VOLUME SSUE Alumni Newsletter
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: FROM OUR LEADERS 2 INVITE ALUMNI TO CELEBRATE WITH US IN THE U.K. DK-OK-UK 3 VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 November 14th and 15th in Markham (north of Toronto). This provides a first-hand opportunity for both GSE team members and Ambassadorial Scholars to understand the scope of our programs, to share plans with each other, and to become familiar with our expectations of them. I am very pleased to tell you that 100% of all the outbound GSE teams and Ambassadorial Scholars from Zone 22 East will be attending the orientation, as well as eleven Rotarians, some of whom are alumni. We will also have a GSE resource person from the Foundation staff to provide further information. November is Foundation Month and all clubs are expected to focus on the activities of The Foundation. Invite guest speakers to highlight our Foundation, a wonderful opportunity to hear from the beneficiaries of our programs—returned or visiting GSE teams or Scholars. As we all know now, TRF has spent over $1 billion investing in our young adult program participants, including GSE team members, Ambassadorial Scholars, and Peace Scholars. As Rotarians who are focused on Alumni, we must seek ways to reconnect with these graduates of our excellent programs and bring them back into the family of Rotary. I believe that the way forward to achieving this goal is to make club presidents aware of the investment TRF has made over the years and to ask them to ensure contact is maintained from now on with the young people they sponsor for these programs. To that end, please pass this monthly newsletter on to the presidents, assistant governors, GSE chairs, and Scholarship chairs of your districts. The GSE/Scholar orientation for Zone 22 East is being held on Rotary International Zone 22 East Alumni Newsletter FROM THE DESK OF JOAN HAYWARD NOVEMBER, 2008 Do you have stories about Alumni who have been involved in newsworthy activities? Have these activities been shaped by their experiences as being participants in the programs of The Rotary Foundation? If so, I’d really like to highlight them in this newsletter. Please see the last page for details. Alumni in the November issue of The Rotarian • 2005-06 and 2006-07 Ambassadorial Scholars are featured on p. 26 in an article about the 2 nd annual AIDS hike that they are organizing. • A brief biography about Philip Lader, 2006-07 Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award winner, is on p. 29. • Don Goering and Giancarlo Moretti, both GSE team leader alumni, are featured in the In Focus section Give a little, give a lot about their contributions to The Rotary Foundation on p.32-35. • An article on p. 55-56 about Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies alumni Thevananth Thevanayagam and Raveendra Pathiranage talks about the unique relationship they have formed despite the political turmoil in their country of Sri Lanka.
Transcript of VOLUME SSUE Alumni Newsletter
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
FROM OUR LEADERS 2
INVITE ALUMNI TO
CELEBRATE WITH US
IN THE U.K.
DK-OK-UK
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VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5
November 14th and 15th in Markham (north of Toronto). This provides a first-hand opportunity for both GSE team members and Ambassadorial Scholars to understand the scope of our programs, to share plans with each other, and to become familiar with our expectations of them. I am very pleased to tell you that 100% of all the outbound GSE teams and Ambassadorial Scholars from Zone 22 East will be attending the orientation, as well as eleven Rotarians, some of whom are alumni. We will also have a GSE resource person from the Foundation staff to provide further information.
November is Foundation Month and all clubs are expected to focus on the activities of The Foundation. Invite guest speakers to highlight our Foundation, a wonderful opportunity to hear from the beneficiaries of our programs—returned or visiting GSE teams or Scholars. As we all know now, TRF has spent over $1 billion investing in our young adult program participants, including GSE team members, Ambassadorial Scholars, and Peace Scholars. As Rotarians who are focused on Alumni, we must seek ways to reconnect with these graduates of our
excellent programs and bring them back into the family of Rotary. I believe that the way forward to achieving this goal is to make club presidents aware of the investment TRF has made over the years and to ask them to ensure contact is maintained from now on with the young people they sponsor for these programs. To that end, please pass this monthly newsletter on to the presidents, assistant governors, GSE chairs, and Scholarship chairs of your districts. The GSE/Scholar orientation for Zone 22 East is being held on
Rotary International Zone 22 East
Alumni Newsletter
FROM THE DESK OF JOAN HAYWARD
NOVEMBER, 2008
Do you have stories about
Alumni who have been
involved in newsworthy
activities? Have these
activities been shaped by
their experiences as being
participants in the
programs of The Rotary
Foundation?
