Volume 57 Issue 01 Issue Date: July 7, 2011

Next Meeting: July 12, 2011

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

New Club President Bert Strange

To Address Club

Bert Strange is a Greenville native, graduating from Greenville High (1964) and Furman University (B.A., 1968). He also has degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Duke University Divinity School, the University of Exeter (England) from which he received a Ph.D. in Old Testament. He has been married to Nancy for almost 43 years. They have three adult children and three granddaughters. He retired from the U. S. Army in 2002, having served a total of 24 years on active duty, including tours of duty in Vietnam, Korea, and Europe, as well as numerous assignments in the continental U. S. While on active duty and since retirement, he has taught as an adjunct professor at five colleges and universities, including Furman and Greenville Technical College where he has taught since 2007.

Bert has been a member of the Rotary Club of Greenville since 2002. He served on the International Projects Committee for four years (including being the chair in 2004-2005), the Scholarship Committee, and two terms on the Board of Directors. He is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and Sustaining Member. He has served District 7750 on the Group Study Exchange (GSE) Committee, as chair for the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) and for Club Extension, and as Team Leader for the GSE Team to Spain (Canary Islands) in 2007. He also served Zone 33 as the State RLI Chair for two years. A graduate (Class IV, Spring 2006) of the Upstate Diversity Leadership Academy of the Riley Institute at Furman, he has been active in the Greenville community through First Baptist Church and as a member of various civic and cultural organizations.

Invoices for the 2011-2012 Rotary Year are payable as of July 1! Please remit payment as soon as possible if you haven't already done so.

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

Charles Warne at his last meeting as President

2010-11 Board of Directors.

District Governor Becky Faulkner and Sara Mansbach after the District Literacy

Awards were presented at the District Governor’s installation.

Outgoing District Governor, Becky Faulkner, presented the Club of Excellence

awards. Our Club was represented by Outgoing President, Charles Warne.

Greenville Rotary 2010/2011 Year Review

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

Terry Weaver, Club Administration, presents Brian DiMarco with a 4-Way Test coin for his service as

Program Chair.

Outgoing President, Charles Warne thanks his Avenue of Service Directors for a job well done.

Ralph Williams reviews our Club Service Projects.

Greenville Rotary 2010/2011 Year Review

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

Peggy Brock presents our RYLA students and their mothers.

The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA) was created by Rotary International in 1971 and adopted in District 7750 in 1983. In June, Erskine College hosts RYLA for rising high school juniors and seniors in the District. Subjects include Fundamentals of Leadership, Ethics of Positive Leadership, Importance of Communication Skills, Problem Solving and Conflict Management, Building Ones Self Confidence and Self Esteem, and Service to Ones Community. Each year, the Rotary Club of Greenville sponsors two Greenville High School students to RYLA. At the Rotary Club of Greenville meeting on June 28, this year’s RYLA scholarship recipients, Ashley Sitton, Ashana Taylor and their mothers, Sharee James and Tameka Edwards, were introduced. Ashana spoke about the value of the RYLA experience in her life. Elizabeth Lyons, Tameka Edwards and I visited the program participants and Mark Peeler, RYLA coordinator and Erskine Director of Athletics. We were impressed with how Mark had engaged the participants, and we learned about how the program was affecting them. The RYLA program inspires students to effect change when they return home. RYLA is a Rotary District program worthy of our support. Peggy Brock, Chair of RYLA committee

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)

26-Jul Captain John Warren - Marine 2nd Iraq War Combat Veteren

Iraq and Afghanistan War Perspectives

9-Aug Michael Fanning Is Our State Broke Or Is Our System Broken

23-Aug Quenton Tompkins The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center Corps Community Center

13-Sep District Governor (2011-2012) Gary Goforth District Governor Annual Visit for 2011-2012

27-Sep Teacher Recognition*

Upcoming Speakers

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

Officers

President Bert Strange President-Elect Elizabeth Lyons Secretary Judith Prince Treasurer Terry Weaver Past President Charles Warne

