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Spirit of 7600
Page 1February 15, 2016 Peace and Conflict PreventionBe a gift to the World
District Governor Gary Chenault
CELEBRATE - CELEBRATE - CELEBRATE
On February 23, Rotary will celebrate its 111th anniver-sary.
On February 23, 1905, Paul Harris and 3 of his buddies started Rotary. Paul said “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world, it will be known by the results it achieves”. We are on the verge of being known as the ser-vice organization that eradicated polio.
February is also Peace and Conflict Prevention and Res-olution month. The work of Rotary begins in the com-munity and every community has its own unique needs and concerns. While we serve in countless ways, we fo-cus our efforts in six key areas one of which is Peace and Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Responding to Peace: • Recruit candidates for Rotary Peace Fellowships. Up to100 peace fellowships are offered annually at Rotary PeaceCenters and Universities around the world.• Participate in fellowship and service activities with Rota-ry clubs in other parts of the world to promote understand-ing and peace.
Responding to Conflict:• Help children who have been orphaned, injured, or trau-matized by conflict.• Provide relief to those who have fled areas of conflict.
This Is An Exciting Time To Be A Rotarian
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Gary ChenaultDistrict Governor
Diane HagemannDG-Elect
John PadgettDG-Nominee
Kim GareyDistrict Secretary
Matt McDonaldDistrict Treasurer
Al Roosendaal Finance
Coordinator
Stephen BeeriPDG
Mike JalloLieutenant Governor
James Probsdorfer District Rotary
Foundation Chair
Chris DavidsonMembershipCoordinator
Wayne BoggsPublic ImageCoordinator
Leslie BryantYouth ServicesCoordinator
Maryann TetreaultDistrict Executive
Secretary
The District Newsletter has volunteer opportunities for Rotarians who have some expe-rience writing to an audience whether large or small. As a volunteer, you would work with Clubs, Area Governors, or other members of the District Team to help clubs share their stories about “service about self ” activities and significant club events. Even though the newsletter is a deadline driven activity, we are flexible and responsive to individual sched-ules. We try to give credit to our submitters usually by placing their picture into the arti-cles they submit. For more information contact Paul Keller at [email protected].
If you see Rotarians at work, take a picture on your smartphone and send it to [email protected] with the details.
District Newsletter Needs You
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February 15 is a Feder-al holiday honoring George Washington, the first US President. Widely known as “Presidents Day”, it is often an occasion to remember all the presidents.
Source: Wikipedia. Image © Shutterstock/Paul Keller
This Is An Exciting Time To Be A Rotarian 1District Newsletter Needs You 2Rotary Club Of Richmond Builds A Milestone 4Cape Henry Inducts 7 New PH Fellows 5Rotary’s Peace Legacy 6How We Talk About Rotary 7Doing Good Together 8Rotary Convention in Seoul, Korea 9New Member Induction 9Zones 33/34 Got Talent! 10Rotary Theme 2016-17 11Notes From The Rotary International Assembly 12Build Peace: Encourage A Candidate To Apply For A Rotary Peace Fellowship 13Polio Notes 13Rotary Club of Petersburg Annual Stew Sale 14District Calendar: Next 30 Days 15District Facebook 15Sharing Your Rotary Experiences 16
Contents Visit the Spirit of 7600 web site either by click-ing the masthead or the Rotary-at-Large symbol.
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Last year the Rotary Club of Richmond presented “project:HOMES” (PH) with a $4,000 grant for supplies that would be used to build wheel-chair ramps and make accessibility modifications for low-income, elder-ly and disabled homeowners in Central Virginia. On January 16, club members arrived at PH’s warehouse to participate in a milestone as they built components for the 1,000th wheelchair ramp installation.
Rotarians are among the more than 9,000 volunteers who have gen-erously donated their time to build the 1,000 ramps. Other Rotary Clubs that provided funding and volunteers include the Rotary Clubs of Innsbrook, West Richmond, Chester, Short Pump, and Prince George.
The wheelchair ramp is a modular design that can be built and installed in 12 hours by 6 to 10 volunteers. Components are built in PH’s warehouse on one day and then installed on another day. Since 1992, PH has helped disabled, low-income, and elderly persons remain in their homes by improving accessibility and safety. More than 170 individuals are on their waiting list for ramps. PH also assists community revitalization by building attractive, energy efficient, affordable homes. Contact [email protected] for more information. The Rotary Club of Richmond intends to assist and participate in additional accessibility projects.
