Our new President, Bill Solms, will welcome all to the July 9 meeting.
More details about location will follow soon.
Message from 2020-21 President Bill Solms
Update as of June 26th
Greetings, Estes Park Rotarians!! These are very unusual times, so I am looking for ways to make our virtual meetings more responsive to those of us who wish to avail ourselves of this form of venue to meet and to socialize. A big thanks out to Rick Taylor for staying on top of our programs; he has us scheduled out into the Fall with captivating speakers. Also, big congratulations to our International Service Committee for successfully navigating the matching grants process through our District and Rotary International to fund a summer school for disabled kids in Albania in 2021. Please keep in touch with the committees in your service interest areas and call on me if you want some direction on where to get plugged into our Club.
I look forward to an innovative and energetic year while we adapt to our current restrictions such that our members and community can stay healthy and reasonably prosper.
Regular Meetings:
We are still working with Nicky’s to provide a safe venue for our weekly meetings. In our next Spoke edition for the week of July 6th I will share the latest information on this subject, but until any changes are made we will continue our virtual meetings on Zoom. John Thomason, our new Sergeant at Arms, will do all in his power to offer a secure venue when the proper time comes.
Board Meetings:
We are looking at various venues to conduct Board business; in the past we used Doug’s office conference room, so if the Library is not available for our July 7th meeting we will host a virtual Zoom meeting from my dining room starting at 5 pm.
Committee Meetings:
Community Service is meeting on June 30th; if you are not on that committee and want to join the meeting, please alert Jim Whiteneck so he can give you the contact information.
I am interested in being present at any other committee meetings and would encourage the chairs to schedule a meeting before the year ends.
Opening Opportunities for Service, Fellowship in 2020-21,
President Bill Solms
Posted by Bill Solms
New Rotary year brings leadership changes
Subject to Board approval and publication to the Club to fully comply with our Bylaws, the Nominating Committee has authorized the following changes:
Annie Slack will chair Membership with Dennis Gellhaus as her right hand, and
John Thomason will serve as Sergant-at-Arms, again with Dennis Gellhaus as his right hand.
A big thanks to Annie & John for stepping up and to Dennis for his consideration, flexibility, and energy to help them both.
Posted by Anne Slack
Anne Slack invites us to welcome
New member Elizabeth "Beth" Weisberg
Beth is relatively new to our club. She is a retired attorney from Bethesda, Maryland. She practiced family law for 40 years. She was married and raised two boys: Andrew and Eric, both of whom now live in California. Beth always wanted to get away from the city so when she retired, the call of the mountains drew her to Colorado. Her husband, Stuart, did not want to leave Washington D.C. so they now have a long-distance relationship.
Beth has not been a Rotarian previously but wanted to join when she came to Estes last August. With a long history of community service in Maryland starting at age 13, she knew that the Rotarian motto “Service Above Self” fit her own code of living perfectly. She started attending as a guest of Scott Thompson, who sold her her house. Beth has attended Rotary meetings since January 2020 and applied for membership then, but announcement of her membership slipped through the cracks first due to snow postponing the Executive Committee vote on her application, and then due to Coronavirus meeting interruptions – so we are announcing it now. Since joining Rotary, Beth has been active in Duck Race Committee meetings and Duck Race Sponsor and Merchant Prize meetings, and is also on the Community Service Committee.
Elizabeth "Beth" Weisberg
Beth loves to hike. Being from a big city, she didn’t know about the perils of being out in the cold in the Park, even with good warm socks. She learned the hard way it was a good idea to use Toe Warmers to take care of her toes!
Because of the Coronavirus interruptions to our meetings, Beth has not received the normal recognition of being a new member. I have had the pleasure of visiting with her a number of times and will tell you, our Rotary club is fortunate she chose us. She is a dynamic, thoughtful and hard worker if her participation with the Duck Race committee is any indication. Be sure to take the time to say hello to this very special lady.
This is part of a continuing series featuring our newest members.
Meet our 2020 Scholars
Galileo DuMont, Academic Scholarship
Biology/Chemistry/Pre-Med, St. Olaf College
Meghan Frey, Academic Scholarship
Nursing, University of Wyoming
Sage Shumate, Academic Scholarship
Criminology, Boston University
Paulina Tapia Bernal, Stanley Hotel Scholarship
Human Nutrition & Food Science, Colorado State University
Esabella Burkhardt, Carver Family Scholarship
Psychology/Liberal Arts, Front Range Community College
Jennifer Johnson, Lynn Coffman Scholarship
Business, University of Colorado - Boulder
Noel Villanueva, Brunson/Thorp Scholarship
Business Administration Management, University of Wyoming
Aubrey Kinley, Ron L. Kuhns Scholarship
Agricultural Business, Texas A+M University College Station
Matthew Turner, Brian Archibald Scholarship
Associate Degree in Art, Aims Community College
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Rotary Quote of the Week
"Every challenge is an opportunity for renewal and growth. I revealed the theme of Rotary Opens Opportunitiesat the International Assembly in San Diego just as the COVID-19 crisis was beginning, but these are words I have believed for many years.
Rotary is not just a club that you join; it is an invitation to endless opportunities. We believe in creating opportunities for others and for ourselves. We believe that our acts of service, large and small, generate opportunities for people who need our help, and that Rotary opens opportunities for us to live a richer, more meaningful life, with friends around the world, based on our core values."
-Holger Knaach, President, Rotary International 2020-21
Rotary theme for 2020-21
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