Rotary International - District 6930 - Quest Magazine 11 - June 2019

QUEST MAGAZINE DISTRICT

6930

EDITION 11 JUNE 2019

Donna Gaiser DGE

Julia Babbitt DG

District Conference 2019 Youth Service Month

Quest Rotary District 6930

The Official District Magazine

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Every whiskey contains a story

Louis Venuti Tim Sharp Chrissy Elliott Debbie Avery

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Tom Coyne Patrick Growney

Young people can make their mark through Rotary

Gabriela Heizer

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GOVERNOR CORNER It is never good-bye with Rotary it is until we see each other again…

With only a few weeks remaining in the 2018-19 Rotary year I am enjoying the remainder of my time visiting clubs and attending events and reflecting. Rotary International President Barry Rassin asked the District Governors to return home from International Assembly, and Inspire our clubs, and our districts. However what was not mentioned to any of us was how to handle it when we become inspired by our District, Clubs and Members, the very ones we were supposed to inspire! What a fitting theme this year was for me personally.

It has been an honor and a privileged to serve this District, I will be forever grateful for your generosity and kindness. I have spoken to numerous club members throughout the district it appears that our District is stronger and more united than we have been in sometime. District 6930 is full of leaders committed to creating lasting change around the globe. As RI President Barry stated “By working together, we open up unlimited potential.”

Earlier this year I invited from each of you to be a Champions of Change, to grow your membership by looking for like-minded individuals which you accomplished. I asked you to do a makeover on your induction ceremonies which many of you did, thank you.

I asked that you partner with other clubs and organizations on your projects which you did and in doing so exceeded my expectations. I challenged you to not leave money on the table and to apply for your available District Designated Funds. The amount of funding available for the 2018-19 year was $74,219 and DDF requested by clubs for projects exceeded this amount for the first time in several years. The changes you have made by doing projects have transformed your communities both locally and globally.

I hope that we continue to have the successes of this year transfer into the next and beyond.

Let us continue to Be the Inspiration, as we move forward and Connect the World.

Rotarians like you make the world a better place.

Julia R. Babbitt Governor 2018-2019 June 2019 * Quest Magazine

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DISTRICT LEADERSHIP CORNER

District Governor

DG-Elect

DG-Nominee

Julia Rose Babbitt e

Donna Marie Gaiser

Els H Van Engelenburg

District Secretary

District Treasurer

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Marcia Gaedcke

Terri Marie Wescott

Douglas S. Heizer

Polio Eradication Chair

District Disaster Relief Chair

Grants Committee Chair

Laile E. Fairbairn

Philip Harry Lustig III

Eugene B. Burkett

Club Rotary Foundation Chair

Membership Chair

District Finance Chair

James A. Sisserson

Arthur W. Hodge

Juan F. Ortega

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RYLA Chair

Peace Project Chair

Young Professionals

Nadine Burns

Lawrence G. Labadie

Michael F Walstrom

Trainer

Alumni Adm

Newsletter Editor

Carol Sutton

Debbie Avery

Dini Mancebo Heizer

Assistant Governor Area 1

Assistant Governor Area 2

Assistant Governor Area 3

Boca Raton Boca Raton Central Boca Raton Downtown Boca Raton Sunrise Boca Raton Sunset Boca Raton West

Boynton Beach-Lantana

Doyle Ainsworth Dally

Evelyn Flores

Delray Beach Lake Worth Royal Palm Beach Wellington

Jupiter-Tequesta Palm Beach Palm Beach/Flagler Singer Island The Northern Palm Beaches West Palm Beach

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Assistant Governor Area 4 Belle Glade Okeechobee Pahokee Stuart Stuart-Sunrise

Assistant Governor Area 5 Fort Pierce Port St. Lucie Port St. Lucie Sunset

Assistant Governor Area 6 Orchid Island,Sebastian Vero Beach Vero Beach Oceanside Vero Beach Sunrise

Tod B. Hardacre

Lyle Ryant Fried

Marc Gingras

Assistant Governor Area 7

Assistant Governor Area 8

Assistant Governor Area 9

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Cocoa Cocoa Beach Cocoa Beach Daybreak Merritt Island Merritt Island-Breakfast

