Blastoff January 10, 2011
The Rotary
Club of Space Center (Houston), Texas, and U.S.A.
Meeting
Today
Rotary
International District 5890 (589)
Club 2010
Chartered August 6, 1964
"Service Above
Self"
Blastoff
Presidential
Edition
January 10, 2011
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HAPPY NEW
YEAR!!
"My vision for the future of
the club is to become more and more relevant to the
community and more and more relevant to each
other."
President David
Coney
Welcome back to Rotary! I hope everyone
had a wonderful Holiday Season. My family and I had a
fantastic Christmas and a very Happy New Year and I hope yours
did also. Two weeks off from Rotary felt like an
eternity and I am ready and eager to see everyone again on
Monday. This is going to be a great 2011 for Space
Center Rotary Club! Half of this Rotary year is already
over and I am so excited as to what we can accomplish in the
second half of the year. It is going to be a lot of fun
providing service to the beneficiaries that are in our service
budget.
I have said from the beginning that the three
things Rotarians do best are to: raise money, spend it on
meaningful service projects, and have fun doing it. One
project that is coming up soon is a hands-on clean-up, fix-up,
and paint-up fun time at Hope Village. Hope Village is
one of our major beneficiaries this year and one of the things
we plan to do is to improve the recreation room for the
residents. Not only will it look great when we get
through, but will encourage the residents to use it much
more
I am also excited about the high school
scholarships, teacher of the year, new oven project, and all
of the other projects in our service budget that we have yet
to fund. I am truly committed to making sure we use
every cent budgeted to make a material impact on our community
and the
world.
We do a lot of things right in Space Center
Rotary. I am proud of our rich culture and
history. I think to understand where we are, it is
important to see where we came from. If you have not
already done so, I encourage you to browse our History Web
Page at http://www.spacecenterrotary.info/.
I am so proud of all the things we have done in our history
and it makes me excited to be one of the people who helps
decide where we are going next.
My vision for the future of the club is to
become more and more relevant to the community and more and
more relevant to each other. I think one of the critical
things that we can do better as a club on becoming more
relevant is to improve our communications. The flow of
information is critical for the club to be successful and to
help improve on this, we are in the process of improving our
club web site including a new web page. However we must
keep in mind that the web site is only a tool and only the
first step. We all must work together to ensure it
contains meanful and relevant information. I would like
for this web page to tell our wonderful story for outsiders as
well as be an easy and convenient way to find information
about what is happening in the club.
Our future is going to be bright! I hope
you all come to Rotary Monday rejuvenated after a long break
and ready to have a great start to
2011.