Monday Morning - January 29
January 28th, 2007 in Monday MorningRYLA
Group shot — Rotarians and RYLA delegates at the RYLA conference at the Trinity Center on Jan. 26-28, 2007
I just returned home from an amazing weekend with 92 young RYLA leaders. The RYLA weekend was a great success! Our young people learned leadership skills that will help them succeed in life and give back to their communities. They made life-long friends and they had fun!
RYLA delegates learn to work together as a team
RYLA Photographer Stephen Pederson has a CD of hundreds of wonderful pictures of RYLA for you to keep and to copy for the RYLArians that you sponsored this year. Send $2, for postage and handling, to Stephen at 97 Packett Circle, Pope Air Force Base, NC 28308, and he will mail you a CD.
Be sure to invite your RYLAians to speak at your Rotary clubs. You will be in for a treat, and your fellow Rotarians will thank you for doing so.
Many thanks to District RYLA Chair Keith King for his tireless efforts to make our District RYLA a success, to our Rotary volunteers, and to all of our Rotary leaders for your support of this extraordinary event!
Polio Plus National Immunization Day — India
I am delighted to report that District Secretary Dave Baggett, Ambassadorial Scholar Chair Magda Baggett both from the Fayetteville Rotary Club and Jo Barrow of the Swansboro Rotary Club are joining me on the Polio Plus National Immunization Day in India starting February 9th.
Rotary International Assembly, San Diego CA
This week, District Governor-Elect Wilson and Bobbie Ray will join 529 governors-elect and partners from around the world at the Rotary International Assembly in San Diego, CA. GSE Wilson and Bobbie will be preparing to lead our district for the 2007-08 Rotary year.
ESSEX
The Rotary International Board of Directors has approved our district’s membership in Rotary International’s Eastern States Student Exchange Program(ESSEX) .
Our new District Youth Exchange Chair Lori Goodell Harris is currently participating in the ESSEX conference in Philadelphia. Lori will return to our district with a wealth of ideas and information on implementing a world-class youth exchange program. More information on ESSEX. Thank you, Rotary leaders, for supporting our membership in ESSEX.
Attendance Reports due ASAP!
Morehead City Navigators
PETS (President Elect Training Seminar)
Presidents, if you have not already done so, encourage your presidents-elect to register for PETS ASAP – March 15-17, 2007, Sheraton Greensboro Four Seasons. (If you don’t have a president-elect, register yourselves because you will be president once again next year!)
The registration can be found here
Rotary Foundation Thought of the Week
Brought to you each week by PDG Bevin Wall, District Rotary Foundation Chair; and reproduced courtesy of http://www.rotary.org
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about Humanitarian Programs in East Asia related to education.
The Japanese Rotary club of Omiya City Rotary (as reported through The Rotary-No-Tomo, the English language Rotary Magazine) has built schools and provided books in Bang Kong, Cambodia. The Nabari Chuoh Rotary has built a library for children of the Suoi Day Elementary and Junior High School in Vietnam. So many projects like these show Rotarians’ dedication to education and literacy.
Rotarians are proud of their long history as sponsors for Educational Programs. Yearly support to the Annual Programs Fund’s Every Rotarian Every Year initiative ensures the tradition of educational excellence is upheld.
For more information on giving or program participation, contact PDG Bevin Wall District 7730 Rotary Foundation Chair at Bevin@RLI33.org .