To: District Governors, District Governors-Elect, Assistant Governors, Rotary Coordinators, Assistant Rotary Coordinators, District Membership Chairs, Club Presidents, Club Presidents-Elect, Club Membership Chairs and All Interested Rotarian Members
From: The Membership Development Team of Rotary International
Subject: Building Strong Inter-Generational Relationships
Dear Club and District Leaders,
Join us Thursday, 29 April, at 10:00 am Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6) for the fourth webinar in our accountability and inclusion series, Building Strong Inter-Generational Relationships.
Generational diversity is one of Rotary’s competitive advantages. Few organizations span generations and build personal connections the way we do. Yet we also can find ourselves segmented by age groups and unable or unwilling to challenge our biases about people of other ages. According to a study by consulting network Deloitte, 70% of survey respondents from around the world say that leading multigenerational organizations is important or very important for their success over the next 12 to 18 months, but only 10% say they're very ready to do so.
In this webinar, we’ll hear from several Rotary program participants who have built strong intergenerational relationships, and:
Empower young leaders to act on issues they are passionate about
Build awareness of the biases that create tension between the generations
Recognize that everyone, no matter how old or young, has something to teach and something to learn
REGISTER HERE and submit your questions to our experts. A recording of the session will be available to everyone who registers.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions.
Sincerely, The Membership Development Team of Rotary International
P.S. Throughout 2020-2021, Rotary will host a webinar series to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion. You will also find a link to register on our Club Calendar section.
Not too many years ago, Rhea Woltman was a club member here at Rotary of Colorado Springs! She was a supremely elegant and refined woman, showing up each week in her beautiful suits and hats, looking every bit the woman that most aim to be!
Rhea was one of the first female astronaut candidates. She was also an inductee in the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
As a global network that strives to build a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change, Rotary values diversity and celebrates the contributions of people of all backgrounds, regardless of their age, ethnicity, race, color, abilities, religion, socioeconomic status, culture, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.
We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
OUR IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
The Rotary Foundation reaches mothers and children in need by giving communities the help and training they need to take control of their own maternal and infant health care.
Rotary makes amazing things happen, like:
Mobile prenatal clinics
Haiti has the highest maternal and infant mortality rate of any country in the western hemisphere. Rotary provided a fully equipped medical Jeep to volunteers and midwives to reach mothers and children in remote areas.
Cancer screening
Rotarians provided a mobile cancer screening unit and awareness trainings around Chennai, India, where there is a high mortality rate of women with breast and cervical cancer due to late diagnosis.
Preventing injuries and deaths
Rotary members launched a $3 million, five-year pilot to save lives of mothers and children during home deliveries in Nigeria. Since 2005, they’ve also repaired 1,500 obstetric fistulas — 500 more than their initial goal — restoring dignity and hope to vulnerable mothers.
Throughout the month of April, we are encouraging Rotarians to recycle plastic sheeting in support of Earth Day celebrated in April. This project is in support of Trex’s earth-friendly composite decking and railing.
Trex will accept Produce Bags, Store Bags, Ice Bags, Ziploc & other reclosable bags, Cereal box liners, Case overwrap, Bread Bags, Bubble Wrap and other types of plastic sheeting.
Weigh your plastic sheeting donation then drop it off at a local King Soopers or with Samantha Chapman.
Since our previous Saturday Habitat for Humanity volunteer opportunity was cancelled due to weather we have a new sign-up opportunity for May 21-22!
Volunteer with your fellow Rotarians and other local Rotary clubs with the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity. All Rotarians and friends are welcome to volunteer and there are options between a morning/afternoon or all day shift. Encourage a spouse, significant other, or friend to join you as we assist with a local build project in our Colorado Springs area.
International Committee is working on some great projects!
- Joint Project with Denver Mile High Club Uganda mental health is approved and in motion!
- CSF approved $500 for Ashesi University project in Ghana. Distract Grant request submitted. Looking to get other local clubs to partner with us.
- Colorado Haiti Project is continuing on their agriculture project and has changed their name to Locally Haiti.
