VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 JULY 2009 ROTARY DISTRICT 5730 District...

From left to right: Sue and Jim Cole,

President Rotary International John Kinney, and wife June.

International Assembly – January 2009 San Diego, California

Governor’s Views:

Rotarians:

“Make Dreams Real” came true for thousands of individuals that live

within District 5730 during the 2008-2009 Rotary year. Rotarians in our

district “Make Dreams Real” through projects such as hunger,

dictionaries, clothing drives, library books, scholarships and health care

fairs to name a few. International service projects in Mexico, Turkey,

Philippines, and Australia also “Made Dreams Real”. Thank you,

District Governor Brad Bunn for your excellent leadership during the

year as Rotarians in District 5730 “Made Dreams Real”.

“THE FUTURE OF ROTARY IS IN YOUR HANDS”, our 2009-

2010 theme, is an outstanding theme – the future of Rotary is truly in

our hands. During the year, District 5730 Rotarians will be asked to

place major emphasis on:

1. Membership – net increase of one new member per club, 80%

retention of members.

2. Health and Hunger – President Kenny has stated, “How can there be

peace in the world when so many will try to sleep tonight without

having eaten today? As Rotarians work in the area of health and hunger,

we are also working toward world peace.” I suggest each club should

participate in a hunger project (i.e. The Million Meal program), where

clubs have soup or beans and cornbread and the different in cost of the

meal is donated to Hungry Plus.

3. Literacy – No country can succeed if its future leaders are not

educated. Clubs to have a minimum of one literacy project.

4. Water – Clean water is the first major emphasis for Rotary

International. Water projects also encompass sanitation because without

adequate sanitation, our good work is easily undone.

(continued on page 2)

District Governors

Jim Cole [email protected]

Assistant Governors

Area 1 Paul Anderson [email protected]

Area 2 Kelly Livingston [email protected]

Area 3 Wes Knapp [email protected]

Area 4 Janice Payne [email protected]

Area 5 Stephen John [email protected]

Area 6 Petter J. Wierzba [email protected]

Area 7 Ken Winkles, Jr. [email protected]

Area 8 Dan Linebarger [email protected]

Area 9 Terry Wegman [email protected]

Webmaster

Steve A. Dennis, P.E. [email protected] [email protected]

Administrative

Assistant

N.B. “Wally” Wallace [email protected]

Newsletter Editor

Nevelle Buchannan [email protected]

Assistant Newsletter

Editor

Tammy Pitzer [email protected]

District Newsletter

VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1

JULY 2009

ROTARY DISTRICT 5730

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Page 2

Governor’s Views

continued

Governor’s

Visitation Schedule

Page 3

Foundation News

Tejas District

Conference

Page 4

District Calendar

Rotary Partner’s

Views

Page 5

District Simplified

Grants

Polio Eradication

Page 6

Installation Dinner

Page 7

International

Convention

Page 8

Attendance

Page 9

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Governor’s Views: (continued from page 1)

5. Polio – Clubs are encouraged to participate in the $200 Million Polio Challenge. As of June 23, 2009 Rotary has raised $90.7 million

towards this challenge. I encourage clubs are encouraged to join in the District “FATTEN THE PIG” for polio by passing around a piggy

bank at each club meeting. Members are asked to help fatten the pig by feeding the pig pocket change. Proceeds are to be given to the

foundation for the polio challenge.

6. The Rotary Foundation – Each member is asked to give $100 during the year to The Rotary Foundation annual fund.

Rotary International President John Kenny has stated “The future of Rotary will not be shaped at RI headquarters – it will be shaped in

each and every Rotary club because it is for each of us – as Rotarians to do what is necessary to keep Rotary strong.”

I know that Rotarians and clubs in District 5730 will continue to provide “Service Above Self” in their communities as they remember

that “The Future of Rotary is in Our Hands.”

Jim

ROTARY DISTRICT 5730 NEWSLETTER VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 JULY 2009 PAGE 2

Governor’s Visitation Schedule:

As Governor, I’m eager to visit each club in the District.

Wally Wallace, my Administrative Assistant will be in

touch with each club prior to my visit to confirm details of

the visit, accommodations if required, etc.

I would like to meet with the board and officers of each club prior to the official club visit.

This meeting could be the evening before or one hour prior to the official visit. The time for

this meeting is up to each club. Just let Wally Wallace know when and where it is.

I would appreciate having the “Planning Guide for Effective Rotary Clubs” at least one week

prior to my visit. Also please provide information on your club such as major projects, fund

raisers, or assistance needed.

