Springfield Southeast MO Rotary

Consider joining a committee. Each spring, the incoming avenue directors begin to look to fill positions for committee chairs and suggestions for committee members.

A list of committees is found on the club’s website and on page 3 of the Membership Directory. The 2012-2013 incoming Avenue Directors are:

· Club Service-Michael Wehrenberg

· Community Service-Nancy Riggs

· Vocational Service-Kim Nichols

· International Service-Ken Bowman

· President Elect-Jim Conley

They are now working with incoming President Laura Ward, towards the start of their Rotary year, July 1.

Saluting World Understanding. In February, World Understanding Month, Rotary is encouraged to reach across borders and cultures in the name of service and fellowship. During this month, Rotary also celebrates its 107th anniversary on February 23, marking a special achievement toward the building of peace and goodwill around the world.

How does Southeast promote peace and understanding this month and throughout the year?

We hold a weekly raffle to raise funds to the PolioPlus project. So far, the 4 of Clubs raffle has raised over $2000 for the effort.

We collect loose change for the PolioPlus project. The container is on the House Committee’s check-in table.

We’ll support our international projects with funds raised at the World Community Service Raffle and Auction on February 23. The World Community Service Committee will take over the meeting on that day to hold their annual Raffle/Auction to benefit world projects. Money raised will be added to the club’s budgeted amount of $4000.00 (the allocated portion from the Service Fund). Bring your wallets and bid high!

We sponsor a Rotary Youth Exchange student. This year’s inbound student is Isabel Botija from Albacete, Spain and our outbound student is Claire Donze, who is studying in Liege, Belgium.

We are sponsoring a member of the outbound Group Study Exchange team to Italy, Stephanie Brown, from the Ozark Technical Community College.

We support the work of the Rotary Foundation because our contributions bring hope to people around the globe.

How is Rotary Impacting Your Life?

Have you had fun at the meetings and social functions?

Here are some upcoming events for your calendar.

Spring GYM-Get Your Makeup (LeBolt)

March 12, 13, 15.Basketball Tournament (Marc Mayer)

April5 Fellowship Luncheons Around Town (Tammy Mast)

April 20 & 21 Rock’n Ribs BBQ Festival (Ken Bowman)

Spring Float Trip (Bill McNeill)

Spring Paul Harris Fellow reception-see below (Nichols)

May 16 Joint Rotary Club Meeting at Evangel

July 12 Shrimp Feed (Leonard/Simpson)

The Check-In Table The House Committee Table - A One-Stop Shop for All Your Rotary Needs

Southeast’s House Committee works diligently each week to perform tasks that most of us take for granted. Each week, they prepare the meeting location with appropriate Rotary paraphernalia, maintain a sign-in table and collect fees for meals, set up the front table with bell and speaker gifts, hang banners, collect fines levied by the Sergeant-at-Arms, assist with the PolioPlus raffle, take credit card payments, and prepare audio-visual equipment as required. They are the first to arrive at 11:00 a.m. and are the last to leave at 1:20 p.m. They are a devoted bunch; that’s 2+ hours weekly!

Need something? They can provide you with the following items:

A new Rotary Lapel Pin ($4)

A mini Banner to exchange on vacations

Brochures on Southeast and Rotary International

A Southeast Membership Directory ($10 for additional copies)

To help make their jobs easier, be prompt when returning your badge to the badge board at the end of the meeting.

If you need to distribute brochures or papers on the lunch tables, you must first clear it with the President, and then arrive early to put them on the tables.

Are You a Paul Harris Fellow?

NOTE: The next Rotary Foundation Recognition Presentation will be held on March 1, at our regular meeting. We have lots of awards to give out. Will you be on the list?

In Southeast Rotary, we expect our members, as part of a worldwide service organization focused on furthering world peace and understanding, to participate in supporting the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. For a donation (one-time or multi-year) of $1000, you will be named a Paul Harris Fellow. Rotarians, who are already Paul Harris Fellows, or Multiple PHFs, are encouraged to honor others by naming them Paul Harris Fellows.

The Southeast’s Foundation Committee is planning a reception for Southeast’s Paul Harris Fellows members (and their spouses if they are PHFs). The reception will be held at the home of Patrick Harrington, probably in May.

If you’re not a Paul Harris Fellow, then you’ll miss a great party.

Ambassadorial Scholarship Program

Anne Brett is now accepting nominees for the District 6080 Ambassadorial Scholarship program for the 2013-14 year. The Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships are for one regular academic year at a study institution assigned by the Foundation Trustees. The scholarship may be used for almost any field of study, at the graduate level.