Brenda Mulberry

North Brevard Rockledge

Titusville Titusville-Sunrise Viera

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CLUB DIRECTORY CORNER Club

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Place

1. Belle Glade Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 Community United Methodist Church 2. Boca Raton Wednesday 12:00 Renaissance Boca Raton Hote 3. lBoca Raton Central Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 The Capital Grille at the Town Center Mall 4. Boca Raton Downtown Friday 12:00 - 13:30 Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel 5. Boca Raton Sunrise Thursday 07:30 Renaissance Hotel 6. Boca Raton Sunset Monday 18:00 - 19:30 The Griddle Restaurant 7. Boca Raton West Thursday 19:00 - 20:15 Restaurante Brasil 8. Boynton Beach-Lantana Thursday 11:45 - 13:00 Westchester Country Club 9. Cocoa Tuesday 12:1 5 Eastern Florida State College 10. Cocoa Beach Wednesday 12:15 Azteca II Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 11. Cocoa Beach Daybreak Tuesday 07:30 - 08:30 Roberto's 12. Delray Beach Tuesday 12:00 - 01:00 Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar 13. Eau Gallie Tuesday 12:15 - 13:30 Intracoastal ContinentalBrewing FlambeCompany - Melbourne 14. Fort Pierce Thursday 12:00 Pelican Yacht Club 15. Indialantic Wednesday 12:15 - 13:30 Eau Gallie Yacht Club 16. Jupiter-Tequesta Tuesday 12:00 - 13:15 Mangrove Bay 17. Lake Worth Wednesday 12:00 - 13:30 Brogue's Down Under 18. Melbourne Thursday 18:00 Iron Oak Post 19. Melbourne Beach Tuesday 07:30 - 08:30 Ocean Side Pizza Melbourne Beach in Melbourne Beach 1st-3rd Tuesday of each month. Fourth and Fifth Tuesdays -- no breakfast meeting.

Check Facebook page for 4th/5th week info 20. Merritt Island Thursday 17:15 - 18:30 The Island Tiki Grill. Upstairs at the Island Lincoln-Mercury Dealership. We meet on the 1st Thursday of the month and 3rd Thursday of the month.

Please make note of the meeting times. Just twice a month.

21. Merritt Island-Breakfast Wednesday 07:15 - 08:00 Victoria's Restaurant 22. North Brevard Wednesday 18:00 - 19:00 Beef O'Brady's 23. Okeechobee Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 Golden Corral Restaurant 24. Orchid Island Wednesday 12:00 Vero Beach Country Club 25. Pahokee Thursday 08:00 - 09:00 First United Methodist Church of Pahokee 26. Palm Bay Thursday 12:15 - 13:30 The Broken Barrel 27. Palm Beach Thursday 12:15 - 13:30 The Chesterfield Hotel, Palm Beach 28. Palm Beach/Flagler Tuesday 07:45 - 09:00 The Chesterfield Hotel, Palm Beach 29. Port St. Lucie Tuesday 12:15 19th Hole at The Saints Golf Course 30. Port St. Lucie Sunset Tuesday 17:30 - 19:00 PGA Golf Club 31. Rockledge Thursday 07:15 - 08:30 Twisted Burch 32. Royal Palm Beach Thursday 07:30 - 08:30 Pirates Well 33. Sebastian Thursday 12:15 - 13:15 Captain Butcher's 34. Singer Island Friday 12:15 Sailfish Marina 35. Stuart Wednesday 12:00 The Dolphin Bar & Shrimp House 36. Stuart-Sunrise Thursday 07:30 Monarch Country Club 37. Suntree Friday 07:30 Suntree Country Club 38. The Northern Palm Beaches Tuesday 07:30 - 08:30 The first and second Tuesdays at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, Palm Beach Gardens 39. Titusville Thursday 12:00 - 13:00 LaCita Golf & Country Club 40. Titusville-Sunrise Tuesday 07:15 River Lanes 41. Vero Beach Thursday 12:00 Vero Beach Yacht Club 42. Vero Beach Oceanside Tuesday 17:30 - 19:00 Italian American Club The River House 43. Vero Beach Sunrise Wednesday 07:00 - 08:00 44. Viera Wednesday 12:00 - 13:00 Tequila Azul 45. Wellington Thursday 12:15 - 13:30 Wanderers Club Okeechobee Steak House 46. West Palm Beach Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 Cohen Pavilion, Kravis Center June 2019 * Quest Magazine

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INTERNATIONAL CORNER

Rotary brings the world to Hamburg

“An economic and cultural hub that connects Germany to the world, Hamburg is a perfect fit for our convention. We look forward to bringing our members to the ‘Hansestadt’ — home to the first Rotary club of Germany”.

