Program: Searching for a Flashlight in a Dim Mist

Good Meeting

Thank you.

I lead; I follow; therefore I am.  An inspirational and thought provoking presentation.

awesome program

Interesting thoughts from around the globe--great insights!

Ha Ha!  love the humor!

Thanks!

~B

Outstanding program and pictures.  The memorial stone is very cute too!

Great meeting, thanks I enjoyed reading.

Thanks!

Wow! Lots of wisdom.Thank you.

Thanks. 

Nice program!

Great Program!

Thanks.

Enjoy the art pictures and the reading about art and how it affects our lives.

Good Presentation.  I willl read the PDF again.

Not sure this program topic is a good fit for anyone outside this club

A very interesting program,  I appreciated the themes of "freedom," "self-awareness," and "creativity."  The principle of "extinction equals creativity" applies, as well, to people who work in other fields (like law, anthropology, and ministry, as I do) without much structure to guide or reinforce them.  So what the author said toward the end of the program was meaningful to me.

Great Program

Great start Joe ..

As they sometimes say about wine, it is gonn'a be a banner year.

Mel

Thank you for sharing your vision of life, passion, and rotary service.  Excellent dialogue on leadership.  Being a linear thinker, I applaud and admire the visionary mind.   

this was an outstanding meeting, is incredible the perfect organization, congratulations

I enjoyed Martha Kanter's presentation on President Obama's vision for 21st Century education for our children.  Daniel Pink nailed it when he said, "We must prepare students for their future, not our past."  To do that, we must change not only the content, but also the means by which we deliver an excellent education to everyone.

Thought provoking!  I especially enjoyed PART FOUR: Rules for Those Who Almost Never Follow, but Lead.

I can put a great deal of those ideas into immediate action in my life.

Good meeting.  I especially liked the 'Sarges" comments.

Best wishes to Joe and the new board for a wonderful 2010-2011!

E Meeting is an interesting concept.

Excellent progra,m.

This was very thought provoking. I enjoyed getting to know Joe-his values, and his views on finding vision. I especially like "listen to everyone, follow no one." I like to think I have lived my life that way.

Great job  Thanks

Welcome Joseph Kagle as President of the eClub I am sure you will do a great job 

Very good meeting !! Thought provoking ! A great introduction for your year. Many of Pres. Joe's concepts in his dissertation were very timely for Rotary leaders this year

Roger Bonngard    broger@wbhsi.net    Chandler Horizon D5510

Club sec.   hoenigent@cox.net 

Thank you Joe...very long as usual, but very enlightening.  :-)  I especially enjoyed Part 3.

Excellent resource!

It is really inspiring. Congratulations Joe. I think you will be a great President of our e-club. I enjoyed the pictures, and hope to meet you sometime in the near future.

How did, "Our Creator," get into our verbiage.  Rotary is NON-SECTARIAN.  Please remove any reference to "Our Creator," as it is inappropriate.

Dick Tannenbaum

thanks....informative

I am going to try to help as best I can, Joe. Great metaphor of the flashlight.

While I enjoyed his entire message, Joseph Kagle's list of 20 "rules for those who almost never follow, but lead" is perhaps the most insightful message I've ever read (and I read constantly). Simply brilliant!

A very intersting and thought provoking program from President Kagle. Looking forward to a great Rotary Year.

Omar

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thank you for offerring this.

Martin

Good program!

Thank you

Thank you for this.  It was an amazing visit and I enjoyed the fellowship that is uniquely Rotary.  It's great to know that a visit with your club is just a few clicks away.  I especially liked President Kagle's very timely remarks that speak to all Rotarians.  he is a great servant with a great message.  Again, thank you for a truly wonderful visit.

Downing Bolls

Rorary District 5790

Thanks for offering this as an option.  I enjoyed it.

Thanks for the service.

The meeting was informative and humorous ...it was also easy to connect inorder to make up a missed local meeting.

The Flashlight article was very good. All Rotarians should read as Rotary is a Passion.

I enjoyed the President's program and wish him the best for the new Rotary year.

Newly elected E ROTARY PRES. KEGAL A Dartmouth  Graduate  heis also a Carnige Graduate .For 3 yrs   been  a committee  chair before becoming  Pres. E rotary has currently 700 members. 1 million rotarians visit  E Rotary  yrly.

In his  address as he takes his presidencfy of E  Rotary  his comments  incl. thoughts on "Vision" Art  gives us Vision. "Without Vision there isWisdom and w/o wisdom there is no passion , no wonder !

