Speaker: Miss Truly Candid
From time to time we are visited by a truly great person, Miss Truly Candid.
Today is another of those days!
So read, enjoy, and leave some feedback.
Thanks for being here!!
This week comments: 153, this week visitors: 107
It was a pleasure to meet Miss Truly Candid! Until next time...
It was nice to hear Miss Truly Candid speak about the e-clulbs. It seems so logical now.
I always enjoy Miss Truly Candid's visits!
If that pic is of Miss Truly Candid, I must say...she's beautiful!!
Great Program.
Sad to say, I know people just like that (and they are in company management). I am sure she was a hoot in person.
I have a comment about your visitor fee since it is not a "meal meeting." I attend a regular sponsored meeting and they charge $10 (which from marketing point of view, if people pay, even a nominal amount, they are more committed to attending the meeting) but the money goes to an established charity. In our case, I would be more inclined to "contribute to a meal" if the funds would actually go to the foundation. Just a comment. thx for the opportunity that you provide.
Having known Ms. Candid for several years, even sharing a bed with her .. and another PDG ... I always welcome the opportunity to say "we love you."
Great meeting all around.
Mel
Greetings!
Thanks for making these meetings available; what a novel and entertaining way this is to make up a meeting.
Love the humor!
I enjoyed the song. Imagination is very powerful. It can take you any where that can you can think about. It can relief your pain and sorrows. All you have to do is just imagine.
I enjoyed reading about Miss Truly Candid. I truly believe we are who we think we are and can use our imagination to grow and have hope.
I think that I dated Miss Truly Candid in college. Nice to see that she hasn't aged a day since 1971.
I AGREE, WITH YOU, THAT BEING A PART OF THE E-CLUB IS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
Always appreciate a touch of humor to get a point across.
As always Miss Truly writes from a magical perspective! I am still laughing.
Speaker Miss Truly Candid provides a very humorous satire of Rotary, Rotarians, eClubs, generational attitudes, technological phobias, adaptive inertia, misperceptions, misconceptions, angst and parochial journalism. No one loves a good laugh more than Rotarians, especially at our own expense. The point-counter-point narrative describing the TERRA-itorial boundaries of traditional Rotary club procedures and observances versus corresponding eClub methods is entertaining, yet accurate. These differences were understandably valid concerns in the infancy of eClubs. However, the eClub concept has proven to be both true to the spirit of Rotary and well received by Rotarians; hence it's permanent approval by Rotary International. Excellent, and fun, program!
thanks for allowing me to sit in.
Interesting commentary on Imagination.
Very interesting thoughts from someone I had not heard of before.
I am in the Rotary Club of Palos Verdes Sunset in District 5280 (Los Angeles area), but am now on vacation in Lima, Peru. I am delighted to be able to make up by Internet from my hotel in Lima between tours of archeological sites and a cruise on the upper Amazon River rain forest.
It was great to hear from Ms Truly Candid again. I am looking forward to the picnic!
Congratulation for having Miss Truly Candid as a speaker, besides learning about Rotary, I can tell that she is Truly Lovely.
Truly yours.
Victor
Found several interesting articles (Rufus Chapin)
Goodafternoon,
My name is Victor Gutierrez and I am a member of the rotary club REAL DE MINAS located in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Our clubs president is Julio Villalta and our secretary is Carmen Villalta.Their mailing addresses are juliovillalta@hotmail.com and carmenvillalta@hotmail.com .
For those of you who dont know my country we´re located right in the middle of central america ( side by side with El Salvador and belor Guatemala) .
If any of you ever care to come we have a diversity of things you can do. If you like the beach we have great resorts on our atlantic coast and on our bay islands also.
On the main land you can practice rafting and canopy. We also have one of the best places to see the anciant Mayan ruins ( ehich is a tourist favorite) .
our two main cities are San Pedro Sula , located in the nothern part of the country, and Tegucigalpa which is the capital.
I´ve visited your site to make up my clubs meeting this past tuesday. And I expect to be visiting your site more often in the future.
Best regards,
Victor
Clever! This has been so refreshing - I hope our friend keeps writing!
Cute!
What a great story and commentary about the history of the e-club. Would love to hear more in the future from this Miss Truly.
The first comment I have to make is that I love Edsels.