For further information, http://www.rotary6080.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AmbassScholarships2013-14_AY.pdf

Time for Hoops

The 2012 Rotary Basketball Tournament for Special Olympics will be March 12, 13 and 15 at the O’Reilly Family Event Center at Drury University. Practices will continue on the following Sundays: January 15, 22 and 29. They take a week off for the Super Bowl on February 5 and then continue practicing February 12 through March 11. Practices are at First & Calvary Presbyterian Church, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sponsor Packages are now available, if you have any questions, contact Marc Mayer at mmayer@greatsouthernbank.com

Rotary Youth Leadership Academy is June 24-27

Know of a high school sophomore or rising sophomore who promises to be an outstanding leader? Recommend them for the RYLA Academy. Applications are on the check in table. For more information contact Julie Guillebeau. http://www.moryla.org/

How to…Check Your Rotary Attendance

Log onto http://www.directory-online.com/

Click on the Rotary icon

Sign in with your registered email address and your RI ID number (this can be found on the label of your RI Magazine, or the office can send it to you)

From the Welcome Page, click on “My Data” tab

On your personal page, click on the purple MY ATTNDance

If there is a discrepancy, notify the Rotary office.

A Few Reasons Why We are Rotarians

Friendship

As the oldest service club in the world, club members enjoy the camaraderie with like-minded professionals, and club projects offer additional opportunities to develop enduring friendships.

Service Opportunities

Club members have many opportunities for humanitarian service, both locally and internationally. Service programs address such concerns as health care, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and the environment.

Good Citizenship

Weekly Rotary club programs keep members informed about what is taking place in the community, nation, and world and motivated to make a difference.

Leave of Absences Explained

Occasionally, you may encounter a circumstance in which attending a regular meeting is just not possible and even making up is not possible without real hardship. Our club’s rules account for this by permitting you to miss an occasional meeting. In fact, you can miss up to ten meetings during the first half of the year and another ten during the second half of the year without any excuse or explanation and still meet our club’s 50% minimum attendance requirement.

If you anticipate that you will encounter a circumstance that will make it impossible or unreasonable for you to attend or to make up enough meetings to meet the 50% attendance requirement, you may petition the board of directors to waive your attendance. Unless the reason for the absence was unforeseeable, you should submit the request prior to the date for which you are seeking a waiver.

Typically a leave of absence is granted from one or three months per request. Reasons the board will consider for a leave: Health related problems, involving me or my immediate family, Unusual or extended business travel, Presence in a location where make up is difficult, uncertain, or impossible.

Even with an approved leave of absence, you must comply with the Rotary attendance rules. Membership in the club shall automatically terminate if member’s percentage of attendance is less than 50 percent during the first and second six months of the Club’s fiscal year.

The Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprises and in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service

SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions: the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his/her occupation as an opportunity to serve society.

THIRD: The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his/her personal, business and community life.

FOURTH: The advancement of International understanding, goodwill and peace through a world of fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.

Southeast’s Membership & Retention Practices

INFORM-For a general audience, Southeast has published a club profile brochure, available at the House Table and the club maintains a website to provide information to the community and club members.

INVITE-Guests of members are welcome at regular Thursday luncheons. The cost is $8.00 and no reservations are necessary. Guests are announced from the podium.

INDUCT-Southeast conducts a induction ceremony, where the new member is given a packet of Rotary information and a 4 Way Test plaque.

ORIENT-Before joining, a proposed new member is assigned a Past President advisor to answer questions about the club. The Orientation Committee hosts two New Member Orientations each year.

EDUCATE-Weekly, members are provided with a Spokesman newsletter and the club provides various programs on the work of Rotary. The club utilizes social media to report to members current information. New members must complete a “100 Point” program.

INVOLVE-The Welcoming Committee helps acclimate our newest members into Southeast through club committees, club fundraisers, social activities, Rock’n Ribs, annual Basketball Tournament, etc. The Monday morning emails supply members with current opportunities to participate and become a “Rotarian”.

Top Five Reasons to Support The Rotary Foundation

There are as many reasons to support The Rotary Foundation as there are ways to do good in the world.

By giving US$100 a year, you become a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member. By giving $1000, you become a Paul Harris Fellow.

Contributions to the annual funds of the Rotary Foundation are the primary source of funding for Foundation programs.

Here are a few ways your contributions are making change possible.

5. Fighting hunger

4. Reducing child mortality

3. Promoting peace and conflict resolution

2. Basic education and literacy

1. Eradicating polio

Classifications

The basis of Rotary’s classification system is to seek occupational diversity by having representatives in the club from as many different occupations in the community as possible.

Southeast has 216 members and some of our classifications are over 1/2 full. It is in the best interest of the club if proposers search out under filled classifications, such as:

· Air Force, Army, Navy, etc.

· Art Director

· Child Care provider

· Clergy

· Dietitian

· Dry Cleaner

· Electrician

· Farmer/Farm Management

· Fire Fighter

· Fishing industry

· Floral design

· Forest Conservation

· Graphic design

· Hotel management

· Human Resources professional

· Interior design

· Law Enforcement

· Librarian

· Personal Care provider (Barber, Stylist)

· Pharmacist

· Photographers

· Political Scientist

· Postmaster/Postal Services

· Private Investigator

· Psychiatrist

· Restaurateur

· Retail sales professional

· Tailor

· Therapist (physical. occupational, audiology)

· Travel agent

· Writer/Author