If so, I’d really like to
highlight them in this
newsletter. Please see the
last page for details.
Alumni in the November issue of The Rotarian
• 2005-06 and 2006-07 Ambassadorial Scholars are featured on p. 26 in an article about the 2nd annual AIDS hike that they are organizing.
• A brief biography about Philip Lader, 2006-07 Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award winner, is on p. 29.
• Don Goering and Giancarlo Moretti, both GSE team leader alumni, are featured in the In Focus section Give a little, give a lot about their contributions to The Rotary Foundation on p.32-35.
• An article on p. 55-56 about Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies alumni Thevananth Thevanayagam and Raveendra Pathiranage talks about the unique relationship they have formed despite the political turmoil in their country of Sri Lanka.
Message from 2008-09 Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Jonathan Majiyagbe
As you know, November is Rotary Foundation month and is therefore an opportune time to encourage clubs and districts to invite Foundation alumni as speakers or otherwise be involved in their activities. This month also presents a great occasion to persuade district membership chairs to extend invitations to alumni to join Rotary clubs. Our alumni are crucial to the survival of Rotary clubs and our organization as a whole; please remember this year’s Foundation goal: “Reconnecting with Rotary Foundation alumni- Our lost assets.” I hope to see many of you and your regions’ alumni at the Rotary Alumni Celebration on 13-14 June 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
Editor’s note: See page 3 for further information.
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 PAGE 2
Comments from General Coordinator Rodney Mazinter
I wish to pay tribute to, and thank Don Osburn for his work, sage advice and friendship over the time he has served as general coordinator of RFACs. He entered into the spirit of the program with energy, bringing his wealth of experience in Rotary to our discussions. His inability to continue will be viewed with regret by those who were privileged to work with him. We wish him well in his future work in Rotary. Rotary is more than an organization made up of men and women providing service; the whole is much greater than its parts. Rotarians come and go but their departure makes no difference to the ideals that were created in the minds and hearts of its founders and those who followed. With intellect and compassion Rotarians down the years strove to mould an institution that attracts men and women of all ages, cultures and religions to its banner. During Rotary Foundation month it is worth remembering the insightful genius that has
extended Rotary’s ideals to encompass talented young people, not only to give them an undreamed of opportunity, but to help Rotary extend its standards of peace, personal fulfillment, service, ethics, fellowship and world understanding among the “family of nations.” That this effort is a success is borne out by the influence that these alumni of The Rotary Foundation have, not only while living out their time of scholarship or exchange, but long afterwards as they carve out their independent life’s niches, impacting on the human condition by means of what Rotary has helped them achieve. Their vision is Rotary’s and Rotary’s vision is theirs. We can do no better for the growth/survival of Rotary in the 21st Century than to explore every effort to keep them close, culminating in bringing them into Rotary.
Rotary Alumni Celebration
20 June 2009 Note: Foundation Alumni through
2001 to 2009 are eligible to attend
the convention at a reduced fee.
Rotary International Zone 22 East PAGE 4
Alumni Chairs 2008/09 Zone 22 East
D. 7820 Joe Donachie [email protected] D. 7810 John Torunski [email protected] D. 7790 Clayton King [email protected]
D. 7010 Rory McDiarmid [email protected] D. 7040 Doug Heyland [email protected] D. 7070 Jack Renteria [email protected] D. 7080 Kathi Smith [email protected] D. 6330 John Eberhard [email protected]
Zone Coordinator D. 7070 Joan Hayward [email protected]
D.K. Lee
President
Rotary International
John Kenny
President-Elect
Rotary International
This newsletter will, over the months, contain information from Rotary International, specifically from Alumni General Coordinator Rodney Mazinter. I will also be including information from publications sent to me from RI. However, you, dear readers, have an important role to play. The newsletter will be an excellent forum through which to share your District’s
successes in reconnecting with alumni, establishing alumni associations, involving alumni in club and district projects and programs, inviting alumni to be guest speakers and ultimately in increasing your district membership through alumni becoming new Rotarians. To that end, please send your stories (in Word) and photos (as jpegs) to me at [email protected]
Yours Stories and Photos Please!
Have these Alumni been invited to join the “Family of Rotary”?
