The
Highlighter
January 2011
Vol 84 No 7
Table of Contents
Little Did I Know
Paulette Gregg Schulte
During
most of my professional life I knew little of Rotary. Even though I
worked as a university administrator first in San Diego and then in
San Francisco, I viewed Rotary as a private club of men who gathered
together for fellowship and common business pursuits.
In November 2007 my perception changed dramatically (as did my life.)
While on a trip to China sponsored by the Upland Chamber of Commerce, I
met a Rotarian. He was wearing this pin, and over the next week we
enjoyed each other's company as we toured the sights of Beijing, Xian,
and Shanghai. One day he handed me a small blue folded card from his
wallet, titled: What is Rotary. As the bus traveled between cities, I
learned about his club's service projects and of his upcoming trip to
India as a volunteer to administer polio vaccine. He told me that he
wanted to be part of Rotary's global effort to eradicate this disease
from the earth. For him Rotary had provided a sense of purpose, an
outlet for growing.
At that time little did I know
that two years later I would attending district conferences, zone
institutes, and Rotary International conventions. That I would sit
enthralled by our youth at TLC, the Interact Symposium, and RYLA. That I
would be reciting the Four-Way Test and wearing a Paul Harris Fellow
pin. That I would dare to don a merlot-colored sports jacket like the
one worn by Rotary President Ray Klinginsmith. That I would be visiting
63 Rotary clubs throughout District 5300, impressed by their varied
humanitarian projects. That I would have a name badge that introduced me
as First Lady. That I would be wearing a wedding ring given to me by
that fellow tourist, a Rotarian.
Need I say more, my
perceptions of Rotary have changed. My perspectives on life have
changed. Thank you, Rotary.
Mrs. Paulette Gregg Schulte
Group Study Exchange
January 14
January 15
Rancho Cucamonga's "Grape Fun Ride"
January 28-30
January 29
February 25-27
MARCH 19
June 12
Million Dollar Dinner
R.I.
President Ray Klinginsmith will be the speaker at the Million Dollar Dinner,
and it's not too late to attend the January 14 gala at the DoubleTree
in Ontario. President Ray was a recipient of an Ambassadorial Scholarship so
he has a personal relationship with the Rotary Foundation. President Ray is
a great speaker and has many interesting stories to tell.
R.I. Director, John Blount (Zones 25 & 26), his wife Patti, as well
as several Arch Klumph Society members (donors of $250,000 and above to TRF)are also attending . This is an elegant, black tie affair with superb
company, great food, and a fantastic speaker.
Go to
www.district5300.org "Million
Dollar Dinner" and register to attend. You can pay by check
or credit card. If you're staying at the DoubleTree, a discounted rate
is available. Just use the code ROT when you register (call
909-937-0900).
It's not too late to help District 5300 reach its goal of $1,000,000 in donations of cash or testamentary bequests to the Permanent Fund of The Rotary Foundation. Help us reach our goal by making a pledge of $10,000 or more in your will or trust, an outright immediate gift of $10,000, or a pledge to donate $10,000 over three years.
We are currently over $900,000 and just need 9 donors of $10,000 to
make the
Complete the
Bequest Society
Membership Card now and send it to Margaret Cooker
pdgcooker@verizon.net. You do not
need to send money with the card.
Margaret Cooker, RN
Rotary Club of Victorville PDG D5300 Foundation Chair and Executive
Secretary 760-243-5928
Foundation Report
The District 5300 Foundation held its Annual
Meeting on November 1 at Conrad Von Bibra's residence in South Pasadena. The
Foundation is responsible for distributing the annual Lefler youth and
education oriented grants.
This year the following
matching grants were approved and paid to the following Rotary Clubs and to
District 5300:
Boulder City, NV Drug and Alcohol Education Seminar for High School
Students |
$1,000 |
Alhambra,CA Child Watch/Alhambra YMCA-Convert office space for Child
care |
1,000 |
District 5300 Assist in cost of transportation for Nevada Interract
kids to District Conference next year. |
1,000 |
San
Gabriel CA La Casa de San Gabriel Rehabilitate two pre-school
restrooms |
1,000 |
San
Marino, CA Underwrite a part of the cost "Titan Musings," a
publication of the Fine Arts Department, San Marino High School |
400 |
Covina, CA. YWCA Socks and briefs for youthful victims of domestic
violence |
1,000 |
Pomona, CA 'Good for the Sole' shoes for 100 children |
1,000 |
Total |
$6,400 |
For 2011 our Annual Meeting will again be November 1, deadline for
submissions. November 1. We are flexible, if a Club can't meet the
deadline, contact
Bob
Eichel or
Conrad Von Bibra.
