Today’s teachers are faced with a variety of challenges. The obstacles faced by our youth today are overwhelming. The results have become catastrophic resulting in behavior challenges, lower academic achievement, faulty thinking, low self-esteem, self-doubt, and condemnation.
Meet Charmas Lee, Co-owner of Building Champions and Co-founder of Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE), a social, emotional developmental model that improves emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, self-efficacy and the skills of focus and concentration.
Using his proven coaching model, Charmas seeks to create an equitable educational experience for each student, disrupting systemic cycles of impoverished faulty thinking, thus creating a new generation of student champions; highly disciplined students, with disciplined thoughts, followed by disciplined actions.
Paul Harris wrote: "Each Rotarian is a connecting link between the idealism of Rotary and their trade or profession". Vocational Service may be the least understood of the Rotary Avenues of Service, and yet it is the very foundation of Rotary itself. The introductory statement and three of the four objectives of Rotary relate to Vocational Service, underlining its importance to the philosophy and culture of Rotary.
Those objectives are:
To encourage and foster high ethical standards in business and professions, to recognise the worthiness of all useful occupations, to dignify the Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
To apply the ideal of service in personal, business and community life.
To advance international understanding and goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of businessmen and professional men and women united in the ideal of service.
The Object of Rotary is a philosophical statement of Rotary’s purpose and the responsibilities of Rotarians. The concept of vocational service is rooted in the Second Object, which calls on Rotarians to “encourage and foster”:
• High ethical standards in business and professions
• The recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations
• The dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
As a Rotarian, how can you put these ideals into action? Consider these suggestions:
• Talk about your vocation in your club, and take time to learn about fellow members’ vocations.
• Use your professional skills to serve a community.
• Practice your profession with integrity, and inspire others to behave ethically through your own words and actions.
• Help a young person achieve his or her career aspirations.
• Guide and encourage others in their professional development. If you do any of these things, you are performing vocational service. And if vocational service motivates and energizes you, then you’re in the right place, because vocational service is the very essence of Rotary. It is what sets Rotary apart from other service organization.
I was born in Bamberg, Germany while my parents were stationed there. I was an Army brat so I grew up in TX, CO, & WA. We ultimately retired in CO and I have lived here since 6th grade so I would consider Colorado Springs to be home!
Have you lived outside the US? If so, where and for how long?
I lived in Germany for the first 18 mo. of my life. My mom is also from Germany so we would visit her hometown, Fulda, often while growing up.
Coffee or tea?
Most definitely coffee – I would love to have Pumpkin Cream cold brews year round!
Do you currently or have you ever played a musical instrument?
I played the Clarinet from 6th grade through high school
Favorite sport to watch? Favorite sport to play? Favorite sports teams?
I enjoy a good football game with the family. Go Seattle Seahawks! I enjoy playing pickleball during the summer & fall and just started to learn golf in August.
Do you speak any languages besides English?
German, but I get really nervous and am far from fluent.
What is one thing from your Bucket List?
Travel to Ireland (Currently booked for July 2021)
Do you have pets? Please describe! Include a picture if you can!
I have a dog, Anastasia (Anna), she is an Australian Shephard mix and full of love. I also have 2 cats, Bella who is 8 y/o and Callie who I inherited after a close friend passed away. They all get along great and are the best company.
Do you collect anything?
Piggy Banks, I especially love finding them when I travel to new cities.
What was your first job?
Seven Falls beginning summer before my Junior year through my freshman year of college.
What is your favorite community service activity that our club has participated in?
I love the Christmas project with Columbia Elementary. It was one of the first projects I was able to participate in and it’s a wonderful feeling knowing you are shopping for kids in a family that would otherwise not have much for Christmas. You not only get to fulfil their needs, but also a few items from their Wishlist too!
We will discuss International projects for 2021 via email this month. Please contact Jordan Davis if you are interested in participating in International rotary projects this year.
