WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY MEETING

FRIDAY, June 10, 2016

In this meeting:

Rotary Minute
ABCs of Rotary
An Update on Polio
Attractive club?
Resources and References
RI Seoul Convention news report
Photos from Jerome's visit to Seoul
What happened Wednesday?
June 8 - World Oceans Day
What happened last Saturday?
Friendships that Women Cherish
Foundation Corner
Rotary Anthem
Four-Way Test to close

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OUR GREETER AGAIN THIS WEEK IS JEROME COWANS

President's Message

Dear fellow Rotarians and Guests,

This month we celebrate Fellowship and it is certainly a most fitting way to end the Rotary year.

Fellowship amongst the Rotarians is what keeps the family together, I am sure you will all agree. Saturday June 11, will be our Club Assembly and all club Rotarians are encouraged to attend.

Rotary Fellowships are groups of Rotary members who

Share a common interest in recreational activities, sports, hobbies, or professions
Further their vocational development with others in the same profession or field
Enhance their Rotary experience by exploring new opportunities and making connections around the world

BENEFITS OF ROTARY FELLOWSHIPS

Enable Rotarians to make lasting friendships outside their own club, district, or country
Contribute to the advancement of Rotary’s public image and identity
Serve as an incentive for joining Rotary and for continuing as a member

Wednesday’s HHH featured autism as experienced first-hand by Carly Fleischmann.

Dr. Lori Ernsperger, Ph.D., BCBA-D is the Executive Director; Behavioral Training Resource Center, LLC (www.behavioraltrainingresourcecenter.com) and she also shared “Exploring Autism Spectrum Disorders.”

Please, Fellow Rotarians, please pay special attention to the upcoming meetings listed below as we look forward to your full cooperation and fellowship with us.

June 11 – CLUB ASSEMBLY – Hope to see you all there!!!!!

June 18 – Weekly Meeting – DRRE Paul Thompson

June 25 – Weekly Meeting

July 2 -

INSTALLATION OF 2016/17 PRESIDENT AND BOARD
INSTALLATION OF ASSISTANT GOVERNOR, E-CLUB

ROTARY MINUTE

QUOTATIONS REGARDING ROTARY

by Rotary International Presidents

1969-70 James F. Conway (law), Rotary Club of Rockville Centre, New York, USA. Rotary vision: Review and Renew its procedures and programs, keeping the good, excising the ineffective.

“Rotary must be renewed constantly at the club level to avoid stagnation and at the

international level to avoid retrogression. But Rotary at all levels depends on the

individual Rotarian.”

— The Challenge: Review and Renew, THE ROTARIAN, July 1969

1970-71 William E. Walk Jr. (law), Rotary Club of Ontario, California, USA. Rotary vision: To help Bridge the Gaps in solving environmental, economic, generational, sociological, and ecological problems.

“Today’s youth have a right to honestly ask and then be heard; to peacefully state what they think is right…But, by the same token, I believe adults who have traveled the path of life have the right, by reason of age and/or experience to say.…‘We have listened…now…what do you propose as a change and how do you propose to peacefully implement this change?…and are you willing to pay the price?’”

— Address to 1970 Rotary Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

ABCs OF ROTARY

RI President (1992-93) Cliff Dochterman

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)

Each summer thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea and numerous other countries. In an informal atmosphere, groups of outstanding young men and/ or women spend a week in a challenging program of leadership training, discussions, inspirational addresses and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills and good citizenship.

The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although these events are sometimes referred to by other names, such as Camp Royal, Camp Enterprise, Youth Leaders Seminars, Youth Conferences or other terms.

The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young leaders. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 1971, the RI Board of Directors adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International.

Rotary Community Corps

One of the programs in Rotary's panoply of worldwide service activities and projects is the Rotary Community Corps. Formerly known as Rotary Village Corps (or Rotary Community Service Corps in urban areas), this form of grass-roots self-help service was initiated by RI President M.A.T. Caparas in 1986 as a means of improving the quality of life in villages, neighbourhoods and communities. Frequently there is an abundance of available lab or but no process to mobilize men and women to conduct useful projects of community improvement.

