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The Weekly Smile Rotary Club of Sarasota
Vol. 2 No. 1, June 18, 2014 Wednesday at 12:00pm at Marina Jack Restaurant • Chartered April 12, 1926 • Member District 6960 www.rotaryclubofsarasota.com
EVENTS THIS MEETING Rotary Club of Sarasota's Foundation Jim Henry, President, Charlotte Ryan, V. President, and Ron Rayevich, Installation Banquet Mark you calendars Treasurer, will update the club on the Rotary Club of Sarasota's local Foundation June 28 at The Field Club, 1400 Field including its search for the "Big Idea", the development the Foundation's logo and tag Road. 6:00 p.m. line, and its financial situation, including its endowment. Three Foundation board No meeting July 2. members will also be elected. We thank all of our club members for their continued support.
Evening on Longboat Key NEXT MEETING Patrick Dorsey, Publisher, Herald-Tribune Media Rotary Club of Longboat Key (Provisional) Group, the largest newspaper in the Halifax Media Group, meets 5:15 Wednesdays at the Center, in The www.heraldtribune.com and multiple other websites and niche Centre Shops through June. Pizza served, publications. Pat received his bachelor’s degree in accounting beverages available, $10 donation requested. from Old Dominion University and went on to become a certified Speakers: Liz Yerkes, Massage Therapist, 6/18; public accountant in Virginia. He began his career in publishing Club Assembly 6/25 (ideas needed). We sponsor as internal auditor with Gannett in 1993 at its corporate offices this nascent Club; let's go there and help it in Virginia, then served as controller for Tucson Newspapers, survive the summer. Contact Inc., in Tucson, AZ; director of finance for Army Times [email protected], 941-487-7328 Publishing and group controller for Gannett Offset in Springfield, VA; director of finance of FLORIDA TODAY and group controller of the Gannett South newspaper group in Melbourne, FL. In 2012, he came to the Gulf Coast from Tallahassee where REGULAR SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES he served as president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat since 2005. Pat sits on the boards of the United Way Suncoast - Sarasota Area, the Golf: Bent Tree, Wednesdays at 2:20 & 2:28. Community Foundation of Sarasota County, The Greater Sarasota Chamber of E-mail [email protected] by noon Tuesday Commerce and EDC Sarasota County. He and his wife, Kecia, have two sons and a if you want to play. daughter: Connor, Griffin and Makenna. After Golf Dinner and Drinks: Wednesdays at 6:30 pm Miller’s Sarasota Ale House, 3800 LAST MEETING Ryan Popovich and Chris Spano, Kenny Drive (Bee Ridge and Cattleman). Sign Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sarasota Office. We learned that we can up at Lunch or email [email protected] now get both season tickets and group tickets (10 or more) right here in Sarasota to before 6 pm. Non-golfers welcome. see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football. Ryan and Chris have just opened an Breakfast: Saturdays 8:30 am at Panera Bread, office in downtown Sarasota serving Sarasota and Manatee Counties for the Bucs. I know everyone is looking forward to great new winning season with new players and 41 & Bahia Vista new coaches. Our club members had plenty of suggestions on how to improve
the football experience at the Tampa stadium, such as improved bus transportation to Tampa, and better group rates. However, we did learn that ticket prices could be as Dining for Women: low as $30 and as high as $400 (for excellent club seats) and that group rates really There will be no Dining for Women do make a difference. Ron Rayevich meetings in July or August. Meetings will begin September 16th, and will be on the 3rd TUESDAY of each month. WHO AM I? Fascinated by the different types of metals, molding processes, castings and learning the Bessemer Process during Saturday trips to the foundry where father worked, this junior high- aged Rotarian was all set to run a foundry one day… until discovering an even more captivating subject: the opposite sex. (Answer will be revealed at the end of this Wednesday’s lunch meeting.) GUATAMALA PROJECT
Our club is undertaking a project to raise funds for clean, enclosed stoves for homes in Santa Eulalia, Guatemala. These will replace the current indoor open, wood burning, fires currently used for cooking that create toxic fumes. Three members from our club will travel to Guatemala at the end of August and would like to take school supplies for the local school. For more information, contact Lynn Roberts, one of our new members.
There will be a box as you enter our meeting room for your donations. The needed supplies are:
Pencils, standard wooden Pens Crayons Pen cases Rulers with metric markings Children’s books in Spanish Fine Point Pentel Markers
Pencil Sharpeners
I maintain a BLOG called Retention Central which has followers from all over the Rotary world. One recently asked me "What is the most memorable Rotary-inspired experience that has happened to you since you joined the Rotary Club of Sarasota?" I had to dig deep for a response.
I have had many memorable Rotary experiences: Group Study Exchange team leader to Thailand; hosting exchange students, Ambassadorial scholar, GSE team members and leaders, District Governors-Elect from around the world; club president (twice); Assistant Governor; District Governor; Nigeria dedicating wells and administering the polio vaccine; Zone 34 Rotary Coordinator. What turned out to be my most memorable experience began in 1977 when Jean and I, and our teen-age children Frank and Lynne, hosted our first exchange student - 18-year-old Mike Kohn from Germany. Because of Mike, we became known among his friends and friends of friends as welcoming Sarasota hosts for a chance to catch some warm beach time before returning to Germany. Over the years, we hosted many. About ten years after we hosted Mike, two fräuleins stopped over for three days of sun and fun. About four years later, one of them became our Blessing-in-Law and ultimately mother of our bilingual grandchildren. Our most memorable Rotary experience lives on. Jim and Jean Henry
What would be your response?