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BULLETIN EDITOR: Mariana Purnell 082 3368534 [email protected]

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PRESIDENT: Margie Constantinidis [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT: Nico Kritzinger [email protected] SECRETARY: Danie De Villiers [email protected]

REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY

VOLUME 5, NO 9 2011-08-25

DISTRICT 9320

DISTRICT GOVERNOR: Kevin Dersley

AUGUST Membership &

Extension Month

BIRTHDAYS

AUGUST

20 Casper Minnaar

25 Wimpie du Plessis

31 Robert Krause

ANNIVERSARIES

AUGUST

28 Mike & Sarah Bower

Rotary Classification System

Rotary clubs are nonreligious, nonpolitical and open to every

race, culture and creed. Rotary does however use a classification

system to establish and maintain a vibrant cross-section or

representation of the community's business, vocational, and

professional interests among club members.

The goal is to develop a pool of resources and expertise, to

successfully implement service projects. Paul Harris, the founder

of Rotary, established the paradigm of choosing cross-representation of each business,

profession, and institution within a community without disproportional representation

from one or more professions. He wanted to avoid having a club of just lawyers or

accountants and instead have a club with a diverse membership. The classification

approach to membership was to avoid a Rotary club from becoming an "old boys" club

where everyone is more or less the same.

A classification describes either the principal business or the professional service of the

organization that the Rotarian works for or the Rotarian's own activity within the

organization. Some examples of classifications include: high schools, universities, eye

surgery, banking, pharmaceutical retailing, petroleum-distribution, and insurance agency.

For many years Rotary had an official "classifications" list but in recent years that has

loosened up to allow individual clubs to determine what classifications actually represent

a vibrant cross-section of their community.

In practical application the classification system is actually very flexible, and many

different classifications are possible. It does succeed in having a club have representation

from many distinct areas of the business community. It effectively brings together into

Rotary fellowship many people who wouldn't otherwise have contact with one another.

The membership can then really come to represent the business and professional life of

the community. At a typical rotary meeting there can be seated together, say, a florist,

dentist, grocer, architect, physiotherapist and a pastor. They bring to the table

conversations, and to their committee work, unique perspectives that are a major strength

of what is Rotary.

The classification system gives Rotarians the dual responsibility of representing their

vocation within the club and of exemplifying the ideals of Rotary within the workplace.

Submitted by AG Tom McGhee





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The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think, say

or do

1. Is it the TRUTH

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned

3. Will it build GOODWILL &

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL

to all concerned?

LUCKY DRAW

WINNER:

Lynn Cohen

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CLUB PROGRAMME

ACTIVITY THURSDAY 25 August

2011

FRIDAY 2 September

2011

FRIDAY 9 September

2011

FRIDAY 16 September

2011

Koos Kombuis Horace McBride

Theunis De Bruin

Tom McGhee

Danie de Villiers

Casper Minnaar

Marinda du Plessis

JC Nel

Johan Gerber

Flag/Grace Horace McBride Tom McGhee Casper Minnaar JC Nel

Fines Rein Lourens Horace McBride Tom McGhee Casper Minnaar

Meeting Report Piet Lombaard Rein Lourens Horace McBride Tom McGhee

Contribution Nico Kritzinger Piet Lombaard Rein Lourens Horace McBride

Sergeant Johan Gerber Nico Kritzinger Piet Lombaard Rein Lourens

Front Desk Marinda du Plessis Johan Gerber Nico Kritzinger Piet Lombaard

SPEAKER Estelle Deetlefs Social Meeting TBA Business Meeting

Thank Speaker Danie de Villiers Social Meeting Johan Gerber Business Meeting

4-Way Test Theunis De Bruin Danie de Villiers Marinda du Plessis Johan Gerber

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CLUB CALENDAR ... ... And Other Dates To Keep In Mind

2011 Date Event Place

August Membership and Extension Month

25 August Thursday Black & White Theme evening Rotapark

27 August Saturday Careers Expo from 8am to 11am St Conrad’s School

September New Generations Month

1 September Submit information for PPT presentation Liefie Day

3 September Saturday Arbor Day with EarlyActors, InterActors RotarActors Rotapark

5 September Board meets to finalise the report to DG Rota Park

9 September Friday DG Kevin Dersley visits Klerksdorp Rotary Club

• 12h30 - Board members lunch with DG Kevin Dersley Rosemary’s

• 17h00 - Club Assembly for all members with DG Kevin Dersley Triest

• 18h30 - Formal evening meeting with DG - Black Tie Rotapark

16 September Support Janie Schneider Revue – 50th Year celebrations Janie Schneider School

29 Sept – 1 Oct District Conference Port Elizabeth

October Vocational Service Month

24 October World Polio Day

29 October CANSA Keurhof School

30 October Rotary Two Provinces Cycle Race Klerksdorp

November Rotary Foundation Month

5 November 2011 Rotary-UN Day New York City

12 November Rotary Awareness Day Pick&Pay

November/December Rotary Friendship Exchange India D3080

February World Understanding Month

11 February Fundraiser “A Night at the Races” Rotapark

23 February Rotary's anniversary

March Literacy Month

8-14 March World Rotaract Week

17 or 24 March Rotary Club of Klerksdorp Unified Olympics

April Magazine Month

March/April Rotary Friendship Exchange Australia D9790

1 September Deadline – Nominations for the RI Service Above Self Award

23 September Deadline – Applications for GSE team leader D9320 outbound

1 November Deadline – Nominations for the International Service Award for a Polio-Free World

15 November Deadline - Nominations for The Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award

31 March 2012 Deadline - Applications for TRF Matching Grants and District Simplified Grants





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NOTICE : CLUB ASSEMBLY - 9 September 2011