A Rotary Community Corps is a Rotary club-sponsored group of non Rotarians who desire to help their own community by conducting service projects. Rotarians provide guidance, encouragement, organizational structure and some of the material assistance for the Rotary Community Corps, which in turn contributes the manpower to help its own community. Thus, the Rotary Community Corps is another way for Rotarians to serve in communities of great need.

In depressed urban areas, groups of committed citizens can benefit from the organizational and managerial skills of Rotarians when undertaking valuable self-help community projects.

The Rotary Community Corps program offers another dimension to the concept of service to improve the quality of life.

Rotary Volunteers

You can find them working in refugee camps, remote clinics, makeshift hospitals, and primitive villages.

While many are physicians and dentists, they come from all walks of life. They're Rotary Volunteers.

The Rotary Volunteers program is open to Rotarians, Rotaractors, Foundation Alumni - even non-Rotarians can participate. Those wishing to serve abroad must file a Rotary Volunteers International Volunteer Personal Registration Form with the Secretariat office serving their area. They also must receive an invitation to volunteer from the host Rotary club at the site where they wish to serve. There are several sources for finding volunteer opportunities and special needs.

The Rotary Volunteers program operates under the umbrella of Vocational Service at the club and district level. The Rotary Foundation occasionally provides funds to cover air transportation and modest living expenses for Rotary Volunteers. Volunteers do not receive a salary or honorarium for their services. Rotary Volunteers have travelled to nearly 100 countries to give of their time and expertise.

AN UPDATE ON POLIO

The Global Push toward the Finish Line

Polio incidence has dropped more than 99 percent since the launch of global polio eradication efforts in 1988. According to global polio surveillance data from March 9, 2016, 5 wild poliovirus cases were reported in Pakistan and 1 wild poliovirus case was reported in Afghanistan in 2016. In 2015, 74 cases of wild poliovirus were reported: 54 from Pakistan and 20 from Afghanistan.

On March 27, 2014, Dr. Frieden and senior CDC immunization staff were present when India, along with the other 10 countries of the South East Asia Region, was certified polio-free. The country was once considered the most complex challenge to achieving global polio eradication. Four of the six regions of the World Health Organization have been certified polio-free: the Americas (1994), Western Pacific (2000), Europe (2002) and South East Asia (2014). 80% of the world’s people now live in polio-free areas.

While no polio cases have been detected in India for more than three years, poliovirus transmission is ongoing in the endemic countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan. On May 5, 2014, after receiving advice from an Emergency Committee of independent experts and in order to protect progress toward eradication, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared the recent international spread of wild poliovirus a “public health emergency of international concern,” and issued Temporary Recommendations under the International Health Regulations (2005) to prevent further spread of the disease.

It is therefore imperative that we make this final push toward eradication one of our highest priorities. As Dr. Frieden has stated, “If we fail to get over the finish line, we will need to continue expensive control measures for the indefinite future…,More importantly, without eradication, a resurgence of polio could paralyze more than 200,000 children worldwide every year within a decade.” Now is the time, we must not fail.

Do we have a club that is attractive to

young and not-so-young alike?

...submitted by Rotarian Diana

WHAT MILLENNIALS LOVE ABOUT ROTARY

From the May 2016 issue of The Rotarian

If there is one absolute truth about millennials, it is this: Anyone who says there is an absolute truth about millennials risks being subjected to their collective eye roll.

Millennials are individuals, and fiercely so. According to the Pew Research Center, most of them don’t even like being called “millennials,” let alone hearing generalizations about their shared attitudes and behaviors.

Case in point: Christa Papavasiliou, 31, recoils at the notion that older folks see her generation as a bunch of selfie-snapping smartphone addicts. “I’m the complete opposite,” says Papavasiliou, who was a Boston Rotaract club president and district Rotaract representative before joining a Rotary club, the E-Club of New England, last year. “How would they like it if I stereotyped them?”

It’s a fair question. And yet, it seems we can’t help ourselves.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines millennials as Americans born between 1982 and 2000, which puts their overall numbers around 83.1 million. That means there are more of them than any other age group – including baby boomers, who totaled 78.8 million at their peak and now number 75.4 million. As millennials become the dominant demographic in our communities, the rest of us strive to better understand them in order to improve our relationships in the workplace and beyond.

For Rotary, the millennial era could mean an influx of young, energetic members. The percentage of Rotarians under 40 has remained fairly steady at about 10 percent in recent years, but this could be the generation that bucks the trend.

