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SERVICE ABOVE SELF OPPORTUNITIES
THIS WEEK - Friday, 11/17/23...Illuminate Northbrook, southwest corner of the Northbrook Village Green, 4:30 - 7:30 PM. Set-up, Serving, Tear-down Shifts. We serve hot chocolate to community members and give out special mugs from the Village when people bring coats for our Coat Off Your Back collection barrels.
We have four volunteers so far, we need more. Then on Saturday, 11/18/23 there will be coat sorting at Holy Cross Church, 724 Elder, Deerfield, 8:30 AM followed by a joint meeting with the Rotary Clubs of Northbrook, Deerfield, and Glenview AND Governor Mary Bak at 10 AM.
COMING UP...
Monday, 12/04/23...Study Buddies Dinner at Youth Services, 3080 West Lake Ave., Glenview, IL, 5:30 - 7:15 PM. This will also be the day when the Operation Santa gifts will be given to the children. We need 8 volunteers.
Friday, 12/15/23...Operation Santa Claus at the Green Bay Early Childhood Center, 2100 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL, 7:30 - 11:00 AM. We need six volunteers.
On-going events:
Coat Off Your Back, now through 12/15/23...Collection bins are all around town. Please donate some new or gently used coats, and share this project with your friends and neighbors. Our goal is to collect, and very quickly sort and distribute, at least 1,000 winter coats. Also, contact Jodi if you would like to volunteer to help with the sorting of those coats (mostly on Saturday mornings in the Deerfield Free Store).
Operation Santa Claus, now through 11/27/23 (for donations and gifts). We brought it back because many of you asked for it, and now we need your donations or requests for wish lists to make it a success (and to make sure that not even one child is left out).
Reach out to Gary for details or see guidelines he attached to a recent email.
Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best. Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best, Rotary’s official mottoes, can be traced back to the early days of the organization.
In 1911, the second Rotary convention, in Portland, Oregon, USA, approved He Profits Most Who Serves Best as the Rotary motto. The wording was adapted from a speech that Rotarian Arthur Frederick Sheldon delivered to the first convention, held in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared that “only the science of right conduct toward others pays. Business is the science of human services. He profits most who serves his fellows best.”
The Portland gathering also inspired the motto Service Above Self. During an outing on the Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about the proper way to organize a Rotary club, offering the principle his club had adopted: Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Rotary founder Paul Harris, who also was on the trip, to join their conversation. Harris asked Collins to address the convention, and the phrase Service, Not Self was met with great enthusiasm.
At the 1950 Rotary International Convention in Detroit, Michigan, USA, two slogans were formally approved as the official mottoes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified to They Profit Most Who Serve Best in 2004 and to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best, in 2010.
ABOVE PHOTOS L to R: (left) Jean and Paul Harris board a ship after visiting Rotary members in Bermuda, 1925. (right) Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best
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