share with and thank all of you who have made the Polio Plus Campaign the success that is has been to date.
The campaign to meet the Gates Challenge began on December 1, 2007. From that date through June 30, 2008, you contributed individually, through your Clubs and from a donation from Past District Governor Dick Borden’s District Designated Funds, a total of $15,575.69. During the last Rotary year, your giving enabled the District to exceed Past District Governor Jim Dusza’s goal of $63,000.00 by more than thirty-four (34%) per cent. Members and their Clubs contributed donated $$84,434.60 as of July 10, 2009. These giving totals may increase slightly as the final contribution postings will not be completed and the books on 2008-2009 will not be closed until July 17, 2009. These figures are being used as of the date this Newsletter is going to the printer.
Thirty-Three Days of Change Campaign
THE GRAND TOTAL OF DISTRICT GIVING TO POLIO PLUS AS OF JUNE 30, 2009 IS $100,010.39! YOU, THE MEMBERS, MADE THIS HAPPEN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE FOUR COUNTRIES WHERE POLIO REMAINS ENDEMIC THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT.
District Governor Herb has set this year’s District goal at a minimum of $63,000.00. We are hopeful that we will be able to exceed that amount substantially as we did last year. I can report that as of mid-July, contributions of $630.00 have already been made so that we only have ninety-nine (99%) per cent to go!.
Dick Seidman, District ChairPolio Plus Committee
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” -Jonas Salk
is all about – “Service Above Self.”
Rotary kind of grew on me as I know it grows on you and as it will grow on them. It is within us to grow our clubs because we want to continue to “Make Dreams Real’ and we can because “The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands.”
Governor Herb Toback
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Cont’d from pg. 1 Rotary Friendship ExchangeDistrict 7890 is now participating in the Rotary Friendship Exchange (RFE). See this link for more details:
www.rotary.org/en/serviceandfellowship/Fellowship/rotaryFriendshipExchange
Exchanges generally last three to seven days. They are funded entirely by the individuals who participate and are carried out at no expense to Rotary International. Generally, guests are responsible for their travel expenses and personal spending (for example, souvenirs, snacks, toiletries, camera film, etc.), while hosts are expected to provide housing, meals, and sightseeing opportunities--the same courtesies that would be extended to a visiting friend.
To travel as a guest to another District, have your club president contact our District RFE chair, Samuel Brown of the eClub [[email protected]]. Please contact Sam directly if you would be willing to host visiting Rotarians. He is currently looking for a host for a visitor from District 3030 in India, as well as a member of our District to visit District 3030 in India.
Clean Water Project12 District 7890 Rotary Clubs have joined together to complete
the third and fourth major water projects in Guatemala
Twelve Rotary Clubs in northern CT and Western MA have joined together to fund projects that bring fresh drinking water to two needy communities in Guatemala. Clubs from Bloomfield, E-Club, East Hartford, Farmington, Glaston-bury, Manchester, Rockville, South Windsor, West Hartford,, Wilbraham-Hampden, MA, Willimantic and Windsor/Windsor Locks have raised $29,500 to build a complete gravity fed water system with gray water filters and vented pit latrines for the 58 families (348 people) that live in the rural community of Mocolic Xot Alto and 60 families (360 people) in Patzo-com, Guatemala. These are the third and fourth projects continuing the goals to have for every Rotary Club in the District support an international water project and for clubs to make an effort to work together, adding size and strength to their chosen projects. Rotary clubs from Wakefield, RI and Albina-Portland, OR also contributed to the project thereby exceed-ing the original goal of $28,300.
District Water Committee Chair and Manchester Rotarian Rick Lawrence again spearheaded the drive to raise the neces-sary funds by making presentations about the project to the area clubs as well as several other Rotary clubs in Greater Hartford. With the encouragement and assistance from District Governor Jim Dusza he and his wife received a Volunteer Service Grant enabling them to travel to Guatemala in October to visit the second village that was funded the previous year and oversee the completion of that project. While there, he was the featured speaker at the Rotary Club of Antigua, the international host club for the projects.
The project’s implementation will be coordinated through Behrhorst Partners for Development, a non-profit organization with ties to over 60 communities in Guatemala. Through the creative packaging of funds from two other private founda-tions, Behrhorst was able to leverage, match and expand the Rotary funds into a total of $60,819, thus allowing two vil-lages to be implemented this year. Behrhorst helps train community-chosen people as traditional birth attendants, a health promoter, a village dispensary manager and someone to oversee use of medical emergency transportation funds. Beh-rhorst also provides extensive training in hygiene, maintenance of the water system components, nutrition, including help in school and home vegetable gardens, as well as educational talks about family planning and birth spacing. In Guatemala over 50% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
This Rotary project will help address some of the basic causes of poor health in this area, and will help the villagers ad-dress basic sanitation – water systems, gray-water filters and latrines – in order to help prevent the constant illnesses that afflict the population, particularly children.
