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

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- It's Your Turn
- Future Speakers
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Today's Speaker
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 

Club President
Doreen Reitnauer

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ROTARY
THEME
2009-2010

We welcome our visitors:

Claire McHenry, former member of our club

Pansy’s granddaughter – Kristina leaves for U of Central Florida in two weeks

We are happy because:

Horace Feliu – Daughter Sarah is in her last year of high school

Kristina - Spending time with my grandmother Pansy

Diana Phillips – delighted to see Claire here

Dr. Mike Newman = Ecuadorian independence day

Claire McHenry- Greetings from Ireland and familiar happy faces.

Roy Gonas - Barrister Claire is with us

Linda Kaplan- Leaving for Taos

Donna Gaines - Great trip to Chicago

Mike Mills – my Rotary attendance is 100% for this week.

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It’s Your Turn to bring a DOOR PRIZE!

 (in REVERSE alphabetical order unless a switch is requested)

August 17, 2010 Barusch, Joanna
August 24, 2010 Barker, Jim
August 31, 2010 Avael, Julio III
September 6, 2010 Zeltsman, Stan

September 13, 2010

Wendschuh, Pete

September 20, 2010 Vidal, Felipe

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

·         Our club will be co-sponsoring a Rotary Exchange student with the Pinecrest and Coral Gables Clubs. Sebastian arrives on August 17th at MIA at 5:45 PM. Doreen and Britt will be there to welcome him, and it would be terrific if other members of our club can join them.

·         Football Mania continues!!!

·         Britt Steinhardt sold 6 books this week and Ed Fischer turned in all of his money! Keep selling!

 

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NEXT SHOW

Saturday & Sunday, February 26 – 27, 2011

www.southmiamiartfest.com 

Save copies of The Rotarian for Wendy for the next show!

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DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘BECAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

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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:

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: Marty Rosen
Pledge: Linda Kaplan
Guests: Ed Fischer
Happy $: Hampton Booker
Four Way Test: David Samuels
Future Speakers:
August 17 Tom Boswell, University of Miami professor, “Immigration”
August 24 Mary Heinicke, Miami Dade Parks & Recreation, “Open Space Master Plan”
August 31  Barry Givner, EVP, Coconut Grove Bank, “Trust Services and Money Management”
Mark Your Calendars:
August 13, 14, 15 RYLA  at Camp Choee, Girl Scout Camp of South Florida
August 17 Greet Sebastian, our co-shared exchange student, arriving to stay with Todd Lary’s family form Miami Sundown Rotary Club. Join Britt and Doreen when he arrives at 5:45 PM as we welcome him to his new home!
August 28 Rotary Leadership Institute, American Intercontinental University, Weston, FL, 7:30 AM

November 11-15, 2010

District 6990 Conference

Navigator of the Seas

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To book your stateroom call 800-465-3595, identify yourself as a member of Rotary District 6990 Confer­ence, and provide reference number 7818763.

You must register directly through Royal Caribbean with the above reference

December 5 Rotary Day with the Miami Dolphins

2009-10 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

President Elect: Raquel Hickey
rrkhickey@att.net

Vice President: Pansy Graham
Pansygraham@bellsouth.net

Secretary:  Brett Trembly
b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: Don Streaker
dstreakr@bellsouth.net

Sergeant at Arms: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Club 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

 

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 Castillan

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org 

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? 

 

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

Our Speaker Today:

Charles  Castilla

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The creative and driving force behind Video Vision Productions, Charles Castilla is a skilled independent producer, director of photography and cameraman. His career first began in front of the camera in Los Angeles on episodic television and film. Charles had studied TV and film in college and enjoyed participating and acting in stage plays at the University of Georgia. This led to acting gigs on a number of films and TV shows including as a day player on "Days of Our Lives", featured on "The Incredible Hulk", the NBC cop series "Eischied" and "Flamingo Road, and "Miami Vice" to name a few.

After forming Video Vision in Los Angeles, he re-located to his hometown of Miami, Florida where he established the company to provide production services,freelance crews and equipment. Charles brings a sense of collaboration to every project with his clients and colleagues. His extensive global experience extends to national network and cable television work as well as corporate and commercial production. Over the years he has worked on documentaries, reality based shows, entertainment, EPK’s, commercials and infomercials, travel/destination videos and corporate projects with a roster of steady clients.

His experience as a director of photography and cameraman has taken him on shoots around the globe. His creative skills for composition and film style lighting bring a variety of work that includes long and short format, slice of life, reality, drama, action and formal interviews. He shoots with a variety of video cameras and formats including High Definition and Standard Definition. A scuba diver since the age of twelve, Charles is also an avid underwater cameraman.

As a director/producer he has developed and produced original video titles such as "Yoga Onboard", "Scuba Refresher Course" and produced projects for broadcast and corporate clients from preproduction to field production through to the post-production process.

Charles enjoys the excitement of working and covering national and international news assignments as a freelance photojournalist. He has taken assignments from CBS News, NBC News, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN and ESPN.

His industry is all about images. Charles is treated to excerpts from commercials, movie and television productions. He’s traveled throughout the world and been to resorts for marketing videos.

Charles has been in this business all his life and started appearing in front of the camera during the Flipper television show as an extra. He was introduced to the entertainment industry in Los Angeles in the soap opera, Days of Our Lives.  Charles was hired as an actor, as a post office mail carrier with two lines and was paid $400 for this big acting break plus got to join the union. 

Eventually, he started working behind the camera in 1981 in Los Angeles.  Charles returned to produce a documentary in 1982 in South Florida and he was homesick so moved back in 1984, although most of the work is out of town and he travels a great deal. 

Newest Endeavor: 

A global psychology project with Pearson Education in NJ, a textbook publisher and NP Media which collaborated for an eight part video series.  National Geographic contacted them to produce this for television. It shows students how customs and beliefs influence learning abilities through showing routines and rituals of daily life in a two-three week time span.  The project fFocused on how mothers treated their newborns and babies.  Seven different countries – Chiapas, Mexico, and Botswana (independent since 1976 with a very violent tribal warfare history –with diamonds it is a model, stable country) have been covered. Upcoming:  Germany, Ukraine, Papua New Guinea.

Small cameras and a small crew are a necessity to not intrude on the families.  The production people are locals that are hired especially .  It takes one month to six weeks to coordinate trip. A researcher and an anthropologist travels with the group.

This will be in development for another year to 18 months before it will be released. 

He works 12 hours a day starting at daybreak shooting footage and has had AMAZING experiences meeting worldwide celebrities and common folk who’ve opened their homes to him. 

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