South Miami Rotary Newsletter

Editor: Joan Harris, joandharris@bellsouth.net
CLUB'S WEBSITE: www.southmiamirotary.org

HIGHLIGHTS:

- Announcements
- Meeting Functionaries
- It's Your Turn
- Future Speakers
- Today's Speaker
- Sponsors
- Calendar

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Club President
Doreen Reitnauer

ROTARY
THEME
2010 - 2011

It’s Your Turn to bring a DOOR PRIZE! (in REVERSE alphabetical order unless a switch is requested)
May 10, 2011	De Armas, Gabriel
May 17, 2011	Booker, Hampton
May 24, 2011	Book, Ellen
May 31, 2011	Barusch, Joanna

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S * * *

We honored Veronica Birch Flores, Executive Vice President of First National Bank of South Miami, as a Charter Member of the South Miami Rotary Art Festival "Stellar Support Society". Veronica is a professional banker with 30 years of experience in community banks, and she places great emphasis on building relationships and providing superior personal service. She is proud of the team at First National Bank of South Miami and they like doing things the old-fashioned way - with a smile and a handshake. Veronica is also involved in the community, including participation in Chamber South, Chairman of South Miami Hospital Associates, Board Member of Fellowship House, Advisory Board Member of Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, and Trustee Member Economic Development Council (South Dade). She enjoys boating, fishing, playing tennis and biking.

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, the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

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

NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary

of ALL make-ups: b.trembly@gmail.com

Meeting Functionaries
Invocation:	Horace Feliu
Pledge:	Jody Perlmutter
Visitors:	Felipe Vidal
Happy Dollars:	Karen Vassel
Future Speakers:
May 10	Mario Cristobal, Head Football Coach, FIU Athletics
May 17	Sebastian, Rotary Youth Exchange Student
May 24	Shannon Rodriguez, Boy Scouts of America
May 31	Randy Lee, "Recent Advances at Baptist Hospital"
Mark Your Calendars:

June 4	Rotary Night at the Marlins, 7:10
June 18	Installation Dinner

2010-11 RCSM OFFICERS:

President: Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

President Elect: Horace Feliu
horacefeliu@bellsouth.net

Vice President: Pansy Graham
Pansygraham@bellsouth.net

Secretary: Brett Trembly
b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: Don Streaker
dstreaker@bellsouth.net

Sergeant at Arms: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Rotary Club of South Miami, Inc. Board of Directors:

Fabio Fernandez, Lakitsia Gaines, Linda Kaplan, Asaad Masoud, Michael Mills, Diana Phillips, Charles Ruiz de Castilla, Britt Steinhardt, Karen Vassell, Felipe Vidal

www.southmiamirotary.org

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

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?

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.

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact

Asaad Massoud at www.racharters.com

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

Our Speaker Today:

Howard Simon, Executive Director, ACLU of Florida

Howard Simon was appointed Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida on October 1, 1997. Dr. Simon was raised in New York, and graduated from the City College of New York. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in legal and political philosophy and social ethics.

Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of the Florida affiliate of the ACLU in 1997, Simon served as Executive Director of the Michigan affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1974.

Prior to his work with the ACLU, he taught philosophy at the University of Minnesota and was a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at DePauw University in Indiana.

As Executive Director of the Florida affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, Simon has overall responsibility for ACLU's legal, public education, legislative lobbying, and membership and fund-raising programs.

During Simon's tenure with the ACLU, the organization has been involved in cases and controversies dealing with school vouchers, charter schools, religious practices in the public schools, abortion rights, the Terri Schiavo case as well as physician-assisted suicide, and numerous controversies involving freedom of speech.

The ACLU has been extensively involved in addressing the need for electoral reforms in Florida. The organization played a key role in securing the end of the use of paperless electronic voting systems in Florida, leading to the 2008 election in which every county used the optical scan system. The organization has also led efforts to end Florida's policy requiring the lifetime voting ban of former felons.

Mr. Simon spoke of the many rights which the ACLU protects, including the rights of those they do not necessarily agree with. Unlike the NAACP and Anti Defamation League, the ACLU protects everyone's rights regardless of race, color, creed or sexual orientation.

Mr. Simon shared with us the lawsuit that the ACLU filed against the Federal Government in the 1940's, during World War II. As a result of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Federal Government had thousands of Japanese Americans snet to a compound for confinement. This was a clear violation fo an American's constituional rights and under President Reagan's administration, restitution was finallymade to the survivors and families, along with an apology by the President.

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