Now that I put everybody in good humor let me see if I will be stepping on some toes. This is not something that, politically, Americans will normally talk about in a Rotary meeting but in order to open perspectives I want to talk about it. There are many members here who are not from the United States so I think this will be a more friendly audience to my ideas.
When I first joined Rotary in Maricopa Arizona we started out the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. After being out of the United States most of my life my first reaction was to look under the table to see if the one person not saying the pledge was the anti-American in the group. It was almost a Salvador Dali moment, I realize now, and I really don't know why I had this very strange reaction. But my feeling was that there was no reason to say this pledge unless everyone was trying to weed out the "traitors". I am not a "traitor" to my country so I could not understand why I have to pledge allegiance to my own country every week. It seemed to be pretty "childish". This might be a heretical thing to say in the State of Arizona but as that group changed over time there were people from other countries attending as well and doing something that would not enable them to participate in for political reasons I did not feel was particularly a “Rotary” concept. So in the spirit of realizing that Rotary is not just a United States organization I would encourage everyone to, over time, help ween Rotarians in every country away from these kinds of political statements as a beginning to the meeting.
In order to maintain my friendships in Maricopa there are only two people I mentioned this to: our meetings there also started out with a prayer which was very Christian in nature. I lived in the United States for my first 16 years so I am used to this and just did not participate in the prayer. But as a host, on occasion, to non-Christians from other parts of the world in our club I began to find it offensive and not in the tone of a non-religious organization.
So, to turn this into something constructive I would encourage all of you who want to end these two practices to feel free to contact me anytime and I will help you make the argument for terminating the Pledge Of Allegiance and a Christian prayer at the beginning of these meetings.
Bill
Always a pleasure... I get the feelign that I am at one of our regular meetings in Tifton, Ga without actually being there. This is a valuable tool for any professional with a demanding travel schedule.
Good program...liked the bit on the Podunk Pines and the Rotary Sergent.
Thanks for the make-up
Jim Schulze
Thanks for a good meeting. Right now I have 69 students here from 8 different nations. Miss Truly reminds me that where I came from and that in fact people are the same from all over the world.
thanks for a great meeting
Very entertaining, thank you
Quite lite . . . or light . . . , not fairly lite or light fare. This is going nowhere.
This program was great! The concept of eclubs is nice and I enjoy the 24/7 access of these clubs. There are times that I just can not get to my clubs meeting, and this allows me the flexiablity to attend a makeup meeting and learn from other Rotarians, that I may not have been able to exprience otherwise. It is odd how so many people have a hard time with change, but is it the change that causes the problem, or the unknown of what effects these changes will have? Thank you for letting me enjoy a meeting from your club.
E-CLUB/S ARE DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT ROTARY HAS NEEDED - IT'S GREAT TO SEE US GET OUT OF THE BOX - WALT
As always, I throughly enjoy Miss Truly Candid's editorials. I can't wait to hear about the picnic in the next issue of Podunk Pines Weekly.
This was just too imaginative. Simply loved the syle and approach to change. What a super introduction to eClub. I will return to this site as needed in the future.
hi there, I did this meeting a few days ago and did not get a confirmation so I'm processing it again. thank you
As always, a pleasure to do a make-up with this club. Thanks so much! And, in case I forgot to say a few weeks ago - congratulations on your 'official' Rotary club status.
This was my first visit to your club, I will visit again.
Thank you Miss Truly, I do hope you will one day get a chance to visit romantic Africa - we can host you and show you some wild life while you are here
I enjoyed reading about what other clubs across America are doing in thier communities and in other parts of the world. Thank you for the opportunity to peek into your website.
Being a new e-club member this was my first meeting with Miss Candid. Loved the history, thank you Mel & Judy, and loved the humor. Change means you are out of the box and growing. If we only did what has always been done we would be stuck in the spider web rather than embracing the world wide web. Huge Kudos to Larry for the E-Rotaract club, check out the web site. I can't wait to see where the Rotaracters take this. Hang on everyone, its going to be a great ride!
Dear Ms Truly, change is a very unsettling thing but it has brought with it some good including this eclub make up. Happy anniversary to SW e club ..you have been a port in a storm for me and I Truly lookm forward to your meetings and to reading more from Ms Truly.
