The first Pen!

I am very honored and excited to start my year as president of the club.  Thank you everyone for making the first meeting a success, and especially John Marburger for helping us work through some tricky technical difficulties.  Thank you to Bill Harvey for his great leadership through this last year and his cyber hand off of duties.  (Bill I think it is customary to wait until after your term is done to start your vacation. Lol)

 

As I stated yesterday I really want this year to be about Engagement, doing some great work and having some Fun!  I am very thankful for all the committee chairs that have volunteered to help this year and look forward to working with you to accomplish great things.

 

I issued an Engagement challenge to all members yesterday and I would like to see everyone "lean in" to engage more and and work to accomplish the challenge.  The challenge is to "Commit to greet Opportunities"

 

Commit           Join and work on t least 2 committees  

2                           work on at least 2 service projects and attend at least 2 socials. 

Greet                At least 3 times this year either greet or do the invocation at the meeting

                           (We are going to do this differently by having a sign up sheet on the                                                 
                            registration table each week where you can sign up for the next 3 months. - Please sign up)

                             We will send you a reminder for when you are signed up to make it super Easy.

Opportunities     Work to bring a guest at least 2 times during the year.

 

We heard from Cella about the great line up of programs we have coming, and we encourage you to bring guests to hear the great speakers.  We heard from Susan about the revised program we have to reach out to our guests and speakers to offer membership opportunities.  We heard from Tim about one of the awesome key note projects we have to work on, and to have a chance to serve and give back.

 

I think the best days of our Rotary club are out in front of us and I am looking forward to all we can accomplish and the relationships we can build over the next year.

 

 

Good News:

Roger gave us a weather forecast that there was no prediction of snow for today.  Very intuitive Roger, although as hot as it is some snow might feel pretty good.

 

Suzi was coerced into announcing her engagement.  We are very happy for you Suzi, although we did not like the sound of you saying you may have to leave to live somewhere else.  Unacceptable.