A Club Assembly is scheduled to coincide with the Official Visit of DG Kevin Dersley on Friday 9 September

2011. The Assembly will be held at Triest Training Centre at 17:00.

1. Members are requested to advise the President or the secretary on or before 5 September 2011 of any

matters that they wish to raise with the DG at the Assembly.

2. Notice is hereby also given that the Board approved amendments to our Club Bylaws to bring the Bylaws in

line with resolutions passed at the 2010 Council on Legislation.

Members will be asked to vote on :

2.1 Changing Article 8 by inserting “New Generations Service” as a fifth Avenue of Service; and

2.2 Amending Article 9 to change the names of Committees to –

• Membership;

• Public Relations;

• Club Administration;

• Service Projects;

• The Rotary Foundation;

• New Generations.

The full text of the proposed new Bylaws (comprising 11 pages) is available at Rota Park Hall.

D DE VILLIERS (Secretary)

Klerksdorp Rotary Club Meeting Report – 19 August 2011

by Nico Kritzinger

President Margie started the Business meeting at 13h00with 28 Rotarians in attendedance. Rein

Lourens, dressed as an All Black, unfurled the flag, after which he said grace.

Danie de Villiers reported a General Assembly on 9 September at Triest at 17h00 to discuss the by-

laws, procedures for nominating members and the rules for the use of the hall. The meeting with the

DG at 19h00 on 9 September is a black tie event at Rotapark.

Mike Stocken reported that the golf day brought in R45 000. The club has R100 000 in the bank

after fees were paid. Nico Kritzinger informed on membership issues. JC Nel has leave of absence.

He requested Rotarians to put their names on the list for the Janie Schneider revue 16 September.

Sandy Botha reported for PR regarding a Rotary awareness day and an information evening for

non-Rotarians in the near future. There was much media coverage in Rotary Africa and the

Klerksdorp Rekord. The web site is running, please catch it! We are grateful for free exposure on

the advertising next to the highway.

Lynn Cohen announced Service Projects: Arbor day; support to crèches in Jouberton; Atlas Plastic

donated toys. Johan Oberholzer is handling Romex and the last of Tom’s Shoes were distributed,

but the project is ongoing. The club was reminded of and requested to support the Rota-Hear

project. Triest can accommodate 3-4 persons on a literacy program, make use of it. We hope to

have two teams participating in the Cansa walk for life at Keurhof on 29 October. Clothes have

been given to the Rape Crisis Centre. The Tree of Joy will be on 2 and 3 December.

Clifton explained our relationship with Chelmsford club in England. We hope to involve them in

our hearing aid project, have a friendship exchange, organize a student exchange and a matching

grant for the Stilfontein Safe house which is desperately in need of clothes and food! Foundation is

managing two STEP students.

Mike Bower announced that Tom, Alma, Johann Oberholzer and Mike Stocken will assist him as

mentors for new members. Training will also cover the Manual of procedures (MOP), Bylaws, the

Romex program and Exchange programs.

Joe Visser of New Generations reminded the club of the Career Expo at St Conrads on 27/8/11. The

vegetable garden at Unie Laerskool with the Early Actors has commenced. The Osborne

dictionaries will be allocated. Rotaract was resurrected and will participate in the arbor day function

at the club on 3 September together with Interact, Early Act and Rotaract. Members are invited and

there will be a braai.

Gerry of Club Admin announced that a substantial number of members are participating in the mini

dinners. A Maxi will be held at Margie to celebrate spring. The world cup draw is on the run and a

whisky and/or beer tasting, gambling at the casino, a show at Wesvalia and a walk in nature are

planned.

Lynn won the wine draw and pastor Joe reminded us to live ethically with the four way test.





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Support the

Rota-Hear project

Lennie Lion

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Stilfontein Safe Home.

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Use Presidential Citation and Changemaker Award to set tangible membership goals

What is our club’s approach to recruiting and keeping members?

August is Membership and Extension Month - an ideal time to discuss membership strategies for the

year. All clubs should focus on their membership goals as they take a fresh look at strengthening

Rotary. The Presidential Citation and Changemaker Award both include membership criteria and

are excellent resources to help us set our club goals.

OBTAIN FULL CRITERIA

for the Presidential Citation

and the Changemaker Award

from AG Tom McGhee.