The thiougths from the District Governor were thoughtful. The E-Club of teh Southwest is to be commended fro teh activity level and the expansion of their membership throughout the world. I know that I enjoy your meeting materials and programs.
Thoroughly enjoyed Ms Truly Candid.
Don Oberlin, Irving, Texas Rotary Club
Great reading the way Truly Candid wrote the story of the e-clubs...
Thank you for this meeting
Love the song "Pure Imagination" it brought me in for a closer look. Thanks!
Thank you.
Thanks ! I really enjoyed Miss Truly and printed her speech to share at my club.
Since I had to miss, it's nice to be able to see a little more of the larger concerns and still get credit for attendance.
This is a great site to attend meetings when I'm not able to make a regular one. Loads of information. Thanks, John
Interesting!
Very nice.
cute program!
Thank you for hosting!
I enjoyed attending!
thank you!
Excellent format. I really like the arrangement of information and topics. I would like to see more make-up topics to choose from and which further educate me on Rotary programs and activities.
Though I have made up at Rotary eClubs this is the first time I have visit your eClub and I like the way in which a visitor is taken through your meeting. This is certainly more interesting than reading an article and answering a set of questions.
I belong to the Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya of District 3300, Malaysia. The Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya has 54 members and was chartered just on 50 years ago. If any member of Rotary eClub of Southwest USA visits Malaysia, please do come and make-up at our meeting. We meet on Tuesdays at 12.45pm at the Grand Dorsett Hotel, Subang Jaya, which is about a half-hour by car from the capital city Kuala Lumpur.
Interesting woman, strains of Dali Lama.
Tried to find Podunk Pines, or Podunk in Colorado but was unsuccessful. Must be like Lake Wobegone??
Loved Miss Truly Candid's history of eClubs
light hearted
Couldn't attend my meeting on July 27th due to business conflict. Thankful your club sponsors an e-meeting. Your topics are also interesting and you manage to have great speakers. Great news now that the e-clubs are officially considered Actual Clubs by RI. Kudos to Mel and Judy Taunt for having the bright idea to create e-club meetings.
This was fun and funny.
Video or interactive would be nice, but thanks for putting this together.
Learned that if I don't find a man soon, I will be buried in white. SHEESH
tremendous. Would certainly love to have her attend our Meeting in Sun Lakes Arizona
I "truly" do love Ms. Candid... and all of her constituents... and yes, it took me a minute or two to get the Rhode Island part... but I did! Programs such as this are always a nice change of pace. Thank you for providing a ton of smiles today!
Thank you for making the e-meeting available. This is a great way to get a feeling of other clubs . It was a great experience.
Good infomation
This program was quite entertaining while also identifying some common misnomers. Very good, as always!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the Podunk times. I am a "newbie" to rotary having joined in February of this year.
Thank you!
Joanie Asendorf
Perrysburg, OH
To the Rotary eCLub of the Southwest,
Thanks again for your meeting. I was able to do my last makeup during my cruise to Alaska.
Yours, In Rotary,
Charles Adams, Bellevue, NE Rotary Club
The program is an excellent, humorous history of eClubs. She seems to have a wonderful understanding of Rotary and its purposes.
8-3-2010
Miss Truly Candid’s article "Rotary Accepts E Clubs" is a funny perspective on the true progress that Rotary is making in continuing to embrace and promote "Service Above Self" and in doing it in ways that are current, effective and inviting to potential new members. I think this article does a lot to bring together the more traditional membership and the more contemporary membership in a very positive way.Thank you.
Excellent program. Thank you.
This has been my first experience with eclub. Enjoyed the program very much. Thank you. Robert Bohn
This is my first meeting as a member of the club. I have made up several times and found the programs fascinating. Since I am currently surrounded in all directions by dirt roads that are impassible I am delighted I can go on line to a great meeting, find out that Rotary doesn't consider me a lost soul any more. I was not official for a whole month and it really bothered me. I am one of the vice chairs of the Rotary International Fellowship of Physicians and they hung on to me until I could get accepted. Thank you all and Miss Truly Candid I think has a Navajo version here in Pinon Arizona. The flask would be illegal here though.
This was a truly unique way to make up a meeting, one that I enjoyed that offered new perspective. Thank you for offering this opportunity.