A Rotarian is a person who digs wells, from which they will never drink, A person who vaccinates children they will never meet, Who restores sight for those they will never see, Who builds houses they will never live in,
Who educates children they will never know Who plants trees they will never sit under, Who feed hungry people, regardless of race, religion or politics Who make crawlers walk half a world away Who knows real happiness, which as Albert Schweitzer said, 'can only be found serving others'.
Thank you, Annie Valades, for sharing this from a Rotary Club Newsletter in Australia!
Are you missing seeing your other Rotarians in person? Feel free to join Jordan Davis and Kay Rendleman with some of your other fellow Rotarians on Fridays over at Sportivos inside the Antlers hotel. Arrive starting at 11:30 for socially distanced socializing and bring your laptops and headphones to participate in the meeting on Zoom at 12:15! Questions? Contact Jordan or Kay."
Confession time: Everyone has a weird side, right? At least that's what I tell myself. I'm a nut about home security. I won't leave cupboards or drawers open, which is how I knew my downtown loft had a ghost or two living there. I hate eating with metal flatware. I run paper between my fingers and have been since I was 10 minutes old, says my dad.
I like lots of blankets at night. Not for warmth but because the weight makes me feel more secure. I had carrot red hair and lots of freckles until middle school when they faded and my hair turned strawberry blonde, so I really was a weird ginger red-headed stepchild.
I love snow and cold weather. I dislike driving. I really like zoom. I stare at people's hands and enjoy the expressiveness in them that most people don't notice. Nothing's as nice as a cute pair of boots. I love plants but I kill them. I don't cook nor do I want to cook. I fell in love with Donny Osmond when I was 6 years old and I still kinda carry a torch for him. I celebrate his birthday every year - December 9. No matter how secure my home is, I must have large dowling in every window or I couldn't sleep. I worry about asteroids hitting the earth. I won't live in a place where the outside balcony is not supported with visible beams beneath. I don't understand how kitchen cupboards stay on the wall with all the weight of dishes in them.
I'm addicted to sugar and work so hard to stay away from it. Sometimes I win the battle against sugar but sometimes I don't and it causes SO MUCH GUILT. I haven't balanced a checkbook since the 80's. My budgeting motto is: Hope for the best! I always take the window seat. I'm obsessed with containers - every kind. I won't eat pork. My children are my best reason for doing life and I wouldn't hate it if they inherited a little of my weirdness. I'm genuinely happy most of the time and that really is a gift to be so innately positive. My friends seem to love me regardless of my weirdness or maybe because of it. No matter how much I grow as a person and work toward a better version of me, I'll still be weird. And that's totally fine by me. So if you call me weird, I will say "thank you" and I'll really mean it. I can't imagine me any other way.
If you have makeups you would like to turn in to be counted for your attendance, please email me with the date and purpose of the meetings! KSaltmarshVoss@yahoo.com
If you have bulletin announcements, please email the EXACT WORDING of your announcement to KSaltmarshVoss@yahoo.com by Wednesday at 5 pm. I don't write your announcements but I do make them nice 'n' fancy!
As you're doing your shopping online, did you know that you can support our Rotary Club with every Amazon purchase? Here’s how:
Go to smile.amazon.com (not amazon.com). Amazon Smile is the same company, same account, same password, but the Amazon Smile program gives one half of one percent of every purchase to charity. No, it’s not a lot, but it’s also not nuthin’ (to be exact: about $150 for the Club so far). So again, go to smile.amazon.com
Sign into your Amazon account as you normally would
On the very top left of the page, next to the AmazonSmile logo, are three horizontal bars. Click there for the drop-down menu.
Scroll ALL the way down to “Your AmazonSmile”; it should be the last option right before “Sign Out”; Click on “Your AmazonSmile”
On the right side of the page, click on the “change charity” box under Your current charity (Note: If you are currently supporting another charity, that’s awesome! These instructions are for those who are not doing so. Also, if you have not previously selected a charity, your default option will be St. Judge Children’s Research Hospital.)
Type in Community Service Fund of the Rotary Club of Colorado Springs; click Select
That’s it. You’re all set. Just remember to go to Smile.Amazon.com when you shop from now on.
