Speaker: Miss Truly Candid
[This MAY be a picture of Miss Truly Candid, taken several decades ago. No one seems to be sure if this is really her or not!-- Editor ]
Our speaker today is Miss Truly Candid who comes to us from the small village of Quaking Pines, high in the Colorado Rockies. She is a graduate of the Backwater Hills High School where she took a journalist class in her senior year. Soon afterward she settled in Quaking Pines where she became the Society Editor of the Podunk Pines Weekly News. Podunk Pines is about five miles from her home, and she travels there every week to deliver her copy. She feels it is her solemn duty to let everyone in town know exactly what everyone else is doing. Her journalistic skills came to the attention of a Rotary District Governor a few years ago, and she was invited to attend a Rotary District Conference. She has written before about this event for our club. She now feels she is an unquestionable expert on all things Rotary and never hesitates to give her opinion. Today she is covering the Rotary E-Club of the Southwest.
I have admired Miss Truly Candid, created by E-Club member PDG Norma Taylor-Roderique, since the late 1990s when she became noticed by Rotarians. She shares her peripheral view of life with charm, wit, and humor. Miss Truly sees the world from a wise, joyful perspective in which we can laugh at ourselves. I hope you find Miss Truly as much fun as we do.
Judy Taunt
This week comments: 104, this week visitors: 86
Funny. I enjoyed it
Very funny and informative. I use RECSWA all the time for makeups from my home club in Joliet, Illinois, but I learned a lot about RECSWA today.
Excellent way to communicate our size and diversity. If Miss Candid needs a ride sometime, I volunteer.
Wow, what a cool program!!! There are some Rotary friends I want to send that to.
If Miss Truly is right, then being logged on must be a version of having one's feet held to the fire...
I think it's miraculous that we can translate the one-click the received messages and that exist even translators can not rely on them, help us to have a good idea of the meaning of documents in another language different from ours. With these instruments I may be in touch and communicating with you all.
Another thing to consider as a miracle, is what happened to me as Miss Truly Candid, that we can communicate through computer and skype wonderful. The feel and understand the work that cost him understand.
Have a nice day
That was fun! But I have one question: I know what a keyboard is but what's a typewriter?
Inner Peace made my day! Thank you!
LOL..Rotary Police!?! How funny! Great speaker!
That was great- wonderful use of humor to make some great points.
Very Interesting information. Paticipation is the key ... volunteering is also important. It might be a great idea for us to consider particpating online real time when it is not possible to attend the meeting.
I loved the article from Miss Truly Candid. I also enjoyed reading about the connection between the Boy Scouts and Rotary International. My son is working on his Eagle Scout project right now and I'm a second generation Rotarian. Our Club has a connection with the local Boy Scout Council and we've been trying to deepen the connetion with our club
I wish other members of my Rotary Club would read this clever article by Miss Truly Candid....it would help with our attendance percentages and tracking volunteer hours. Thanks.
Thanks for allowing me to read about your club meeting. Very interesting agenda.
Very nice way to get your message across!
It was very interesting to go through your web pages. In case I could be of any help to contribute any articles towards reducing global warming, I would be happy to do so.
Great humor. The world takes itself too seriously sometimes and to revert to times when things were simplier if refreshing. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Great humor. The world takes itself too seriously sometimes and to revert to times when things were simplier if refreshing. Thanks for the nostalgia.
This is my first e-club make-up - what fun! We, too, have an Australian-born member in our Club. And though he has bee in the US for 40 years, that Google translator thing would sure come in handy! Loved Miss Truly Candid, too.
Wendy Bonilla, Rotary Club of East Moline-Silvis, Illinois
Very interesting and I do not know what I would do without being able to make up meetings on line. By the way, I really enjoy your clubs meetings and I attend them regularly. Thanks for being an Rotary E-Club!
So enjoyable! Thanks Judy. and thanks PDG Norma for creating Miss Truly.
I think I have been to Quaking Aspens and Podunk Pines. Might be great if we still had that lovely type of writing for the RYLA students T. Murphy
Entertaining way to encourage greater participation
It makes sense that there has been a close connection between Rotary and the Boy Scout organization since their early days. I assume that Rotary Clubs around the world will be doing something special to help the Boy Scouts celebrate their centennial year.
Thank you for this opportunity! I will come back just to hear about your community projects!
This is the second time I have tried to download the pdf of the meeting and got the message that the file is damaged and cannot be retrieved. This has only happened this month, and I haven't changed any of my computer settings.
Any suggestions? I really like "making up" with you!
wish you success with your eclub;and its projects and fellowship.