Rotary
International News - 30 November 2010
With the important contributions of these
generous donors, The Rotary Foundation is fulfilling its promise of
creating a polio-free world, helping children and families live healthier
lives through Rotary's Humanitarian Grants Program, and educating young
people about cultures worldwide. Rotary World Peace Fellows are engaging in
the study of peace building, which may allow them to participate in
resolution efforts in some of the world's most challenging situations.
Below are totals as of 31 October 2010.
Learn more about the individual recognition that these donors receive.
|
Arch C. Klumph Society members |
287 * |
|
Major Donors |
13,220 * |
|
Bequest Society |
7,342 * |
|
Benefactors |
84,327 * |
|
Paul Harris Fellows |
1,256,021 |
Patrick W. Carlton Co-Chair, Nevada Permanent Fund Giving The Rotary Foundation Rotary District 5300 H: 702-341-6975 O: 702-895-1896 Cell: 702-499-2838 Fax: 702-341-6238
District 5300 secures RI Public Relations
grant…again!
For the second time in three years,
District 5300 was successful in applying for a $10,000 public relations
grant from Rotary International. Four areas in our district submitted
projects and the one from the High Desert was chosen. A 10-week campaign is
planned for February – April 2011 and will feature a weekly half-hour radio
show supported by print ads and billboards directing traffic to the show.
Watch for more information as we anticipate the ability for clubs from
across the district to participate as call in guests as well. The shows will
be available as audio files for posting to the District and Club websites.
Rotary Awareness Month made easy
How will you raise
awareness of your Rotary club and of Rotary International in January? Have
you thought about writing and producing a professional quality television
ad, with corresponding posters, print and online ads to echo the message?
No, of course not. None of us have the resources to pull off such an
undertaking, but Rotary International does! If you have not taken advantage
of Rotary's Humanity in Motion materials, now in their fifth edition, you
are missing out on ready-made public relations for your club. Take a minute
to check out these resources:
Humanity in Motion resources (free to order):
'http://www.rotary.org/en/Members/
RunningAClub/
InformingTheCommunity/Pages/
HumanityinMotion.aspx'
Sign up for PR Tips, a biweekly e-newsletter:
'http://www.rotary.org/en/Members/
RunningAClub/InformingTheCommunity/Pages/
PRTipemailnewsletter.aspx'
Another reason the e-club will be important to your club is the way service
projects work.
Think of the e-club as a reserve battalion of volunteers your club can call upon to complete that once a year hands-on project that could use a few extra hands.
When e-club members show up to attend a meeting or
participate in your club’s project they are taking part in the first part of
the Object of Rotary, which stresses development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service.
The third reason your club might
find an e-club a valuable asset is the idea of recruiting those people you
have been unsuccessful in recruiting because of financial and time
commitment.
If you can arrange for them to join the
e-club, they could then think of themselves as associate members of your
club, attend a few meetings and social events of your club and participate
in a service project.
Joining the e-club might be a
stepping stone to making the commitment to a brick-and-mortar club.
We are in the early stages of chartering the Rotary E-Club of District
5300 with a dozen members who all have prior Rotary experience. Now we need
to recruit prospective members who are new to Rotary.
In a
way the e-club is a district-wide club of people who might be thought of as
members at large in the district with connections to one or more local
clubs. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen all our clubs.
Do you want to know more about the E-Club of District 5300?
Do you have any prospective Rotarians who might be a better fit in the
e-club? We’d love to know about them.
Check out our website
at
http://www.district5300eclub.org and tell us what you think.
Next month's theme
World Understanding
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[Editor's Note] We would like to have participation and contributions from members of your Interact Clubs. Please encourage them to contribute to The Highlighter. Interactors can receive The Highlighter by sending their names, club names, and email addresses to highlighter@district5300.org.
It's Better to Give than to Receive
In
November, the Rotary Club of Alhambra gave away $10,000 as part of its
annual reverse opportunity drawing. It could only be called karma
that a few weeks later the club's charities foundation received a
$10,000 donation towards the costs of a holiday community service
project benefitting needy families.