It was good for a smile.
One thing that I have learned from my wife Hummingbird Rose and my son Billy Friendlee is that what they want normally gets done, therefore we will plan to visit you in the fall when I return to Calamity, Texas. It is what my father used to tell me: "On days when nothing is going right, go left!"
Bubba Jay III
That was a great way to share the history of your club being formed.
That was a great way to share the history of your club being formed.
Very interesting. I agree, e-clubs definitely have a place in Rotary. For me, it is a great way to do a make-up.
I really enjoyed the meeting and your Humour Truly ,I look forward to your next program, "Australia Down Under"
Enjoyed the speaker's comments
After reading President Joe's invitation for Bubba Jay 3 to visit Miss Truly Candid in Quaking Aspens, I got right on the phone with her. She was ecstatic! She believes that she and Bubba will get along just fine. She says she will get her Edsel washed and hope it doesn't rain so she can get across the river to Podunk Pines to meet his train. They have a little travel court there with three cabins, so Bubba will have a place to stay. In Quaking Aspens we only have Phillip Fuller's gas station, the little grocery store owned by Clevis Butcher, and the Quaking Aspens Community A Capella Church & Bingo Hall. I know Bubba will want to visit the Big Town of Podunk Pines where there is more happening. She plans to put a notice in the Podunk Pines Weekly News when Bubba visits.
It is always fun for me to leave the hurly-burly world of wars, floods, robberies, plane crashes and toxic politics and "become" Miss Truly for a little while. It calms my nerves, and I hope many other eClub members will consider visiting Quaking Aspens and Podunk Pines again in the future.
I got a letter, from a prospective member of our eClub wanting to know if she could join us and maintain her own perfect attendance. She also wanted to know if she would continue to receive The Rotarian magazine. Yes and yes, I told her. We really are Rotarians. A member of my old local club told his friends that "Jack is in an eMail Club." Well, whatever, we are in Rotary.
Clever commentary on Rotary.
Thank you Miss Truly Candid, I am still laughing. What a wonderful tool to introduce e-clubs to Rotarians around the world.
I love Bob's Sergeant At Arms, introducing guests and their comments, from the virtual room.
Great program, nce special guest and congratulations to all who celebrates birthdays and wedding aniversarys
God bless you all
Thanks for the very entertaining program this week. Podunk Pines sounds very similar to a place not too far from where I live, Lake Wobegan.
Always A treat to get the real news from Miss truly.
Although I am in the Pennsylvania mounrtains instead of near Podunk Pines in Colorado, I feel like they are sister towns, down a long newly paved side road. The computer that I found from our 11th Family Reunion, always hosted by my sister and her herd of children, grandchildren and friends, is not just slow; it is anciently slow. There are thumb prints of dinasaurs on its keys. I appreciate Ms Truly's comments. In the seriousness of being a Ro9tarian, there is, as our District Governor Glenn keeps on telling us all, "Rotary is fun, while we give serive and fellowship."
Oh, Ms Truly, I told Bubba Jay 3 about your invitation to visit him in Podunk Pines and he said that he was interested but he would answer you when he returns from Paris (taking with him his sweet wife and his son). It is a vacatiion from the heat of Calamity, Texas and an opportunity to talk with his gallery dealer there. Oh, it is not Paris, France (he has an exhibition there in the spring of next year): it is Paris, Texas (in the mounratins where it is cool right now). Thank you for this program. I might come with Bubba when he goes to Colorado to visit you.
Imaginatiion without borders, Joe.
Miss Truly Candid speaks the truth! Thank you again for having the foresight to move Rotary forward into the future with this E-Club.
I think it must have been Miss Truly's Edsel that I pulled out of the creek near Podunk Pines with my '67 Jeep CJ-5. What made it so difficult wasn't the swiftness of the creek, is was that she kept me laffin' so hard I could hardly drive the Jeep straight.
Great program, Miss Truly
Whoa Nelly! Miss Truly for President of anything she wants.
It's 102 here, but traveling to Colorado to be with Miss Truly certainly is refreshing and cooling, just like I think this year will be.
Go Cowboys and Miss Truly!
Congrats for taking rotary into the 21st century
hello everyone
always a nice and fresh meeting
thanks
GERRY(Gérard EPIN,France)
