July 14, 2015 (Jul 14, 2015)

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Speakers

Sep 30, 2015
Heather Martin, Director
Criterion Theatre

Oct 07, 2015
5:00 Evening Meeting--BLUENOSE INN
No Speaker

Oct 14, 2015
Bob & Linda Thayer
Behind The Scenes: Jesup's Read Around ME Calendar

Oct 21, 2015
Past Presidents Committee--Club Assembly
Bylaws, Constitution, Nominations

Oct 28, 2015
Amanda Mogridge
Rotary Foundation

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Executives & Directors

President

Sue Kropff

President Elect

John Willett

Secretary

Nancy Corliss

Treasurer

Ron Wrobel

Service Committee

Shaun Farrar

Membership Committee

Doreen Willett

Public Relations

Carrie Jones

Club Admin Committee

Scott Hammond

International Committee

Susy Davis

Foundation Committee

Amanda Mogridge

Member at Large

Steve Boucher

Sergeant-at-Arms

John Willett

Webmaster

Joe Losquadro

President's Message

Sue Kropff

member photo

Fellow Bar Harbor Rotarians,

I received the following from Rotary International and want to share it with you. Wouldn't be fantastic if our Club would host one of these world leaders!!

OPEN WORLD PROGRAM 2016 — CALL FOR HOSTS

Dear Rotary Club President,
cc: Rotary Club Secretary

We are pleased to announce new hosting opportunities under the Open World Program during the 2016 calendar year.

The Open World Program is available only to Rotary clubs in the United States, and provides an opportunity to build fellowship and friendship to strengthen international understanding by hosting emerging Eurasian leaders from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine in your community. Rotary clubs are needed to host six-participant delegations for eight days and nights and prepare a professional program related to business, community, and civic life in the United States.

The program focuses primarily on developing a network of leaders who have an understanding of how American communities deal with contemporary issues and who want to maintain contact with their new American contacts and other counterparts. Often, these collaborations lead to service projects between Rotary clubs in the two countries.

Is your Rotary club interested in working on an international project, hosting six Open World participants (emerging and/or current Eurasian leaders) for eight days, and willing to develop an intensive week of programs based on a selected Open World theme? Review the Open World Program Brochure and Host Request Form and email the completed form to openworldprogram@rotary.org by Thursday, 15 October 2015.

Find out more about the Open World Program or email us at openworldprogram@rotary.org.

Sincerely,

Natalia Kunzer
Open World Program Officer

I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.

Yours in Service,

Sue

Stories

About Rotary 7/14

Some early Rotary History

Paul Harris

“WHATEVER ROTARY MAY MEAN TO US, TO THE WORLD IT WILL BE KNOWN BY THE RESULTS IT ACHIEVES.”

—PAUL P. HARRIS

Our 1.2 million-member organization started with the vision of one man—Paul P. Harris. The Chicago attorney formed one of the world’s first service organizations, the Rotary Club of Chicago, on 23 February 1905 as a place where professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships. Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of each member.

OUR ONGOING COMMITMENT

Rotarians have not only been present for major events in history—we’ve been a part of them. From the beginning, three key traits have remained strong throughout Rotary:

We’re truly international. Only 16 years after being founded, Rotary had clubs on six continents. Today we’re working together from around the globe both digitally and in-person to solve some of our world’s most challenging problems.

We persevere in tough times. During WWII, Rotary clubs in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Japan were forced to disband. Despite the risks, many continued to meet informally and following the war’s end, Rotary members joined together to rebuild their clubs and their countries.

Our commitment to service is ongoing. We began our fight against polio in 1979 with a project to immunize 6 million children in the Philippines. By 2012, only three countries remain polio-endemic—down from 125 in 1988.

NOTABLE ROTARIANS

Rotarians are your neighbors, your community leaders and some of the world’s greatest history-makers:

Warren G. Harding, U.S. president
Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of Mayo Clinic
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of the wireless radio and Nobel laureate
Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureate
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel laureate
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia
H.E. Soleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator
Manny Pacquaio, Filipino world-champion boxer and congressman
Richard Lugar, U.S. senator
Frank Borman, American astronaut
Edgar A. Guest, American poet and journalist
Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer
Franz Lehar, Austrian composer
Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photographer
James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co.
Carlos Romulo, UN General Assembly president
Sigmund Sternberg, English businessman and philanthropist

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