ROTARY MOMENT
January 2015
FW Rotary,
Did you know…
space!! Below is Paul Harris in his office at World Headquarters in 1945.
Rotary World Headquarters if
located at:
One Rotary Center,
1560 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201-3698, USA
Rotarians are always welcome to
visit and have a free tour of headquarters. Meeting rooms are also
available free of charge for Rotarian's looking for meetings room
Rotary Awareness
This month’s Moments Theme is on “Rotary Awareness”. We all know much
about Rotary and what the Rotary Movement accomplishes around the world. The
question is who else knows? This is a subject that has come up many times over
my 7 years as a Rotarian. We have 3 clubs in this city and we all contribute significantly to our community and the world, we know however many people in the City
either don’t know about Rotary or are unaware of the significant impact we have
her in Thunder Bay and beyond. Perhaps we are too humble.
In the Rotary year 2014/15 your board has worked hard to ensure that the club
gets broader coverage in the City. Sante and Bruce have worked together and
with the allocations committee to capitalize on media opportunities and we have
been pleased with the tremendous coverage we have had this years. Of course
our very own Clint Harris remains very supportive providing us with regular space
in the Chronicle to support spreading the Rotary buzz.
The boards goal is not to simply get recognition for all the hard work the club does
in the community as much as that feels good. Our goals are sending the Rotary
message, attracting new members, selling more house tickets and raising more
money at other fundraising event to allow us to continue to do good in the world
and achieve the mandate of the Rotary Movement.
For me, despite our struggles to recruit and retain new members and to ensure we
have enough younger members to secure a string future for our club, there has
never been a time when Rotary has been more relevant in the world. With wars,
In This Issue
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Rotary Awareness
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Rotary Headquarters
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Paul Harris (1945)
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Ebola
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Famous Rotary
Quotes
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Rotary Response to Ebola
Rotary has been heavily involved in a project to eradicate polio and has achieved much success and recognition for this hard work.. The Ebola outbreak has been somewhat personal
for our club due to our International Project to help rebuild and provide desk and chairs for
the young children of Regent School in Sierra Leone.
World Wide Rotary has been involved in the Fight against Ebola. Rotary has invested
much resources in Nigeria through its work to eradicate Polio, these investments helped the
government stop the outbreak in this country.
Rotarian's are supporting this fight with hands on support, advocacy and financial contributions to help fight this horrible disease that is leaving children without parents and parents
without their children. Our thoughts and prayer s go out to all the Children at Regent
School. We look forward to seeing the school filled with new desks and chairs all occupied
by children ready to learn
Ebola
This week I had the pleasure of giving out dictionaries to the grade 3 students at Hold Family School. We took this opportunity not to just promote
literacy but also to promote Rotary. We talked about our project in Sierra
Leone where we have helped repair a school and provide desks and chair
for the students. The children seemed to relate to this as I explained that
children in some countries don’t have access to education , text book or
have schools with toilets that flush, or proper desks and chair to sit at.
I explained that the students were not attending school at the moment due
to the Ebola Outbreak in their community but the new desks and chairs
would be there for them when they were able to return to. I was amazed at
all the questions, such a bright group of children. What is Ebola, and then
a little girl at the back of the room asked me “Where did Ebola get its name”
I had no idea and suggested their teachers were brighter then me and perhaps they would know!!
Curiosity got the better of Craig Sandberg who researched the name and
found out that the name came from the Ebola River in Africa!!
So far, about morals, I know only that what
is moral is what you feel good after and what
is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the
Afternoon
Famous Rotary Quotes
“Friendship is a natural and willing servant….There is no reason…why the great
power of friendship should not be harnessed to do its part in the world’s work.”
Report of the President, 1912 Rotary Convention, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
“The best antidote for international fear is international understanding; the
best way to cultivate international understanding is through business and social
intercourse.”
Message to 1928 Pacific Rotary Conference, Tokyo, Japan
The greatest thing one finds in one’s travels, the soul-satisfying thing, is that
[people] in their native countries all weep with the same spirit, the same feeling,
the same happiness and contentment.”
— Why the Convention?, THE ROTARIAN, January 1925
Holy Family Students receive their Dictionaries
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