"The best  way to find  Direction is History ".

E Rotary  gives the attending local meeting Rotaians   another look at Global  opportunities and see the opportunities visionarys and leaders hope to achieve!

Jeanne Brown

Good thought provoking program.  It helps us keep direction in our personal and professional lives.

It's been awhile since I've made up via an EClub and I'm delighted by the way it has evolved.  I enjoyed the video from the Montreal Convention wrap-up as well as your club's program this week.  Thanks for your service! Peace, Ron

I enjoyed the video reviewing the last day of the RI convention in Montreal, a convention I was fortunate to be able to attend.  Also the program of helping the youth reath their potentials, East side Heroes, is a good example of what Rotary is all about.

AWESOME!!

Thank you.  Running a E Club sounds daunting.

I enjoyed reading and thinking aout your rules "for those who almost never follow but always lead."  I was also intertsted in reading your "meeting flow" as I had never experienced this in other eclub makeups I have attended.  Thanks for providing this opportunity.

I like Joe's vision,  I too spend most of each day " time-filled with writing on my computer, answering emails on the Internet, and talking on Skype and the telephone."

Thanks for a great make-up!

Great Program

I can tell already that this year with Joe as president will challenge me. Joe's writing has already challenged me to THINK! One can't just skim his words and expect to understand them. They require a commitment from the reader to dig deeper than the surface of the words to come up with a sense of the underlying message. Thanks, Joe, for a challenging 1st meeting.

Cool

Inspirational and encouraging.

Good as usual

Good as usual

Good as usual

Thank you for your comments regarding the 234 anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. I too am proud to be a Rotarian.

Very good presentation on Preparing to Lead, Checking My Belief......Thank you

I am very delighted to be part of this Organization that encouraged and pursuing peace and international understanding throughout the world. Visiting Eclub is very informative for making up a missed meeting.

enjoyed the meeting

I enjoyed reading the program and expect that many of the application discussed are relevant to my leadership in education. Thank you for opening your doors to me.

Ira Harris

Thanks for letting me make up.

Bill Gulliford. Rotary Club of Mandarin Jacksonville, FL

I am inspired... thanks Joe

 Congratulations to those involved in the first meeting of the year. A powerful Rotary message of Service & Fellowship was presented.

T0-morrow morning I go to our local airport where the Club will farewell our Brazilian exchange student. We will then have a bar-b-que breakfast & be shown over an aircraft factory. This will then double as a Club "vocational visit".

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If this program from new  president Joseph Kagle is any indication, then RECSWUSA is going to have a wonderful Rotary year. Kagle delivers an informative and artistic presentation of his plan for the Rotary year via vivid statements of personal philosophy covering Leadership, Vision, Passion, Commitment, Listening, Attitude, Self-Examination and Independence. He includes his personal "list of rules" which have guided his "professional life as an administrator and as an educator".  These rules emphasize self-reliance and collaboration, observation and initiative, preparation and passion, and a concern for fairness to others. Great Rotary program. Good luck this year President Kagle! 

Excellent correlation between the key rights of freedom stated in the Constitution, and the fact that if the basic necessities of safety, health, food and water aren't met, then people are not truly free.  RCI is dedicated to addressing these basic needs, and in a sense, working on freedom for all.

An inspirational program leading us into uncharted territory as at times "extinction creates creativity" . With our new permanent position in RI we will be leading the way of releasing some of the old making room for the workable new. We will be "dancing in the rain". Thank you, Joe, for a very thought provoking program.

My name is Ed Shockley. I am very impressed with Rotary and am a member of the Superstition Mountain Rotary in Gold Canyon, AZ. It is a privilege to be associated with an organization that truly accomplishes whatever its members believe is possible!

Joe is going to be a terrific President of our eClub! I loved the quotations and the art work. There are two other quotes I would like to add to President Joe's:

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Copncerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless idea and splended plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man coud have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now" - Goethe

"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is a great opportunity to make up meetings.  thank you.

INTERESTING

Just read Dr. Kanker's presentation and several of the comments.  Very interesting.  I will note that there is plenty wrong with our educataion system that must be fixed at the local vice national level, and school boards are sometimes the major obstacle.  The first fix is involved parents and citizens. 

As for higher education, it is getting priced out of range of working-class families.  Government grants are too few and do too little to offset the price of a degree from a major state university, and student loans is akin to loan sharking considering what is paid back.

