PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPORT
Rotary District 6780 College of Governors
Cherokee Country Club
January 9, 2016
Prepared by:
Program Committee - DGE Fred Heitman, Chair
Service Projects – Larry Sheumaker, Chair
Community Service Subcommittee
1. Significant accomplishments by sub-committee:
 Published Community Service Summary for District Website ,as a tool ,stating,
purpose ,goals, projects, training, speakers, Lacy-Bomar Awards, Club
Recognition, Contacts. The Summary was sent to all AG’S, Club Presidents,
Club Community Service and or Service Project chairs.
 Requested each club send an article for the District Newsletter outlining a
Community Service Project.
 DG Beth discussed the Summary content available on the District Website at
each DG visit, and listed same on Facebook.
2. Plans for next six months by subcommittee:
 Service Projects:
 One new Community Service Project per club related to the Six Areas of
Focus:
 Each club submit one entry for the Lacy/Bomar award for Community Service
 Continue requests for articles for the District Newsletter
International Service Subcommittee
Clubs are working, albeit slowly, towards achieving Globe Club
status (Table 1).
Rotary Friendship Exchange – Phyllis Driver, Chair
No Report
Youth Services and Young Adults – Jerry Wear, Chair
RYLA
No Report
International Youth Exchange
Current 2015-2016 Inbound Youth Exchange Students:
8 students:
Rok Bogdanic - Croatia
Camila Benavente - Peru
Samantha Lorz - Germany
Henrique Viola - Brazil
Elina Sandstrom - Sweden
Martin Loring Bueno - Spain
Pierre Ribardiere - France
Senju Asanuma - Japan
Current 2015-2016 Outbound Youth Exchange Students:
7 students:
Calista Boyd - Japan
McKynlea Cable - Italy
Florentin Kunz - Finland
Angela Mendoza - France
Courtney Parkerson - Brazil
Peter Shaffer - Taiwan
Katie Sneed - Italy
Future 2016-2017 Outbound Youth Exchange Students:
7 students:
Grace Braswell from Mt Juliet (Breakfast Club)
Emma Fairchild from Chattanooga (Breakfast Club)
Keita Fowler from Mt Juliet (Noon Club)
Willow Gernaat from Tullahoma
Alex Kail from Farragut
Julia Kestner from Knoxville Breakfast
Aza Morrison from Crossville
Activities since July:
July 19, 2015 - Committee Meeting, Crossville
August 28-30, 2015 - Inbound Student Orientation, Crossville
September 26, 2015 - All 8 inbound students attended RYLA
October 2-3, 2015 - Ohio-Erie Fall Meeting in Charlotte, NC
October 17, 2015 - 5 inbound students and 2 Committee
Members went White-Water Rafting courtesy of Cleveland
Rotary
November 14, 2015 - Knoxville Breakfast hosted our inbound
students and inbound students from West TN for UT Vols
Football game
December 4-6, 2015 - We had 8 Committee Members attend
retreat in Jabez, KY.
December 12, 2015 - 4 outbound interviews in Crossville, 3
outbound interviews in Knoxville
Future Plans:
January 22-24, 2016 - our inbound students will go snow-skiing
in Blowing Rock, NC, with NC Rotarians.
February 24-27, 2016 - We have 12 Committee Members planning
to attend NAYEN Conference in Cincinnati.
March 4-6, 2016 - Pigeon Forge Rotary will host our inbound
students and students from NC for Interact Conference where
students will speak.
March 12, 2016 - outbound student orientation in Asheville, NC.
April 16, 2016 - outbound student orientation (District-only) in
Knoxville.
April 29-30, 2016 - inbound students will attend District
Conference in Pigeon Forge.
Interact
Interact Bruce Wilson has identified all of the Interact clubs
in the district that are registered with RI (Table 2).
Interact folks are in the middle of planning for their annual
conference in Pidgeon Forge on March 4-6, 2016. Friday
will include opening ceremonies, dinner at Hatfield and
McCoys, and talent contest. Saturday will have opening
ceremonies at 9:00 and conclude at 12:00. A variety of
presentations will involved. Reconvene at 5:00 for dinner
and to Country Opera for conclusion of days activities.
Sunday will begin at 9:30 and include guest speakers. More
details will be available in January.
Scholarships include: Lacey, Brown, and Bomar.
International projects are: Polio Plus and Heart-2-Heart.
Local projects are: American Eagle Foundation and
Appalachian Bear Rescue
Rotaract
No Report
Table 1. Club Globe Club Status.
