Club Announcements - RM 2008-2009

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Rotary Moment for October 28, 2008 Presented by Club Service Director Wulff Reinhold Youth Exchange Youth Exchange is one of the most popular programs to promote international understanding and develop lifelong friendships. It began in 1927 with the Rotary Club of Nice, France. Exchanges in Europe continued until World War II and resumed after the war in 1946. In 1939, an extensive Youth Exchange was created between California and Latin America. Since then, the program has expanded around the world. In recent years, more than 7,000 young people have participated annually in Rotary club- and district-sponsored exchange programs.   The values of Youth Exchange are experienced not only by the high-school-age students involved but also by the host families, sponsoring clubs, receiving high schools, and the entire community. Youth Exchange participants usually provide their fellow students in their host schools with excellent opportunities to learn about customs, languages, traditions, and family life in another country.   Youth Exchange offers young people interesting opportunities and rich experiences to see another part of the world. Students usually spend a full academic year abroad, although some clubs and districts sponsor short-term exchanges of several weeks or months.   Youth Exchange is a highly recommended program for all Rotary clubs as a practical activity for the enhancement of international understanding and goodwill.

Rotary Moment for July 8, 2008 Presented by Club Service Director Wulff Reinhold     The Philosopy of Rotary as presented by Chesley R. Perry, 1st Secretary of Rotary, Jan 1912     The primary purpose of a Rotary Club is the promotion of the business interests of its members.  The methods by which this purpose is accomplished are:  1st. By the development of an intimate personal acquaintanceship among all its members.  2nd. By the encouragement of the practice of full and frank publicity in the club by the members regarding their respective lines of business.  3rd. By the cultivation of the practice of doing for "the other fellow" as we would have him do for us, believing that "as we unselfishly enable others to succeed, we ourselves make progress toward success."  The second purpose of a Rotary Club is the mutual education of its members in a knowledge of callings and occupations other than the man's own line of business, thereby making each one a better businessman.    The third purpose of a Rotary Club is the enlightenment of its members by their consideration of questions pertaining to public affairs or the welfare of the community and the nation, thereby making, each one a better citizen.    The motto and injunction of Rotary is twofold:  Let the light of your business so shine that all men may know thereof, and  As you would that others should do unto you do you even so unto them.  The foregoing, I believe, is the general idea of Rotarianism.