Rotary Club Of Richmond Builds A Milestone
Paul Shively PH Project
Chair,RC of Richmond
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(Pictured from left to right) Alexandra Wood, Jim Wood, Jeremy Caleb Johnson, Eddie Redfearn and Buddy Redfern.
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1. Dave Zobel and Liz McEwan, 2. JeremyCaleb Johnson, Lori Absher and Neal Smith,3. Jeremy Caleb Johnson, Ryan Thum and oneday Rotarian son.
Cape Henry Rotary Club welcomed 7 new members into the Paul Harris Fellowship this month. Each week for the whole month was another celebration.
We are also thrilled to have so many family member’s not only join the club but become apart of the Paul Harris Fellowship. Our Five Avenues of Service Chair, Jim Wood who sponsored daughter-in-law Alexandra Wood, and Buddy Redfearn who sponsored son Eddie Redfearn both became PHF’s.
As we reach out to the community for possible future Rotarians—the Cape Henry Rotary Club starts with family first!
ROTARY CLUB OF CAPE HENRY
Celebrates as 7 New Paul Harris Fellows are Inducted
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Submitted by Lori Absher
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As war clouds gathered in Europe, Rotarians were meet-ing in Houston in June 1914 for their annual convention. The Convention adopted a resolution calling for an interna-tional peace conference to deal with the issues; however, the die was cast two days after the convention with the assassi-nation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that launched a chain of events that precipitated the First World War.
When the June 1917 Rotary Convention convened in At-lanta, America had entered the war two months earlier. The Convention achieved another chalk mark for peace when RI President Arch Klumph boldly proposed an endowment “for doing good in the world”. That endowment eventually grew into The Rotary Foundation that achieved so much in responding to the needs of the world and building peace.
The next chalk mark came at the June 1922 Rotary Convention in Los Angeles when it approved the addition of peace to the Object of Rotary.
By 1941 America was enveloped in another world war. Yet in 1943, as battles raged across the globe, the Allies sagaciously began building a frame work for a post war organi-zation that would become the United Nations. Rotary was deeply involved. During the 1945 United Nations Charter Conference in San Francisco, the UN, with no staff of its own, relied on Rotary observers for a variety of services including translation, proper word-ing of resolutions, and settlement of dispute among delegates.
In subsequent years, Rotary continued to press forward with peace initiatives including World Community Service, Youth Exchange, Ambassadorial Scholarships, Group Study Exchange, and Matching Grants all of which built connections between peoples of differ-ent nationalities and cultures. Over time these programs were modified but the emphasis on building peace continued. The Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution and the funding of Peace Fellowships are signature peace projects.
In 2012, Rotary President Sakuji Tanaka connected peace and service above self. When we work to make others lives better, we build peace.
Dinner honoring Rotary delgates at UN Charter
Conference (The Rotarian July 1945)
Rotary’s Peace Legacy
Sources: A Legacy of Goodwill by Anthony Craine (The Rotarian Feb 2003), Wikipedia, RI
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VideoHow We Talk About Rotary
Published on Feb-ruary 10, 2016 on YouTube. Click pic-ture or button for this video.
Michael Ange-lo Caruso is district governor elect for Rotary District 6380 which covers the area surrounding Detroit, Michigan. He is an international public
speaker as well as a consultant known for his expertise in communications and social mar-keting (Click Here for his site). He spoke at the Rotary International Assembly in Janu-ary 2016 on the topic of How We Talk About Rotary.
He said that the world is soon to experience an amazing confluence of technology and marketing and that he wanted to share how Rotary can take advantage of this to grow. He contrasted Rotary with TED (Technology, Education and Design) and its short format forums that are enormously popular with the generations that Rotary is trying to attract. TED revamped itself and adopted the 18 minute speech format that was pioneered by Rotary. TED videos on the web have racked up a billion views. In contrast, Rotary offers 35,000 talks each week in the 18 minute format. Over a year, this amount to 1.7 million talks. Web views - practically none. This can be improved. Coincidentally, RI General Secretary John Hewko reported that the live-stream event for this year’s World Polio Day
reached 145 million people through Twitter, Instagram, and Face-book.