Employees at the
Ratkovich Company, which developed "The Alhambra," an urban community
located at Fremont and Mission, elected to forgo their usual holiday
party in favor of helping the community. When Senior Development
Manager Victoria Deise Wilson contacted Alhambra Rotary President Sharon
Gibbs, the partnership led to a brighter holiday for more than 50
families in the local area.
"Rotary is connected to the
pulse of Alhambra," said Gibbs. "We identified families in need
this holiday season with the help of the Alhambra Unified School
District, the Alhambra Police Department, the Los Angeles County
District Attorney's Office, the West San Gabriel Valley YMCA, and local
churches."
In total more than 150 children received
gifts that were hand-selected by volunteer shoppers from Alhambra
Rotary, the police department, and "The Alhambra." Volunteers also
personally delivered a hearty holiday meal complete with a ham and all
of the fixings or a grocery store gift card for each family.
Participating families included those who are experiencing economic
hardships or who have been victims of crime.
"Target opened its doors for our volunteers to pick out gifts with the
same care that they would pick out items for their own kids," said Kerry
Blosten, a field deputy in the District Attorney's Bureau of Community
Relations and chair of the event for Alhambra Rotary.
The theme of "giving back" continued after a morning of shopping. All of the volunteers were invited to Alhambra Rotary's holiday luncheon
meeting at Almansor Court, where they joined local senior citizens to
sing carols and enjoy holiday festivities and fellowship.
With more than 1.2 million members worldwide, Rotary is an
organization of business and professional leaders who live up to the
motto, "service above self."
Giving Day
December 18th marks a very special day
in the Rotary Club of Pahrump Valley's annual events calendar. This is the day when 186 children and their families will gather in the
Banquet Room of Terrible's Lakeside Casino for our sixth annual "Giving
Day." This is the largest number of children served to date.
Giving Day is a tradition the Club started six years ago in an
effort to provide a special Christmas Day celebration for poor children
and their families in Pahrump. We used to deliver gifts, trees, and food
to the homes of the needy, but this new way allows us to serve more
children. We worked with The Nye County Community Coalition to identify
children whose family income indicates they are the most likely ones in
our community not to have a Christmas without Rotary's help. The
Club provides presents on each child's "Santa" wish list, as well as a
Christmas dinner and entertainment for the children and their families. Live Christmas music accompanies the distribution of presents from
Santa. The Club caters Christmas Dinner and provides time for
children to participate in face painting and enjoy entertainment by a
clown. Terrible's Lakeside Casino will cook the Christmas dinners for
us. Rotarians set up the dining room and serve the dinners. They also act as elves for Santa. Our Interact Club also helps at
this function.
In order to make this day possible,
Rotarians start working in October to identify the children and obtain
their Santa wish lists. Also, each family needs to be contacted to
see if they need transportation to get to the dinner and if they are
willing to participate. With some homeless families or those
without phones, the contact process can be protracted.
By November 1st, an "angel" has been made for each child indicating the
child's first name, sex, age, relevant sizes for clothing and/or their
present requests. We then distribute the "angels" to various business
locations around town who have agreed to host "angel trees." Community members and Rotarians take the "angels" from these angel trees
and either purchase presents to be returned to the business unwrapped
with the angel. They can also simply make a dollar contribution towards
purchasing presents. As our local Pahrump Valley Times newspaper
said, "Please look at the angels on the trees. They are for
individual children with their fondest wishes on them. Please take
the one that appeals to you most, buy some or all of the presents listed
on the angel, and return them to the business. If you cannot shop
for the angel gifts, Rotarians will accept cash donations to purchase
those presents." The Rotarian Committee for Giving Day monitors
trees and redistributes angels as needed between businesses, picking up
unclaimed "angels" by December 12th as well as all presents or cash
donations from each business hosting an angel tree. Then Rotarians
purchase those gifts which haven't been provided and wrap all the
presents assuring that each child's wishes are granted. Each year
we have been humbled by the very basic requests of most children.
This is a function where every member of the Club participates and we
are honored to be able to do so. Giving the gift anonymously is
the purest form of giving and it provides joy and laughter in an
uncertain world. For 2010, the Kiwanis Club is partnering with us
to help wrap presents and we hope to expand this and other Club
partnerships for 2011.
Happy Holidays from the Rotary
Club of Pahrump Valley.
