Sep 13, 2016-Rotary Forum
Posted by Dick Dannells on Sep 15, 2016
PROGRAM September 13, 2016: Past Pres. and Membership Chair Joel Conn - “Club Membership”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:35 PM, by announcing that today is National Suck on a Pickle Day and continued with on this date in history: Francis Scott Key took pen in hand and wrote the Star-Spangled Banner in 1814; and Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain won his 30th game of the season to become the first since 1938 to win 30 games in 1968. He gave a check to our waiter, who is leaving for Florida, for the past year. He also thanked those who helped out at the AmpSurf barbecue at the Pismo pier last Saturday and those who worked on the parklet last Monday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pres. Greg announced that September 20 the District Gov. will be here to attend a regular meeting and then will be our guest at our annual Steve Curry ranch barbecue starting at 5:30 p.m. A sign-up sheet is being circulated. Volunteers are requested for the Saturday the 24th Pie eating contest at the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival from 1 to 3 or 4 PM. He also encouraged us to sign up for the Rotary District Conference on the weekend of October 14 through the 16th at the Hyatt in Westlake Village. Every member will be charged $26.50 to the Polio Plus campaign if you have not already donated at least that much since July 1. This amount equals the first contribution made to the Rotary Foundation 100 years ago. Terry Fibich changed the highway cleanup to September 24 starting at 7:30 AM with free breakfast at Coco’s.
FINES:
Fine Master Jack Hardy fined all members $10 for not wearing Rotary pins including Roger Frederickson, Mike Kee, Mark Olson, Lee Ann Liscombe, Karen Zappia. Scott Astrosky donated $26.5 Happy Bucks for winning last week’s raffle. Michael Boyer and Ashley Boyer received $50 and a $35 spin the wheel fine, respectively to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary. Joel and Sarah Conn celebrated their sixth year wedding anniversary without a fine since she has the fine-free badge. Mike and Jeannie Frederick celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary and were fined a total of $80 to include recognition for his trip to Scotland. Sgt. of Arms Jack Hardy stated that from this day forward if you don’t answer his calls regarding assisting him at a meeting you will be heavily fined. Jack also mentioned that he opened at the Pozo concert last weekend.
Past Pres. and Membership Chair Joel Conn - “Club Membership”
Joel began by fining Tommy Thompson for brown nosing. He began his presentation by showing a RI Foundation filmstrip that included the fact the Foundation serves 147 countries and provides people around the world with water, health and hope. He stated that we really are in a cool organization that is involved in helping people around the world. A survey was made of the public at large and found that 40% had not heard of Rotary, 40% heard of Rotary, but did not know what it does, and 20% had some familiarity with the organization. In fact, Americans know less about Rotary then the people of India. The total members of Rotary in 2006 and 2016 have remained the same at 1.26 million. The most disturbing statistic is that North America has 50,000 less members than they did 10 years ago our District has remained the same at about 3500 members Rotaract has grown dramatically since its beginning but the conversion from Rotaract to Rotary is only 1%. The following lists the percentage of why members joined Rotary and followed by the percentage reasons for staying in Rotary: friendship 30%/38.4%; positive impact on the local community 38.5%/36.1%; networking opportunities 18.7%/5.2%; personal and professional recognition 4.3%/2.3%; and to have a positive impact globally 8.2%/14%. This survey represents 40% of the members in North America and 60% in the rest the world. He recited the following six ways to recruit members: (1) wearing the pin; (2) the four Way test/Paul Harris fellow presentations; (3) bumper stickers; (4) top of mind awareness; (5) understanding why you are in Rotary; and (6) learn to answer “What is Rotary?” as if you are on an elevator ride. And the 7 steps to membership are (1) inviting a candidate; (2) providing up to three weeks of meals for a legitimate candidate; (3) filling out an application; (4) obtaining Board approval; (5) attending an orientation; (6) publishing the candidate’s name to all members; and (7) induction of the new member.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY KAREN ZAPPIA:
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