Clubs aiming for a Presidential Citation this year must add at least

one new member and keep at least 85 percent of their membership.

Additional goals include recruiting RI and Rotary Foundation

program alumni and young professionals, and increasing diversity

by adding more female members. Districts must meet similar goals.

The Changemaker Award, established by RI President Kalyan

Banerjee, also puts membership in the spotlight. Clubs must achieve

a specific set of club service goals, including adding one new

member under the age of 40 for each 50 members, implementing a

comprehensive strategy for keeping members, and demonstrating

that they have retained 85 percent of their members for the three

Rotary years ending with 2011-12.

Both recognitions also include criteria for supporting Foundation programs, crucial to Rotary’s

continued global success.

• Read what other clubs are doing to boost membership.

• Join or start a discussion on RI's LinkedIn group.

• Review the Membership Development Resource Guide, which includes tips and action

steps for reaching and keeping members.

• Order membership development resources, and materials for new/prospective members.

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What do you prefer ... A wine cork, a plastic wine stopper or a

screw top? The verdict is still out on this debate.

There are the customers who want only a closure due to ease of

opening, then there are the traditionalists, who demand only a

wine cork. Nowadays, one cannot carry a corkscrew aboard a

plane, so the use of a screw cap would be necessary.Some consumers think that non-

cork closures cheapen the bottle of wine. Screw caps, on the other hand are industrial,

cheap and lacking the romance of the old “closure”.

CORK PLASTIC SCREW TOPS

Trees die when bark is stripped Plastic is immune to cork taint Avoid cork taint

Cork is bio-degradable They’re recyclable Not bio-degradable

Wine corks often go bad If not recycled – direct threat to

environment

Imply environmental issues

Can be difficult to remove Do not retain elasticity Can be removed without

equipment

Cork can break in bottle Cannot age wine for decades Less expensive

Well , decide for yourself ... ...

Cheers!!!





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Last of the traitors!

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There have been some recent concerns amongst the clergy and the public in Klerksdorp that

Rotary is linked to the Freemasons as both organisations (and the Lions club) have placed

their badges on the same board, provided by the Municipality, at the entrances to the city.

The Rotary History Fellowship provides some insight into the links between the organisations and is

certainly worth reading.

It is known that many of the early Rotarians were Masons and that some

Rotary clubs recruited exclusively from the Freemasons until the practice was

banned in the 1920’s. To date, no precise details of these links have been

found in the archives of either body.

The relationship was a matter of some discussion and in February 1923, an

article in “The Rotary Wheel” sought to allay fears amongst Rotarians who

might think that their membership of the one could cause problems with the

other. However many people who did not know much about these

organisations, thought that Rotary was a form of Masonry. This eventually led

to a much more serious problem when the Catholic Church, which had long

been atagonistic of Masonry, classed Rotary as a similar organisation.

The problems started in Spain in 1928, when several Spanish Bishops laid charges that Rotary is

“nothing else but a new satanic organisation with the same background and teachings as masonry”.

The Church also criticised and condemned Rotary for showing a concept of life and of service

without reference to church teaching. The Vatican took up the reins and in 1929 issued a decree that

“it is not expedient” for Catholic priests to participate in Rotary either as members or guests.

This decree and implications were very worrying to many

Catholics in Rotary, not the least being the then President, Tom

Sutton, who was himself a Catholic, and the former Chancellor of

Germany, Wilhelm Cuno, a member in Hamburg. Sutton travelled

to Rome to convince the Papal authorities that Rotary was not

Masonic and that the movement was not in conflict with any

Catholic teachings. Sutton’s attempts were in vain; many anti

Rotary articles continued to be published.

In 1933 there was a mood swing in the Vatican, mainly occasioned by a number of influential and

prominent Catholics who were Rotarians. Priests were now allowed to use their discretion about

attending or even joining Rotary.

However in 1951, another Vatican decree warned priests that they should not join Rotary and that

“the faithful should be aware of seditious and suspected organisations”. But the world had changed,

and the decree caused an angry response from the then Catholic President of RI, Arthur Laqueux,

and the Rotarian Catholic Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana who publically declared the decree “quite

incomprehensible”.

Fairly soon the Vatican began to retract and by the end of the 50’s, the Catholic Truth Society was

able to declare that “Rotary is neither secret nor seditious”. It was however still regarded as a

“society banned under pain of sin only” and not of “sin and excommunication”.

Summarized from an internet article

by Tom McGhee

Gradually there was a thaw in relations between the Church and

Rotary. In 1970 Pope Pius VI addressed Rotarians in Italy and

in 1979 Pope John Paul II spoke to the international Convention

in Rome, praising some of Rotary’s humanitarian programmes at

a special audience in the Vatican. Later he accepted a Paul

Harris Fellowship and Peace Award from Rotary, while Catholic

priests throughout the world were taking positions of authority in

Rotary, even serving as District Governors.

The article also points out that it was not only Rotary that was

condemned during the 1930s and 1940s. The Lions Club and

even the YMCA incurred the wrath of the Vatican.

(See http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/)

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