There is so much more to consider about presenting Rotary. Click the picture or the button and watch this interesting talk.
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At the February 2, 2016 meeting of the Rotary Club of Richmond, Dr. Rehan Khan spoke on behalf of the Virginia chapter of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) which partners with Rotary in several humanitarian projects For example, AP-PNA worked with Rotary Pakistan to sponsor 700 cataract surgeries at an approximate cost of $35 each. APPNA also banks refurbished heart pacemakers for use by poor patients and responded to the cataclysmic
earthquake in Nepal by raising $8k for 10-person shelters costing $400 each and helping with their construction. Rotary Nepal matched this gift with a $24k grant. APPNA also works with Rotary Pakistan to eradicate polio by raising awareness of the disease and the benefits of vaccinations. Dr. Khan compiled a chart showing Pakistani provinces exhib-iting a dramatic fall in new cases in 2015 especially in the problematic federally adminis-tered tribal territories (FATA).
Dr. Khan graduated from medical school at Aga Khan University Pakistan in 1994. Currently, He is an Associate Professor of Radiology at VCU and also the Chair of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the McGuire Hunter Holmes Veterans Hospital in Rich-mond, Virginia. He also past President of APPNA’s Virginia chapter.
Wild Polio Cases By Pakistani ProvinceProvince 2013 2014 2015FATA 65 179 11Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
11 68 15
Sindh 10 30 5Balochistan 0 25 6Punjab 7 4 1Azad Jammu and Kashmir
0 0 0
Gilgit Baltistan 0 0 0PAKISTAN TOTAL 93 306 38
APPNA/Rotary constructing shelters in Nepal
Doing Good Together
Dr Rehan Khan
(GPEI counted 16 more cases in 2015 -editor)
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Come to Seoul and dis-cover the hospitality of a world-class city. At the Rotary Internation-al Convention, you’ll meet Rotarians from around the globe in one of Asia’s most sought-af-ter tourism destinations. Pre-registration discountends March 31. Go to www.riconvention.org CONNECT WITH A WORLD-CLASS CITY – SEOUL
Richard Cun-ningham, Area Governor
It’s always a joy when a new member is inducted into Rotary. On Feb-ruary 4, Justin Jassy was inducted into the Rotary Club of Brandermill. Club Past President Campbell Pendleton read the induction procedure. Club President Bart Carrique presented Justin with his Rotary pin.
New Member Induction
From left: Area Governor Richard Cunningham, DRFC Jim Probsdorfer, Club President Bart Carrique, New Member Justin Jassy, and PP Campbell Pendleton.
President Bart Carrique (l), Justin Jassy (r)
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VideoZones 33/34 Got Talent!
Published on January 21, 2016 on YouTube. Click picture or button for this video.
As you may know, Rotary Districts are organized into zones. District 7600 is as-signed to Rotary Zone 33. During last month’s Rotary International Assembly in San Diego, California, attending
Rotarians were invited to share their talents for the entertainment of the entire assembly. The video above shows the talent entry by Zones 33 & 34. The Greek letters - delta gam-ma epsilon - represented District Governor Elect. As the dancers moved into the audience, they engaged RI President Elect John Germ and his wife (both in orange shirts) in the dance.
During President John’s term, Rotary will be capping its celebration of The Rotary Foun-dation’s centennial in Atlanta - the same city where is all began a hundred years ago. The Foundation has been an incredible source of good works in many places. So consider join-ing the celebration by coming to the June 10-14, 2017 convention in Atlanta.
President John is a member of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tennessee which was the first club sponsored by the Rotary Club of Richmond, Virginia. The Chattanooga
Club was chartered on March 1, 1914 as Club 103. Today, it is the 21st largest club in the world.
(Sources: chattanoogarotary.com, Three Quarters of Century 1913-1988 (Rotary Club of Richmond), YouTube, RI, Wikipedia. Delta gamma epsilon was also used by two inactivated fraternities - one at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and the other at St Thomas University in Minneapolis, MN)
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Rotary Theme 2016-17Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, believed that serving
humanity is “the most worthwhile thing a person can do,” RI President-elect John F. Germ said, and that being a part of Rotary is a “great opportunity” to make that happen. Germ unveiled the 2016-17 presidential theme, Rotary Serving Humanity, to incoming district governors on 18 January at the International Assembly in San Diego, California.