Barry Rassin - RI President

More than 24,000 Rotarians are in Hamburg to Capture the Moment, make new connections, renew old ones More than 24,000 Rotary members from 170 countries are gathering in Hamburg, Germany, 1-5 June to attend the 110th annual Rotary International Convention. You can Capture the Moment while exchanging ideas, making new connections, and renewing old ones.

During the convention, you’ll be part of the conversation on pressing world issues like polio eradication, pollution, refugee migration, disease prevention, and literacy. You’ll be inspired to enhance your skills in areas that Rotarians value, like fellowship, integrity, diversity, service, and fellowship. Share your convention experience on social media using #Rotary19.

But you don’t have to be in Hamburg to Capture the Moment. Follow all of our convention coverage — photos, videos, social media posts, speeches, and more — as the action happens. You can even stream the general sessions and key breakout sessions, either as they happen or at a later time.

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“I See That I Am Part of Something Bigger Than Myself”

Eduardo Rodrigues da Costa, Rotary Peace Fellow 2010-12; Global Grant Scholar at University of Manitoba, Canada

“I was the first Rotary Peace Fellow from the Brazilian Amazon. The Amazon rainforest has a number of conflicts right now related to development, deforestation, and local indigenous people. I was interested in how we can promote peace by promoting sustainable development.

“I learned so much when I studied at the Rotary Peace Center at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

When I returned to my hometown of Belém, I took a position as a special advisor to the governor of the state of Pará. I was able to immediately apply all the things that I learned.

For example, the governor sent me to a remote part of the state that was going through conflicts with a mining company. I conducted an assessment to understand the nature of the conflict and the community needs. As a result of my report, the government made 12

improvements to schools and sanitation systems and increased their dialogue with the company. I’m now in a PhD program in Canada, where many of the challenges indigenous people face are similar to challenges they face in the Amazon.

“The Rotary Peace Symposium in Hamburg is the second I’ve attended, and I’ve been to three Rotary Conventions. The peace symposium is an amazing opportunity for peace fellows, both current and alumni, to get together to discuss what they’re doing now and how they can help each other. These international events re-energize me. I see that I am part of something much bigger than myself, not just Rotary Peace Fellow alumni, but Rotary as an organization. You get to meet like-minded people who believe that peace is possible.”

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Stories, not stats, attract people to Rotary Igravitate naturally to statistics despite the negative feelings some people have about them. I think that information is the fuel that our world runs on and without it our systems will sputter, stall, and shut down. That is because statistics are significant in decision making.

When I joined the Rotary Club of Nairobi East, Kenya, 19 years ago, I was told that good Rotarians were defined by the regularity of their attendance, the frequency of their gifts to The Rotary Foundation, and most importantly by their ability to introduce new members to the club.

In my quest to be a valuable member, I turned to statistics as a way to demonstrate the credibility of Rotary to family, friends, and neighborhood skeptics. I learned all the important stats by heart and would spit them out at the slightest provocation. If someone happened to notice my membership pin, they would get a barrage of information enough to weigh down even the strongest weightlifter.

A different way Only a bolt of lightning would get my victims to wake up again by the time I was done talking. I thought I was promoting the club but instead I was boring them to death.

Looking back, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to me that my recruitment efforts led to naught. Not a single person that I targeted with my facts and figures joined the organization.

Yet other members invited guests to our lunches every week, and these guests eventually joined our club within a month or two.

One day I got a call from a business

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journalist who wanted to discuss the results of a survey that my company had recently published. This was not unusual because in those days I worked for a research company and media executives regularly called me for insights and information.