CLUBNAME
2014-2015 Globe Project
2015-2016 International Planned Project
Bearden
Africa ELI Education $9000
Bradley Sunrise
Houduran Water Purification Project
Carthage
Chattanooga
NONE
Water Project in Dominican Republic
Chattanooga Breakfast
Dominican Republic Toilet and Wetland
100 latrines in small mountain villages in Haiti $5000
Chattanooga Hamilton Place
H2H & House to Homes Guatemala
100 latrines in small mountain villages in Haiti
Cleveland
Haiti Latrines $5000
100 latrines in small mountain villages in Haiti
Clinton
Central America Clean Water for Homes
Cookeville Breakfast
Dominican Republic Education & Water $1000
Dominican Republic Education & Water- & Ghana
Medical
Dominican Republic Education & Water
Cookeville Sunset
Dominican Republic Education & Water
Dominican Republic Education & Water
Crossville
Crossville Breakfast
Guatemala Reforestation Project $3500
Appalachia Water & Sanitation Project
Dayton
NONE
Etowah
Life Straws Clean Water Africa
Haiti Clean Water-Oak Ridge Breakfast
Cookeville
Fairfield Glade
Farragut
Dominican Republic Education & Water
Fayetteville
Nairobi Kenya Vocational Training
Heart to Heart
Franklin County A.M.
New Life Community Recover Sao Paulo Brazil
Gatlinburg
Heart to Heart $500
Grundy County
Brinkley School Day and Boarding India
Harriman
NONE
Hartsville
Mombasa Kenya School Nutrition Project
Jamestown
Dominican Republic Water Well
Jefferson City
NONE
Kingston
Heart 2 Heart
Knoxville
Vocational Training for Nurses in Zimbabwe
Knoxville Breakfast
Heart 2 Heart $1000
Knoxville Volunteer
Stop Hunger Now Meals & Heart 2 Heart
Heart to Heart Mexico
Lafayette
New Hope School Water Well $2600; Mombasa, Kenya
New Hope School Restrooms & Latrine; Mombasa, Kenya
Lebanon
NONE
Lebanon Breakfast
NONE
Lenoir City
Livingston
NONE
Mission service trip to Dominican Republic Orphanages
Loudon
Embrace Incubator 3rd World Countries
Manchester
NONE
Maryville-Alcoa
Malawi water grant (with D6150 Ilinois) & Heart 2 Heart
McMinnville
Heart 2 Heart Water
McMinnville Breakfast
Naankuse Lifeline Clinic Water and Uniform Projects
Monteagle-Sewanee
NONE
Morristown
NONE
Morristown A.M.
NONE
Mt. Juliet
NONE
Brinkley School Day and Boarding India
Water Well Sudan Africa
Dominican Republic Education & Water
Heart 2 Heart
Zimbawe Solar Ovens; Contact: Paul Van Buren
Mt. Juliet Noon
NONE
North Knoxville
Oak Ridge
Heart to Heart $200
Ghana – Maternity Clinic & School & Heart 2 Heart
Oak Ridge Ghana Project Global Grant
Oak Ridge Sunset
Heart to Heart $250
Oak Ridge Ghana Project Global Grant
Oak Ridge-Breakfast
Bio Sand Filter Water Project Haiti
Oak Ridge Ghana Project Global Grant
Pigeon Forge
Heart to Heart
Oak Ridge Ghana Project Global Grant
Rockwood
NONE
Rogersville
Armenian Literacy Project
Clinica Nueva Vida Dental Grant Nicaragua
Sevierville
Sevierville-Sunrise
Seymour-Breakfast
Jubilee House, Inc. Central America Clinic
Heart to Heart Mexico Projects
Shelbyville
Nepal Project
Smith County Noon
Recreation equipment to New Hope School, Kenya
Smithville (DeKalb County)
NONE
Heart to Heart
South Campbell County
South Pittsburg
Sparta
Tellico Lake (Loudon
County)
Tullahoma
Clay County Kentucky Global Grant
Dominican Republic Water Project
Dominican Republic Education & Water $500
Momance, Haiti - School Classroom Construction & H2H
Tullahoma Sunrise
Heart 2 Heart Cleft Palate Surgery Project
Heart to Heart Water Project
Turkey Creek-Sunset
NONE
Winchester
NONE
DENOTES - GLOBE APP
APPROVED
Sent $500 in support of Oak Ridge Ghana Project
Heart 2 Heart $500 April 2016
Heart 2 Heart or the Thailand Water Project
Table 2. List of known
Interact Clubs in District
6780
Club
Anderson
County
Bradley Central
Campbell
County
Cascade
Catlettsburg
Chattanooga
Christian
Cherokee High