“I believe everyone recognizes the opportunity to serve Rotary for what it truly is: not a small opportunity, but a great one; an opportunity of a lifetime to change the world for the better, forever through Rotary’s service to humanity,” said Germ. Rotary members around the globe are serving humanity by providing clean water to underdeveloped com-munities, promoting peace in conflict areas, and strengthening communities through basic education and literacy. But none more important than our work to eradicate polio worldwide, he said.
After a historic year in which transmission of the wild poliovirus was stopped in Nigeria and all of Africa, Germ said we are closer than ever to ending polio. “We are at a crossroads in Rotary,” he added. “We are looking ahead at a year that may one day be known as the greatest year in Rotary’s history: the year that sees the world’s last case of polio.” Last year’s milestones leave just two coun-tries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus still circulates. Polio would be only the second hu-man disease ever to be eradicated. When that moment arrives, it’s “tremendously important” that Rotary is ready for it, said Germ. “We need to be sure that we are recognized for that success, and leverage that success into more partnerships, greater growth, and even more ambitious service in the decades to come.”
Germ, a member of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tennessee, encouraged attendees to return to their clubs and communities and spread the word about Rotary’s role in the fight for a polio-free world.
“People who want to do good will see that Rotary is a place where they can change the world. Ev-ery Rotary club needs to be ready to give them that opportunity,” Germ said. Enhancing Rotary’s image isn’t the only way to boost membership. “We need clubs that are flexible, so our service will be more attractive to younger members, recent retirees, and working people.”
He added: “We need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward.” (Source: RI)
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BrandingRI General Secretary John Hewko briefly summarized initiatives to
further strengthen Rotary’s branding. He said “ we will be adding new resources to the My Rotary section of Rotary.org, where in one location you will find Rotary promotional videos and photos, as well as templates on how to organize events and conferences that are geared to a non-Ro-tary audience. We also develop and make available public relations pack-ets for you to use in connection with Rotary milestones and other critical events, such as the recent announcement of a polio-free Africa."
GrowthHewko said that “as of 1 July, Rotary’s membership was the second
highest in our history. We have an opportunity before us this year to achieve the highest membership level ever, and eclipse our peak of 1,213,000 in 2002. This past year we achieved the highest contributions to the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund
in our history, exceeding our goal of $123 million. And the En-dowment Fund’s current and projected net assets have already exceeded $1 billion, two years ahead of our 2017 target.”
Notes From The Rotary International Assembly
John Hewko,Secretary
General, Rotary International
Adding Value to MembershipAt the 2016 Rotary International Assembly, RI President K.R. Ravin-
dran summarize efforts to add more value to Rotary membership. He said “at Rotary headquarters, we are working hard to find new and inno-vative ways to add more value to Rotary membership, such as our Rotary Global Rewards. In just over half a year, we’ve had over 44,000 visits to the site, from well over 12,000 users: more than half of them have re-deemed one of the over 700 offers that are now available, saving money and strengthening the Rotary network. It’s still largely U.S.-centric but expanding and growing each day to other parts of the world.”
K.R. RavindranPresident
Rotary International
(Source: RI)
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Polio Notes
Build Peace: Encourage A Candidate To Apply For A Rotary Peace Fellowship
Caterina Becorpi, picture right, is a 2013-15 Rotary Peace Fellow who studied at the Uni-versity of Bradford, England. At the 2016 Rotary International Assembly, she talked about her work in Africa and Haiti. “The Ro-tary Peace Fellowship put me back on track and provided me with the skills and network I needed to achieve my dream of becoming a cat-alyst of peace,” she said.
The 2017-18 Rotary Peace Fellowship appli-cation is now available. The deadline for can-didates to submit applications to their district is 31 May. Districts must submit endorsed ap-plications to The Rotary Foundation by 1 July. (Source: RI) Photo Credit: Rotary International/
Monika Lozinska
The News International (Pakistan) reported that Pakistan’s first case of polio in 2016 occurred in northwestern Karachi. A spokesperson for the Sindh Emergency Operations Centre for Polio said the boy who contracted polio had not undergone routine immunizations but was ad-ministered at least seven doses of oral polio vaccine drops during special drives. Children require over 10 doses of polio vaccine to boost their im-munity to a level where they can’t be affected by the polio virus.
