Last regular meeting, tables were assigned one of the avenues of service (international, community, club, youth and vocational). Members sitting at each table discussed project ideas for their assigned avenue of service.
9/11-Rotary Rush Happy Hour & Membership Meeting: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm at Lucky Fish, 1349 Shermer Road in Northbrook. Bring friends who are interested in leaving about Rotary and the Rotary Club of Northbrook. Please RSVP to Jim Karagianis.
Ian Riseley enthusiastically supports the 2016 Council on Legislation decisions to give clubs more flexibility in membership and meetings. “If you want to meet every week, and it suits your club, that’s great,” he says. “But there are people who can’t do that, for whatever reason. To me, the flexibility is really important.” Riseley also worries that Rotary needs to do a better job of communicating with people outside the organization. “We’ve grown up talking to ourselves, and there was an ethos for years that we didn’t seek aggrandizement,” he notes. “We haven’t made enough effort in marketing ourselves to the outside world. One of the things I am absolutely petrified of is that when polio is gone, Rotary will not get the recognition that we warrant.”
As program coordinator of the International Rescue Committee's Resettlement Support Center, Langan Courtney is based in the Malaysian megalopolis of Kuala Lumpur, which has one of the world's largest urban refugee populations.
The organization resettles about 10,000 refugees to the United States every year. "Millions of people are languishing in refugee camps. It's difficult accepting that the need is far greater than the capacity to help," says Courtney, who studied at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in 2012.
Her experience as a Rotary Peace Fellow provided a lesson in examining crises from various perspectives, she says. "The peace fellowship is designed to bring people together from many professional backgrounds," she notes, and the practical approach provided tools for diplomacy.
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