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Tuesday, March 1, 2011 |
Club President
Doreen Reitnauer
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ROTARY
THEME
2010 - 2011 |
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We
welcome our visitors:
Sam
Rothman, visiting from Virginia
Daniel
Berger, husband of Ellen Book
Dan
Raab, guest of Asaad Masoud
Lucille
McKee, guest of John Sorgie
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It’s Your Turn to bring a DOOR PRIZE!
(in REVERSE alphabetical order unless a switch is requested) |
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March 8, 2011 |
Harris, Joan |
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March 15, 2011 |
Graham, Pansy |
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March 22, 2011 |
Gonas, Roy |
| March 29, 2011 |
Gaines, Donna |
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* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S * * *
- The South Miami Rotary Art Festival
was successful! Wendy Lapidus thanked everyone who went beyond the call of
duty and is grateful to all who fulfilled their obligation to help
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There is a Board Meeting on Monday,
March 7th at 6:00 at the First National Bank of South Miami. All
board members are asked to attend and all members are welcome.
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Thanks to the team who painted the
streets of South Miami Art Festival very early on Thursday morning!
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DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘BECAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?
Our club goal is 100% Attendance!
If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.
For online make-ups:
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Visit www.ri6990.org to find a club to make up an absence.
Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club.
To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary.
How to do a Make-Up On-Line via Rotary eClub One?
Perfect attendance is now possible for every Rotarian with computer access. Rotary’s eClub One is a full-service online charted Rotary Club. Meetings operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What an easy way to make up for a meeting that you have missed! During the last Rotary year, Rotary eClub One welcomed more than 120,000 visitors from 161 countries. Of these, about 800 per week participated in one of eClub One’s meeting programs and applied for make-up credit.
Here’s what you have to do to earn make up credit. Go to
http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf
It is mandatory that you spend at least 30 minutes on the website for qualify for a make-up credit. (Remember Rotarians are guided by the principles of the 4 Way Test).
For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally:
http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html
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NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary
of ALL make-ups: b.trembly@gmail.com
| Meeting Functionaries |
| Invocation: |
Horace Feliu |
| Pledge: |
Jody Perlmutter |
| Visitors |
John Sorgie |
| Happy $: |
Mike Newman |
| Four Way Test: |
Ed Fischer |
| Future Speakers: |
| March 8 |
Alba Weinman – Personal Empowerment |
| March 15 |
To be announced |
| March 22 |
Gary Sisler, Miami Rotary Club – Organ Donation |
| March 29 |
Dr. Paul Lazarus III – Why are today’s movies so bad? |
| Mark Your Calendars: |
| March
7 |
Board
Meeting, 6PM, First National Bank of South Miami |
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Rotary Club of South Miami, Inc. Board of Directors:
Rotary Foundation of South Miami, Inc. Board of Directors:
Doreen Reitnauer, Raquel Hickey, Pansy Graham, Brett Trembly, Fabio Fernandez – Foundation Treasurer, Diana Phillips, Linda Kaplan, Charles Ruiz de Castilla
Rotary District 6990:
www.ri6990.org / 305-860-8060
District Governor Douglas Maymon
World Organizaion:
www.rotary.org
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Mission Statement
The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leader.
THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:
Is it the TRUTH?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? |
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Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?" |
Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:
¨ Become connected to your community.
¨ Work with others in addressing community needs.
¨ Interact with other professionals in your community;
¨ Assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.
¨ Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.
¨ Develop leadership skills. Involve family in promoting service efforts.
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Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact
Asaad Massoud at www.racharters.com
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Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser?
Contact Club Fundraising Chair Wendy Lapidus at wendylapidus@bellsouth.net
Service Projects
Interested in helping others?
Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplan.com
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Our Speaker Today: James
McDonald
Committee for investigation of
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
James McDonald is a practicing Miami attorney with the McCloskey
and McDonald, and a former FBI agent and served on the House of
Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations as Senior Counsel. He was an Assistant US Attorney when he was
asked to help with the hearings.
Mr. McDonald remarked that the topic of the JFK assassination
fascinates people, because we don’t really understand what happened. For
those of us who remember where they were when Kennedy was killed, it felt
like the future was taken away. The assassination changed something in our
country.
The report was out within a year, saying that Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone and that the investigation was closed. The people didn’t buy this
conclusion, and there was an undercurrent in the late 1960’s and 1970’s, so
the US Senate started looking at the government intelligence function. The
Senate Intelligence Committee started looking at what the CIA was doing. The
CIA never said that they were involved in plots to assassinate foreign
leaders, including Castro. The probe was reopened.
A staff was
hired to look at a crime that had been committed 15 years earlier. While they
think that Oswald pulled the trigger, and according to the Warren Commission
was the only assassin, the Warren Commission ignored evidence of a third
bullet. Evidence showed that Oswald shot twice but a third bullet was found
in the vehicle
Oswald was a
loner, had been a marine and a marksman. He had been assigned to a
sophisticated base in Japan, defected to the Soviet Union, then came back and
shot the President. Oswald is someone who should have been watched by the FBI
and CIA, and there are unanswered questions about how he got a spy camera and
travel visas. He also had a lot of unexplained associations, including ties
in Miami.
The answer will
not be proven. The legacy of the Kennedy assassination is that our ability to
direct ourselves as a people was effected by a force outside of our process
and our government never pushed to learn the truth.
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