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On January 16, members of the Rotary Club of Petersburg cooked their famous Brunswick stew to fund scholarships.
Seven hundred and thirty-nine quarts were sold and proceeds from the sale totaled $2,716. The proceeds go to the charitable foundation for scholarships granted yearly to students at Richard Bland College, Vir-ginia State University, John Tyler Community College, the Southside Regional Medical Center School of Nursing, and the Appomattox Re-gional Governor’s School.
Rotary Club of Petersburg Annual Stew Sale
At the left, stew-masters Cal Moore (l) and Jimbo Van Landingham (r) flank official taster JoAnne Norman (c) as they prepare the Brunswick stew.
(From left, below) Ed Betts, Joan Pollard, John Brockwell, and Gwen Carter prepare the containers for delivery.
C. Wayne TuckerRotary Club of
Petersburg
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District Calendar: Next 30 DaysDate Start Time Title Location City
2/18/2016 4 p.m. South Hill’s annual Emergen-cy Services Dinner.
Contact Club
2/20/20162/27/20163/5/20163/19/2016
8:30 a.m. Rotary Leadership Institute Go to www.rli33.org for details and registration
GlennsTowson, MDJacksonville, NCFairfax
2/20/2016 8:30 a.m. District 7600 Pre-PETS, Nav-igating Rotary Club Central, Setting Club Goals
Webinar or In Person at ODU Peninsula High Ed-ucation Center, 600 Butler Farm Road
Hampton
2/24/2016 6 p.m. Prince George County Char-ter Ceremony for the JB Cle-ments Interact Club
Prince George High School Auditorium, 7801 Laurel Spring Road
Prince George
2/25/2016 11:30 a.m. Newport News Getting to Know You Luncheon
The Cove - City Center, Newport News
3/2/2016 5:30 p.m. Prince George County After Hours Connect
Luca Italian Restaurant 6619 Courthouse Road
Prince George
3/3/2016 1 p.m. Chesapeake Multi-Zone PETS
Westfields Marriott Hotel, 14750 Conference Drive Center
Chantilly
3/5/2016 8 a.m. Norfolk Sunrise Harbor Part Quarterly Clean Up
Harbor Park Norfolk
3/8/2016 6 p.m. Brandermill Board Meeting Contact Club
3/19/2016 9 a.m. Grant Management Seminar Colonial Heritage Country Club
Williamsburg
Check District Calendar at http://www.rotary7600.org/ for latest details and registration.
FacebookVisit the district Facebook site for pictures of the recent Dis-trict Team Training Seminar preparing for the transition in administration as well as pictures about Rotary activities in the District. Click the button for Facebook
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The Spirit of 7600 – the newsletter for Rotary district 7600 – reaches thousands of Ro-tarians in central and eastern Virginia. It’s a great way to share stories and pictures about District and Club activities, promote events, and disseminate information.
The District offers multiple venues for sharing information such as through its fabulous facebook page, twitter feed, comprehensive web site, and the Foundation bulletin. We en-courage you to follow and use of these venues of information that are gifts of service by Rotarians.
Our intention with the District Newsletter is to provide relevant information and stories from all levels of Rotary that you can use in your Clubs. We invite the Clubs to use our digital newsletter as a high impact means of further sharing information, stories, and ideas
with other Clubs. However, publishing with us is not an “either/or choice”; rather, it’s another way of sharing our Rotary experience with our communities and the world.
Writing not your forte? Just give us the details and we can work it into an interesting, engaging story. Pictures not great? Often we can enhance the pictures to publi-cation quality.
Have a bunch of event pictures? We can turn those pictures into an engaging YouTube video presentation with background music. Want to drive up readership of your great web content, we can reference your web site content. It all starts with your email to [email protected].
Sharing Your Rotary Experiences
Publish Distribute21-Mar 22-Mar18-Apr 19-Apr16-May 17-May20-Jun 21-Jun
The following is a sched-ule of our publication and email distribution dates. These dates are subject to change without notice.
We are interested in short articles (about 200 words or less) about Rotary activities, projects, and awards in your Clubs, Rotary history especially among District Clubs, and any other aspect of Rotary life within the District.
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