3rd
Annual Turkey Trot - Claremont Sunrise Rotary
In
As of
this time our CYSS has funded 300 scholarships to Claremont kids,
families and organizations. We have seen a dramatic
increase in the need from so many whose children want to play a sport but
the registration or "uniform" costs are too much for the family to pay. Our CYSS committee has had to read many applications from young kids
that have had parents unemployed for over a year or single parents that
just cannot come up with the addition few hundred dollars for their
child's sport. It has been a total winner for our
Club and our Town.
A New Twist to Community Service
I'd like to offer a new twist to Community
Service… a twist with attention to membership development.
Our Club, with our recently changed name, the Rotary Club of Las
Vegas Summerlin, is having a membership drive. As part of our
drive, we challenged our members to come up with a list or businesses,
business leaders, educators, and community leaders. We took this
list and sent letters inviting these leaders to our December 7th Rotary
meeting. In addition, we had a group of volunteers that followed up on
these letters with telephone calls inviting the leaders to our meeting.
The result? We had ten guests attend the meeting. Many of
these guests have expressed a sincere interest in joining our club. In
addition, we have another ten that indicated they'd like to attend one
of our meetings after the first of the New Year.
Not a bad result.
You ask how this might tie
into Community Service? What better way to get our Club recognized
in the community by the leaders of the community? What a great way
to solicit their help in our activities. What a great way to grow
our club.
Victorville
Gift Giving
by Stephen Flannery
The Victorville Rotary members continued their gift-giving to families of the Victor Valley in this season of good will. In support of The Salvation Army's relief for financially distressed families, the club delivered toys and clothing for 102 children. This is Victorville Rotary's twelfth year encouraging local families, reports Teressa DeAtley, President.
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2010-2011 International Project: Computers Wanted To Help Orphan Kids
There
are six orphanages in Tijuana, Mexico that are in dire need of gaining
access to computers in order to have the children be able to complete
their homework and keep up with their educational requirements. This is
a joint project with the Tijuana Rotary Club.
There are
approximately 332 children. One orphanage has 33 kids. The largest one
has 98 kids.
Approximately 35-40% of the kids need
access to a computer in order to keep up with their studies. They are
currently falling behind in their work. One orphanage has 15 kids who
need to use a computer but only two computers are available. This is
typical at each orphanage. They can't keep up with their education if
they have limited or no access to a computer.
THE
PROJECT: If you have a computer and /or related equipment that is in
working order and can donate it to these disadvantage kids, you will
definitely help shape their future in a positive way. They need: the
pc/tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and whatever other accessories you
have. The processor should be a minimum Pentium-4 or better. If you, a
friend, a neighbor, or if you know of a business that will donate
computer equipment, we want it and will arrange to pick it up and have
it delivered to the Tijuana Rotary Club. They will service it and
personally deliver it to the various orphanages.
If
you have any questions or donations, please contact: Dick Martinez,
Arcadia Rotary Club. Cell: 626-825-5010 Email:
dimar445@aol.com
'Good For the Soles' Event
"They're not
walking in the rain to get an Xbox," said Pomona community activist Joe
Romero as he watched a small parade of parents defy inclement weather.
"They're walking to get shoes for their children," noted the
Pomona Rotarian. "A mother who loves her children will walk any distance
in any weather to help her children." Despite rain that drenched local
streets throughout the day, parents of 94 children walked, rode the bus,
got rides from friends or drove to the Pomona Rotary Club's "Good For
The Soles" event on Nov. 20. Small tents beside Payless shoe store's
Holt Avenue location offered respite from the rain as pre-selected
parents signed in for the Rotarians' gift of free shoes to needy
children.
Rotarians Leslie Lewis, Blanca Adams, and
Tami Farley suggested the project to fellow Rotarians as a way to help
local low-income families and provide a basic necessity for children.
Lewis coordinated the shoes project, which was funded by Pomona Rotary
members and a contribution from Rotary International's District 300.
"We found the families through Pomona Unified School District's
family services division," Lewis said. "Notices were sent to all the
elementary school nurses because in most cases it's the nurses in each
school who know of families with the greatest need." The project was
unanimously accepted by local Rotarians, Lewis said, because "everyone
agreed we have to worry about and support children in our community.
The Rotary club is dedicated to service, so this project fits
within our mission to help people who are unfortunate and don't have the
necessities everybody else has." Romero pointed out that in troubled
financial times anybody could end up in similar situations and be unable
to provide a simple pair of new shoes for a child. Lewis agreed,
fretting the fact that one little boy came in with bare feet.