Cherokee
Middle
Clarkrange
Cleveland
Middle
Clinton High
Coffee County
Central
Community
High
Cookeville High
F.C. Boyd
Christian
Franklin County
High
GatlingburgPittman High
Grundy County
High
Hartsville
Huntland
Jefferson
Du
es
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Contact
Contact Information
Rotary Sponsor Club
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Tom Connelly
Kay
Bridges
kaye.bridges@fentressboe
.com
Jamestown
Kandace
Perry +1
[email protected]
Tom Connelly
Manchester
Merry
Flatt +2
David
Reed
Kathy
Knies +1
Sharon
Watson
Camero
n
Swallow
[email protected]
Livingston Rotary
[email protected]
[email protected]
McMinn&McMinnBr
eakfast
Winchester Noon
[email protected]
Gatlinburg
[email protected]
Grundy County
Cindy
Stovall
+1
[email protected]
Winchester Noon
County
Jellico High
Knoxville
Catholic
Lafayette
Lebanon
Lenior City
Lincoln County
Livingston
Academy
Macon County
Junior High
McMinn Central
High
Warren County
High
(McMinnville)
Monteagle
Morristown
West
Mt. Juliet High
Oak Ridge high
Pigeon Forge
High
Red Bank High
Richard Hardy
Memorial
Roane County
High (Kingston)
Robertsville
Middle
Rockwood
Middle
Sevier County
High
Seymour High
Shelbyville
Central High
Signal Mountain
High
South Pittsburg
35
11/20/2
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52
11/14/2
015
40
55
11/17/2
015
11/19/2
015
Phil
Petree
ppetree@knoxvillecatholic
.com
Rotary Club of
Knoxville
Kmberly
Thorpe
Susan
Fitzgeral
d +1
kthorpe@overtoncountysc
hools.net
[email protected]
Livingston Rotary
Kennett
e Dixon
+2
[email protected]
m
McMinn&McMinn
Breakfast
Lori
Scott +1
Inactive
[email protected]
Mt. Juliet Breakfast
Sharon
Allison
+1
[email protected]
South Pittsburg
Robert
Hardy
[email protected]
Oak Ridge Breakfast
Christi
Glovak
+1
David
Mitchell
[email protected]
Seymour Breakfast
[email protected]
et
Shelbyville Sunrise
Mary
423-605-0706
South Pittsburg
Lafayette
Oak Ridge
High
Tennessee
Christian
Preparatory
The Espicopal
School of
Knoxville
The Webb
School
Trousdale
County High
Tullahoma
Walker Valley
High
Warren County
Middle
Webb School of
Knoxville
West high
White County
high
Wilson Central
High
York
Jefferson
Middle
Northview
Academy
Dawkins
+1
Megan
Townes
+1
[email protected]
m
Shelbyville Breakfast
Stephan
ie
Hobbs
Liz
Gregor
[email protected]
m
McMinn&McMinnBr
eakfast
[email protected]
g
Rotary Club of
Knoxville
Ann
Jones
+1
DeAna
Elwell
Phil
Branno
n
ann.jones@whitecountysc
hools.net
Sparta
[email protected]
Mt. Juliet Noon
[email protected].
tn.us
Jamestown
Jill
Willifor
d
Sandy
Puckett
+2
[email protected]
Oak Ridge Sunset
[email protected]
Sevierville Sunrise
Programs Committee Report
July – December 2015
Committee Name: Community Service
Chair: Andy Anderson
3. Significant accomplishments by
sub-committee (list up to
three/sub-committee):
 Published Community Service
Summary for District Website
,as a tool ,stating, purpose
,goals, projects, training,
speakers, Lacy-Bomar Awards,
Club Recognition, Contacts.
The Summary was sent to all
AG’S, Club Presidents, Club
Community Service and or
Service Project chairs.
 Requested each club send an
article for the District Newsletter
outlining a Community Service
Project.
 DG Beth discussed the
Summary content available on
the District Website at each DG
visit, and listed same on
Facebook.
4. Plans for next six months by
subcommittee:
 Service Projects:
 One new Community
Service Project per club
related to the Six Areas of
Focus:
 Each club submit one entry
for the Lacy/Bomar award
for Community Service
 Continue requests for
articles for the District
Newsletter
Provide assistance for
District Grants for
Community Service Projects
 Rotary Friendship Exchange
 Youth Services and Young
Adults
5. Outstanding Issues: