Today’s Events:
 
Visiting friends: Curtis Rubenstein (Lydia) & Jerry Carney (David J.)


President Ellen Book presiding

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Curtis Rubenstein, who is honorary SMRC member Karen Dorfman's grandson, thanked the club for receiving a Miami-Dade College scholarship. He has worked with our major fundraiser, the Arts and Crafts Festival, since he was FOUR years old!! In high school he learned leadership principles as a member of the Future Farmers of America. While attending MDC he will participate in the Air Force ROTC and plans to complete his Bachelors of Science in Math at either UM or UF. Upon graduating, his ROTC background makes him a Second Lieutenant in the USAF. His sights are on a career as a fighter pilot. We picked a winner! 
 

No meeting on Tuesday, July 4th

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

&

UNCLUTTER YOUR LIFE WHILE DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS

Until August 2006

We are collecting Jeans for the Community Enhancement Collaboration which provides services to the homeless and to people who are having trouble making ends meet.

The program is similar to Becca's closet since they also keep a "closet" of clothing and help people pick out outfits for work, etc. Bring in Jeans and shorts for the summer for men, women, and children. Our club is organizing a June Jean Drive (but we are starting in May). You can leave them on Barbara Kornblau & Larry Sherry's porch at 9040 SW 64th Court until the last week of August or bring them to Tuesday’s Rotary meeting.
 

President-Elect Linda’s first summary of her experiences at the 2006 RI Convention in Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark:

Over a lunch, Linda saw the inscription “TCSD” on a bracelet worn by a mid-western Rotarian. His club’s focus was on potable water projects. When asked how the clean water had changed the lives of the residents of this community, he’d been told “the children stopped dying…”

We make a difference…

http://www.rotary6990.org/html/foundation__.html 
The first report from our District's Rotary World Peace Fellow Karla Castellanos


Coming soon…

SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2006 @ 7 p.m.

INSTALLATION BANQUET

@ the Coconut Grove Sailing Club

Free for members / $50 guests

2990 South Bay Shore Drive Miami, Florida, 33133.
Tele. 305 444 4571 / Fax 305 444 8959

Dress will be dressy/casual

Directions:
Coconut Grove Sailing Club is located in the heart of Coconut Grove just 2-3 miles south of downtown Miami. Just a mile and a half from the end of Interstate 95. At the end of 95 you continue on US 1 and take a left at 27th Ave, continue to the end of 27th where it meets S. Bayshore Dr. at the ocean, turn right (south) and CGSC is just 500 yards on the left where Bayshore turns west up into Coconut Grove. If you are coming from the south on US 1 just take the right on 27th Ave.

Meeting Functionaries
Invocation:	MAXENE GRAHAM
Pledge:	MAYOR HORACE FELIU
Guests:	BILL ENRIGHT
Happy $$:	HAMPTON BOOKER – show him the $$$
Door Prize:	ERNIE SWIFT & CAPT. ASAAD MASOUD
50-50 Prize:	ANN FISHER
It’s Your Turn
June 27th:	Door Prize: Maxene Graham / Dessert: Michael Mills
July 11th:	Door Prize: Sid Greenstein / Dessert: Cathy Miller
July 18th:	Door Prize: Leo Haskins / Dessert: Dan McCrea
July 25th:	Door Prize: Raquel Hickey / Dessert: Asaad Masoud
August 1st:	Door Prize: Bruce Higley / Dessert: Chris Marsh
August 8th:	Door Prize: David Jacobs / Dessert: Azam Malik
Future Speakers:
June 27th:	Brenda Alford Jazz Singer (repeat)
July 4th:	NO MEETING – HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA
July 11th:	Penny McCrea "Action Line"
July 18th:	Murl Webster, Center for Life Achievements- "Hypnosis' role in our World"
July 25th:	President Elect, Mike Mills on "Hurricane Preparedness"
August 1st:	District Governor Jack Martin
August 8th:	Sam Boldrick Miami Dade Public Library Collection Manager, "History of Library Buildings in Miami Dade County"
August 15th:	TBA
August 22th:	Judge Stephen Leifman, "The Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP)"

Greg Fort
Assoc. Athletic Director
for External Affairs
Florida International University
 
 

Pansy introduced Mr. Fort:
In the arena of athletics, as in any other arena, the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination…Forging to the finish line regardless of hurdles, seen or unseen. Everybody loves a winner, the winner is very visible and excites us, but behind every winner or winning team are those who must dedicate themselves to the management aspect, ensuring the achievist freedom to be all that he or she can be.

Today’s speaker comes to us from the athletic arena of Florida International University (FIU) and will take us behind the scenes of college athletics. Mr. Greg Fort will enlighten us on the development and future of athletics at FIU.

Mr. Fort, a native of McKinney, TX…enters his third year as a member of FIU’s Athletic staff and his 22nd year in NCAA. He coordinates the department’s external efforts in athletic development, marketing, radio and television, community and media relations, tickets, licensing and corporate sponsorships. He has done a remarkable job since coming to FIU in 2003. FIU received its largest athletic naming gift in its history (Pharmed Arena), the largest athletic endowment gift (Michael Feldsberg Memorial Scholarship), the development’s first athletic shoe apparel partnership (Adidas) and a campus-wide cellular partnership (Cingular.) He is also a member of the broadcast team and serves as a color analyst on football and basketball.

His other half…or (his better half) Nicci Hays-Fort, is a basketball coach at DePaul University, Chicago.

With a Rotarian father and two Rotarian grandfathers, Greg was a Texas member for eleven years. (He just hasn’t found yet us in S. Florida!!)

FACTS:
FIU’s attendance last school year: over 37,000
Fall 2006 attendance: over 40,000
Budget: $700 million/annually
Budget with new medical school: over $1 billion
FIU was started on the land used as an airport. Construction and cranes are everywhere. Being built: new law school, dorms, business school…

Greg’s goal is to build a centerpiece to the athletic complex. A multi-purpose facility to seat 25,000 which can be used for football, soccer, graduation ceremonies (currently there are 4-5 sessions for graduations), and high school events.

FIU Golden Panthers have only been in existence five years. They are members of the NCAA Sunbelt Conference. This year, they will play UM (a team with five national championships) at the Orange Bowl on October 14, 2006. In 2005-06, they finished #5 and #6.

The enormous growth of the campus and student body, make FIU a huge economic engine for this community.