The human and relatable stories we tell are the ones that fire emotional triggers and create the special connections we have in Rotary.

We met at a popular restaurant and after trading personal stories, I casually brought up a Rotary event I had gone to over the weekend where we’d commissioned a sports arena in a school that was situated in a nearby slum. That story captured her imagination so much that by the end of our meeting she asked for an invite to my Rotary club. She eventually became the first person that I successfully introduced into membership without having to twist their arm.

The business journalist I speak of is none-other-than Carole Kimutai, who went on to become one of the most celebrated past presidents of the Rotary Club of Nairobi-East.

I learned something from that experience. Nobody really cares about statistics and data; they are more interested in what the experience means to you and me.

People tend to follow the passion and the feelings that they see in us, which creates an emotional connection that is more powerful than a rational thought process.

Telling stories I learned to tell stories about my Rotary experiences. I spoke about the members and the interesting things that they did. I spoke about the people that we worked with on various projects who seemed to have a deeper understanding of life because

Joe Otin of their service to mankind. I spoke about the social interaction, new relationships and old friendships, and the impact that they had on my life.

I also described those ripples that oscillate in my soul whenever I see happy faces of needy children who receive new books or toys, and the joy of mothers who bring their children to medical camps for free health checkups.

The results speak for themselves.

In my first three years of spewing statistics, I didn’t bring in any new members. In the following 16 years, I have introduced over 30 new members, and together with Jim Wilson and George Mathenge, launched a new club with over 35 members. This club has gone on to form another club with a similar number of charter members.

The human and relatable stories we tell are the ones that fire emotional triggers and create the special connections we have in Rotary.

Whether it is through face-to-face interaction, on social media, or even when presenting a speech to a large audience, we can make our clubs appealing by defining and articulating what is truly meaningful to us.

By Joe Otin, Governor-elect of Rotary District 9212 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan)

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Rüdiger Niemz. 4 June 2019, Hamburg, Germany

“Every Whiskey Contains a Story” “When I was invited to join Rotary, instead of giving a presentation about my job, as everyone is expected to do, I did a whiskey tasting.

“I became interested in whiskey when I was traveling a lot as a journalist. I was working on travel shows about foreign countries. You would come back very late from the filming and editing, and then you’d meet somebody at the bar. You’d start talking, and start sharing whiskey. You don’t drink whiskey to get drunk. It’s part of an exciting lifestyle.

“I got to know a lot of different places and whiskeys, and after a while I got asked to host curated tastings. I got a master’s degree in food science so I researched a lot about the history and sociology of drinks and food. Every whiskey contains a story. Every cheese contains a story.

“Life is so interesting. You cannot limit yourself. Journalists are always trying to look behind the curtain. We are trying to discover something. We are trying to get new ideas, new perspectives. I also have my master’s in philosophy. Philosophers are quite similar to journalists: We are both curious about life.

“This is the interesting thing about Rotary. You always meet exceptional people. They have different backgrounds, different experiences. It is so exciting.

“I like the worldwide view. In these days where people are developing backwards in a way that we stick to ourselves, our region, to our nationality only — where we are getting more ruthless in terms of how we treat each other in national and especially international politics — Rotary is an alternative.”

Rüdiger Niemz, Rotary Club of Mondseeland, Austria, as told to Diana Schoberg Photos by Monika Lozinska 14

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Boca Raton Sunrise

CLUBS CORNER

33 rd Annual Teacher of the Year Awards

On Thursday, May 16th, the Rotary Club of Boca Raton Sunrise hosted their 33 rd annual Teacher of the Year Awards Banquet at the Office Depot Headquarters in Boca Raton. Over 250 were in attendance to witness twenty-two teachers from the local elementary, middle and high schools being honored for their outstanding work with our children. City Council members, Palm Beach County Commissioner Robert Weinroth, members of the Palm Beach County School District, including School Superintendent Dr. Fennoy, as well as several of our sponsors and donors all joined in the celebration. Everyone was treated to a cocktail hour with an elaborate spread of appetizers, entertained by the Spanish River High School jazz band, followed by a presentation of the Olympic Heights High School Color Guard. A few words were provided from Florida Representative Mike Caruso and Office Depot Executive Vice President Kevin Moffet and then a gourmet buffet dinner was served with entertainment by the Boca Raton Community High School choral group.