"He had no shoes or socks," Lewis lamented. "It warmed my heart
when I saw the smile on his face about getting new shoes and socks."
"Good For The Soles" demonstrates that Pomona is "a community of
caring" and Rotarians "value any effort to help our fellow man, woman,
or child," said Romero, former Pomona police chief. "Whether it's
building wells to bring water to a village in Africa or something in our
own backyard, Rotarians worldwide feel a keen need for service which
meets human needs."
Karen Collins, 41, lives in the
Hope Partners shelter. Her 11- and 7-year-old sons received shoes.
Collins confessed her self-made problems revolved around the fact she'd
dropped out of school and got into the too-frequent habit of smoking
marijuana. She didn't get much from her own abused mother. "She hadn't
been loved, so she couldn't love us," Collins recalled of her troubled
childhood. "My own lack of education and the fact I let drugs have a
place in my life prevented me from getting and keeping a job, being able
to pay the rent on my own, and taking care of my children. I had to hit
rock bottom.
"This is rock bottom," Collins bluntly
surmised. "Now I'm studying to get my GED, attending counseling
sessions at the shelter and getting my act together so I can care for my
children." Smiling as her 7-year-old showed off his leather tennis
shoes, Collins tearfully hugged him and his big brother and profusely
thanked the Rotarians.
Dominesha Bryant had just had
twins two weeks ago, but she traveled in the rain to get shoes for her
boys, 12, 10, and 8 years old. She is currently on medical leave from
Inspiring Change for Life, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization
which helps former inmates become gainfully employed and women become
more financially and personally independent.
"The
Pomona Rotary Club is helping people in financial hardship," Bryant
said.
"We're all living on borrowed time financially
today. This project is a great help for parents who can't get their kids
the things they need and sometimes have to choose between putting money
towards shoes or the rent. "Rotary Club President Rosanne Bader retired
from education after 32 years, 18 in PUSD classrooms and 14 as an
assistant principal at Emerson Middle School and principal at Allison
and Diamond Point elementary schools. She has served on the Mt. San
Antonio College board of education since 2001.
Although she no longer has daily contact with children, Bader stays
involved as a youth advocate and Rotarian because her heart is
admittedly forever linked to the welfare of children. And she knows
firsthand what can happen when adults don't care for children.
"You can't educate a child who's worrying about the basic
necessities of life," Bader noted. "They're tired and inattentive in the
classroom when they don't have enough nutritious food. They lack
self-esteem because their shoes have holes in the bottom or their
clothes are worn. They're lethargic when they're not getting proper
care. "Oftentimes the schools are the "first line of defense for
children in need, "Bader continued. "Schools provide certain services -
school psychologist, reduced meal and free lunch programs, connecting
families with the proper social service agencies. But community adults
can make a difference, too." And one is never too young to make a
difference.
Diamond Ranch High School Interact Club
members Susan Cheng, Cassandra Long, and Kristi Su lent teen support to
the adult effort. The teenagers carried umbrellas to keep little ones
out of the rain between the sign-in tents and the store, sat on the
floor and helped children try on shoes, served refreshments, and offered
kind, loving words to youngsters and their parents.
Cassandra, a Diamond Ranch senior who had Bader as her Diamond Point
Elementary principal, has been involved with Interact since her freshman
year. She said teens in the Rotary youth club are as committed as
adults.
"Kids join Interact to help people," Cassandra
said, pointing out indifference and laziness is not acceptable traits in
Interact. "It's good to give back to the community where you started.
"I feel a sense of responsibility to help children because other
people once helped me," she said, never finishing the rest of her
thoughts because she quickly stepped away to put an umbrella over three
shivering, wet children and lead them into the warm, dry store.
Interact members put flowers on Rose Parade floats, conduct Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day programs for elderly residents of Whispering Fountains convalescent care, make ornaments to decorate the Christmas tree at a Rosemead orphanage, collect nonperishable food for needy families, and feed the homeless. (Source: http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_16758206?IADID).
Meet Ambassadorial Scholar – Melanie Reed.
Melanie
is the proud recipient of the Ambassadorial Scholarship through Rotary
International sponsored by Karen Whisenhunt, Las Vegas Rotary Club,
District 5300. She plans to use this prestigious opportunity to
expand her knowledge on how to serve the needs of developing countries
that struggle under water stress. She will study for a year at the
University of Ghana, Legon, working in cooperation with the Desert
Research Institute and the local community to research the development
of sustainable, clean water resources.
