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The Uptown Weekly Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dallas-Uptown, TX USA the exclusively inclusive Rotary club Rotary Year: July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012 January 5, 2012 Hully and Mo Restaurant and Tap Room 2800 Routh, Suite 115 Dallas, Texas 75201 214-954-0203 www.hullyandmo.com Thursdays from 11:45am -1:00pm

RI President Bannerjee 2011-2012

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Special thanks to the following… Jim Gatewood for presenting the program today. Club President Alicia Slay for presenting the previous program.

Previous Program, Thursday, December 29, 2011 Program: Informal Speaker: Chinese Wine Exchange Party!!!

Today’s Program, Thursday, January 5, 2012 Program: Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parkers' Baby Daughter Speaker: Jim Gatewood Historian, Author, & Speaker 972-278-5763 [email protected] www.dcarb.com

FUTURE PROGRAMS Date: 1/12/2012 Program: Start Your New Year Off Right: How Fitness Can Improve Your Business Speaker: Ellen Miller Fitness Practitioner/Personal Trainer IsoBreathing 972-672-5381 [email protected] www.isobreathing.com

Date: 1/12/2012 Event: Board Meeting Immediately Following the Club Meeting Speaker: Club President Alicia Slay [email protected]

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This section is for health and personal concerns that you would like to share with the club. Please also feel free to email Rev. Gregg Smith with any personal and confidential concerns. [email protected]

 Rev Gregg Smith-prayers for healing and strength.  Leslie Clay and her family

Birthday & Anniversary Report Date Range: January 1 to January 31

Birthdays Member Name Birthday Nye, Daniel January 16 Smith, Gregg January 26 Colladay, Steve January 27

Rotary Scholar aims to link small farmers to international food markets By Ryan Hyland - Rotary International News -- 4 January 2012

Alex Dalley, a Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholar, visits a small vegetable farm in East Timor. Dalley created business relationships between farmers in East Timor and a large supermarket chain. Photo courtesy of Toby Gibson Alex Dalley believes that impoverished communities in developing countries can sustain economic and social growth if small farmers are connected to global agricultural supply chains. Dalley, a Rotary Scholar from Australia, is earning his master's degree in business administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. His scholarship, funded by a Rotary Foundation Global Grant , supports Rotary's economic and community development area of focus . "My studies have formalized my business skills, which will enable me to build better businesses that link small farmers to local and global food supply chains," says Dalley, whose scholarship is sponsored by districts 9600 (part of Queensland, Australia; Papua New Guinea; and Solomon Islands) and 1600 (The Netherlands). "The program has given me a fantastic opportunity to practice leadership skills, further preparing me for my professional role." Reducing poverty Dalley says the resurgence of private-sector interest in small-farm agriculture will help lower poverty levels in emerging markets. "The function of economic and community development has always been a public-sector issue. [But] the private sector and big businesses are beginning to take over," he says. "If you can establish a modern, sustainable distribution and supply chain between small farmers and various food markets, governments will be more inclined to improve roads, power, and infrastructure." Before his scholarship, Dalley worked as an agribusiness adviser on private-sector development programs in East Timor funded by USAID and AusAID, identifying and developing market opportunities for small farmers. His most rewarding project, he says, was creating a small vegetable distribution business within a Singaporean supermarket chain called Kmanek, which has a large presence in East Timor’s capital, Dili. By replacing expensive imported vegetables, the supermarket was able to buy cheaper and better-quality produce locally, he says. "The East Timor experience opened my eyes to the power supermarkets have in our food supply chains," says Dalley. "In a small country like East Timor, you really get a sense of how a supermarket, which controls access to the consumer, can be a positive force for change." Student of the year After he graduates, Dalley, who won the 2011 Student of the Year Award from the Association of MBAs, hopes to work with large global agricultural retailers to help build relationships with small farmers in developing countries. Dalley had originally applied for an Ambassadorial Scholarship, before District 9600 began participating in the pilot of the Future Vision Plan , a new grant-funding structure for the Foundation. Shaughn Forbes, chair of the district’s Rotary Foundation Scholars subcommittee, says Dalley was very patient throughout the process. "It was clear from the beginning that Alex was an outstanding candidate, regardless of the program he was applying for." Forbes says that with the cost of tuition increasing at many universities, ensuring the success of the Foundation’s new global grant funding model is essential. "One of the benefits of the [grant] is that the scholar can receive more funds than the minimum amount of US$30,000," she says, referring to the fact that the scholarship amount is based on the district's financial resources and the student’s needs. "Additionally, I'm very supportive of having the scholars' education be aligned with the Foundation’s six areas of focus."

The Rotarian of the week is: Gregory Larrick Name: Gregory Larrick Classification: Banking Name of Business: Bank of America Your Title: Senior Vice President (retired) Member‘s Birthday-Month and Day: 26-Jul Education and Degrees Earned: Virginia Tech: BS-Industrial Engineering, 1972; MBA, 1974 Famous Person You Would Like to Meet: Michael Jordan Favorite Kind of Pen and Pen Color: Mont Blanc, black Hobbies: Golf, football, basketball Other Civic Organizations: Highland Park United Methodist Church Children’s Names: Molly and Caroline Pets-Names, # of, Breed Name: Precious, Gracie, & Annabell Favorite Vacation Spot(s): San Francisco & Cancun Favorite Music Genre: Soul, oldies but goodies What you like best about Rotary: helping people Proudest Moment: raising my two daughters Favorite Sports: football Favorite Restaurants: Campisi's, The Palm, and Celebration Email: [email protected]