Following dinner President Tim Sharp opened the show with a few words about how the teacher’s embody this year’s Rotary International theme of “Be the Inspiration”; and presented a short video on how Rotary supports education and literacy as one of its six areas of focus. Co-Chair Peter Gary spoke and then turned the event over to our master of ceremonies Claudia Shea from the Palm Beach County Education Network. She then introduced co-chair Rotarian Frank Barbieri who spoke about his history with the Teacher of the Year event and how much this event means to him.

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Each of the twenty-two teachers were treated to a one-minute video of themselves and their principal’s interview in their classrooms and then were handed an award from Frank and some dditional prizes and gifts from Office Depot, our Rotary Club, and a few of our sponsors. At the end of the teacher presentations, the family of Calusa Elementary School’s late coach and educator Scott Johnson received a Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor.

An assortment of delightful desserts prepared by the West Boca Community High School Culinary Arts Academy was provided to those in attendance, along with a brief presentation by Chuck Stout, Chairman, Golden Bell Education Foundation, who were also partners in the event.

All proceeds from the event will go towards for scholarships for those seeking baccalaureate or post graduate degrees in education as well as funds for advanced teaching certifications.

A photo album of the event can be viewed at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UCxQJ3afhJ4NJxIKaJrc2FoZ1Z10-_HN?usp=sharing.

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Titusville

season of giving In the “season of giving”, the Titusville Rotary Club was spreading goodwill over the past 2 months by supporting local agencies that are doing amazing things in our community: * Harry T. Moore Center * Children’s Hunger Project * Titusville YMCA Family Center * Boys & Girls Club In addition, the Titusville Rotary Club is proud to raise money throughout the year to support local High School Scholarships for deserving student athletes at Titusville, Space Coast and Astronaut High Schools.

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Sunrise Rotary Adopt a School Program "Citrus Elementary" Sunrise Rotary Vero Beach is proud to Adopt Citrus Elementary school and has for many years. Here are some of the many ways that the Rotarians and Citrus work together:

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Citrus “Readers” On Tuesday and Thursday of each week during the school year, Sunrise Rotarians volunteer their time by reading to K-1 students before school begins. Almost all club members participate throughout the year. Readers are chosen alphabetically. A founding member, Jim Thompson, organized this project.

Citrus “Greeters” Rotarians greet children coming off the school bus or in the cafeteria. A “Greeter” has many roles: It can be giving the kids a “high five” or firm hand shake and saying “hope you have a great day”, OR talking with a child whom you notice is sitting alone in the cafeteria and asking them about their favorite classes, OR telling someone they have a beautiful smile (and meaning it)! Rotarians Pam O’Donnell and Christine Steinkrauss manage this project.

Citrus “Vocational Mentors” On Thursday of each week during the school year Dr. Wije provides an opportunity for 4th grade students to learn about different professions. Doctors, lawyers, car mechanics, chefs, etc. engage students in conversation about what it’s like to be in whatever vocation is being discussed. Rotarian Dr. Asoka Wijetilleke organizes this project.

In addition to the above, Sunrise Rotarians: * Volunteer at the Citrus “Book Fairs” * Judge at the Citrus “Science Fair” * Proctor during student testing * Volunteer at the annual United Way “Day of Caring” by mulching, weeding, and caring for the school grounds * Planted a beautiful “Rain Garden” that filters storm water and prevents erosion * Provided a “buddy bench” that promotes inclusion and kindness and provides a safe space to eliminate loneliness and foster friendships * Annual Sponsor of Autism Awareness Walkathon For more information on Sunrise Rotary Vero Beach, visit a meeting any Wed. 6:45 am at the Riverhouse 305 Acacia Dr. or our website at www.sunriserotaryverobeach.org

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DELRAY BEACH

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Five of the 2019 winners and Rotarians Nancy King, President Robert Kelley and Candace Etzler.F

The Delray Beach Rotary has awarded college scholarships to ten students for the 2019 award year.

The Rotary annually awards 10,000.00 to qualifying students based on an application procedure and review by the scholarship committee.

