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 Rotary District 6150
Bob Warner, Jr. District Governor 2007-08
September 16, 2007
Governor's Weekly Communiqué
Rotary International District 6150
Volume 1, Issue 11 | |
To: Rotary District 6150 Club Presidents 2007-2008
cc: Secretaries, Execs, AGs, Aides, DG, DGE, DGN, PDGs | |
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This is the 11th edition of a weekly communication entitled "Governor's Weekly Communiqué". It is named in honor of our 2007-2008 Group Study Exchange with France.
This past week we visited The Rotary Clubs of Marianna, Forrest City, and Bald Knob. Thanks to Presidents Lazaro, Glenn, and Craig. Special Thanks to Assistant Governors David Henderson and Sheridan Cole.
Thanks to everyone who attended the Foundation/Membership/Service/Youth Seminar in Marianna!! We had 45 attendees.
Dave Davidson attended the District 6110 District Conference in Eureka Springs this weekend. We brought home some good ideas and enjoyed our visit. Thanks to Governor Ellis Potter for the invitation.
SEPTEMBER IS NEW GENERATIONS MONTH!!
NOTE THIS VERY IMPORTANT SCHEDULE CHANGE. The previously scheduled Presidential Forum that was to be held in Jonesboro on September 18 is postponed. It will be rescheduled date and time to be announced.
Official Visits are on hold this week due to The 2007 Zone 29-30 Institute in Springfield, Missouri. The visits will resume on September 24 at Jacksonville.
The Annual District 6150 Foundation Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, October 8, 2007 at The Course at Eagle Mountain in Batesville, Arkansas. PLEASE put this on your priority list!!!
Online Registration now available!! Please get your club's golf teams together and plan to attend. Information and registration is now on the website:
We need your help with four tasks:
1. Please come to the tournament , attend the luncheon . Encourage your members to do the same.
2. Ask your club to donate 2 hole/tee sponsorships and enter at least one team.
3. Identify at least one corporate sponsor for the tournament in your community.
4. Appoint a member to help the golf committee gain corporate sponsors for the tournament from your community. Review the mailed materials and share them with your potential corporate sponsors and your club corporate chair.
We need our corporate sponsors signed by October 3 please. You will be contacted by the golf committee in the near future to organize your sponsorships-please help them!
Monday, September 24, 2007 is the next opportunity for Foundation/ Membership/Service/Youth Seminar. This seminar targets the southeastern part of our district and will be held at 6:30 pm at The UALR Campus in Little Rock. If you have not registered please do this immediately. Price is $15 per person and includes dinner.
Guy Patterson is chairing our District Speaker's Bureau. This service will help you find a program for your club or allow you to share your good programs with other clubs. This program will soon be available on our website. In the Meantime here are some interesting program choices from Guy's efforts:
U.S. Congressman
The holiday season is sometimes an ideal time to engage your congressman to speak to your club. Since they often come home for the holidays, it's not uncommon at all for them to make a few civic club talks here and there. Early Fall is a good time to start the process. Below is a list of "schedulers" for each of the
Arkansas representatives. Contact them now for a possible Thanksgiving or Christmas time speaking engagement.
Corey Gilmore is in Marion Berry's Jonesboro Office
She is most quickly contacted via e-mail: Corey.Gilmore@mail.house.gov
Toby Watkins is in Vic Snyder's office.
202-225-2506
Lesley Parker I believe is the scheduler for both DC and the district in Boozman's office.
202.225.4301
Liz Thompson is also the scheduler in DC and the district for Congressman Ross.
202.225.3772
To email each of them, enter the address as such: first.last@mail.house.gov
How 'bout a little bitta Holiday Music!!! Sometimes the best Rotary programs are right under your nose and you don't even realize it!!!!!! For example, during the holiday season, our club will book an area high school choral group to sing a half-dozen songs. These occasional programs are fun and sometimes promote fellowship in the most unexpected ways. There's nothing in the Rotary Manual of Procedure that says a program has to be boring! So, bring a little music to your program and relax and enjoy. Helpful Hint: If your meeting place doesn't have a piano, chances are the choir will have a small, portable keyboard they can bring along. You know who to contact in your town. Be sure to book them before schools break for holiday vacation!!
Candace Franks is the new Arkansas State Bank Commissioner, the first female bank commissioner in the 94-year history of the Arkansas State Bank Department. Part of her job is to "make the rounds", "press the flesh", see the folks AND to be seen by the folks. The state banking commission website has more specific contact info.
http://www.arkansas.gov/bank/
Gloria Dickerson from the Kellogg Foundation, "Lifting Up the Delta" -- Phase Two of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Mid-South Delta Initiative to promote social and economic development in the Delta to create a better future for residents of the region. Program Comment: The location of Rotary District 6150 adds a great deal of practical relevance to this program. With only a single office outside (Jackson, Mississippi) the home state of Michigan, the Kellogg Foundation has chosen to plow it's charitable resources into the Delta, where they not only contribute money, but follow-up to track progress as well.
Gloria Dickerson, Director Mid-South Delta Initiative W.K. Kellogg Foundation 222 North Presidents Street, Suite 201 Jackson, MS 39201 (601) 944-9520 gloria.dickerson@wkkf.org
Jim Sprott of Harrison, immediate past president, Arkansas Bar Association.
Sprott is now immediate past president of the Arkansas Bar Association, but he remains uniquely qualified to present an informational program about the activities of the Arkansas Bar Association. A Rotarian, Jim is sensitive to the ingredients that make up a good Rotary program. He can be reached at: P.O. Box 1800, Harrison, Arkansas 72602-1800; phone 870-744-3633. Since he is not the president of the organization this year, he might refer you to a new president. Nevertheless, presidents of the Arkansas Bar Association consider it their duty to get out and tell their association's story.
Stanley Reed, President of Arkansas Farm Bureau, a member of the Trade Advisory Committee of the American Farm Bureau. A cotton farmer from Marianna (Lee County), Reed has in the past two years traveled to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan for foreign trade missions on behalf of Arkansas agriculture, the state's largest industry. Program Comment: Even if your vocation isn't directly tied to agriculture, you'll enjoy this program. Reed is a good speaker. He knows his subject matter and also knows you need to get back to your job in a timely manner.
If you'd like to book Stanley Reed in the immediate future, we suggest you contact your area Farm Bureau Agency Manager. However, check back at this location in the near future for more specific contact and booking information. By the way, Reed was also instrumental in the recently completed new Athletic Director search for the U of A.
DON'T FORGET THE 15th of the month, PLEASE check with your club secretary to be sure the club attendance report will be sent to District Secretary Chuck Allen, secretary@rotary6150.org .
Why are you a Rotarian???
You might enjoy this from "Why I am a Rotarian" :
DECEMBER 12, 2006
I joined Rotary in 1971 to get away from medicine for an hour and a half a week. Up to that point in my life everything had centered on my profession as a physician and orthopedic surgeon, including my friends and my social life.
Rotary opened up a new world of friendships, with business and professional men and now women from all walks of life.
These individuals were men and women of integrity and compassion who were the leading citizens in my community. They soon became the people I turned to for advice and assistance in my world outside of medicine.
Through Rotary I also became more involved with service to the less fortunate in my community. After serving as a club president and a district governor, my circle of Rotary friends then extended far beyond my community to communities throughout California, the western United States and eventually the world.
Rotary then gave me the opportunity to use my professional skills to serve the Rotary Foundation as a technical advisor to the 3-H program in the area of health, and to serve as a medical officer at International Assemblies. With the help of Rotarians in my club, my district and The Rotary Foundation I was able to develop a prosthetic/orthotic clinic in Santa Ana, El Salvador (population 500,000), that previously did not have a facility to make artificial limbs and braces for the medically indigent in that community.
Rotary has enriched my life in ways that I could not have imagined 35 years ago when I attended my first Rotary meeting.
That is why I am a Rotarian.
Michael W. Abdalla, MD
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WEEKLY COMMUNICATION TO ANYONE YOU THINK MAY BENEFIT FROM THIS INFORMATION!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!! | |
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