Jim Cole

District Governor

August 2009

3 Sweetwater

4 Big Spring

5 Colorado City

6 Snyder

18 Post

19 Tulia

20 Pecos

25 Muleshoe

26 Floydada

27 Littlefield

28 Levelland Breakfast Club

7:00 am

28 Lockney

31 Hereford

September 2009

1 Canyon

2 Pampa

3 Dalhart

4 Panhandle

8 Borger

9 Childress

10 Amarillo South 7:00 am

10 Amarillo

11 Amarillo West

16 Andrews

17 Seminole

22 Seagraves

23 Denver City

24 Dimmitt

28 Amarillo East

29 Canadian

October 2009

5 Spearman

20 Plainview

21 Dumas

22 Perryton

23 Shamrock

26 Greater SW Lubbock

27 O’Donnell

28 Lubbock

29 Tahoka

30 Metro Lubbock 7:00 am

30 Brownfield

November 2009

3 Midland West

4 Midland Daybreak 7:00 am

4 Mohahans

5 Midland

6 Greater Big Spring

10 Greater Odessa

10 Kermit

11 Odessa

12 Odessa East

18 Lamesa

December 2009

1 Levelland Noon


Foundation News: Trustees lower recognition point transfer minimum

By Donna Polydoros

Rotary International News – 5 May 2009

In April, The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees voted to establish a 100-point minimum for the transfer of

Foundation recognition points, effective 1 July 2009.

“The Trustees had consideration for all Rotarians globally who have and use recognition points,” says Louis

Piconi, vice chairman of the Trustees Fund Development Committee. “We are hopeful that the new 100-point

minimum will encourage Rotarians to use their points to foster new contributions and further support club and

district leaders in achieving fund development goals.”

Recognition points are credits that donors receive for contributions to the Foundation that can be transferred among Rotary accounts.

Individuals, clubs, and districts can transfer as many points as they have to other individual accounts to increase others’ donor recognition

amounts, or level of donor recognition.

As of 1 July 2009, points may only be transferred in transactions of 100 points or more, and individual donors will be the only ones

authorized to transfer points from their individual accounts. Club presidents and district governors may no longer authorize point

transfers for other individuals, but they may continue to authorize transfers from their club or district accounts.

Also, as of 1 July 2009, individual points will expire upon the death of the donor, or the death of the surviving spouse of a Major Donor.

(Major Donors have contributed US$10,000 or more to the Foundation.)

Donors begin to earn points after they qualify for Paul Harris Fellow Recognition. They accrue one recognition point for each U.S. dollar

contributed to the Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund, Polio Plus, or approved Matching Grant. Donors receive Paul Harris Fellow

Recognition once they have contributed $1,000 or have 1,000 points transferred to them, or once the sum of their cash contributions and

points equal 1,000.

Donors may use their points to help a family member, friend, or other Rotarian achieve Paul Harris Fellow Recognition. Points cannot be

transferred to a club or district. Gifts made to the Permanent Fund or Rotary International programs are not eligible for recognition

points.

To transfer points, fill out the Recognition Transfer Request Form. The form will be updated on 1 July, 2009 to reflect the changes to the

Foundation recognition points policy.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

SIX DISTRICTS WILL OFFER A MULTI-DISTRICT CONFERENCE

A ROTARY CONFERENCE AS BIG AS TEXAS!!!

*Fun *Fellowship *Rotary Ideas and Projects *Rotary Licensed Vendors

*Entertainment and World Class Speakers

SAVE THE DATE:

APRIL 29 – MAY 2, 2010 SAN ANTONIO

CONVENTION CENTER

Watch the District Newsletter monthly for additional information and details.

When I agreed to serve as Jim’s Rotary partner, I never knew that it would be a three year project. My first training session was in

September, 2007. The partners bonded and we now are informed on a lot of Rotary projects. We had sessions where we learned the

responsibilities of the partners, such as how to assist the DG in keeping all of the records such as expense records, club records, etc.

We were taught the proper way to wave to the group when introduced. I have learned a great deal about Rotary projects and I am

amazed what one Rotarian can accomplish. Many of the projects were started with a single idea and have now grown into international

projects.


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2009-2010 ROTARY YEAR CALENDAR

JULY 2009

AUGUST 2009

Membership and Extension Month

SEPTEMBER 2009

New Generation Month

Sept 29 – Oct 4 GETS and Rotary Institute

OCTOBER 2009

Vocational Service Month

October 31 – Rotary Foundation Seminar

Oklahoma City, OK

MARCH 2010

Literacy Month

APRIL 2010

Magazine Month

April 30 – May 3 Tejas District Conference

San Antonio, Texas

MAY 2010

JUNE 2010

Rotary Fellowship Month

Camp RYLA

Diabetic Camp

VIEWS FROM DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S PARTNER

Attending the International Assembly in San Diego in January, 2009, was a great

experience. We were told to take 200 gifts to exchange with persons from other

countries. These gifts were to represent our country. I stitched 200 denim bags and

Jim sprayed the outline of Texas on the bags. We filled the bags with peanut

products. Exchanging gifts was exciting, we received many book marks, jewelry,

scarves, liquor, candy and other items. The DG’s had long meetings while the

partners had cultural exchange. Persons were to dress in native costume and have

products that represented their country.

