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Today's Events:

President Pansy Graham presiding

We welcome all our visitors…

Brian Behr, guest of Captain Assad

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·       President Pansy Graham reminded the membership that the District Governor’s visit, has been rescheduled for October 13^th and that the Club’s leadership and committed chairs need to be here by 11:00AM with their plans for the coming year.

·       Additionally, because of the Labor Day holiday, the September meeting of both the Board of Directors and the Foundation Committee will now be on September 14^th.

·       Pansy also that the first craft talk for next week will be by Ed Fischer and to check the bulleting as beginning the following week, we will go alphabetically through the Club roster.

DIANA:

Past President Diana Phillips announced she has lost all Internet access and if you need to contact her, to please call her on the phone.

DIANA:

The Tenth Annual Take Stock in Children Back Country Challenge fishing tournament, sponsored by the Rotary Club of  Key Largo, is set for September 18 through September 20. Special rate reservations for one of three hotels are roughly $106-124 per night and cut off  

on September 4^th.  Tournament entry fees vary from $40 to $100 depending upon classification, if paid before 9/14.  $25 additional after 9/17.  All ages! Lots of good activities!  All profits to TDIC!  Remember, this is our scholarship partner.

Forms available at:

http://www.keylargorotary.org 

click on Back Country Challenge on the left.

for more info call:  Dave Andrews 305-304-3938 or  Bonnie Frost at305-853-0242

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At the Seminole Hard Rock Café and Casino

Friday, November 6, 2009 – Sunday, November 8, 2009

The District Conference

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Football Mania – John Sorgie

The call went out to SHOW HIM THE MONEY NOW!!! Asking all members to finish selling 10 booklets by the end of this week!!!

Pansy then called on Past President Ed Fischer to demonstrate to the Membership his method of selling Football Mania books. Ed explained that he simply asks, “How would you like to exchange a $10.00 tax deductible donation for sixtteen opportunities to win $50.00 at best or get a refund of your $10.00 at the worst?” He said the typical reaction to the question was, how does that work; which then opens the door for a more complete explanation of the specifics of Football Mania.

Support Football Mania!  Mike demonstrated to members how to find people who are normally supportive of charities and just ask for a donation to this small fundraiser by September 10^th!  $10 each offers you 17 chances to have high combined scoring teams which pays off at $50 or 17 chances to have low combined scoring teams which pays off at $10!  Past President John Sorgie reminded the membership that football season starts next week and that football Mania tickets must be turned in by next week’s meeting.

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SPEAKING OF FOOTBALL: 

Rotary District 6990 

Rotary Day at Land Shark Stadium

Miami Dolphins vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Tailgate Party $15 pp starts at 10:30 am until the game starts

Located at Dolphin’s RV lot #8

Catered by Char-Hut

Purchase online:  www.miamidolphins.com/rotaryclub.asp

Or contact Thomas Eugene at 305-626-7296 or teugene@dolphinstadium.com

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Cathy Miller:

RI Foundation:

$500 is available from club funds for matching your contribution to Rotary International’s foundation.  If you donate $50 then $100 will be sent to Rotary towards your Paul Harris Fellowship (a $1,000 goal.) Up to $150 per member will be matched.

Join in the fun and help the cause!

Thursday, Nov. 11, 1:30 p.m.

Biltmore Golf Course, Coral Gables

 $25 donation

1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes!

Contact Chris Morrison, 305-582-7690

morrisonclan@att.net

If everyone of us sells two tickets, this can raise $105,000. 

WE CAN DO THIS!! 

This fundraiser is a top priority!  We need to sell tickets to meet the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They donated  $355 million in the last two years. Of that amount $200 million is a matching grant for polio eradication.  Our district is expected to donate $300,000. 

We have raised $195,000 towards this goal to date. The balance is $105,000 yet to be raised.  If the 2,100 district’s club members can all sell just 2 tickets this year at $25 per ticket, we’d sell 4,200 tickets.

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A Rotary Moment:

The Process of Organizing a New Club

For Rotary to continue its important work world-wide, it is vital that the organization continue to grow with new clubs and members.

How is a new club born?  Often a new club is organized in a community that does not have a club.  Sometimes an existing club gets too large and can no longer meet meeting-space constraints and must divide into two.  Also, alternative meeting times can often benefit a larger part of the community by establishing a second club.

District governors are responsible for approving the process of starting a new club. The Organization of New Club Survey is submitted by the district governor for RI approval and a special representative to guide its organization is appointed by the DG. An existing Rotary club can also agree to act as the new club’s sponsor.

Rotary International strongly encourages the formation of well-balanced Rotary clubs in order to properly reflect the diverse business and professional life of the community. No club may, by provisions in its constitution or otherwise, limit membership in the club on the basis of gender, race, color, creed, or national origin or impose any condition of membership not specifically prescribed by the RI constitution or by laws.

Organizers must recruit potential charter members to the club and these charter members determine the club name and locality, and the meeting venue and time. Also these initial members establish fees and dues, conduct weekly meeting and elect a club board and officers. The district governor grants provisional club status to the club.

The charter members must then adopt the Standard Rotary Club Constitution, club bylaws and the club committee structure. Once the New Club Application Form, which includes the list of charter members, is signed by the club president and secretary and submitted with the charter fee to the DG, the governor and special representative sign the form and forward it to RI.

