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Today's Events:

President Pansy Graham presiding

We welcome all our visitors…

Armando Julio Bettencourt from the

Rotary Club OF Curitiiba, Parane-Brasil

&

Bob Barker

We’re happy because…

~All my alma maters are ranked on the top especially University of California at Berkeley - Peter

~I recently ran into a high school friend spotting him on the History Channel- Charles

~Visited Otto in North Carolina and watched the trees grow - Fabio

~Going to New Orleans to celebrate his wife’s aunt’s 90th birthday - Bob

~I visited the Bay area for 11 days - Wendy

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   ·      Last Tuesday Pansy learned that her Mom was not doing well and left for Jamaica mid afternoon on Wednesday. She was at her side when she died on Thursday night. Her funeral will be on Saturday Sept. 26th.   Our most heartfelt sympathy goes to her family during this sad time…

·       Raquel’s mother fell and was hospitalized.

We wish her a speedy recovery!

A farewell to two of our own… 

·       Eileen A. Maastricht

“A lot of things have happened over the last couple of months.  Most significantly, I got engaged, and I recently moved to Coral Springs.  As such, I will not be joining the Rotary Club of South Miami.  I am winding up my Coral Gables business.” 

·       Bill Enright

Bill is working in Homestead so he has resigned from RCSM.  As our Past President and current Vice President, we wish you well and will miss your good natured camaraderie.

Come back and visit us!!!

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Dictionary Giveaway

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8:45 a.m.

Ludlum Elementary

6639 SW 74TH STREET,  SOUTH MIAMI, FL 33143

305-667-5551 Ext. 122

One hundred 3^rd Graders

COME AND SEE IT!!! 

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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.

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CRAFT TALK WITH ED FISCHER:

http://www.speakoutinc.com/

and

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-fischer/3/857/55b

Ed spent most of my career in Sales, Sales Management and Sales Training. My career spans retail, consumer electronics, land sales and insurance. Speak Out, Inc., is a Training & Development company serving as management and staff development consultants. In addition to providing Sales Training, we have solved problems for clients through programs in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills, Meeting Management, Relationship Marketing, Team-Building, Conflict Resolution and Interpersonal Relationship Skills.

Ed has been motivating and training sales reps and leaders for more than two decades, in English and in Spanish. He earned a Masters in Adult Education and Human Resource Development from Florida International University and his Bachelors Degree from Barry University. A past president of the South Miami Rotary Club and a leader in other civic groups, he is also active in veterans’ organizations and others supporting the U.S. military. Ed was an adjunct professor of Business Communication at Florida International University.

Ed Fischer’s Specialties:

Training & Development in Sales, Sales Management, Relationship Marketing, Public Speaking & Presentation Skills, Meeting Management, Team-Building, Conflict Resolution and Interpersonal Relationship Skills. We solve problems through people.

·         Florida International University

1992 — 1996

·         Barry University

BPS , Business , 1987 — 1991

Ed Fischer’s Groups:

Rotary Club of South Miami, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, American Society for training & Developemt (ASTD) Miami Chapter, Association of the US Army (AUSA) Chapter 3201, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 121, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 12 , American Legion Post 98, Jewish War Veterans Post 243, Korean War Veterans Associatiom (KWVA) Chapter 110, Veterans of Foreian Wars (VFW) Post 5718, JWV Yahoo Group

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Football Mania – John Sorgie

The call went out to SHOW HIM THE MONEY NOW!!!

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SPEAKING OF FOOTBALL: 

Rotary District 6990 

Rotary Day at Land Shark Stadium

with a tail gate party!

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 for the 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.

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

Biltmore Golf Course, Coral Gables

 $25 donation each ticket

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.

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

Programming Chair Donna Introduced today’s speaker:

Captain Bruce Williams

Salvation Army

8445 S.W. 72nd Street

MIAMI, FL 33143    

Tel: 305.270.9373

Our Raquel Hickey is a member of the board of this organization.

His parents were in the Salvation Army as commissioned officers in 1970.  He attended FL Christian School in 1993.  He’s received a BS from the U of FL in Elementary Ed and Practical Ministry. He and his wife were commissioned as Salvation Army officers in 2007.

Salvation Army was founded in 1865 in East London to reach out to the impoverished.  It was started as the East London Mission Society – to rehabilitate and bring back to the mainstream those in deep poverty.  During that period, the bars and ale houses stretched on for 10 miles. 

Yet, the Victorian age churches didn’t accept the poor without payment to attend the services.  So a new  church was established. By 1880 the work began in the Philadelphia, PA, USA.   The Sunset Core of the Salvation Army was established in Miami Dade in 1913. 

Currently there are 130 men working in the Adult Rehabilitation Center.

Four locations:

~Hialeah and Little Havana have each a Spanish speaking branch

~NE Miami has a Haitian-oriented branch

~Sunset Drive is the English speaking branch

An evangelical arm that has a mission to meet human needs.

~Housing for homeless vets, living with HIV, with three meals per day.

~Rent, utility and prescription assistance

~265 people are housed each day

~338 hot meals a day

~85 families receive grocery

~300,000 meals served annually

Provide local feeding canteens during emergency situations.

During emergencies the Miami Salvation Army calls upon resources from TX to Maryland

Salvation Army must hire seasonal workers to work as  bell ringers at 30 heavily trafficked sites in Dade County. Nov 12 - December 24.  The Salvation Army ends up having an overhead of 50% to pay salaries.

Christmas Charity

The "miracle" of Christmas is repeated over and over again through the joy of caring and sharing.The traditional red kettle is an integral part of the Christmas scene, with millions of dollars donated each year to aid needy families, seniors, and the homeless, in keeping with the spirit of the season.

“Donations provide Christmas dinners, clothing, and toys for families in need. Financial assistance also helps with basic necessities, along with seasonal aid. Families of prisoners often are included.

Volunteers distribute gifts to shut-ins in hospitals and nursing homes, and shelters are open for sit-down dinners. The Salvation Army endeavors to bring spiritual light and love to those it serves at Christmas so that the real meaning of the season is not forgotten.

Many families receive aid over a period of months after the Christmas season as well, people struggling with difficult family, emotional, or employment problems.”

We’re asking today to help us meet the need to get volunteers to ring the kettle bell during the holiday season.  The Kiwanis Club volunteers to take two hour shifts to ring the bell.  Usually prefer having the bell staffed in pairs.  There’s a minimum of 2 hours working for the kettle program. Busiest times are Fridays and Saturdays.

Our number one goal for what we do is to help people. 

President Pansy Graham with Bruce Williams. 

“Your presentation touched our hearts..we know you want to help people

to find their way.”