Posted: 2 years ago

Fan Page  Yes

You and I officers   Yes

I am not sure what  "closed member group " is 

I would like to invite  people on facebook to check us out

An outreach for our rotary E Club

I found a  facebook site  for Rotary E Mentoring with  a few thousand fans

Also there are a number of Clubs that have pages on facebook I would like to be able to invite them to become friends on our page

A number of our members are already on facebook

I sent a message  on face Book to Jack Selway  asking if  that is you

if it is I will send you a friend request

 

Posted: 2 years ago

I have this demanding (self impossesed) job at RGHF that keeps me very busy serving our members, so only members of RGHF are in my friends file.

A fans page can let outsiders know what we're doing. If you want the Facebook page for fellowship among members, then it should be closed.

Once you join that page, I'll make you the administrator and you can geta  team together to decide how you wish to proceed.

Again, if what you want is open communication with the world, then invite everyone and open it to anyone. I'll drop out so that it doesn't conflict with my RGHF work.

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Jack M. B. Selway, RGHF Founder & CEO

Posted: 2 years ago

Closed is fine

I need to learn to walk before I try to run

I have signed up for our group  on facebook

Thanks

 

Posted: 2 years ago

I did not see you sign up. Could the "Inn at.. something" have been you?

Do you have a personal Facebook account?

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Jack M. B. Selway, RGHF Founder & CEO

Posted: 2 years ago

Posted: 2 years ago

Larry

Should we ask the board for approvial of the Facebook group ?

Thanks

Arnold

Posted: 2 years ago

Yes, that probably should have been done before the page was created. but always works to say "Sorry, is this okay."

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Jack M. B. Selway, RGHF Founder & CEO

Posted: 2 years ago

Hello Arnold, I think that it is very easy to lose time on facebook because you read about a friend, then about a kid, than another friend and you can't do anything else! So, I just use facebook for watching pictures  of my friends and children. I did not tell you, not yet: I have 4 children, wonderful children and I love them; I love all the kids! françoise.

Posted: 2 years ago

Hi Françoise

I have sent you a friend request on Facebook from "The Inn at Deep canyon " please accept it

I will then send you an invitation to the Rotary E Club Group

I have set it up as a way to reach out to Rotarians and non Rotarians to  let them know about  a Rotary E Club

Thanks

Arnold

 

Posted: 2 years ago

Oh, I see, that 's a great idea ! I will go on FB for reading what you wrote. Yours. Françoise.

Posted: 2 years ago

MAY 7, 2010: THERE WILL BE NO RAIN TOMORROW. IT SHOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL, COOL (FOR HOUSTON, TEXAS), CLEAR DAY. HOW CAN YOU ‘DANCE IN THE RAIN’ WHEN THE SUN IS BRIGHTLY SHINING? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE: GO TO THE ART CAR PARADE WITH THE GRANDCHILDREN AND DO YOUR RAIN DANCE IN YOUR HEART AND IMAGINATION. EVEN DAN AYKROYD OF “GHOSTBUSTER” FAME WILL BE THE GRAND MARSHALL. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM AND US IS THAT HE GETS TO RIDE IN ONE OF THE ART CARS AND WE SIT AND WATCH. STILL, WE WILL ALL EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF THE MUSIC, THE CROWD WHO EXPECTS THE UNEXPECTED, THE EXCEPTIONAL ART CARS, AND THE WHIMSY AS EACH CREATIVE CAR PASSES IN THE SHAPE OF A DRAGON, A COCKROACH, A FLYING SAUCER, A CHILDHOOD MEMORY OF TIMES PASSED (WITH CARS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OR DOLLS PASTED ALL OVER THEM), WAR CARS WITH TOY SOLDIERS FILLING EVERY SPACE, HISPANIC BOUNCING CARS WITH MUSICIANS AND LOVELY SENORITAS, CARS AS CUPCAKES, ALIENS, AND SURPRISE AFTER SURPRISE. OLD AND YOUNG ATTEND, SITTING EATING AND DRINKING ALONG THE PARADE ROUTE, DANCING IN THEIR HEARTS WITH EACH NEW ADVENTURE IN THE SHAPE OF AN ART CAR. EVERYONE DANCES IN THE RAIN WHERE THERE IS NO RAIN THIS DAY, EXCEPT IN OUR HEARTS AND SPIRITS. AS ONE ARTIST, VISKER, SAID ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE, “FOR ONE DAY, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, IF YOU ARE ROLLING TO THE PARADE, YOU ARE THE ROCK STAR OF THE DAY.” WE ALL FEEL THAT; WE ARE ALL ROCK STARS FOR THIS DAY, DANCING IN THE IMAGINARY RAIN. 