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LAKE WORTH

Pres. Harry with our speaker Shereena Colman, VP of the PB County Business Development Board

Ms. Colman said that the goal of the Board is to increase the tax base as well as create more employment in the county. This is done by recruiting, retaining and expanding the number of companies coming to Palm Beach County.

The board has a $ 3,000,000 budget for advertising what our county has to offer, which is in part funded by the state of Florida.

Industries need a workforce and Palm Beach, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee Counties have a population of about 1,250,000 from which draw employees.

Besides the three major airports within 60 miles we have freight and passenger rail lines running through the county and easy access to I-95 for commuting and trucking.

The county offers our beaches, golf courses, boating and sports and entertainment venues.

The “Board “also sponsors a bi-annual forum that brings business and high school and university leaders together, so the educators better understand the needs of industry.

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ROTARACT CORNER

Young People Can Make Their Mark Through Rotary And over a century later, our Rotaractors are part of a generation that grapples with its own challenges and deserts, in a world of increasing social and political upheavals.

Many graduated during a global economic depression, and perhaps had to struggle to get that first job or pay off student loans.

Many have witnessed rising social inequality and political polarization. Many are disenchanted with business practices that don’t meet our high ethical standards.

John Hewko The desire to give back, become involved in your community, create connections, and use one’s skills to benefit others is a cornerstone of civil society.

But how can young people find these opportunities while facing the challenges of a widening skills gap, lost personal connections through digital isolation, and an uncertain future?

It is not time to lose hope – because we want Rotary to be your oasis in the desert. A place where new ideas can be explored, friendships are made, opportunities are realized, and your talents are used to improve lives.

The Chicago in which Rotary was born is not so different from the environment we exist in today.

Paul Harris experienced first-hand the struggle between the forces for positive social change and the aggression of a fast-growing city. It was a place of stark contrasts, between astonishing wealth, abject poverty and high unemployment.

Let me begin with a description of a young person But innovators like Paul, looking at first for who may sound familiar. nothing more than friendship and business A young person alone in a big city. A young connections, began to turn the corner. What person looking for friendship, looking for started as a fellowship of four people grew into a connections with other professionals from diverse large and thriving service organization of 1.2 million members and nearly 200,000 Rotaractors backgrounds. who carried out 111 million volunteer hours of A young person looking to make an impact but work last year in communities at home and around unsure where to begin. That man was Paul Harris, the world.

Rotary’s founder.

The myth that Rotary cannot be a place for young Back in 1905 when Paul started the organization we people to make their mark on the world is just that know today, he was only 36 years old.

– a myth. Through Rotary, you are able to create He certainly had that spirit of youthful innovation lasting connections, discover new experiences, and that we must try to emulate. Because, to those early make a positive impact.

Rotary members in the first Rotary club in Chicago, Learn more about Rotaract and find a club near Rotary was like an oasis in the desert. you.

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By John Hewko, Rotary International General Secretary

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4 lessons from launching a Rotaract club

Working with your sponsoring Rotary club is critical for a Rotaract Club’s success. Here, Austrian Rotaractors build homes for those affected by the war in Bosnia as part of an intergenerational project.

Last year was both exciting and challenging for our club because we officially received our harter.

With any new thing, there’s a lot to figure out. We have many people to thank, who I’ll note at the end. The year also taught us many valuable lessons, but four in particular, that we hope to use to improve our club going forward.

Lesson One A Rotaract club’s success depends on having a strong relationship with the sponsoring Rotary clubs. We continue to need the support of Rotarians in our efforts. The best support Rotary members can provide us is through recruitment efforts.

A majority of our membership gains stemmed from Rotarians sharing our club with young professionals they personally knew.

Rotary clubs: share information about Rotaract clubs you sponsor with young professionals in your work places, churches, community centers and pretty much anywhere young people exist.

we grow, we hope to develop a mentoring program between Rotaractors and Rotarians. Our vision is to pair those in similar occupational fields.

Lesson Four

Lesson Three

Are you interested in starting a new Rotaract club? Check out new resources to support you, including an online course, webinar, and more inspiring stories!

