Katherine Dumont will speak at the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Estes Park on Thursday, November 20. She will talk about the new “teen guide” position at the Estes Valley Library, and she will share information about the Little Free Library project.
In addition to her work at the Estes Valley Library, Katherine has directed the Soggy Noodle Children’s Theatre for the past ten years and is an English teacher by trade.
Melissa Gillespie visited our club, guest of Sue Fereday. Melissa is the new manager of Key Bank. The Noon Rotary Club loves guests!
District Governor Phil Murphy shared his passion for growing, promoting and "lightening up" Rotary, and finishing the polio eradication campaign.
Governor Phil signed a well-chosen book for the children's library, "A is for Awesome."
Meeting Highlights, Nov. 13, 2014
President Brad Rosenbaum called the meeting to order. Earl Matson offered the invocation. Dave Evans led us in singing “Jingle Bells” in keeping with the bitter cold spell this week, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Guest introductions were led by Larry Corbett: With District Governor Phil Murphy, we welcomed Mrs. Sara Murphy and Assistant District Governor Chris Woodruff. Susan Fereday introduced Melissa Gillespie who is the new manager of Key Bank.
Raffle/pool
Dave Evans said the prize is now up to $510 for the Broncos game Sunday.
Announcements
Big Duck Ken TeSelle said the Duck Race Committee would meet today at 5:00 at Nicky’s.
Wayne Andersen is pleased that all eight bell captains have been recruited. Now we need volunteers to sign up for all the time slots.
Bob Brunson said next week the storage closet contents will be displayed and we can put our names on any items we would like to have.
Raffle Meister Dave Evans said we had a tie in last Sunday’s football pool and the drawing today awarded the pot to Longley Parker.
Program
President Brad introduced District Governor Phil Murphy. Phil said that Rotary International President Gary’s theme is “Light Up Rotary” and he asks us to accomplish four things:
Grow Rotary
Finish Polio
Promote what Rotary does, in order to achieve #1—grow Rotary.
Lighten up Rotary by fostering strong fellowship and not letting rules to get in the way of doing good works. To grow we need to be flexible to attract the young generation.
We need to promote all Rotary youth programs and then track the participants to get them to join Rotary. World membership has been unchanged in the last 10 years at 1.2 million. We have held our own however, there has been huge turnover within that number—1.1 million have come and gone in that decade. We can retain members by being sure they are engaged (having something to do) and feel welcome. North American membership is down 65,000 in the last ten years. Our District is down 7.5 % in the last 5 years. This is a crisis and renewing growth is a long term, multi year process that will continue to be emphasized by future international presidents. Recruiting begins with promoting ourselves. 80% of public surveyed had never heard of Rotary. Those who had, didn’t know they were welcome.What do we tell people to recruit them? We know that Rotarians join leaders, share ideas and take action. But the public will be attracted more by what we offer them personally—personal growth, professional development, and promoting personal values. And for what we do for others—give people dignity, help to change their lives and in some cases save their lives.
The Rotary Club of Estes Park Nov. 20, 2014 Meeting
The closet in the southeast corner of our meeting room contains an assortment of equipment and supplies the may or may not be useful in the future.
We wish to sort, catalogue, inventory items necessary for club operations in the future.
The equipment and supplies recognized as presently useful are to remain in the closet. Unrecognized equipment and supplies will be placed on tables at the rear of the room. We would like our members to look at these items to claim, identify, and/or comment on any items they have knowledge of.
Estes Park will celebrate its 14th Annual Thanksgiving Community Gathering on Thursday, Nov. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mountain View Bible Fellowship, Highway 7 and Peak View, Estes Park. The event includes a Thanksgiving Day feast, entertainment, and a bake sale. Free will donations are welcome. For questions, please contact Steve Misch at smisch1@msn.com.
"This Rotary year, I would like to see every Rotary club make a contribution to our Rotary Foundation. Remember that the good we do in the world is limited only by the contributions we receive. And when we give to our Foundation, we are not sending cash to Evanston - we are helping a blind man to see, a polio victim to walk, a child to grow to adulthood healthily, a student to become better educated, and a family to have food to eat."
John Kenny, 2014-15 Rotary International Foundation Trustee Chair
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Peter Sinnott
November 8
Jill Zerhan
November 10
Dick Broman
November 17
Madison Casey
November 17
Thor Homme
November 21
Suzy Blackhurst
November 27
Anniversaries
Kerrie Hill
Dan
November 19
Rob Cohen
Sheila
November 27
Join Date
Pat Barnett
November 2, 2006
8 years
Jack Overly
November 4, 1979
35 years
Jack Endacott
November 8, 2001
13 years
Longley Parker
November 8, 2001
13 years
Tom Gardner
November 13, 2003
11 years
Larry Corbett
November 14, 2013
1 year
Marsha Yelick
November 15, 2007
7 years
Don Widrig
November 16, 2000
14 years
John Ericson
November 19, 1998
16 years
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Rita DuChateau
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