The Pew Research Center has found that millennials do tend to share certain traits. A 2014 report characterized them as “unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry – and optimistic about the future.” Millennials are also the most ethnically diverse age group and the first generation of digital natives. And, yes, more than half of them have shared a selfie.

They also feel compelled to make a difference in their communities. The Case Foundation’s 2015 Millennial Impact Research Report found that 84 percent of the millennials surveyed had made a charitable donation the previous year and that 70 percent had spent at least an hour volunteering.

What does that mean for Rotary? Papavasiliou may be reluctant to speak for her generation, but she nevertheless represents their drive to make an impact.

In college, she was drawn to Rotaract because of the service opportunities. The desire to serve is what carried her to International Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and got her “completely hooked” on Rotary. It’s what inspired her to charter a Rotaract club near her hometown and to join the Boston club when she moved. “There’s a real beauty to the underlying message of Service Above Self,” she says. “That’s how I acquire all of my friends in a new city. I know there are going to be people in Rotary who are like-minded and like-hearted.”

One such friend is 24-year-old Jermaine Ee, who became the youngest member of the Rotary Club of Los Angeles when he joined last August. Before joining “LA5,” he was a Rotaract club president at the University of Southern California, where he also served as district representative. He and Papavasiliou met at a Rotary event.

“The truth is, Rotary has everything millennials want,” Ee says. Among other things, it offers an opportunity to unplug every once in a while and connect with people who share their values, if not their age demographic, he says.

As a young professional who is surrounded by tech entrepreneurs, Ee is drawn to Rotary’s in-person interactions and “old school” traditions. “People talk about the Friday lunches that take time out of my schedule,” he says. “I love them. Among my peers, there is a lack of this formality.”

He also appreciates the opportunity to develop relationships with people who have more life experience than he does. “My older Rotarian friends and mentors never fail to help me put things in perspective,” he says. And their mentorship isn’t just about business; they have helped him navigate some of adulthood’s subtler skills: “drinking Scotch, planning a day at the racetrack, understanding how to place people on a seating chart.”

In return, Ee likes to coach older Rotarians in mysteries such as how to use social media. As co-founder of a digital marketing agency, Ee bridges the generation gap at work every day. “I sell Snapchat to 60-year-old executives,” he says. “It doesn’t get more resistant than that.”

He often tells his older clients that they are more skilled at social media than they think. “You know how to care about someone; you remember what they like to eat; you remember that their daughter had a ballet competition,” he reminds them. “You care about things. You just don’t know how to do it on a platform.”

In contrast, he says, many younger people “know how to use the tools, but they don’t know how to do the relationship building.”

Ee considers it his responsibility as a young Rotarian to help facilitate intergenerational conversations. His first pointer: It’s not about your membership numbers. “We invest a lot in intent,” he says of his peers. “So when a 60-something Rotarian talks to a 21-year-old, if that person’s intent is to just get another line on the roster, that intent is seen really quickly.”

He suggests that clubs seek out ways to encourage dialogue. “Millennials are curious,” he says, “and Rotarians in general have a lot of interesting stories.” It seems like a natural fit, but younger members can feel intimidated by the older adults in the room, and longtime members can get so comfortable in their social routines that they forget to mingle.

While Rotary may be a great ideological fit for millennials, it can present logistical challenges for young people who aren’t settled enough in their professional and personal lives to commit to regular meeting attendance.

That’s the problem that the founders of the E-Club of Silicon Valley set out to solve when they established their club last year. “It was very much a conversation of how we can get people into Rotary who want to be a part of Rotary but always come up with the response of, ‘I don’t have the time,’” says 25-year-old charter member Yvonne Kwan. “These are people who want to do good. They want to help out. They want to give back to the community, but they just can’t make it out to the meetings every single week at a certain time.”

Kwan’s club posts its meetings online for members to “attend” at any time during the week. The club also hosts regular social gatherings – potlucks, happy hours, and, most recently, a hike in a natural area north of San Francisco. “We went out into nature, and we took a few hours and hiked up to Point Reyes,” she says. “It was beautiful.”

When members go online for meetings, they find engaging content, Kwan says. “We’ve made our meetings very visual-heavy with videos, pictures, a font that’s easy to read.”

