Speaker: Various
Date: Oct 09, 2006
Rotary has a milieu or great programs and organizations.
In our own club, we have some members (including Mel Taunt, John Selway, Joe Kagle and Rajinder Singh Bedi) who contribute to an organization of some notoriety -Rotary Global History Fellowship (http://www.rotaryhistoryfellowship.org/). Thank you gentelemen for your hard work and worthwhile efforts. RGHF is written and compiled by Rotarians to preserve the histories, values and philosophies of the Rotary movement.While there, you might want to subscribe to 'What Paul Harris Said' (http://www.rghf.org).
This week's program highlights a few very powerful statements regarding 'Why I am a Rotarian'.If you like what you read at all, go to http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/why/ and read them all.
Why are youRotarian?
Tell them.Tell us.Tell your neighbor!!
Write your own piece and submit it.
Have a great Rotary week!
Speaker: Paul Duggan, Washington Post
Date: Oct 02, 2006
This week's meeting was submitted by our own Mel Taunt, PDG, Club Secretary, veteran, and of course much, much more. He noted the length they had gone to provide detail for the recounting of the events of this story.
Consider - that no one alive today had ever seen this man alive! Yet, and justifiably so, he was returned with fanfare and given a hero's burial.
Join us next week to learn about the International Refugee Committee, founded in 1933.
Speaker: Gary Whiting, Centennial PDG District 5510 and GOL
Date: Sep 25, 2006
Thank you eClub of Southwest USA for having the Gift of Life-Arizona, Inc. for your club meeting program!
The Gift of Life, Inc. Program, was originally initiated by the Rotary District 7250 (New York) in 1975, and is today a worldwide International Service Program.Its primary purpose is to help those needy children who require corrective heart surgery to secure another lease on life through the miracle of open-heart surgery in a Gift of Life participating hospital in the U.S.A.
The concept of the program began in 1974 when the Manhasset, NY Rotary Club responded to a request for help from the Kampala Rotary Club in Uganda.The response brought five year of Grace Agwarnu on a 5,000 mile journey from Uganda to Roslyn, NY.She underwent a very successful four hour open heart surgical procedure to close a hole between the two lower changer of her small heart at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn.
Strange as it may seem, the interest in this event captured many Rotarians around the world.Over the years over 50 such programs have started up around the world and since that time have served well over 4,000 children from around the world.One of these programs was our own Rotary Districts here in Arizona which was founded and started in 1985 as a Project of the Rotary Clubs of Arizona as a nonprofit tax exempt 501 (c) (3) corporation administered by participating Rotarians and friends.Since that time, Gift of Life-Arizona has provided successful heart surgery for 203 needy children from 20 different countries. This includes 21 needy children from Arizona, USA.
As you go through the power point presentation, please note slide 8 which provides the basis for your club to provide some financial support based on membership size.Additionally, there is the ability to become a SILVER LIFE SAVER ($5,000) or a GOLD LIFE SAVER ($10,000).For example, a small club in District 5510, The Rotary Club of Superstition Mountain, and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon who donate $100 each week in the name of their program speaker.At the end of the Rotary year, they become a SILVER LIFE SAVER with an accumulation of $5,000.
Again, THANK YOU for having Gift of Life-AZ as your program.Please consider helping, as your help as a Rotary Club and Rotarian is badly needed.We presently have 24 children in the backlog of which 9 are from the Phoenix area.
In closing, as you visit our website to view the video, please note that you can send me an email by clicking on the Committee Tab and clicking on my email address.
Speaker: Rotarian Magazine
Date: Sep 18, 2006
You may have seen this week’s program if you read September’s Rotarian (p.31). Here is the online version.
In the coming months we hope to have several members, if not the whole club eventually, tell about themselves in the form of a meeting. Sort of a long vocational minute. We kick it off today with a great article from the newsroom at www.rotary.org featuring Recswusa’s own Frank Rosenberg. Thanks Frank!
From the article:
Young Rotarians are an elusive species. Ever wondered what makes them tick? Meet three who'll tell you. They'll explain why they joined, how they found their niche, and what they think Rotary offers younger people. Read on for straight talk from the next generation.
Speaker: Ralph Alig - USFS Research Forrester
Date: Sep 11, 2006
In response to last week’s program, we present another viewpoint.
Our virtual speaker is:
RALPH ALIG, a research forester and team leader (landuse and landcover dyna-mics team) with the PNW Research Station. He has studied socioeconomic factors prompting land use and forest cover changes
for more than 20 years, and has made long-term projections of land use and land cover changes for the United States. He has applied research-based tools in several special studies and assessments, including work supporting integrated modeling of forest land and rangeland eco-systems for the national RPA assessments.
E-mail: ralig@fs.fed.us
COLLABORATORS
Darius Adams, Oregon State University
Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University
Steve Winnett, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
Mac Callaway, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
Richard Haynes and John Mills, Pacific Northwest Research Station
If you do not have the time or inclination to read the entire meeting, please read the summary at least, found at the begining of the .pdf. While this presentation does not depart from the mathematics of Dr. Suzukis program on sustainability, it presents the information in light of the many possibilities. Again, if anyone has a related program, please provide it to pres0607@recswusa.org.
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences."
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