I am on a marathon business trip across the South and Southeast of the U.S. Everywhere I have been, I have been impressed with people from our church who volunteer to do all kinds of amazing things. For instance, we have a city manager in an affluent suburb of a large city who spends a huge amount of time helping with an inner-city congregation that ministers to all the "discards" of society. He (and they) are doing something truly important to give people hope and freedom. So the point of this program is well-taken: volunteer!
The Sergeant of Arms report had me nodding and wanting to share it with our own club. I loved Miss Truly Candid's wit and charm. Indeed acronmyms meaning Rhode Island! Loved it!
Ah, The computer ! Miss Truly Candid's writings are basic downtown to earth, homefolk style remind me of my growning up yrs in the tiney town only 11 miles from BIG D, back in the olden days ! I still live in Irvin my Husband was a Rotarian for with perfect attendance of 37 yrs. I 3 yrs.
Stories of frustration, joys and simpler. Her comment of 3 ft of snow on the groun and not being able to get accross the creek, pale to what our Dallas area has jusst come thru , no doubt you've heard, 12' plus of record snow over Feb 12 thru 15 and THEN WE HAD RUN OFF MELT WHICH TURNED TO ICE for 4 more days !
I enjoy E Rotary, especially in adverse weather conditions, being captive to my business, as I own and manage my Funeral Home my late Husband's career began in 1957,
Thank you for this E Club.
I will keep good thoughts/ prayers of your member who announced his health issues with cancer.
INTERESTING VERY BRAVE
The program was truly refreshing, and I must be candid here, unfortunately needed. Every Rotarian needs to find her or his niche--and then do more.
Keep on keeping on!
Rick
The article Miss Truly wrote was very interesting. Being from a small town, I can relate to it!
This is my first time visiting Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA. It was very interesting for me to get to know you. I would like to take part in your meeting again if I have a chance. Thank you.
A nice humorous way to tell all Rotarians to participate in their Clubs and in their communities.
Thank you for another great meeting.
The "inner Peace" segment was great. What a great reminder to keep perspective.
Thanks - Martin Fox
What a beautiful story about Miss Trully Candid, she has talent and drive.
Clever approach to getting members to take in the need to participate.
Outstanding speaker, and quite a "Dish". A good story always helps get the point across
Nice mix of information and fun
There should be some more Truly Miss Candids in this world. What a great way to start the day with Rotary.
I am President of Sunrise Rotary and was unable to attend my own meeting today. I am thankful for your presence on the web!
Good approach to get members involved.
Good pep talk!
Wow! Outstanding as usual. Miss Truly Candid really opened my eyes into the workings of your club. out of curiosity, is it possible to transfer from my club to yours? I am increasingly having trouble making attendance, hence my online make up forays.
Thank you for allowing me to make up with you. I will certainly mark your eclub on my Favorites list.
Alfredo Ontiveros, Sunrise Rotary Club of El Paso, TX
Dear Ms. Truly Candid:
One last thought before a good night's sleep: If you walked in the door with that hat and that form-fitting dress, I do not think that I would question your knowledge of Rotary affairs. You seem quite adept at dealing with 'affairs of the heart'. Next time that you see my friend, Norma, tell her that I miss our correspondence, but you know that, I am sure, Miss Truly!
I loved the insights, understated, and the overreach in what you do not know, overstated, but mostly I enjoyed having such a knowledgable woman sit next to me in a Rotary E-Meeting.
Gosh, I got three women of knowledge about Rotary in one program: you, Miss Truly, Norma and Judy. Wow!!
The Olympics are also a wonderful time. I think Rotary make wishes come true by funding six families's attendance at the Olympic Games is AWESOME and what Rotary is all about. I have recently been involved with raising funds for the Make a Wish Foundation with a small organization and the feeling it provides to complete this event is undescribable. Major Kudos! Thanks for reminding us of what we can do for those less fortunate than us or those with terminal illnesses that have a dream.
Also congratulations to the Boy Scouts. Wow, Rotary sponsoring 45,528 Boy Scouts is unbelievable and GREAT.
Miss Truly has a good point. Oh she's also pretty funny.
Mis Truly Candid is truly clever. I liked knowing about the Rotary Club in Canada pairing up with the Make A Wish Foundation.
I see the e-club has the same concerns our morning club has. Surely Miss Candid will touch the hearts of your members, and I look forward to sharing her insight with my club.
Thank you
I am sorry to learn that Jerry Traylor is dealing with cancer and encouraged that it can be treated, and concerned that it is non-curable. It is nice that Rotary can be involved in Chirldren's Wish Foundation and sent 6 families to the 2010 Olympics! That is awesome for the families and children especially. I enjoyed the "Inner Peace" submitted by Bob Adams.
