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Announcements: Shirley announced several projects: Buy pancake breakfast (December 2)tickets from Interactors. Bring new children’s books to the November 29 meeting for the Salvation Army Book program. The Four Way Test essay contest for Middle School students is coming up soon. The District 7610 speech contest will be held again this year for high school students. The theme this year is “Lead the Way”. It will begin in January and be completed at the district conference.
The G. Graham Green III Music Competition will offer a $3,000 scholarship for a talented music student. See details on our club web site.
Jon Freeze issued a Citrus Sale Challenge. The top men’s seller will receive tickets to a Redskins game. The top women’s seller will receive a $100 gift certificate to Claiborne’s. The Interact students will wrap and deliver your fruit orders as a fund raiser. Nelda distributed flyers for the Fredericksburg Community Chorus presentation of Handel’s Messiah. Katie is conducting again this year.
Program: Celebrating World Interact Week Representatives of the Interact clubs described their club activities to date and plans for the rest of the school year.
Shirley introduced Chelsea from Mountain High Interact. Chelsea worked for Relay for Life and put in fifty hours of volunteer time working on the McLean Rotary’s Books for India project. She collected twenty carts of books for the project. Shirley presented the President’s Volunteer Service award to Chelsea.
Loren Coles of the Brooke Point Interact Club is going to work at an orphanage in Peru. She’s leaving in December. She will be taking a suitcase full of winter clothing for these children. This is one of many suitcases we club members will need to help fill.
The Interact Club from the Oberle School has filled suitcases for the orphanage in St. Petersburg. They are also raising money to send a ShelterBox to Darfur. They have also volunteered at the Fredericksburg Food Bank, stocking the shelves, and visited the residents at Woodmont Nursing Home.
Shirley introduced Allie from North Stafford Interact. NSHSIC is sponsoring an orphanage in Mexico City. They will be sending suitcases filled with books, toys and blankets. The Interactors gave several lucky Rotarians the center pieces as door prizes. The meeting concluded with the Four Way Test.
What famous Rotarian said “My heart is in music, and my head is in business,”
Carole was happy to visit North Stafford.
Jon Freeze is happy that the Steelers finally won.
Mary said she was happy to be a Democrat. (There were some boos and some cheers from the crowd) She’s happy to see visit such bright young people. She’s also very happy about the new quarterback for the Redskins. Marie was happy to be back at North Stafford working with her two favorite families North Stafford Interact and Stafford Rotary.
Shirley announced that the Interact clubs developed their international projects all by themselves. The Colonial Forge Interactors send gifts to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan every month. The Stafford High Interactors just hosted a party for all of the foreign exchange students in the area. She’s also happy that the UMW Rotaractors have met their fund raising goals for the Honduras project.
Tim was happy to sit with a very motivated Interactor. He wished him good luck at the Coast Guard Academy.
Fred’s guest was happy Fred invited and happy Fred didn’t show up so he could eat Fred’s lunch also.
Joan was happy to see so many bright, successful young people.
Jeff was happy to see Carole back at the club. Carole and Graham were always so welcoming to him.
Carlos’s son is trying out for a professional band.
President Aric teased Jeff because Syracuse has such a bad football team. He announced that there would be a pre-parade gathering at the Princess Anne Building on December 2.
Clair and Harrison Simpson recommend The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
It is hard to explain, as each chapter is in the voice of a different character and it was confusing at first for me. However, once you figure things out it, is a very well written novel about an aging Polish writer, a manuscript of a book called History of Love, and the various hands the manuscript falls into over the years, as well as, missed opportunities for some of the characters.
Paul P. Harris was the founder of Rotary. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin on April 19, 1868, and spent his early years in Wallingford, Vermont, prior to attending the University of Vermont, Princeton University and the University of Iowa. Following his graduation from the law school of the University of Iowa in 1891 he spent the next five years seeing the world and in coming to know his fellow man before settling down to practice law in Chicago.
He worked as a newspaper reporter, a business college teacher, a stock company actor and as a cowboy. He traveled extensively as a salesman for a marble and granite concern in the U.S.A. and Europe. These varied experiences broadened his vision and were of material assistance in the early extension of Rotary.
In 1896, Paul Harris went to Chicago to practice law. One day in 1900 he dined with a lawyer friend in Rogers Park, a residential section of Chicago. After dinner they took a walk and he was impressed by the fact that his friend stopped at several stores and shops in the neighborhood and introduced him to the proprietors, who were his friends.
