My Goals For 2009/10
My 2009-2010 Rotary Presidential Goals
The Rotary International theme for this year is, “THE FUTURE OF ROTARY IS IN YOUR HANDS”.
Ultimately, the future of the Rotary Club of Dundas is collectively in our hands. My goals for this year reflect this concept. I have laid out three goals that I ask your help in accomplishing in this upcoming Rotary year.
1. WALK IN FELLOWSHIP:
Initiate one fellowship activity each month allowing us to fellowship outside our regular weekly meetings.
We already have our first two fellowship activities for August and September being planned with thanks to Trevor Garwood-Jones and Kevin Beagle.
2. BE MINDFUL AND ACTIVE IN GROWING OUR MEMBERSHIP:
Implement a monthly ‘Share Rotary’ philosophy and encourage each member to invite someone different to our Rotary meetings each month. Collectively, by sharing Rotary in this way, we can be actively sharing Rotary with ~40 new people each month. Our RI and District Governor’s goals for increasing club membership by a net of two members/club will easily be met through our commitment to ‘Share Rotary’.
For example, the month of July is ‘friend month’. I would ask that your join me and our fellow club members to ‘Share Rotary’ with one friend by inviting them to one meeting this month.
3. EXPERIENCE A WEEKLY REMINDER OF WHY WE ARE ROTARIANS allowing us to:
A. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. How? Through sharing about our community and international needs and our ongoing efforts to meet those needs; through informing our club about both RI’s and our own club’s projects and objectives. Humanitarian and polio survivor Mia Farrow, a guest speaker at the RI Convention in Birmingham, truly said it best: “With knowledge, comes responsibility”. It is through our weekly meetings that we will then choose to be informed, so that then we can act.
B. FEEL A SENSE OF URGENCY. How? Through sustaining our current programs and creating new initiatives to meet the needs of our community and world – like our ongoing efforts to bring both knowledge and funds for the eradication of Polio worldwide.
C. BE PASSIONATE. How? By remembering why you became a Rotarian; or more importantly by remembering when you truly became a Rotarian and when you embodied the Rotary motto of Service Above Self and The Four Way Test.
My passion is youth. We as a Rotary Club have always supported young people through our Rotary led programs, and through our efforts to support the Routes Youth Centre. Rotary has helped foster my passion for young people allowing me to serve above self.
It was Alan Gregson who approached me to chair our Youth Programs and committees in my first year as a member of this club.
Although we no longer have an Interact Program running at one of the local high schools, our club has continued to recognized community leaders and has sponsored more than a dozen young people to attend various Rotary leadership programs including Slapshot, Adventures in Citizenship, and RLYA. Thie and I hosted Matheus, our Brazilian International Exchange student for more than half of his year- long visit that same year.
More recently, it was brought to my attention that the Dundas Routes Youth Centre, under the leadership of Ashley Greenwood and guidance of a board of directors made up of several of our Rotary Club’s members, is struggling to meet its budget despite the incredible need and work being done by Routes in our community.
One way we can support Routes today is through an increased financial commitment in this year’s budget. In a few weeks at our Club Assembly we’ll share more about how we can make this happen. The challenge will be however to do more.
The young people of our community and our world are something that I am passionate about. My challenge to you, fellow Rotarians, is simply this: find out what you are passionate about – and allow that passion to fuel what it is that you do, and how you do it.
Our new Rotary clock is ticking, so once again fellow Rotarians let me remind you that ... The future of Rotary, and the future of the Rotary Club of Dundas is in OUR Hands.
As your new club president I ask for your hands to join with mine to make these goals – and more – happen in this Rotary year.
My goals for 2008/9
To My Fellow Rotarians & My family, it is a great honor standing up here today. I can remember my first drive up that long rd here for my first meeting, I was so nervous wondering if I would fit in and would be able to become a member. I guess I fit in.
I think Dave McLennan would be very proud of me today and I thank him for bringing me into the fold.
Actually I think I am the 1st woman ever to be a Queen and a President all at the same time.
Being the 3rd woman president of this club is also an honor in itself.
This year is a very special time for our Rotary club, being that it is our 60th Anniversary and will prove to be a year of celebrating.
My Quests are simple but challenging, bring humor to the meetings, be realistic on goals, keep our club visible to the community, and above all have a fun year.
My goals this year are to present to the community a clock to commemorate our 60th Anniversary in the Dundas Driving park.
Reviewing the signs on the boards coming into Dundas, with the dates for our lobster fest and pancake breakfast so its there 365 days a year.
With help of a committee I would like to continue on with an undated 10-year presidents Book.
To do our share, to help to raise funds to give to the morning club for the ice pad since we will all benefit from it one way or another. Our goals will reflect on the Theme make dreams real.
I would like us to bring in 2 new members this year and by choosing them well, we need them to want stay and want them to come weekly. They need to feel that they are needed and welcomed, as I have felt being here. Clubs are clubs but I feel we are not just a club we are a family and when one of us gets sick or hurt we all feel it.
We need to keep our ideas fresh & always changing if we have the same old thing, we get boring and it isn't fun any more. This will help in maintaining our great attendance that we have been keepin.
What won't change are the hr long board meetings. Same location and same time.
In and out and resolve the problems pass the bills that keep us going.
We will continue to help keep the Routes Centre alive and visible here in Dundas.
And also we will continue each year with the Environment Improvement award at the Sir William Osier School.
And finally we will continue with the Entertainment books, Lobserfest, Pancake breakfast, Travel log and our annual Guess who's coming to dinner with a join effort from the Morning club.
I also have one thing I would like to give Keith my husband if he could come up just so he doesn't feel left out this year I would like to present you with the Present's spouse pin.
Thank you.
So if there is nothing more for the good of rotary this meeting is adjourned.