Publication of Rotary Club of Plymouth-Foothills August 2017 PRESIDENT S MESSAGE As we step into August, and put the Fair behind us, we enter two very busy months for our Rotary Club. Every Thursday in August and September we will be leading the Plymouth Farmers Market. This effort requires several volunteers to help set up, tear down, sell beverages and manage the event. Our Farmers Market has been noticed throughout the county as the premier Farmers Market, and one others would like to emulate. As shoppers and families gather to spend a few hours together at the park, our club is truly Making A Difference for the City of Plymouth. At our July mixer it was my pleasure to introduce a new monthly Making A Difference award with a presentation to Past President Jim Gullett. When our Polio Plus contributions were falling short of goal, Jimi stepped up and brought us over the finish line. The Making a Difference ribbon and medal will be passed on to another member at our August mixer on the 15th. If we truly follow Rotary s motto of Service Above Self, we can all be a part of something bigger than any of us, and make A Difference locally and throughout the world. If you would like to nominate someone for the award, contact me or Jim. Carl INSIDE THIS ISSUE Rotary & Baseball...2 Birthday...2 Anniversary...2 PolioPlus...3 Calendar...3 Making A Difference...4 Why Rotary...4 Freedom & Rotary...5 Farmers Market...6 SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST Chef Brian Hawkins Blue Moon Meeting August 29th
WHY WE DON T WANT ROTARY TO BE LIKE BASEBALL By David Postic Rotaract Club of Norman, Oklahoma Baseball is a sport so historically beloved in the U.S. that it is called American s pastime. Yet few Americans actually watch baseball on a regular basis. Why? If you really look at the game, it can seem slow, boring and it can get old pretty quickly. Most people like the idea of baseball, they just don t like watching it. Similarly, there are many young people out there who love the idea of Rotary and what it does. But when you really look at any given Rotary club it can seem slow and boring. The problem boils down to this, there can sometimes be a generational gap in Rotary clubs. There are older Rotarians who see it as a social club and younger people who see it as a retirement home. As a result many young people choose not to join those old clubs, instead form new ones or, they just don t participate in any at all. New clubs are by no means bad things, but when all the young people are creating new clubs the math says those old clubs are doomed to die. Scott Mahon 5 Paul Wibbenmeyer 13 Troy & Susie Bowers 8 Jamie & Ronn Lubenko 25 Older Rotarians see Rotary as a Social Club, younger people see it as a retirement home How do we fix this problem? First, wake up! If the meetings or service projects are not more exciting than going to the mall, or spending and hour on Facebook, young people will not be engaged and they will not join. Develop innovative projects that truly make a difference! Writing checks is not enough to keep the younger generation interested. Secondly, let go of your club, give up control. Give younger members responsibilities, listen to their ideas. Most importantly, make them the leaders and let them change things. If you make it a habit to continuously evolve as a club, you will continue to engage young people and flourish. When clubs flourish, Rotary flourishes. Rotary is a great idea, there are millions and millions of young people who want to be a part of Rotary. As long as Rotary, like baseball, seems to be slow and boring, what reason do young people have to join? If you want to engage young Rotarians, wake up and let go. 2
POLIO PLUS Rotary began the PolioPlus campaign in 1985. That particular year there were 350,000 cases of polio annually. By 2014 the number of cases had been reduced to 400 cases annually. Rotarians have contributed more than $1.3 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect more than 2 billion children worldwide. In addition, Rotary s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by donor governments to contribute over $10 billion to the effort. Prior to the global scope of PolioPlus, individual clubs with Rotary funding were attacking the disease closer to home. The success of PolioPlus set the stage for Rotary s top priority to rid the world of polio. Since Rotary introduce its PolioPlus campaign, the number of polio cases worldwide has dropped 99%, and the virus remains endemic in just three countries Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Reported Cases 2016 2017 Afghanistan: 13 3 Nigeria: 4 0 Pakistan: 20 2 Progress is being made but there is still work to be done in these three countries. Our club has committed to $1,200, by advertising in both the newsletter and on the website we can meet this goal. The cost is $50 annually, due July 1st with the start of the new Rotary year. Your business card ad will appear each month is the newsletter. If you go onto the website your business card will appear at the bottom of most of the pages within the website. The newsletter is sent to members of PFRotary, other Rotary clubs, prospective members, along with a few others outside of Rotary. Gathering that $1,200 is usually done by Susie Clark, this is one way to help Susie gather those funds and help PolioPlus, at the same time, the newsletter and website will get the word out about your business. AUGUST Speaker: Bob Mees... 1 49 RV Park Speaker Chef Brian Hawkins... 8 Board Meeting... 8 Evening Mixer Loch Logan... 15 Speaker: Kevin Higley Sun Communities... 22 Blue Moon Dinner Meeting Speaker: Abra Teague Life As A Serial Franchisee... 29 SEPTEMBER Speaker: TBD... 5 Speaker: Jack Gorman... 12 Amador Vintners Association Board Meeting... 12 Speaker: Doug McDonald... 19 District Governor Evening Mixer TBD... 26 FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE AUGUST 4:00PM... 3 4:00PM... 10 4:00PM... 17 4:00PM... 24 4:00PM... 31 SEPTEMBER 4:00PM... 7 4:00PM... 14 4:00PM... 21 4:00PM... 28 To place your ad please send business card ad to editor@pfrotary.org or give it to Marilyn McDanel at the meeting. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE CLICK HERE 3
