Today's Events:

President Mike Mills presiding until 1pm

Past President Ed Fischer presiding 1-1:30pm

We welcome all of our visitors:

Daniel Berger (Ellen) 

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TODAY IS…

EARTH DAY

Craft Talk:  Sunita Kaul

Sunita works at Baptist Hospital’s Research Dept.  This is a new department – it’s not testing pharmaceuticals but instead it brings the ideas found in current medical literature to the patient’s bedside to make it applicable.  There is usually a gap of 10 years between publications and bedside practice. 

She keeps the nursing staff motivated to improve patient quality care. After the nursing staff, the movement is to train new techniques to the allied health staff and then on to physicians.   Her job is the evaluation of secondary research and finding relevant applications.

Cathy Miller – RI Foundation:

There is $550 in matching funds.  The club will accept up to $100 per member that will be matched and go into your R.I. Account towards your goal of a $1,000 Paul Harris Fellowship. 

MIKE MILLS:

At last Saturday’s  District Assembly, our Rotary club had five out of the 300 attendees at the THANK YOU to:  Diana, Felipe, Asaad, Mike, and Bill Enright for

DIANA:

~~Pansy will be in charge of being liaison to our South Miami High School Interact Club next year.

~~ Roy had the pleasure of reviewing the exhibits laid out in the South Miami Middle School auditorium when he represented the club at the Jim Stehle’s Essay Award ceremony. 

Thank you Roy!!

~~Community Newspapers is celebrating 50th birthday (founded in 1958!)  They are asking Diana to submit information about the club’s community service.

JENNIFER DEWSNAP:

~~South Miami Middle would like us to do the Atlas project on May 14^th in the morning.

~~Sunset Elementary – looking at May 8th possibly to distribute the dictionaries Atlas Project at the end of May

All members are welcome to participate and see how the kids are all smiles and open the books as soon as they receive the books.

Cathy Miller: 

SAVE THE DATE:

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Annual Rebuilding Together Volunteer Day

in Coconut Grove

http://www.rebuildingtogethermiami.org/index.html

Meet at 7:00 a.m. at St Matthews Church.  If this time is too early for you registration goes on all day.

The job will be painting the inside and outside of Ms. Irina Dingle’s house located 3 blocks from the church.

This is a good cause for a good person.

You can either park at the church where breakfast and lunch will be served. Car pool if you come early.

This year’s home is owned by Ms. Irina Dingle, age 77 who is caretaker to her sister who is handicapped and her husband, who has Alzheimer’s. They have lived in this house for 44 years. 

You can see, when you leave at the end of the day, that you’ve made a difference.

http://rotary2008.com/la2008hoc/

SOUTH MIAMI ROTARY ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday, February 21 – 22, 2009

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

 www.myspace.com/southmiamiartfest (unofficial site)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Miami_Rotary_Art_Festival (wiki encyclopedia article)

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$

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:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

2007-08 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Michael Mills
millsmike@aol.com

President Elect:  Bill Enright

bill@handsonmiami.org

Vice President: Linda Kaplan

lk@lindakaplan.com

Secretary:  Doreen Reitnauer

dhiker217@aol.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs

david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Hampton Booker

Hg262@bellsouth.net

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.rotary6990.org

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

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 leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

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.

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($250) or to become a New Member ($300) contact

Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser? Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lindakaplan@lk.com

Ed Fischer filled in for our absent speaker today:

Rotary International’s Foundation

Rotarians partner together on National Immunization Day in Moradabad, India .

 Photo by Rotary Images.

Diana :

The backbone of Rotary is the Rotary Foundation

Examples of scholars who are professional success stories include:

~ Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar – Daisy Mak Su who moved from Hong Kong to S. Florida to study music.  She is still in Miami now with three children.  She is singing with the Miami Lyric Opera.  There will be an upcoming performance with the New World Symphony. 

~ Charles Munroe, great-grandson of Commodore Munroe, who is now a board member for Biscayne National Park and he works with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

~ Katherine Sapnes, who has a nursing degree and studied in S. Africa doing PH.D research  and now works for the VA Hospital

~  Ken Goodman works for the Bioethics Dept at the U of M

~ Ann Wendschuh staffed an Ambassadorial Scholar Expo since she was an Ambassadorial Scholar who studied in Japan .  A Rotarian remembered her speaking to his club from twenty years past.

~Daniel Negoni, our Nigerian international law student who studied at UM last year.  When Ed gets spammed lottery emails, he replies that his Nigerian attorney will present a power of attorney to collect the winnings.  He never gets a response. 

When the Foundation alumni met at a get-together with GSE team members and scholars – one GSE team member had everything she’d picked up in India 20 years prior.  One had treasured the movies he’d recorded from his experience in the Philippines .

Marcy Ullom was one host of the S. African team in 2001.  She hosted Winnie, the Zulu as a Second Language teacher.  She contacted Winnie three years later, who took her to visit her mother. 

“Every amount contributed to The Rotary Foundation is spent in support of humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs and their operations. Clubs and districts apply for and receive Foundation grants to carry out worthy projects worldwide.”

http://www.rotary.org/en/Contribute/Pages/ridefault.aspx

ED:  That what you share multiplies, that what you withhold diminishes.

There are two kinds of Paul Harris Fellowships: 
1)  Contribute $1000

2)  Sustaining – commit to give $100 per year until you hit $1000

This month, our club’s treasury will put up a matching amount up to $125 per member until the last of the $550 is depleted.

The foundation allows: 

--Teachers to go overseas to teach who we are and what we do.

--For our greatest accomplishment - Polio Plus which had a commitment to eradicate it by 2005.  We missed the 2005 mark due to two countries not being Polio free, Iraq and Afghanistan due to war.  Refugees into Nigeria caused a re-occurrence of the disease.  The mission is still to be accomplished.

-- Rotarians from around the world went to teach irrigation methods when N. Africa suffered an enormous drought,

District 6990’s contributions:

~Sunita’s daughter RYLA Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Program gave her UN Ambassador great achievement due to the leadership skills put in place a meaningful thing at the right time for her age.

~S4TL – seminar for tomorrow’s leaders started in District 6990– turned into RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) – elements of leadership  Powerful and positive

~What Paul Harris said from RI spawned from Ed’s Rotary Moment email

The Foundation supports GSE – “hosting young professionals has been special for me” Doreen

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