Last Regular Meeting- Jan Leahy, Executive Director of Career Resource Center talked about the services and programs Career Resource Center provides to individuals seeking employment in today's challenging job market.  For more information about Career Resource Center, visit careerresourcecenter.org.

The directors worried aloud about the graying of Rotary in their zones. England’s Peter Offer told of attrition in Great Britain due to the deaths of more than 700 members. Worldwide, the largest age group of Rotarians is from 50 to 59; only 10 percent are younger than 40. A decade ago the typical club had 42 members; today the figure is down to 34. The most common club size is 20. Still, there are positive signs. Total membership is up, and more than 140,000 members joined between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2015. Scanning numbers on their monitors, the directors saw that 20 percent of today’s Rotarians are female, a number that varies geographically. Women account for about 26 percent of U.S. members, 13 percent in Western Europe, and 5 percent in Japan.

 

Worldwide, more than 748 million people live without access to clean water and at least 3,000 children die each day from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water. Rotary is working to change that. For example, members used a Rotary grant to drill more than 20 clean-water wells and to repair another 30 in villages across Ghana. The project also included education about and treatment of Buruli ulcer, a debilitating infection that if untreated can lead to disability and death. Nearly 70,000 people will benefit from this initiative.

-Stroke a cat and you will have a permanent job.

-No one has more driving ambition than the teenage boy who wants to buy a car.

-There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.

-There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m. - for example, it could be the right number.

-No one ever says "It's only a game" when their team is winning. 

-I've reached the age where 'happy hour' is a nap 

-Be careful about reading the fine print there's no way you're going to like it.