We had one free evening and one of the DGE’s from Zone 25 decided to get the Rotary

wheel tattooed on his arm. The tattoo was about a 3 inch wheel and stated District Governor

2009-2010. On International Talent night, all of the other DGE’s wore washable Rotary

tattoos on their arms. Their sleeves were rolled up on their bright blue t-shirts and those

tattoos did shine. As you can tell, these dignified DG’s can have a good time. Fortunately,

Jim did not get the real tattoo.

I have learned that all meetings aren’t just reports on the Foundation, Polio, literacy and

water. Sometimes, they are just a whole lot of fun.

Hopefully, I will write for each of the newsletters. While Jim tells you about the important things, I will tell you about the “rest of the

story”.

See you soon,

Sue

NOVEMBER 2009

The Rotary Foundation Month

DECEMBER 2009

Family Month

JANUARY 2010

Rotary Awareness Month

FEBRUARY 2010

World Understanding Month

Million Meal Project – Hunger Plus

DISTRICT 5730 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

The District 5730 Monthly Newsletter will be posted on the District website on or about the 20th of each month. If you desire to receive a hard copy

by mail, please drop DG Jim Cole a note or email advising of your wishes. Please include your name and complete mailing address. Jim’s email is:

[email protected]. Mailing address is: 110 Fannin Avenue, Levelland, Texas, 79336.

The newsletter is for your benefit, if you desire an article on a given project or topic let us know. Rotarians are encouraged to submit articles for the

newsletter. News articles should be furnished to Assistant Newsletter Editor Tammy Pitzer at: [email protected].




District Simplified Grants:

We have been informed by The Rotary Foundation that our allocation for 2009-2010 District Simplified Grant Program is $21,600.00.

The decision by the District Foundation Committee is to award matching grants up to $750.00 or dollar to dollar match. Grants

submitted must meet the established guidelines and criteria. A COPY OF THE GRANT APPLICATION AND GUIDELINES IS

AVAILABLE ON THE DISTRICT 5730 WEBSITE www.ridistrict5730.org. FUNDS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST

COME FIRST SERVED BASIS. Applications should be submitted to Don Shinn at: 1409 Nabors Lane, Odessa, Texas, 79761.

THE DISTRICT FOUNDATION COMMITTEE CANNOT OVER EMPHASIZE THAT THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL

OF DIRECT ROTARY CLUB MEMBER INVOLVEMENT IN THE GRANT. The project report and all paperwork including

receipts for expenditures must be submitted to the District Foundation Chairman Don Shinn by April 1, 2010. Failure to do so will

jeopardize the future funding of the program and a clubs ability to participate. While we are running and controlling the program in the

District, we are still responsible to see that the funds are used for authorized and eligible expenditures. The total cost of the grant

must be expended by the club. Clubs will receive District Simplified Grant funds when the final report has been received and

approved by the District Foundation Committee.

We look forward to having these funds utilized for worthy projects in the communities in District 5730. If you have any questions

concerning the program, please do not hesitate to contact Don Shinn at: phone (432) 362-8333 or email [email protected].

Showing Up for Life

Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

By

Bill Gates Sr.

with Mary Ann Mackin

There’s No Problem Bigger

Than We Are

“Many people imagine Rotary Clubs as places where

businesspeople meet once a week to sell each other

their products.

Well, I had never been to as many Rotary meetings

as I have since we started our foundation. That’s

because one cannot be passionate about immunizing

the world’s children without coming to revere

Rotary.

More than twenty years ago, when most volunteer

efforts were aimed at solving problems that existed

down the street, Rotary took on a global fight

nobody believed they could win. A fight to end

polio worldwide.

Since then Rotary has revolutionized our thinking

about the possibilities that exist for ordinary people

to significantly change the world.

Talk about fighting polio doesn’t stir every soul in

American anymore because it no longer is a serious

threat here. But this wasn’t always so.

My daughter Kristi was born in 1953. At that

time, there were major polio epidemics in this

country. No vaccine was yet available. Like

so many other parents, I worried that if she

wandered into the wrong swimming pool my

little girl could contract polio and end up in

an iron lung.