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For further information, contact Rick Lawrence at [email protected] or (860) 643-4560.
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At a recent meeting of the Manchester Rotary Club representatives from clubs contributing to the Mocolic Xot Alto and Patzocom, Guatemala water projects are as follows:
Front Row: Mike Barnett – South Windsor and Area 6 ADG; BPD President Emeritus Pat Krause; Jean Atwater-Williams – Farmington; PDG Karen Andrews – Windsor/Windsor Locks; Jim Paganetti – Rockville; Sue Klock – East Hartford; Geoffrey Naab – Manchester.
Back Row: Donald Flannery – Wilbraham/Hampden; Eric Fahnoe – Bloomfield; Michael Howard – West Hartford; Stan Gryskiewicz – Windsor/Windsor Locks; Wayne Prescott – E Club; Past District Governor Jim Dusza; George Schoen – East Hartford; John Lord – Glastonbury
GREETINGS! Montreal International convention is fast approaching and we have blocked 50 rooms in Hotel Place-d’Armes right across the Convention Center where major activities will be taking place.
Montreal Metro (Subway) is right there and it is walking distance to just about anything you need. The unofficial rate is $225 Can.
Please share this information with your club members.
Please respond to:Prasad [email protected] within the next few days and let me know your interest.
If you have questions, you may contact me at 1 203 681 0718 during the day.
Registration - It is very important that you register for the convention by going into Rotary.Org site and clicking at the bottom left on Mon-treal Convention. You save money by doing it now and also will be able to register for Host Organization Committee activities before the tickets are sold out.
Montreal International Convention
Of the thinsg we think, say or do:
Is it the Truth?Is it Fair to All Concerned?Will it Build Good Will and Better Friendships?Will it be Beneficial to All Concerned?
The Four Way Test
“...The Bitone Center for Disadvantaged Children , located in Kampala, Uganda, is home to two dozen children ages 8-18.
The center works with children traumatized by war. Many are orphans, others have lost their homes or been estranged from their families by disease, war, or economic hardship.
The center provides them with food, shelter, and education. They teach traditional dance, music and theater....”
To learn more, please see the full article at:www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/090612_news_bitone.aspx Rotary International
District 7890HOT DATES
IN THE DISTRICT
33 Days for Change for Polio eraDiCation
Sept. 14-Oct. 16, 2009
rotary
leaDershiP institute
October 17, 2009Mass Mutual Learning
CenterChicopee, MA
founDation Dinner
November 4, 2009Knights CastleChicopee, MA
saVe the Date~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rotary international ConVention
Montreal, CanadaJune 20-23, 2010
information:Prasad Menon, DGE
Message from Governor Herb
August is Membership Month – Membership is the most important area in Rotary. It is essential that we concentrate on membership early in the year because, without it, nothing can happen in the Rotary World.
Membership is broken up into two areas: Recruitment and Retention.
This year Rotary International will be making an effort to bring each club’s membership to at least 20 members. For some clubs, it will be done in annual commitments. If you have less than 10 members, try to bring your membership up to 10. If less than 15, try to get to 15 and, if less than 20, try to bring it up to 20. My goal is for all clubs to be at least plus 1 on July 1, 2010.
When looking for new members remember Rotary International President John Kenny has asked us to look for quality and not quantity. The big question always is – what constitutes quality? Look for people you know who you think would become good members. Look for friends who are managers, business owners and executives. Look for people who are already involved in community service. When you recruit them and get them involved you have a much better chance of keeping them.
This year brings us a new obstacle – how do we keep our members in such trying times? I know that there are clubs that are losing members due to the economy. We must make an added effort to come up with ideas to help keep our membership in place.
Retaining good members helps keep continuity in the club and makes growing your club a lot easier. Members leave for a number of reasons: new job opportunities, relocation, time commitment, just plain disinterest and, unfortunately, death. Some of these causes are unavoidable but we need to make every effort to keep the members we have. The one reason for leaving which hurts us is that Rotarians have not been asked to do anything within the club. Get them involved immediately in a project, fund raiser or a fellowship event that they are interested in. We don’t want them to just sit there and do nothing! They need to feel that they are a part of your club. Re-member, when you bring in a new member, educate them and show them what Rotary
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August 2009 No. 2
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