Paul Harris' law clients were business friends, not social friends, but this experience caused him to wonder why he couldn't make social friends out of at least some of his business friends - and he resolved to organize a club which would band together a group of representative business and professional men in friendship and fellowship. For the next several years he devoted a great deal of time to reflection on conditions of life and business and, by 1905, he had formulated a definite philosophy of business relations. Talking it over with three of his law clients - Silvester Schiele, a coal merchant, Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer, and Hiram Shorey, a merchant tailor - he decided, with them, to organize the club which he had been planning since 1900. On February 23, 1905, the club's first meeting took place and the nucleus was formed for the thousands of Rotary clubs which were later organized throughout the world. The new club, which Paul Harris named "Rotary" because the members met, in rotation, in their various places of business, met with general approval and club membership grew rapidly. Almost every member had come to Chicago from a small town and in the Rotary club they found an opportunity for the intimate acquaintanceship of their boyhood days. When Paul Harris became president of the club in its third year he was anxious to extend Rotary to other cities because he was convinced that the Rotary club could be developed into an important service movement. The second Rotary club was founded in San Francisco in 1908 and then other clubs were organized until in 1910, when there were 16 clubs, it was decided that they should be united into an organization which would extend the movement to other cities and serve as a clearinghouse for the exchange of ideas among the clubs. Representatives from the clubs met in Chicago in August, 1910, and organized the National Association of Rotary Clubs. When clubs were formed in Canada and Great Britain, making the movement international in scope, the name was changed, in 1912, to the International Association of Rotary Clubs, and in 1922 the name was shortened to Rotary International. Paul Harris was the first president of the International Association. When he passed away in January, 1947, he was president emeritus of Rotary International. While Paul Harris devoted much of his time to Rotary, he was also prominent in civic and professional work. He was the first chairman of the board of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults in the U.S.A. and of the International Society for Crippled Children. He was a member of the board of managers of the Chicago Bar Association and its representative at the International Congress of Law at The Hague, and he was a committee member of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Harris received the Ph.D. and LL.D. degrees from the University of Vermont and the LL.B. degree from the University of Iowa. The Boy Scouts of America gave him the Silver Buffalo Award and he was decorated by the governments of Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France and Peru.
The Rotary Foundation News
In Celebration of Rotary Foundation Month, Join Us on a Journey of Good Works from A to Z. The Rotarian, November 2006
In celebration of The Rotary Foundation: an alphapedia of expanded horizons and service to humanity. From funding an Ambassadorial Scholar studying in England to helping Rotarians spruce up a school in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, the Foundation translates Rotarians’ vision of a better world into action. Immunization efforts allow children to escape the poliovirus. An Indian dentist volunteers his services in Guatemala. A generous donor’s funds reach people in need. See how the Foundation fosters understanding and peace around the globe — from A to Z.
Service to the Letter: Major Donors to Zihuantanejo Major Donors Elsie Matthews, an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Alamogordo, N.M., USA, tries to donate at least $5,000 to both the Permanent Fund and the Annual Programs Fund each year. So far, she’s donated more than $100,000. This generosity makes Matthews a Major Donor, a designation that couples or individuals achieve when they donate at least $10,000 to the Foundation. There are six levels of Major Donors, with the highest recognizing people who give at least $1 million.
National Immunization Days Anil Garg, a member of the Rotary Club of Simi Valley, Calif., USA, remembers one particular child from the first trip he took to India to vaccinate kids against polio. Garg was in a hospital, and a woman carried a baby girl over to him. He squeezed the newborn’s cheeks and squirted two drops of vaccine into her mouth.
The vaccination was part of a National Immunization Day, a mass campaign to vaccinate all children ages five and under. NIDs may be held on a single day or over several days. Rotarians, health care workers, and other volunteers travel from house to house to administer the oral polio vaccine, and they set up booths where parents can bring their children for immunization. The Rotary Foundation supports NIDs primarily through grants to the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Rotary’s national PolioPlus committees, which are working together to fight polio. Since that day at the hospital in January 2000, Garg has participated in four more NIDs in India and one in Nigeria.
Open Projects List Terry Schaeffer, of the Rotary Club of Ventura, Calif., USA, has helped vaccinate children against polio in Nigeria – and he didn’t even have to leave home. He did it by donating US$1,000 to a project on the Open Projects List, a wish list of critical items needed to promote and carry out polio immunizations. Donors can specify a project on the list or let the Foundation’s PolioPlus Partners program decide how to allocate their money.
As of 15 September, $2,268,464.89 was needed for immunization activities in Guinea and India. The money was needed to buy items including bikes for vaccinators to ride during immunization drives, megaphones to announce the availability of vaccinations, T-shirts and aprons to identify volunteers, and banners and posters to promote immunizations. A donation of $250 pays for 70 T-shirts in India, and $530 buys 10 megaphones in Guinea. And the Foundation provides a 50 cent match for every $1 in cash contributions from individuals or districts. Find the list and a donation form here.
