Wendy Nelson, USA.
I am a Rotarian because our world needs compassion and diversity. Rotary is the only organization who is constantly working to improve life throughout the world. My Rotary mentor is Terri Clark, Past President, Past District Governor and current member of Rotary Club of Arcata, Sunrise. She has supported my efforts in Rotary for more than 20 years
Maureen A. McKinley. USA
I am a third generation Rotarian. Throughout my life, whenever my family did go out of town, Mom checked where and when we would go to Church and Dad checked for Rotary meetings. He had almost 60 years of perfect attendance. He was DG of District 5260 and Polio Plus Zone Coordinator, Zones 25 & 26.
He got involved with the Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee in 1985. Was Chair for the 1997 Rose Parade. Other than assisting him (as did the entire family) with his Rotary volunteer duties and service, I got very involved with the Float Committee and started working with the RRPFC in 1994.
I joined Rotary in 2000. My mother asked me to join so I could take over "her duties" as a Rotary wife. LOL
2015 Rose Parade Float. Maureen is on the front of the float.
Victor Esperon:
In 1983-1984 a friend of mine who was a Rotarian invited me to be a part of a new club being formed in the city of Morelia, Mexico. (Morelia Camprestre.)
The District Governor has just given his approval for this new club. I became the first Secretary of this Club that year.
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89 Dr. Canseco appointed me coordinator of the "Polio Plus" program in the city of Morelia and coordinator of the three Rotary clubs and the Health Sector.
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In 1987-1988 I was named President of the Club and that year we founded the "Patronage of the Eva Samano de López Mateos Children's Hospital" in the city.
With the help of a Rotary friend from a Club in New York, they started helping the hospital with all the milk powder they needed for a year and various equipment.
In 2002 Dr. Carlos Canseco invited me to join the "Rotary Club of Monterrey."
It was Dr. Carlos Canseco who taught me the beauty of "Service through friendship.”
Kim Covill
Invited by Carol Anderson, I became a member of Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA in 2010. At that time my lunch consisted of devouring a sandwich at my desk while grading bad (sometimes good) Spanish. My teaching position prohibited me from attending any daytime “terra” Rotary meetings. Hence an eClub would be perfect. I could attend online. Moreover, fellow e-Clubbers lived all over the world. With my love for language, travel and culture, RECSWUSA was perfect. I’d found my Rotary home. I like Rotary, and love Rotarians. They are people of action, people that challenge the status quo, people who love life and serve “above self.” Rotary seems to be everywhere, and where there are Rotarians, lives to improve.
Oscar Carreon:
My first impulse towards rotarism came from two sources, my desire to help others through systematized causes, that is, with full control in their process; and, the example of life of one of my professors of the medical school in Mexico, Dr. Carlos Canseco, who became the international president of the Rotary in the year 86-87. I became a Rotarian in 1993 and I was active for three years. I was disappointed at first because I did not understand how the Rotary service structure worked. For work reasons I traveled a lot, until in the year of 2005 I got involved again. The following year I had the opportunity to manage the management portfolio of the club and the following year, the one I like most, the portfolio of projects and services.
This made me know the club better and prepare myself better to serve it. Dr. Canseco invited me to be president of the oldest Rotary club in my city of Monterrey, accept the challenge, and I was president in 2008-2009.
During the year of my presidency, Dr Canseco passed away, I had the responsibility and the high honor to formally receive all the condolence notes that came from around the world in honor of one of the great leaders of the Rotary movement worldwide. It was during his year as president of international Rotary, in 86-87, being the doctor specialized in immunology and allergies, that polio plus campaign became worldwide.
Great memories and moments of inspiration from the life and work of this hero of Mexican medicine and the world. The pan American health organization acknowledged its mission to know how to use all the influence that its position and position could have to focus on self-sacrificing service through Rotary's emblematic campaign: polio plus.
Members of the Rotario Monterrey club accompanying Dr. Carlos Canseco, second from left to right. Hero of the Pan American Health Society.
The Rotary eClub of the Southwest is a way that people can continue their service and fellowship in Rotary.
* Live far from a city with a Rotary Club
* Retired and traveling
* Physical limitations
* Business commitments
* Family obligations
* A new way to serve
Join us any time, from any place. You are always welcomed to the Rotary e-Club of the Southwest.