I enjoyed the illustrations!

I'd like to thank Joseph Kagle for his "road map".  I am President-Elect of my club and will use his direction for this new undertaking in my life.  Well done!

Thank you,

Kat J. Crappel

The Rotary Club of Lafayette North

Lafayette, Louisiana

Good meeting.

Thanks!

Interesting program..  I vote yes for the 

Forum for New E-Club Constitution.

That Joseph is a long talker/writer. And that was some far-out art he used to accompany his program.

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place” as it is said in Zen, and it is right and good and timely that you are our new president, Joe. Great, insightful program.

Congratulations Joe it will be a pleasure to fallow a leader like you, some one that mixes the knowledge and the art is a good sample of a leader that leads leaders.

I am sure that it’s going to be a good Rotary year

Victor

Very nice program. I conduct an International Leadership Conference here, so much of it was familair territory. I wish we could get some young people to DC to meet students from all over the world!

Off to a great start, Joe!

Funny story from Bob. Most are... Welcome Joe.

Excellent presentation .

President Joe, I look forward to this coming year under your leadership,last year under past president Larry it was very special ,one of my most enjoyable years in Rotary .

Negatives into Positives / Extinction equals Creativity.

Very interestigng readings and welcome to our new club member from Canada and New Mexico.

Joe is exciting to discover! Now I will longer scared of your looks!:)

Have a wonderful year as president!

Heady stuff

great to see leadership and vision is not a young persons monopoly never thought it was but always a joy to see we all share that duty.

Joe, Your passion shines through. It is wonderful to see this positive desire for improvement at every level. You appear to be a changemaker in what some may folks may feel is an 'it will do world'.

It was interesting to see what I wrote and what I sent as visuals to go together. Stephen did a wonderful job of putting the two together. And what did I learn? That if you make a written text of 7 1/2 pages then add six visuals that take a whole page, you end with a lot of pages for a program. I promise that when I do anyother, I will shorten the written part to less and reduce the size of the images that accompany it. But as I said in my essay, it was not a "mistake" but it sure is another 'learning experience'. I wish to thank Stephen Shearin for putting this first meeting together for us all (plus all the other who contributed).

WOW! This should be some ride. Thank you Joseph.

Some really great points in there Joe. I like the extinction concept a lot!

‘When your plate is filled, most people eat fast at first, but you

are not ‘most people’ so try to slow down so that you can enjoy each bite. And…remember to take one

bite at a time!’

I couldn't agree more.

Program was great.

Thanks for the great words of wisdom, Joe!  This meeting definintely starts us off with that Independence Day BANG!

I wish esxpres my regard to Larry for all the caindeness and friendship with he cover us at mexico group. I extend my aknoledgment to the rest of the board, I,m so happy to be a part of an oficial rotary program and part of this great familiy.

To Joe, no just my welcome, you have my suport and my friendship. I,m sure that this time will be a very important year for our e- club programs.

Welcome to John and Francis

God bless to all of you

We certainly cannot go wrong by embracing Joe´s philosophy!  I am ready for the "Dance in the Rain."

Thanks, Joe.  Good to know you.

thanks a lot for this well prepared meeting

for a new member like me,it is important and usefull (minutes of board meeting help to understand who is who)

also to learn how important it is to dance in the rain..

appreciate the vision also..

I have three  questions:

1/when and how do we get the induction course?I can use skype

2/not a lot of BIO files  are filled...

I tried twice to do mine,filled everything,and at the end ,when I "save"....nothing happens,or  is saved,..and it has to be rewritten again,..and so on

am I wrong somewhere?

3/when "physical" meetings are planned,it is important for far away members to know it as much as possible in advance(albuquerque for instance in october,thanks,even if I will miss that one)

for instance ,any idea when the passing to new President will be done in june 2011??? I would like to fly to arizona for that occasion,for instance

thanks,I am learning,..and will try to help as soon as I feel at ease in this e-system ,which seems quite powerfull

amitiés rotariennes from France

GERRY(Gérard EPIN,France)

Thank you for the report about your 1° skype meeting. We can notice that the board is very busy and efficient! Thanks to Bob for the weekly jokes! Don't stop, please!  I appreciate your humor!Françoise

Joseph, your professional and personal preparation is going to give you a sucsesfull rotarian year, I will do my best this year to colaborate with you this year in the task you have give me in the Rotarian Fundation as chairman