Jim Gullett, recipient of the Making A Difference Award. The award was presented to Jim at the July evening mixer at Vino Noceto Tasting Room. During this past year Jim has quietly made a difference in many ways and in many lives. Each month at the evening mixer the Making A Difference Award will be presented to another member of PFRotary. Come see who is the next recipient, it could be you. MAKING A DIFFERENCE AWARD Who will be the next recipient?? Rotaract was founded forty years ago, with the Rotaract Club of North Charlotte being the first club to be chartered on March 13, 1968. Following the founding of the Rotaract Club of North Charlotte, many existing Rotary based youth clubs changed their names to become an official Rotaract club. Today there are over 7,000 clubs in about 163 countries. Internationally, Rotaract is strong in Asia, Africa and South America as well as Europe, where Rotary membership may be exclusive or expensive. 4 WHY ROTARY Rotary members unite at home and across the globe to put their experience and knowledge to work tackling the most pressing challenges. Rotary focus its efforts in size areas: 1. Promoting Peace 2. Preventing Diseases 3. Providing Access To Clean Water and Sanitation 4. Enhancing Maternal and Child Health 5. Improving Basic Education and Literacy 6. Helping Communities Develop Catherine Scanlon is presently obtaining information on grants and how PFRotary can help with item four above, Enhancing Maternal and Child Health. When Catherine first became International Chair she hit the floor running and hasn t stopped since. Susie Clark, on the other hand, is tackling item number two on the list above, Preventing Diseases. She gathers donations for the PolioPlus efforts and needs $1,200 to meet our Club s goal. Dan Slater, along with a number of other members and non-members have been working on item 5. He and the others have joined the reading program at Plymouth Elementary. Each and every adult who has participated in this program has thoroughly enjoyed it and the children. When a child improves in reading they improve in all subjects. If anyone would like to become a chair and tackle some of these other items on the list please step forward. If there s something you would like to do within our own community please don t hesitate to discuss it at a morning meeting or during a board meeting., all are welcome at the board meetings.
FREEDOM AND ROTARY In Germany, no club had been formed before 1927, because of opposition from the continental clubs. For a while after 1933, Rotary clubs met with approval by Nazi authorities, and were considered to offer opportunity for party comrades to provide enlightenment regarding the nature and policy of the National Socialist movement. The Nazis, although they saw international organizations as suspect, had authorized NSDAP members to be members of Rotary through the Nazi Party s court rulings issued in 1933, 1934 and 193. In 1937, more than half the German Rotarians were Nazi Party members. Six German clubs were formed after Hitler came to power. pressure almost immediately to expel their Jewish members. They came under Rotary Clubs do not appear to have had a unified policy towards the Nazi regime; while several German Rotary clubs decided to disband their organizations in 1933, others practiced a policy of appeasement or collaborated. In Munich the club removed from its members list a number of Rotarians, Jewish and non-jewish, who were politically unacceptable for the regime, including Thomas Mann, already in exile in Switzerland. Twelve members resigned in sympathy with the expelled members. Beginning in 1937, however, hostile articles were published in the Nazi press about Rotary, comparing Rotary with Freemasonry. Soon after that, the incompatibility between Nazism and the international humanitarian organization resulted in two decisions which would jeopardize the existence of Rotary in Germany: June 1937: The ministry of the interior forbade civil servants to be members of Rotary July 1937: The NSDAP s party court reversed its previous rulings and declared Party and Rotarian membership incompatible Rotary s cause was advocated before the NSDAP party court by Dr. Grill, Governor for the Rotary 73rd district, arguing that the German Rotary was compliant with the goals of the Nazi government, and had excluded Freemasons in 1933 and non-aryans in 1936. Other attempts were made, also by foreign Rotarians, but appeasement failed this time, and, in September 1937, the 73rd district dissolved itself. Subsequently, the charter of German clubs was withdrawn by Rotary International, although some clubs continued to meet privately. Rotary Clubs in Spain ceased to operate shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Clubs were disbanded across Europe as well Austria 1938 Italy 1939 Czechoslovakia 1974 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Luxembourg 1941 Hungary 1941/1942 Trivia Question Do you know what the first service project of the first Rotary club was? Hint: It is something we all use today at one time or another. Quite often when we need one we are in a hurry to use it. We are never at home when we have a need for one. It is something that we quite often take for granted. Answer: The first one was installed in Chicago The year was 1907 It was installed to improve sanitation What was it? It was a public comfort station or better known as a public toilet or as we call them today a restroom. In The Netherlands, Rotary was forbidden after the occupation by the German troops in 1940 and could only be reinstalled after its liberations in 1945. 5
NEWSLETTER & WEBSITE ADVERTISING $50 Annually 4:00PM Olive Oil McGee Park Plymouth Fellowship Fresh Cut Flowers Fresh Produce Families come to spend the afternoon, children play while adults visit and listen to the wonderful entertainment. Morning Meetings Breakfast Tuesdays 7:15a.m. Far Horizons 49er RV Village 18265 State Highway 49 Plymouth, CA The Farmers Market has purveyors of good stuff. Jewelry, olive oils, fresh fruits & veggies, baked goods and much, much more. Help is needed during setup and tear down, it only takes a few minutes to set up the tables and/or take them down and put them away. Please check with Catherine Scanlon. Ro t a r y Cl ub o f Pl y m o ut h - Fo o t h i l l s P. O. Box 56 Plymouth, CA 95669 Evening Mixer Potluck 3rd Tuesday 6:00p.m. Location Varies Please check the website Blue Moon Meeting Dinner Quarterly 5th Tuesday 6:00p.m. Far Horizons 49er RV Village 18263 State Highway 49 Plymouth, CA 6 Carl McDanel President We re on the web www.pfrotory.org