- We are drafting a request for the Practical Education Network (PEN) in Ghana for funding to help with transition to online learning because of covid. We get to hear from PEN's CEO & Founder, Heather Beem in April as one of our speakers!
Onward and upward, Jordan Davis - International Committee Director
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."
1. Where were you born and where did you grow up? Seattle, WA (grew up in suburbs of Kent and Renton)
2. Coffee or tea? Coffee
3. Do you currently or have you ever played a musical instrument? Trumpet in elementary and junior high school
4. Favorite sport to watch? Favorite sport to play? Favorite sports teams? Watch = College Football Play = skiing, running and biking if solo (soccer and softball for team sports)
5. What is one thing from your Bucket List? Travelling to New Zealand
6. Do you have pets? Yes, Bouncer is a 13 year old Goldendoodle
7. If you had to give up one of your five senses for the rest of your life, which one would it be: sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell? Taste
8. What was your first job? Dishwasher
9. How long have you been in Rotary? Since 2008, I believe.
10. Who was your rotary sponsor? Wayne Bland
11. What is something else that other Rotarians would find interesting about you that you'd like to share? I have lived in the following time zones for at least a year: Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern
Have you ever looked at someone's handwriting and thought they probably slept through penmanship class? When I was first writing my alphabet, the teacher would smack the top of my hand whenever she walked past my desk to remind me that I held my pen wrong. According to smack-y lady, I held it with my pointer finger and wrapped my thumb in some type of longhand gymnastics but I was supposed to hold it with my thumb and pointer finger, equally supporting the pen tip as evidenced below.
Miss Bench also said I squeezed the pen too hard. She was right about that part. My hand cramps quickly when I write if I don't consciously loosen my grip.
Handwriting is kind of a big deal to me. Not about the way someone holds their writing tool of choice.
It's the uniqueness of printing or cursive that stands out to me. My dad had very unique handwriting and I've never thrown away anything that he wrote to me. My mom and grandma had similar looking scrawl but it was just different enough that I could detect the barely perceptible contrarity. It was a scripted thumbprint.
The most bizarre fact about handwriting to me is how little we use it yet how much importance it had in school. That's fine by me mostly but I do miss the distinctive pen strokes that nearly always bring sweet memories. My own writing used to be neat, evenly spaced, even a bit fancy according to Webster's book of Penmanship (which may or may not be a thing.) I would dot i's with hearts or sometimes stars. Something happened. Oh yeah, I stopped writing and started typing.
Long before that, however, when the teacher said we would no longer be using first grade lined paper, I had a full blown 7 year old's version of a panic attack. How would I know how high to make my lowercase a?? I can't write straight without lines! Where exactly do they expect me to cross my t's? Who do these teachers think I am?? I was probably only slightly less OCD than I am now. (FYI, it totally turned out ok.)
I don't regret computers AT ALL. And it doesn't bother me that youngsters aren't learning cursive to later in life sign their credit card charges. Maybe signatures are a bit overrated. I actually sign a big X very often on my Square transactions and my credit union doesn't say a thing. That tells me right there how important my signature truly is at this point in time.
I wish handwriting was still an essential part of our culture. BUT it is only part of what makes each of us exceptional. Know this: I may not know your handwriting but there are many other unparalleled traits that I do know! John Buckley and his Kentucky-ness...Carol Bach and the soft voice we hear when she talks about children...Curt Ormond and how he can segue anything into a joke...Paul Clarkin and THAT VOICE!...Maile Foster's beautiful bright eyes and constant smile...President Rodney Gullatte and his infectious enthusiasm and how he hugs with his heart...Mike McGrath and the way you can HEAR his grin through the phone...George Reed's continual and genuine compassion and optimism...Ron Rubin's very polished articulation...Dennis Shoemaker's calm and lovely nature that's kept me from freaking out OH SO MANY times...Jane Young and her sense of adventure...so many others.
So as society moves farther from handwriting and closer to retinal recognition, you will always be in my head and heart with these wonderful traits. Not a bad tradeoff.
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.