Melanie Reed is
a Masters Candidate in the Geoscience Department at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on solving water resource
issues in Developing Nations with appropriate low technology, low cost
solutions. Currently she focuses on methods of research that enable the
capture of potable water through fog harvesting as well as methods of
artificial recharge to replenish groundwater.
With a background in geography and geology as a graduate of Texas
State University, Melanie pursued a career working as a geologist
throughout the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. However, a
desire to serve the international community brought a career change to
more philanthropic interests. She served two years as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Cape Verde, West Africa, and this
provided a spark for her decision to concentrate in water resources
management. Since her service has been completed, she has
volunteered in Guatemala to install water capture systems in rural
impoverished communities and has participated in manual well drilling
development techniques.
Montebello
Meets the Rose Queen
My "MIGHTY" Montebello Rotary Club attended a luncheon for the Rose Queen and Royal Court on Thursday, November 18th, 2010, at San Marino Community Church in San Marino, CA. We were fortunate to have Queen Evanne Friedman seated at our table. She is a beautiful, intelligent and personable young lady. Our club members were honored she appeared in a photo with us.
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Why the District
E-Club is Important to Your Club
Adapt or perish – that’s the theory
behind the organization of a new Internet-based Rotary club now forming
in District 5300.
Some clubs are losing members because
of time constraints or financial concerns in today’s dodgy economy.
The new Rotary club, a so-called e-club (e for electronic), aims to
help save such Rotarians for the district by tossing them a lifeline and
hauling them aboard.
Here’s where the Rotary E-Club of
District 5300 can be a boon to members who are considering leaving
Rotary because they can’t commit to a particular time for meetings:
The e-club gathers once a week (Wednesday evening) for 30 minutes
on an Internet link. The meeting is recorded and posted on the club web
page. Members may either attend as it happens or check in anytime over
the next week.
Another way the e-club is helping
Rotary adapt in the face of financial pressures on members is because it
is a hybrid club with three online meetings every month and one meeting
where members visit a traditional brick-and-mortar club.
Rotary e-clubs were authorized at Rotary International’s 2010 Council
on Legislation, which voted to make permanent a six-year-old e-club
pilot project that had been scheduled to end in June.
The pilot program spawned 14 e-clubs around the globe. The 14 e-clubs
have 360 members in 30 countries and geographical areas, and 586 service
projects. Collectively, they have contributed almost US$150,000 to the
Rotary Foundation.
The E-Club of District 5300 now
being built is the district’s first.
Social activities
for the district e-club also will be based on the internet, with
occasional activities at the time of such district events as the
conference or assembly.
Members also will be involved
in many different kinds of service activities. Some will do independent
service of their own choosing while others may get together for a local
project in their home areas.
The club will emphasize
such district-wide service projects as the Super Build, RYLA and such
international projects as National Immunization Days.
Many Rotarians have asked why the new e-club is important to their local
Rotary clubs and is it just another club competing for members. The
answers will be found in the creation of the new club.
First, it will help all clubs in the district retain some Rotarians we
might otherwise lose because of financial or time restraints.
A current member of your club may be contemplating resigning
because of the current economy with the intent of returning when things
get better. But you should be realistic and recognize he or she likely
will drift away and never return.
If those Rotarians
were to join the e-club, they would remain connected, especially if they
take the opportunity to visit your club once a month.
This reasoning may be even more applicable for members who are traveling
for work or recreation for an extended time.
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Rotary Peace Scholar Chantal Paydar Dies
Rotary
Peace Fellow Chantal Paydar passed away December 9th after a long battle
with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Chantal Paydar attended the Rotary Peace
Center at Universidad del Salvador in 2002-04. She was sponsored by the
Rotary Club of Victorville, District 5300.
Chantal's friends and classmates from USAL wrote to The Rotary
Foundation on December 10th to notifying them of her passing. Chantal
was described by her friends as a lovely and amazing person,
intelligent, vibrant, and beautiful. Anyone who had met Chantal or
communicated with her since she completed her studies at USAL will echo
their thoughts.
Because of her illness, after completing her fellowship, Chantal returned to La Jolla to be with her family. If you wish to send condolences, please contact Margaret Cooker for contact information.