Great Program
This was one of the most entertaining Rotary meetings I have ever attended! Thanks for the reminder of why we are members of Rotary. I also liked the "inner Peace" segment.
How wonderful it is that Rotary can provide such kindness in a world that has forgotten that practice. The familes who attended the Olympics because of Rotary will spread a helping hand and who knows in the near future what will happen in the lost world. We may wind up finding ourselves again.
Miss Truly Candid is A delite. I am sure she has gained her vast knowledge of all things Rotary by intimate participation in Rotary affairs. Very inlighting.
Very enjoyable and a good laugh. I certainly hope Miss Truly figures out the whole online thing so she can join one of your meetings!
I enjoyed your commentary and am impressed that you are also doing outreach with the 4 way test like my club is.
As always it was a great meeting. I am very fond of the idea of eclubs and I would be interesting in knowing how the eclub members vol;unteer in their own communities. Is the volunteerism identified in any way with the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA?
A terrific way to remind everyone (not just e-club members) that you only get out of Rotary what you put in.
Original and very entertaining program serving two purposes: one, to poke a little gentle fun at Rotary, the internet, modern technology and the Rotary eClub phenomenon; and ,two, to encourage Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA members (56 in 16 countries on six continents) to "participate, volunteer and report your hours, take some leadership steps to improve your club, enter some news on the home page, and take part in some of those discussion forums". In other words, utilize more of the tremendous opportunities available to the eClub member, while at the same time doing what Rotarians do best, serving the best by serving the most - VOLUNTEER! Excellent program.
Very good program. Miss Truly Candid made important points about Rotary in a humorous manner.
One of the best programs I have seen online.
It's always fun to step outside myself and be Miss Truly once in a while.
Undoubtedly this is the most entertaining make-up ever!
Happy birthday to whom celebrate it. I,m happy to know about the e club. Nice home page and congratulations.
The poem was delightful. I enjoyed the information about the Boy Scouts. Miss Truly made me laugh. Very Clever. Thanks. Mary Baskett
Dear Ms. Truly:
Sorry to bother you again but after coming home from the YMCA (working these tired bones and muscles), I did notice that the E-Club that you describe does have some bland spaces for the 53 members that you reported. It is where their faces (photographs) should be: one from Illinois, Monterrey, Mexico, and Massachusetts; three from California; and eight from Arizona (isn't that where the E-Club began). With this new computer that my ten-year old has helped me master, I have a friend in New Zealand who I have never met face to face across a table but I know from his writings and the image of his face on the computer. In fact, I have learned to know him better than my recluse next door neighbor. It is interesting. Is this what you meant by needing to communicate?
A friend who admires your dress and hat.
Congratulation for the program, It’s a “Candid” and “Joyful” way to present an E-Club
I have read and enjoyed the writings of "Miss Truly Candid" for years. It was delightful to be able to enjoy "Miss Truly Candid" again with a new twist. Thank you Norma!
Happy 100 for the relationship with Rotary and Scouting. Paul Harris received the top BSA award in 1934. Given by the president, Walter Head. It was interesting that another Walter Head was president of Rotary. http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1910harris/paulharris/office/awards.htm
Dear Miss Truly Candid:
After I took my eye drops last night for my bad eyes, I found that reading your most interesting article about something called an E-Club was fascinating. I too have questions about how such a Rotary club can work over the computer (but I did purchase one of these devilish devices last Christmas) and find that I can now keep up with my ten-year old granddaughter, who understands its uses quite clearly- in fact, she just did something called "a power point presentation" in her fifth-grade class on some National Park. I have asked her to help me with my computer and she is schooling me.
I do find that some people are better at "hide and seek" than my ten-year old granddaughter but I do not have a clue how to start finding them. Maybe you could help me on this mission.
Thank you most kindly for this interesting and bewildering article,
Grandpa Joe
Certanily the e-club has opened up the world of Rotary communication. Yes I am doing a make up because I was away last week seeing my grandchildren who live in Surfers Paradise on the Austrlian Queensland coast. If you have not been , book a flight!! Next month I travel to Durban in South Africa to participate in a Rotary Fellowship activity of Cricket. This is an International Festival where teams from Australia, New Zealand, India ,Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England & South Africa are invited. One of your e-club members, Charles Townsing is a member of the cricket Fellowship which is officially called IFCR, International Fellowship of Cricketing Rotarians.Enjoy your Rotary
Ian Petherick PP & PP of Australia IFCR
It's ALWAYS a pleasure to hear from you, Miss Truly! And I must say, you're looking preyty good! :)