PROGRAM September 13, 2016: Past Pres. and Membership Chair Joel Conn - “Club Membership”
By Dick Dannells
Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:35 PM, by announcing that today is National Suck on a Pickle Day and continued with on this date in history: Francis Scott Key took pen in hand and wrote the Star-Spangled Banner in 1814; and Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain won his 30th game of the season to become the first since 1938 to win 30 games in 1968. He gave a check to our waiter, who is leaving for Florida, for the past year. He also thanked those who helped out at the AmpSurf barbecue at the Pismo pier last Saturday and those who worked on the parklet last Monday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pres. Greg announced that September 20 the District Gov. will be here to attend a regular meeting and then will be our guest at our annual Steve Curry ranch barbecue starting at 5:30 p.m. A sign-up sheet is being circulated. Volunteers are requested for the Saturday the 24th Pie eating contest at the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival from 1 to 3 or 4 PM. He also encouraged us to sign up for the Rotary District Conference on the weekend of October 14 through the 16th at the Hyatt in Westlake Village. Every member will be charged $26.50 to the Polio Plus campaign if you have not already donated at least that much since July 1. This amount equals the first contribution made to the Rotary Foundation 100 years ago. Terry Fibich changed the highway cleanup to September 24 starting at 7:30 AM with free breakfast at Coco’s.
FINES:
Fine Master Jack Hardy fined all members $10 for not wearing Rotary pins including Roger Frederickson, Mike Kee, Mark Olson, Lee Ann Liscombe, Karen Zappia. Scott Astrosky donated $26.5 Happy Bucks for winning last week’s raffle. Michael Boyer and Ashley Boyer received $50 and a $35 spin the wheel fine, respectively to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary. Joel and Sarah Conn celebrated their sixth year wedding anniversary without a fine since she has the fine-free badge. Mike and Jeannie Frederick celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary and were fined a total of $80 to include recognition for his trip to Scotland. Sgt. of Arms Jack Hardy stated that from this day forward if you don’t answer his calls regarding assisting him at a meeting you will be heavily fined. Jack also mentioned that he opened at the Pozo concert last weekend.
Past Pres. and Membership Chair Joel Conn - “Club Membership”
Joel began by fining Tommy Thompson for brown nosing. He began his presentation by showing a RI Foundation filmstrip that included the fact the Foundation serves 147 countries and provides people around the world with water, health and hope. He stated that we really are in a cool organization that is involved in helping people around the world. A survey was made of the public at large and found that 40% had not heard of Rotary, 40% heard of Rotary, but did not know what it does, and 20% had some familiarity with the organization. In fact, Americans know less about Rotary then the people of India. The total members of Rotary in 2006 and 2016 have remained the same at 1.26 million. The most disturbing statistic is that North America has 50,000 less members than they did 10 years ago our District has remained the same at about 3500 members Rotaract has grown dramatically since its beginning but the conversion from Rotaract to Rotary is only 1%. The following lists the percentage of why members joined Rotary and followed by the percentage reasons for staying in Rotary: friendship 30%/38.4%; positive impact on the local community 38.5%/36.1%; networking opportunities 18.7%/5.2%; personal and professional recognition 4.3%/2.3%; and to have a positive impact globally 8.2%/14%. This survey represents 40% of the members in North America and 60% in the rest the world. He recited the following six ways to recruit members: (1) wearing the pin; (2) the four Way test/Paul Harris fellow presentations; (3) bumper stickers; (4) top of mind awareness; (5) understanding why you are in Rotary; and (6) learn to answer “What is Rotary?” as if you are on an elevator ride. And the 7 steps to membership are (1) inviting a candidate; (2) providing up to three weeks of meals for a legitimate candidate; (3) filling out an application; (4) obtaining Board approval; (5) attending an orientation; (6) publishing the candidate’s name to all members; and (7) induction of the new member.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY KAREN ZAPPIA:
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”