Board of Directors

Club Administration: Matt Cotner (2010-2012) Michael Herlong (2011-2013) Membership: Max Cochran (2010-2012) Dianne Clarke-Kudless (2011-2013) Public Relations: Dee Kivett (2010-2012) Debbie Nelson (2011-2013) Rotary Foundation: Carol Simpson (2011-2012) Kris Atwood (2011-2013) Service Projects: Ralph Williams (2010-2012) Jill Vales (2011-2013) Long Range Planning: Phillip Kilgore (2011-2012) Special Projects: Jim Bourey (2010-2012)

Rotary Club of Greenville 2011-2012 Board of Directors

Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

Happy New Year, Rotarians! The beginning of the 2011-2012 Rotary year presents us all with an opportunity for reflection and anticipation about our life together in the Rotary Club of Greenville. The past year, under the extraordinary leadership of Charles Warne, was certainly a memorable one in many ways – earning a number of first-place awards in District competition, achieving the RI Presidential Citation and Club of Distinction honors, and raising over $40,000 toward the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation challenge toward polio eradication (of which the Stop Polio Cold partnership with the Greenville Road Warriors was a major part), just to name a few. Thanks, Charles, for your personal example of living “Service Above Self.” In the year ahead your officers, Board of Directors, and I look forward to continuing the tradition of service and leadership in our Club and community that has characterized this organization throughout its 95 year history. We’ve all heard of the old tradition that a bride should carry “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” on her wedding day. I think that may not be a bad way to approach a new Rotary year either. We will continue doing the things that have served us well (something old). We can start programs and activities that we haven’t done before (something new). There are ideas that other clubs have used which we can adapt successfully to our situation (something borrowed). Okay, I’m having a bit of a problem with figuring out the something blue, but at least it is one of the Rotary colors. I will have more to say about plans for the coming year at our meeting on July 12. I trust you will all make every effort to join with your fellow Rotarians as we kick off another exciting year in the Rotary Club of Greenville. I look forward to seeing you there. Yours in Rotary Service, Bert

What was the first community service performed by the Rotary Club of Chicago? a. Building “comfort stations” in downtown Chicago b. Supporting a home for “wayward youth” c. Buying a horse for a preacher near Joliet, Illinois d. Contributing to recovery efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

STRANGE STUFF

ROTARY HISTORY QUIZ

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Charities

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Greenville Rotary meets at noon on the second & fourth Tuesday of each month at the Westin Poinsett on S. Main St.

New Member Lunch

On the first Monday of each month, new members are invited to join other new members for lunch (dutch treat) at noon at City Range Grill, 615 Haywood Road (across from Haywood Mall). This is a great opportunity to get to know each other in an informal setting with time for conversation and networking. These meetings count as a makeup for a regular meeting up to 2 weeks before or after.

July Birthdays

Upcoming Discover Rotary

July 13 - 7:30am Commerce Club July 27 - 7:30am Commerce Club

Greenville Rotary invites you to New Member Orientation, customarily held on the fourth Tuesday of each month, starting at 11:15 a.m. Orientation is held two doors down from the Poinsett Hotel in the board room of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra office.

Orientation for New Members

Member Birthday Birthday

Elliott, Jason T. (JASON) 1-Jul

Brown, Andrew Alexander Sr. (DREW) 2-Jul

Wagner, Richard S. (RICHARD) 2-Jul

Roberts, Mary (MARY) 3-Jul

Major, Charles Smith Jr. (CHARLES) 4-Jul

Owen, Shannon (SHANNON) 7-Jul

Jones, David E. (DAVID) 10-Jul

Louie, Thomas (THOMAS) 11-Jul

Cooper, Michael B. (MICHAEL) 11-Jul

Coulter, Stacy A. (STACY) 13-Jul

Ingram, Stan M. Jr. (STAN) 15-Jul

Kilgore, G. Scott (SCOTT) 16-Jul

Raines, William G. Jr. (BILL) 17-Jul

Burch, Susan M. (SUSAN) 17-Jul

Office HoursMonday - Thursday - 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 am

RI President District Governor President President-Elect Secretary Treasurer Bulletin Editor

Kaylan Banerjee Gary Goforth Bert Strange Elizabeth Lyons Judith Prince Terry Weaver Tim Nanney

The Greenville Rotarian Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Greenville

Organized January 7, 1916 Volume 57, No. 24

July 7, 2011

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Greenville, SC 29607 Office: 864-235-2293

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