People between the ages of 18 and 35 move around. We transitioned multiple officer positions in 2018, because life Often, we “young folks” aren’t for people in their 20s isn’t sure what we want to do when always predictable, We don’t we grow up, but we think always know where we want exposure to occupational fields to live and/or work. This year of our interest is key in helping we’d like to nurture our team of us through this process. As with officers but also expand it. We any mentoring program, we like hope to add a historian, to think the learning experience communications director, and translates to both the mentor community outreach chair. and the one being mentored.

Special thanks to our Rotary We all have so much to teach one club sponsors, Boise Southwest, another, so we hope this is an Boise Downtown, Boise Sunrise advantageous and rewarding and Boise Centennial. Also to program for both parties Marie Baker, Katie involved. We are looking forward Gaston and Jennifer Deroin. to developing this program with Your involvement the help of our sponsor clubs, was imperative to our growth, whose advice we seek. sustainability and success.

Consistency is key to success.

This year, we are implementing a third meeting time. In addition to our service project and social meeting each month, we will have a formal meeting called a “Serial Meeting.” This Lesson Two meeting will include a series Young professionals crave featuring speakers across a networking opportunities. As variety of professional fields.

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By Lauren Smyser, president, Rotaract Club of Treasure Valley, Boise, Idaho, USA Photo by Stefan Fürtbauer © Rotary International. All Rights Reserved.

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On to Honolulu Having Captured the Moment at the 2019 Rotary International Convention, attendees are leaving Hamburg, Germany, with their eyes on the sandy beaches and natural beauty of Honolulu, Hawaii.

The family of Rotary is invited to find and share their aloha while connecting with people of action from all over the world at the 2020 Rotary Convention.

A reduced registration fee is in effect for those who register by 15 December.

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EDITOR CORNER

I WANT TO SAY GOODBYE...

Thank you very much, thank you very much a hundred times for your beautiful words and respect towards the work I have been doing… I must confess that it was not an easy task, a few late nights working on the Quest so that I could send it to my companions… a few unpleasant complaints… but also many caring words that motivated me to continue...

You know, I felt happy being able to help many people with guidance, information, simple things that no one bothered to help with, but I was patient and cared because I thought: it could be my mom, or my grandma who needed help, and a lot of the time it was something simple... and I was able to help!!!

I must also confess that I got a little frustrated, because I started with so much excitement, I imagined that clubs would send me material that would make the magazine fantastic and that people would want to read the Quest with enthusiasm while awaiting the next edition with much anticipation, but that wasn’t what happened, and it wasn’t because I didn’t ask, I always left the message, but I gave up asking and this made my job more difficult because I had to search for information from the clubs to put in the magazine.

The first two years, I put a section in the magazine that was called “Tell you Story”, I thought that was fantastic, goodness! Each story in Rotary more beautiful than the other! I began to know people through their stories… but as it continued, people would tell me that they would send me their stories and I was anxiously await it so that I could publish it.. and nothing. They would not send it to me nor would they tell me they couldn’t send it, the result? I had to cut thus from the magazine. If you want to read the stories that were published, go to the editions from the years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 so that you can see you the beautiful stories from a lot of Rotarians, stories which a lot of people from their own clubs do not know...

I want to tell you, and I’ve said it a few times already in my editorials, the person that has benefited the most from this magazine is ME, you know why? Because I was able to help people, I gave valuable information, I got to know people (I’ll admit that a few were very rude), but others that were marvelous!

To finish… I will no longer be in charge of the District newsletter, but I want to thank from the bottom of my heart each governor: Juan Ortega (2014-2015), Gene Burkett (2015-2016), Eric Gordon (2016- 2017), David Freudenberg (2017-2018), and Julia Babbitt (2018-2019). I want to sincerely thank each of you for this opportunity! I want to give a special thanks to Juan Ortega for believing in me and letting me create our District magazine: the “Quest Magazine”.

I also want to thank God for giving me the capacities, patience, and love during these five years that I was in charge of the District Newsletter.

Thanks to each and everyone one of you!

Dini Heizer District 6930 - Newsletter Editor 2014-2019 rotaryquestmagazine@gmail.com June 2019 * Quest Magazine

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