In addition to the standard Rotary business items, the e-club meetings feature videos of speakers from all over the world and a weekly “tech tidbit or life hack” that members may find useful or entertaining. Kwan recently posted a tip about a discovery she made when she temporarily lost her Internet connection: The Chrome browser has a game hidden in its connection error page. “It was the highlight of my day for that very treacherous time when I had no Internet,” she jokes. So she made a short video about it and shared it with the club.

Another difference between Kwan’s club and others: “We don’t have big service projects that we do as a club because we’re dispersed throughout the world,” she says. Instead, members are encouraged to partner with other Rotary clubs or nonprofit organizations, find their own opportunities, and report them to the club as service. “You can do your own service in your own time,” Kwan says. “It gives people more power to adjust their own schedules.”

Though the e-club’s meetings are online, Kwan considers the in-person interactions to be just as important. She usually invites potential members to a social event before they ever see an online meeting. “It draws them in and it piques their interest, and you get to know them a little bit more,” she says. “I think that’s really valuable. Millennials are looking for a place to give back to their community, but they need to feel like they are getting value as well.”

Ee, of the Los Angeles club, agrees. “It doesn’t matter how bad my week was. I always end it with Rotary, and I always leave with a little more good faith in humanity,” he says. “I’m really excited for the next 20 years – to see where Rotary’s going to go.”

Kim Lisagor is a freelance writer and co-author of Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them.

By Kim Lisagor

The Rotarian

1-May-2016

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES

Resources & reference - please check these out!

Rotary Voices: Stories of service from around the world

Rotary Leader: Helping club and district officers achieve success

Rotary Images: Download photos to use in your club or district publications

A short Korean news report last week regarding the

RI Seoul Convention

My Fellow Rotarians,

The Rotary International Convention in Seoul was simple amazing. Now we are looking forward to celebrating 100 years of The Rotary Foundation #TRF100 in Atlanta June 10-14, 2017. There is a special on right now for USD$265 which ends JUNE 6, 2016. Click here to register -----> http://www.riconvention.org/

They have already crossed 10,000 early registrants, and it promises to be an event to remember.

I am urging you to register for this event from now and take advantage of this incredible deal.

All the best,

Haresh L. Ramchandani

District Governor-Elect

hramchandani@hotmail.com

PHOTOS FROM JEROME'S VISIT TO SEOUL

Seoul's Night Life

Unique visit to South Korea's army base on the border of the DMZ.

Jerome as one of the speakers at the Young Leaders' Summit

Jerome being presented with awards from Mayor of Seoul

Lime with District 7020 Governor

WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY!

June 8

The first in a three-part series by Dr. Laurie Ernsperger on the Autism Spectrum.

The second video -

An introduction to Carly Fleischmann

And the third video -

My name is Carly Fleischmann and as long as I can remember I’ve been diagnosed with autism.

I am not able to talk out of my mouth; however, I have found another way to communicate by spelling on my computer. (and yes that is me typing on the computer by myself).

I used to think I was the only kid with autism who communicates by spelling, but last year I met a group of kids that communicate the same way. In fact, some are even faster at typing then I am.

Last year a story about my life was shown on ABC news, CNN and CTV here in Canada.

After my story was played I kept on getting lots of emails from moms, dads, kids and people from different countries asking me all sorts of questions about autism. I think people get a lot of their information from so-called experts, but I think what happens is that experts can’t give an explanation to certain questions. How can you explain something you have not lived or if you don’t know what it’s like to have it? If a horse is sick, you don’t ask a fish what’s wrong with the horse. You go right to the horse’s mouth.

And here is one speech –

Speech at CSUN Conference on Technology June 2010

For those who don’t know me, my name is Carly Fleischmann and for many years my voice has been dormant. I, like so many children and adults in the USA, Canada and world wide have Autism. As you may know, not everyone with Autism canʼt speak.

There are many types of autism. Many famous people are said to have been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. I donʼt want to name drop but we all know a certain person in the computer world who is thought to have Aspergers, a type of Autism.

Thanks to the advances in the technology field people all over the spectrum have been able to learn and communicate like no parents, teachers and doctors could ever have imagined. We now have programs that do therapy on the computer, programs that turn text into speech and even amazing programs like Proloquo2go. Who would have thought twenty years ago that children and adults that are non-verbal would be able to communicate using a device smaller than a

wallet.

