Excelsior Rotary at the Mid-Term 5950 District Assembly
Posted by Steve Frazier
on Jan 14, 2012
The Mid-Term Assembly for District 5950 was held at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on Saturday, January 14th. In attendance from the Rotary Club of Excelsior were Woody Love, John Gray, Tim Litfin, Theresa Zerby, Molly Swenson, Randy Schumacher and Steve Frazier.
This assembly was unique in that instead of having break-out groups with various mini workshops the entire assembly of 166 Rotarians from all over the district got to hear 16 different reports covering virtually every aspect of what is going on in 5950. Each of the presenters took about five minutes to outline topics all the way from Membership Recruitment, Foundation, Grants, Fundraisers, District Projects, Social Media, Future Vision, PR, STRIVE and even the 2013 District Elect Governor Bob Stowell.
The Rotary Club of Excelsior was highlighted several times in the meeting because of our recruitment of new members and the percentage of member increase was among the best in the district. Scott Lucas from the morning Club highlighted our Virtual Mistletoe Joint Fundraiser expressing thanks f to our two clubs and terry Roeser for her help in conceiving the idea and lots of pictures of our members kissing!
The day flew by and each of our seven members were taking notes on programs that would fit our club and great resources contacts as we make attempts to keep our club relevant and in-step with changing times in Rotary. We will have the members that attended the assembly each put together a set of ideas that appealed to them at the conference and put them on the website over the next several weeks.
The Keynote speaker was Mark Lanternman who talked about the “Impact of Digital Evidence” as it relates to the law and court trials. It was absolutely great and Lanternman had a great sense of humor and everyone went away feeling informed and thoroughly entertained! Governor Chuck Berg ended the session about helping our members find their passion in Rotary and urged us to continue to grow our clubs and to spread the Rotary message “Service Above Self.”