Rotary District 7620 Newsletter
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4 Rotary DR. GEETHA JAYARAM INSTALLED District 7620 AS ROTARY DISTRICT GOVERNOR By Bob Nelson, Newsletter Editor new energy and committment along with a blending of cultures. 2020-21 Newsletter It was a bright, sunny and very warm, Governor Jimmie Gorski who has been Sunday afternoon experiencing health July 2021 for 130 Rotarians challenges provided a and guests to finally written statement that INSIDE THIS ISSUE: assemble in-person was shared by Master District Governor’s Installation 1 at Kings Contrivance of Ceremonies Nancy in Columbia to Upcoming Events 2 Mason. Past President celebrate the Strategic Plan: 4 M’s 2 Andy Colevas from the installation of Dr. Membership: #1 Priority 3 Upper Marlboro Rotary Geetha Jayaram Jason Browne Seminar 4 Club presented the as our 2021-2022 “Home Club Banner” Copperbelt Malaria Project 4 Rotary District to the President of the Illuminating Rotary 5 7620 Governor. [Above L-R] DGN Delores Edwards Harding, DG Howard West Rotary Rotary Ride Poker Run 6 The invocation was Geetha Jayaram, RI Director Peter Kyle and DGE Club Khalid Abedin. given by Jim Narron Sean McAllster [Below L-R] MC Nancy Mason, Organization of American States 7 Governor Geetha shared from the Howard Governor Geetha Jayaram and her husband PDG Gaithersburg Rotary Service 7 Jay Kumar. her Rotary history West Rotary Club, Interact Club News 8 going back to being a followed by the Columbia Town Center Service 9 member of a Rotaract Pledge of Allegiance. Club in India where her Juneteenth Project in DC 10 Rotary International husband-to-be was Rotaract Club News 10 Director Peter Kyle the President. PDG Jay Rotary Leadership Month 11 expressed the Kumar and Governor Interact Club News 12 sentiments of so Geetha are the first many about how Environment Committee 13 couple in District 7620 privileged we are Disaster Aid for India 14 [Below L-R] Past President Andy Colevas from to have both served as to have such a Education Resource 15 the Upper Marlboro Rotary Club presented District Governors (PDG well-qualifed and the “Home Club Banner” to the President of Membership Star 16 Jay served in 2010-2011). dedicated Governor the Howard West Rotary Club Khalid Abedin Their son Nikhil Jayaram Quote of the Month 16 to serve us in the gave remarks via Zoom 2021-2022 Rotary from Los Angeles where year with the RI he is a screenwriter in the theme “Serve to entertainment industry. Change Lives.” Attending were many Governor Geetha past Governors and was attired in a 2021-22 leadership team traditional Indian sari members. Governor and the lighting of a Geetha shared her lamp by the DG, DGE strategic plan, the four M’s and DGN reflected that follow on page 2. = UPCOMING GOVERNOR GEETHA JAYARAM SHARES EVENTS HER STRATEGIC PLAN: THE FOUR M’S and high school dropouts; promote self reliance. Goal is to deliver 100 scholarships in the year to girls and women Magnify Visibility and Influence of Rotary • Include climate change and environmental protection (new area of Membership focus) August 7 1pm to 6pm • Include publicity on Global and “Rotary Crabs to Go” • Each one reach one each year (can Peace Scholars; identify a news source Navy-Marine Corps Memorial increase membership by at least 1000 and media support in each area with Stadium, Annapolis persons in the District) simultaneous broadcasting of all efforts • Increase diversity and community via digital marketing September 28 to October 3, representation; increase women in Rotary; 2021 Leadership Seminar & each woman brings in one more; currently • Disaster planning network and liaisons Summit women are slightly more than half of men in each Area with medical teams Naples Grande Beach Resort • Increase Eclubs, Satellite clubs, passport • Rotary Innovation lab for new ideas for each goal of strategic plan for Rotaractors November 21 6pm to 9pm clubs, clubs with causes, include youth and early career professionals Members’ and Clubs’ and Rotaractors in all efforts Recognition Foundation Dinner Maternal and Child Health • News in each Area should have a Rotary Turf Valley Resort and day simultaneously advertised in all Conference Center, Ellicott City • Polio eradication efforts; education on counties - not just our newsletter handwashing, water and sanitation April 29 to May 1, 2022 • TV and digital marketing, social media • Grants for wellbeing and support Rotary District Conference marketing of mothers and children; economic Turf Valley Resort and wellbeing such as microlending, women Modernize Rotary Conference Center, Ellicott City support networks; preventing domestic Support your stellar interactors and violence June 4-8, 2022 Rotaractors to submit ideas to the Rotary Rotary International Convention • Childhood and youth hunger; promote Innovation Lab by August 1, 2021; ideas to Houston, TX literacy for women in low income areas be rolled out to the entire District 2 | ILLUMINATOR | JULY 2021 [Above, L-R] District Governor Rich Glover initiated Brock Messenger as the newest member of the Crofton Rotary alongside incoming President James MEMBERSHIP: OUR #1 INTERNAL PRIORITY Chris Jones & Patrick Eakes, Rotary just walked in. They’d heard about it on Zone 33 Innovative Club Advocates MEMBERSHIP social media or from a friend. Everything that we do in Rotary starts SUCCESS STORY It was obvious that we had tapped into with a member. We are a Membership people who were already volunteering Organization that provides service to By Raymond Streib, District 7620 in their community and saw the benefits Innovative Clubs Chair our communities, local and global. Rotary could add. Our Rotary Foundation is an essential If Andrew Had Known Better...none of I’ve been a Rotarian since 1996, and in tool, but it is our members that fund this would have happened. a District position since 2018. My years it and utilize it to do good in the Andrew is the current president of training told me, simply based on world. But without our members, of Morgantown North Rotary, in population, this wouldn’t work. The Rotary Foundation would not Morgantown, WV. Last June he and exist. Rotary’s Public Image (Brand Andrew has been in Rotary since 2018 I were meeting in a picnic pavilion at Awareness) is critical for us to publicize with little training, but he knew his Mason Dixon Park near his house when the magnificent work that we do, and community. he said, “Why couldn’t we start a Rotary it also serves to attract others to join Club out here?” He knew there were strong, caring us in our humanitarian endeavors. But families with deep roots; he saw the again, it’s our members that do the “Out here” was where he was born and volunteer hours they gave to their amazing work. How could the world raised on a six-hundred-acre farm. “Out schools and community projects; and he have ever brought Polio to its knees here” was a thirty mile, east-west stretch knew there were no other active service without our MEMBERS? of road in rural West Virginia with only organizations. one significant municipality – Blacksville. All of this to say that Membership Blacksville logged in at 171 people in the We now have thirteen applications is our NUMBER ONE INTERNAL 2010 census so “significant” is relative. for the Mason Dixon Rotary satellite PRIORITY! And based on that, we club, and more are on the way. We must demonstrate that increasing I replied that I thought we could, when have educators, a lawyer, a state membership is our number one I was really thinking there were too few representative, an agricultural priority by also making it the top people stretched over too big an area. economist, bankers, and business article in our monthly district But I rolled with it. owners. We’re rolling. newsletters. We asked the new breed of District Governors to not only talk Our goal was a Satellite Club under But here’s one more thing Andrew didn’t the talk but also walk the walk and Morgantown Rotary because they had know -- as president of one club, he prominently place membership articles worked with Clay Battelle High School in shouldn’t work so hard to add members in the District’s newsletter. If we do Blacksville for over a decade. Their board to the rolls of another club. not, our clubs will think that we speak gave the go-ahead, so we joined forces In the 1980’s and 90’s, that other club, about membership as a top priority, to make a list of potential members. Morgantown Rotary, very impressively but when we publish our newsletter, There were eight prospects at our first launched three new Rotary Clubs in it says something completely different meeting in April. One person offered Morgantown, including the club Andrew when a membership article is not front to be chair and another took over social and I belong to. And they’ll soon be the and center. media. official sponsoring club of Mason Dixon Rotary. That’s a record to be proud of. Will you take us up on this challenge? In May, we again had eight people, three We all know that anytime a Rotarian is from the first meeting and five new ones. Maybe it’s time to “unlearn” a few things, asked to do something, the answer is We ask them to start discussing potential shed our preconceived ideas, and rise always “YES”! Thank you in advance for projects and, from that point on, the above our club cultures to grasp the an outstanding Rotary year in 2021-22 room was on fire. I passed out eight tremendous potential of Rotary’s future. as we Serve to Change Lives by applications and got eight applications For more information contact Raymond bringing in more Rotarians to help us back! accomplish this.