Soundings (10/16/12)
Posted by G. Stowe Talbot
on Oct 16, 2012
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Flag Salute & Invocation by Terry Myers
Visiting Rotarians: Rollo Van Slyke , Julie Johansen, Dale Holt, Ken and Ruth Grabeau.
Guests: None
Announcements
• Next fellowship event will be Wednesday night, Oct 24, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at MBT, and dinner at Table restaurant at 5:30pm (pay for your own dinner). Eddie will have you MBT ticket at the dinner - they are $45 each.
• Grape & Gourmet preparations. The event is coming up soon on be Sunday night Nov. 4th. Please buy tickets from Mike Werner. Also see our Facebook site. Tonja Myers still needs auction items. Barry and Henry Lee talked about the "pre-order" wine list which was handed out today, very discounted prices, fill out your order, the deadline is NEXT TUESDAY. There will be a wine store at the event (upstairs this year), also there will be a pre-order wine list (this will be an important part of the event for the wineries). Chuck still needs a few more people to volunteer for the wine shop.
Visiting Rotarians: Rollo Van Slyke , Julie Johansen, Dale Holt, Ken and Ruth Grabeau.
Guests: None
Announcements
• Next fellowship event will be Wednesday night, Oct 24, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at MBT, and dinner at Table restaurant at 5:30pm (pay for your own dinner). Eddie will have you MBT ticket at the dinner - they are $45 each.
• Grape & Gourmet preparations. The event is coming up soon on be Sunday night Nov. 4th. Please buy tickets from Mike Werner. Also see our Facebook site. Tonja Myers still needs auction items. Barry and Henry Lee talked about the "pre-order" wine list which was handed out today, very discounted prices, fill out your order, the deadline is NEXT TUESDAY. There will be a wine store at the event (upstairs this year), also there will be a pre-order wine list (this will be an important part of the event for the wineries). Chuck still needs a few more people to volunteer for the wine shop.
Bucks in the Bay
• Dale Holt, on behalf of his club (Whatcom North), put in a plug for his club's "FEED THE NEED" community food drive;
• Barry Kramer $101 for a wedding anniversary with Ann, heading to AZ this weekend, very humbled to have received service award from the District Governor last week;
• Gordon Plume daughter completed first marathon, also he visited a recent Seattle project;
• Anna was in La Joya to see granddaughter, then went to MX;
• Frank Chmelik went to a bat mitzvah, then to LA and saw an interesting magic show;
• Scot $ for Food Bank;
• Bob Tull also grateful to Barry Kramer for his G&G contribution to the club;
• Dennis Archer done with filing tax returns for the year!
• Aaron $ for food bank, recently took 4-year-old daughter to Katie's Cupcakes (ooops, all sold out! maybe all the hype from their Cupcake Wars win?);
• Tim Krell's dad was in town from Nebraska to see his grandkids;
• Eddie Hansen for Seahawks game last weekend;
Sergeant at Arms by Mike Kirkland Fines for Stan, Frank, Bill Unrein, John Barry, Tony and Harte for their ties, Glen, Paul & Frank because men with less hair are considered more powerful, and Barry.
Program
Bob Moles introduced Ken and Ruth Grabeau (past District Dov. in '97-98). Since then, he's been very busy with Rotary both at local and international level. They traveled to Russia and S. America multiple times for Rotary. Ken also served at Pure Water for the World. Bob says his "Rotary moment" came with a conversation with Ken in Portugal ten years ago. Ken is owner of Monarch Instrument, lives in New Hampshire, he and Ruth have two kids and four grandkids. Ken has spent a lot of time helping Russia east of Ural mountains form its own District (separate from Alaska).
Coming changes to Rotary we can expect:
1. Future Vision of Rotary; which will result in reorganization of RI and the districts. For example, for grants the new minimum size will be $15K. There will be a focus on those grant projects that will be self-sustaining. New club "certification" will be required, and this process will be challenging. But as a result, the bureaucracy should be less, and the processes simpler.
2. Membership; it has been stable (or stuck) at the 1.2M mark. 200K members join each year, but same number leave. We do not have a recruitment problem, we have a retention problem. Goal to reach 1.3M in coming years.
3. Re-branding Rotary; they won't touch the logo (Rotary wheel), but perhaps develop a new understanding of our legacy (besides polio)? Bringing world peace through service.
Ken suggested a new four-way test?
▪ Is it fun?
▪ Can we get away with it?
▪ Will anyone find out?
▪ Will it cost us anything?
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot
• Dale Holt, on behalf of his club (Whatcom North), put in a plug for his club's "FEED THE NEED" community food drive;
• Barry Kramer $101 for a wedding anniversary with Ann, heading to AZ this weekend, very humbled to have received service award from the District Governor last week;
• Gordon Plume daughter completed first marathon, also he visited a recent Seattle project;
• Anna was in La Joya to see granddaughter, then went to MX;
• Frank Chmelik went to a bat mitzvah, then to LA and saw an interesting magic show;
• Scot $ for Food Bank;
• Bob Tull also grateful to Barry Kramer for his G&G contribution to the club;
• Dennis Archer done with filing tax returns for the year!
• Aaron $ for food bank, recently took 4-year-old daughter to Katie's Cupcakes (ooops, all sold out! maybe all the hype from their Cupcake Wars win?);
• Tim Krell's dad was in town from Nebraska to see his grandkids;
• Eddie Hansen for Seahawks game last weekend;
Sergeant at Arms by Mike Kirkland Fines for Stan, Frank, Bill Unrein, John Barry, Tony and Harte for their ties, Glen, Paul & Frank because men with less hair are considered more powerful, and Barry.
Program
Bob Moles introduced Ken and Ruth Grabeau (past District Dov. in '97-98). Since then, he's been very busy with Rotary both at local and international level. They traveled to Russia and S. America multiple times for Rotary. Ken also served at Pure Water for the World. Bob says his "Rotary moment" came with a conversation with Ken in Portugal ten years ago. Ken is owner of Monarch Instrument, lives in New Hampshire, he and Ruth have two kids and four grandkids. Ken has spent a lot of time helping Russia east of Ural mountains form its own District (separate from Alaska).
Coming changes to Rotary we can expect:
1. Future Vision of Rotary; which will result in reorganization of RI and the districts. For example, for grants the new minimum size will be $15K. There will be a focus on those grant projects that will be self-sustaining. New club "certification" will be required, and this process will be challenging. But as a result, the bureaucracy should be less, and the processes simpler.
2. Membership; it has been stable (or stuck) at the 1.2M mark. 200K members join each year, but same number leave. We do not have a recruitment problem, we have a retention problem. Goal to reach 1.3M in coming years.
3. Re-branding Rotary; they won't touch the logo (Rotary wheel), but perhaps develop a new understanding of our legacy (besides polio)? Bringing world peace through service.
Ken suggested a new four-way test?
▪ Is it fun?
▪ Can we get away with it?
▪ Will anyone find out?
▪ Will it cost us anything?
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot