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Past President Ron’s remarks:
Ron shared that it has been a challenging year. He send a review of member engagement to all members prior to the meeting, and he hopes you will take time to reflect on your participation in club activities. Ron reflected that may tasks were accomplished by many of us doing a little so no one had to do a lot. He reported that during the year we inducted 5 new members. We had other members depart the club. We are currently at 42 members. We held meetings every week via Zoom. We had some dynamic speakers. We are currently in first place in annual giving per capita to the Rotary Foundations Annual Programs Fund/Share. We separated Charities activities from the Club board meetings and updated the bylaws for both organizations. It is hoped that these changes will make it easier to get club and charities work done more smoothly. Zoom board meetings and committee meetings saved lots of commuting time. Ron then turned the meeting over to Hank. He wishes him only the best as we begin a new year of service to Rotary in Lebanon and around the world.
New President Hank’s remarks:
Hank shared that everyone appreciates the work Ron and Marilyn did to keep the club together. Hank thanked Bruce Pacht for setting up the Charities board and revising all of our bylaws. Rich Wallace for the new outward facing internet site. As to the new year, the RI theme is “Serve to Change Lives.” Hank reflected that as he went through NEPETS he realized we are doing a lot FOR our community; he’d like us to focus this year on doing things WITH the community, with partnerships.
Besides partnerships, Hank would like to focus on “Each one, bring one”: If you are a member, bring one other person into Rotary.
Hank also wants to work on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Hank then asked all committee chairs to send him a list of the active members of each committee.
He then made some announcement about Brew Fest (see below) and his hope that we can once again do the Great American Pie Buffet as a PolioPlus fundraiser. He stated, "Let’s get a Pie committee put together after the summer. We want to maintain our $2,500 contribution to PolioPlus." (Pie chair Tim began moving on this in the chat room!)
DG Mike Carrier provide the following Changeover remarks:
He shared that he is impressed with your excellent newsletter. He noted that we have some of the most interesting speakers. He sees us as a vibrant and active club.
He shared this as a priority for 2021/2022, We need to work to keep ourselves connected as we find our way back out of this traumatic year of COVID, let’s be sensitive to where people are at, give them grace to decide, but work hard to keep them included. He believes we have members who will make decisions that will strengthen our club.
Time for a Club Happy Dance!
Thank you Charles Schulz for always reminding us to celebrate.