Paul Harris Fellows In his fourth-floor corner office, next to the pictures of his wife and three children, George Flowers proudly displays a certificate, lapel pin, and medallion. He received the items for contributing US$1,000 to the Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund, which finances humanitarian service projects, scholarships, and Group Study Exchanges.
That donation makes Flowers, of the Rotary Club of Columbus, Ga., USA, a Paul Harris Fellow, a recognition named after Rotary’s founder. Anyone who gives $1,000 to the fund, to PolioPlus Partners, or to a specified Matching Grant becomes a Paul Harris Fellow. People can also help others earn the title by making contributions in their name.
“It is a feel-good event to write that check and know that the money is going to be well used,” Flowers says. To become a Paul Harris Fellow or to contribute in someone else’s name, send in your donation and fill out the contribution form.
Questions So you’ve decided to start donating annually to the Foundation, but you’ve got a few questions and don’t know who to ask. Or maybe your district wants to sponsor a Group Study Exchange team but needs some help first. Which of the Foundation’s 160 staff members can answer can answer your question? In North America, you can call the Foundation’s toll-free customer service line at 866-976-8279 or e-mail contact.center@rotary.org for general questions. For specific questions, use the e-mail directory below:
Ambassadorial Scholarships and Rotary Grants for University Teachers inquiriess@rotary.org Alumni Relations alumni@rotary.org Blane Community Immunization Grants
Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award lois.robertson@rotary.org District Simplified Grants grants@rotary.org Group Study Exchange gse@rotary.org Matching Grants grants@rotary.org Planned and Major Gifts plannedgiving@rotary.org PolioPlus and PolioPlus Partners polioplus@rotary.org Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program Rotary World Peace Fellowships rotarycenters@rotary.org Volunteer Service Grants mary.howard@rotary.org
Reconnections National Public Radio foreign correspondent Linda Gradstein. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey. Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata. Former U.S. Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker.
What do these people have in common? They’re Rotary Foundation alumni, and you can read about them in the Foundation’s Reconnections bulletin. Foundation alumni are people who’ve been Ambassadorial Scholars, Rotary World Peace Fellows, participants in the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies program, Group Study Exchange team members and leaders, and recipients of Grants for University Teachers and Volunteer Service Grants.
Reconnections reports on alumni and their activities. Check out some articles from the bulletin.
SHARE It’s rare to give money and then have it given back to you. Not so with the Foundation’s SHARE system. Under it, half the money that districts donate to the Annual Programs Fund is returned to them three years later. The Foundation invests contributions during the three years it holds them, then uses the earnings to cover administration, program operations, and fund development costs.
The districts can spend the money on the Foundation programs it chooses to participate in, or they can donate to Rotary World Peace Fellowships, PolioPlus Partners, other districts, the Permanent Fund, and Trustee-approved funds for scholarships and humanitarian grants.
The Foundation makes the other half of district contributions available to all districts and clubs through programs like Group Study Exchange and Health, Hunger and Humanity Grants, which all districts can participate in regardless of their donations.
Trustees They’re a diverse group. One is a CEO of a tea packaging company. One worked as a coroner. Another founded a school for deaf children in Tanzania and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. One appeared in the 2002 edition of Chicken Soup for the Volunteer’s Soul. Another was a member of the Thai parliament from 1969 to 2000.
They’re just some of the 15 Rotarians who serve on the 2006-07 Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees. They meet four times each Rotary year and are appointed, on a rotating basis, by the RI president-elect to four-year terms. They approve grants and have the final word on the Foundation’s budget, fundraising goals, and program policies.
Unique If there’s one thing that makes the Foundation unique, it’s how it manages Rotarians’ donations to the Annual Programs Fund. Instead of spending contributions right away, the Foundation invests these funds for three years. Only after that time does it begin to distribute the money and the interest it’s earned.
Volunteer Service Grants Dentist Narayanan Mohan, of the Rotary Club of Salem West, India, spent a month extracting teeth and filling cavities for residents in an impoverished area of eastern Guatemala. One day a week, he worked at a rustic, Rotarian-supported dental clinic that relies solely on dentists who come from abroad to volunteer their services. On the other four weekdays, he traveled to remote villages to attend to patients.
Mohan was able to help out because of a Volunteer Service Grant from the Foundation. The grants pay for travel expenses, including room and board, so people can plan for or perform service projects in other countries. These grants (formerly known as Individual Grants) award US$3,000 to individuals and $6,000 to teams of up to five members.
World Peace Fellowships Nisa Chamsuwan monitored elections in Cambodia while working at the Asian Network for Free Elections. Later, the Thailand native joined the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, where she worked to promote human rights and democracy in Myanmar. Wanting to learn more about how to resolve disputes in Southeast Asia, she applied for a Rotary World Peace Fellowship.
These Foundation-funded fellowships pay mainly for tuition, transportation, and room and board for master’s degree programs at one of six Rotary Centers worldwide, which offer Rotary-approved courses in areas like human rights, environmental politics, peace studies, and international relations. The average amount of the fellowship is about US$60,000 for a two-year program. Fellows can study at universities in Argentina, Australia, England, Japan, and the United States.
Chamsuwan received a master’s in public administration from International Christian University in Tokyo. Today, she works for Fredskorpset, a development agency headquartered in Norway.
As of August, the Foundation had awarded 325 fellowships totaling $18 million.
X-rays X-ray machines are just one of the many items the Foundation has funded to improve communities’ quality of life. Since 2005, the Foundation has helped buy X-ray equipment for facilities in Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Ukraine.
Yemen The Foundation doesn’t slack off when it comes to polio, and the recent outbreak in Yemen is no exception. Between 1996 and 2005, the Middle Eastern nation hadn’t reported any cases of the disease. But when 478 cases showed up last year, the Foundation provided a US$750,000 grant for immunization-related activities. Yemen is now back on track. As of 15 August, the country had reported only one case of polio since February.
Zihuantanejo The Foundation is everywhere, even in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, a beach town where fishermen haul in the day’s catch and vacationers sip cocktails under palm trees.
It’s also where members of the U.S. Rotary clubs of Bath Sunrise, Maine, and Rockport, Mass., traveled to spruce up a local school. A US$5,994 grant from the Foundation paid for the Rotarians’ airfare, food, and lodging. At the school, the Rotarians cleaned a dormitory, painted a kitchen and bathrooms, did some landscaping, and repaired doors and windows. They also handed out eyeglasses, delivered books and school supplies, and gave away bed sheets, clothes, and toiletries to needy families.
This isn’t the first time the Foundation has left its mark in Zihuatanejo. It’s also provided a $5,000 grant for English language instruction and an $11,963 grant to fund a lunch program, along with supplies and equipment.
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Setup and Take down Schedule The Green team is responsible for setup and take down in November. Nelda Mohr is team captain. Team members are: Dan Bender, Jack Broome, Carol Foley, John Lafley, Mark Smith, Anne Truong, and Jeff Davis.
November Birthdays
November 8—John Lafley November 13—Chris Franklin November 27—Jack Broome November 29—Robin Sutton
November 29: The Rotary Foundation
December 5: Dr. J Thomas Ryan and Bob Lively of Medicorp. They will outline staffing strategies and medical opportunities for the new Stafford hospital.
December 12 or 19—Annual Meeting.
December 27—NO Meeting
November Is Rotary Foundation Month. It's a good time to reflect on the great Rotary Foundation sponsored programs we support and on how each of us can contribute to make sure these programs continue.
December is Family of Rotary Month December 2—Rotary Club of Rappahannock/Fredericksburg Annual pancake Breakfast—Interact Club members are selling tickets. December 8—Annual Christmas Party at Colonial Circuits December 16 - Club members will deliver Christmas gifts and food baskets to needy families. December 21—Christmas caroling at the nursing homes
January Is Rotary Awareness Month
February Is World Understanding Month
March Is Literacy Month
January Is Rotary Awareness Month
February Is World Understanding Month
March Is Literacy Month
April Is Magazine Month
April 19-22—District Conference, Charlottesville
2006-2007 Rotary Team Roster Pay Attention. These Have Changed!
Blue Team (July, January) Gold Team (August, February)
Mark Steele, Captain Chris Franklin, Captain Ann Smith Lou Barnett Eric Widener Dave Varrelman Mary Rose Vicki Lewis Tim Baroody Michael West Mark Osborn Ralph Davis Brenda Gibbs Sandy Duckworth Kelvin Stroupe Chris Gates
White Team (September, March) Red Team (October, April)
Rusty Cowper, Captain Ralph Sutton, Captain Nicolette Ward Shirley Heim Jeff Small Carlos Melendez Jonathan Freeze Sandy Pratt Ken Clayman Joseph Howard T. Campbell Harrison Simpson Richard Lyall Kat Kammer Carole Green Terry Enders Linda Govenides
Green Team (November, May) Silver Team (December, June)
Nelda Mohr, Captain Fred Donahoe, Captain Dan Bender Randy Burdette Jack Broome Keith Dudley Carol Foley Joan McLaughlin John Lafley Robin Sutton Mark Smith Mike Torosian Anne Truong Phyllis Yetkin Jeff Davis Elaine Farmer Tim Hull Jeff Scott
JUST THE FACTS
32,408 Rotary clubs
1,208,950 Rotarians worldwide
8,090 Rotaract clubs
186,070 Rotaract members*
10,716 Interact clubs
246,468 Interact members*
6,104 Rotary Community Corps
140,392 RCC members* — as of 31 March; *estimated
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