May 8, 2010: We took our two grandchildren, Matthew (6) and Erin (10) to the Art Car Parade (there were only about 20,000 others along the route who had the same idea). It lasted two hours with 299 cars. It took us two hours to get out of town (which normally takes about half an hour). It was still worth the adventure. This is Matthew's second time and Erin's fifth (we have only lived in Houston five years), going with us. Each time we get a better place to view the cars. It was, again, the best of the best creative art on wheels in the world.

We will go again next year.

Posted: 2 years ago

hello Joe, How amazing was this parade; I am jealous, I wish I could see the same one day! Thank you for your note in my email box; I will translate the letter explaining what is a eclub and send it to my fellows members. That's wonderfull! thanks . And now, I will go for a visit in your eclub, very soon it will be mine, ( I hope so) and I want to know every corner. Yours. Françoise

Posted: 2 years ago

Today was a day of sadness and joy. Your note, Francoise, is just the capnip to get this cat to write something else for the Forum in "What are you doing?" Today, I am remembering the joy of a yesterday!

On the front page of the Houston Cronicle today, May 10, a small headline stated: “LENA HORNE DIES AT 92. Legendary singer was a pioneer in breaking the color barrier in Hollywood.” Later, there is an article that was headed with this: “Singer helped integrate Hollywood in the ‘40s. Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital…. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM in the 1940s because of the color of her skin…. ‘The only time I ever said a word to another actor who was white was Kathryn Grayson in a little segment of Show Boat included in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), a movie about Jerome Kern,” Horne said in an interview in 1990.

…in 1947, when Horne married a white man- the arranger, conductor and pianist Lennie Hayton, who was for many years her musical director and MGMs- the wedding was in France and was secret for three years…. In 1945, critic and screen-writer Frank Nugent wrote in Liberty Magazine that Horne was ‘the nation’s top Negro entertainer.’

In addition to her MGM salary of $1000 a week, she was earning $1500 for every radio appearance and $6500 a week when she played nightclubs. Her husband died in 1971; her son dies of kidney failure the same year.”  

Why do I bring this up? I had a dancing in the rain experience in Montreal with her and her husband in 1956 when I was a sophomore at Dartmouth College. My roommate wanted to go to Montreal for a weekend and asked me (and another boy) to join him. We did. In Montreal, my friend did not know that passengers get off trolley cars in the back, not the front as in America, and he hit a man with his car. We got arrested and put in jail until we paid a fine. It took all our collective money.

I had heard that Lena Horne was singing in one of the nightclubs and I thought, “We are American; Lena Horne is an American; maybe she can help us?” I, as the spokesman for we three, got to talk to her at the stage door and after explaining our dilemma Ms Horne treated us to dinner and said that we could spent the night in her suite at the hotel (which was part of her pay for singing at the nightclub).

Lena Horne, as I vividly remember her, was not only beautiful on the outside but one of the warmest, caring persons that I have ever met. She taught me a lesson that day that I carry into what I do for students and others (through my work with Rotary): ‘you always get back more than you give.’

In the same paper was an article about “LIGHTS FOR BUDDHA” where some 40,000 Taiwanese held up candles in prayer during the Taiwan National Buddha’s Birthday celebration Sunday in front of the Chiang-Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Buddha’s birthday is celebrated in East Asia (in many places where I gave service and learned about Chinese art and culture) on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar.

When I saw the picture of those 40,000 candles I lit one of my own, in my heart, dancing in the rain of Lean Horne’s death, in tribute and memory of a great lady with great talent but more, who lived her life to the full with dignity and style and a sense of wonder.

 

Posted: 2 years ago

I'm leaving for a two week Asian trip to technology conferences like Re-invent Shanghai and Global Mobile Internet 2010 in Beijing. I will also go to Seoul and Singapore along the way. Would love to know if anyone knows anything about Shanghai Rotary or Beijing Rotary so I can go to a meeting on the ground.

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Francine Hardaway, Ph.D

Stealthmode Partners

http://www.stealthmode.com

http://blog.stealthmode.com

 

Posted: 2 years ago

I envy your trip. I love to travel to that part of the world. You will be wined and dined, plus have no problems finding the nearest Rotary club to visit. Your hotel can help you or contact Rich Barrett at RI. He is one of our eClub members and has contacts all over the world (through RI's world banking).

I have never been to Singapore or Shanghai but Seoul is where we adopted our son, Christopher Yung Wook Kagle (38 years ago), and Beijing was where I did additional studies in Chinese Art and Culture. Marvelous cities- modern and open to global thinking. The last time we were in Seoul I was suprised on its architectural growth (but the same can be said of Beijing-since I have to translate Peking to Beijing in my mind so you can tell that I have had a long romance with the Orient and China). My first Fulbright was studying at the Palace Museum in Taiper and my last visit to Beijing was in 2004 (which was our last visit to Seoul). They are modern, global cities and you should have no problems in finding information about Rotary meetings. The American Embassy could help too.

When you return, tell me about Singapore and Shanghai. They are on my "bucket list".