A month ago I used technology to start a campaign to speak to all of you. My goal was to come to San Diego and not lecture you about the fastest growing disability in the world, that is autism. My goal was and is to first thank all the companies here for all the technology programs and innovations that you have come up with and are showing us today. My second goal is to stand here today and encourage all of you. It is time for technology to break down more walls, barriers and reach more people. Everywhere I go parents, doctors and even psychologists ask me how to get their child or clients to do what I am able to do. I always try to answer them but the real people they should be asking is you.

I am sure there are programs that would help answer part of their question but these programs and tools have to be known to the consumers. Also, those of you in the audience that are inventors or just have a brilliant idea, it is the time and the place to start working on it. I was once told that Rome was not built in a day but they didnʼt have our technology.

I think that Autism is like a relay race and on behalf of everyone with Autism I am handing all of you the baton so we can cross the finish line together. I would like to thank you for your valuable time. You can feel free to ask questions.

Do you know someone who has a child with Autism? Do you know someone with Autism?

April was Autism month.

from a Speech at CSUN Conference on Technology June 2010

For those who don’t know me, my name is Carly Fleischmann and for many years my voice has been dormant. I, like so many children and adults in the USA, Canada and world wide have Autism. As you may know, not everyone with Autism canʼt speak. There are many types of autism. Many famous people are said to have been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. I donʼt want to name drop but we all know a certain person in the computer world who is thought to have Aspergers, a type of Autism.

wallet.

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Do you know someone who has a child with Autism? Do you know someone with Autism?

April was Autism month.

Plan to join us on a Wednesday to continue to learn and to have fun!

JUNE 8 WAS WORLD OCEANS DAY

Several recent Wednesday HHHS have focused on the situation with our oceans. This is very timely! It should be a concern for all of us.

WHAT HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY

JUNE 4

FRIENDSHIPS THAT WOMEN HOLD DEAR

Legendary duo Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have been friends for decades. In a raw, tender and wide-ranging conversation hosted by Pat Mitchell, the three discuss longevity, feminism, the differences between male and female friendship, what it means to live well and women's role in future of our planet.

"I don't even know what I would do without my women friends," Fonda says. "I exist because I have my women friends."

Actor and activist - Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda has had three extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, fitness guru, impassioned activist.

Why you should listen

Jane Fonda is an actor, author, producer and activist supporting environmental issues, peace and female empowerment. She founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, and established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory. She cofounded the Women’s Media Center, and sits on the board of V-Day, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls.

Fonda's remarkable screen and stage career includes two Best Actress Oscars, an Emmy, a Tony Award nomination and an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival. Offstage, she revolutionized the fitness industry in the 1980s with Jane Fonda’s Workout — the all-time top-grossing home video.

She has written a best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, and Prime Time, a comprehensive guide to living life to the fullest.

Comedian and actor - Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize — and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy.

Why you should listen

Throughout her extraordinary career, Lily Tomlin has won seven Emmys; a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony for Best Actress; a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics' Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a Grammy for her comedy album, This Is a Recording; and two Peabody Awards, the first for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël, and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet.

In 2003, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and in December 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.

She made her film debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, and gave a generation-defining performance alongside Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in the workplace revenge comedy 9 to 5.

FOUNDATION CORNER

Celebrate 100 years of "doing good"

The Rotary Foundation is turning 100 and we're celebrating with special events. Check out our new Centennial website to see what's being planned and pick up ideas for your own celebration.

Visit the website

http://centennial.rotary.org/en/history-rotary-foundation

See who's doing 100 Acts of Good

http://centennial.rotary.org/en/get-caught-act-doing-good

Through our annual Sustaining Member contributions of $100 or more, the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 has been a 100% EREY contributor since we were chartered in 2013. Let us continue to support The Rotary Foundation (TRF) through our annual donations. We have been and continue to “Be a gift to the World."

Test your Rotary Foundation knowledge

Whose idea was it back in 1917 to create a Rotary endowment fund? What was the amount of the first contribution? Find the answers to these questions, and brush up on your Foundation history, by exploring our interactive timeline, where you will find photos, videos, and sound recordings from the past century.

Visit the timeline -

http://centennial.rotary.org/en/history-rotary-foundation