Molly Hamer, Mike Ellison, Jay Glaubinger and Norm Levine told us about their backgrounds, families and work in this month's installment of "Get to Know Your Fellow Rotarians" program.
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 want to learn more about Rotary and the Rotary Club of Northbrook. Please RSVP to Jim Karagianis.
9/24-Rotary Sponsored Northbrook Symphony Concert: 4:00 pm at the Sheely Center for Performing Arts (GBN). The concert features special music for younger children and grandchildren. Tickets are free. Call the NSO office for more information.
International President Ian Riseley stresses that while fun is a vital element of the organization, Rotary must make a difference in the world.
At the International Assembly in January, he noted that environmental degradation threatens us all and asked every Rotary club to plant a tree for each member as a gesture with both practical impact and symbolic power.
Rotary must also do more to welcome younger people, who he says face a number of competing demands.
They are interested in service and eager to do good, he stresses, but they need options. “We need to offer them an involvement that doesn’t waste their time,” he says.
Are you aware of the responsibility or obligation most Rotarians fail to perform? Paying their dues? Attending meetings? Contributing to the club's service fund? Participating in club events and projects?
No - none of these! Of all the obligations a person accepts when joining a Rotary club, the one in which most Rotarians fail is "sharing Rotary."
The policies of Rotary International clearly affirm that every individual Rotarian has an "obligation to share Rotary with others and to help extend Rotary through proposing qualified persons for Rotary club membership." It is estimated that less than 30 percent of the members of most Rotary clubs have ever made the effort to propose a new member. Thus, in every club, there are many Rotarians who readily accept the pleasures of being a Rotarian without ever sharing that privilege with another qualified individual. The Rotary policy on club membership states: "In order for a Rotary club to be fully relevant to its community and responsive to the needs of those in the community, it is important and necessary that the club include in its membership all fully qualified prospective members located within its territory." One merely has to glance through the pages of the local telephone directory to realize that most clubs have not invited qualified members of all businesses and professions into Rotary.
Only a Rotarian may propose a customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate, professional or other qualified person to join a Rotary club. Have you accepted your obligation to share Rotary? The procedures are very simple, and everyone must know at least one person who should belong to Rotary.
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