Speaker: by Frank Deaver, Rotary Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabam
Date: Feb 06, 2006
This was contributed by Fr. John, who found it on the ROTI board, possibly in the ROTI newsletter, the BreadBasket. ROTI is a Rotary Fellowship (for Rotarians On The Internet), which has a variety of mailing lists and conversation threads for topics of Rotary interest. For an introduction of Frank Deaver, see http://www.roti.org/news/frank.htm
Speaker: by Ryofu Pussel, President-Nominee RECSWUSA
Date: Jan 30, 2006
This program concludes what I might call a Club Assembly - lots of club business. This is a short submission about the island of Providenciales he tiny Caribbean nation of the Turks and Caicos Islands. As I read this program, I was astounded by two things - first that it was written in very lovely English by a man for whom English must be at least his third language. (Our PN is a German-born Buddhist Monk living in Japan with his Japanese wife.)
Second, can we not get some small project going on Hunger on this small island? I designate my $50 fine (for outliving my usefullness to my teenage children) to kick off this project. I have a beautiful print book written by Ryofu about the Turks and Caicos that I will personally ship to to highest bidder 4 weeks from now. Pledge a donation to RECSWUSA in support of the Rotary Foundation and this lovely book is yours. Make a big enough donation and I’ll have it autographed by the author on its way to you.
I’ll try desperately not to be envious of a guy who sends such gread material as an email when I’m busting my noggin trying to put together a program half as worthy.
Speaker: Yuri Vasilyev - The Moscow News
Date: Jan 23, 2006
A fellow Rotarian who used to be a member of the same physical Rotary club as I alerted me to this story recently. It is one of those old stories from the Cold War and, depending on how you count it, either twenty or two years old. That is, the incident it describes happened more than 20 years ago and the article you'll read is probably 2 years old.
I prefer to use stories from direct materials as much as possible and don't use very many programs directly from the internet. However, I investigated this story in a variety of sources such as the BBC, the Washington Post, and Knight-Ridder, who publish my local newspaper, the Arizona Republic. I chose the Moscow News article because the coverage was clear and pretty complete without too much clutter on the web page: any ideological leanings of the paper are incidental to the story.
The story reminds me of growing up in the service during the 1960s when my father was a military officer. I do remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, but not as a separate event (I was, after all, seven years old at the time). I am completely unable to separate the Cuban Missile Crisis from a variety of other military scares and alarums that caused my father to disappear periodically during those years and reappear a few days later with his men.
Speaker: Robert D. Kaplan
Date: Jan 16, 2006
Thanks to member Mel Taunt for submitting this week’s program about the lessons in practical democracy that our military is teaching and being taught in Iraq.
Speaker: Stephan Herrera, for ODE
Date: Jan 09, 2006
Thanks to member Larry Levenson for submitting this program about how a tiny Himalyayan kingdom has chosen happiness as a political goal and GNH (Gross National Happiness), rather than GNP, as the measure of its success.
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