Final approval for a new Rotary club is the responsibility of the RI Board of Directors. The board admits the club and the admission date is the club’s charter date, marking its membership to RI. The district governor or special representative presents the new club with its charter to officially inaugurate the club in RI.

The organization of a new club may take some time and lots of work, but the rewards are priceless. More individuals joining to carry on the “service above self” ideals of Rotary is how Rotary continues to grow and expand its work world-wide.

 Yours in Rotary Service,

Marcia Brod
Rotary Moments Editor

Email: brodm@yahoo.com
OPhone: 305-908-2624

Next show:

Saturday & Sunday, February 27 – 28, 2010

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘CAUSE 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:

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).

1.  Read a variety of current articles in the programs section and/or choose articles from the Archived Programs list and/or information from the Avenues of Service pages. You will be required to answer questions. There is space on the makeup request form for up to three articles to be reviewed, however you will need to read more than three to meet your 30 minute visit obligation.

2.  At the end of your 30 minute visit, click on Make-up Request Form from the drop-down menu at the top of the page OR the bottom of each make-up program.

3.  Read the Makeup Request Form carefully, and follow instructions. The form will appear once you press the SUBMIT button (one time only) and an email copy will be sent to the email address you proved. This can be forwarded to your club secretary so your attendance records are properly updated.

Rotarians can also designate eClub One as their home club.

Members in eClub One are usually experienced Rotarians who are unable to belong to a traditional club because they reside in a remote location or they are engaged in a demanding travel schedule. Those applying for membership in eClub One must provide an endorsement from their current District Governor, current Rotary club President, along with letters of reference from two Rotarian colleagues of their current club..

eClub One has standard requirements for memberships, including charges for dues and administrative fees. Participants also must be willing to take part regularly in the Rotary eClub One community by taking on tasks and responsibilities. Members are required to also have regular access to the Internet and be willing to acquire the necessary skills to participate in the activities of Rotary eClub One.

Rotary and eClub One are on the cutting edge of the technology age. How this evolves will only be determined by periodic evaluation and the involvement of its members. For today, however, it is an outstanding tool for Rotarians to makeup missed meetings and keep in touch with Rotary happenings throughout the world.

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

2009-10 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Reverend Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

President Elect:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Vice President:  Bill Enright
yukonbill@bellsouth.net

Secretary:  Brett Trembly  

b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Fabio Fernandez   

fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net

Club Board of Directors:

Ellen Book, Ed Fischer, Roy Gonas, Linda Kaplan, Mike Mills, Diana Phillips, Don Streaker, Donna Gaines, Felipe Vidal

Club Foundation Board of Directors:

Pansy Graham, Bill Enright, Doreen Reitnauer, Brett Trembly, Don Streaker, Fabio Fernandez, Treasurer Artfest, Linda Kaplan, Diana Phillips, Ellen Book

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.ri6990.org / 305-860-8060

District Governor Lee Phares & Eliju Phares District Foundation Chair

World Organization:
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 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.

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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

Today’s originally schedule speaker had to cancel due to her daughter’s illness so

Past District Governor Roy Gonas

Maurice Gusman Concert Hall
University of Miami Frost School of Music
1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL
305-284-2438

filled in and talked about an upcoming Rotary event for March 10, 2010, especially designed to raise funds for The Rotary Foundation (TRF). The event is being spearheaded by Coral Gables Rotary Club’s President-Elect and will feature concert performances by yet-to-be-named artists and co-hosted by the University of Miami’s School of music, will take place at UM’s Gusman Hall. Tickets will be $45.00 with 100% of the proceeds to be split – percentages yet to be determined -- by The Rotary Foundation and Festival Miami. For more information you can contact Festival Miami at <www.festivalmiami.org> or by phone at: 305-284-4940, which is the School of Music’s phone.

Festival Miami, the annual music festival that opens the South Florida arts season, provides superior and diverse musical programming each year, while expanding academic opportunities and cultural enrichment to all of South Florida and its visitors. It’s a musical experience no one should miss.

The 2009 season is scheduled to commence on October 2 and conclude on October 30. Dean Berg’s vision for the 26th season of Festival Miami presents 20 concerts over a four-week period. Each concert will fall under one of the four unique themes, which include: “Great Performances,” “Jazz and Beyond,” “Creative American Music,” and “Music of the Americas.."

As Roy’s talk was brief,

President Pansy read the speech delivered by RI President Kenney that was delivered at the International Convention.

Highlights of the speech included a reminder that Rotary has delivered over a century of successful service and that Rotarians should be confident in knowing that, “ . . . generation after generation of  Rotarians will bring hope to those in need and peace to a world full of conflict.” 

President Kenny also reminded Rotarians that we are all a link in the Rotary Chain of service and quoted Mahatma Ghandi who said, “The future depends on what we do in the present.” And therefore every Rotarian should be mindful of this year’s theme: The future of Rotary is in your hands. President Kenny then went on to remind everyone of Rotary’s goals:

1) Eradicating Polio;

2) advancing the recognition and public image of Rotary to help attract new Rotarians;

 3) Increasing Rotary’s capacity to provide service with every Rotarian volunteering more time, talent and enthusiasm along the four Avenues of Service;

 4) Expanding membership globally in both numbers and quality;

5) Emphasizing Rotary’s unique vocational service commitment to other service and humanitarian organizations;

6) optimizing Rotary’s leadership talents from within;

and

7) fully implementing Rotary’s strategic planning process to ensure continuity in annual leadership transitions at the Club, District, and International levels.