Past Programs
Things You May Not Have Known You Can Do With Google
Speaker: Rushton Hurley
Date: May 24, 2010
Today's program is designed to help even the most techno-reluctant Rotarian learn tricks using the Google search page. You, too, can amaze friends and family with the many goodies revealed in the PDF linked below. All this for the price of a lunch to support our club's service projects (if you're feeling honorable) or for free (if you just want to build bad karma by ignoring the PayPal button).
The presenter, Rushton Hurley, is a high school teacher of Japanese language who spends way, way too much time at a computer keyboard preparing presentations for the teachers he trains around the world to use technology to better engage their students in their learning. He also hopes that his interest in technology will help the eClub find ways to help more young people take an interest in Rotary. Additionally, he juggles, though that has very limited relevance to today's presentation, which we should get started!
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Judi Woods: Paul Harris Fellowship
Speaker: Judy Taunt, Larry Levenson
Date: May 17, 2010
For our eClub, the highlight of the District Conference was presenting Judi Woods a Paul Harris Fellowship. Judi has been on staff at RI for 34 years, and has been supporting the eClub pilot project since its inception in 2002.
This is our first videop meeting. . . feel free to leave comments. By the way, Judi attends every one of our meetings, so you can leave her a message, too!
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Send your Mother a Cow!
Speaker: Beth Levenson
Date: May 10, 2010
A Midwestern farmer named Dan West was ladling out rations of milk to hungry children during the Spanish Civil War when it hit him.
“These children don’t need a cup, they need a cow.”
West, who was serving as a Church of the Brethren relief worker, was forced to decide who would receive the limited rations and who wouldn’t – literally, who would live and who would die. This kind of aid, he knew, would never be enough.
Thanks to Heifer International (Arkansas, USA), millions of people who were once hungry are nourished by milk, eggs and fresh vegetables. Families who for generations knew only poverty are building new homes and starting businesses. They send their children to school instead of to the fields to do backbreaking work. Best of all, each partner family experiences the dignity of sharing as they give one or more of their animal’s offspring to another family in need.
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Bernal - Town of Mystery
Speaker: Carlos Garcia Calzada
Date: May 03, 2010
Carlos Garcia Calzada has been a Rotarian for almost twelve years, serving the Rotary Clubs of Acapulco, Vallarta Centro, and Vallarta Sur before joining the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA. Carlos keeps busy with his work as an architect, and as a lover of photography, astronomy, wine, and learning, all of which find expression in his presentation today on his hometown of Bernal, Querétaro, Mexico.
Bernal is a town that is full of fascinating history, and an important pilgrimage spot for many who find its features and orientation something more than simply beautiful. Enjoy this visit to this special place, and allow Carlos to provide a peek into the perspectives of some of these pilgrims, too!
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A Walk in the Desert
Speaker: Karen Naranjo
Date: Apr 26, 2010
Have you been working all day at your computer? If so, it's clearly time to get outside. Get ready for a beautiful hike through the Arizona desert courtesy of Karen Naranjo, who has been with our club since 2004. Karen lives in the Phoenix area and will guide us through the land and flowers of her 'hood, aptly named "Paradise Valley."
NOTE: This is a somewhat larger file than usual, since we've got lots of wonderful photos in it. Please be patient while it downloads.
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