Mass immunization campaigns in the 1950s

and 1960s ended such fears for most

American parents. By the 1980s nobody

cared about polio. Nobody, this is, but

Rotary.

At that time polio still paralyzing a thousand

children a day in poorer countries. That’s

why in 1985 more than a million Rotarians

from roughly 140 countries – and every

Rotary Club in the world – took on the

challenge of creating a polio-free world.

What they have accomplished since then

defies description. Worldwide, cases of polio

have declined by 99 percent.

Rotary members have done everything from

spending their vacations immunizing children

in faraway places, to lobbying heads of state,

to negotiating cease-fires in civil wars long

enough to get millions of children vaccinated.

They’ve shown us how to mobilize people,

raise more money than anybody thought

volunteers could, and create private-public

partnerships that can take on long scale

global problems.

I believe – as do most experts – that Rotary

will achieve its audacious goal of eradicating

global polio.

Along the way they have taught us that when

we are inspired to work together in the

interest of an engaging cause, there is no

problem bigger than we are.”

(Gates & Mackin, 2009, pg. 170-172)

Gates , W. H., Sr., & Mackin, M. A. (2009). Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on The Gifts of a Lifetime. New York:

Broadway Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group.

http://www.ridistrict5730.org/


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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL’S DISTRICT 5730 INSTALLATION DINNER

During the ceremony, Club officers and directors of Levelland’s

two Rotary Clubs were also sworn in.

Brad Bunn, the outgoing District Governor penned Cole and

District Governor-Elect Cesar Caro of Sweetwater.

The event was emceed by Stephen John and Ted Holder installed

the local club officers as well as the new district governor.

Bunn told the audience that his year of service as District

Governor has convinced him that Rotary is in good hands. He

wished Cole a wonderful experience as District Governor.

The life of the late Gene Parkinson was also

memorialized with a special presentation of

honorary membership by both Levelland Clubs

to his widow, Geneva Parkinson.

She told the audience that the only thing Gene

enjoyed more than going to the Rotary

meetings was having coffee at McDonalds.

Special guests included seven past district governors from across the region. They included Ted Holder, Brad Bunn, Ralph

McLaughlin, Howard Mercer, J.B. Roberts, Roger Sepulveda and Don Shinn.

(seen below)

Jim Cole, was installed as the District Governor of Rotary International’s District 5730 in a special ceremony Tuesday, June 16,

2009 in the Sundown Room on the South Plains College campus.

Cole told the group that this year’s theme is “the Future of Rotary is in Your Hands” and the goals will be clean water, solving

hunger, promoting literacy, eliminating polio and continuing support to f the Rotary Foundation which he called the “crown jewel

of Rotary International”.

Cole, joined the Levelland Noon Rotary Club in the spring of 1996, sponsored by the late Burnett Roberts. Since that time, he has

filled every elected position in the club and served as Assistant Governor for two years. He has also served as District Rotary

Foundation chairman and is a Major Donor and Benefactor to The Rotary Foundation.


ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 100TH

CONVENTION

June 21 – June 24, 2009 Birmingham, England

After four days of celebrating Rotary’s spirit of international

fellowship and service, Rotarians from all over the world bid

adieu to the 100th

RI Convention in Birmingham, England on

June 24.

RI President-elect John Kenny encouraged the more than 16,000

Rotarians from over 150 countries to join in the last push to

eradicate polio. “Until the day the earth is declared polio-free,

this work must be our first priority and our main focus,” Kenny

stated during the closing plenary session. “It is up to us to finish

the job.”

Throughout the week, Rotarians, friends, and other members of the family of Rotary

heard prominent speakers discussing how close the world is to eradicating polio, and

encouraging Rotarians to make that last push to get the job done.

At a special appearance during the opening plenary session, United Nations Secretary-

General Ban Ki-moon called Rotary the heart and soul of the worldwide polio

eradication effort and pledged the UN’s continued cooperation and support.

Throughout the convention, Rotarians enjoyed fellowship and learned more about club

service projects and Global Networking Groups at the House of Friendship.

During host-ticketed events, opera diva Katherine Jenkins

entertained, attendees toured Warwick Castle for a Medieval

Spectacular, and downtown Birmingham staged performances by

the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Treorchy Male Choir, as well as

the east Meets West variety show.

The 100th

RI Convention provided Rotarians to learn more about

Rotary, service projects and opportunities, but most of all to build

lasting fellowships with Rotarians from over 150 countries.

Exchanging District Banners – DG Jim

Cole and Uri Zeiger DG 2490, Israel

From left to right: PDG Michael Graves, Lana Dumpsey, PE Bob

Dempsey – Amarillo West, and DG Jim Cole


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